Gibberish characters in sent emails

[Ken7]

Every once in awhile someone I send an email to from my GNex, shows me how the message I sent to them arrives with characters that are totally incomprehensible. It looks like a newly created language. The recipients have been on AOL (as am I), so I'm not sure what's happening. When I double check my 'sent' basket, the messages always look fine on my end.

Has anyone else had this happen?

 

[Cyber Warrior]

Never happened to me personally but I've seen it happen, especially when using 3rd party SMS apps like Handcent. The fix is to split the messages when sending long messages. Go into the SMS app.. Menu.. Settings.. and where it says "SMS Split" (split every 160 characters) ... turn it ON. That should fix the issue.


EDIT: Nevermind... thought it said SMS instead of EMAIL. Nope never seen that happen before

 

[CuriousNoob]

I've seen someone with this this problem on a different thread.....

Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk

 

[2waterfowl]

Two people have mentioned this to me after I had sent emails to them using the stock pop3 email. I had no idea what they were talking about until I just read this thread. I thought they were crazy until now... Hmmm

BTW: Rooted, running stock.

 

[Ken7]

Thanks Cyber, but I'm actually using the stock email app and AOL is my service. In looking at the settings in the stock email app, I don't see the settings for splitting the message you mentioned.

 

[Ken7]

Two people have mentioned this to me after I had sent emails to them using the stock pop3 email. I had no idea what they were talking about until I just read this thread. I thought they were crazy until now... Hmmm

BTW: Rooted, running stock.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing to see what the message I sent them looked like on their end. Looks like an alien language. I can't see what the commonality is when it happens.

 

[Ken7]

Here's an update on this issue. I've noticed the most common error is when there is an apostrophe in the sentence. Rather than simply putting in the apostrophe, my message on the other end will have one or two gibberish characters and then most of the WORD 'apostrophe' spelled out! This certainly doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to be annoying.

It's also embarrassing when an IPhone user gets my message like that. The response is invariably something like 'nice **** Android, my IPhone never does that'. It also only happens in emails, not SMS texting.

How bizarre is that? Any ideas?

 

[bworley50]

Having the same problem.

 

[Newport Viper]

Yep, I have had this happen too! Totally stock...

 

[somerussianguy]

Never had this with email but it happens pretty much all the time with my mp3 tags - when I transfer some Russian music on my phone the tags look fine when I look at them on Windows but turn to gibberish in music apps. So, do send those emails in English or a different language, what app do you use, and what keyboard do you use?

 

[CutlaSS]

This has happened to me on my Droid Incredible and now on my Galaxy Nexus not in email but sending SMS using ChompSMS. Happens every once in a while. and I have it set to split messages 160 characters/message. I think its a CDMA thing but then again what do I know.

 

[RobertELehman]

This just started happening to me when I send emails from my msn email account from my Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. My first few days using this phone and sending email from that account, it did not happen. Now it is. It may have coincided with the phone software upgrade, though I can't be certain.
Currently running Android 2.3.6


The only place where the gibberish shows is where my name should be in the email. The recipients indicate my email in their inbox shows my name as Gbkshdishwlfhw Skhfaoislwddlash. It always shows for everybody in the same exact gibberish. It also shows in the body of the email something like:

Gbkshdishwlfhw Skhfaoislwddlash wrote:

I went to the accounts on my phone and set the nickname for my MSN account to my full name, as it was set to match the actual email address. This did not help.

ETA: that I checked the test emails I sent to myself from the phone using MSN to both my google and MSN accounts. The gibberish shows in both emails when viewed from my Android phone, however, when I go to my pc to pull up the emails from MSN and google mail, the gibberish is not viewed in the MSN viewed version in the inbox view or body of the message as described above but it is present in the google pc version. So perhaps the issue is with google programming and contacts versions.

 

[Ken7]

Mine are sent in English using the stock Android keyboard. Everything on mine is stock and the errors are going to AOL users.