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To make a long story short, I was viciously text bombed by a friend of mine and it caused a lot of problems for me. I was driving to a meeting 3 hours away from my house and I started getting text bombed. I didn't have directions so I was using my GPS to get me there. You see the problem here. My GPS force closed and it basically heated my phone up to the point where it just kept boot looping. It caused me to be late to my meeting because I had to guess my way there. You can say I was pissed. Well I want to get revenge now. I downloaded a SMS bomber app from the market but when it gets to the 100th text message, it will start having a notification pop up that says a large amount of texts are being sent out and then for any more texts to be sent out I have to manually press okay and it's very frustrating. I was wondering if there was any way to modify this in terminal or remove the cap so that it doesn't warn me anymore. Thanks
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If you guys can recommend a better SMS bombing app that I don't have to worry about the notification, that would be great too
jhoffy22 said:
To make a long story short, I was viciously text bombed by a friend of mine and it caused a lot of problems for me. I was driving to a meeting 3 hours away from my house and I started getting text bombed. I didn't have directions so I was using my GPS to get me there. You see the problem here. My GPS force closed and it basically heated my phone up to the point where it just kept boot looping. It caused me to be late to my meeting because I had to guess my way there. You can say I was pissed. Well I want to get revenge now. I downloaded a SMS bomber app from the market but when it gets to the 100th text message, it will start having a notification pop up that says a large amount of texts are being sent out and then for any more texts to be sent out I have to manually press okay and it's very frustrating. I was wondering if there was any way to modify this in terminal or remove the cap so that it doesn't warn me anymore. Thanks
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If you guys can recommend a better SMS bombing app that I don't have to worry about the notification, that would be great too
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You can DL handcent and blacklist (long press on his name for the option) him as soon as he starts it or use panda firewall set it to Filter SMS and throw the number in there...then simply turn it on when he starts...Good luck My friend finally realized that he can't effect my phone so he stopped being a douche...
I've found that an aluminum baseball bat upside the head is a really effective form of revenge.. At least the other party will think twice about doing dumb stuff the next time around.
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kf2mq said:
I've found that an aluminum baseball bat upside the head is a really effective form of revenge.. At least the other party will think twice about doing dumb stuff the next time around.
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I stick with the traditional wood bat, but to each their own.
Considering the aluminum baseball bat idea, however he is my best man in my upcoming wedding so I don't know if I want to do that quite yet I've already protected myself from that ever happening again and made it clear that I was ****ing pissed at him.
What happens when you take him out of tge blacklist? Do all the texts come to your phone (the ones that have been blocked)?
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Pulling the battery would have reset your GPS . But yea I agree an ass kicking is in order
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apristel said:
I stick with the traditional wood bat, but to each their own.
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Not that I have anything against wood. It's just that aluminum is easier to clean afterwards.
I had a friend that used this technique once, post his number to some celebrity gossip board making the claim that the number is a celebs.
Granted, he'll probably have to change his number after that, so keep that in mind.
I knew someone that used the aluminum bat method. He is doing life in prison cuz it killed the guy. Bats are no joke lol. Me and my friends refer to him as Batman! of course, whenever we are making fun of him for being an idiot.
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Pulling the battery would have reset your GPS . But yea I agree an ass kicking is in order
some place in the world !!!!
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No because they are delivered at that time they just don't annoyingly show up....its also a work around for the voice mail notifications on ASOP ROM's
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No because they are delivered at that time they just don't annoyingly show up....its also a work around for the voice mail notifications on ASOP ROM's
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search the app market for anti sms bomber (no joke it works)
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I knew someone that used the aluminum bat method. He is doing life in prison cuz it killed the guy. Bats are no joke lol. Me and my friends refer to him as Batman! of course, whenever we are making fun of him for being an idiot.
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You could allways do this.
"That was pretty funny,what app did you use to send all that stuff? Oh,thats pretty sweet,let me see." Take phone,drop on floor,grind boot heel into screen,laugh a little more and say "that was pretty funny too,now your phones even more jacked up than mine was,think about that next time you want to f&^% with me on the way to an important meeting!" ,then get in your car and leave.
