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Rooted EVOs Send Text Messages in Gibberish?

I don't have anything concrete to substantiate this yet, but it appears that text messages sent from my rooted EVO will, on occasion, show up a gibberish when viewed by the recipient.
Both my mother and sister have BlackBerry phones, and they have each received one or two text messages from me during the past three weeks that arrive as a nonsensical string of letters, numbers and symbols. My girlfriend has a feature phone and hasn't noticed anything, and neither have any of my other friends who have iPhones or Android phones. My mother and sister are the only two people I text who have a BlackBerry, but I don't believe the issue is on their end. Yes, BlackBerry phones are antiquated, etc., but I'm the only person they know with the EVO, and a rooted EVO at that. Neither have received text messages in gibberish from anyone else.
I unrooted my phone for a week and just rooted it again last night using unrevoked3, and this morning my mom said one of my text messages came though in gibberish. My sister told me the same thing three weeks ago when I initially rooted my phone. What are the odds that a rooted EVO sends text messages in gibberish only to BlackBerry phones, and only on occasion? Has anyone else experienced this?
Posted from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity of the post, as well as any spelling or grammatical errors, if any.

I've never heard of this and never had this issue. Been running Fresh roms since rooting (about a day after release...), texting people with iPhones, Android, Blackberries, and even old flip phones and what not. Not a single person has reported to me that they couldn't read my text.

I likewise have never heard of this. It also doesn't make sense at all. What Rom are you using?

chuckhriczko said:
I likewise have never heard of this. It also doesn't make sense at all. What Rom are you using?
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I am using the stock rooted ROM. Nothing special and no apps have been removed.
I just forwarded this post to a friend of mine, and he responded with the following: "Back when I was running Android on my WinMo phone, a few of the very early builds would send txt gibberish to my wife. She had a Blackberry."

over 1200 txts last month, all from my rooted EVO. Not ONCE did anyone tell me it came thru jibberish. Sounds to me like you have a unique problem. However, I did not use unrevoked to root my phone. I used toastcfh's method. Perhaps this is a problem resulting from unrevoked3 as it doesnt occur on mine. Also, I have 2 evos rooted same way now, no jibberish txts.

SteelH said:
over 1200 txts last month, all from my rooted EVO. Not ONCE did anyone tell me it came thru jibberish. Sounds to me like you have a unique problem. However, I did not use unrevoked to root my phone. I used toastcfh's method. Perhaps this is a problem resulting from unrevoked3 as it doesnt occur on mine. Also, I have 2 evos rooted same way now, no jibberish txts.
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You may be right that it is related to the root method. The first time I rooted, however, I used Toast's method.
Also, it's not like this happens every time I send them a text message. It has happened two or three times over a one-month period.

I too have seen that in the past. My best friend has a BlackBerry and occasionally he would see gibberish on my text messages. At that time, I was rooted using a custom ROM (Fresh Evo). Right now, I am rooted using the stock ROM and we have sent texts and it seems everything is fine.
Also, I that was before the latest OTA update. Who knows if HTC fixed and never said anything..

luisrcastillo said:
I too have seen that in the past. My best friend has a BlackBerry and occasionally he would see gibberish on my text messages. At that time, I was rooted using a custom ROM (Fresh Evo). Right now, I am rooted using the stock ROM and we have sent texts and it seems everything is fine.
Also, I that was before the latest OTA update. Who knows if HTC fixed and never said anything..
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Ah, see, I'm not alone.
I'm now using the stock rooted version of 1.47 and it happened this morning.

luisrcastillo said:
I too have seen that in the past. My best friend has a BlackBerry and occasionally he would see gibberish on my text messages. At that time, I was rooted using a custom ROM (Fresh Evo). Right now, I am rooted using the stock ROM and we have sent texts and it seems everything is fine.
Also, I that was before the latest OTA update. Who knows if HTC fixed and never said anything..
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Please vote in the poll. It's the first thing most people see when the open the thread, and I am clearly not the only individual who has been confronted with this issue.

Perhaps it's not a phone issue at all. Maybe it's on Sprint's side of things.

SteelH said:
Perhaps it's not a phone issue at all. Maybe it's on Sprint's side of things.
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Perhaps you are correct. I didn't even consider that. All phones involved are Sprint phones.

I think it has to do with the ****ty ass rim blackburries

xxbabiboi228xx said:
I think it has to do with the ****ty ass rim blackburries
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I would tend to agree however my girlfriend has a blackberry and she never said anything like this has happened.

Are you using special characters on your text messages? This happens to me when I send a Spanish text message due to Sprint CDMA system not being able to recognize characters other then the English language... or so I have been explained by them.

