Are any Galaxy S III owners having text messaging issues? - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

My AT&T HTC One X is having multiple text messaging issues. It's sending and receiving duplicate messages. (Other users are reporting this too.) It's sometimes receiving messages hours late. Also, once I hit about 6000 messages, the stock HTC Sense Messages app died, forcing me to use Go SMS Pro.
So before I sell my One X and upgrade to an S III, I'd like to know how well text messaging works on it.

I had the same problem on my One X until I installed a custom rom, which seemed to have helped quite a bit. Sold my One X and got the S3 and couldn't be happier. Everything is functioning flawlessly, including SMS.
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feanor512 said:
My AT&T HTC One X is having multiple text messaging issues. It's sending and receiving duplicate messages. (Other users are reporting this too.) It's sometimes receiving messages hours late. Also, once I hit about 6000 messages, the stock HTC Sense Messages app died, forcing me to use Go SMS Pro.
So before I sell my One X and upgrade to an S III, I'd like to know how well text messaging works on it.
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That could be a network issue but anyways i know at least 3 people with s3 and no issues and I got a few friends with one x and they don't have issues
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this happened to me and some of my friends a few months ago (friends have iphone 4s i had a s2 at the time). it also seemed to be about the time they were upgrading a lot of the towers in my city with LTE. not sure if thats actually what was causing it or coincidence

muddflap said:
this happened to me and some of my friends a few months ago (friends have iphone 4s i had a s2 at the time). it also seemed to be about the time they were upgrading a lot of the towers in my city with LTE. not sure if thats actually what was causing it or coincidence
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The could be causing the problems, since att is gsm and LTE is a based on gsm, so probably that's why you guys are having problems
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Missing/Delayed Texts

Hi,
Ever since i switched from the Evo 3D to the Photon, i've been having an issue where a bulk of my texts don't show up till i reset the phone. It's sporadic when it happens. There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason. I'll have a conversation and miss about 1/2 of their texts or all. Then i reset the phone and 20 texts appear. I used to think it was my air rave (had texting problems previously with it), but i shut it off days ago and the problem happened again yesterday.
I just did a quick update PRL and profile to see if that helps. I did not have this problem with the Evo 3D, only the Photon (happened 3 separate times so far in 2 weeks).
Has anyone else had this problem? Any possible solutions?
Thanks
Last ditch effort bump in hopes of a solution.
I've been having the same problems. I also just switched from the EVO 3D, had the MoPho for a couple weeks now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248933
Try updating your profile and removing 3rd party text messaging apps. See if that fixes it.
my2cents said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248933
Try updating your profile and removing 3rd party text messaging apps. See if that fixes it.
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Thanks. I updated my profile and prl. So far so good.
keen77 said:
I've been having the same problems. I also just switched from the EVO 3D, had the MoPho for a couple weeks now
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Also having the same problem. Started about a week ago (have had the MoPho since release.)
eric
Its third party text apps that cause it
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I just had this happen to me yesterday. Had to reboot the phone for the texts to appear.
I am not using any 3rd party messaging programs.
Sprint is having net work issues all over the US for the the lasr couple of weeks. There was a solar flare on 8/09/2011....the largest ever....this could have impacted Sprint's net work.....The Sprint forums has many many post in relation to this issue on all brands of phones!
My daughter had this problem at the beginning of the week with her Optimus. Sounds like it maybe a network thing?
Anyone having this problem again/still? All of a sudden I am not getting any text messages. I am on official stock, but I am rooted. No third party texting apps.
Its sprints network not your phones. If you check the official sprint forums you will see its happening on all phones. It was happening to me with my evo shift also.
OK. I switched to a wifi connection and then I started to get my text messages. I don't know if that is a real solution or coincidental, but it worked. My wife does not have any issues with her blackberry...
that's because blackberry is on a different system than sprint is even though its all thru sprint
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SMS Bug?

Hey guys, im currently running stock, but when i'm texting, the persons texts will come and mine will send but the timing right but the order is wrong. Its like it will group mine on top of what the person is sending me so an example would be like
10:10 - person says hey
i reply hey wahts up at 10:15
and it will show my reply on top of theirs? its groups them like that?
Im currently on Wind network, with Telus unlocked Amaze 4G
Unistall visual voicemail
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I dont think wind even has visual voicemail, this will happen at random times (i've only noticed this happen wednesday, then thursday, and then today at completley different times.) What usually fixes this is a restart. maybe a bug on the phone?
Maybe you downloaded something on the phone that's causing it?
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Possibly a data/signal issue. Low or no signal will cause a delay in time stamps. I wouldn't consider this a phone issue just network related failure..

