I am very new to Android coming from Palm Pre and I purchased Droid Pro and activated it with Page Plus everything seems to work fine except I can't receive or can't send any plain text messages any kind. I haven't been able to receive or send any ever since I got this activated. I have tried everything I could.
I did activation multiple times and still no luck! I am very frustrated at this point and don't know what to do. I really love this phone and it works great including web data, calls but the stupid text messages will not work at all.
As soon as I send a text message I get an instant error message saying text message not sent and it does that for every message. This is just driving me insane since I text more than I talk.
I am getting close to my last resort is the reset this phone to factory which I don't know how to do. My brother uses Droid 2 Global and Fascinate on Page Plus Wireless with no problems. I tried calling multiple sources and no one is willing to help me.
Please help me if you can.
Anybody here know what I can do? I am so frustrated. I know I am missing text messages right now. I hate to go back to Palm... and this is the only Android phone from Verizon that I like so far. I love the keyboard but without being able to send or receive text messages this thing would be worthless for me. I text more than I talk.
This are just random guesses, but i thought i would try:
- wrong sms format (UTF-8?)
- wrong number/address for sms central in settings?
Fixed!!!
After days of fighting with it I got it figured out by process of elimination. For Page Plus Wireless under "Wireless & Network Settings" > "Mobile Networks" > "Network Mode" - needs to be set to "GLOBAL" and not "CDMA" like I thought and after this all my text messages are working properly.
This may be useful to someone later on.
Now if I can get rid of all the bloatware that this Droid Pro came with without rooting I would be very excited. I love this phone so far even though I am missing the true multi-tasking but I am sure I will get used to. I am already getting used to Android and it's only been a few days
Root it and change build.prop
change in system/build.prop
ro.telephony.gsm-routes-us-smsc = 0
This will solve sms problems
igorb81 said:
I am very new to Android coming from Palm Pre and I purchased Droid Pro and activated it with Page Plus everything seems to work fine except I can't receive or can't send any plain text messages any kind. I haven't been able to receive or send any ever since I got this activated. I have tried everything I could.
I did activation multiple times and still no luck! I am very frustrated at this point and don't know what to do. I really love this phone and it works great including web data, calls but the stupid text messages will not work at all.
As soon as I send a text message I get an instant error message saying text message not sent and it does that for every message. This is just driving me insane since I text more than I talk.
I am getting close to my last resort is the reset this phone to factory which I don't know how to do. My brother uses Droid 2 Global and Fascinate on Page Plus Wireless with no problems. I tried calling multiple sources and no one is willing to help me.
Please help me if you can.
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Wife has an unrooted VZW Droid Mini XT1030. running JB (not sure which version, will check). KitKat 4.4.4
recently have been having intermittent texts not delivered. no error message on sending. they just never get there. in a back and forth conversation 1 or 2 messages out of 10 might not arrive. Happens for multiple recipients on different carriers. MMS is fine. Using default Android messaging app.
all messages show up on VZW's online message log (website login from PC, so the message hits their network somehow.) Posted support request via VZW forums. so far we've verified that a reboot doesn't fix it.
Only thing I notice that seems odd is under message details, the last line for all sent text messages is : "Cause Code: Addr.Vcnt., 0"
Googling brings up a number of old threads back in the Android Gingerbread days, people were often getting that as an error message when messages wouldn't deliver. Also, noticed a number of threads with intermittent delivery issues, similar to mine, and they were almost all Motorola devices of one flavor or another.
Anyone know what that message actually means? I've seen several quite contradictory explanations. Think it's relevant? A red herring? At this point I'm not even sure the problem is the phone vs. something with VZW. Could something on my phone be intermittently messing up delivery?
Second, recommend troubleshooting? If it's the phone, I figure a factory reset's in order at some point. If that doesn't help, other suggestions? Assuming the mini version is right, root/reflash? If it's not the phone... any suggestions for resolving? I was going to port to a VZW MVNO, but if it's a network issue, decent support goes away at that point...
EDIT: correction, running KitKat 4.4.4
Could it be a sim issue? Pull the sim card out and put it back in.
Sent from my XT1254
Will try.
Also, on KitKat not JB
Ok, a little backfill here. My wife and I got Note 5's about a month after release around the time updates were released allowing RCS functionality. I loved advanced messaging, mainly because I could text full resolution pics less than 10MB.
When it came out, I remember if one of your contacts had it, the messaging icon under their contact details turned from orange to green. Also, if I remember right the only way to mms a full size pic was to share it from the gallery to messages, not attach a pic from within the messages app.
So, I realize it had been a good 6 weeks or so since I've been able to text large pics to my wife. Her contact details icons are no longer green either. There is an S6 and an S6 Edge on my account also and none of us can advance message each other.
