Well, on my Galaxy S3 SPH-L710, whenever I receive a voicemail, I get a text message telling me to dial a number to receive the message. When I do, it tells me "The message requested could not be found."
This only started happening after I rooted my phone. Anyone else have this problem or know a way to fix it so I can access my voicemail normally?
Thanks in advance!
This is actually how your phone talks to voicemail servers, are you still receiving voicemail notifications? That text is susposed to alert your phone via notification of a new voicemail
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I myself am still waiting for another method to fix this. You can try to text "Block 9016" to then number "9999", which is a sprint shortcode to block a number. That didn't work for me but it seems to have worked for others.
There's also another method where you go to your VVM app, record a message(3-5 seconds), and send it to "[email protected]". Although I'm pretty sure all this does is let any voicemails you weren't receiving come through into your phone.
The way I understand it, this text is necessary, and there's not much you can do about it. As joeyhdownsouth said, this is how your phone receives a voicemail. If no method works for you then you can do some searches and find an app that will simply block the notification from ever even appearing in your status bar. You still get the text, but the app will intercept it before it can inconvenience you.
I decided not to block it, I don't care that much. It WOULD be nice to not have to get the text but this isn't the worst thing that could happen to me. If I could not get the text at all I would, but I don't care enough to install an app just to block one measly little text.
I have heard that fixing the issue is as simple as finding the appropriate vvm apk that works with your ROM. When I first flashed a custom rom on my s3, I too was plagued by those messages. I tried everything and just could not get rid of them either. On either tw or aosp. But since then, I know I've at least had two custom tw ROMs on my wife's phone that had working vvm without the text messages. Goodness ROM was one. Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion of it working fine on a couple aosp ROMs too. If I stumble across any helpful links, I'll post them.
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Also, not sure if you considered gvoice, but that's what I switched to when I couldn't fix the issue. Have used it since. I like the fact that it can back up your text messages. Especially if you are a flashaholic like me. You can have a searchable backup of all your texts no matter how many roms you flash and you don't even need to worry about restoring them from backup.
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I have heard that fixing the issue is as simple as finding the appropriate vvm apk that works with your ROM. When I first flashed a custom rom on my s3, I too was plagued by those messages. I tried everything and just could not get rid of them either. On either tw or aosp. But since then, I know I've at least had two custom tw ROMs on my wife's phone that had working vvm without the text messages. Goodness ROM was one. Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen discussion of it working fine on a couple aosp ROMs too. If I stumble across any helpful links, I'll post them.
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Also, not sure if you considered gvoice, but that's what I switched to when I couldn't fix the issue. Have used it since. I like the fact that it can back up your text messages. Especially if you are a flashaholic like me. You can have a searchable backup of all your texts no matter how many roms you flash and you don't even need to worry about restoring them from backup.
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I think you're right, the sprint VVM app needs the TW framework to work. I remember reading somewhere that the text comes from the java level and you would need an app that interacts with that so the phone doesn't send the text
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I think you're right, the sprint VVM app needs the TW framework to work. I remember reading somewhere that the text comes from the java level and you would need an app that interacts with that so the phone doesn't send the text
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Or it has to be blocked at a java level by the developer that created the rom, but OP stated his phone is just rooted, kinda strange to be getting the vvm text, don't you think? I used to receive that text on roms that were in the beta stage.
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I haven't had this issue myself so I can't be much of help. But I would think that possibly you may have rooted it incorrectly in some way or maybe installed a root application that interfered with your voicemail. This is quite possible.
#1 To Root Properly Visit This Link (I would recommend possibly resetting your phone and using TWRP Recovery instead of CWM Recovery)
OR
#2 Flash Odexed Blue, a custom rom based on TouchWiz, works quite well from personal experience
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#3 Flash Freeza's Stock Rom already Rooted for you This is for those who just want Root and no tweaks unlike in Odexed Blue. Also Freeza has a modified Stock Kernel which can be an improvement. BTW Stock Rom for Galaxy S3 is Odexed if you were wondering, maybe use Deodexed since I have heard those are easier to modify, though I may be wrong.
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#4 Just reset your phone and reroot again? Resetting can solve a lot of problems
Just a couple suggestions, hope you work out your issue. :good:
Having the same problem
davelikestacos said:
Well, on my Galaxy S3 SPH-L710, whenever I receive a voicemail, I get a text message telling me to dial a number to receive the message. When I do, it tells me "The message requested could not be found."
This only started happening after I rooted my phone. Anyone else have this problem or know a way to fix it so I can access my voicemail normally?
Thanks in advance!
