[Q] Phone reading out message - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone. I received a text message and my phone randomly spoke the fact I had a message. It said '(insert name) has sent you a text message' I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything and it only done it once
cheers guys

louie875 said:
Hi guys just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone. I received a text message and my phone randomly spoke the fact I had a message. It said '(insert name) has sent you a text message' I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything and it only done it once
cheers guys
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louie875 said:
Hi guys just wanted to know if this has happened to anyone. I received a text message and my phone randomly spoke the fact I had a message. It said '(insert name) has sent you a text message' I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything and it only done it once
cheers guys
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You probably have light flow installed. I would uninstall it as it is causing battery drain issues and other problems.

What is light flow and what does it do?

You may have driving mode enabled. Have a look in the hidden toggles in the notification area.

That's exactly what it is haha. Thanks a lot

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Blank message from Anonymous sender after MMS

Every time I receive a picture in an MMS I get another message from "Anonymous" no subject. I open it and it say "message not found" I receive the message multiple times until I delete the original message. This happens in the stock messaging app and in Chomp. Uninstalled Chomp and it still happens on stock.
Rooted running UnNamed v1.0.1
Bump for some help. This is really annoying
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Does this happen when you try to send a message to certain people, or just one person in particular? I wonder if maybe it's a read receipt notifying you that it was delivered? I'm on a custom ROM so I can't check. Try going into messaging, hit menu, then select settings.
Otherwise, maybe it's a carrier issue.
No Trojan this happens when I receive picture messages. From anybody on multiple carriers. May be an at&t issue. I think this happened on my Infuse too but don't remember if I ever resolved it
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saladbowl831 said:
No Trojan this happens when I receive picture messages. From anybody on multiple carriers. May be an at&t issue. I think this happened on my Infuse too but don't remember if I ever resolved it
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It happened to me on my Atrix. I found if I ignored it and didn't open it, it actually deleted itself. As far as I can tell, it's related to read receipts. Unnamed Rom doesn't offer the ability to request them and I don't think Stock did either but I also don't use a 3rd party messaging Application. Try turning off Read/Delivery Receipts on your device and see what happens.
SoCaliTrojan said:
Does this happen when you try to send a message to certain people, or just one person in particular? I wonder if maybe it's a read receipt notifying you that it was delivered? I'm on a custom ROM so I can't check. Try going into messaging, hit menu, then select settings.
Otherwise, maybe it's a carrier issue.
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From what I have been able to tell, it is a Carrier Issue AND read receipt issue.
Anyone found a fix for it yet?
Happened to me today, we both use GoSMS but I think she has enabled delivery receipt.
did you happened to fix it?
I love how people are complaining that this was brought up again in another thread, which in fact led it to being locked even though there is no answer on this board. It is really annoying getting those messages. I have searched "blank anonymous", "blank message", and just "anonymous". Only two threads come up that are related to this issue. This one, and the one that was just locked. So if anyone truly has an answer to this issue and doesn't worry about trying to look cool by insulting users, please provide the answer, or at least point us in the right direction.
Thanks
I found a way that worked for my phone. I'm using ChompSMS and I would always get those and they would keep popping up.
All I had to do was open Chomp settings > SMS & MMS Network > MMS Network Settings > set "auto retrieve" to UNCHECKED.
I cant confirm that this will work (especially if you dont use Chomp as default), but it did work well for me. Good Luck
speedking261 said:
I found a way that worked for my phone. I'm using ChompSMS and I would always get those and they would keep popping up.
All I had to do was open Chomp settings > SMS & MMS Network > MMS Network Settings > set "auto retrieve" to UNCHECKED.
I cant confirm that this will work (especially if you dont use Chomp as default), but it did work well for me. Good Luck
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Thanks. I also use chomp. I will give that a try.
did it worked?
PuffinNugz said:
Thanks. I also use chomp. I will give that a try.
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I've tried that. It doesn't do anything. Once I download the mms I'll get the anonymous message.
I've had this issue when I was on my Captivate. I tried flashed a few different ROMs and even went back to stock and the issue was still there. It was one of the reasons why I upgraded to the GS2 before my contract expired. However, the issue appeared on the new phone. The real problem was that my SIM card was messed up. Once they replaced my SIM card, everything was working fine again.
anyone found a fix?
pham818 said:
anyone found a fix?
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Really necroing a thread from January?
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Nick281051 said:
Really necroing a thread from January?
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so what? you want me to make another thread exactly like this and get flamed for not searching?
pham818 said:
so what? you want me to make another thread exactly like this and get flamed for not searching?
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If there was no solution you won't get flanked but since you necrod a thread you will get flamed
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122ninjas said:
If there was no solution you won't get flanked but since you necrod a thread you will get flamed
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nah, already done that and got flamed awhile back.
pham818 said:
nah, already done that and got flamed awhile back.
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Well obviously the solution is out there if you got flamed
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[Q] HUGE Annoying Messaging Problem On Stock