The problem is when I receive text messages from any network, the time stamp is messed up and shows up two minutes in the future (see picture below). I have done a complete hard reset about five times, tried all different software updates, went completely back to stock (unrooted), tried AOSP roms, tried Gingerbread roms, tried Sense roms with AOSP mms.apk, and whatever I try I cannot get rid of this bug. It causes all my text messages to be scrambled and not in order. I use this phone 90% of the time for texting. It's how I handle most of my business. I called Sprint and ended up getting up to their advanced tech support where they simply did a provisioning reset (completely unactivated and activated again) and after that they said there is nothing they can do. So I took it into the remedial Sprint tech in my local Sprint store (don't have enough time to travel 2 hours to get to a corporate store), and they did another master hard reset where they completely reloaded the software (I guess). Still not fixed. I am outside of my 30 days so i cannot do a swap. I cannot send my phone in to HTC because I simply cannot live without a phone for 2 weeks, and I don't have a backup. I've done all types of searching on google and the only thing I could find was about 6 months ago people were having this problem but the times were delayed by an hour or two. The texts are not delayed they show up on time, they just have the wrong time stamp. It has to be something with the network and not the software. My immediate suspicion is that is has something to do with my MMS provisioning to the network but I really don't know how to look into this.
This is probably one of the weirdest problems you will ever see. The picture at the bottom shows the right time in the corner but look at the time on my last incoming text. Off by two minutes in the future. Can anybody offer my some advice I am up for anything. I can also post or send anybody anything. I need this fixed but I just can't deal with Sprint anymore. I realized they are a business but if they support a faulty product, they should fix it without taking anything away from their customers. I always feel like Sprint is trying to take something away from their customers. Oh also one of the Sprint techs said the EVo would not get an official gingerbread update because Sprint wants to push other phones.........most likely a fib but who knows....sounds like Sprint and HTC. Anyways
Just a thought, what if those texts really are coming from the future? I mean for all you know you are caught in some sort of weird time vortex thing that distorts your perception of time, making it seem like you are in the present when actually you are two minutes behind everybody else. That would make any text coming in to you be from 2 minutes in the future. I know this sounds far fetched but I wouldn't discount it as a possibility.
This is a bug in android. Search the market for sms time fix and see if that helps.
Usually it's off by hours and not minutes though. There is also a setting somewhere that will let you use the local time instead of network time but I don't remember where it is at. You could also try disabling roaming, I keep mine locked to Sprint's network and never lose a signal.
Never heard of this fix, but I got the same bug. I just installed chomp sms, works perfect now.
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Try CM7. Perhaps the bug was fixed in Gingerbread (2.3.1)
I tired gingerbread....and the funny thing is this only happens to some phones because my roomate has an evo right now and it does not do any of this....so it is not a problem with android......it has to be the Sprint servers or something. I'm on fully stock right now (no root). I tired gingerbread (CM7) and it didn't help anything. I'm taking my phone back into Sprint today but this time I'm going to give them hell. I payed 350 dollars for this phone I will not settle for "Oh, well we can't do anything about it." You shouldn't have to install anything extra on your phone. I tried that SMS fix but the funny thing is, it messes everything up because my Sprint texts are fine but my verizon and att are all futuristic. And no I am not in some weird wormhole or time continuum the phone is just messed up. It happens with electronics but there is usually this thing called a warranty that allows for direct replacement and for some reason cell phone companies have avoided this whole customer based process. I'll get back in about an hour.
Alright went to my local Sprint Repair Center and they could do absolutely nothing. However I did have the manager push through a priority claim ticket to the network engineers and hopefully, and I do mean hopefully, they call me back. Apparently the last few times I've called they told me they started a ticket, and actually didn't. I think they think I was telling them a lie or something. The manager there was actually extremely helpful and told me he would make sure I get a new phone if this doesn't work. If anybody has any other suggestions please let me know.
I'm curious if this would fix it...
Go to your time options. Settings-Date/Time If automatic is ticked, untick it. If its not, tick it. I would think the bug is caused when a text is sent with a timestamp via the network, at lets say 6:00 but your phone is registered as 5:58. Your timestamp would get all different kinds of backwards in your text app. I'm not sure if time on a phone would be on a BIOS chip like a computer, but it would make sense that your phone is just simply registering the time wrong. If you check/uncheck that and it still does it, simply hard-set the time two minutes ahead.
Recently I've started having the same exact problem, except I have the Samsung Epic. Called customer support once and they "reset messaging" which didn't help at all. Installing any third-party messaging apps haven't helped, and neither has switching between local and network-provided time. Also, its random, so most incoming messages are messed up, but some are actually correct.
