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Have you read this terrible notice from engadget.com?
Android still has horrible text messaging bugs that'll get you fired, busted, or otherwise embarrassed
By Chris Ziegler posted Dec 31st 2010 1:12PM
Pardon us if the headline is a little sensational, but this is one that we've personally experienced -- and it's not pretty. For at least the last couple versions, Android has been plagued with a couple extremely serious bugs in its text messaging subsystem that can ultimately end up causing you to text the wrong contact -- even contacts that you've never texted before. There appear to be a few failure modes; the one we definitely experience on the Gingerbread-powered Nexus S involves being routed to the wrong thread when you tap it either in the Notifications list or the master thread list in the Messaging application, so if you don't notice, you'll end up firing a message to the wrong person.
More seriously, though, there's also an open issue in Android's bug tracking system -- inexplicably marked "medium" priority -- where sent text messages can appear to be in the correct thread and still end up being sent to another contact altogether. In other words, unless you pull up the Message Details screen after the fact, you might not even know the grievous act you've committed until your boss, significant other, or best friend -- make that former best friend -- texts you back. There seem to have been some attempts on Google's part over the year to fix it; we can't confirm that it still happens in 2.3, but for what it's worth, the issue hasn't been marked resolved in Google Code... and it was opened some six months ago.
This is akin to an alarm clock that occasionally won't go off (we've been there) or a car that randomly won't let you turn the steering wheel -- you simply cannot have a phone that you can't trust to communicate with the right people. It's a deal-breaker. We're pretty shocked that these issues weren't tied up and blasted to all affected phones as an over-the-air patch months ago, but whatever the reason, we'd like to see Google, manufacturers, and carriers drop every other Android update they're working on and make sure this is completely resolved immediately.
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Never had any issue with this...
Maybe, it happens only on the default Google sms app not the HTC one.
I've often sent 2 - 3000 text messeges a month with two diffrent devices over the last 18 months and never had this problem. on the otherhand engadget are known for chatting sensationalist rubbish, only to have to apologise later in an editorial.
Fightspit said:
Maybe, it happens only on the default Google sms app not the HTC one.
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I have experienced this with the HTC messaging one. When I individually texted "Happy new year!!" to everyone, the bug happened twice and it actually sent to someone else.
AndroHero said:
I've often sent 2 - 3000 text messeges a month with two diffrent devices over the last 18 months and never had this problem. on the otherhand engadget are known for chatting sensationalist rubbish, only to have to apologise later in an editorial.
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is not sensationalism, is an actual big ugly bug.
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is not sensationalism, is an actual big ugly bug.
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If it's a bug, then why have I not encountered it since owning this phone for 7 months?
It could be a stock Android problem as already mentioned (HTC Sense ROMs have a different messaging application).
I found a post in the discuss thread where a guy explain how to reproduce this *bug*:
killerbee3 said:
If anyone is interested, evidently "Darth Mo" has been able to replicate it - found in ACentral Forums - entire post follows;
"It's not user error, or at least it's a combination of user technique and a possible design. It has to do with how the stock messaging app interacts with the Android system notification.
I recreated it this way. Open a text, but only from the notification bar. You will be taken directly to the conversation from that contact. Now, just hit the home button to get back to the home screen. Repeat this four times to let the open conversations build up. We'll call the earliest contact 1, the next 2, etc. for this example. Let's say you converse with these contacts over some time so that messages occur in this chronological order (opened from the notification menu if possible) : 1, you, 2, you, 3, you, 4, you, 1, 3, you, 3.
Now, you've read the message from contact 3, but quickly hit the back button because you need to send a message to contact 4. So you're back at the conversation list and select conversation 4. You compose and send your message and off you go. But, what can actually happen is that your message went to contact 1 because there is a bug that when you use the back button, it will take you to the conversation screen and when you select one, it will take you to the conversation with the last "unreplied" message received before the last conversation you didn't reply to, regardless of the one you actually select from the list. It's easy to miss that it took you to the wrong conversation as the on screen info can take a beat to update and it looks like you've select the right conversation. The kicker is the conversation list does highlight the one you meant to select, but will take you to that other conversation. It's as if it's saying, "Hey, I know you want to go to that one, but you opened this message and jumped out of it without replying. Maybe you didn't see it."
