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SMS problems?

I'm running Syndicate Rom along with Phoenix kernel. As of late I've been having problems receiving text messages. Sometimes I'll receive them hours late (with the correct time stamp), other times I won't receive them till I send an outgoing message to the same person (where I get the pending messages almost instantly, again with the correct time stamp), and some messages I don't receive at all.
Has anyone experienced similar problems, and is it possible that it isn't ROM related but maybe some sort of other software conflict? Any ideas or input would be great
Thanks,
-1greek

Same problem with stock di18. Its on sprint's end.

Yea, I've had this issue since Christmas. I thought it was my SMS popup application, but I think it's a Sprint issue. It's getting really annoying too.
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nikon120 said:
Yea, I've had this issue since Christmas. I thought it was my SMS popup application, but I think it's a Sprint issue. It's getting really annoying too.
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I've been having the same issue but it's only with certain people.

I notice it more on certain ROMs than others. Also I notice it more when texting my wife (sprint customer as well) than to/from other carriers.
Could be that it's on Sprint's end but not sure.

Occassionally, phone doesn't ring and missed no. not displayed

I did not come across this issue being mentioned, but if it has been, please point me in the right direction.
I have noticed the following behavior after upgrading/flashing to stock EB13, using ODIN:
On more than a few occassions, the phone does not ring or vibrate when a call comes in. Not only this, but the missed call no. does not display in the log of missed/received calls. This is quite annoying. Has anyone come across this?
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I've had the same problem to. I just get a voicemail but no record of any calls in my call log and the.phone didnt ring
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Lately this has been a DAILY occurance for me and im PISSED about it. I use my phone for BUSINESS and my "business" is pretty important so I cant afford to be missing calls like this.
However I think that it has something to SPRINTS service and not the device itself.
Just odin'd back to STOCK DK28 & rooted last night.....It hasnt happened since....at least not yet...LOL

Yeah I think its sprint service too. My phone has done it on di18,dk28 and now eb13
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musclehead84 said:
Yeah I think its sprint service too. My phone has done it on di18,dk28 and now eb13
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Ditto on this. I suspect it is either Sprint or it's the crappy RIL they're talking about in the CM7 progress thread. I think this mostly because I had the same problem on my Moment.
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Same here,its happened twice today and once on my brothers Epic as we were sittin there waiting on our ride to get here and call; So he had a voicemail telling us he was outside,was there for 5m before we checkd the phone because I brught up the fact that my phone dosnt ring sometimes. That sucks.
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Is there someone who can confirm if this is an issue with Sprint's service, or the firmware? I am having a hard time believing it would be Sprint's service, as I haven't read about this issue much - this does not prove anything, but still.
I use my phone for business, too, and definitely cannot afford to lose calls, and on top of that, not even have the missed calls appear in the call log.

Actually I was just talking to my wife and to be honest I don't ever rememrher evo doing that. Also I had an evo as well and I don't remember this issue as well. Maybe it is the epic then. Anyone else??
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I've had that on every phone I've had with sprint in the last 10 years, sprint tech called it tower lock said if you remain for an extended period of time within one towers rande then move to another sometimes the calls won't get routed right, oddly enough when I've had it happen its not all calls, don't know if this is true or just bs from sprint, first time they had me take the battery out and wait 10 mins and it was fixed, second time they had to do something on their end and I had to update my prl
Haven't had it happen for about a year but I've since then moved and regularly travel between multiple towers

This has happened to me since I got this phone. Sometimes I can be calling my chick and she right in front of me and she won't receive 2 to 4 calls till the phone actually rings. Same on the receiving end she can be calling me and no calls come thru. She'll be all pissed telling me off why I don't answer my phone and ill check to see if its on silent and no, and no calls missed. I think it samsung cause my chick has an htc evo and this **** doesn't happen to her. This will probably be my last samsung purchase.

Same.here. my wife has an evo and she gets all her calls. I don't get them and I get the same thing as you. Why didn't you answer your phone? Cause the damn thing didn't ring!!!!!
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musclehead84 said:
Same.here. my wife has an evo and she gets all her calls. I don't get them and I get the same thing as you. Why didn't you answer your phone? Cause the damn thing didn't ring!!!!!
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Lmfao... "Why are you not answering your phone?" This is the text from my wife about a couple hours ago.. I was at my neighbors with avg 4 bars of signal... I think my touch pro was the absolute worst with this issue.. text messages hours late and VMs with no missed calls...
I don't think that many ppl use 'slydial'.
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I can tell you it isn't a Sprint thing, as my HTC Aria does this as well and I am on AT&T.

