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You see, I am having this problem where MMS's sent by someone to someone else are coming from my number and I called T-Mobile's G1 Support Dept and they want to sent me an OTA, but they need me to go into my settings and give them the exact firmware version I read there. Problem is I am jailbroken, so I didn't want to give them that, so I said I was on my cell and did not have another phone around I could use to call them back (which was actually true). So I have the following three questions:
1) Is anybody experiencing the same problem as me? Feel free to comment here or in the original post on HoFo.
2) What does the official build description read? I want to give them that one instead when I call back.
3) If I am jailbroken, is it OK to receive OTA's from T-Mobile? Will I even receive them? Will they install successfully? Will my jailbreak break?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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if you changed your phone to use the developer keyset (ie: JF's androidmod + modded rc 30), you should be fine even if they send it to you it wouldn't install because your phone now wants updates signed with the dev keys not the REAL tmob/htc keys...
I doubt it would fix your problem anyway, could somebody be "spoofing" the messages with "your caller id info" there are websites that will do this for txt, mms & even voice calls, that would be my guess.
Every once in a while the sms msg centers will just wig out and do wacky stuff from time to time, I have had messages show up hours and even days after they were sent, somebody the otherday msg'd me saying I had sent them a text, I hadn't (i checked sent msgs folder) so who knows it could have been just an anomolly.
bhang
this occurred shortly after the initial launch of the G1. some suggested wiping the phone, but not sure if that fixed the issue. maybe you could reinstall jf's RC30 and then wipe and then restore your info.... might help?
bhang said:
if you changed your phone to use the developer keyset (ie: JF's androidmod + modded rc 30), you should be fine even if they send it to you it wouldn't install because your phone now wants updates signed with the dev keys not the REAL tmob/htc keys...
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I think that's what I did, so I guess I won't be calling TMo back and I guess I'll have to live with this for now, having people I don't know message me weekly asking, "Who's this?" I just need to make sure I don't send anything compromising if I sent MMS's. *LOL*
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I doubt it would fix your problem anyway, could somebody be "spoofing" the messages with "your caller id info" there are websites that will do this for txt, mms & even voice calls, that would be my guess.
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Not at all. In both cases, the people asking who I was because they received a picture from my number confirmed they know the person who sent it to them and they did nothing special to send those messages, just use the native Messaging application.
bhang said:
somebody the otherday msg'd me saying I had sent them a text, I hadn't (i checked sent msgs folder) so who knows it could have been just an anomolly.
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This sounds exactly like what I have been experiencing, only I have only seen it happen with MMS's, not SMS's.
korndub said:
this occurred shortly after the initial launch of the G1. some suggested wiping the phone, but not sure if that fixed the issue. maybe you could reinstall jf's RC30 and then wipe and then restore your info.... might help?
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I never saw reports of this before. Guess I missed them. See my response above. I will just wait and see what happens. Most likely, this is TMo screwing up and once enough people complain and TMo realizes the liability they have in their hands, they will move and fix this. Besides, I just saw in one of the threads that we should be able to install Cupcake, so I will explore that or wait for the next jailbreak update.
this was happening to me as well and it happened to be my father's iphone account weird, but yes i get really scared when i send my gf stuff now lol from my gmail account. i grabbed his phone to make sure he didn't see anything and just make sure it addressed to the right person when you send lol
i also input my contact into and when my father texts me (yes he just learned), the sender is my email address....odd
idk how to change it....
hbguy
I insist. 611 from your G1 and complain. T-Mobile needs to get the pressure to move enough resources to address this.
