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Text message problem

Hi, I'm having a problem with sending text messages.
I can receive them fine, but I'm having trouble sending them:
it will tell me that the message was sent but the recipients told me they didn't get it or they tell me they got it hours after it was sent. It shouldn't be a network problem as I can receive them, and its not a problem with my sim or plan with china mobile because on my old razr i could send them fine. Does anyone know what the problem is? thanks
edit: problem either fixed itself or only happens some of the time. would still like to hear input on the reason this would happen so i can make sure it won't happen again...thanks.

this has been happening to almost everyone i know, using many different phones, and many different providers. i don't know what's going on here in the States, maybe companies are updating their towers to support more 3G or something, but it's getting annoying.

Yes Its most definitely not your phone and its your friends...If you want to see how fast your phone is actually sending the messages, just send a text message to yourself...It goes pretty quick...Nextel Blows with texting soo if thats what your friends have tell em to go with t-mobile lol!!

damn that **** is happening to me now. i did hte text myself thing n it worked

Is it my Phone or Service?

I have the touch vogue from sprint and all of a sudden a week or two ago I can't seem to receive calls or text out. I can receive text, voice mail, use internet and call out though. It takes a long time to receive the text, some times hours from the time it was sent. I tried calling from my house phone and it will ring a couple times but the cell phone will not respond. I was using WhosDaMan Rom then flashed to NSFAN Rom to see if that would fix the problem and I usually use the Android Linux builds as well. Thanks to some suggestions I also tried to go back to the original Sprint stock rom and still have the same issues. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.

frostyguy said:
I have the touch vogue from sprint and all of a sudden a week or two ago I can't seem to receive calls or text out. I can receive text, voice mail, use internet and call out though. It takes a long time to receive the text, some times hours from the time it was sent. I tried calling from my house phone and it will ring a couple times but the cell phone will not respond. I was using WhosDaMan Rom then flashed to NSFAN Rom to see if that would fix the problem and I usually use the Android Linux builds as well. Thanks to some suggestions I also tried to go back to the original Sprint stock rom and still have the same issues. If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
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Sounds kinda serious. I'd load up the Sprint ROM and re-lock your phone (don't ask me how, I've never done it), then call Sprint. I would be inclined to think it's the phone, but who knows.

craig0r said:
Sounds kinda serious. I'd load up the Sprint ROM and re-lock your phone (don't ask me how, I've never done it), then call Sprint. I would be inclined to think it's the phone, but who knows.
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Yeah, I Reloaded the Sprint Rom but never relocked it. Thanks for your reply though.

Incoming MMS not working , how to fix ?

Been having this problem since day one with Cyanogen.
Invariably the incoming picture mail ceases to function.
Ive gotten it to work when its acted up by resetting fixing permissions , unchecking then re checking "auto retrieve mms" , and selecting "TMOBILE" under provider listing to re register with network.
Since most of the time I have to ask people to pic mail me its extremely difficult to troubleshoot regularly.
"mms" is too short a term for seach it seems so apologize if this is an old issue.
1. Is there a specific fix to get MMS working as it should ?
2. Is there a way I can test if it works by emailing my phone ([email protected]) with a pic attached ? That never works.
3. If this is ROM specific ,are there any ROMS that dont have any sms/mms issues ?
G1
cyanogen 4.02
default messaging , handcent ,chomp have all given me the same problem...only using handcent currently.

Try sending yourself two mms messages

Tried 3 different.... only 1 came through. grrr

Noone has any ideas ?
Would upgrading my radio do any good ?

