I have an issue that has been happening for a while now on Bell in Canada.
I can recieve messages from msn users on my msn list as always , but my phone will no longer let me reply to them. Anyone know if this is because Bell has changed something , or Microsoft has changed something that can be undone? thx
Related
Hi all,
very strange this. There are four users of XDA-devices in my office (all on T-Mobile), myself (XDA2s), an XDA2, and two Imates (the XDA2 ones). Now, at random times throughout the day we will all recieve a text message with no sender number, but the text of the message is '13779538669'. I have never received this message on my other mobile phone (SE K700i, Voda), and I don't receive it on my Nokia when I use my T-Mobile SIM card in there!
I also only receive this message when I'm in this particular area (WA15, Hale, Cheshire), although a colleague says he gets it when he goes near Manchester Airport (5 miles from here).
What the hell? I know, I wouldn't believe it either unless I'd seen it happening but I promise you, it does happen!
In case you don't believe me :
http://www.houlker.com/odd.jpg
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Dan
Its possible to send no-number SMS messages from services like http://theSMSzone.com
Maybe one of your friends is playing a prank on you?
kunz said:
Its possible to send no-number SMS messages from services like http://theSMSzone.com
Maybe one of your friends is playing a prank on you?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the reply. It seems unlikely that this is a prank, as four different people get the message and only when we are in the office, or near to the airport! I think it's a broadcast from somewhere nearby, I dunno, I'm still confused :?
Can you check what message centre the message is coming from?
Are these messages Premium-based ?(do they show up on your bill?)
Vodafone NL is unable to send out messages with the normal four-digit numbers... (5 for the uk). Instead they use eleven-digit numbers...
Perhaps in the UK it's the same?
I'd check if you have to pay for receiving those messages...
On the Vodafone website you should be able to retreive info on who's using the specific number...
Goog luck!
might be sent via bluetooth (could be an ad that hasnt displayed right) or it can be send from the internet witch sounds most likley
WWWeed said:
might be sent via bluetooth (could be an ad that hasnt displayed right) or it can be send from the internet witch sounds most likley
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Agreed.
Especially since SMS's like these seem to be free coming from theSMSzone.com
Hi,
thanks for the replies, and sorry for the delay in me coming back! The messages aren't coming from a Bluetooth device, because my Bluetooth is always switched off unless I'm in the car.
I don't know how to find the service centre they're coming from, can anybody tell me how?
The messages do not appear on our bills. One thing I've noticed, now that I've upgraded to the 1.40 ROM, is that the sender now has a name of 'Network' rather than blank as it was before.
Obviously there's no harm in these messages, but they're a pain and I'd like to work out where they're coming from to satisfy my own curiousity[sp]!
my uncle has the same thing qith hi unlocked xda2i
he has a t mobile contarct and the messages seem to come fromthe network,
i will have to speak to him to find out why and when they come, but my advice is to ask tmobile about theae messages as i belive there comming from them.
Ariel
arielc said:
my uncle has the same thing qith hi unlocked xda2i
he has a t mobile contarct and the messages seem to come fromthe network,
i will have to speak to him to find out why and when they come, but my advice is to ask tmobile about theae messages as i belive there comming from them.
Ariel
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Ariel,
thanks for your post, and great to hear someone else has this problem and not just us! I spoke today to our service provider, who'd never heard of this before, so he spoke to T-Mobile who also claim to have never heard of this before. They want me to keep a log of dates/times when the message appears :roll: , so that's what I'll do.
Dan
...have you tried to disable cell broadcast in your phone settings menu? this looks very much like a cell broadcast message, i can enable this on my german vodafone used device and get the area code on this way but i get also lots of bull**** notifications taht way. go to settings/phone and i guess its the third tab on the bottom (maybe fourth) where you can find channel settings for cell broadcast - unable it and it should be gone.
feedback welcome!
cheers, lutz
lutzh said:
...have you tried to disable cell broadcast in your phone settings menu? this looks very much like a cell broadcast message, i can enable this on my german vodafone used device and get the area code on this way but i get also lots of bull**** notifications taht way. go to settings/phone and i guess its the third tab on the bottom (maybe fourth) where you can find channel settings for cell broadcast - unable it and it should be gone.
feedback welcome!
cheers, lutz
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Lutz,
thanks for the suggestion. I'm on the 1.4 ROM, so there are five tabs at the bottom of that screen; Phone, Services, Network, Band, More. In More, there is Broadcast Channels, and this box is unticked.