This same thing has been happening to me. I am using an iPhone with SwirlyMMS. I did notice that when people responded to me with a MMS asking me "Who is this?", according to my.t-mobile.com my texts were originating from India or Russia, but were from people's real cell phone numbers in the US. I know this, because one of the numbers in question called me and they were from NYC.
this has happend to my girlfriend a few months back and she has a tmo sidekick 3. Also, about 8 months ago my roomate was getting phone calls from all over the U.S. from people trying to reach other peole after about 10 phone calls i called his phone from mine (tmo wing at the time) and it went to someone else. I then hung up and tried a few minutes later and it went to someone different. He called t-mobile and they said they havnt recieved any other complaints and told him to restart his phone. He did, it did nothing. but over the next few days it seemed to fix itself, of t-mobile had found the problem. But back to the mms, My girlfriend now owns a G1 and just a few days ago i sent her a picture of my dog and it said it came from someone else. we both have G1's mine has root hers does not so i dont think it has anything to do with your phone.
this happened to my wife and I right around x-mas and it only lasted a few days. she relied to a text I sent and it went to NY, 'cause they called back and told us where they were from... and they had t-mobile. It quit after a couple of days and haven't had a problem with it since then.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/android-still-has-horrible-text-messaging-bugs-thatll-get-you-f/
Is this really a widespread problem, or is it more Engadget anti-Android propaganda?
Not sure but I haven't experienced it in almost a year of using several android devices.
I use Handcent, so I have no idea what they're talking about.
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Read the source links.
For the record, I love android. I hate all the anti-android crap going around. But I have experienced this before. One time upon booting up, my contacts were all mixed up with the wrong numbers. It was so weird. My friend became my dads name on there and another friend became my cousins whom I never texted. So when they texted me I saw the names and was like wtf? How do they know about (whatever we were chatting about earlier). Took another reboot and everything was fine. I also experienced the phone clicking on the wrong thread that I pressed, that definitely happens. I've learned to double check who Im texting.
Is this fixed by using a different SMS app then? Apparently it happens with e-mails, too, but only with the default e-mail app.
I have been using an HD2, that dual boots WM 6.5 and Android 2.2 Froyo, never had this problem.
My daughter uses a Behold 2 and sends and receives over 16000 text messages per month, and never a problem like this.
I think it's more hate against Android, since it is starting to get a strong hold of the smartphone market.
I'm also sure it's a lot of user error too.
Google just updated this to critical, so I'm guessing it'll be patched pretty soon.
It happens to me at least twice a week. I actually switched to handcent it was so bad. Thankfully I never had anything truly embarrassing go to the wrong person, but I have had some confusing moment...The worst was when I carried out a long conversations with the wrong person... The problem happens when you click on the new message item in the notification menu without actually opening it up through the messaging app. You see the correct reply thread, and it is only when you press send that you realize it sent to the wrong person. This is very real, but I used to think it was just my phone.
lmao. This is just amusing.
The ONLY time I ever got the bug was when I received a new message, I used the drop down menu bar to view the message, and this was on a beta froyo build. Any time I went through the regular messaging app, everything was fine. Last I read in a forum long ago burried, only time the bug happened was when you used the drop down...
I've used Android since the G1 was released and don't remember ever experiencing this issue. But if it is an issue, then it needs media attention to get Google to fix it as quick as possible. Although, the problem is getting the fix out, since you know, all these carriers and manufacturers take forever to get an OTA out.
Google said:
Hi all,
I want to let everyone know that we are actively investigating this issue, and we hope to have an update soon. Obviously, this is a very difficult to reproduce bug.
Rather than replying "me too", you can star this issue to follow it. Just saying "me too" just obscures the useful information in this bug, and makes it harder to fix. Of course, if you have useful information to add to the bug, such as a system dump or an insightful analysis of the code, feel free to update the bug with your observations.
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So they are now investigating this. I'll be using Handcent on my DHD until they sort it.
tooter1 said:
I have been using an HD2, that dual boots WM 6.5 and Android 2.2 Froyo, never had this problem.
My daughter uses a Behold 2 and sends and receives over 16000 text messages per month, and never a problem like this.
I think it's more hate against Android, since it is starting to get a strong hold of the smartphone market.
I'm also sure it's a lot of user error too.
