[Q] how can i stop receiving sms from my provider - General Questions and Answers

i have a htc mytouch 4g, android 2.2.1 and i don't know how to stop receiving promotional sms from my provider.i'm receiving around 200 sms per day and i would like to know how to stop that by any configuration on my phone because i'm getting crazy.
if anyone knows, please help me.
thanks!

Reply with "STOP"

there is app on play store to block receiving sms from specific sender

Calling their service and asking them to stop might help as well. Although, it is most likely not their intention to send 200sms'/day.
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Calling their service and asking them to stop might help as well. Although, it is most likely not their intention to send 200sms'/day.

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Can't send a PM

Hello
I have a probs here, why i can't send Private Message.
Everytime i send, there's no message i have sent in my Sent Message folder.
Help please?
there are many reasons for this to happen, perhaps:
they disable receiving PM or they only enable it for their contacts and mods
they set their profile privacy, so that bla..bla..bla
u're in their ignored lists
*PM me for testing that everything works fine
I'm having this problem as well. I can't get any private messages out, no replies, no new ones, nothing. They don't even show up in my outbox.
EDIT: huh. I went through my options and had it save sent messages in my outbox which got everything right. If I don't save to outbox, I can't send a pm at all. Weird.

[Q] Cannot send photo messages!

I have had my Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 weeks now. The past 3 or 4 days I have not been able to send photo messages. I can send and receive regular text messages and I can receive photo messages, but the ability to send photo messages is gone. I have been trying to send a photo to my parents from my daughter's birthday party for over 25 minutes with it "sending" the whole time. As I am typing this, the phone just told me that my photo message "failed". How can I fix this?
Thanks!
Abbie
Try turning your Wifi off and your Mobile Data on
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what baseband do u have..if you took the update change back to the previous..I had same problem...had...
sent from a violated Vzw Galaxy s3
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use TWRP recovery when u flash that modem...CMR wouldn't flash it on mine
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AbbieATC said:
I have had my Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 weeks now. The past 3 or 4 days I have not been able to send photo messages. I can send and receive regular text messages and I can receive photo messages, but the ability to send photo messages is gone. I have been trying to send a photo to my parents from my daughter's birthday party for over 25 minutes with it "sending" the whole time. As I am typing this, the phone just told me that my photo message "failed". How can I fix this?
Thanks!
Abbie
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Sending an mms message is completely linked to your data connection and size of your photo. My phone has a hard time sending maximum dpi images over a 3g connection sometimes. I usually get a stronger 4g signal in certain spots wherever I am. If I'm really trying to force a picture to transfer and the signal isn't strong enough, I walk around until I find a 4g signal.
Your photo message will always fail if it times out during the transfer.
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Thanks so much! I'll keep my eye out for my 4g. I appreciate it!

[Q] Multimedia messages

Hey guys, I have a quick ? that I am hoping someone may have a thought or two about. My wifes little sght959v running GB 2.3.6 has issues receiving mm texts. She constantly receive texts from friend but she cant see them or open them up. It just shows a bunch of info and says "searching". Any thoughts as to what this may be or how I can remedy this. All normal texts are good. Just no mm's or picture texts. Thanks in advance. Happy Holidays to all!
What carrier are you using? Do you have the APN information set up properly?
Does it happen when data is going over the carrier's network? Over WiFi? Both?
A screenshot would help, as the specific symptoms don't sound at all familiar.
jeffsf said:
What carrier are you using? Do you have the APN information set up properly?
Does it happen when data is going over the carrier's network? Over WiFi? Both?
A screenshot would help, as the specific symptoms don't sound at all familiar.
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She's on T-MO, no data, no wifi etc. She receives regular texts just not multimedia/picture messages. I'll work on putting up a screenie.
Mms only works if you have data turned on. If it's not on when she received the pic it's hard to get back. I've had that problem before.
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Oh and mms does not work over WiFi
ArmyofTracy said:
Mms only works if you have data turned on. If it's not on when she received the pic it's hard to get back. I've had that problem before.
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Oh and mms does not work over WiFi
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Thank you. Does that apply even if she does not have a data plan???
Yes. No data means no mms.
My wife had a similar problem when I had her on GB. She saves every dam text. It was like the first one to overloaded the system caused every picture text after to be missed.
I called tmobile, ended up doing a factory reset. After that, she hated the phone so much for losing all those "important" text, I had to buy her a "new" phone. But, she had over 400 text saved. Yes, she's blonde..
champ1919 said:
My wife had a similar problem when I had her on GB. She saves every dam text. It was like the first one to overloaded the system caused every picture text after to be missed.
I called tmobile, ended up doing a factory reset. After that, she hated the phone so much for losing all those "important" text, I had to buy her a "new" phone. But, she had over 400 text saved. Yes, she's blonde..
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I think I may be married to her sister. hahaha Thanks guys!
You need some kind of data to get MMS -- basically an MMS is an SMS with a link that tells the phone where to get the content. If you can't get to that link (it's like a private server), you get that dreaded "Downloading" indication that never goes away. I'm not certain if you can get MMS when you only have WiFi. It wouldn't surprise me if you need the carrier's data to get to their MMS server. There doesn't have to be a picture involved; it could just be straight text from an iPhone that it sent as an MMS.
I'm not sure that the number of messages you have on the phone should matter a lot. I've got well over 5,000 on mine. It does mean that certain people's threads take a while to open up, and it does consume around 25 MB on my phone to store them all.
jeffsf said:
You need some kind of data to get MMS -- basically an MMS is an SMS with a link that tells the phone where to get the content. If you can't get to that link (it's like a private server), you get that dreaded "Downloading" indication that never goes away. I'm not certain if you can get MMS when you only have WiFi. It wouldn't surprise me if you need the carrier's data to get to their MMS server. There doesn't have to be a picture involved; it could just be straight text from an iPhone that it sent as an MMS.
I'm not sure that the number of messages you have on the phone should matter a lot. I've got well over 5,000 on mine. It does mean that certain people's threads take a while to open up, and it does consume around 25 MB on my phone to store them all.
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Def believe the IPhone thing. (most people around her have them) I will say though, that I turned data on (without data plan) and all of a sudden she starts receiving back dated stuff. Like 20 in 5 minutes. Going to leave it on and see what happens as I only had it off to save battery.

