Spaced Messages?

codyahiggins

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Has anyone else been getting messages with spaces in between every character? And if you have do you know if its a problem with Virgin Mobile or my phone?

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Do you know what keyboard they use? My girlfriend uses Swype Beta, and I use SwiftKey 3. Maybe that has something to do with it?

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It happens very rarely, so I don't attribute it to anything other than possible network issues / interference. He is using the stock Android keyboard, also happened during his stint with Swype.
 

kcls

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It happens when someone uses an unsupported SMS character, such as ?. That's what I've narrowed it down to.

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Originally Posted by cole2kb<br />
Happens to me with only one person, and he is on Alltel.
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Do you know what keyboard they use? My girlfriend uses Swype Beta, and I use SwiftKey 3. Maybe that has something to do with it? <br />
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My girlfriend uses the stock keyboard on optimus elite and my friend who has rumor touch uses the slide keyboard.

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It happens when someone uses an unsupported SMS character, such as ?. That's what I've narrowed it down to.

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I suppose that's possible, however, he has never used those special characters. I suppose he could have long-pressed and typed one by accident, happens to me sometimes when my keyboard lags, but his phone is a lot faster than mine, so I doubt it. I'll see if I can recreate it.
 

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I suppose that's possible, however, he has never used those special characters. I suppose he could have long-pressed and typed one by accident, happens to me sometimes when my keyboard lags, but his phone is a lot faster than mine, so I doubt it. I'll see if I can recreate it.

Yeah I had a conversation with someone else on the Optimus using the Stock ROM, and I sent him a message that ended in "se?or". He asked what was up with the funky spacing, and what "seor" meant. So I sent another message with a bunch of random text, plus an "?" in there, and sure enough, the ? was nowhere to be found, and the text was spaced out. I've never since gotten or sent a message that had spaced text in it.

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