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Issues with txt messaging adding +1 to number

I am having trouble text messaging my mom because the phone is adding +1 to the beginning of her phone number. The text message never goes thru. When I send the text message by typing in the number it sends fine.the problem is only when I select the contact from list. The contact list does not have the +1 in it so I don't know where it is coming from
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Yea, i actually sat on the phone with verizon tech support for 2+ hours while they debugged this issue, turns out for some reason the +1 breaks it.. they never gave me an explanation, only a fix. Take the +1 out of the contact and make sure its saved and synced, you also need to nuke your message history after making the change or new messages will still have the +1 in front of them.
-Zetas

I tried taking it out of the contact # and killed the message history but still not working
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I have the same problem...I don't get why this phone was released with so many bugs....I'm about to go get an Incredible

I had the same issue and was waiting for someone else to have this problem too. Removing the +1 on your phone contacts won't sync it completely it seems so once google syncs on your phone again the +1 will return. So what I ended up having to do is going on gmail on my pc and deleting all the +1 contacts in there. That did the trick right away. Hope this helps
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I tried clearing my contact and messaging data and now I lost all my contacts and I can't re sync then from facebook or google
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Sounds like you don't have a clue about what you are doing my friend
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Its not that...iv tried everything to fix it..even completely erased all contacts and added just the problem number and still doesn't work...cleared all recent info and sms removed sync completely...nothing works
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same thing happened to me (sending a text to AT&T) - had to remove the 1 from all my contacts via GMAIL.
Now fixed

Strange. I don't have any issues like this.

I did have the same issue as the op described, but I think the ota update fixed it or the clean rom posted in the development forum corrected the messaging app. It definitly has something to do with the messaging app since when I installed handcent sms all my messages worked without the +1 being added.
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I had the same problem and fixed mine..here are the steps I took.
Log into Gmail on your computer, go through all your contacts and take out the +1 as well as the dashes 123-456-7890 to 1234567890 and save that. I then did a factory reset for my phone. Everything works great now.

I think when you have a GSM service they use the + symbol

I had this same problem. When I got my phone the text messaging was working just fine. Couple days later no one was getting my text. So I went down to the store and they did everything they could do and I finally figured out it was the +1 in the numbers.
I switched over from a G1 on T-Mobile, so GSM can use +1 but it seems Verizon or CDMA has a problem with it.
I went through all my contacts, got rid of the +1. Yet when I'd send a message through the default sms app the moment they replied back it would automatically add the +1 again. So the only solution I found was that I had to use a different SMS app. I went with Handcent.

Im more concerned why you have the country code in your contacts list anyway? Ever since I had my first phone years ago manuals said not to put the country code in your contacts list for domestic contacts. Ive never had a problem.
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i tried everything... the only thing that fixed it for me was a complete factory reset

iifuzz said:
Its not that...iv tried everything to fix it..even completely erased all contacts and added just the problem number and still doesn't work...cleared all recent info and sms removed sync completely...nothing works
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I had an sms issue I have been trying to resolve for weeks. Spent three hours with tech support troubleshooting, and finally determined something in the hardware. Took it in for a replacement. My g/f has the same phone, and no issues.

I wish verizon (or Samsung?) would fix this!
broncobiker said:
Im more concerned why you have the country code in your contacts list anyway? Ever since I had my first phone years ago manuals said not to put the country code in your contacts list for domestic contacts. Ive never had a problem.
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When traveling internationally, it's a royal PIA when your US & Canada contact records don't include the country code and you're trying to place a call to north america... When I go overseas, I use an unlocked GSM android phone, and I would like to load my US contacts via Google in a usable format (10 digit numbers aren't usable from abroad).
This is a Verizon-Samsung bug - removing the country code from all US contact records is a work-around (not a fix!). My previous Verizon phones (mostly old Windows mobile handsets) had no trouble sending texts to US mobiles using the international standard country code prefix.
I just loaded up the leaked froyo modem, kernel and rom (EB01, EB16 & superclean 2.6 voodoo respectively), and unfortunately I see this issue persists...
Can anyone tell me if any of the verizon Android handsets from HTC or motorola share this flaw?
Thanks!

