Blank message from Anonymous sender after MMS - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

Every time I receive a picture in an MMS I get another message from "Anonymous" no subject. I open it and it say "message not found" I receive the message multiple times until I delete the original message. This happens in the stock messaging app and in Chomp. Uninstalled Chomp and it still happens on stock.
Rooted running UnNamed v1.0.1

Bump for some help. This is really annoying
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Does this happen when you try to send a message to certain people, or just one person in particular? I wonder if maybe it's a read receipt notifying you that it was delivered? I'm on a custom ROM so I can't check. Try going into messaging, hit menu, then select settings.
Otherwise, maybe it's a carrier issue.

No Trojan this happens when I receive picture messages. From anybody on multiple carriers. May be an at&t issue. I think this happened on my Infuse too but don't remember if I ever resolved it
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saladbowl831 said:
No Trojan this happens when I receive picture messages. From anybody on multiple carriers. May be an at&t issue. I think this happened on my Infuse too but don't remember if I ever resolved it
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It happened to me on my Atrix. I found if I ignored it and didn't open it, it actually deleted itself. As far as I can tell, it's related to read receipts. Unnamed Rom doesn't offer the ability to request them and I don't think Stock did either but I also don't use a 3rd party messaging Application. Try turning off Read/Delivery Receipts on your device and see what happens.
SoCaliTrojan said:
Does this happen when you try to send a message to certain people, or just one person in particular? I wonder if maybe it's a read receipt notifying you that it was delivered? I'm on a custom ROM so I can't check. Try going into messaging, hit menu, then select settings.
Otherwise, maybe it's a carrier issue.
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From what I have been able to tell, it is a Carrier Issue AND read receipt issue.

Anyone found a fix for it yet?

Happened to me today, we both use GoSMS but I think she has enabled delivery receipt.

did you happened to fix it?

I love how people are complaining that this was brought up again in another thread, which in fact led it to being locked even though there is no answer on this board. It is really annoying getting those messages. I have searched "blank anonymous", "blank message", and just "anonymous". Only two threads come up that are related to this issue. This one, and the one that was just locked. So if anyone truly has an answer to this issue and doesn't worry about trying to look cool by insulting users, please provide the answer, or at least point us in the right direction.
Thanks

I found a way that worked for my phone. I'm using ChompSMS and I would always get those and they would keep popping up.
All I had to do was open Chomp settings > SMS & MMS Network > MMS Network Settings > set "auto retrieve" to UNCHECKED.
I cant confirm that this will work (especially if you dont use Chomp as default), but it did work well for me. Good Luck

speedking261 said:
I found a way that worked for my phone. I'm using ChompSMS and I would always get those and they would keep popping up.
All I had to do was open Chomp settings > SMS & MMS Network > MMS Network Settings > set "auto retrieve" to UNCHECKED.
I cant confirm that this will work (especially if you dont use Chomp as default), but it did work well for me. Good Luck
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Thanks. I also use chomp. I will give that a try.

did it worked?

PuffinNugz said:
Thanks. I also use chomp. I will give that a try.
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I've tried that. It doesn't do anything. Once I download the mms I'll get the anonymous message.

I've had this issue when I was on my Captivate. I tried flashed a few different ROMs and even went back to stock and the issue was still there. It was one of the reasons why I upgraded to the GS2 before my contract expired. However, the issue appeared on the new phone. The real problem was that my SIM card was messed up. Once they replaced my SIM card, everything was working fine again.

anyone found a fix?

pham818 said:
anyone found a fix?
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Really necroing a thread from January?
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Nick281051 said:
Really necroing a thread from January?
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so what? you want me to make another thread exactly like this and get flamed for not searching?

pham818 said:
so what? you want me to make another thread exactly like this and get flamed for not searching?
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If there was no solution you won't get flanked but since you necrod a thread you will get flamed
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122ninjas said:
If there was no solution you won't get flanked but since you necrod a thread you will get flamed
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nah, already done that and got flamed awhile back.

pham818 said:
nah, already done that and got flamed awhile back.
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Well obviously the solution is out there if you got flamed
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[Q] MMS Error - T-Mobile's fault?