Thanks again
Dan
Saw one other forum on how to edit the myfave5 but no luck in getting it to work...
Does anyone have instructions ? I have the tmobile WM6 rom on my exvalibur and was able to turn on the my5 feature but when I try to add a contact and picture it never updates it... I tried doing it by the registry but still no luck so does anyone know?
I don't have t-mobile service since I am in canada... I just want it to work because I think it would be cool to have it...
Anyone know?
try searching this forum. its here.
Tried that... didn't work which is why I ASKED.
ok i did a search FOR YOU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296078&highlight=myfaves
Tried those steps but the display will never update and neither will contact info...
esmith said:
Tried those steps but the display will never update and neither will contact info...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The myfaves program for the ppc is not only a stand alone contact dialer. The program sends sms messages to the T-mobile server to verify if the user is subscribing to MyFaves. The T-Mobile server will respond indicating if you have the myFaves service or not. If you don't it wont let you change the contacts and should make the myFaves stuff disappear if there is a neg on the myFaves service. Thats why you cannot use it as a stand alone dialer.
Hi all,
I have read through some threads and performed a few searches. Everything in regards to this seems to hover around MMS. I dont really care for that but do need to SMS. As I am a phone newb could someone tell me with the softbank setup would I still use MMSLite for doing SMS after slapping on one of the new WM6 ROMS?
Or, can I just dump a station setting somewhere in WM6 for Softbank that will allow me to do SMS.
Thanks,
I to use an X01HT on Softbank and have tried almost all of the WM6 ROMs and SMS works normally. You don't need to do anything special or load anything extra it just works.
Correct, SMS just works. Just pop in your SIM and that's all you need. MMS is a different story.
Thanks guys,
I worked it out now. I was not aware that Softbank could only send SMS to other vodafone/softbank users. It seems we cant send to anyone else on docomo etc. Well, at least I get an error when I try to send an SMS to anyone else on another network. How stupid is that.
Does phone to phone email work? What I mean is I used to be with vodafone and had one of their email addies for my mobile, kind of like push email I suppose. Is Softbank doing the same thing and does it work after flashing or are we stuck with just SMSing to mobile numbers on our network.
Thanks again,
Japanese telco companies are not really friendly, and tend to jealously hold onto the features/etc on their networks, so they will not design their systems to allow cross carrier SMS... it would save you too much money.
Sending SMS's to carriers abroad from Sotbank phones work, but be prepared to spend about 100 yen per message (outgoing or incoming).
Also, the "normal" mail that you were sending was MMS, so you would need to get a hold of MMSlite or the setting for Softbank MMS to get it up and running. I personally use my Gmail and a push-mail account from Mail2Web instead... it cost me $2 a month for the pushmail, but it allows you to sync you calendar, contacts, task as well (works as a backup) so it is worth it to be able to change phones, phone numbers, carrier, etc without changing my e-mail or losing my data! Also, I can check any big message/attachments on Gmail. Works out pretty well.
I have recently upgraded to WM6 but now when i sign in to Windows Live Messenger it never shows online contacts and does nt show me as online to others even though i can recieve messages as i have got a friend to try it, the message came through.
has anyone else experienced this and if so, have you found a solution?
Hey, i have just installed the newest MIUI Australia 3.1.11v2 on my HOX, and i have one simple problem.
At first nothing worked, but after a few reinstallations, the only thing not working now is sms and data.
I can make calls, recieve calls and recieve sms's, but i can't send any sms's myself, and i cant get on the internet unless using wifi.
I updated my hboot to 1.39, and if there is anything else you need, just ask
Hope someone can help me.
Ridick2602
Everytime I do something weird to my phone I need to manually enter the access point names. Here's the info for Virgin australia
NOTE: Virgin Mobile AU relevant only
https://support.mobicity.com.au/entr...e-apn-settings
Only sms and data?
requiem11 said:
Everytime I do something weird to my phone I need to manually enter the access point names. Here's the info for Virgin australia
NOTE: Virgin Mobile AU relevant only
Link
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If it was something with the APN, then why is it only data and sms that dosnt work. I can still make calls, and i can recieve calls and sms's.
Besides i already have the carriers name in the status bar.
What can I tell ya? Same with me, the carrier shows up in the status bar, I can make and receive calls, but no data. The phone recognizes carrier (virgin), it's just the proxy and ports that are missing in the APN. Easy to fix, easy to bookmark for future reference.