[Q] Tmobile Group Chat missing messages?

Hey all. I know similar questions have been asked, but I've yet to figure out a solution to it. I just ported my number from verizon for this phone. As we know, the Tmobile version's stock messaging app doesn't support group chat, so I chose to use Google Messenger. I've been missing messages in group chat since day one. I will get about 60%, sometimes as low as 20%, or the messages. The rest will just never come in. The issue also occures in standard picture messages and texts, but are much less frequent. This is incredibly infuriating, as the tech support has no idea what the solution is, and sony thinks it's tmobile's issue.
Things I have tried:
1. Set the APNs to be ipv4/6.
2. Use Textra with tmobile fixes.
3. Turn off wifi calling.
4. Turn off wifi.
5. Change sim cards.
6. Disable stock messaging app.
7. Disable voLTE.
I'm at my witt's end with it, and no tech support will give me an acceptable solution. Has anyone had this issue, and maybe know a way to fix it? I'd appreciate any input you can provide.
Thanks!
Edit: also, I did not come from an iPhone prior to switching. The issue doesn't seem to be limited to iPhones, but they're the only ones I tend to group chat. And finally, the phones are on Verizon and at&t.
I'm having the exact same issue. It's frustrating and I will be returning the phone soon.
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I'm getting mine, they come in as not downloaded, soon as I hit download I get them all after that
I think I might have fixed it, but I don't know what caused it to begin with. After doing a factory reset on the phone, all of the group chat seems to come in and in the right order. I don't know if what application was causing the conflict, if there was any. But it seems to be working for now...
For those having the issue, maybe try that. Also, change the APN type to ipv4/6. I'll report back if there's any change or if I figure out the conflict.
I too did a factory reset but the stock messaging app does not support group texts correctly. Either on cell or WiFi calling. It slowly reverts back to missing texts with continues usage until you factory reset again.
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T-Mobile Missing some group chat sms texts
I'm having the same problem with my T-Mobile Z3. I think the problem is with T-Mobile, not the phone but I haven't been able to figure out what is causing it. I thought it was poor reception or Wifi Calling, but even with WIfi Calling off and Personal Cell Spot boosters, I still miss some. Otherwise, I love the phone.
As other users have said, this wasn't a permanent fix. My phone stopped rceiving group chat properly overnight, so now i'm back to square one. This is infuriating.
welcome to the jungle man. more and more i believe the problem is due to the phone and how it fetches mms. maybe it has to do with power management. because why would we get them all correctly after factory reset and slowly it starts dropping mms again. so strange.
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jayact
have you had mms issues with other phones on tmobile? i briefly had a m8 but had faulty bluetooth so i had to return it. didnt have time to really see if it had mms issues too.
Is it possible that with Stamina mode enabled the mms notification is expiring before the message content is downloaded? Might try adding the messaging app to the Stamina exclusion app list to see if that helps.
cschmitt said:
Is it possible that with Stamina mode enabled the mms notification is expiring before the message content is downloaded? Might try adding the messaging app to the Stamina exclusion app list to see if that helps.
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but i dont have stamina mode on. is it on by default? it says off on power management. i even disabled "queue background data"
still missing mms.
since family is in town for thanksgiving i have family members with different iphones and android phones with carriers on sprint, sprint/republic wireless, and verizon.
ran a few tests.. i could steadily reproduce missing group mms from sister with iphone 5 on verizon when everybody else got them. i disabled imessage on her phone and then her mms came through. reenabled imessage on her phone and mms still came through. no idea if this was coincidence or i actually did something important. i think i'm sending the phone back for nexus 6. if it has trouble then i have to jump ship from tmo.
regulator207 said:
but i dont have stamina mode on. is it on by default?
ran a few tests.. i could steadily reproduce missing group mms from sister with iphone 5 on verizon when everybody else got them.
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Stamina is off by default, so that's probably not the issue.
Maybe check your detailed usage by date and sender on TMO website to see if they show receipt of the missed messages, that would give an indication if it's a TMO issue or something with the phone.
Make sure your APN is set correctly. Mine was not set out of the box. Google it or search T-Mobile support page for correct settings. After I set APN it works flawlessly. Even group messaging.
