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[Q] I cannot send SMS GSM Orange Network

Since this morning I am unable to send SMS on my UK GSM Orange Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
I am able to make and recieve calls, make and recieve MMS and recieve SMS but cannot send SMS.
Where in ICS can you check the SMS Message centre? Ive tried to view it in the *#*#info#*#* and there is a bit which says SMSC, but if I put in the orange message centre number which I believe is +44 797 3100973 and click update, the update fails. There no other settings I can find in Messager app, and the APN's are correct as I can send/recieve MMS and browse the internet etc.
Ive done a reset also, still same problem.
Can anyone help?

Don't hit update. Just type the number in and exit.
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Don't hit update. Just type the number in and exit.
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Just tried that, unfortunately it still does not send SMS.

Ring Orange up?

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Ring Orange up?
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Orange web help states that the following; http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/657975
Ill ring customer services to see if they can send me the message centre number or something. Seems like a bug to me in ICS as this message centre number should be acessible through the messenger app!

Make sure you have the right number. I had the same problem. Updating did not work. Typing it in did.
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call orange and ask them to send you an ORANGE MESSAGE UPDATE (OMU)

Have fun getting it sorted. Will be surprised if they fix it within 3 attempts

Fixed it myself!
Since you cannot (currently) go into messages options and set the message centre number normally, you have to use the info screen and the smsc bit.
However you cannot just put in the orange message centre number ( +447973100973). You have to encode it using the following site http://www.twit88.com/home/utility/sms-pdu-encode-decode and at the bottom left box type: n the message centre number in smsc then press convert. It will then give you on the right a Hexadecimal PDU Message. Copy the number excluding the letters and do not include anything after the 11. Ie for orange on the Samsung galaxy nexus the smsc is
0791449737019037. Click update and wait a few seconds then exit and it should work!
What a faff. Ics really needs the message centre number option in the messaging app.
Hope this helps someone.
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I had exactly the same problem which the above has helped me fix, so thanks very much Marcus. For info Vodafone converts to "0791447758100650".

I had the same issue as well on my nexus.

I had this issue but fixed it by inserting a SIM from another network(Orange), waiting for it to set up and then swapping back to my Three SIM.
Here's the one for Three UK(contract) just in case anyone needs it 0791447728008000
Rik.
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Didn't work for me On Orange uk. Been having this problem for over a week it's really bugging me. Going to ring orange tomorrow. Probably won't be much help though. Last time i rang and they asked what phone i was using so i told them Galaxy Nexus and their system didn't recognise it

I have this problem and have not been able to find a solution. I'm in the US using SpotMobile. Their smsc is +16104680009, which converts to 07916101640800F911. When I enter this and press update, it gets saved (without the two ending 1s) and the messaging app doesn't give an error when sending a message (and I get charged for it -_-), but the recipient never receives the message.
I've also tried @rbiter's solution, but it doesn't work. The smsc doesn't get saved and I get an error when sending messages.
Any help on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Take off the last "11". It should be 16 digits, not 18.

Sneaky Way of Fixing this
I too had the same problem. Out of curiosity, I went to check the Hidden phone settings on my Galaxy Nexus, I love looking at the temperature of the battery, network location and all that good stuff. But apparently ICS is glitchy regarding the SMSC settings. It apparently wipes the SMSC number as soon as you enter the hidden phone settings... To find this I went to a series of steps. The first thing I tried was popping in other SIM cards from my carrier (Telcel GSM in Mexico) All of them seemed to work fine.. And my primary SIM which didn't work on my Galaxy Nexus worked on an old Telcel-Locked phone I had.. so this sent me scrambling.. The next thing I tried was to update the SMSC through the process of encryption provided in an earlier post, and normally.. none of them which worked.. I then thought that the Phone must be keeping an erroneous configuration of my SIM card, so I resetted the phone, deleted my G-Account.. and still it would not work. I then popped another Telcel GSM SIM card in my old Blackberry 8520, went to the SMS settings and it had the SMSC number, which for Telcel Mexico is +5294100001410... I then popped in my primary SIM card which was giving me trouble in my Galaxy Nexus and when I went to the SMS settings in the Blackberry.. the SMSC value was gone.. empty.. So I just typed it in and hit save. Popped the SIM card Back in the Galaxy Nexus.. and It's all good again. Android ICS in the Galaxy Nexus just wipes the SMSC value as soon as you enter the hidden menu and is unable to rewrite it to the SIM card. I had to use the Blackberry to properly configure my SIM card again.. Funny, I thought I would never use the Blackberry for anything away.. I got to use some of the junk I keep around..

