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UPDATE: I've found a fix for this issue - AWESOME!
Just go to the Android Market and install the SMS Time Fix app by Matt Precious.
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-mattprecious-smsfix-pAFq.aspx
It works perfectly, and updates the time stamp on all messages to relfect PHONE time and not network time. HINT: Make sure the "Last Resort" option is checked in the settings and offset is set to zero. This little app now makes the Evo Messages app usable. Finally...
Hope this is helpful info
So, I've been reading and experiencing several issues with SMS timestamps on the Evo 4G.
It seems there are three distinct issues with SMS timestamps on the the Evo and I believe they all have the same root cause.
Issue 1: When roaming texts are received with the wrong time stamp, offset by several hours (typically 4 or 5 hours off). This causes them to not be threaded in the conversation correctly. Very annoying.
Issue 2: When receiving SMS messages on any network (Sprint or Roaming), the time stamp is off by an hour. The result is the same as Issue 1, but a less extreme example.
Issue 3: When texting back and forth in quick succession, SMS messages are not logged in the order in which they are received, and received text messages ALWAYS appear before sent text messages if they are sent during the same minute, regardless of which one was actually sent first. This is also very annoying.
I believe the root cause is that the native Sense UI messaging app is using the timestamp of the tower of each SMS rather than using the time stored on the phone. To prove this, if you use Handcent and set it to use "phone time" and ignore the tower time, it works perfectly. The thing is that I don't want to use Handcent and I want to use the native app. Is there a setting that can be tweaked to fix this? Has anyone talked to HTC or Sprint about the issue and is a fix in the works?
For such a major problem, I am surprised more people haven't come forward. It's a pretty significant bug...
Thanks,
Matt_TX.
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I agree and its getting really annoying since it causes me to miss texts.
NM, too easy
Has anyone talked to Sprint or HTC about it? I am sure there HAS to be a fix in the works. The good news is that the native Froyo messaging app does not do this (as far as I can tell). I used a Nexus One on T-mobile and it doesn't occur. It appears to be using the phone's timestamp, as it should...
As long as HTC don't apply their "logic" (or lack thereof) over Froyo, it should be fixed soon.
I also can't believe that Sense UI stops the user from having more than one Exchange account. Android 2.1 (Eclair) does this by default. Why on earth would they remove it?
Anyway, back on topic... Please please post with your thoughts and discoveries around the SMS timestamp issue.
Thanks!
How is this related to development?
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NM, too easy
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I'm not sure what you mean by "NM, too easy". Can you explain or provide any insight. Please help if you can. For those of us with this issue, it's REALLY annoying. I apologize if the question is dumb and there is an easy fix.
I realize that some of you may not feel that it is related to development, but I disagree. For those geniuses out there that make ROM's, maybe there is some way to fix this with a setting or minor change in the Sense UI messaging app...
Additionally, there is no need to berate someone that's genuinely asking for help. It's obvious that this forum gets the most traffic, and it's obvious that the smartest "Evo User" minds are located here. I don't think there is any harm in reaching out for help, isn't that the purpose behind these forums
The samething was happening to me last night.
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nebenezer said:
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Agreed. If its not happening with Handcent nor the AOSP apk, then its a direct HTC issue.
General Discussion. Also, probably not really that urgent.
./agree on all poins with OP.
I posted in Q&A about this same issues, with no replies 8(.
Anyway, I thought it was related to the modified prl that I installed. However it would do it even when I was on the stock prl.
Long story short, I called sprint and said I was having the issue. They said they were going to refresh something on their side, to wait 20 mins then power cycle the phone.
Did that and to my surprise it worked! Then yesterday I re-flashed a custom rom and the sms timestaps went all wonky. /sigh
suck it up and use handcent or chomp, they are overall better apps, just not as nice of a UI.
this has been a problem for quite some time. I've looked everywhere for a solution. This was a problem on winmo phones as well.
I switched to handcent and never looked back. Once you get it all customized, it's awesome.
davebu said:
suck it up and use handcent or chomp, they are overall better apps, just not as nice of a UI.
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look at this guy.
handcent didn't work on my froyo rom, not sure about chomp, didn't try it.
at work i always have this problem, texts are recieved 5 hours into the future, whereas the ones i send are the correct time. occasionally ones they send are the correct time so i have to scroll up and down and it is very annoying.
not a fan of handcents pop up notifications, i guess i could turn em off.
guess i'll just 'suck it up'
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this has been a problem for quite some time. I've looked everywhere for a solution. This was a problem on winmo phones as well.
I switched to handcent and never looked back. Once you get it all customized, it's awesome.
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yup, had the same problem on my old HTC Diamond with Sense/TF3d on it.
Updated First Post...
I upgraded to 2.2 OTA yesterday. Everything has worked great except that out of all issues, the notification sound for my text message became a very low key pop sound. I attempted to change it various times and tried resetting my phone a couple of times to see if that changed anything and nothing.