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My phone was rooted for 6 months and everything was OK. A few days ago, I upgraded to 4.1.2 and that's when my voicemail problem started. I no longer get the voicemail icon. I only get those annoying text messages that don't do anything most of the time. I know there is a fix for this because it happened on my Galaxy S1 and I was able to fix it. But darn if my 65 year old brain remembers how. I would appreciate some help. Thanks.
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My phone was rooted for 6 months and everything was OK. A few days ago, I upgraded to 4.1.2 and that's when my voicemail problem started. I no longer get the voicemail icon. I only get those annoying text messages that don't do anything most of the time. I know there is a fix for this because it happened on my Galaxy S1 and I was able to fix it. But darn if my 65 year old brain remembers how. I would appreciate some help. Thanks.
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You could try YouMail Its an app that replaces Sprint VVM. Maybe that would help...
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You could try YouMail Its an app that replaces Sprint VVM. Maybe that would help...
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After wasting 4 hours trying to fix the voicemail, I ended up with YouMail. It's nice to know someone agreed with my decision
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OK I know this has been brought up a few times in the CM threads. I get this ghost VM notification on CM6 and on all the nightlys. I also am getting this ghost VM notification on the MIUI rom. I do NOT get this notification on ANY sense ROMs I have tried.
I read this Forum everyday as much as I can. I have tried search. Every thing that comes up close to what I have going on doesn't seem to get fully answered as to why this is coming up on some phones and not others.
I flashed CM6 and a few nightlys on my Wifes phone and She has NEVER received the *86 VM notification.
I am always updated to the most current PRL, PRI and NV. Nothing I have tried will clear this message. On the CM6 ROM I can hit the clear button under the notification bar and that clears it for a little while but then the damn thing comes back.
Can anyone explain this and offer up a FIX. I know I'm not the only one.
Any one have any help on this?
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12 hours and no reply. I have searched the forum all day. Sorry to be a pain in the ass but if anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.
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I have the same problem that is why i went back to fresh 3.2... I searched all thru the internet and I could not find anything either... sucks to be us. Maybe we should email darsh
Yeah I have this problem too, so I went back to fresh and I am waiting for the desire hd rom to be ported... :/
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I guess I'm in the club also. Same problem when I was on Vaelpak. Flashed back to stock, rooted, for a while. Now on Fresh.
Settings>Call>Voicemail> Change the number from *86 to whatever your phone number is.
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Settings>Call>Voicemail> Change the number from *86 to whatever your phone number is.
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Thank you Brutus for the input.
I know all about that part of the set-up. This DOES NOT get rid of the Ghost notification. I still will get a notification that I have a voice mail (and YES I have checked to make sure my VM's are cleared out).
Just FYI I use google voice when I am on CM6 or nightlys. Google Voice works great but still will not clear the VM notification.
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Thank you Brutus for the input.
I know all about that part of the set-up. This DOES NOT get rid of the Ghost notification. I still will get a notification that I have a voice mail (and YES I have checked to make sure my VM's are cleared out).
Just FYI I use google voice when I am on CM6 or nightlys. Google Voice works great but still will not clear the VM notification.
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Dont skip my post I am going to say two diffrent things . First normaly you get the notification because you received a voicemail. The stock rom has a code writen in to block that text so that you dont see the notification when you receive a voicemail.
Now Jetdr I will try to answer your question here. I think your voicemail hasnt been provisioned. Click on your VVM app and hit menu, when you hit menu you should have 3 options, compose, search and settings. If you have a 4th option that says unsent or undelivered click it. When VVM sets up, it automaticly sends a voicemail to the server to setup your VVM. If that message doesnt get sent then it probably never will. You will have to uninstall the VVM.Apk and reinstall the app. One time when I was setting up CM6 I had to install the voicemail apk several times before I got it to provision correctly. If it doesn provision a minute or two after you install it then its not going to. Not sure if this is whats causing your ghost voicemail text but I am thinking this is it. The easiest way to tell is to just click the vvm app and see if it shows four options or three. It should only show three.
If you are using google voice you dont still have the sprint VVM installed do you? If you dont have the sprint VVM installed then I am not sure whats causing your issue considering my directions to fix your issue is in regardes to the sprint vvm app.
Hope that helps.
I've tried all that and more.... nothing fixes it. I've concidered calling sprint but don't want to ruin my insurance..
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Twilk... thanks so much for the response. I did all you suggested and I flashed back over to the newest MIUI ROM and I still have the VM notification. I made sure I didn't have any voice mails before I flashed. The notification will not clear even with the settings selected to not show.