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16,000? I'm sure most networks in the UK have a 3,000 FUP
Anyway, I haven't experienced this issue in the 18 months I've been using Android
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16,000? I'm sure most networks in the UK have a 3,000 FUP
Anyway, I haven't experienced this issue in the 18 months I've been using Android
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
I've been using Android since the release of the HTC Dream in Canada and I've never ever ever ran into this problem, and most of the ROMs I've ran have been beta or experimental. I'm thinking they're blowing it out of proportion.
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
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When we were on Verizon, one month it was up to 39,000. I was floored. That is when I was like thank goodness for.....Unlimited Texting FTW!
Still no problems like this.
I've never had this problem and Goggle has made a press release and said they are having a hard time replicating it. I think that there could be an error that happens once in a blue moon, but I think most of the time it's just user error.
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I can believe 16,000. My 17 year old sister has about 10,000 a month. Unlimited texting, ftw.
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Oh yeah, I believe it. I'm just curious as to how their fingers haven't worn to the bone yet?
Googles claiming they can't reproduce this internally and they've only upped it's status cause of bad publicity. That's what androidguys claim ...
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Yeah sometimes when I get a message I click on the thing in the drop down menu and it takes me to another thread, but I'm pretty sure the point of clicking that button is just for it to get you to the messaging app. Also sometimes I go to the messaging app and click the top thread and it takes me to a different thread. So this bug is true at times.
Yes I'm a noob & I hate myself.
I bought the Infuse 4G 2 days ago, and I've had this problem since.
In my message threads, half the time the conversation is all out of order.
Example.. I just texted my friend and asked him if he had an extra SIM card I could have.
I said "Hey do you have an extra SIM card I could have?"
He said "Nope."
But the "nope" popped up on top of the message I sent him first, instead of below.. It's driving me insane
Is this happening with anyone else? If so, pleaseee help me. It's just really annoying. & one more thing.. is there an app to change the bubbles or something in the messages app? They are so ugly IMO. lol
Try a different messaging app like "handcent"
I have searched EVERYWHERE for this information, and I cannot find it anywhere. So, if this is posted in some obscure place, I apologize and please refrain from flaming. I have searched for hours.
I keep getting this weird icon in text messages. Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of it, but as soon as I get it again, I will be more than happy to post it. The icon looks like a button with an x on it... like the x button on the xbox or PS controller. However, this button is grey. It shows up over the date time stamp in the text message screen where you can view all and select a conversation.
At first I was thinking that this icon meant that I had reached the text message limit and old texts were being deleted, but that turns out to not be the case. I watched my limit with other conversations and none of them showed that icon after reaching the limit.
Anyone have any ideas what it can be???
You might want to tell people your phone make and model as it will help people know possible causes.
Dave
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My apologies. I didnt really think it mattered for this particular instance. But its a T-Mobile LG G2X. I now have the EGB ICS ROM, but when the incident happened I had the stock ROM (I believe it was Gingerbread 2.3.3). Even tho I am fairly sure it won't happen with this ROM I'd still like to know what it was.
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My apologies. I didnt really think it mattered for this particular instance. But its a T-Mobile LG G2X. I now have the EGB ICS ROM, but when the incident happened I had the stock ROM (I believe it was Gingerbread 2.3.3). Even tho I am fairly sure it won't happen with this ROM I'd still like to know what it was.
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No need to apologise, I wasn't meaning to sound like you had done something wrong by not mentioning make or model it's just that a lot of manufacturers customise android and it could be a feature that yours has but not standard android, so it can help if you're having problems.
If your circle looked like the one on the following web page http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-t-mobile/449304-grey-circle-x-text-messages.html it is likely the same cause, that the contacts whose messages had that button attached were synced contacts that were not online.
It could be something specific to your rom of course, I've not seen the same circle button so can only guess but it may be same cause as that already mentioned.
Dave
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Starting today I have received two random text messages from the number 9355. I attached a picture of what the texts say, they seem to say wap which might mean some sort of data transmission or something. I can't reply anything or I get a text from Sprint saying not enough numbers for recepient.