It's pretty easy for people to not have seen this for a few reasons:
1. You open messages directly from the messaging app
2. You close out every conversation using the back button and don't let them build up on top of each other
3. Messages can come in such a sequence that the conditions are never correct
4. It has actually happened, only the last "unreplied" message was from the conversation you actually intended to enter
I was able to create reliably using my Google voice number to send myself text and watched it bounce around conversations seemingly randomly. It was only when I looked at the times of each message with no replies that I saw what it was doing actually had order to it.
About 30 minutes of experimentation to figure it out, but I had to know how this was happening as I could see it leading to an egregious error later. Now to explain it to HTC..."
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i've never had this either - i use handcent
Since a few minutes ago, the issue is considered critical instead of of medium:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392#c794
Are kiddin me?
I dont send any sms for a while , this is a very big issue !
It never happened to me but , this is a realy really big bug!
Mekrel said:
If it's a bug, then why have I not encountered it since owning this phone for 7 months?
It could be a stock Android problem as already mentioned (HTC Sense ROMs have a different messaging application).
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why havent you encountered it? i have no frikking clue and i dont care.
fortunately now it is a critical bug.
btw, i just care about android stock problems, im not using that sense stuff.
I quite often get messages which are meant for other people from someone who has a samsung galaxy (seems that's it's a copy of the message, rather than it being sent to the wrong sender).
I don't text as much, so less prone to the error.
happened to me on stock Android. Never on HTC Sense or mod
I have actually had this bug... but it reported the message had gone to the wrong person, but the correct person replied so I assumed it was reporting it wrong.... only happened twice.
on stock rom unrooted desire
I'm using a stock ROM & native SMS. I get this bug quite a few times.
I'm working in a very loud environment, so I send & receive lots & lots of text messages.
I notice that when i have lots of threaded messages, the SMS starts to slow down & sooner or later the bug will cause me send a text to the wrong recipient.
I'm quite careful of what I'm sending now.
HTC & they told me to reset the phone.
It hasn't been fun for me since I have to reset the phone once a month because my threaded sms buildup very quickly...
I'll update to 2.29.405.5 to see if this fixes anything.
Guys,
Is the 'wrong' person who receives the message someone in your phonebook or a total stranger. If it'd someone you don't know... how does your phone pick that number up? Randomly?
I had my Desire since April, and never had this issue. I open texts from notification bar and have sent them frequently.
I've had a G1, Magic, Milestone and now a Desire and I've never experienced this at all.
I don't think this bug is very common... I've never experienced it myself and none of my android friends have either...
Just some evil forces trying to make the Android OS look bad. Not our fault they couldn't resist taking a bite of that apple so screw them!
Overblown sensationalism AKA typical journalism. It's a bug but seldom a problem encountered by users, or XDA-Dev would've been flooded with such problem threads long before such publicity sites noticed. Just me personally having switched between over a dozen ROMs/kernels and their versions since March with over 60 average text out per day since and not one occurrence means it isn't anything but rare. I rely on SMS very much daily.
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it's finally happened.
Yesterday, I sent quite a sexual content text message to my girlfriend, BUT my employee received it.
The text I sent to my girlfriend showed up on the conversation between me & my gf, but she did not received it. However my employee received it.
How freaking annoying.
I have contacted HTC & am waiting for the answer. I bet you that the answer is: please hard reset your phone.
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It's not an HTC issue but a Google issue, which they're aware of. No fix as yet...
**** are you kiddin' me i'm going to freak out if this really happens on our phones
Happened once to me, luckily sent it to Facebook instead of my mate but wasn't anything important
This isn't something that happens easily. Google have stated its a freak event that they (AFAIK) haven't been able to replicate thus haven't been able to fix the issue yet.
Sent from my GT-P1000
This has happened to me, my brother, and my girlfriend, and has happened to me multiple occasions, although only once with a text meant for my girlfriend lol!
As for the bug, I read on the BBC website, a news article, a few weeks ago, stating that google found it hard to replicate the bug, but have, and are working on a fix.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12138790
Cheers
Biff.
Have Google come out and said what the conditions that cause this are yet, if they've been able to replicate the bug?
frying_fish said:
Have Google come out and said what the conditions that cause this are yet, if they've been able to replicate the bug?
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Yes they can replicate the issue, it's been moved from 'medium' to 'critical' priority since it's been getting more media coverage. They have know about it for well over six months. This is an old issue they haven't been bothered to fix.
Look here for the original issue post, it's got all the information you can possibly soak up on the matter.
I am subscribed to a few threads and set them up with daily e-mail notification. However, I'm not getting any e-mails.