I'll try manually setting the time ahead two minutes and bugging some people to text me.
Edit: No luck, with the time set ahead two minutes, incoming timestamps are two minutes ahead of the new setting as well.
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Recently I've started having the same exact problem, except I have the Samsung Epic. Called customer support once and they "reset messaging" which didn't help at all. Installing any third-party messaging apps haven't helped, and neither has switching between local and network-provided time. Also, its random, so most incoming messages are messed up, but some are actually correct.
I'll try manually setting the time ahead two minutes and bugging some people to text me.
Edit: No luck, with the time set ahead two minutes, incoming timestamps are two minutes ahead of the new setting as well.
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Please call technical support and get everything into the Sprint system. Ask them to push it to a network engineer. I have to wait until one of them get a hold of me but they may end up just replacing the phone. I'm glad to hear that other people are having the problem also. Also an update, it is text messages from all networks that do this, including Sprint. I will keep this thread updated because I need to get this problem solved. At this point, I don't think there is anything left for me to do from the user end. I just have to wait for Sprint to get it all figured out. I do have insurance and they said they might just put in a request for a new one at no cost to me......also sounds like bs because I thought you had to pay a 100$ deductible no matter what. The Sprint tech said you don't have to pay for the deductible if its a software or network issue and there is no screen crack or water damage. My EVO is in perfect condition but the software doesn't work. Hopefully they will give me a reconditioned one that actually works.
This is a Sprint network problem. Various sprint phones (not just Androids) are notorious for this type of behavior (wrong time stamps, messages out of order, delay in receiving and sending messages, etc etc). It's very frustrating indeed.
For the time being, try using one of the SMS apps on the market like Handcent or ChompSMS. You may still get incorrect time stamps from time to time, but your messages will arrive/send in order.
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This is a Sprint network problem. Various sprint phones (not just Androids) are notorious for this type of behavior (wrong time stamps, messages out of order, delay in receiving and sending messages, etc etc). It's very frustrating indeed.
For the time being, try using one of the SMS apps on the market like Handcent or ChompSMS. You may still get incorrect time stamps from time to time, but your messages will arrive/send in order.
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I appreciate the response but I really don't like using aftermarket apps that don't go along with the theme of the phone. I'm real OCD like that. I don't even like apps that have free next to their name. If you pay 350$ for a piece of electronics, everything should work on it, including software and hardware. The sprint engineers need to get this figured out. This is unacceptable. The amount of money they are getting from their customers is ridiculous so why can't everything work. I realize their stock has taken a murdering but you have to keep your customers happy, that's number one. Anyways, I'm waiting too hear from Sprint but they said 72 hours not including the weekend so If I don't hear from them by next Tuesday, they will be getting a nasty call.
Exact same problem!
It has been driving me crazy. I will receive a text at 9:05, respond to it, and it will say it's 1-2 minutes earlier.
Another thing: we have four Sprint phones in the house. If we're all looking at them at the same time, they don't all say the same time. So, I tend to think that the time that shows when I receive a text is actually the time the sender's phone says. (Is that confusing enough for you?) Could that be the difference?
It only started recently, probably when I updated my phone last month.
This happens randomly on my Evo. Certain people I'm texting with, the time stamps will be out of whack, ranging from 2 minutes off, to over an hour off. My time stamp is always accurate, it's just the other person's that is inaccurate. I can be texting with a different person, at the same time, and the other thread will be perfectly normal. It's annoying. My phone also thought it was somewhere in Amsterdam (i wish i was there with it too) for a few hours, and nothing I tried would get it to show my actual location. I attribute all of this to google issues, and not actual problems with the phone.
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This happens randomly on my Evo. Certain people I'm texting with, the time stamps will be out of whack, ranging from 2 minutes off, to over an hour off. My time stamp is always accurate, it's just the other person's that is inaccurate. I can be texting with a different person, at the same time, and the other thread will be perfectly normal. It's annoying. My phone also thought it was somewhere in Amsterdam (i wish i was there with it too) for a few hours, and nothing I tried would get it to show my actual location. I attribute all of this to google issues, and not actual problems with the phone.