Hey, so, I haven't really cared much about this, but it's gotten annoying lately.
Sometimes, when I send/receive a picture message, it doesn't send/receive.
All I get is a text from T-Mobile. (I think?)
It's;
Sender: 202
Message: Your MMS message could not be delivered. Invalid Prepaid account.
First, no, I am not on a prepaid account.
Second, I did search around, not much I could find.
Third, I tried sending a picture message to myself and whatnot.
Any ideas? Thanks.
theexel said:
Hey, so, I haven't really cared much about this, but it's gotten annoying lately.
Sometimes, when I send/receive a picture message, it doesn't send/receive.
All I get is an email from T-Mobile. (I think?)
It's;
Sender: 202
Message: Your MMS message could not be delivered. Invalid Prepaid account.
First, no, I am not on a prepaid account.
Second, I did search around, not much I could find.
Third, I tried sending a picture message to myself and whatnot.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Well, call customer service, we have troubleshooting steps for that. Just let them know the message you received whem you try to send
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Marvlet said:
Well, call customer service, we have troubleshooting steps for that. Just let them know the message you received whem you try to send
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Ya, that sounds like a T-Mobile thing. Have you tried reflashing your current rom? Or going back to stock?
Marvlet said:
Well, call customer service, we have troubleshooting steps for that. Just let them know the message you received whem you try to send
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I did a live chat with them, they made me remove my sim card and give them some info, but it didn't fix anything. I'll try calling tomorrow maybe.
ZachLL88 said:
Ya, that sounds like a T-Mobile thing. Have you tried reflashing your current rom? Or going back to stock?
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I've flashed a lot of ROMS and been on stock, same error. No idea what's wrong.
By the way, enjoy your free 'thanks,' I missed the multiquote button by a long shot, ahah.
Does it happen with every mms you send or specific number?
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Marvlet said:
Does it happen with every mms you send or specific number?
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It happens with just a few MMS I send/receive, not always. And no, it's not always the same, specific number. Although, I do text a certain number more often than most, still. I considered being their phone, but I doubt it because it happens on other numbers/texts.
Go into your contact you know you cannot send to and edit the number to +11234567890.
Go back to your mms and delete the current thread of that contact if any and the try to resend the picture.
A lot of the time this will fix the sms/mms but I have never heard of the text being sent back from tmobile.
theexel said:
Hey, so, I haven't really cared much about this, but it's gotten annoying lately.
Sometimes, when I send/receive a picture message, it doesn't send/receive.
All I get is a text from T-Mobile. (I think?)
It's;
Sender: 202
Message: Your MMS message could not be delivered. Invalid Prepaid account.
First, no, I am not on a prepaid account.
Second, I did search around, not much I could find.
Third, I tried sending a picture message to myself and whatnot.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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yeah like everyone said either reflash your rom or call tmobile

[Q] Anyone have issues with their Visual Voice Mail?

I got this text message upon someone leaving a voice message earlier today.
//ANDROID:xxxxxxxxxx has sent you a Sprint Voice Message. Call 408-970-0000 to listen. MMSN,15f50fe30,2986,V69EhxxlPpO//CM
Anyone else having this issue, and if so, what resolved it, if anything?
I also can't seem to get into my notification options when I call into my voice mail either. Not sure if that's common or not though.
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Someone left me a message this morning, it worked perfect. I would force stop it, clear data from the app, update your data profile then reboot and see if it works.
I gave it a shot, but it didn't seem to work. When I call the number texted to me, it just asks if I'm on a voice SMS enabled phone, but doesn't give me any messages.
I tried the suggestion on the help page through the VVM app, to compose a message longer than 15 sec and send it to [email protected]. Haven't had an occasion yet to test it again, but once I do, I'll update this with another reply.
Strange though. Through many different phone activations over the years, this is the only time this happened. Really hope I don't need to do a hard reset. If I do, I hope it works. Not like I can nandroid or anything. lol
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Still a no go... Can't figure it out. ; ;
Gonna call Sprint and see what their take is on it. Will report back.
i am actually having the same EXACT problem!! i have tried for force stop and clearing everything... still getting the same message!! and the VM never shows up in the VVM app!! Thanks for any help!!
I guess that's the only other thing I can think of is a hard reset. If that doesn't work I'm guessing it's something on Sprint's side would have to call in for tech support. I know when you boot up for the first time VM tries to provision itself and will say Voicemail provisioned successfully once data services are active.
Well... Just got off the phone with support. I had a very determined girl trying to help me out. Went through a whole bunch of stuff, but nothing helped so far.
Her and I both googled it, and found 2 things:
1. People switching to a phone that doesn't have VVM capability receive these messages.
2. They are command messages to tell VVM to download each new message when they come in.
Can't figure out why the messages are skipping the VVM app and going straight to SMS though.
I think I'm gonna try a hard reset later and see if that does it. Hope it does, because I spent some time getting everything the way I wanted it. lol
Anyone think of a good backup app that'll help cut down on the restoring my stuff time? ^^;
ADDITION: The version of my VVM is T.5.1.0.62 Is this the one everyone else has also? Asking just to cover as many bases as possible.
Had the the same problem called sprint after about 45 min of trying different things i had to hard reset and they reprovisioned and now it works perfect.
ira9700 said:
Had the the same problem called sprint after about 45 min of trying different things i had to hard reset and they reprovisioned and now it works perfect.
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Hard Reset did it. It was A LOT more painless than I thought it'd be though. That backup and restore thing from google really helped out a lot in getting all my apps back. ^^
Also make sure you do not have Handcent's "disable stock messaging app" setting on. When it disables the stock app, the stock app can't get the 9016 incoming VVM messages before Handcent does and will cause this.
wardfan220 said:
Also make sure you do not have Handcent's "disable stock messaging app" setting on. When it disables the stock app, the stock app can't get the 9016 incoming VVM messages before Handcent does and will cause this.
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^^^ Worked Perfect!!!! No Hard reset and i did have that setting to ON, Switched it to disabled and tried and works PERFECT!!! THANKS wardfan220 !!!!
jtriplett005 said:
^^^ Worked Perfect!!!! No Hard reset and i did have that setting to ON, Switched it to disabled and tried and works PERFECT!!! THANKS wardfan220 !!!!
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You're welcome. I doubt it but maybe the Hancent team can find a work around for this. It seems to me that if you disable it it's disabled but maybe they can block all incoming from the stock app except 9016, kind of like a reverse black list (actually they call those white lists don't they?, lol). I'd like to see that happen, but we'll see what the Hancent crew comes up with. I know others have said that other sms apps can do this or something like that, but I like Hancent better than all the others.
Anyways, glad I could help.
My issue's back again. Did have that setting on though, so I'll restart and see if that does the trick. ^^;
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wardfan220 said:
Also make sure you do not have Handcent's "disable stock messaging app" setting on. When it disables the stock app, the stock app can't get the 9016 incoming VVM messages before Handcent does and will cause this.
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+1 worked for me also! Thanks!
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wardfan220 said:
Also make sure you do not have Handcent's "disable stock messaging app" setting on. When it disables the stock app, the stock app can't get the 9016 incoming VVM messages before Handcent does and will cause this.
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You are a genius... Thanks soooo much for bringing us that solution. Fixed it right up. ^^ +1
johnequickiii said:
You are a genius... Thanks soooo much for bringing us that solution. Fixed it right up. ^^ +1
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I've been trying to tell my wife that for a long time, maybe I can use this as proof, she keeps saying I'm not that smart.
But glad I could help, if I hadn't done it myself I wouldn't have known how to fix it, lol.
Use spc app to "block" the text messages but still get voicemails if using Handcent.
Just wanted to pass this on to you guys, as it has always worked for me. I had the Evo rooted with a custom AOSP rom and had used GV as voicemail then decided I wanted Sprint VVM back. When I made the switch everything seemed okay, but when someone called my phone and it went to voicemail it wouldn't let them leave one. Did some reading and finally figured out something that worked.
1. Stop the VVM process in running apps.
2. Clear the data for Voicmail under applications.
3. Dial *38 and call it as you would any other number( You should hear a few beeps and then it should automatically hangup) This has something to do with disabling call forwarding but will allow your voicemail to properly provision itself.
4. Open VVM and it should tell you that it has been provisioned successfully.
You should be good to go after this point, but if it does not tell you along the bottom of phone that it provisioned try this again but reboot before step 4. Some have also said that updating your profile and prl after doing the *38 helps.
Just thought I would share this as I read the comments about a hard reset when they aren't needed. I'm not to sure this would help with the issue described by the OP but hey its worth a shot instead of losing everything.
Confirmed: Fix Works for Epic 4G
Yep, I had Handcent Default Application enabled...clearing this resulted in Visual Voicemail back to normal.