Earlier this year I was subscribed to a thread and it worked. Now it doesn't. The e-mails aren't classified as spam either, they're just not coming.
Summary:
- Thread subscriptions with daily e-mail notification
- New posts
- No e-mails
Is anybody else experiencing this? Can an admin look at my account or the e-mail system? I found some similar old threads, but none of them had a solution or solved problem.
Thank you very much in advance!
Today I got a notification mail for the last 24 hours. Interesting...
I hope somebody fixed something .
Today: nothing...
I have a similar problem...
I have set daily updates for a few forums and instant notifications for a few threads. I get about once every week the daily updates (not regularly, on the same day) and no notifications for the threads (although I'm sure they have new replies).
This has been going for over a month.
Same here. Right now I just visit the user control panel to see the thread updates since I started following quite a few threads.
Still the same... 1-2 days I get e-mails, 5-6 days I don't...
It's a shame.
This has broken for me too in the last few days. I was getting daily email notifications from 4 or 5 active threads, as requested, up to and including April 5th, but since then I have only had one notification in total. Yet I can see that 5 of these threads had activity yesterday.
Same problem here...and yes I've checked my spam folder!
Few months after and the problem is still here... I guess nobody cares...
Guess not!
Sent from my HTC One X
daniel_loft said:
Few months after and the problem is still here... I guess nobody cares...
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Haven't heard of any widespread issues, every time I look into this for a particular email address our servers have delivered the mail to the external address, how they handle spam filtering is out of our control
I also have this problem. Has anyone found a solution yet?
sjamie said:
I also have this problem. Has anyone found a solution yet?
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I gave up on the forum subscription system. I am only using then as a per-thread basis
daniel_loft said:
I gave up on the forum subscription system.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing problems with daily subscriptions. Instant subscriptions ARE working properly for me, thankfully.
Hi,
I've got the same problem, daily or weekly email notification not received anymore since few month. Can it be related to the use of tapatalk on some of my devices?
I will try instant notification to see if it works better.
Thanks
Philippe
The problem exhibits itself with threads that I've subscribed to just days ago, too.
The only detail that I overlooked until now is the fact that I was subscribed to the Smartwatches section, back when it was a section. In between it became a super section, with other sections under it (Pebble, Sony Smartwatch, etc). And I cannot unsubscribe from it either.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Instant notifications are the only ones that work reliably for me. I may get a daily notification once every other month. This is so strange because daily use to work perfectly and nothing has changed on my end. Nothing is getting snagged by my spam filter.
I have this issue too. No problem with instant notifications, but daily doesn't work. I see item in control panel, but have no email when subscribed thread is updated. I received a daily notification email only once or twice for several months.
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Haven't heard of any widespread issues, every time I look into this for a particular email address our servers have delivered the mail to the external address, how they handle spam filtering is out of our control
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Hi,
i checked the spam folder (where the message remain more than 2 weeks), nothing from XDA ... And i confirm that instant notifications works well, arriving corretly on inbound message folder, not spam folder.
Thanks
Philippe
Hello everyone,
First of all I would like to say a BIG thank you to Viper Venom Team for developing an awesome ROM.....thanks guys.
Since I updated my HTC One x running Viper X Rom from 3.3.9 to 3.3.9.1.1 I have been having seriously difficulty receiving email alerts on time, at times takes a whole day before I receive an email notification which is bad! I dont get email notifications until I open Yahoo mail app and refresh before I see all my mails even a day old.
I have gone through most threads here on XDA and applied them but still the problem persist, this has made things difficult for me because I came from iphone 4 which the mails comes in instantly if not in seconds this is essential to me because I receive and replay mails on the move having delays of push mail will be a disaster due to the nature of my job.
Email alerts or sync works perfectly on WIFI but when I switch to 3G its totally useless unless I check my mails manually this was not the case when I was on 3.3.6 to 3.3.8 or 3.3.9 until I updated to 3.3.9.1.1 all this problem started!
Things I have done:
Turned off Power saver, I read somewhere on the forum it could be the problem but still did not work.
I have turned ON Accounts & Sync or turned it OFF but still no luck! While on 3.3.9 it was turned off and I had no issues with push mails.
I have done both soft and hard reboot.
Deleted my yahoo mail account and added it again still no luck
I have flashed STOCK and flashed Viper rom still the problem persist.
I dont know what else todo Here is my problem and I know many of users are still experiencing this problem!