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Alright still not fixed as of Monday....I have one more day until I can call Sprint and give them hell which I love...not....but anyways I've been doing some testing on when actually the time stamp is off. The time stamp is off from any network including Sprint only when the phone is asleep (or the screen is off). Then the time stamp comes in 2-3 minutes in the future. When my phone is on everything comes in fine and one time and all the time stamps are good. It seems like when the phone is asleep its grabbing things from the network 2 min ahead for some reason.
Alrigth just an update on the situation.....called Sprint back they said they had no recollection of my callings the last couple of days....completely unacceptable. Anyways I got real nasty with them and got sent up to retentions (I told them the iphone for verizon looks really good right now.) Walked all over the retentions people and they said just go to a store and get a warranty swap (since I pay the 7 dollars a month or whatever.) I went to the local store (Lafayette, IN 47909) and they said that I was the first one with this problem but not the last. Apparently right after I left the store the first time I went, about 10 to 15 people came in right after that with the same problem. The manager at the store finally got a technician ticket in and apparently the problem has reached a ton of people all the way down to Indianapolis. Even some of the workers at the store are having problems with their EVOs and Epics. The explanation I got was it has to do with android and the text messaging server within the Sprint Network. If anyone else is having this problem...PLEASE CALL SPRINT AND ***** TO THEM. They need to fix this as soon as possible but they won't recognize it as THEIR problem unless a bunch of people call in about it. It should be getting fixed but I will check back on Friday.
I noticed this same problem on mine. Looks like I'll be calling Sprint tonight and stopping by my local store. Maybe I'll just go to Sprint World HQ here in KC and talk to them about it.
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I noticed this same problem on mine. Looks like I'll be calling Sprint tonight and stopping by my local store. Maybe I'll just go to Sprint World HQ here in KC and talk to them about it.
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Please do....I'm wondering if there is a bug in the sms server that is causing this and it is slowly spreading nationwide. I call dibs on pointing this out if this is the case. This was from the mouth of a Sprint Employee. "Sprint will not do anything on an individual level but if the problem spreads to more than enough people, they will jump on it immediately." Now how much people is the real questions? I think the Sprint people thought I was crazy and now they are gonna be like....damn we should have listened to him. It's been going on for about 2 weeks now and I'm hoping it gets fixed before the end of the billing cycle.
Hey OP...as you may have figured by now your not the only one. I get it too. I kind of just let it go since it was minor. Mine also, when someone sends me a pic it goes to the very top of the conversation as opposed to in line with the rest of the texts...again i kind of let it go, but i do understand that we all paid our money, we should have perfection or at least 99.9. Thing is i dont want to swing by sprint and them see warm 2.2!!!! Then i'm really screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just do a backup and flash a stock RUU.....sprint needs to know about this..It has nothing to do with our phones but everything to do with their servers and they wont do anything until enough people complain. Anybody in the midwest that is getting text message problems, please call Sprint and complain. Explain to them exactly what is happening and tell them to give you a ticket number and tell them you expect a call within 72 hours. Get you case in so this can be fixed for everybody.
Is there an issue with text messeges taking like YEARs for them to be delivered to a non-sprint device? I have a buddy who has this phone. We were at the bucs game and he was trying to text me a few times. I did not get them until we met back up. I thought it was due to the high congestion of the local tower but it continued through out the day. Anyone else experience this? I was ready to go out and buy this phone until I found out about this. BTW I have VZW.
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Is there an issue with text messeges taking like YEARs for them to be delivered to a non-sprint device? I have a buddy who has this phone. We were at the bucs game and he was trying to text me a few times. I did not get them until we met back up. I thought it was due to the high congestion of the local tower but it continued through out the day. Anyone else experience this? I was ready to go out and buy this phone until I found out about this. BTW I have VZW.
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Just today at work me and a buddy who run different departments were shooting pics back and forth, they appeared on his phone nearly instantly after they officially left mine...I have an ET4G he has a E4GS.
Sometimes that happens. Depending on if you ever got away from that one tower there could have been a message queue a mile long that needed to be processed first..Hell, it could have been your Verizon service. I know that sometimes that same thing happens to me with people on Verizon though that never happens to me with anyone else.
I think just consider it 'random' and feel better about it as there are so many variables that may or may not be involved that it isn't worth worrying about. In my experience in my area with my friends this is not typical at all. That may be completely opposite to you, but, I doubt it. Test more if you want to be sure. I feel confidant that you'll both come up with nearly random in-explainable results...and if the results are so repeated that it's obvious what the problem is I doubt it's that ET4G's send messages slowly.
