Getting one MMS for every sms that I receive, please help!! - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm not sure of what I've done but since this morning I'm receiving an empty MMS from "unknown" sender for every sms that I get. Haven't changed any of the settings prior to that starting, notifications are disabled in the stock app (am using chomp sms). Please help, it's driving me mad..
Phone is rooted & running latest gladiatrix version.
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Could be the person sending to you is sending texts as a MMS. My wife used to do this with her BB and I would get 2 on my iPhone from her. Just a thought. May be the same issue.
Does it do this from everyone, or just one person?

CaelanT said:
Could be the person sending to you is sending texts as a MMS. My wife used to do this with her BB and I would get 2 on my iPhone from her. Just a thought. May be the same issue.
Does it do this from everyone, or just one person?
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Thanks for the reply!
No, it's from everyone, everywhere. I'm trying to back-track what I changed since last night on the phone but I haven't changed anything that could indicate causing an issue like this. The sender shows as "anonymous", when I try to dial that number it came up as 266-696-687 which isn't a valid number.

I was getting that last night and than it stopped after an hour

Andrew149 said:
I was getting that last night and than it stopped after an hour
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Getting the same, an mms before each sms?

Sorry to be a pain; the bug is very annoying.. I have now flashed everything back from 1.2.6 to 1.8.3, the bug is still there.
I used the SIM in another android phone, all works ok. Obviously something went bust on the settings of my phone.
Anyone heard of this issue or seen it?

So, issue took care of itself this morning. After spending 14hrs trying to fix it yesterday & almost throwing the damn thing out the window..
AT&T? o2 here in Germany? Some dodgy update of some sort? F**k knows..

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Anybody receiving incoming SMS messages in huge quantities?

Hello,
I upgraded my T-Mobile USA to latest ROM and radio and somehow according to T-Mobile website I recieved like 500 incoming SMS messages which never appears on my phone but still billed on my account.
All of them are coming from some weird 4 digit number 3213 or 3208 according to T-Mobile website. I'm completely puzzled what is happening.
Anybody has any ideas?
G
P.S. I already called T-Mobile and they told me that they are going to investigate within 2 weeks and did not give much explanation of what is happening.
- I've just checked my account...sorry, I'm not receiving any SMS messages on huge quantities that are not appearing on my phone.
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artisticcheese said:
Hello,
I upgraded my T-Mobile USA to latest ROM and radio and somehow according to T-Mobile website I recieved like 500 incoming SMS messages which never appears on my phone but still billed on my account.
All of them are coming from some weird 4 digit number 3213 or 3208 according to T-Mobile website. I'm completely puzzled what is happening.
Anybody has any ideas?
G
P.S. I already called T-Mobile and they told me that they are going to investigate within 2 weeks and did not give much explanation of what is happening.
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Check other posts on this site some other people have had this problem, i do not remember what the solution was but i'm sure there is one.
ian

