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Installed/uninstalled ChompSMS, now can't send texts... :-(

  • 09-10-2012 8:48pm
    #1
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, wonder if anyone has any tips for me with an odd little problem?

    I recently installed ChompSMS on my LG P-970 aka Optimus Black, and within a few hours got sick of the (very invasive!) ads, so I uninstalled it. Now I can't send texts at all (although I can receive them, and voice calls are fine).

    Cabbage seems to be unaffected, as you'd expect, but I need to text a mate in the UK and you can't do that with Meteor's webtexts. And he doesn't have a smartphone, so Viber/WhatsApp are no good either.

    I've checked all the relevant settings, have tried disabling 3G and using GSM only, rebooting, etc., etc. It has my head wrecked!

    I can't be 100% sure that ChompSMS is the culprit, but it's the only thing I changed in the last 24 hours, so I'm inclined to suspect it has something to do with that. Maybe not...

    Anyone come across anything like this before? How'd you fix it? I'd like to avoid a reset to factory settings but unless anyone has any other suggestions I guess I'll have to try that next... :(

    TIA


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  • #2
    Nyum Nyum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Nyum Nyum


    Maybe try installing a different texting program like Go SMS Pro or Handcent and make either of them the default texting program? No real reason why one of them shouldn't work.


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I had a somewhat similar problem the other night where I could send but couldn't receive texts on my Acer liquid mini. I tried a load of different SMS apps. My wife was trying to send me texts from her Optimus Black so I couldn't be 100% sure if it was her phone or mine (it was too late to text anyone else to get them to test). I swapped the SIMs between the phones and then I was able to send and receive from both. When I swapped them back both worked fine again.


  • #4
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Try the steps here: http://algorithmic-indian.blogspot.ie/2011/03/how-to-change-message-center-number-in.html

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  • #5
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    Thanks, all.

    I'd tried Go SMS Pro, but no luck, and I'd checked that the Meteor message centre number was correct. I then downloaded my SMS/MMS and data settings afresh from the Meteor website, and still zilch.

    So I've just done a complete factory reset, wiping everything bar media on the SD card, and ...bingo! Back in business.

    'Course I now have to re-install a load of settings and re-download my apps — maybe a bit more selectively this time... :o


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