new years texts

LegacyUser

Hey

Did anyone out there in phone land, have issues with texts both sending and the person at the other end recieving. I;m in the extremely bad books over this, but I was a good b/f and sent her messages. I can understand her upsetness and no matter what I can say will make it alright.

Just curious if anyone has issues with texting on NYE

seamus

Yes. The mobile networks traditionally have massive congestion around midnight. Many of my messages took a few goes to send, and many didn't deliver for a few hours, some even took until the next day. I also got a few messages a number of times.

Depending on your phone, the messages may have failed to send but your phone didn't tell you. Show her your sent messages and tell her to STFU and get over herself.

monkeyfudge

O2 were also having issues in general over the holiday period in receiving messages from other networks.

But it's common knowledge that all the networks get jammed on New Years Eve.

I don't get the whole ritual myself really.. I received dozens of them.. but certainly didn't reply to any or send any myself...

K_P

Meteor sent a text around the middle of December warning that they would be very congested Christmas Day and New Years Eve.

FFS it's pretty common knowledge that this happens. If your gf won't accept that she needs to cop herself on.

monkeyfudge

Yeah.. half the messages I got on New Years Eve were sent early and said something along the lines of "Getting the message in now before the networks shut down"

whiskeyman

sorry, but surely a good b/f would have at least tried to ring and wish the one you love a Happy New Year? Everyone, including the dog on the street, gets txts that night...
Maybe that's why you're really in the bad books?

Spud83

Ah she is what you call a crazy person.

What you should have done though is send on early News Years Day and when she replied you could have just said "jesus i sent that last night, networks must have been crazy". You see I'm a great person to have around after a crisis.

LegacyUser

I did, she wouldnt answer, I rang at 12:15 when I got through and was texting much earlier then that.

Dizzyblonde

alanmurphy83 wrote: »

Ah she is what you call a crazy person.

What you should have done though is send on early News Years Day and when she replied you could have just said "jesus i sent that last night, networks must have been crazy". You see I'm a great person to have around after a crisis.

Wouldn't necessarily work. I received some on New Year's Day but they showed what time they were originally sent at.
This year lots of people started texting at around 8pm on New Year's Eve and even that early it took a few tries to send a message.

chuci

seriously is she really getting odd?thats mad its an obvious problem around the festive period like although maybe you should have called her?my texts didnt deliver until the next day and i didnt receive any until new yrs day either. she is def what you would call a crazy person

Cathmandooo

Why didnt she ring you? I too got that meteor text, fair play to them. I tried sending one text at midnight to my mother...it failed so I didnt bother trying to send any others!! She shouldn't be annoyed, she's being silly.

manTime

typical women, lookin for an excuse to get pissed off, my advice dump the bitch and dont tell her, then when she aks say " I dumped you remember i sent you a text about it, ye not get it? musta been the networks so... bitch"

oh ye thats how manTime rolls

Davei141

What age is she? thats madness, i couldnt ring anyone on new years eve the thing was jammed.

Sarn

The networks were in pieces before and for a good while after midnight. Did she text you? A phonecall would have solved the problem. Either way it's only new years :rolleyes:.

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Wouldn't necessarily work. I received some on New Year's Day but they showed what time they were originally sent at.
This year lots of people started texting at around 8pm on New Year's Eve and even that early it took a few tries to send a message.

When I turned on my phone in the morning, unusually all the texts that arrived were time stamped as the time I turned on my phone. My brother sent one at 11.30 and I didn't get it until after 1 am (stamped as being sent at that time, I spoke to him before it arrived).

kermitdfrog

FFS it's pretty common knowledge that this happens. If your gf won't accept that she needs to cop herself on.

+1.

ian_m

K_P wrote: »

Meteor sent a text around the middle of December warning that they would be very congested Christmas Day and New Years Eve.

I didn't get that and I'm with Meteor.

Doctor DooM

An extremely ill thought out response by the gf.

Is she young enough, op?