I also cannot use RCS with a friend of mine on Tmobile with a Note 5 either. I went to a Tmobile store and they said maybe binge on was affecting it, I obliged them and disabled binge on on the other 4 lines, mine is unlimited and had been off since announced. We tried that, to no avail and the service rep said I should call tech support. Called, they escalated it and created a trouble ticked. Called me back today saying there were no network problems, to go to a store.
I took to Twitter with @TmobileHelp and they had me make sure VOLTE was on and WiFi calling, which it was. Had me clear data on the messages app, restart device, still no go.
I did a full factory reset, no go. T-mobile's twitter help created another ticket for me and said they escalated it and will follow up by this friday.
Some other notes is all devices are completely stock and fully updated, no root, and we all live in strong service LTE areas in SoCal. I've travelled in a 200 mile radius the last week checking my RCS, and it doesn't work anywhere. Well, I should clarify that Video calling on LTE works, just not advanced messaging.
I haven't found any cases of this on the Web anywhere else. Has anybody ran into this or have any other tips I have left out?
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farfromovin said:
Ok, a little backfill here. My wife and I got Note 5's about a month after release around the time updates were released allowing RCS functionality. I loved advanced messaging, mainly because I could text full resolution pics less than 10MB.
When it came out, I remember if one of your contacts had it, the messaging icon under their contact details turned from orange to green. Also, if I remember right the only way to mms a full size pic was to share it from the gallery to messages, not attach a pic from within the messages app.
So, I realize it had been a good 6 weeks or so since I've been able to text large pics to my wife. Her contact details icons are no longer green either. There is an S6 and an S6 Edge on my account also and none of us can advance message each other.
I also cannot use RCS with a friend of mine on Tmobile with a Note 5 either. I went to a Tmobile store and they said maybe binge on was affecting it, I obliged them and disabled binge on on the other 4 lines, mine is unlimited and had been off since announced. We tried that, to no avail and the service rep said I should call tech support. Called, they escalated it and created a trouble ticked. Called me back today saying there were no network problems, to go to a store.
I took to Twitter with @TmobileHelp and they had me make sure VOLTE was on and WiFi calling, which it was. Had me clear data on the messages app, restart device, still no go.
I did a full factory reset, no go. T-mobile's twitter help created another ticket for me and said they escalated it and will follow up by this friday.
Some other notes is all devices are completely stock and fully updated, no root, and we all live in strong service LTE areas in SoCal. I've travelled in a 200 mile radius the last week checking my RCS, and it doesn't work anywhere. Well, I should clarify that Video calling on LTE works, just not advanced messaging.
I haven't found any cases of this on the Web anywhere else. Has anybody ran into this or have any other tips I have left out?
Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk
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try this. go into contacts>"my profile" which is your name> and enable "profile sharing" on both devices. that was my issue back when i first tried using it, but it works fine now. its spotty sometimes, but it does indeed work for me.
guaneet said:
try this. go into contacts>"my profile" which is your name> and enable "profile sharing" on both devices. that was my issue back when i first tried using it, but it works fine now. its spotty sometimes, but it does indeed work for me.
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Mine was shared but not my wifes. Changed them both as well as cleaned up several duplicate contacts. No dice. Each "my profile" for the respective device shows green icons on its own device. But on the other devices it's a no go. They even show that they are shared via profile sharing on the opposite devices but still won't light up green.
I'll post up after tmobile follows up on the tech ticket today or tomorrow.
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farfromovin said:
Mine was shared but not my wifes. Changed them both as well as cleaned up several duplicate contacts. No dice. Each "my profile" for the respective device shows green icons on its own device. But on the other devices it's a no go. They even show that they are shared via profile sharing on the opposite devices but still won't light up green.
I'll post up after tmobile follows up on the tech ticket today or tomorrow.
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That's weird. But good luck! Also you could try two more things , when you factory reset your phone make sure you enable enhanced features after you log into your Samsung account, but before you do that try to wipe cache/dalvik and see if that helps. But before you do that wipe enhanced features cache in applications and see if that helps.
Lol yeah I know its all jumbled up lol
Well, factory reset both devices. Logged in skipping Google and Samsung logins. Manually added each other's contacts on the 2 devices, enabled profile sharing, opted into enhanced features, WiFi calling preferred and connected.
Restarted both devices, no advanced messages. Can video call no problem, although the video call icon is not green either like it used to be.
Is anybody in SoCal able to use advanced messaging? At this point I'm calling it a network issue.
Tmobile said the network is fine, they are sending 2 new sims to try.
farfromovin said:
Ok, a little backfill here. My wife and I got Note 5's about a month after release around the time updates were released allowing RCS functionality. I loved advanced messaging, mainly because I could text full resolution pics less than 10MB.
When it came out, I remember if one of your contacts had it, the messaging icon under their contact details turned from orange to green. Also, if I remember right the only way to mms a full size pic was to share it from the gallery to messages, not attach a pic from within the messages app.