waylo said:
Take off the last "11". It should be 16 digits, not 18.
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It gets saved without the last "11" anyway, so it doesn't make a difference.
It's looking like putting the SIM card in another phone and changing the SMSC might be the only way. Too bad I don't have any old phones that take SIM cards

Shoot, was hoping that would work for you!

wwfc said:
Didn't work for me On Orange uk. Been having this problem for over a week it's really bugging me. Going to ring orange tomorrow. Probably won't be much help though. Last time i rang and they asked what phone i was using so i told them Galaxy Nexus and their system didn't recognise it
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Orange web help states that the following; http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/657975
Ill ring customer services to see if they can send me the message centre number or something. Seems like a bug to me in ICS as this message centre number should be acessible through the messenger app!
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Did Orange send out any updates to you? They refused to for me for 24 hours as my number only just got transferred from Virgin.
Edit: Turns out it was just a coincidence that my smsc got deleted as the number porting actually failed (I can receive texts and make/receive calls which is a bit odd).

I also ended up ballsing this up when I was looking at the 4636 menus.
For those interested, the number/code for T-mobile UK is 0791449785788938

Multiple Reciptents

Hi im trying to find a way of send a message to all my contacts, without typing each name individually into the sender box. Is there anyone that can help?
Thanks in Advance,
James

I came across this issue myself over christmas when I wanted to send multiple sms to certain contacts.
Sadly I couldnt figure out how to do it with the stock messaging app so I installed GO SMS and that done the trick.
While this is more than likely a missing feature I cant believe that google didnt include it as standard.

You just select a contact then tap back on and select another one?? Same as always
Or am I missing something? This is same as most phones
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the way you describe is correct but can take ages if you want to add about 20+ contacts.
Google should of added a tickbox method or "select all" option at least

Yeah i wanted a bit of a quicker method. When trying to send contacts my new number this becomes too time consuming, ill ad the other app. Hope Android adds this feature on the next update.

Get groupy... it allows you to select multiple contacts and send a group message to them using the stock messaging app. It even allows you to select whole groups and send group messages to them...
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[Q] Can't Send Any SMS or MMS messages

Got my Galaxy Nexus today (LTE/CDMA version) and I've been able to get all the different functions working except for being able to text. I can make calls, download, upload, sync, etc. I rooted it initially, but before that I couldn't send any texts either. Right now I have the Peter Alfonso Toro IMM30B (4.0.4 stock Rooted) version running on my phone. I've tried turning off WIFI, turning off the 4g, putting it on airplane mode and back on, removing the battery, turning off and on the mobile data, and trying different 3rd party apps but still no luck in getting texts to send.

Bump for help, I really need it

Had this on Galaxy S - This might work: search play for 'Nitratility' and download it. Then click 'restore efs' - Don't know if this will help but worth a try
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@OP SMS and MMS work very differently.
If your MMS is not working, it is likely because you have not set the right APN. Go to Settings>More>Mobile Networks->Access Point Names and make sure you have right right apn for Verizon mms set in there.
If your SMS is not working, it is likely due to the SMSC number being messed up. See the radio thread in the general section. There should be a link in the first post that tells you how to get the right smsc number and enter it.
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"Message not sent" error :(