...though I have been wrong before...
It did happen a few times when I had the Photon also. Maybe its just sprint.... When I had the photon it was between myself and my wifes iPhone on ATT.
I am having issues sending picture mail in the first place due to the data issues on this phone
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Is there an issue with text messeges taking like YEARs for them to be delivered to a non-sprint device? I have a buddy who has this phone. We were at the bucs game and he was trying to text me a few times. I did not get them until we met back up. I thought it was due to the high congestion of the local tower but it continued through out the day. Anyone else experience this? I was ready to go out and buy this phone until I found out about this. BTW I have VZW.
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I wonder if anyone else is having this issue!
With my vibrant, pictures/videos sent quickly and usually got through the first time.
Now, with my SGSII, it takes pictures FOREVER to send. I tried sending one to MYSELF and I still haven't received it and that was over 3 hours ago. It keeps trying to send send send send, nothing. I have had the phone for a week and this has been an ongoing issue for the past week, not just something that cropped up today. Once in awhile, my pictures will send to other people, but that is usually after about an hour or 2.
Has anyone else experienced this as well?
Actually mine sends much faster than my vibrant did when it was running CM7... Both are about the same to me on stock roms
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I think heard someone else mention they was having this problem some where around here
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Also, just to be clear, I have full 4G coverage and I have changed my APN settings to other ones I have seen on here, as well as the default ones, all with the same taking forever to send results.
I finally just received a picture from myself after about 30min of it "sending". D:
Just wondering if it's my phone, or the network....I don't know.
I have also been experiencing slow MMS speeds - both sending and receiving. I've had more problems receiving at times than anything else. My problems are intermittent, making it hard to diagnose.
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Nice to meet you!
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Most of these have been posted here probably, so I do apologize ahead of time, just want to see if any solutions have been posted and if anyone else is experiencing these.
- What is everyone doing about the phone volume? I've missed so many texts/calls due to how low the notification sounds are.
- Whenever I switch from portrait to landscape, vice versa, it lags like crazy. It takes a good bit to switch, few seconds at least. Anyone else having this issue?
- When I open up my camera, on the left side there is a "blue" line going down the side of the picture. No clue what it is, I'll try and take a picture of it. It's the same color as the ICS blue or whatever color you call that.
- Has there been a way to sync contacts w/ Facebook, so the photos sync up? And the photos that do sync look extremely pixelated when I make phone calls, anything I can do to fix that. They look stretched out.
- Whenever I'm using the browser in 4G, often website will get stuck loading, simple sites too. Like the progress bar will stop at quarter of the way then a few seconds later shoot up and the website finishes loading.
- I went to the mall the other day to compare my GNEX to the Rezound and other phones. Does the GNEX look better than the Rezound display or is it just me?
- I tried comparing the 4G speed on the Nexus and Rezound but they couldn't get the 4G working on the Rezound floor model. I tested my GNEX next to another one and got the same speed and full bars. When I got back home, my GNEX went back down to 2 bars, it goes back and forth 1-2 bars. I was getting the same speed at home as at the VZW store even though I had full bars there and only 1 at home. What is that about? But the weird thing was that in between the the VZW store and my house I took a test and was getting 30mbps, but at the VZW store and my house I'm only getting 5-11mbps. I cant understand that. Oh and onther thing, I test the 4G on several tablets at the VZW store along with a couple other 4G phones and the speed I got from SpeedTest was the same as my GNEX, everything got around the same download/upload results. So people are saying that the GNEX is lower quality LTE device than say the Rezound and others?
- Is the loss of a removable sdcard starting to bother anyone? If your phone breaks possible lose everything, pictures, etc.? I didn't think it would at first and I didn't think only 32GB of storage would matter, but 64 sounds a lot better. I tend to play a lot of movies for my son, education videos and what not.
- My last comment/? for now. I know the battery sucks on the GNEX but mine will die seriously in 2-3 hours, usually less than that. I'll be doing minor browsing, facebook, etc. No video or music. When I do charge my phone, it charges quick as hell for me, anyone else? I have a bunch of charges that fit my GNEX, all my Motorola charges fit. Is it safe to other charges than the one that came with the phone?
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Eh, shut up. I have 2 year old, I don't have time to sift through pages of questions and answers. There are plenty of helpful members willing to help out. Don't like my posts, scoot on by, thanks . Merry Christmas!