Missing Texts/SMS

On stock T-Mobile G2 I seem to be missing some SMS's from my wife. This has happened on at least two occasions and she has received a delivery report each time. Yesterday this happened when she was sat next to me on a train and sent me a text. In each case I had used the phone recently for text or voice and was using it for 'other things' e.g. in an app or a menu, and had signal. Anyone else noticed this?
Well, thats strange cos thats exactly what I am suffering from. two separate people apparently sent me a text which I never received them and don't know where it had gone. Just about to look at "3" help to see if there is anything there about it, but looked like I am not the only one and it isn't network related.
I have "sms popup" to notify me of any messages - I was thinking that might have broke something. do you have sms popup installed?
(using sim free hero)
The very first text I (should have) received was eaten, too. I honestly have no idea how many others are missing because I haven't talked to the people I have been texting yet.
That was before I had any apps installed at all.
Mine did the same yesterday. I have also had an hour delay on receiving a message and it didnt arrive until I sent another.
Well I have lots of apps installed but never 'SMS popup'. Problem happened again this eve- Mrs texted when I was on the tube (out of signal). She got a 'pending' and a 'delivered' report. I got squat. As she points out, texting is a core function that you need to be able to rely on. Any ideas what we can do to get this bug addressed? What ROM are people using?
Firmware version: 1.5
Baseband Version: 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25
Kernel version: 2.6.27-a5504199 [email protected] #521
Build number: 1.76.405.6 146733 CL#47214 release-keys
Software version: 1.0.0.A6288
Come to think of it, I was texting back and forth with someone the other day and they never replied to a question (my last text to them). They are usually very reliable about replying... uh oh :/
Same thing here.. At least two texts that I'm 100% sure has been sent to me. (talked to the people later)
This is not good.
Just adding my missing texts too.
No SMS pop up installed and 100% sure they were sent.
Missed at least two!
Orange UK.
Same here. Message dissipated into the aether during the sending process. 3 (= Hutchison) Hong Kong.
My firmware shows the same labels as kiz
@ Sku11y : what does your firmware labels say? (although to be honest this seems like an HTC rather than network customisation issue)
Same issue here.
I've SMSPopup installed
I'm aware of 2 sms that didn't arrive.
When that happened, the SMSPopup window came up with an old message from a different contact.
Its happening to me too
I've got the standard unlocked version using Orange, popup sms installed but I don't thinks it's the software since reading this thread. Often I've seen an old text popup several times, I'm beginning to think these were new sms and I just haven't seen them. I text for a 241 film ticket this morning and thought I had no reply so sent the request again and Orange replied I couldn't have more than one ticket each Wed so their reply went missing.
this is looking like a phone software fault to me.
Best thing to do is to get in touch with the network to determine that it is definitly a phone fault.
Delivery reports are sent to the sender when the receiving network has received the message (auto send notification that they have received the message) and then they pipe this down their network to the recipient.
If the network are receiving the messages, but not able to send them to your phone they might be getting an error message, so should be able to shed some light on the situation.
Would be good if we know what networks everyone is on who is having a problem and whether its the unlocked version or locked to network...?
I'm on o2 with a unlocked T-Mobile G2, not having any issues that i'm aware of.
It's a bug for sure!
2 days ago i opened a ticket regarding this problem and today after a few mail i got the following answer:
Dear valued HTC customer,
We know this this issue with sms but there is no update to fix yet. You could check the web site for future hotfix.
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SquiffSquiff said:
@ Sku11y : what does your firmware labels say? (although to be honest this seems like an HTC rather than network customisation issue)
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Firmware 1.5
Baseband 63.18.55.06U_6.35.04.25
Kernal 2.6.27-a5504199
[email protected] #521
Build 1.76.405.6 146733 CL#47214 release-keys
Software 1.0.0.A6288
Just seen one of the later replies too, pretty poor on HTCs part if they know about the issue but don't seem too bothered to fix it!
At least they are aware of it and not denying all knowledge!, Lets look on the bright side.
@Birba That's great news. Where did you report this to HTC?
Thanks
On www.htc.com under support.
I have also reported the problem to them, I suppose I ought to tell Orange. The trouble is I am using my o2 SIM, so there won't be a record of many texts being sent...
Unbelievable!
I can't believe HTC actually released a phone that is chewing sms messages and not done a very urgent fix by now! Thats the whole point of a mobile phone that has been doing sms for years- otherwise I might has well stick with a cheap basic nokia that can do a proper job!
On the side note, I remember with my old htc touch diamond (winmo), the sms if I was unable to receive it was stored onto the sim card when the phone becomes available. The device never did display any notification nor did it appear as "unread" - it "just" appears on the message list screen.
Perhaps thats whats happening - the sms is on the sim which android doesn't have access too?

SMS being sent from strange #?