I noticed that both you guys are running old roms ...have you considered updating to 1.6 rom ,, I had issues sending mms with handcent when upgraded and I emailed them and they issued an update for 1.6 donut support. works great now

dan0zone said:
I noticed that both you guys are running old roms ...have you considered updating to 1.6 rom ,, I had issues sending mms with handcent when upgraded and I emailed them and they issued an update for 1.6 donut support. works great now
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I will be trying this now that theres a one file Cyanogen. I was pessimistic about Hero roms because so many were limited or laggy.
qhemani said:
The hell with the incoming mms i cant send any mms..n no 1 on this site is help n anyway this site suck
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For all I know there could be a wealth of info..but mms wont come up with anything in search.
Worst case scenario you can receive my MMS and Ill send out any you need.

for me if i am on wifi, i can never get mms sent or received. but onc ei turn off wifi and get on 3g it sends and receives fine. i missed a lot of mms because at home i always have my phone on wifi. i only know i miss them because right after an mms is sent, sometimes people sms me and say "did you get that?" and then i am aware they sent an mms.

Installed Cyn 4.1.999999999999999
STILL same issue. Ugh.

I have the same issue and I just switched to that ROM. My problem is real intermittent and in fact mine will somes times not receive regular texts, or the recipaent never gets them, or even sometimes someone will get multiple copies of my text messages all at once and I'll even get a few copies of received text messages on my phone. Just annoying.
Found this though, basically just sending a picture to your own phone.
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23379.xml
I live in some crappy 3G coverage, so its always switching between that and edge. Something I've been meaning to try is to force the phone to only use 2G networks and see if that helps.

Raceit said:
I have the same issue and I just switched to that ROM. My problem is real intermittent and in fact mine will somes times not receive regular texts, or the recipaent never gets them, or even sometimes someone will get multiple copies of my text messages all at once and I'll even get a few copies of received text messages on my phone. Just annoying.
Found this though, basically just sending a picture to your own phone.
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23379.xml
I live in some crappy 3G coverage, so its always switching between that and edge. Something I've been meaning to try is to force the phone to only use 2G networks and see if that helps.
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Did you have this problem before switching to this ROM ?
What ROM were you using prior ?

KOF33 said:
Did you have this problem before switching to this ROM ?
What ROM were you using prior ?
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Yep, same problem. I'd say I'm 99% sure I even had this issue when I was using JF roms. I just came from Cyan 4.0.4 rom and a few of his previous roms before that.
I'm also half temped to unroot it and go back to a factory T-Mobile rom.

Raceit said:
Yep, same problem. I'd say I'm 99% sure I even had this issue when I was using JF roms. I just came from Cyan 4.0.4 rom and a few of his previous roms before that.
I'm also half temped to unroot it and go back to a factory T-Mobile rom.
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As am I.
Its annoying as hell to get "did you get my pic ?" or "what do you think" wondering wth theyre talking about.

Not sure if this will work for you but works for me. Only way I can receive mms from anyone is they have to type something in the subject and something in the message. If they do that I get it everytime. Might want to give it a try.

spankymclovin said:
Not sure if this will work for you but works for me. Only way I can receive mms from anyone is they have to type something in the subject and something in the message. If they do that I get it everytime. Might want to give it a try.
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Will try..
TMo had me pull out battery then re try...it worked....till I got home.
Rep said it may be caused by a bad tower in my area pulling out battery connects me to another tower.
Sounded like BS but seeing that it worked when we tried but failed later on ..perhaps.
Id feel better if I knew this was a problem with or without Root. Im fighting my urge to just go back to stock...hate to lose apps2sd though.

Phone Retexting

Atrix - Alien Rom.
Apparently my phone is sending the same texts to some people over and over again.
My bill is already jacked up, any ideas to fix this?

This is a network level issue and not a phone issue if rebooting does not fix it.
You will have to conact your network

This issue has to do with the tower you're on. Sometimes shoddy tower signals can result in a mix up and your phone thinking a message insn't sent when it is. So it gets stuck in this loop of sending a message repeatedly. I would try turning your phone off, taking your SIM card out, booting up, turning off phone again and replacing SIM card.
edit: OH yeh and delete the sent messages before you do.