Im applying for jobs right now and really need to receive phone calls. Does anyone have a fix at all for this? Ive updated the PRL and it just seems to get worse.

Well at least I know I'm not the only one.... I've had issues since going to EB13, never noticed it on other base-builds tho.

Yea its started on EB13 for me too

I've had this issue for years. I always presumed is was a CDMA thing. I have email, facebook, twitter, baseball news and others using 3g to check for new items. Since all these are on different timers, they may take up a not insignificant amount of bandwidth. As CDMA sends incomming calls to voicemail if you are using 3g, I thought this was what was causing the issue. But I never turned off all updates to see if the problem went away. Might be worth trying.

meinken said:
I've had this issue for years. I always presumed is was a CDMA thing. I have email, facebook, twitter, baseball news and others using 3g to check for new items. Since all these are on different timers, they may take up a not insignificant amount of bandwidth. As CDMA sends incomming calls to voicemail if you are using 3g, I thought this was what was causing the issue. But I never turned off all updates to see if the problem went away. Might be worth trying.
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By your logic, if I go back to JuiceDefender, the problem may be resolved to a point.

I've had it happen from candybar and flip regular phones and dumb phones and smartphones. This is nothing new. I've experienced it for years. My suggestion is to tell people to try calling a second time. It usually gets through then. It's not the phone, its the service or technology. The phone might be in a sleeping cycle.

lazydazed said:
Lmfao... "Why are you not answering your phone?" This is the text from my wife about a couple hours ago.. I was at my neighbors with avg 4 bars of signal... I think my touch pro was the absolute worst with this issue.. text messages hours late and VMs with no missed calls...
I don't think that many ppl use 'slydial'.
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QFE - Both my TP and TP2 were awful about this. Still have it happen pretty frequently with the Epic. I'm sure it's issues in the network.

Text message from the future.

Anyone getting text messages from the future while on roaming? Is there a solution to fix this little probelm? I'd rather not have to use a 3rd party messaging app. I like the stock one. I'm running SRF 1.1.0.
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What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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iSaint said:
What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Even while roaming, I only got a slew of "future" txts when I was out of my hometown...although it was the same time zone :-/
OTOH, I remember when it was New Year's Eve/Day with my old Touch Pro a few years back, and I got txts from 1/1/2013. I rejoiced in telling everyone that the Mayans were wrong and we wouldn't all die in the end times. :-D

respond back to that text from the future and ask the person for the result of the Game 2 Mavs vs Heat game. I would like to make me a few bets if ya know what I mean. ;P

I used to get these on my iphone lol but they would be from YEARS in the future and would be empty. ****ed with me for a bit. Ive never heard of anyone having this issue or even heard of the issue itself before. I just figured the iphone was a piece of **** later on lol
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I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.

bohiti said:
I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.
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I was about to post about this before I read the entire thread. I had this same problem from day one with my Epic at work because the signal at my cube for either side isn't that great and I flip between Sprint & roaming on Verizon constantly without using Roam Control to force it to stay on Verizon (which is what I typically do since Verizon's signal strength is a little better comparatively where I sit).
Anyway, I discovered the SMS Time Fix app months ago and have been using it ever since...and it works *almost* flawlessly. I still get the occasional text that somehow slips past the app's resident process, but about 98% of the time it works perfectly and adjusts the timestamp on incoming texts. So I definitely suggest grabbing that and using it for anyone with this problem.

zanderman112 said:
It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Yeah it gets annoying trying follow a conversation when all the texts are out of order. Now if I could get her to text me the winning powerball numbers.
I'll check out the aosp messaging. Thanks for the tip.
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Does the Fascinate still suffer from Missed calls?

I am looking to get a Fascinate but im semi new to Smart Phones. Ive heard that the phone suffers from Missed calls all the time. Not sure if this is has been resolved or not but would like to know before grabbing one.