Sms failing

I'm on t mobile and been having a problem sending txs, sometimes its fine then all a sudden it fails and tries to resend but carnt. Very frustrating, then the next day I get message from t mobile saying I've sent a message to an invalid number. Very strange can any 1 help
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First I'd suggest calling customer service. Since it only fails sometimes, the issue may be with their service centre number.
If that doesn't work try backup->hardreset so the phone can get the operator settings again and start fresh. ( the latter option is a bit extreme so only perform if u've got no other left and you know what you are doing )

Ok ill give them a ring 2orw as its bugging me so much lol. Cheers
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Do you have this problem with all numbers or just one or two? Check the number that you're trying to send to. I was having this same problem and I figured out that it was happening because I have Facebook contacts linked into my phonebook, and it pulls friends numbers into the phone book and uses the number as default. One of my friends had written their number on Facebook incorrectly (adding the country code the wrong way), so my phone wasn't using a valid number when I tried to text him. The only way I could stop this happening was to unlink his FB profile from his number in my phonebook.
Give this a look. Hope it helps.
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I am getting this on one contact only. For some reason as soon as they have replied to me the number used changes from +44 to 044 which then fails when I try sending to it. So far it isn't happening to other contacts and if I open this contact profile all the numbers are correct with +44 or 0 prefixes. As suggested above I tried unlinking the FB profile but this didn't help (this particular contact doesn't have their number on FB anyway).

I did a factory reset and All is working fine. Mine was just the one number as well which was annoying is it was the Mrs lol.
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Factory reset mine earlier this evening and seems fine so far. Fingers crossed as it is the only thing I have found to fault mine with so far.

[Q] text messaging dont work

whenever i go into my text messaging and i try to send a message it instantly loses service. How can I fix this problem???? I have checked my setting and updated my radio version and it still does the same thing.

Have you tried it in a different phone yet to see if it does the same thing??
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sms texts always in new threads sent and received

hey
i have a wierd problem with texts
every message i receive goes into its own thread instead of updating the current persons text thread..
i just changed rom's so backed up my sms's with sms backup and restore. , after restoring i noticed that all my sent messeges and received messages to people there in 2 different threads for each person one thread for sent one for received....
so i thought it might have been a dodgy backup... so i viewed the backup but everything looks ok nothing is split into 2 threads .... each person has 1 thread
so i thought it might be the sms backup not being compaitable with my new rom (dragon j/b 1.7) so i deleted my sms's ALL of them and started from scratch....
but again i just received a text from a friend i replied to that and when he replied again it went into a new thread......
anyone help?
checked my contacts they are all linked (ie, facebook....google.... accounts into one contact file)

anyone? can't seem to find info anywhere

anyone? can't seem to find info anywhere
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I had the same issue with Dragon 1.6 when I installed with AOSP SMS. Reinstalled the ROM, this time with stock MMS AND the issue was resolved.
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Oomahey said:
I had the same issue with Dragon 1.6 when I installed with AOSP SMS. Reinstalled the ROM, this time with stock MMS AND the issue was resolved.
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tried that this morning didn't work still same problem

so weird thing happened here.. when i installed the Go SMS app, my native AOSP SMS app started stacking the messages into one contact... somehow the GO SMS app interfered with the AOSP sms app... so i just gonna live it installed.. hide it.. and wait for a fix one the AOSP SMS app... i hope this somehow helps to figure out the problem.

Outbound SMS not working on latest CM11 Nightly (250714)

I recently updated my Defy to the latest CM11 2014-07-25 build.
Everything seems to be great, but I realized that I cannot send SMS anymore, whenever I send an SMS to any number I get "Message Not Sent" error immediately. I am able to receive all SMS without any issues.
I did find related threads for other phones with CM11, which suggest to disable voice+, but there is no voice+ setting for the Defy build.
Does anyone else face similar issue ?
Anyone has any solution to this ?

No one else faces this issue? Today I updated again to the latest 2014-07-31 build and I still cannot send an SMS

Check SMSC from the dialer hidden menu (dial *#*#4636#*#*)
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My defy use CM11 2014-08-24 nightly.
I get the same issue with "Message Not Sent" error.
But i can receive all SMS without issues, too.
After checking SMSC number. My outbound SMC works fine now.
You could check it with your telecom, or just google it by "SMSC number <your telecom company name>".
Hope it is helpful for you.