The funny part is I can still change the sound notifications for my twitter, so it is specifically the text messaging that is causing a problem. I have never rooted and didn't flash that early froyo, just the legit one yesterday.
Can anyone help me?
Can someone please help! this is driving crazy
Post in the correct forum and someone might help you questions go in the Q&A forum
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Post in the correct forum and someone might help you questions go in the Q&A forum
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Sorry about that, I don't know how to move threads, made a new one over there, if these can be closed somehow let me know
just report or flag ur own thread
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Long time User, First Time Poster. Lol. And Because Of My Lurking and no Posting, I Couldnt ask this Question In The Thread. Definitely More Incentive To Start getting Involved In These Forums. Any ways:
I'm experiencing an Issue with Randomly deleted Text messages With this Rom. Especially When I've Received Multiple Messages, That Have remained Unread. Lets Say for Example I've Received a 2 part text. 2 Messages Are there, But when i go to read, the first half is missing. Also, I Use An App, "SMS Popup", So It Could Be the Combination of the app and the rom, I guess. But the app has never malfunctioned in this way before across previous ROMS I've Used. After I Experienced Numerous Deleted Texts yesterday, I've uninstalled The app to Test This theory. I Was Unable to Find any other postings in the Thread mentioning any similar Issues, So I Figured it should be brought to attention, And hopefully fixed. Thank you for your Time, And I'll report back My Own Findings Tomorrow When I've Gone through the Day without SMS Pop Up.
Ricanism said:
Long time User, First Time Poster. Lol. And Because Of My Lurking and no Posting, I Couldnt ask this Question In The Thread. Definitely More Incentive To Start getting Involved In These Forums. Any ways:
I'm experiencing an Issue with Randomly deleted Text messages With this Rom. Especially When I've Received Multiple Messages, That Have remained Unread. Lets Say for Example I've Received a 2 part text. 2 Messages Are there, But when i go to read, the first half is missing. Also, I Use An App, "SMS Popup", So It Could Be the Combination of the app and the rom, I guess. But the app has never malfunctioned in this way before across previous ROMS I've Used. After I Experienced Numerous Deleted Texts yesterday, I've uninstalled The app to Test This theory. I Was Unable to Find any other postings in the Thread mentioning any similar Issues, So I Figured it should be brought to attention, And hopefully fixed. Thank you for your Time, And I'll report back My Own Findings Tomorrow When I've Gone through the Day without SMS Pop Up.
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I just posted the same II've experience this problem with that rom as well as Kingdom REVOLUTION and Mik Rom..basiaclly roms with sense 3.0 implementations. Ive tried several diff ways to get rid of the problem...none have worked.
Methods I tried:
Restoring all apps from market (dont use titanium backup)
Use only the stock mms app
a2sd lowmem-default
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
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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,
I'm experiencing a strange kind of technical problem with the xda forum: I'm not regularly receiving the email alerts for all the threads I'm subscribed to (I'm actually subscribed to 164 different threads). This happens since my registration to the forum in 2014.
I strangely receive only some notifications and quite rarely, and they are about only some of the threads I'm subscribed to, this despite the fact that most of these 164 threads subscriptions are set to "Daily" notifications on my settings.
Those notifications seems to be sent to me randomly (I'm suscribed to those threads in the same way that I'm subscribed to the other ones, and I never actively posted on most of those threads).
I've double checked the settings on my user panel, and my e-mail spam filter is totally ok.
Is there by chance a maximum number of email alerts from subscribed threads that an user can receive?
Do you guys have an idea about why this could happen?
Do you think that it would be possible to contact someone of the forum staff in order to ask for technical help?
Thank you in advance!
W.
I've made a change to your account. See if you get any notification emails now?
Thank you for your reply, the_scotsman. Unfortunately nothing changed and auctually I didn't even receice a notification for your answer to this post as well (I've just discovered it by visiting the post manually).
I did a quick search and it appears that other users did experience the same problemin the past/are experiencing it.
Do you have an idea about how we could try to fix this problem? It would be very helpful for me.
Thank you very much again,
W.
wokawoka said:
Thank you for your reply, the_scotsman. Unfortunately nothing changed and auctually I didn't even receice a notification for your answer to this post as well (I've just discovered it by visiting the post manually).
I did a quick search and it appears that other users did experience the same problemin the past/are experiencing it.
Do you have an idea about how we could try to fix this problem? It would be very helpful for me.
Thank you very much again,
W.
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Hmmm....that's strange.
I wonder if @MikeChannon has any ideas as to what the problem might be?
I can't see anything wrong with your user account settings. Let's see if he has any suggestions.
