Extremely Strange Text Message and Voice Mail Behavior - Hero CDMA Themes and Apps

The strangest thing. I just ported my number from att to sprint two weeks ago, and I haven't received any texts, calls or voicemails in the last few days and have been so busy with work I didn't think anything of it. However today I randomly received 15 texts and 5 voicemails. A lot of them were angrily asking me why I was ignoring their calls and texts. I was on the phone with sprint technical support and they reset my settings with the network and I started to receive all kinds of random texts from the last two days in random order. The technician said he never saw anything like that before. It's just so strange. My emails never stopped coming in, only the things that are sent directly from my phone from the sprint network. elguapo76 pointed out that I should have my phone on hybrid instead of just evdo, which I did. And diesel556 said
"I believe that text messages queue on the server if the device is unreachable. The same thing would happen if you went out of range on the Verizon network.
Unless you have a legitimate bug with the service."
Any ideas about what I should do to fix this? Or can anyone get more into depth with what this is? If there is a way to permanently fix this I would love to know. Thanks in advance!

Did you recently apply the update patch? It could have fixed an issue with the system throwing up a flag when your ROM gets low on storage. This was usually perpetuated by a ROM leak that many of us have experienced. Basically what happens is that if you have used bluetooth and it gets stuck connecting (hard to tell at times) it will create a 6mb-15mb core dump. Over time this will fill up your ROM storage memory. After your ROM gets filled to a certain point (whether by the bluetooth ROM leak or user function) it will throw up the flag to the server telling it to halt all sms and voicemails. Before the patch you could hard reset and recover your ROM storage memory but the flag would not come down. I know for myself it took me a couple of days to figure out I was not receiving sms/voicemails after I got some upset people emailing me why I had not got back to them. With the recent MR these bugs have been resolved and the flag could have been taken down thus freeing all your sms and voicemails from the pits of sms and voicemail hell. That's just a possible theory.

Would you say there were a plethora of bugs?

Interesting. Two days ago, I used my moto bluetooth headset for the first time. Curiouser and curiouser. However, I did use the update the day that it came out. I restored with nandroid and upgraded that same night, so I shouldn't have had that problem. Actually, when I tried to connect before the update, I couldn't even connect that headset to my phone.

jonnythan said:
Would you say there were a plethora of bugs?
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A plethora! Jefe what is a plethora?
Yes I would say the Hero had a plethora of bugs!!! Thankfully HTC/Sprint gave us a sweater of an update!It's a sweater!!!
Now just fix the Android Market problem!

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Losing SMS messages - on 0.6 Fresh ROM

Hey everyone! Yesterday, for the first time since I rooted and upgraded my ROM, I did not receive txts from anyone even though I sent our several texts - even spoke to my friends today who said that they responded. And it wasn't Sprint's fault, cos even after rebooting my phone, they wouldn't come through. But texts sent after rebooting would come through successfully.
Any idea why? I went through a whole day thinking my friends were ignoring me. Not a great feeling on Thanksgiving's eve
FYI - I've just set up Google Calendar to send me an SMS alert every hour just to make sure that I'm receiving txts from now on. It's not the easiest workaround, but at least if I'm down, I'll know it's just for an hour. Any thoughts?
I'm gonna say it's not the ROM and blame it on Thanksgiving.
If HTCIQ force closes on your phone for any reason then every thing will functional properly including sending texts, but you won't receive any. And a reboot won't cause them to come through. I'm not saying that's what happened (did you have any FC's?) but it's possible.
But just like vox said, there's no reason to think it's the rom. There have been 325 downloads of 0.6 so if there was an issue, it would be a known one. Kind of one of those "if you are the only one experiencing the problem...." type of things.
FYI, so far I've received my Google Calendar hourly alerts for 12, 1, 3 & 4 pm (it's now 4.27pm PST) but the 2pm one did not come through I remember yesterday that I had a force close message for the Voice Recorder app. Could it be possible it's one of the apps running in the background?
What's HTCIQ? And how do I prevent it from FC'ing?
Do you have any themes or optimizations or anything other than fresh 0.6? Are you using clear as a bell?
How did you put voice recorder back on?
Nothing of the sort, just been installing apps. Haven't optimized or changed themes at all. So far today, every hourly txt from my Google Calendar came in except for the 2pm one. I'm going to have it send me hourly texts from now on just to make sure I won't go by more than an hour without receiving one. I know it's a random and sporadic issue and there's probably no fix, but I just wanted to put it out there in case it happens to someone else.
Are you using any sort of task killer?
jonnythan said:
Are you using any sort of task killer?
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Good question.
I have TasKiller installed but I stopped using it over the last few days. I'm still experiencing receiving issues. My Google calendar alerts have decided to skip every other hour now Especially in the middle of the night. Fri night, the last alert came in at 9pm and the next one came in at 1am. This sucks
I experienced this problem for the first time last night. Texts were sent and nothing showed on the phone. Once I rebooted texts came through but only new ones. Any texts sent while the phone was apparently having issues ended up in /dev/null. Since I've read about this happening previously on other, non-rooted and non-flashed, Heros I test occasionally just to make sure things are working as expected and always right before I go to sleep.
The force close theory makes a lot of sense to me. The Mail app did a force close 2-3 times yesterday. if HTCIQ did a force close I was not notified.
MoDaCo 1.1 -> fresh 0.6 + optimized apk

[Q] SMS don't sent sometimes, to some people

First off, I have already found the SMSC help threads and verified my message center is the correct one for AT&T.
Sometimes, when I send SMS to certain people (random people?) the phone will say they are sent but the recipient will not get the message until 3-4 hours later. In the mean time I can text other people normally.
It gets weirder, I was thinking it was an inter-carrier issue, but if I reboot my phone, all of the missing messages will suddenly arrive at the recipient's phone. Its as if the phone tells me they are sent while they are in some backed up queue?
I was using Scott's regular build (several versions where I have this problem intermittently) and just upgraded to his beanstalk build and have the same issue.
I use GoSMS for my messaging.
Anyone heard of anything like this or can direct me to some help?
Much thanks!
And major props to Scott for his wonderful builds, my phone has never worked so well, minus whatever this issue is!