I've already posted at VZW, but I figured you guys at XDA are probably smarter than they are anyway. Especially when tech support can only offer me scripted solutions like "pull the battery lulz!"
I just signed up for VZW with a brand new Thunderbolt and ported my number from Tmobile. Now sometimes all the sudden people I text report that the sender's number was something crazy like +120837598139485. They cant respond to it, and only once they figure out it's me do they go into their address books and start responding using my actual phone number. They can send to me just fine, and sometimes when I reply it looks like it came from the right number. But other times they get this. One of them uses Tmo and the other is another VZW customer, and they both get the same result at times.
So what gives? Anyone ever heard of sending txt messages from a totally random number like this?
I had the same thing happen to me. I bought a used Thunderbolt, and once i activated it with the new sim card people told me i was sending them texts from a 15 digit number.
It only lasted for a few hours for me, and now everything is running as normal.
Its your sim card number. A simple reboot should fix it, if not, pull the battery and it will fix it
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I believe that VZW gave you a temp number. It happened to my sister who also had a 15 digit number. Actually the temp number is gonna cost you alot! Call Verizon and let them know that you got a temp number and would like your old number immediately
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Trust me... Its your sim card, just reboot and/or pull your battery
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AT&T MMS issues

Im having issues receiving MMS from certain people, im coming from galaxy note 3 an i wasn't having any issues on it now some time when someone sends me a MMS its a small box an it doesn't show anything but if i click an save attachment it will show me the picture. I'm using the stock messaging app and i'm completely stock phone. anyone else having this type of issues?
ps2gamer02 said:
Im having issues receiving MMS from certain people, im coming from galaxy note 3 an i wasn't having any issues on it now some time when someone sends me a MMS its a small box an it doesn't show anything but if i click an save attachment it will show me the picture. I'm using the stock messaging app and i'm completely stock phone. anyone else having this type of issues?
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Can you post a screenshot?
I have no problem. everything is ok.
That's what happens when I receive a mms but if I click it an save attachments I can see the picture in my gallery
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Instead of starting a new thread I'll try here. I'm having problems of not receiving just sms messages from time to time. At least two friends now have text me and said they didn't get replies from me when they text me. That being cause I never got them. Anyone else have this? Any ideas? I'm not rooted or unlocked or anything yet.
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tacote said:
Instead of starting a new thread I'll try here. I'm having problems of not receiving just sms messages from time to time. At least two friends now have text me and said they didn't get replies from me when they text me. That being cause I never got them. Anyone else have this? Any ideas? I'm not rooted or unlocked or anything yet.
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Did you have an iphone before this, or have you put your sim card in an iphone? I know that there is a problem where imessage can kick in and cause problems. Also ask your friends if they have iphones and if they do, then have them go into message settings and make sure they have the toggle "use sms when imessage not available" clicked.
I have a spare iphone 4s and I put the sim from my old galaxy s3 in it and it caused a world of hurt on my texts. I had to go in and turn off imessage on the iphone even though I had removed the sim and never put it back. Hope this helps.
One of them has a iphone the other doesn't. AT&T had me turn off my imessage when I got this phone. It just started out if the blue. Pretty much just the last two days. Didn't know if it was because I don't ever delete any old messages or well anything. Lol. Very frustrating though. Lol.
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I am having the same issue receiving txts from iPhone users and this happened on the m7 as well but got the m8 and then i was fine for a bit until it started again. At times it works and other times it doesn't.
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For those having trouble, let me post my experience so that it may help someone. I'm a corporate client, my law firm has about twelve phones under the account. Since this is a family firm, we steal each others upgrades all the time, usually someone is breaking their phone and not due an upgrade, so they take someone else's. So when I upgraded, even though I was eligible, my uncle had nabbed my upgrade back in october. So I, in turn, grabbed my cousin's upgrade. The problem here is that I am the only android user. Somehow att screwed up our account when I upgraded and suddenly I couldn't get texts from the people in my office on iphones. Eventually our I.T. guy called att and straightened it out. I say all that to say that if you haven't modded your apn, sms app, or anything else and are having issues, it is most likely on att.
Have you gone into settings within messages and then mms settings and checked auto-retrieve and set max message size to 1000k?
nunyabiziz said:
Have you gone into settings within messages and then mms settings and checked auto-retrieve and set max message size to 1000k?
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I'm having same issue as OP. Will receive small blank box messages. Clicking on it opens a blank slideshow instead of a picture. Saving the attachment just saves a blank image. From the same sender, sometimes pictures go through, other times they arrive blank. This is from an android user. I didn't have this issue on my previous phone.
MMS set to auto retrieve and 1000K limit.
Having the same issue as well, ever since the M7. It mainly happens from a couple people who both use iPhones.
Hate jumping on the bandwagon, but I'm having this issue too, and mostly from iPhone users, but not all iPhone users. It's really strange. Sometimes saving the image works, other times it doesn't.
I had it too... I called HTC... They walked me through the expected steps and after a few tries, airplane mode, turned off Wi-Fi, removed and reinstalled Sim card... Restarted phone... Finally worked now... I can get the pics from my husband's iPhone now
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Looks like this might be part if not all of the problem. Apple to fix iMessage bug that causes ex-iPhone users to lose their texts http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/apple-imessage-bugs via Engadget Android
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I bet it's mostly an iphone issue. Freaking apple. They're trying to keep people from switching to android ha ha
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I am having the same issue as the OP but the person sending is not an iPhone user, rather another person on a HTC m8. Only difference from me is he is on Sprint and I'm Att. I can send to him with no issues, he can't send to me unless he crops the shots. Also, he has never had an iPhone. He also can send to others with no problems. I'm the only person he knows with the M8.
Ive had this happen with people on verizon,cricket(sprint third party)....not sure why it happens,maybe when switching across networks something screws up, when an mms pic comes through like that and there is indeed a picture, you can click on the little box and will be given an option to save the picture and it will save to your downloads folder.It is only random but only happens from people on cdma carrier networks sending to me,which leads me to believe its partly a network issue as well as a phone issue possibly.
Any fix for this yet?
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[Q] Need help - unable to send/receive SMS

Last night I S-OFFed a Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE that was on the latest MeanBean rom with hboot 1.19. That was successful and I did a full wipe of the device. After that installed the Sense_5.0_4.3-Y20 rom per the instructions.
Everything works EXCEPT sending and receiving sms. Since last night only one message was received, but I haven't been able to repeat it. Not a single message has sent successfully. Voice works fine, data works fine, etc. Tried searching the forums, particularly the rom's thread, but no luck. Tried Handcent in addition to the stock messages app with no luck. Reboots also make no difference. Tonight I'm planning to try another wipe and then toss the rom on it again.
In the meantime, does anyone else have any suggestions?
drmurti said:
The situation is correct. None of us are using stolen phones. Here in Turkey mostly Nokia or Ericsson phones are sold as stolen. None of the Smartphone users is dummy to buy stolen phone.
Also, you'll hear more and more about this situation in these days. All of us are in the same situation.
There is nothing to do. The Turkish laws are so bad made, you won't believe. Our civil members do just read what it says.
Example. If your buy a phone from Ebay. You are done. You can't use it.
another example : If you ask some friend to buy from abroad. You can't use it again.
Most of us ordered these phone from a friend. And now even we have the invoice we can't make it registered.
today I started a petition about this situation, none of the civils in turkish telecom gave a response. They all are a mess.
I hope that soon there will be software available ...
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Dial ##72786# from your dialer. Select reset from the menu. Your phone will reboot and reactivate. Your service will be reprovisioned. No data will be lost.
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I don't know how or why this quoted another post. The trusty XDA premium app is top notch.
Evolution_Freak said:
Dial ##72786# from your dialer. Select reset from the menu. Your phone will reboot and reactivate. Your service will be reprovisioned. No data will be lost.
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Haha, that quote had me confused for a moment. Anyway, tried what you said and received the following on reboot: "PRL could not be updated. Please try again later. If the problem persists, you may need to contact Customer Service. error code: 1012"
First time I've actually seen a PRL update fail. Attempting Google Fu on that now.
Morasta said:
Haha, that quote had me confused for a moment. Anyway, tried what you said and received the following on reboot: "PRL could not be updated. Please try again later. If the problem persists, you may need to contact Customer Service. error code: 1012"
First time I've actually seen a PRL update fail. Attempting Google Fu on that now.
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You may need to call Sprint and have them run the reprovision from their end.
Evolution_Freak said:
You may need to call Sprint and have them run the reprovision from their end.
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That did it. PRL update went through and now texts can be sent and received. Thanks!

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