I'm at a loss.
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I got that same text last night. I have no clue what it is either.
This is what is was..
9355: //WAP-3050:134317256:e3df34b2:1adc3:::1TIwMjdeMjkuVj83MTsyNy4yQDpeKDo3/omadl/DownloadDescriptor/content/4805911
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I got that same text last night. I have no clue what it is either.
This is what is was..
9355: //WAP-3050:134317256:e3df34b2:1adc3:::1TIwMjdeMjkuVj83MTsyNy4yQDpeKDo3/omadl/DownloadDescriptor/content/4805911
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I have seen this every time I flash a rom on my phone. I just clear it and it does not come back. I did notice once that it had asked me to dial a number to retrieve sms message but instead it took me to my voicemail setup. I have an Evo 4g currently running 4k-x Atom, I cant recall seeing it on that rom maybe onle sense roms have the issue???
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I have seen this every time I flash a rom on my phone. I just clear it and it does not come back. I did notice once that it had asked me to dial a number to retrieve sms message but instead it took me to my voicemail setup. I have an Evo 4g currently running 4k-x Atom, I cant recall seeing it on that rom maybe onle sense roms have the issue???
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Running cm7.2. I have never encountered this and I've been rooted with the same apps since late 2010.
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Dad D O said:
I have seen this every time I flash a rom on my phone. I just clear it and it does not come back. I did notice once that it had asked me to dial a number to retrieve sms message but instead it took me to my voicemail setup. I have an Evo 4g currently running 4k-x Atom, I cant recall seeing it on that rom maybe onle sense roms have the issue???
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I've been receiving messages like that every time I flash an ICS rom. I never had them when I was using CM7. Strange thing is that the messages come from Sprint and I'm on Boost. It could be because my phone is flashed but still on the Sprint network. I don't know for sure though.
same here on EVO 4g reloaded using go sms... so far added it to blacklist in go sms.
hmmmmmmmm
I've been flashing several different ice rooms for about 2-3 months and had never previously received this. I received it today though and it strike me as an attempted t to Jack or introduce a virus to my phone. I could just be being paranoid though, lol.
Hey did you ever get to the bottom of those weird texts? I posted a screen shot of my errors from the same number that I've been receiving. Also using unrooted ICS 4.01.
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No, I just received a few others yesterday. I was just browsing the web and using the engadget app. Almost want to call Sprint.
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yarmock said:
Starting today I have received two random text messages from the number 9355. I attached a picture of what the texts say, they seem to say wap which might mean some sort of data transmission or something. I can't reply anything or I get a text from Sprint saying not enough numbers for recepient.
I'm at a loss.
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That looks like an OMA DM Push Message. It's a provisioning process for Smart Phones, very similar to that you get on feature phones when you get an SMS from the carrier after putting a new SIM into a phone. The only reason you would see this message is that the OMA DM client did not intercept it. From what it sounds like, you have recently installed a non-standard O/S for the device, which probably does not have a DM client. Unfortunately if your previous phone had a DM client, then it's probably still registered in the system. You might want to call you carrier and see if they can disable the feature.
Cheers,
Scott
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That looks like an OMA DM Push Message. It's a provisioning process for Smart Phones, very similar to that you get on feature phones when you get an SMS from the carrier after putting a new SIM into a phone. The only reason you would see this message is that the OMA DM client did not intercept it. From what it sounds like, you have recently installed a non-standard O/S for the device, which probably does not have a DM client. Unfortunately if your previous phone had a DM client, then it's probably still registered in the system. You might want to call you carrier and see if they can disable the feature.
Cheers,
Scott
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Well I've had 3 devices since June. Same model, and same os being installed. I haven't gotten this message on this phone in months. But I never got a text like that on my original device in its 2 years. Do you think I should still call Sprint?
Thanks for your information.
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Well I've had 3 devices since June. Same model, and same os being installed. I haven't gotten this message on this phone in months. But I never got a text like that on my original device in its 2 years. Do you think I should still call Sprint?