Mine does build date 9/10 Can repeat after 1 hour letting it sit Idle it will not ring
My sons build date of phone 3/11 I can not get his to miss calls
His is a great phone
At first I thought it was a software Only problem. But if that were tru than all phones would do it
My sons you can leave it sit unused over night and call it in the Moring and it rings
I can leave mine 1 hour and it will not ring
So I guess it depends on phone.Samsung is working to have fix released by end of month But you know how rumors go.
I paid 112.00 for a fascinate off eBay for my son and it was a great deal
Does not have the missed call bug
So if you get one make sure it is a newer build date

After moving to the ED09 radio my missed calls went away. Used it on ComRom 2.1 and now CM7.

I'm on ec09 & the latest cm7 & I still have it. Odined back to stock & took all the ota's to get back to ed04 & it was worse. Called vzw tier2 support & they gave me an option to go to a droidx2 or dinc2 because sending me another fassy probably wouldn't fix it. I've spent the last 3 days researching & visiting vzw stores to get a feel for what will work best for me. My point: it is a prevalent problem that spans more than one baseband or build or os platform.
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garywojdan81 said:
I'm on ec09 & the latest cm7 & I still have it. Odined back to stock & took all the ota's to get back to ed04 & it was worse. Called vzw tier2 support & they gave me an option to go to a droidx2 or dinc2 because sending me another fassy probably wouldn't fix it. I've spent the last 3 days researching & visiting vzw stores to get a feel for what will work best for me. My point: it is a prevalent problem that spans more than one baseband or build or os platform.
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Go to corporate store and ask about getting a Charge. They are doing that right now until they fix the missed call thing.

sfobrien said:
Go to corporate store and ask about getting a Charge. They are doing that right now until they fix the missed call thing.
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Tried that at 2 different ones but it was a no-go because the tier2 tech didn't list it in the notes. The last one said they'd only do 3g to 3g or 4g to 4g swaps.
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I'm on the EC09 radio and I still get missed calls on occasion. It's really frustrating.

Um I've been getting a lot of missed calls and sms with EC09 a month ago but since I changed to ED04, I never had that problem. EC09 sucked ass for me.

I spoke to vzw today too and I'm getting a Droid incredible 2 sent in the next couple days. I will miss my fascinate but always nice to have something new.
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I've been having the missed call thing too for a few weeks now too. Should I flash back to stock and bring it to the store? What exactly do I tell them? Or should I call tech support?
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putney1477 said:
I've been having the missed call thing too for a few weeks now too. Should I flash back to stock and bring it to the store? What exactly do I tell them? Or should I call tech support?
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Haven't heard of the bringing it to the store option having much success, however you can call tech support and tell them about the missed call issue they should offer you a choice of some new phones. In that case yes you would have to reset it back to stock to send it back.

Taking it to the store was a huge waste of my time. The instore "tech support" (insert sarcasam here), suggested that the problem was to many apps installed...ya sure....
Called tech support and got offered the inc2 and x2, I suppose I could have pushed and tried for a charge but I wasn't feeling up to it. So I went with the inc2 since I've never tried an HTC phone and have heard of multiple issues with the x2.
Gonna miss my fascinate though.
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jbatch said:
Taking it to the store was a huge waste of my time. The instore "tech support" (insert sarcasam here), suggested that the problem was to many apps installed...ya sure....
Called tech support and got offered the inc2 and x2, I suppose I could have pushed and tried for a charge but I wasn't feeling up to it. So I went with the inc2 since I've never tried an HTC phone and have heard of multiple issues with the x2.
Gonna miss my fascinate though.
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Yeah don't you love how theybtry to blame apps and other things on the missed call issue. Especially when its a known issue. The tech person I spoke to.on the phone said my missed call issue was because I have google voice!?
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I've had a few missed calls but they are on my Google Voice number so I'm not sure if I can blame the phone, but then again nobody calls me on my actual number so I'm going to have to pay closer attention. I just upgraded to a EC09 ROM so we shall see.

I actually got theM To swap me to a Droid charge. Niice and my boss won't chew my ass for missing his calls.
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sfobrien said:
After moving to the ED09 radio my missed calls went away. Used it on ComRom 2.1 and now CM7.
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Where did you get ed09 from boss?
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Headcase8911 said:
Where did you get ed09 from boss?
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Here.
good day.

