SMS Delivery Confirmation Question

[mritter88]

I'd be surprised if this hasn't been covered already in the forums, but I searched and couldn't find anything (though I'm never good at conducting search queries on forums like this, so forgive me if I'm just missing it).

I know how to turn on the delivery reports, and I see the little icon appear next to texts that I send while it's turned on, but I'm a little confused. The icon seems to appear a couple of seconds after I sent it, which I assume is confirming that it has been successfully sent. The icon is a little envelope with a small green lowercase "i" but it doesn't seem to change once the message has been received (as opposed to just being sent).

If I long press on a message right after I send it, and select "View Report" it says "Status: Pending" and if I wait a little while and try again, it will say "Status: Received," so I know that the confirmation is working, but do I really have to long press on each message to see that it was received? Why does the icon not change (and if the icon isn't going to change, why bother having an icon in the first place)? Or am I just missing something...

Any insight into this would be appreciated, I'd love to be able to see a little check mark next to the message once its been received, as most phones show.

 

[06jeepguy]

would love to know this too

 

[mritter88]

would love to know this too

I have a feeling there's no answer, seeing as no one has replied... Kind of annoying, and doesn't really make sense the way it is.

 

[kentoe]

I agree it would be much more useful if within the conversation the icon updated to a check like the normal phones have it within the sent area of messages

 

[pmasinvest]

The answer is yes, you need to long press and chose status. I agree, kind of silly not to have a "D" or something on the envelope icon. But I find myself checking for delivery less and less. It's rare that someone does not receive a text.

 

[mritter88]

The answer is yes, you need to long press and chose status. I agree, kind of silly not to have a "D" or something on the envelope icon. But I find myself checking for delivery less and less. It's rare that someone does not receive a text.

That is true, I do find myself not feeling the need to check very often. Every once in a while if I don't get a response I'll check to see if they got the message. The icon just looks obtrusive there, considering it doesn't serve a purpose. I'd like to be able to long press and find out without having that icon there, if it's just going to be static anyway... Oh well.

Thanks for the responses, guys.