As someone with experience with mobile devices professionally, I will give you this advice for future reference OP:

If something is urgent and needs to be communicated, NEVER assume the message has been recieved by the other party unless you hear them confirm it. This goes for texts, emails, social networking sites, etc. Technology is not infallible and should not be considered such.

I heard one story in work of a customer who believed a friend of theirs was in the process of commiting suicide. Instead of ringing them to check if they were ok, they simply sent multiple texts asking the friend to reply. Of course, the network was down and none of them were recieved. The customer never once thought to actually ring the friend (who, from what I hear, had calmed down.)

Text messages etc are wonderful examples of technology but they should never be considered as important as your gf seems to. Their just not built that way.

jdivision

I got some 14 hours after they were sent and didn't get others at all (I know cos people said oh you never replied and I had to point out I never got it in the first place)

Wibbs

It sounds like she's yanking your chain looking for a response from you. Give her a response. Ring her and tell her that you sent the messages and obviously the networks had an issue which is common on that day. If she doesn't want to accept and accept your word on that ask her where she wants to take the relationship and see her take on that. Be firm but polite. If she was just being emotionally daft on the day, then maybe she's calmed down. If she's daft all the time, then it's a red flag. Either way you need to stand your ground if you have genuinely done bugger all to warrant such a strop.

Jeapy

The meteor text I got said that there wouldnt be any delivery reports from Xpm New Years Eve til 9am New Years Day. I think she's a little OTT btw.

Overheal

yep there was a piece on the news today (USA) about it. Countless numbers of texts got lost because everyone overloaded the call servers on USA based networks (Cingular, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc) - there literally wasn't enough disk space left to store all the outgoing texts or something.

Tell your girlfriend to google a couple news articles...

EDIT:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=36850&cat_id=1

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35474/145/

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFabIMV4cpSagEfwgIJ4_Z4K4pwAD8TUS8I00

to name a few.

Capt'n Midnight

I sent someone a message at 11pm to show how bad the network was. It was received at 2:30

I got another message 8 times.

SDooM wrote:

If something is urgent and needs to be communicated, NEVER assume the message has been recieved by the other party unless you hear them confirm it. This goes for texts, emails, social networking sites, etc. Technology is not infallible and should not be considered such.

At work we get people trying to sell us lots of fancy systems, I point out to them that if we can't get the first engineer on the phone we just phone the next one until we get someone because its the only way we can be 100% sure the site visit will go ahead on time and it's the fastest way too.

_Whimsical_

None of my texts were delivered on New Years Eve at all. I resent them the next day. I'm with O2.
Any texts I recieved arrived altogether (around 10 of them) at around 1pm on New Years days... most were sent around 11 or 12ish the night before!
That happens every year to me and I had presumed to everyone else too.:rolleyes:

Ballerina

Am I reading this wrong or is your gf angry you didnt send a text to her at midnight on new years eve....

Thats extremely sad in my opinion

Webmonkey

Ask her to go into the details of the Message and check the send date, not the receive and she will see when it was sent. As far as I know, this is the time the message reaches the network? - In my phone anyways it gives this option.

Oh yeah tell her to get over herself.

JBoyle4eva

Seriously, if any relationship is to be centred around one text at one moment in time.....surely isn't worth all the hassle is it?

Any person alive in the last 5 years in posession of a mobile surely knows what happens on NYE every year with regards to texts.

If she wants to make a big brua-ha-ha about it, then ask her why she won't believe ya.

Show her the evidence of ou sending it, she can't deny it then.

Maple

she's being seriously immature. you've done nothing wrong.

lolli

i'm on the vodafone network and most of my messages failed. Had to wait til late new years day to resend them. Got loads of failed reports.

She'll get over it. Bit immature though. EVERYONE knows its hard to text on new years eve

Overheal

Go watch the movie 'Love Stinks' and ask yourself 'is this my girlfriend?'

pickarooney

You never sent her a text and are looking for confirmation that your excuse will fly. Admit it. Otherwise you'd have told her where to get off by now.

LegacyUser

pickarooney wrote: »

You never sent her a text and are looking for confirmation that your excuse will fly. Admit it. Otherwise you'd have told her where to get off by now.