Hey everyone. I'm having a big problem w/ my 16GB GSM Galaxy Nexus running bigxie's rooted, deodexed 4.1 rom, and I'm hoping you guys can help me.
Whenever I send a message, I get a "Message not sent" error in the notifications bar, and a red triangle w/ an exclamation point appears under the text of the text message. I have T-Mobile and I have FULL signal bars. I can make calls and this texting issue is the only problem I'm having. I installed this rom a few days ago and this problem just suddenly started today. When I send a text with the "Messaging" app, the area code (I live in the US) of the phone number disappears. So if the number in my phonebook is stored as:
"1 (areacode) sevendigit-phonenumber"
It instead shows up like this after I select the contact:
"1 sevendigit-phonenumber"
If I try and send a text by selecting the contact from the "People" app, it works just fine.
Last night I flashed the Popcorn kernel, but I then I also sent a text and it worked. I thought maybe somehow this might have something to do w/ the kernel or a rom (both unlikely), so just in case I re-flashed the STOCK 4.1 this time (the first rom, the one that appeared on ROM Manager the day of the Google I/O). Now I'm back to stock Jelly Bean everything (including kernel, and also the Jelly Bean baseband) but I'm still getting the problem. I tried clearing the "Messaging" app's data and cache, but nothing fixes the problem. I have a strong feeling that the cause of the error is because the "Messaging" app removes the area code from in front of the phone number, but now I can't remember if that's normal (did that happen in ICS?, did it happen before in JB?, I don't remember).
Has anyone else encountered such an error? Please help me.

I too am experiencing this issue running bigxie's 4.1 ROM on my 16 GB Galaxy Nexus.
I hope someone has a solution!

I think I may have fixed the problem for myself. It seems like in both the stock JB and also bigxie's rom, the "Messaging" app is doing some sort of mishandling of the phone numbers. Try changing one or some of your phone numbers in your contact list to this format: "(307) 456-7895" <-- parenthesis around the area code, then a space after the parenthesis, then the seven digit number with a dash (-) after the third. Try changing this format on Google Contacts, not on your phone. Then sync the contacts on your phone.
Try this with just one contact that wasn't previously working and please let me know what happens.

I'm having the same problems with the same rom and tried the same steps to fix it but it didn't work for me. Also tried going back to cm9, no luck.

Search for the setting for something like ##info#* or whatever. I blew mine out when I flashed a new rom (not the roms fault i did it not knowing better). Don't have time now to look but there are important settings for sending sms.
Jeff

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Search for the setting for something like ##info#* or whatever. I blew mine out when I flashed a new rom (not the roms fault i did it not knowing better). Don't have time now to look but there are important settings for sending sms.
Jeff
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Thanks I figured it out. I had a hard time finding this info so ill re post it here for any one who needs it. It solved all my problems.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14916-howto-sms-centre-numbers-if-your-gnex-wont-send-messages/
Hi
This damned *#*#4636#*#* menu!!!
I know, I shouldn't be messing with what I don't know but I moved from an iphone so that I could 'fiddle' with a phone hence the GNex.
Anyhow. I have been having serious issues in sorting this out until I pieced the information together in this post. None of this I can take credit for - as it is built on others work - I just put it together in one easily accessible place.
The problem is that this menu somehow wipes the SIM card's record of the SMSC number.
You can't just enter the SMS Centre number as it is, you have to convert it into something called PDU format (no idea what this is)
I have converted a number of UK SMS Centre numbers into the correct format below.
Method:
1. Go to phone dialpad.
2. Enter *#*#4636#*#*
3. Scroll down to the bit that says SMSC
4. Type your sixteen digit number in from the table below.
5. Press Update
6. Press Refresh
7. Press Back button to exit the app.
8. Test by sending an SMS
Hope that helps. The GNex doesn't give an option which is easily accessible from anywhere to change the SMSC number, downright silly as my 10 year old Nokia would let me do that.
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PDU Decoder
http://www.twit88.com/home/utility/sms-pdu-encode-decode

I couldn't quite follow those directions, but my problem fixed itself without doing any of that. It just suddenly started working after I changed the format of the numbers in Google Contacts.