SMS Not Working Without Data/WiFi

I have a stock Galaxy S5 from Sprint and recently came across this issue where SMS will not send unless I'm connected to WiFi or have data on. I've never run into this issue before and searching online has only brought me to people having issues specifically with data ON. I have a data limit on my plan so it's usually off unless I need to check emails or something important when I'm not home but texting has never been an issue for me until two days ago. They just sit in limbo of trying to send for at least 20min before I get an error "Message Not Sent" and it's infuriating.
I've tried some of the fixes others have suggested when their issue was with data being on but nothing worked. I resorted to a factory reset and I still have this problem. It will work after a restart but only for a short time. It hasn't been dropped, it hasn't been worked on in the past, opened up, rooted, or any other sort of thing that might have contributed to this issue. I thought it had something to do with this roaming message I used to get about "data being off due to leaving the home network" but I've never messed with my roaming settings and this message would happen before I've come into this SMS issue.
TL;DR
Data/WiFi off = no SMS

Group messaging issue - can't tell if it's my phone or theirs

So here's what is going on:
I had an iPhone, iMessage enabled. Moved to a Note 5 and continued my group text with 2 other iPhone users and one Android user. I don't remember specifically when I got the phone if everyone was responding or not, but I believe they were.
Somewhere along the lines one of the users stopped responding and a day or two later sent a message to us saying he received all of our texts one morning about 3 am in a group. Ever since then messaging has been a problem.
I can send group messages to the 4 of us, 2 of them get it, and this one iPhone user can't. Tested just me, him and the other iphone user - same issue.
He's tried factory resetting the phone, a new SIM card, updating the OS and probably a couple other things.
I've tried removing my devices from iMessage, calling apple to ensure I'm removed, even tried texting from Pinger as a test. It all indicates his phone is causing issues.
However, last night he shut off some sort of wi-fi assist where I think it uses both cell and wi-fi to send data (I think I read this feature was enabled by default on the new IOS9)
That seemed to work but then I noticed I wasn't getting the OTHER iPhone's text messages, but he was getting mine.
Went to another group text without the original iphone user in it but the second iphone user in it, and he and I can text just fine.
So basically, as it stands right now, I want to pull my hair out. I can't tell if this issue is on my end since I switched from an iPhone to an Android, or if its on their end. I had an issue a couple years ago when Is witched off my iphone where I didn't get anyone's iMessages in a group text - that was at the time when Apple's whole deal with contacts and iMessages came out so I fell into that problem.
I have no idea what to look at, how to test this any more and it's really actually infuriating. It's 2015. I should be able to send a text message to two or three people at one time without it causing issues.
Also - is there a way to shut off group messages as an MMS? I think that might be part of the problem but I don't know what I'm looking for.
Thank you.

Keep re-receiving old texts, how do I make this stop?

Basically what happens is I get old texts from previous conversations as if they were new. They will come in randomly but tend to follow the sequence of the conversation, so it basically replays the conversation but slowly over the day. Seems to affect group chats more. It makes following conversations very hard since they are full of old texts that are not relevant but they show up as new. Also annoying to keep getting notifications when I'm actually waiting for a text only to see that it's an old text that I got days ago.
Current phone is Google Pixel 4A with CalyxOS, but I've also tried Graphene OS and had the same issue. I've tried the stock app as well as QKSMS. I did not get the issue with Signal (using as SMS client) but they dropped support for SMS, so this started back again as soon as I switched off Signal. I even tried putting the sim card in my old phone (stock android) and it's still doing it! This part is strange to me because when this problem first surfaced, doing this did fix the problem.
How do I make this stop or begin troubleshooting this? Nobody in my contacts is having this issue so trying to convince them to switch to another messaging system is kind of futile, this is my problem. I am starting to wonder if I should just get an iphone like everyone else because it just works, but I really hate the closed nature of apple ecosystem.
I was thinking of looking into how to do app development and modify an existing open source client so that it ignores texts that have a send date older than 24h, but before I do that, is there already a text client for Android available in the F droid store or as an APK that would have such a feature?
So this is not just group chats like I thought. Starting to get old texts I got from single conversations now. Even pictures get resent. These show up as new texts, though they still have the original send date. This will at least make it easier to filter these out.
Anyone have an ideas how to make this stop? Driving me insane. I really don't want to have to write my own app.
Anyone? This problem is driving me insane. It started happening with a vengeonce again. I am being bombarded by old texts that I already got days ago. It's just playing out the entire conversation over the course of a few days. Have to put the phone in airplane mode to make it stop otherwise the phone is just lit up non stop with old texts coming in.
At very least is there some kind of logging of sorts I can enable that would help me better troubleshoot this?
Inreally dont know but i Remember this happened to me sometime ,maybe Just try a factory reset or change rom , i dont know
I tried several roms, resets etc. While it was happening I even put the sim card in another phone and it started doing it on that phone too. It's also not a carrier issue since I'm the only person having this issue. I've also tried all sorts of text apps. The only one it didn't do it with was Signal but they dropped SMS support, which really sucks.

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