Well, this is annoying..I had the missed call problems like crazy...EA28 modem seemed to help..rarely had any..then the phones modem crapped out(no 3g)...called for a replacement..its my first replacement, so they refused to offer me a different model...
The "Like New" replacement they sent me is newer hardware version(11.something) and defiantly gets better speeds and stronger signal..But what bugs me is that I had to pay full retail price for a new fascinate in February since my old phone(a dump Samsung Rouge) crapped out on me and it was way before my upgrade came up...then I bought and 3000mah extended battery for $80...I originally tried to buy the "Certified pre-owned" Fascinate for $50 on their website, but they couldn't get it to go through, only if I were a new customer setting up a new account..so I bought the new model...now I am stuck with a Re-furbished phone...well -as long as it works properly...guess it works out regardless...as long as I don't start receiving missed calls..

putney1477 said:
Yeah don't you love how theybtry to blame apps and other things on the missed call issue. Especially when its a known issue. The tech person I spoke to.on the phone said my missed call issue was because I have google voice!?
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I use Google Voice...(who can stand paying Verizon for their Visual Voice-mail crap)..
The only way I knew when the phone would be missing calls and was not reachable..is when Google Voice alerted me to new Voice-mails..I also have Google Voice set to send e-mail notifications to my home e-mail..I could also try calling out from the phone and it would just hang and not dial...definitely had some people mad at me for not "answering the phone" when I was supposed to be available..I was wondering what was taking them so long....so annoying when it happens and having to take the take to reboot and catch up...
I did try disabling Google Voice once..then they only way I knew the phone wasn't ringing is to check Google Voice on my laptop or e-mail...

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It's still EC09 (leak).
I haven't seen an ED09 come through yet.

no simultaneous phone and data?

Please forgive me I did a search on XDA here in the GS4 forums and on google and could not find any results with my issue, if i did miss it please point me in the right direction "after week getting little agitated".
I have the AT&T i337 32gb version, was rooted running stock last week, on Tuesday all of a sudden I lost the ability to talk on the phone and use data at the same time, which I have been doing for years with AT&T and worked fine on the GS4 the first month or so I had the phone. Odin back to stock multiple resets, APN restores etc... no go. Sooooo did the stupid thing and took the OTA update just to see if was SW issue, of course wast so no more ROM for me. woohoo... took phone to store they messed with for over an hour and couldn't figure it out as well advsd me to call in to tech support which they did stuff for an hour and they couldn't get it either, sent me a warranty replacement. Thank god it came with mdl so before even putting sim in rooted and disabled the OTA update feature. Well after getting new phone set up have the same problem. They have escalated the issue and im supposed to hear something back this evening, i am just curious if there is something i can have them look at on the back haul of things that could be messed up, also I have 2 other phones on my same plan and they are working fine with talking and data simultaneously. Any ideas I can try would be appreciated.
FYI I have loaded the KANGABEAN rom on my device and using it now, but the problem happens on a completely stock ROM, i very seriously doubt i have 2 bad devices in a row doing the excact same thing, ive been wrong before so its very possible just dont see it.
Any advice I would love to hear and try
Thanks

I do know they throttle data while on a call even though they advertise it... I uploaded photos of proof that they throttle and while on a call, data is nearly useless. This has been brought up a few times since I've joined xda in the last two years even when I had an iPhone.
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Ahh they servers were different. Here's another pic of me on call on the same server as the second photo (Carlsbad). Download is barely usuable but upload froze and trying to do any data related task on the phone during a call just doesn't work. I guess my question would be is your data not working at all during a call? Try doing a speed test and report back.
Edit: didn't read your post thoroughly lol. If it stopped working all of a sudden maybe it's the towers but that wouldnt explain the other two phones working. Either way I just wanted to put my two cents in about them throttling. Sorry if I wasn't much help.
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It has to be something with the towers around my work area... I have about hour commute to the area I work, I work mobile so drive multiple counties and it will work fine till I hit certain spot then nothing. Now just have to figure out how to get att to see it. Thanks for input
If there is anyone around the Kernersville, Walkertown NC area that could test and see if they have the same issue I would appreciate it, I know i cant be the only one
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