What else can I do to fix this painful bitter experience am having on my HTC one x, am on E.E network. Please any advice will be appreciated!
Thanks!
You have your thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221992
Double posting is forbidden on xda
Viper Venom 3.19 What will it be like?
Mr Hofs said:
You have your thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221992
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Yea it was a mistake, by the way I have solved the problem somehow i decided to give Viper Rom one more try and stayed on 3.3.9 seems to be stable for me.
I will try JB Remix when next I have issues with Viper Rom But you talked about base 3.19 when would that be out and what features with that come with? Will that be Sense 5? lol am a newbie to this still learning Please explain thanks.
Infoseye said:
Yea it was a mistake, by the way I have solved the problem somehow i decided to give Viper Rom one more try and stayed on 3.3.9 seems to be stable for me.
I will try JB Remix when next I have issues with Viper Rom But you talked about base 3.19 when would that be out and what features with that come with? Will that be Sense 5? lol am a newbie to this still learning Please explain thanks.
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It's still Sense 4+ but it comes with little fixes here and there, for example the wifi bug is fixed and the camera is better.
TToivanen said:
It's still Sense 4+ but it comes with little fixes here and there, for example the wifi bug is fixed and the camera is better.
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oh I see thanks.
And its coming soon, beta testing is in progress
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And its coming soon, beta testing is in progress
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Yea :good: I cant wait
ahhh men my push emails is messed up again Whats with HTC one x issue with delaying of mails
Try this app, it works for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andqlimax.pushfixer
One thing more you have to do also:
Log in to Google talk! You can stay invisible there, but it's needed for push notifications to work faster. It sends a heartbeat pulse to the Google servers that send the push notifications.
The app I linked to helps in shortening the periods between heartbeat pulses.
Try it, I get my push notifications instantly now
Good luck, and let me know if this helped you!
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Try this app, it works for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andqlimax.pushfixer
One thing more you have to do also:
Log in to Google talk! You can stay invisible there, but it's needed for push notifications to work faster. It sends a heartbeat pulse to the Google servers that send the push notifications.
The app I linked to helps in shortening the periods between heartbeat pulses.
Try it, I get my push notifications instantly now
Good luck, and let me know if this helped you!
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Thanks alot...although am yet to give the app a try yet. I signed into Google talk and suddenly all my alerts came through immediately facebook,whats app even late ebay alerts messages and other long forgotten messages .:laugh:
From what I can say signed into Gtalk has made my push emails instant if not immediately, I sent messages from my iphone 4 and in less than 5 seconds I get it on my HOX :victory: unlike before it took 15-20mins at worst had to check my mails manually by refreshing my yahoo mail app.
Well I will monitor this has time goes on if later on my mails are delayed while singed into Gtalk I will install PNF app but so far this has totally fixed my frustrating email delays :victory::victory::victory:
My joy was short lived still experiencing this frustrating notification delays, anyone with new suggestions?
Anyone else have calendar events not showing up? I have an event scheduled everyday that isnt showing a notification. I’ve looked at the usual stuff, notifications are on for calendar, etc....I have an iPad that’s also connected to the same gooogle calendar and they come through fine on it everyday. Anyone have any insight?
Is there an alert added to the calender entry? Like 10 minutes before?
Thanks for replying. There is an alert set,...it was for 10 minutes before, that didn’t work so I changed it to at the time of event, and that didn’t work. I read somewhere that it was because of the last update, so I uninstalled the update and it worked this morning. I’m going to give it a few more days to see if it still works and if so I know a calendar update came out yesterday so I’ll update to that and hopefully I won’t have to worry about it anymore.
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Thanks for replying. There is an alert set,...it was for 10 minutes before, that didn’t work so I changed it to at the time of event, and that didn’t work. I read somewhere that it was because of the last update, so I uninstalled the update and it worked this morning. I’m going to give it a few more days to see if it still works and if so I know a calendar update came out yesterday so I’ll update to that and hopefully I won’t have to worry about it anymore.
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I used to have problems with my calendar not firing alerts or just firing late on previous phones. Then I found an app on GPS called Events Notifier For Calendar (by RYO Software.) There is an XDA thread somewhere about it. I've been using it on my last three phones including this one and I feel it is indispensable! (As for the GPS rating, my guess is user error for most of people's complaints.) But it has never failed me and the developer is extremely helpful. It's probably one of the first 5 apps I now install on every new phone.