I'm having the same problem and it's aggrivating not knowing if you missed messages.
It's not just group messages but regular messages.
Regulator (and others),
To answer your question, I'm a new tmobile customer. So, I haven't had this issue om Verizon. That said, I checked the messaging logs on my account, and it seems to actually be missing on their end. These groupchats I am missing aren't even being reported on their end. I'm planning on calling their service again to give them the details. I wish there was something else I could update with. This can't be a software issue at that point, right?
I have the same exact issue, word for word sadly, yesterday was the worst, people kept telling me that they couldn't get a hold of me, i restart my phone and BAM 20 texts blitz my phone from 2 days before -.-
TLDR
After turning off VoLTE (Settings > call settings > un-check Enable VoLTE) i seem to have no texts struggling to send still need to test group chats
Just thought I would update everyone who might be curious. After puttig in 2 more trouvle tickets with he tmobile engineers and finally giving up on going through tech support, I went to the tmobile store in person. I asked to transfer my number to a temp phone there to determine whether or not it's a handset or backend issue. Group chats came in perfectly on the LG G2. With that knowledge, I requested a second replacement phone. In case you didn't know (as no rep told me) we have a 1 year warrenty through tmobile by default ON TOP of the 2 year sony warrenty. This one was refurbished, but the texting issues are not there. I would recommend everyone do the same, if they are able. Right now, tmobile isn't recognizing it as a handset issue, or an issue at all, which is very strange. Hope this helps you guys.
Tl;dr get a replacement handset.
FWIW - i came upon this thread googling the same issue, but i have a nexus 5 on tmobile. i think it is the service, not the phone. getting ready to call t-mobile now...
Switched to Tmobile from Sprint 2 weeks ago. I am having the exact same problem with MMS/Group texting on my new stock Z3. I have confirmed that I am definitely not receiving all group messages. Turning off WiFi calling didn't help, turning off Volte didn't help, Stamina mode has never been on. I've tried using Textra and Google Messenger and Hangouts. I would say I get about 50% of the group messages sent to me. When I do get one it shows up in the threaded group message ok but I'll also have a notification from the individual (one-on-one) thread with the person that just sent the message and it shows as download failed.
jayact~ said:
Just thought I would update everyone who might be curious. After puttig in 2 more trouvle tickets with he tmobile engineers and finally giving up on going through tech support, I went to the tmobile store in person. I asked to transfer my number to a temp phone there to determine whether or not it's a handset or backend issue. Group chats came in perfectly on the LG G2. With that knowledge, I requested a second replacement phone. In case you didn't know (as no rep told me) we have a 1 year warrenty through tmobile by default ON TOP of the 2 year sony warrenty. This one was refurbished, but the texting issues are not there. I would recommend everyone do the same, if they are able. Right now, tmobile isn't recognizing it as a handset issue, or an issue at all, which is very strange. Hope this helps you guys.
Tl;dr get a replacement handset.
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I've been having the same issues that you (and others) have described. That is, missing group messages, some sms messages delayed significantly (sometimes a day or more) before I receive them, cannot download mms messages, etc. I am also a former Verizon customer, but have never had an iPhone.
Before I trade in my Z3 for a refurbished model, has the new phone permanently fixed all your messaging issues? If so, which messaging app are you using now? Hangouts? Textra?
Thanks so much. This is an incredibly frustrating issue. Such a fundamental phone function.
I'm waiting for 5.0 to come out. People are speculating that the messaging in lollipop will fix this issue.

SMS being receive with an extra number

So today every time I receive a message from anyone my phone adds a 1 to the beginning of the number making it an invalid number to respond to. So its sends the SMS out fine but when I receive a reply it separates it because the number doesn't match and I can't reply to it because it has to many digits. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Yes, since this morning I am having the same issue. Only with one contact though so far. I have tried increasing the amount of stored messages allowed, deleting the thread and resending messages, changing contact info.. Nothing seems to work. I am using the default messaging app.
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I adjusted my contact info, just deleted some numbers and re-entered them. It didn't appear to change the extra 1 at first but the next time I received a message it went to the proper conversation without the extra 1 and I could respond normally.

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