Problem with text messages

I have a problem with texting. I try texting a coworker of mine and he can't receive my texts. I can get his fine but he can't receive mine. He's using a Samsung galaxy s3 on Verizon. He's the only one I have these problems with. What could be the problem?
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It helps to name the ROM, sometimes there are known issues associated with the ROM in question. A good example would be CMX having an issue that doesn't let you download MMS but you can still send them
I'm using viper4g 1.0
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Haven't tried viper yet, someone else might know if its a pre-existing issue. I use Google voice so in the even that I can't use my phone text messages can still be sent, also it backs up everything which is quite handy
Are you receiving a confirmation that your texts are being sent? I have noticed that when I am sending texts while at the office, where I have a very low cell signal, that sometimes my texts are not sent at all. I use Handcent SMS and sometimes after I "send" a message, the wheel will spin but the message will never officially go through (I have come across messages that I thought I sent the previous day). This usually occurs when I have a very low or no cell signal. Generally, when I "edit" the message and re-send it the text goes through. I am also running Viper4G.
om4 said:
Haven't tried viper yet, someone else might know if its a pre-existing issue. I use Google voice so in the even that I can't use my phone text messages can still be sent, also it backs up everything which is quite handy
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I've been running viper for a couple of months and no sms/mms issues here. Maybe a Verizon issue?
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I can text my friends with verizon fine. I get this message when I text my co worker
Message sent using invalid number of digits. Please resend using 10 digit number or valid short code. Msg 2114
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I get the same msg when I text another friend but he gets my texts.
Where are you located? I'm in the SF bay area and it seems like sprint is always mucking about with the network here one way or another, be it wimax deployment or now probably LTE testing. My friend who is on a Samsung Epic4g also has the same problems as i do, but when he went to vegas and hawaii none of those issues popped up.
I'm on Viper4g 1.0 also and i've had the problems of outgoing texts not going at all or being delayed by a considerable amount of time. I had this behavior on charmeleon and the old Viper also so i don't think its an issue with the rom. It is either the phone itself or the network, and i'm more inclined to think its the network because the issues were not present when i went down to LA.
I'm in santa cruz county. The texts seem to go out fine since I don't get any error messages he just doesn't receive them.
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Maled said:
I'm in santa cruz county. The texts seem to go out fine since I don't get any error messages he just doesn't receive them.
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It could be the device but not as a bug or hardware failure. In my area we had towers that were experiencing partial failure (cs rep's words not mine, I dont believe in partial anything. If it fails it fails) with the towers and they were under repair. When I visited my father which is the area directly affected he complained that his phone was defective and no one could hear him speaking. Sprint replaced the phone twice and same issue on those as well. His data worked albeit slowly and anytime I attempted to access data my lte would jump to roaming and not accept calls. A friend of his also in the same area had the exact same issue with his epic touch but he noticed that when he left the area it would work. it took 3 months for those 2 towers to come back completely. Naturally I assumed it was an upgrade (vision network and or lte) but sadly no

[Q] Abnormal Reset?

my wife finally took the latest OTA yesterday on her stock unrooted Evo LTE and keeps getting "Abnormal Reset - would you like to tell HTC?" errors. also she says that her text messaging is messing up. ppl not getting the texts she sends. any advice on how to fix these issues?
I get the abnormal resets, and finally just turned off the notifications for it in settings>about phone. I believe it's a known issue. As far as the texts go, is she using stock? I'm using Chomp and I'm not having this problem, but some of my friends do on occasion. It would happen with stock and 3rd party apps. Makes me think it's Sprint.
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Same thing here happened 2 weeks ago on my moms evo 3d and my lte.
Cyrene said:
I get the abnormal resets, and finally just turned off the notifications for it in settings>about phone. I believe it's a known issue. As far as the texts go, is she using stock? I'm using Chomp and I'm not having this problem, but some of my friends do on occasion. It would happen with stock and 3rd party apps. Makes me think it's Sprint.
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thanks i will shut off the notification for now until a fix comes out. about the texts she has the same issue with stock messaging app and gosms.
bobprobert said:
thanks i will shut off the notification for now until a fix comes out. about the texts she has the same issue with stock messaging app and gosms.
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I think Sprint is having issues with their network in your area. I keep getting multiple texts (sometimes 10 or more) from friends who live in the Cape. They might be upgrading their towers for LTE which could cause the texting problems.

multiple text messages

I'm running the phone stock on the latest Hboot, and sometimes my phone receives the same text from a person multiple times. This happens when my phone gets texts from anyone, but it's most apparent when I receive texts from iphones. My friend with an iphone sent me a message on thanksgiving and I received that exact message 19 more times in the next three days.
Anyone know a solution for this?
Haven't had this problem myself but I've seen posts from others who have and I believe the consensus was that it's a network issue. I wanna say people were reporting it when using an Airave too...Are you using one by any chance?
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not using an Airwave.
It's known to happen when network is bogged down on either end and it is the holidays
i have had it happen to me before. it was on thanksgiving so maybe the network bog down theory is correct. only was happening with one person and i was texting multiple people that day so i figured it was something on her end. she uses pay as u go or cricket or some other lame company

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