I hope you guys are correct because i remember having a problem with an old Motorola chocolate a white back which I purchased on ebay for my girl friend, I had to buy her a new phone from AT&T because the one I got her was spamming out text messages

I have had the reverse problem of recieving multiple (sometimes infinite) messages with my Atrix, i also believe its a tower problem. But I assure you, it is better to send than recieve.

ertDeath said:
Atrix - Alien Rom.
Apparently my phone is sending the same texts to some people over and over again.
My bill is already jacked up, any ideas to fix this?
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Had this issue with sending a message to my sister. The problem is with the network the people you are sending to. Their network, (even if it's the same provider), is not sending message received data back to your phone. Call your provider and tell them. When this happened to me I made sure I wasn't being charged for the same international text message over and over. The constant repeat of sending the message will stop after 72 hours, as this is when the networks are set to cancel repeats for non delivery. I spent an hour on the phone with AT&T before they finally figured out the problem was network related.

WiredPirate said:
I have had the reverse problem of recieving multiple (sometimes infinite) messages with my Atrix, i also believe its a tower problem. But I assure you, it is better to send than recieve.
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I just had the same problem two days ago
When life sucks I just enjoy the head

I have the problem with incoming messages every few days. I use Go SMS and ill get one message over and over . Then no other incoming sms will come but outgoing will work. I usually find if I reboot with custom tethering APN on this will initiate the problem and also changing batterries from the BH6X to the BH5X seems to initiate it. Usually now pulling the battery and rebooting with the standard APN AT&T will fix the problem for me. Not sure if this is helpful but I was dealing with it a lot and I have had it happen once since the method above is used.
Sent using the phone with the biggest balls....Atrix 4G

messaging issue.

So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.

metalblaster said:
So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.
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These seem to be contradicting each other. It sounds like your issue is your not able to get his texts, right? If that's the case are you using any third part text apps, like GoSMS or Handcent? Is he? What kind of phone is he using? When did you first flash CM7 RC0? I think that only became available last night, so it sounds like the issue started before you flashed over to RC0.

yeah, I'm sorry I meant to say that even when I got into my Google Voice I cant see the messages he has sent.
I used to use Handcent sms and i just flashed the RC today AFTER the issue happened 2 days ago. I figured I might as well wipe the phone so i did and then updated to cm7 RC-0. Currently, I'm not using any 3rd party apps for messaging but before I used Hand-cent sms. In fact my phone is completely devoid of any Apps atm because i just wiped data, cache and Dalvik.
He is currently using a Droid X On Cm7 and I think he uses handcent as well. So he is on verizon.
Basically the event went down like this. The night before he and i had a talk via text, i received all the messages from his phone from that day then when i woke up the next morning he had texted me but I didn't get it. Later he and i chatted online and he asked if i had received the message earlier and I said no and asked him to resend it. He did and i still didnt see anything, so i sent a test message to him which he was able to get and then he sent a message back to me etc. We sent messages back and forth for about an hour. I tried to send a message via Google Voice on the computer and he received it but my log on Google voice did not update for even the message i had sent. I just deactivated my google voice account thinking i might be somethnig to do with that, but i still am not receiving his texts. I also called sprint and they did basically everything they could think of and still no messages.

Just a thought but do you have any numbers blocked on sprint dot com (they allow certain text senders and numbers to be blocked from msging or calling on you account settings)? Reason I ask is that I don't fully trust sprint's system for this. When I blocked one number for instance from calling it completely disabled my roaming calls from going through and I had to reverse it. Even though I've successfully used it to block texts I wonder if it could cause issues for someone else.

Just puttin in my 2 cents but I had this happen to me a while back and it was foor my boss... I could send em to him and everything u say u can do but it just had to pan itself out. Hell sprint even gave me a new phone just to try and it never did... then one day it just started workin again and hasn't messed up since... it rly has nothing to do with thr roms or anything... just sprints horrible service and they don't even kno wat causes it. So hopefully it will pan out
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My brother is having the same problem between his & his wife's phones and they're stock. It's a Sprint problem - they told him a car knocked down a tower in their neighborhood.
If you complain enough, they'll give you a credit