Initially it has the *86 number but when I change the VM settings to my number it of course then comes up in the drop down box with my number.
The same thing happens on CM ROMs.
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Anyone else have any ideas?
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My notification says 4 voicemails... so I'm wondering if when I rooted my phone I had voicemails.. I don't really listen to my voicemails.. i'd rather just receive a text from someone... I just wish that I had made sure to clear my box before I rooted.. not sure if this is the reason for it... but it doesn't seem like there are many users with this problem. I'm sort of anti-twitter or I would ask cyanogen myself.. this is soo annoying! Especially since I hate voice mail to begin with.. I don't read my bills much, but I think sprint charges for voicemail.. anyway I can cancel my voicemail service? Also they charge me to keep a spending limit.. I want to call sprint and ask to cancel my voicemail..
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Anybody ever figure this one. Or do we just clear the message on each reboot?
Clear dalv. and cache,then change *86 to your mobile number then block 9016 from your sprint account.I added youmail and mine works perfect.I get txt and VM very quick.If the person that left you the voice mail is in your contacts it will show them as leaving the VM and you can just tap on there pic and it will play the ones they left you.
And I have no phantom notifications or anything odd.
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Anybody ever figure this one. Or do we just clear the message on each reboot?
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Here. That's the only known way to get rid of it. It's a PITA but it works.
I have a voicemail constantly in my status bar even tho when I try to call it doesn't say anything and when I go to visiual voicemail nothing new. It's annoying any idea for a fix? Thanks
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what rom are you using.
If you're running an AOSP rom, that's a known bug. There is a thread floating around here with instructions on how to get rid of it. It involves flashing a stock rom, then activating an old non android phone, deleting all messages, reactivating the evo, updating profile and prl and then restoring your AOSP nandroid.
Not sure if it's worth all that
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Not sure if it's worth all that
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HAHA classic answer. I was thinking the same thing...that is a bunch of doo doo to get rid of a VM icon. WHOA!
I don't know if anyone has tried this, but whenever I had this issue with my old non android phones, I would have somebody call and leave me a message, and then I'd call my VM and delete the new message. It always fixed the notification when there weren't actually any messages. I don't know if the same would work with an android phone.
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I don't know if anyone has tried this, but whenever I had this issue with my old non android phones, I would have somebody call and leave me a message, and then I'd call my VM and delete the new message. It always fixed the notification when there weren't actually any messages. I don't know if the same would work with an android phone.
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It doesn't. The only way is to call sprint, activate an old "dumb" phone, have sprint leave you an urgent voicemail, delete it, reactivate your android and it's all good.
I used to say it isn't worth it, but the 30 minutes it took to get rid of it was worth it to me. That damn icon and occasional notification sound just eats at you over time.
So i flashed MIJJz BLEND ICS [FB21] about 2 days ago, ran into the known bug about messaging, where you can send but they will not receive, flashed the Steady kernel to get my recovery back and reverted back to my FB17 nandroid backup, everything restored fine and was working with the exception that i still could not receive any text messages, the strange thing is i can still receive picture messages just fine. so today i decided i'd had enough of using G-Voice and used Sfhubs EL29 Odin-OC restore to revert back to EL29 Rooted (as ive done to fix so many issues in the past) heres the kicker, i STILL CANT receive text messages while picture messages still work. Any input or suggestions here would be awesome. (sorry for long post but i wanted to be as detailed as possible)
Fixed - it was the "Receive text messages on this phone" setting in google voice, ive never ran into that problem before, thanks to kthejoker20 for saving my butt
Don't apologize for being detailed lol, it helps alot, but update your profile, PRL, reboot your phone. If not call Sprint and complain, they'll probably provision your phone (or whatever its called). Its possible its on the carrier end.
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So i flashed MIJJz BLEND ICS [FB21] about 2 days ago, ran into the known bug about messaging, where you can send but they will not receive, flashed the Steady kernel to get my recovery back and reverted back to my FB17 nandroid backup, everything restored fine and was working with the exception that i still could not receive any text messages, the strange thing is i can still receive picture messages just fine. so today i decided i'd had enough of using G-Voice and used Sfhubs EL29 Odin-OC restore to revert back to EL29 Rooted (as ive done to fix so many issues in the past) heres the kicker, i STILL CANT receive text messages while picture messages still work. Any input or suggestions here would be awesome. (sorry for long post but i wanted to be as detailed as possible)
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but you can send mms and sms? you can recieve mms but not sms? have you wiped data and cache? did you restore via tb? i havent ever seen such an issue that wasnt related to sprint doing work on my nearest towers but there may be better responses. I suggest clearing data/cache from mms app and try sending sms to yourself.