Thanks for your information.
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Sorry for the delay in replying - for some reason the e-mail alerts from here got put into spam...
Anyway - if you have not already done so, yes I would recommend calling Sprint. It sounds like someone - probably Sprint but you never quite know - has your phone registered on their system as OMA DM compliant. It does no real harm other than getting a few dodgy looking SMS, but I always like to make sure I am not registered on systems unnecessarily.
Good luck,
Scott
If I may ask what does oma da ccompliant mean?
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If I may ask what does oma da ccompliant mean?
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It just means there is some form of client on the phone that can configure it using the OMA DM protocols. Most phones have something on them for provisioning, even old feature phones, but usually it's something simple that looks for a provisioning SMS from the carrier. This is the reason you usually get told to wait for an SMS to arrive and reboot your phone, when you get a new phone. The OMA DM stuff is just slightly more sophisticated to accommodate the demands of modern smart phones and also allows extra features, such as installation of applications. But it's essentially the same thing. The carrier sends you an SMS, the provisioning software picks it up and configures your phone with it. With OMA DM, there is usually not enough information in the message to configure the device and the message itself actually contains a URL to go to. If you look at the message you will see the following element:
NzUpLTVXOz4rUDk0MT8xNTErOzhXMT80/omadl/DownloadDescriptor/content/4805911
The first unintelligible bit is the hostname encrypted and then encoded with Base64. The rest of it is the path in the URL.
Have a look on wiki for OMA_Device_Management - not many Android ROM's have this feature by default - iOS has apple's own variant, which is mostly compliant, Nokia phones are by far the most compliant.
Hope that makes sense,
Scott
Odd texts
I have never flashed my phone but getting these same texts.
Sprint HTC Evo 4g LTE
I received one of these texts as well. I called Sprint after reading this post to see if they knew what was up. I was told that the text is a link and can access your data (not sure what data) and is also a "virus". Fortunately the link was broken by an emoticon being converted from a series of slashes and colons so it wasn't clickable.
I usually don't wear a tin foil hat, but I suggest adding this number to your blacklist. He advised that as long as I didn't click the link I should be fine and delete the SMS.
Message still persists
Received this SMS message from: 9355 on the Sprint network
//WAP-3052:141450391:76f0a123:3f7ae:::NTUoLDtTOEApVz44MD0qMzEqOj5TLkEy/omadl/DownloadDescriptor/content/445205499
Rooted Galaxy S5 with stock Sprint ROM, using non standard texting app as default texting app.
It is possible using a non-standard texting app stops this from downloading & executing its payload.
I got one of these tonight and was soon greeted by an update of Sprint's "Connection Optimizer" I think sdeakin's theory of your carrier pushing an update of something is sound.
I just received one of these tonight. I'm sure it might just be the carrier pushing out an update, but I am actually interested in figuring out how to decrypt the link so I can figure out more about it.
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Received this SMS message from: 9355 on the Sprint network
//WAP-3052:141450391:76f0a123:3f7ae:::NTUoLDtTOEApVz44MD0qMzEqOj5TLkEy/omadl/DownloadDescriptor/content/445205499
Rooted Galaxy S5 with stock Sprint ROM, using non standard texting app as default texting app.
It is possible using a non-standard texting app stops this from downloading & executing its payload.
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I just received one of these tonight. I'm sure it might just be the carrier pushing out an update, but I am actually interested in figuring out how to decrypt the link so I can figure out more about it.
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Received from 9355 on Mar 23 @ 10:53 PM - I have the same exact setup as Foley76 (Galaxy S5 rooted, using a different SMS app than stock)
I dont think its anything to worry about, I am using Ting (Sprint network, pay as you go) - Prolly just my carrier trying to push an update.
I dont like accepting any updates that im not aware of however. First thing I did after I rooted was use Titanium Backup to freeze all the OTA crap. I'm still on the stock shipped rom.
Anyone else receive any messages recently and is on Sprint/Boost/Ting? - zmag