[Q] SMS Notification not leaving after reading message

I apologize ahead of time if this is an easy problem, but I haven't been an Android user for a very long time.
Everytime a new text message comes in, there will be a notification stating so. After I read the message and even after replying to them, the notification is still there and won't go away until I hit clear.
Is this intended for the notification to continue to notify you even after you've read the text? I actually have "Received notification - Show notification in status bar when messages are received" turned off.
Thanks in advance.
Are you using stock sms or something else?
troy
am having the same problem and I and using the stock sms. When you open it from the status bar and then you go to sms it still shows as new until you open it up again.
timoybrady said:
am having the same problem and I and using the stock sms. When you open it from the status bar and then you go to sms it still shows as new until you open it up again.
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also if you use the widget, and answer, the notification stays there =[
Same. I have to go into the message and back out a few times to clear.
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Yep, really annoying... that little number bothers me..
Sane here noticed it since the thunderbolt and the post of the EVO I guess HTC screw up something after sense 2.0
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cmdauria said:
Are you using stock sms or something else?
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Yessir I am. Anyone able to resolve thus issue or not have an issue at all? I'm on stock with 0 updates installed.
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same here, i have to stay and leave the message open a second longer or reopen it. I guess we're too fast or something :X
When you open msg's from notifications panel,widget,app.drawer or switch to them via holding home hit the menu and go to all msgs then hit the menu key once more and chose mark as read.
Locked & Loaded
This has been a common HTC issue since my Touch Pro 1 days...too bad we don't have root to fix it.
My icon on the top won't go away even when I click clear. as soon as I shut the screen off and back on it pops back up until I go into the messaging app and then the conversation
awenthol said:
This has been a common HTC issue since my Touch Pro 1 days...too bad we don't have root to fix it.
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Damn really? The original EVO didnt have the issue
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
Don't see how its a common issue when mine operates as it should
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mine does it also.
Same here. My Evo4g didn't do that, stock or rooted. I deduced that its a bug, and am hoping it will eventually get fixed up.
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It is most likely a bug found I. Certain batches of 3vos. Possibly the pre ordered ones....
BDawgTrap said:
It is most likely a bug found I. Certain batches of 3vos. Possibly the pre ordered ones....
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Ummm...no. I RUU'd awhile ago and it still happens. It's a bug, yes...happens only when opening from the widgets or notification bar...just saying, it should affect everyone.
awenthol said:
Ummm...no. I RUU'd awhile ago and it still happens. It's a bug, yes...happens only when opening from the widgets or notification bar...just saying, it should affect everyone.
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If you read through the thread you would see that multiple people said they didn't have the issue. I don't know exactly what causes it but it isn't happening on all phones.
I got it here too. Didnt have the issue on my OG EVO

SpeedROM wifi mms problems

I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
Si_Wolfbane said:
I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
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It's a general problem with the amaze on ICS, it's widespread, so don't expect a fix anytime soon.
It never happened on the stock ics with sense 3.6. If I knew how to do all of this stuff I would help. My best guess is that the answer is in the stock ics ROM. I have my stock backup if anyone needs it for study
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Do a battery pull... That will drop all the power out of the phones radios and force them to reset. Thus fixing mms hopefully
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I tried that already. I actually know all of the basic trouble shooting steps. my last two theories are either the coding for the room is just wrong or I need to flash the kernal which I have nO clue how to do
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You do realise I'm on stock ICS right? If you read the wifi thread that's in this very sub forum, you'd see it's not just me that has the issue, many members here as well, go over to tmo's forum and check the ICS bug list thread, you'll see a damn long list of others there as well.
Si_Wolfbane said:
I tried that already. I actually know all of the basic trouble shooting steps. my last two theories are either the coding for the room is just wrong or I need to flash the kernal which I have nO clue how to do
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my guess is on the kernel needing to be flashed/reflashed for the mms/wifi thing. as to the other issues, no clue. have you tried running stock ics yet?
Yeah I had stock ics for a while before I switched. I don't know how to flash the kernal though. Honestly if I knew how, I'd just put stock ics mms.apk in the.zip but I tried that already and it canceled the install. Don't know how to do that either
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Just reflashed the kernel, same problems still exists. I'm confused now as to what to do.
Si_Wolfbane said:
Just reflashed the kernel, same problems still exists. I'm confused now as to what to do.
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Then go stock, see if the problem is still there or not.
Si_Wolfbane said:
I know that you guys are going to tell me to search through the thread. I'm actually not a noob I just lurk a lot.
I flashed SpeedROM 4.0 and now I am unable to send mms messages (redundant) while I'm connected to my WiFi. I searched all over that thread to find a fix and all I came up with was to install Android 4 ICS Messaging SMS over the Play Store. tried it. it came up with an error "Duplicate Provider Authority" Any help?
I also found out that there's no notification of messages on the lock screen nor does it chime/vibrate/notify when you receive a message from an unknown number
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"Duplicate Provider Authority" means that you are trying to install something that the phone already has system flags dedicated for(this explanation could be a little better).. Speedrom already has the MMS app, use a root tool, titanium backup - something to remove mms.apk from the system/app folder, then you will be able to install the one in the market -- not that that is a sure fire fix.. but one thing at a time. Try that, that is the only reason you couldn't install.

Text Messages Show Up As Wrong Contact Name

Anyone experience this? My gf will text on her LGOG and when she receives text the wrong name pops up but under the #info it shows the right names #. You think having her contacts transfered over from her iPhone to her Android at at&t is causing a problem.
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I had this happen a couple of times after flashing new ROMs. It seemed to fix itself after a couple of reboots.
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I had this happen when I had the same number saved under 2 different names. I'm not sure how it happened, if this is the problem just delete the wrong one and it should fix itself.
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My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
miller7796 said:
My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
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can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
ryancnap said:
can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
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I thought about going that route, but ended up just flashing Vanilla RootBox on it instead. Haven't had the problem on that rom. Now just the occasional reboot.
I had this problem this morning received text from my wife under my coworkers contact info as though it came from him. When I replied back under his contact info she received the reply. Very frustrating. He hasn't replied to any of my text this morning. May not be receiving them.

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