hi people,
recently I ve figure it that when I send sms, the person which get my sms dont recieve my GSM phone number as a sender number, the SMS show my home number as an origin of the sms.
Also in phone settings on the top of the screen is that phone number, the number of my home and not gsm number as it should be...
Probably I ve set it somewhere and sometime and I cant recall any more, digged thru the wallaby but couldnot find it, as far as I remember long time ago somewhere I clicked that number and mark it as "my number" but cant recall anymore was that on some other phone which probably put that in SIM or that was on the wallaby somwhere...
Please help, how can I change that number, its quite stupid to have that number as a senders number when no one can reply to it coz I have no SMS on the home phone and beside that I dont live with my familiy any more...
Just tested the sim in the other phone... Looks like its in the wallaby somewhere, when I send sms from my ancient nokia 5110 everything is fine :S
In the owner data of the wallaby is phone number from the place where I work, I really dont know the origin of that old home number reported in sms messages :S
Thanks ppl and BR !
Just a quick one... had to reset the phone, When I used to send text messages, In the 'to' if I started typing a name there would be an option along with the '97686789' that comes up in the green suggestion box of the contact name, Now I just get the numbers that correspond to the letters that are meaningless. Is there a setting to get that back that offers me the names in that drop down?
Also, when I receive a text from someone in my phone book, it just shows their number and not their name, depsite them being on the sim, but not the phone, Is that relevant? Does it only show contacts when on phone not sim, and when I transferred sim to phone and you have the option of 'if there are duplicates only show phone' it still showed all duplicated in people and phonebook. And the sim number decreased from 197 to 123, This phone is NUTS!
P.S. Anyone else not get the weather for their area but did when they first had the phone, and now it comes up 'no data available' with just the name of your location instead.
Will this impending update be automatic?
I have a Vibrant and my buddy a Captivate. He has a contact on the sim chip and telephone memory, but not as a google contact. When he attempts to message a certain contact, (just one contact is affected and not all), the message comes up with an error "must use 10 digits". The problem is, the telephone number saved to the contact contain 10-digits. He did say when he initially saved the contact to the phone, he ommitted the area code, and tried to send a text and came up with an error. He has corrected the contact, but the error continues to pop up, despite the contact being modified.
Any idea what is wrong?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 which i am having a really irritating SMs problem with.
My dad lives in Cyprus, when he sends me an SMS i can not reply, when i try it just says 'sending' then 'failed' . In order to get the text SMS to send to him i have to delete the message thread, then start a new message and it will send. Now if he then replies, i will need to delete the message thread again in order to be able to send him a new message.
I do not have this issue with any other contacts that i am aware. The only difference with my dad is that he lives abroad in Cyprus, and all my other contacts are here in the UK. Has anyone else had this issue? Know what causes it? I have deleted and recreated the contact but still the same.
Many thanks.
Do you have your dad's number stored in contacts with country code or not ? I was on the verge of smashing my phone when i was abroad, trying to call persons in my native country and i couldn't because i didn't have numbers stored with country code. Maybe that's your issue too
I think the problem is related to what SMS server your dad is using, I had same issue with my X-girls phone, no one could direct reply to SMS...
Hi, thanks for the replies.
Sp1tfire, i have changed the number configuration around several times, all with no success.
Fritz, this sounds plausible, however this would surely affect other phones replying? I don't have this issue when using my iphone 4 so it only happens from the Galaxy2 at the minute. I will try and use a colleagues Android phone to text him and test it.
Somehow you, or TSP (Telephone Service provider), have inserted a sms mail server address that is not valid.
here in my country, there has been scams, "cheaper SMS, enter this server setting" and stuff like that, so there is a setting on you phone that is wrong.
FRlTZ said:
Somehow you, or TSP (Telephone Service provider), have inserted a sms mail server address that is not valid.
here in my country, there has been scams, "cheaper SMS, enter this server setting" and stuff like that, so there is a setting on you phone that is wrong.
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Can't be cause of settings, if he can actually send new sms to that number, but he can't reply from the received sms. His settings are correct as long as he can send sms. Must be something else. Are you using default sms app or a third party software ?
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Can't be cause of settings, if he can actually send new sms to that number, but he can't reply from the received sms. His settings are correct as long as he can send sms. Must be something else. Are you using default sms app or a third party software ?
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I am using the stock SMS app. I have just wiped the phone and installed the KF2 firmware. Going to see if that helps.
Sp1tfire, thats right, i can only reply to him when i delete the existing thread. I can however send new SMS to him no problem, so long as the thread is deleted before hand. Very frustrating as i lose the history every time.
Update, exactly the same on KF2 Firmware.
Ok, so i tried with a friends HTC desire and he has the same issue. also found my brother who has an iphone 3gs is unable to reply to my Dads number. So at least know its no longer just my phone and that it must be something the other end. Many thanks for the help.
Same problem here
When I reply to my girl it says: failed, when i delete the whole thread it goes.
It's only when I text her, all the other contact go fine
On my old sgs I had it to, but only on stock, when I was on CM7 it was OK.
Cant imagine that its something with the other phone i'm sending it to though
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Can't be cause of settings, if he can actually send new sms to that number, but he can't reply from the received sms. His settings are correct as long as he can send sms. Must be something else. Are you using default sms app or a third party software ?
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I remember in all the previous phones I've had, there's been a setting in the SMSC Settings allowing the user to specify whether or not to "Reply using the same SMSC" (or something along those lines).
If the option is ticked, the phone attempts to reply to the message through the SMSC that the text originally came from (rather than the one set in your handset).
The cause of the error may be because the SMSC overseas does not recognise your phone/SIM and therefore won't allow the replying message to go through.
And perhaps this may explain why deleting the whole thread and restarting a brand new message works - that is, the new message will go through the SMSC that is set in your phone for your own network.
Although, I've had a look through the settings in my SGS2 and can't seem to find that setting anywhere... (doesnt mean it's not there - it could just be that I don't know my phone well enough because I've only had it for a few days ).
I think your dad's SMS configuration settings is forcing you (or any other person he is sending an SMS to) to reply through his operators message centre
Ask him to check his sms settings and disable any such message centre settings from his side. This should solve the problem.
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Hello,
I have samsung s3 with revoliunary s5 ROM. I didnt have this problem with my s3 before ROM, so maybe you can help me to fix this problem. The problem is that numbers are shown on incoming calls or messages instead of contact name. But it happens not on all contacts, some are displayed some are not. Maybe its because numbers in my contacts starts without country code, and on incoming call phone shows number starting with country code (+countrycode)*number** . Its something with number formatting but I didnt have this problem on stock/previous custom roms, somehow they recognized who's calling and displayed contact not number, dispite how it was saved(with or without country code at the beggining of number). Is there something I could do ? I really appreciate your help.