So, I realize it had been a good 6 weeks or so since I've been able to text large pics to my wife. Her contact details icons are no longer green either. There is an S6 and an S6 Edge on my account also and none of us can advance message each other.
I also cannot use RCS with a friend of mine on Tmobile with a Note 5 either. I went to a Tmobile store and they said maybe binge on was affecting it, I obliged them and disabled binge on on the other 4 lines, mine is unlimited and had been off since announced. We tried that, to no avail and the service rep said I should call tech support. Called, they escalated it and created a trouble ticked. Called me back today saying there were no network problems, to go to a store.
I took to Twitter with @TmobileHelp and they had me make sure VOLTE was on and WiFi calling, which it was. Had me clear data on the messages app, restart device, still no go.
I did a full factory reset, no go. T-mobile's twitter help created another ticket for me and said they escalated it and will follow up by this friday.
Some other notes is all devices are completely stock and fully updated, no root, and we all live in strong service LTE areas in SoCal. I've travelled in a 200 mile radius the last week checking my RCS, and it doesn't work anywhere. Well, I should clarify that Video calling on LTE works, just not advanced messaging.
I haven't found any cases of this on the Web anywhere else. Has anybody ran into this or have any other tips I have left out?
Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk
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I'm having the same problem. I have the s6, everything updated yesterday, I turned on everything I need to turn on and it's still not working. It's really frustrating.
Solved with 4 new sim cards. All contact video and messaging icons lit up green after about 1 minute of having the new sims in the 4 RCS capable devices on my account.
Haven't really found US users for this phone. Band coverage looked good (a lot better than some Xioami's that are readily in America), and I got a pretty good deal on a new one.
SMS messages aren't coming through though. They've all sent fine, but most don't come through. Twice I have had the phone suddenly receive a ton of ones I knew I missed at once- when I tried to back up my text messages, and then randomly while sitting on my desk at work today.
I have T-Mobile and have tried multiple SIM cards, checking the APN settings (which will not switch to manual for some reason but look correct), tried another SMS app, and all in all spent 3-4 hours either at a T-Mobile store with clerks trying whatever they could, or on the phone with T-Mobile support. The next thing I'll be trying tonight is putting my SIM in another phone, and if things work, then doing a factory reset on this one.
It's looking like I may have to sell the phone at a loss and move on, but I thought I'd ask here first if this is something that the community might have a say on. Thanks in advance if anyone has anything to try!
I have the phone running on T-Mobile without an issue. APN settings are picked up automatically. They should only be needed for MMS (not SMS) anyhow.
evbenev said:
I have the phone running on T-Mobile without an issue. APN settings are picked up automatically. They should only be needed for MMS (not SMS) anyhow.
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The May security update fixed things for a couple of days- now I'm back to not receiving SMS messages. I guess I'll try a factory reset at this point...?
EDIT: Factory reset did nothing. Attempting an SMS backup did nothing either this time.
Any settings you can remember changing evbenev that might affect SMS or network connectivity? Anything you had to have T-Mobile do on their end?
Since I swapped my sim into this T-Mobile branded Z Flip 3 I've been getting a "<Subject: NoSubject>" line on top off all my MMS. Getting it on group text on every text, since group texting uses MMS.
Was just wondering if I'm the only one getting this, since I didn't find this on my search?
man... I guess I'm to only one
apatcas said:
Since I swapped my sim into this T-Mobile branded Z Flip 3 I've been getting a "<Subject: NoSubject>" line on top off all my MMS. Getting it on group text on every text, since group texting uses MMS.
Was just wondering if I'm the only one getting this, since I didn't find this on my search?
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I'm experiencing the EXACT same thing with my new Unlocked Z Fold 3 (that has a T-Mobile sim card installed). I've spent the last 90-minutes on the phone with T-Mobile support, and they are dumbfounded. Next they are going to reach out to Samsung. (If you do a Google search on this subject, you'll see that it goes back years on various Samsung models on the T-Mobile network.. I've not come across any posts that explain how it was ever fixed. Hopefully they'll find a solution for me, and I'll be sure to reply here, if so.)
As a work around, you could try installing a different messaging app from the Google Play store. I went with Textra. The Textra app does NOT display the "Subject: NoSubject" (even though the "Subject: NoSubject" is appearing in the exact same text message when viewed inside of the Samsung Message app.)
Honestly... without sounding bad, I'm at least happy it's not just me.
You can download Google Messages and it will fix that, but then you are giving Google all your text messages also. You also cannot use "text and call on other devices" with google messages.
I'm almost 100% sure that it has to do with their Messages application
This is the only thing I do not like about this phone. Hope TMobile can fix this asap
is "download automatically" turned on from the messages settings?
you should contact T-Mobile
Yeah, it's setup to download automatically.
I did contact T-mobile and they are aware of the issue