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Don't apologize for being detailed lol, it helps alot, but update your profile, PRL, reboot your phone. If not call Sprint and complain, they'll probably provision your phone (or whatever its called). Its possible its on the carrier end.
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that too! is probably the fix needed as well
thanks for the quick responses guys, i've tried what was suggested, @justlovejoy, thats whats blowing my mind, the fact that i can send mms and sms perfectly fine and receive mms just not sms (i even get the "test" messages sent to myself on g-voice) im starting to think it might be something on sprints end. but before i call and try dealing with them i wanted to ask the community which seems to know more on a bad day than sprint ever has
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Maybe i should read everything first too. Sorry.
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called sprint, according to the rep they were gonna "re-trigger" the phone (id imagine this is what phatmann meant when he said provision) but it doesnt appear to have had any effect, still not receiving these sms's.
Been through this a few times since flashing to ics. I know its aggravating.
Mine stopped after installing the ICS4ICS them and freezing the stock messaging app with titanium. I trieddefrosting but the app would hang.
Had to uninstall tbu, then reinstall the theme. Brought everything back and worked.
Not sure why tbu hangs but ivee a suspicion that having the stock and ics messaging apps together with the build being a leak has something to do with it.
I use GoSMS and it usually doesntt give issues.
Hope this helps in some way.
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called sprint, according to the rep they were gonna "re-trigger" the phone (id imagine this is what phatmann meant when he said provision) but it doesnt appear to have had any effect, still not receiving these sms's.
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have you tried sending from mobile sms? as in device stock messenger? or trying without google voice? maybe theres some interference going on between the two?
well the only two things I can think of are these. either its sprint towers or your phone has leftover stuff messing with it. try using calkulins format all then clean install the rom. also remember in titanium backup to only restore user apps not system.
Are you using google voice?
Install the GV application. If you recieve the texts with it installed, then you have "send texts to phone" off in google voice website.
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Are you using google voice?
Install the GV application. If you recieve the texts with it installed, then you have "send texts to phone" off in google voice website.
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are you refering to the "Receive text messages on this phone" option, because i think you just pulled my a$$ out of the fire
@kthejoker20: you are the f-ing man, that fixed it. god i feel like a noob again.
I am a noob to posting but not new to reading this forum nor rooting.
I have an EVO 4G and just flashed AOKP build 33 with GAPPS 3-17.
I have Google Voice installed and have used it with no problems for almost a year now.
Just yesterday when I flashed AOKP build 33 my phone quit receiving text messages. I still receive them on my Google Voice account on my phone and on the computer.
GV is set to have my text messages go through my text client and my text client is set to the default messaging app.
I have tried flashing to recovery nandroids of previous Roms and states of Roms and that did not solve my problem.
I didn't see anyone at the AOKP thread who has had the same problem.
What can I do? Please help.
*apologies for posting this if there is a better place for it to go but after making it through all of the results on my searches about this with no solution I am extremely frustrated and need a solution.
Have you tried uninstalling GV to see if that solves the problem? My phone did the same thing for a while with google voice and I never understood why, but uninstalling GV took care of my issues. You will probably get the text messages a few hours to a few days late, or at least that is what happened to me
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Have you tried uninstalling GV to see if that solves the problem? My phone did the same thing for a while with google voice and I never understood why, but uninstalling GV took care of my issues. You will probably get the text messages a few hours to a few days late, or at least that is what happened to me
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So do I need to do more than just uninstall and re-install the app? i.e. the whole thing with un-linking my number and voicemail and everything?
If you uninstall it, I def would suggest doing the full uninstall procedure,..the unlinking, etc.
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If you uninstall it, I def would suggest doing the full uninstall procedure,..the unlinking, etc.
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Giving it a shot now. Thanks.
I'm worried though, without GV I will have no option for text messages.
How's that? What did I miss? You don't have a stock messaging app, or you don't have a sprint phone #?
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no dice
I disabled my GV account and un-linked it from my number, restarted and still no incoming texts. Any other ideas?
Make sure somehow you have the latest radios and such maybe? Have someone text you again now that its all undone and see if the new message will go through. Like I said, even after disabling GV, it took 3 days for the lost texts to come through.
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Make sure somehow you have the latest radios and such maybe? Have someone text you again now that its all undone and see if the new message will go through. Like I said, even after disabling GV, it took 3 days for the lost texts to come through.
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I've had someone texting me throughout the process to no avail. I am working on updating the profile and the PRI/PRL but have to load a sense ROM. Is that the same as the radios? Haven't really dealt with radios before.
Any towers being worked on in your area? I've had no incoming texts for 4 weeks now, due to a tower upgrade (LTE). The only way I could get a text was to make a phone call (typically called my voicemail when I wanted to check for texts). Supposedly this is done as of today...
Worth it for the LTE though!
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Thanks guys. I ended up just flashing a MikG ROM and it corrected what ever was wrong. Then flashed my AOKP ROM and we are back up and running. Still have no idea what it was.
I'm having same issues, ive been switching back and forth between ROMS to see if i can find one that works. I removed Google voice from my phone, and deactivated it online to see if that fix it. but not working still.
I still only get texts when i make a phone call.
Mik G worked for me as well
Those who are having the problem, are you restoring a backup of GV with data?
Remember, especially with Google apps, there are a lot of updated features for ICS and backups from Gingerbread will not work efficiently. It is best to start from scratch with these apps, especially seeing that Google voice pull most of its data from the cloud... no real need to restore data with it.
I have only had my Sprint GNote4 since Friday morning and i love the phone. But, i started having a odd issue today. All of the sudden my phone will not send or receive sms text messages, it just says message failed to send. I am using the stock messaging app, however i also tried hangouts and got the same result. What is even more strange to me is how i get texting to work again. What seems to work is i attempt to make a phone call, it immediately fails, but then on the second attempt the call goes through. ...then my text messages all go through. I apologize if someone has posted this, but i didn't see anything about it when i searched.
Anyone see this issue too or am i just special?
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I have only had my Sprint GNote4 since Friday morning and i love the phone. But, i started having a odd issue today. All of the sudden my phone will not send or receive sms text messages, it just says message failed to send. I am using the stock messaging app, however i also tried hangouts and got the same result. What is even more strange to me is how i get texting to work again. What seems to work is i attempt to make a phone call, it immediately fails, but then on the second attempt the call goes through. ...then my text messages all go through. I apologize if someone has posted this, but i didn't see anything about it when i searched.
Anyone see this issue too or am i just special?
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PeteSeiler2010 said:
I have only had my Sprint GNote4 since Friday morning and i love the phone. But, i started having a odd issue today. All of the sudden my phone will not send or receive sms text messages, it just says message failed to send. I am using the stock messaging app, however i also tried hangouts and got the same result. What is even more strange to me is how i get texting to work again. What seems to work is i attempt to make a phone call, it immediately fails, but then on the second attempt the call goes through. ...then my text messages all go through. I apologize if someone has posted this, but i didn't see anything about it when i searched.
Anyone see this issue too or am i just special?
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Do you by chance have an airave and live in an area being upgraded? Had that issue where I live. If so, turn off the airave and see if it changes the issue. Sprint has a newer version they will swap out if this turns out to be the problem. Hope this helps.
If you mean the update in the system aettings, yes i did try that. Thanks for replying though.
No, i do not have an airwave, but i do believe i am in an area with Spark, i have the litttle swirling star icon next to my LTE icon. Thanks getting back to me.
Here is what it looks like. Sorry if i sound noobish, i just switched to Sprint.
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Here is what it looks like. Sorry if i sound noobish, i just switched to Sprint.
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Wipe cache and dalvik cache in recovery
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Thanks for the tip, i will try it the next time it happens. Im thinking of flashing a custom ROM to see if it is some sort of bloat crap causing it.
Using the phone here in india on a cdma carrier. outgoing sms works fine. Incoming sms dont! Tried to work around a lot. no avail. Ooh and on GSM sms works fine. but on cdma. nothing
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Thanks for the tip, i will try it the next time it happens. Im thinking of flashing a custom ROM to see if it is some sort of bloat crap causing it.
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I am still having the issue, and I also have found that my phone calls are not coming through all of the time. I am starting to suspect my SIM may be the cause. I am currently using my phone with LTE disabled to see how it goes.
Do you have adblock or another ad blocking app installed? If so remove the app and see if that fixes your issues.
No adblock apps installed. It happens on stock and custom roms too.
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Using the phone here in india on a cdma carrier. outgoing sms works fine. Incoming sms dont! Tried to work around a lot. no avail. Ooh and on GSM sms works fine. but on cdma. nothing
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Are you using Google Voice? I just identical problem. I realized that when I installed new rom I set voice to intercept sms. I fixed in settings and have been good to go since.
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Are you using Google Voice? I just identical problem. I realized that when I installed new rom I set voice to intercept sms. I fixed in settings and have been good to go since.
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Na man. Ended up selling it off. Going for a moto turbo
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