Handcent sending to the wrong contact...

[dqdude]

I am running Handcent as my default sms app and have encountered a major issue!
I was sending an sms to a contact (contact A) that I was already in the middle of a thread with. My texts were showing as going to "contact A" when they were actually received by "contact B". Not cool when the nature of the sms was private.Contact A never received the sms' while contact B received them all. Very embarassing!

Another issue I have encountered when sending a sms to a contact...it ends up going to "anonymous". That one happened today.

Anyone else experience these issues?

 

[jeffruby]

yup, after 2 years swapped to go SMS. Stuff like that is dangerous. Gosms and u wont look back.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[jphillips1963]

I had same issues last night with Go SMS Pro on my GN This could be really bad sending text to someone its not intended for.

 

[dqdude]

It seems that gosms is having the same issues. Check out the reviews...seems to be an ics issue

 

[Revolutionary]

Oh. Crap.

 

[Revolutionary]

dqdude: When you go to the messages that were sent to the wrong person, long press on one and select "message details" from all the way at the bottom -- does it show the correct phone number for the person you THOUGHT you were sending to, or does it show the number of the person who actually received it?

 

[dqdude]

I deleted the thread yesterday...If it it happens again I will check that out.
I sure hope it doesn't happen again...it could cause some major issues!

dqdude: When you go to the messages that were sent to the wrong person, long press on one and select "message details" from all the way at the bottom -- does it show the correct phone number for the person you THOUGHT you were sending to, or does it show the number of the person who actually received it?

 

[aggie]

i had this happen on my Thunderbolt while using handcent. honestly i am really happy with the stock sms app on the Nexus, I don't see any need (for me at least) to use a 3rd party sms app with this device but it's good to know this is happening just in case i get bored and try to change things up.

 

[Laramie]

I can live without all the customization on handcent. I just want a nice pop up notification. So far, light flow pop doesn't seem to be working.

 

[quiklives]

So far I haven't experienced this, but Handcent is my app of choice.

Does anyone know if it's an inherent SMS problem? Anyone on stock having this issue at all? I really dislike the stock app, it's ugly.

 

[tlincoln]

I dropped back to stock because 2 different friends had this happen, one with both handcent & gosmms pro and the other with just handcent.

 

[tjefferson3]

I was using Gosms and had this same thing happen to me last night...I'vs decided to use the stock sms..one question...in GB there is an option to append a signature to messages...I can't seem to find that option in ICS...is it possible with ICS?

 

[ScottiePP7]

I was going to get the Nexus this afternoon... this is too big an issue to get the phone though.

Can anyone confirm that this does not happen with stock? (I know it's impossible to confirm the negative here but has anyone reported any problems with stock?)

 

[karn101]

I've never had that problem and I'm running the stock messaging app. I'm sure that if this was an actual problem the forums would be flooded with threads about it.

 

[Revolutionary]

I haven't had it happen on Handcent, but I'm not taking the risk. I'll use stock until somebody says that also has the bug.

 

[pool_shark]

Did anyone other than myself contact handcent?

You can check before sending to make sure it is going to the correct person.

What was happening to me was it appeared to be sending to the correct person, but after it was sent it showed that it went to someone else.
What I do is write the message, then back out saving the message as a draft. Go back into the message, if the recipient is correct then it's ok.

Also, I did not have this happen using the stock SMS client.

 

[JimmyDW2]

I haven't had it happen on Handcent, but I'm not taking the risk. I'll use stock until somebody says that also has the bug.

Right there with you, going back to stock right now...

 

[dqdude]

I contacted handcent about this right after it happened

 

[CynicX]

You guys talk to much crap behind peoples backs.

 

[Laramie]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I have been on Android since the original Moto Droid and I can remember this "bug" happening way back then.

I can't remember now but I think it was also attributed to non-stock SMS apps.

I love Handcent but I really don't like this and really can't trust an app that has this sort of behavior unless I want some of my tests to end up on wrongnumbertexts lol.