This time I just did regularly receive the email notifications about both your reply and the quote, but the system for example completely missed your first reply on the 24th of August, and, as an example, the same did happen with my followed threads that I'm subscribed to (with daily notifications): during the last week I did receive only 2 email notifications instead of 11. These 2 notifications are about threads that the system seems to always notify me about, while I never received any email notification about the other 9 threads that the system skipped this week.
That's indeed very strange. I'm sure that my e-mail box is totally fine, I'm actively participating to many other forums without problems. My spam folder looks also clean.
Any help would be really very appreciated. Thanks again!
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Hmmm....that's strange.
I wonder if @MikeChannon has any ideas as to what the problem might be?
I can't see anything wrong with your user account settings. Let's see if he has any suggestions.
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wokawoka said:
This time I just did regularly receive the email notifications about both your reply and the quote, but the system for example completely missed your first reply on the 24th of August, and, as an example, the same did happen with my followed threads that I'm subscribed to (with daily notifications): during the last week I did receive only 2 email notifications instead of 11. These 2 notifications are about threads that the system seems to always notify me about, while I never received any email notification about the other 9 threads that the system skipped this week.
That's indeed very strange. I'm sure that my e-mail box is totally fine, I'm actively participating to many other forums without problems. My spam folder looks also clean.
Any help would be really very appreciated. Thanks again!
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Our notifications are sent out via a gmail account and a few days ago we noticed google was rate limiting us. In theory that should only mean a delay but it seems emails don't actually get through at all in some cases. It MAY be related to this.
Please report back if this continues.
Mike
Thank you for your reply Mike.
The thing is that I'm experiencing this problem since the beginning, right after my registration to the forum back in 2014.
At the moment I'm subscribed with daily notification to 169 threads but I'm receiving the email notification for only a few of them (and it has always happened like that). When I connect to my user control panel I can clearly go throught my subscribed threads and spot many threads that have been recently updated without any notification on my email box (actually the main part of them).
I'm pretty sure that my email account is fine but I can't really imagine what could be the problem.
I'm open to any kind suggestion. Being able to fix this problem would really help me.
Thanks again.
W.
I'm sorry to come back writing and (bothering you guys) here, but it looks like that I really can't resolve this issue myself.
Recently I even switched the email account linked to my xda profile to another address hosted by another provider (Hotmail) but nothing has changed: I still don't receive the large part of the email alerts from the threads I'm following.
Since having switched to another e-mail address should have eliminated the possibility of blocks or filters on my (e-mail side) frankly I really don't know what to do now.
Being able to receive updates from the threads I'm following would be incredibly helpful and would surely help me to engage more with the community.
I know that, since this is a free forum (but I would even pay a subscription if it could help with this issue!), I can't demand a prompt resolution to this technical issue. But I'm wondering which could be the reason behind this problem:
could it be possible that my account is still in a kind of "limited" mode?
could it be possible that there's a limit to the number of e-mail alerts that a user can receive (even if, as from my case, this limit would be extremely low, and it also looks like I'm not receiving the alerts with consistency)?
Your account definitely isn't restricted in any way, it looks completely normal. I've triple checked, and checked again.
This might be something that the server admin @bitpushr can perhaps provide some input, as I'm out of ideas. We've checked everything we can from our side.
Thanks again for your assistence @the_scotsman, I trust you and I know that you have already tried everything you could; I'm really grateful for it.
I also know that it could seem a strange problem and I'm sorry for it; at this point I would eventually be even willing to move my account to any other email address for you guys to check.
I'm thinking about other alternative solutions. What if i open a new account, would it be eventually possible to copy all my thread subscriptions (176 subscribed threads) on it?
Thank you very much again
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jank77 said:
correct solution
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Hello, what do you mean with "correct solution"?
My idea was to open a new account and to "migrate" or copy my thread subscriptions to it, but actually no forum moderator or admin did reply to my message to let me know if that was possible....
At the moment unfortunately my issue is still unresolved
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Hello, what do you mean with "correct solution"?
My idea was to open a new account and to "migrate" or copy my thread subscriptions to it, but actually no forum moderator or admin did reply to my message to let me know if that was possible....
At the moment unfortunately my issue is still unresolved
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Ignore that post, it's just spam.
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Ignore that post, it's just spam.
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Alright, thanks.
Hopefully someone will come out with a solution.
Hello there, sorry if I hijack this thread but I got the same problem. In general, it's the opposite problem (spam), but in this case, I don't receive emails from my subscription, despite having "checked" all threads and chose "instant email notification" in me profile settings.
Sorry If I missed a setting.
It worked today. I've got one for a quote and one for an answer to a thread I subscribed.
I don't know if you changed something.
Well I spoke too soon. Again I did not receive an instant email in a thread I subscribed.
Nojevah said:
Well I spoke too soon. Again I did not receive an instant email in a thread I subscribed.
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I've never found the email notifications to be reliable, Tapatalk is much faster, and reliable.
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Too bad, I like email notifications. I think Tapatalk is for mobile users and I browse XDA only from my PC.