I wish that was the case dude, but its not, I did make the effort. Unfortunatley when you love someone, you dont usually tell them to get the boat without talking to them first. Otherwise whats the point in a relationship.

Jack B. Badd

NYEtexter wrote: »

Otherwise whats the point in a relationship.

What's the point in a relationship with someone so immature that them not receiving a text from you is a major problem for both of you? This is such a non-issue, ffs :rolleyes:

K_P

NYEtexter wrote: »

Unfortunatley when you love someone, you dont usually tell them to get the boat without talking to them first. Otherwise whats the point in a relationship.

Very true. In which case, talk to her. Tell her you were texting her that night, rang her and that there's quite a bit of a empirical and anecdotal evidence out there to back up the reason why she didn't receive texts from you.

Now here's the important bit, once you've done all that, you need to find out why her not receiving a text from you is becoming such a major problem. Are there trust issues? Is she feeling neglected? Is she being a drama queen for no reason whatsoever? Does she have good reason to mistrust you? Or, as others here have suggested, is she a looper?

Toots

manTime wrote: »

typical women, lookin for an excuse to get pissed off, my advice dump the bitch and dont tell her, then when she aks say " I dumped you remember i sent you a text about it, ye not get it? musta been the networks so... bitch"

oh ye thats how manTime rolls

ooooohhhhh!!! Burn!!:D

Networks are always really blocked on NYE, I usually send out a blanket txt at around 10pm to all my family and friends wishing them all the best for the coming year cos I couldn't be bothered trying to get thru at midnight. OP, tell your GF to get over it, getting thru at 12:15 on the phone is fine for wishing happy new year! Why exactly is she so pisssed off?

Asok

Your girlfriend needs to grow up and also do something about being so insecure that she is raising an issue over a bloody text. As people have said show her the message in your sent items if its still there or go to your mobile providers site as it would probably show up in your activity on your bill there (This works with 02 for pre and post pay)

embee

I'm on Vodafone and I set mine up to send at either 5pm or 11.30 pm on New Years Eve through Webtext (decided to send them in two batches just to beon the safe side). They all delivered on time. I've found over the years that they seem to deliver on time through Webtext, but not from my phone.... wtf?

Seriously though OP, why in the hell didn't she ring you to wish you a Happy New Year? She needs to cop herself on, to be perfectly honest. Sounds like she has huge insecurity if she's sent you to the doghouse over a text she never got but it never even occured to her to ring you?!

LegacyUser

Not too worry lads, we broke up...........

embee

NYEtexter wrote: »

Not too worry lads, we broke up...........

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. Was it mutual?

Doctor DooM

Sorry to hear that op.

I would like to bring this youtube video to your attention, its Bill Bailey singing about your situation, Might lighten things up for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiwl2V_lric

Solarball10

NYETexter wrote: »

Hey

Did anyone out there in phone land, have issues with texts both sending and the person at the other end recieving. I;m in the extremely bad books over this, but I was a good b/f and sent her messages. I can understand her upsetness and no matter what I can say will make it alright.

Just curious if anyone has issues with texting on NYE

One word: psychoooooooo :eek:

Beruthiel

NYEtexter wrote: »

Not too worry lads, we broke up...........

If you're the chap who dropped me a few PM's last week, then she was just using this texting business as an excuse for whatever she thought was wrong with your relationship.
Sorry to hear ye broke up, but considering the way she was treating you, it's probably for the best, you're better off without her.
Take care.
A

seamus

Beruthiel wrote: »

then she was just using this texting business as an excuse for whatever she thought was wrong with your relationship.

Absolutely. Probably one of the flimsiest excuses I've ever heard for ending a relationship.
In future however, you now get to refer to her as "the crazy bitch". Believe me when I say you didn't do anything wrong to cause end of the relationship. She was looking for an excuse.

The pain will go away in time and eventually she'll just be another email address in your account. Go forth and sow your wild oats

Overheal

also factor in she was probably drinking a lot - which only exaggerates her wanting a text from you. Doesn't take away from her being a little off the rails but I just thought of this now for some reason :rolleyes: