Text message failures

[mmaldin]

For the past week or so I have been having some difficulty with texts, many don't go through and I get a failure message that gives me the option to resend or delete. Anyone else with this issue? Is it my phone or sprint?

 

[grantheppes]

For the past week or so I have been having some difficulty with texts, many don't go through and I get a failure message that gives me the option to resend or delete. Anyone else with this issue? Is it my phone or sprint?

I get the message not sent error every once in a while. I usually just copy message, resend, then delete the unsent one. It doesn't happen enough that I worry about it. Usually when I am in an area where it bounces back and forth from decent to bad service.

 

[feoysolo]

I have been having this issue more lately also. Sometimes I resend then find out that the other person received the message multiple times. So then I assume the "Message Not Sent" was wrong then don't resend. Then it turns out that the message didn't do through after all. MADDENING!!!

 

[Habious]

I get the message not sent error every once in a while. I usually just copy message, resend, then delete the unsent one. It doesn't happen enough that I worry about it. Usually when I am in an area where it bounces back and forth from decent to bad service.

If you touch the yellow "Didn't send" triangle next to the failed message, it will delete the unsent message, and copy the text into the message box.

So, just touch the triangle, and hit "send" again. No need to copy/paste.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

I have been having this issue more lately also. Sometimes I resend then find out that the other person received the message multiple times. So then I assume the "Message Not Sent" was wrong then don't resend. Then it turns out that the message didn't do through after all. MADDENING!!!

It's cat and mouse. It's not the phone. It's the network. Sprint SMS is terrible.

I'll text my friend on his blackberry curve and we'll both get out of order messages and multiple messages. I asked him why. He said: "O, it said it didn't send so I sent it again".

So, don't worry about your phone. It's just Sprints network. And SMS is a dinosaur to begin with.

 

[lyingfromyou]

when i send long messages (anything more than 4 lines) they turn up as jibberish on the other end... andbody else have this problem??

 

[BlackHawkA4]

when i send long messages (anything more than 4 lines) they turn up as jibberish on the other end... andbody else have this problem??

Define jibberish. Assuming you mean "dhfsjdhf sjdfsjkdfh weiufhfasudfsd jsfdj djfa" or something similar: I haven't gotten any complaints about that.

 

[lyingfromyou]

Define jibberish. Assuming you mean "dhfsjdhf sjdfsjkdfh weiufhfasudfsd jsfdj djfa" or something similar: I haven't gotten any complaints about that.

yes, a crap load of letters and special characters....

 

[BlackHawkA4]

yes, a crap load of letters and special characters....

It's happening on the other end and not yours? Is it happening to everyone you text?

 

[lyingfromyou]

It's happening on the other end and not yours? Is it happening to everyone you text?

my end looks fine... and yes, it happens to everybody i type a long message to

 

[BlackHawkA4]

my end looks fine... and yes, it happens to everybody i type a long message to

Very strange. Are these "everybodies" on the same carrier?

 

[mmaldin]

It's happening on the other end and not yours? Is it happening to everyone you text?

It happens to the sender too, my wife, who uses a BB on our family plan when messaging me. She doesn't get failures between her and her friends, not sure who their carriers are. Interestingly, this has really started in the last week around the time of the GWK74 update. Any possible correlation?

 

[BlackHawkA4]

It happens to the sender too, my wife, who uses a BB on our family plan when messaging me. She doesn't get failures between her and her friends, not sure who their carriers are. Interestingly, this has really started in the last week around the time of the GWK74 update. Any possible correlation?

I'm on Cm7 122 which is 2.3.5 right now. I do still have the new radio installed; however, before I flashed 2.3.7 with the new radio and was on the old radio I've always had this problem existing since 2.3.4.

Maybe they are on a different carrier. I haven't had this happen to me in the last couple of days. It's spotty. Which leads me to believe it's just the spotty network we pay for.

 

[lyingfromyou]

i'm not sure wich networks they are on... all i know is it only happens with 4 or 5 lines of text, to stop it i just send my message every 3 or 4 lines.

 

[chud]

it happens if you go over 160 characters.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

it happens if you go over 160 characters.

You can't go over 160 characters, lol.

Thanks CHUD.

 

[ijip]

Also if you have air rave set up st home and you reset you phone under that coverage it screws things up.just reset outside and prl update and your done =)

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[chud]

You can't go over 160 characters, lol.

Thanks CHUD.

the character count is just in regards to the gibberish that happens. the sending failures in general are just Sprint being Sprint though.

pretty sure CM7 has a setting in there that allows for longer texts to be sent.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

the character count is just in regards to the gibberish that happens. the sending failures in general are just Sprint being Sprint though.

pretty sure CM7 has a setting in there that allows for longer texts to be sent.

It does; but, it doesn't work. It works on MIUI but converts the message to MMS.

 

[mmaldin]

Also if you have air rave set up st home and you reset you phone under that coverage it screws things up.just reset outside and prl update and your done =)

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Wow, that could be it, I do have an air rave and did reset it. I will try that, thanks!