I had this happen ONCE on my EVO before I even rooted. I think it's on sprints side

tigereyeslalo said:
Are you using special characters on your text messages? This happens to me when I send a Spanish text message due to Sprint CDMA system not being able to recognize characters other then the English language... or so I have been explained by them.
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No. I am using Swype, however.

jajones7747 said:
I had this happen ONCE on my EVO before I even rooted. I think it's on sprints side
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Interesting. I think we are on to something.
Please vote in the poll

A sample of what it looks like would be nice. Do you still have access to the gibberish message?
Maybe I will run into it at some period. My parents both use Blackberries.

Jykinturah said:
A sample of what it looks like would be nice. Do you still have access to the gibberish message?
Maybe I will run into it at some period. My parents both use Blackberries.
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Sure. I just asked them both if they could forward the message to me.
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Here is a sample, highlighted in bold: hanks e me a minute ing it in a message to me? 5
Here is the message I actually sent: Thanks, I will.
Somehow, "Thanks, I will" turned into "hanks e me a minute ing it in a message to me? 5".

kpoz said:
No. I am using Swype, however.
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I think Swype is the culprit. When I send a text message using swype on the evo to a BlackBerry, they get gibberish. When I use the normal keyboard it works fine

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.
Stock DI18, not rooted.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

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.
Stock DI18, not rooted.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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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.

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...
Also 1st
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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.
Sent from my perfect epic
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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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Texts Not Being Sent/Received for Days

So I'm on kush's gingerbread using the default messaging app, and I have had a number of texts not go out for up to three days, and have not received some texts until a day late, but there is no rhyme or reason to it as far as I can tell. 3 out of 4 times I send a text and it immediately goes out. But for that 1 out of 4 it makes a ton of confusion with my friends.
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'd like to know if it's Sprint or Rom related. I've just flashed a sense rom, but ughh... sense is ugly, so I'd like to stay aosp. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I keep having the same thing happen to me. If I remember right this happened all the time with AT&T. I've asked at least a dozen Sprint and AT&T employees. No one has been any help. The best answer I've gotten is that its the provider's issure, not the phones software/hardware. Best of luck

thanamesjames said:
So I'm on kush's gingerbread using the default messaging app, and I have had a number of texts not go out for up to three days, and have not received some texts until a day late, but there is no rhyme or reason to it as far as I can tell. 3 out of 4 times I send a text and it immediately goes out. But for that 1 out of 4 it makes a ton of confusion with my friends.
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'd like to know if it's Sprint or Rom related. I've just flashed a sense rom, but ughh... sense is ugly, so I'd like to stay aosp. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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I had this same problem and flashed back to sense... updated my PRL and profile and it resolved the problem for me. I was on 60681 and the most update was 60683. Maybe that will help.

Not receiving all incoming calls

So I've had this issue for a while now. It went away and came back. People text me say that they are calling me and I'm not answering. The phone rings on their end normally and goes to voicemail, while my note 3 is literally sitting on my desk. I have full service and it doesn't happen to all calls. Some come through some don't, its very sporadic. Could it be a radio issue? Has anyone else had this issue? I have ran stock 4.3, stock 4.4, and numerous Roms. Its definitely not ROM related.
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Gladyscoleman said:
The solution is this just reboot your cell phone.
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So your saying I've never rebooted my phone before? That's a pretty lame answer. I reboot my phone at least twice a day and still have the issue. Good one.
Sent from my leaked KitKat Note 3

popkurn611 said:
So your saying I've never rebooted my phone before? That's a pretty lame answer. I reboot my phone at least twice a day and still have the issue. Good one.
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I think he's spamming for post count. If you've completely wiped your phone while installing numerous ROMs on 4.3 and 4.4.2 I would tend to think you're having radio issues. If you're going to call VZW unroot your phone, there's a chance they will check to see if you're tired and when they see you are it will void the warranty.

airmaxx23 said:
I think he's spamming for post count. If you've completely wiped your phone while installing numerous ROMs on 4.3 and 4.4.2 I would tend to think you're having radio issues. If you're going to call VZW unroot your phone, there's a chance they will check to see if you're tired and when they see you are it will void the warranty.
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Yeah I've seen him on other threads. I really don't want a replacement refurb phone. Like for example today it happened once. My sister called me and I picked up and she said did you not get my first call I said nope! She said she can tell BC its rings a little weird. Like rings 3-4 times then just goes to voicemail. Who knows
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I'm having the problem with my Vzw note 3 and my wife is with her Vzw HTC one...The doctors office left me a voice mail and I called back and the receptionist said I just tried to call you and I told her I got no calls..she asked if I had Verizon and I told her yes and she said she has a Verizon smartphone that has been experiencing the same problems...I didn't ask her with model but I think I may be a network issue????
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Bonniecal said:
i am not sure. see your call settings if your out going call shows that off. then then turn on it and see what happen now. it is better to reset your phone settings and use the defult settings. thanks
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there are no phone settings that will change the ability to receive incoming calls.

I'm having the same problem. Running KK atm. I also get persistent double beeps whenever I'm in a phone call.
Note III KK-style