Weird text message from unknown sender

[thisizsic]

well this sucks. i've been getting them for awhile now too. it always comes in just 1 day and i get them on the hour for several hours. sad to see there's no solution to it yet. i'm running stock ics.

 

[Grey_girl]

this is the issue "Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) which the Nexus S 4G does not support at this time.Please educate customers that these messages can be ignored and that there is no way to block them." that is what sprint said...

I received different information. When I had the problem two weeks ago, I was told by Sprint that they were unable to identify the origin of the texts.

 

[johnb0072]

I hope I don't jinx myself but I got one a couple weeks ago that was it.

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[Grey_girl]

I hope I don't jinx myself but I got one a couple weeks ago that was it.

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I think I jinxed myself. The texts picked back up today. I received 6 between 2:41 and 4:00 EST.

 

[steraser]

I started getting them 4-5 weeks ago. Unrooted stock ICS.

 

[va2azerik]

I think it is some national alert system, I notice I get them when the weather starts to get a little crazy where I live.My girlfriend on tmobile gets a alert when the weather gets crazy also.

 

[VDub2174]

The national alert system thing sounds about right. I got a text yerterday from them on my GNex and my parents got one on thier N24G. Mine came through fine but theirs was all jumbled.

 

[danisnotstan]

I also get these only when the weather is bad so I'm assuming its the new weather alerts that supposedly don't work on ns4g. My work phone is a Verizon dumb phone that gets weather alerts and they always come on the same days.

 

[ccrs8]

I used to get these all the time when I had my NS4G (one day I got well over 100 of them), while my wife never got them at all on her Optimus S (either garbled like this thread shows or readable emergency texts). Last week I got a Galaxy Nexus so I gave my wife the NS4G. Now she gets them all the time and I don't get anything on the Galaxy Nexus, either garbled or readable. So it's phone-specific, not tied to a phone number. Very odd.

 

[voltageROCK#CB]

I got 5 today.

 

[crackberryscott]

It stopped for awhile..just got 6 of them.

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[Ryuuie]

Sprint Community: Jelly Bean Update?

This is a bug with the OS (both ICS and JB) and has been fixed in the updated version of Jelly Bean being pushed to NS4G and GNex LTE right now.

 

[WizLateefUh]

I have avast mobile security and I used call and sms filtering to block all texts from those numbers.