Phone sending messed up texts

Penny Tration

Hoping one of you can help with this.

I'm using an Alcatel OT Idol Mini, but had the same issue on my last phone (alcatel one touch 901).

When I send a text, half of it sends, but the second half is replaced with half of a text i sent the same recipient weeks before! So they get a text that makes no sense, but my phone says it sent what I actually typed.

Anyway of fixing this? Deleting my messages doesn't help.

MarkR

Have you any messaging app that you added to the phone? Never heard of this before, but you've had it on two phones. Either software or user!

Penny Tration

I have viber and Facebook messenger, neither of which I use. Had neither on the previous phone.

I thought it was a network issue on my old phone (Meteor) but I'm with Three now and it's still happening :mad:

ajjmk

This used to happen me quite a lot with my old phone. Thought it would stop when I bought a new phone - and it did, for a while. It still happens now and again though. It's really weird, and causes a lot of confusion for the recipients of my messed up texts!!

You're the first person other than myself that I've heard of this happening to. The staff at the O2 shop looked at me like I had two heads when I tried to explain the problem!

I used to have a Sony Xperia U, and I now have a Sony Xperia SP (new sim in this phone, same number). Both have/had Viber installed, but I never use it.

Penny Tration

ajjmk wrote: »

This used to happen me quite a lot with my old phone. Thought it would stop when I bought a new phone - and it did, for a while. It still happens now and again though. It's really weird, and causes a lot of confusion for the recipients of my messed up texts!!

You're the first person other than myself that I've heard of this happening to. The staff at the O2 shop looked at me like I had two heads when I tried to explain the problem!

I used to have a Sony Xperia U, and I now have a Sony Xperia SP (new sim in this phone, same number). Both have/had Viber installed, but I never use it.

Yeah, I asked a guy in the Meteor shop about it on my last phone and he hadn't heard of it. Asked my bf about my Three phone (he worked for them) and he had never heard of it either.

It's just a bit frustrating because I have to send a lot of texts in my line of work, and my boss keeps ggetting bollocksed up texts

Fresh Pots

Patrick Nulty has a similar problem with his phone it seems.






*Advice:Have you got the sim replaced to rule that out?

Penny Tration

TheTechGuy wrote: »

Patrick Nulty has a similar problem with his phone it seems.






*Advice:Have you got the sim replaced to rule that out?

I've had three sims, a phone and a network replacement :pac:

pickarooney

When you say half of it sends, does it only happen with messages over 160 characters?

Penny Tration

pickarooney wrote: »

When you say half of it sends, does it only happen with messages over 160 characters?

Yeah, once it goes past the 160 characters, the second half is replaced with half of an old, previously sent text. I keep general texts short, but I have to send fairly long texts to my boss regularly (no way around that), so it's a bit awkward for work

irishpancake

green_screen wrote: »

I have viber and Facebook messenger, neither of which I use. Had neither on the previous phone.

I thought it was a network issue on my old phone (Meteor) but I'm with Three now and it's still happening :mad:

So, two networks and two phones, and it stills happens??

Common denominator is user. Or Alcatel!!!

Have you tried Cabbage?? (Not that cabbage, this cabbage )

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbage

Provides quick and easy use of your free web text(SMS) from Irish mobile providers Meteor,Vodafone,o2, 3, eMobile and Tesco mobile.

O2 UK and Telenor Serbia are also supported.

Might help until full solution is found.

Penny Tration

irishpancake wrote: »

So, two networks and two phones, and it stills happens??

Common denominator is user. Or Alcatel!!!

Have you tried Cabbage?? (Not that cabbage, this cabbage )

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbage




Might help until full solution is found.

It's probably Alcatel, damn cheap phones :pac:

Haven't actually used Cabbage, but that may be helpful for work texts. Thank you

Vinz Mesrine

I had the same issue with a galaxy s3. Both sending and receiving to and from an IPhone. Nobody could diagnose it, I got a new phone a and it stopped.

jimgoose

This kind of thing is rare but not unheard-of. Setting the phone to sync the time from the network helps somewhat, but I think it's weirdness inherent in SMS, and the fact that it handles messages longer than 160c due to some hideous software kludge.