I have a huge and annoying messaging problem on stock. Here's my problem. I text somone and the conversation is formed. When they text me back their message pops up on top of mine and says I've received it at a completely different time! When I text back, the message appears directly below my other message I sent... and so on.. So the messages get all jumbled up! This is REALLYannoying.. HELP?
ANYONE????!!!!
Which ROM are you using and which messaging app?
I'm using stock ROM (2.1 Update 1 with sense).. with the default messaging app.
timbohobbs said:
Which ROM are you using and which messaging app?
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You know my problem? or not?
Ok. One thing to try. Go to 'manage applications ' then delete data from messages app. This shouldn't delete your messages but you may want to back them up first. Then restart your phone. That is all I can suggest, unless you have thousands of messages, in which case I' d suggest to delete quite a few. Other than that I don't know unless its a carrier problem.
Just thought of one more obvious answer. Go to date and time settings and see if 'network provided values' is checked
timbohobbs said:
Just thought of one more obvious answer. Go to date and time settings and see if 'network provided values' is checked
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Tried it, I'm texting someone now and once I get the response back I should be able to tell if ticking this option changed anything
timbohobbs said:
Just thought of one more obvious answer. Go to date and time settings and see if 'network provided values' is checked
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Aw man. It didn't work Too bad. Thanks for the help anyway. I'll continue my searches.
The time stamps for the incoming text messages seem to arrive at completely different times (FYI)
Anyways if you could offer any further help, it would be greatly appreciated.
I solved it.. I installed SMS Time Fix by Matthew Precious (from the android market) and it fixed my problem.. Thanks for all the help though

Trouble Receiving Twitter Notification after Switch to Verizon

Hey guys,
Considering theres no Q&A I figured i'd ask you guys here. I just Switched from Srpint to Verizon yesterday and carried over my Phone number. Now for the longest time whenever A/C, XDA, Droid-Life, and so on posts an article, and when they Tweet about it, I always get a Text message Notification. Now Im not getting any text from these feeds at all. Ive checked all my Twitter settings and so o and cant seem to figurte this out. Now with sprint its seemed al of a sudden I had a Google Voice account which I never even knew I had, and im not sure if thats interfering with anything. Anyone know how I can fix this so I can get my Text Notifications from Twitter? I'd really appreciate it.
**Also im not sure if this is due to me not Canceling my Sprint account yet. I dont think thats the issue but i'd figure i'd add that in**
THanks guys
Jon
reverepats said:
Hey guys,
Considering theres no Q&A I figured i'd ask you guys here. I just Switched from Srpint to Verizon yesterday and carried over my Phone number. Now for the longest time whenever A/C, XDA, Droid-Life, and so on posts an article, and when they Tweet about it, I always get a Text message Notification. Now Im not getting any text from these feeds at all. Ive checked all my Twitter settings and so o and cant seem to figurte this out. Now with sprint its seemed al of a sudden I had a Google Voice account which I never even knew I had, and im not sure if thats interfering with anything. Anyone know how I can fix this so I can get my Text Notifications from Twitter? I'd really appreciate it.
**Also im not sure if this is due to me not Canceling my Sprint account yet. I dont think thats the issue but i'd figure i'd add that in**
THanks guys
Jon
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Try resetting your Twitter notifications. Thats the only thing I can think of
dmeadows013 said:
Try resetting your Twitter notifications. Thats the only thing I can think of
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yeah I just did that, just waiting for on of my Sites to tweet something. Thanks for the reply man!!!

[Q] Help,Question..

Hello All, as I'm still learning things here on the droid side I have a question, every time I go to make a call I get a little box that pops up for a second saying USSD Code Running, what is this and is it normal? Tia
After some more reading I see that it normal..would anyone happen to know how to stop the messages from popping up.. like for instance I want to check my balance and it works fine then i get a message telling me the same info..or is this carriers related and I just need to live with it..
lilbrat said:
Hello All, as I'm still learning things here on the droid side I have a question, every time I go to make a call I get a little box that pops up for a second saying USSD Code Running, what is this and is it normal? Tia
After some more reading I see that it normal..would anyone happen to know how to stop the messages from popping up.. like for instance I want to check my balance and it works fine then i get a message telling me the same info..or is this carriers related and I just need to live with it..
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Check this application called 'ussd checker' in app market
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iba.ussdchecker
I hope that helps.
lilbrat said:
Hello All, as I'm still learning things here on the droid side I have a question, every time I go to make a call I get a little box that pops up for a second saying USSD Code Running, what is this and is it normal? Tia
After some more reading I see that it normal..would anyone happen to know how to stop the messages from popping up.. like for instance I want to check my balance and it works fine then i get a message telling me the same info..or is this carriers related and I just need to live with it..
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Guess this is carrier related..

Text Messages Show Up As Wrong Contact Name

Anyone experience this? My gf will text on her LGOG and when she receives text the wrong name pops up but under the #info it shows the right names #. You think having her contacts transfered over from her iPhone to her Android at at&t is causing a problem.
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I had this happen a couple of times after flashing new ROMs. It seemed to fix itself after a couple of reboots.
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I had this happen when I had the same number saved under 2 different names. I'm not sure how it happened, if this is the problem just delete the wrong one and it should fix itself.
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My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
miller7796 said:
My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
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can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
ryancnap said:
can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
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I thought about going that route, but ended up just flashing Vanilla RootBox on it instead. Haven't had the problem on that rom. Now just the occasional reboot.
I had this problem this morning received text from my wife under my coworkers contact info as though it came from him. When I replied back under his contact info she received the reply. Very frustrating. He hasn't replied to any of my text this morning. May not be receiving them.

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