i tried these steps but no luck.. its simply the format of phone numbers.
this format is no good: +1 (123)-456-7891
this format is good: +1 123-456-7891
another solution is just to manually update each contacts.. i wish there was an app that does it automatically

install handcent sms app...go to undelivered SMS in menu...delete in any undelivered sms is there...it worked for me...
u can uninstall Handcent post that

I had the same problem , Can't send but can recieve sms ,
the problem presents since updating to jb 4.2.2 ,but it was working in 4.1.2
I tried the smsc solution but no luck at all ,
I think it's not a carrier problem cause i can send from Moto Defy "CM7.2 " ,but no luck with JB
Plz help

Another Fix
Tried all the fixes I could find with no luck. Then found out that I had enabled Google Voice+ to send SMS messages through Google Voice. After I disabled this everything went back to normal.
Just another thing to try that worked for me.

I know this is somewhat old but wanted to say for me, that the messages were being sent but there was one stuck in the queue. I followed the directions of installing handcent and found the empty text sitting in the queue... like a draft message. Once removed the message went away. I uninstalled handcent and all is good. It sucks that the stock JB 4.2 messaging app doesn't have a outbox and draft box to find stuff like this. Thanks for the help!

hellandj said:
Tried all the fixes I could find with no luck. Then found out that I had enabled Google Voice+ to send SMS messages through Google Voice. After I disabled this everything went back to normal.
Just another thing to try that worked for me.
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THIS all the way!! I was trying everything to get my sms to work but it ended up being google voice+
Thanks for the reminder

JB Stock 4.1.1 sms issue

I have just installed stock 4.1.1 with stock kernel. I have a weird problem.
Problem: when going to SMS>new SMS> contact (numbers come in this format - 1-706-9919...first 3 digits of area code is missing) so I get error message not sent.
What's the fix?

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I have just installed stock 4.1.1 with stock kernel. I have a weird problem.
Problem: when going to SMS>new SMS> contact (numbers come in this format - 1-706-9919...first 3 digits of area code is missing) so I get error message not sent.
What's the fix?
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Not sure, maybe it has something to do with this thread?

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Not sure, maybe it has something to do with this thread?
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my issue is that when i text first 3 digits of a contact is missing and it only shows middle 3 digits and last 4 ..so message "sent fail" comes because its not a complete number.

Ever find a fix to this?
I just upgraded to 4.1.1 from 4.0.4 & am having the same problem.
My txting worx fine as I can receive sms and reply to them successfully, I can also send them fine if I select text from a contact card, the only time it doesn't work is when using the messaging app for a new msg & typing/selecting the contact from the list that comes up as you type, it shows the proper contact but omits the area code in the number & then doesn't send the msg

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Not sure, maybe it has something to do with this thread?
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hp13 said:
I have just installed stock 4.1.1 with stock kernel. I have a weird problem.
Problem: when going to SMS>new SMS> contact (numbers come in this format - 1-706-9919...first 3 digits of area code is missing) so I get error message not sent.
What's the fix?
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THe FIX is to go to your contacts.. and take off the 1 in front of all your numbers.
The problem is that your numbers are set up like this 1 (234) 567-8910.. it should be like this (234) 567-8910
Omit the 1 and everything will be fine.
Enjoy.

Well taking out the 1 works for the sms, but then if I take out the 1 & its a long distance number I get the message saying "please dial 1 before completing this long distance call" when I try to call that contact, so now it's either a problem with sms or with calling.
Isn't there an option to have it automatically dial 1 b4 a call? Or any other workarounds?

No fix yet... I went back to ICS. Someone on rootzwiki mentioned to add smsc number for your network provider pressing *#*#4636#*#* ... Or insert sim in non android phone which would fix it.
None worked for me
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How about putting the full code, including the country code, in? So in the UK, it would be something like
+44 1234 567890
May be worth a try....
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Is there a way to change the format of Google contacts? Is there an app that does it all?
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