I've noticed that my texts aren't immediately sending. I've only had the phone for a few days, but I had this problem on the stock rom and also on flashed rom's.
For example, I sent a text about two hours ago, but I just checked my messages and the time beside it shows a couple of minutes ago.
Anybody know what's up?
i've never experienced that but have have got the message notifying me that it was unable to send the message and asks if i want to try again. And usually when i do click try again the message pops up a second time and later i find out that the recipient has received the message multiple times.
Have you tried calling your provider and seeing if there experiencing any network issues in your area?
Might be a slow work day, so I'm hoping I can get rid of some the little bugs that have been bothering me....
1. Sometimes I will receive the same text message multiple times, up to about 10 but it's usually only one or two duplicates. This can happen over a period of about 20 minutes.
2. Messages get delivered several hours later or only after a reboot. There is not usually any indication that the sms failed to deliver. I sent a text yesterday to my brother, and it seemed to go out fine with no error message. After rebooting my phone today, I shortly thereafter received a confused text asking what I was talking about. The text I thought I had sent yesterday now appeared in our conversation with a timestamp of when I restarted my phone.
3. The stock messaging app doesn't give me any notifications at all. Obviously, that's not acceptable, so I'm stuck using a 3rd party sms app (handcent). Don't know if this is related, but I use Google Voice for my voicemail and that also doesn't give me notifications (have my voicemails sent to my gmail account as a workaround on that). If I open the apps my voicemails and texts are there, just no notification from the phone.
I know at least the first two issues could be an issue with the carrier (at&t), but I had none of these problems with an iphone prior to switching or when using the mediocre AT&T Messages app on this phone.
I was hoping these problems would magically disappear after rooting and installing a new ROM (viperXL), but that hasn't been the case.
Thanks for any help!
My text messages are delayed on T-mobile with the new xperia Z3 D6616. I dont get texts until hours after they are sent. I have tried to use the stock sony messaging, hangouts, textra, and whatsapp. they all have huge delay. I have restored to factory settings since I thought it was from switching from iphone and bringing text history with me...... after the restore to factory with no contacts or text history, there is still a several hour delay on texts. please help!!
HappyGreg said:
My text messages are delayed on T-mobile with the new xperia Z3 D6616. I dont get texts until hours after they are sent. I have tried to use the stock sony messaging, hangouts, textra, and whatsapp. they all have huge delay. I have restored to factory settings since I thought it was from switching from iphone and bringing text history with me...... after the restore to factory with no contacts or text history, there is still a several hour delay on texts. please help!!
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Might be a sim or network issue, mine works fine. Take it to TMO and try out a new sim.
HappyGreg said:
My text messages are delayed on T-mobile with the new xperia Z3 D6616. I dont get texts until hours after they are sent. I have tried to use the stock sony messaging, hangouts, textra, and whatsapp. they all have huge delay. I have restored to factory settings since I thought it was from switching from iphone and bringing text history with me...... after the restore to factory with no contacts or text history, there is still a several hour delay on texts. please help!!
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Is it SMS or MMS? If you have wifi calling enabled and its active, you will not be able to send/receive MMS. SMS should work though. Otherwise, maybe its an outage in your area.
thanks guys. i did a restore, removed all my old iphone text history, and turned off wifi calling. it seams to be working, but i tried turning off wifi calling before all this. I am using textra now, not sure if I like the battery consumption or not yet, but its fast now. mms seams to be going through fast now too.
on a side note, the stock Sony messaging app is terrible for mms messages, and just texting in general i think.
HappyGreg said:
thanks guys. i did a restore, removed all my old iphone text history, and turned off wifi calling. it seams to be working, but i tried turning off wifi calling before all this. I am using textra now, not sure if I like the battery consumption or not yet, but its fast now. mms seams to be going through fast now too.
on a side note, the stock Sony messaging app is terrible for mms messages, and just texting in general i think.
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I just let Hangouts handle my SMS/MMS, you can do the same.
HappyGreg said:
My text messages are delayed on T-mobile with the new xperia Z3 D6616. I dont get texts until hours after they are sent. I have tried to use the stock sony messaging, hangouts, textra, and whatsapp. they all have huge delay. I have restored to factory settings since I thought it was from switching from iphone and bringing text history with me...... after the restore to factory with no contacts or text history, there is still a several hour delay on texts. please help!!
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I was having issues with texts not sending. I found on another forum people disabling VoLTE and so far thats been working for me. Sucks not being able to use VoLTE but maybe it'll work in a future update.
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I was having issues with texts not sending. I found on another forum people disabling VoLTE and so far thats been working for me. Sucks not being able to use VoLTE but maybe it'll work in a future update.
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Sorry to bring this from the dead. I am an AT&T customer and I have D6606 that works perfectly fine but I don't get text messages when I'm connected to WiFi.
How did you disable VoLTE?
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Sorry to bring this from the dead. I am an AT&T customer and I have D6606 that works perfectly fine but I don't get text messages when I'm connected to WiFi.
How did you disable VoLTE?
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Settings - - > call settings
ZeroG1 said:
Settings - - > call settings
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I don't see this option in the call settings?
buda81 said:
I don't see this option in the call settings?
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Must only be on the T-Mobile version.
having the same issues with tmob. this is my second z3. not sure what the problem is
What does it say under Settings -> About Phone -> Status -> My phone number?
If it says unknown, try fixing that. I had to stick my SIM into an old BB Curve and edit the MSISDN. Since then Hangouts has been grouping iMessage MMS correctly
I'm also on my second Z3 (T-Mobile) right now. Everything they've told me to "fix" the solution in which my text messages aren't sending through until I retry 5-8 times, has yet to work permanently.
I've just now turned off the VoLTE to see if that will help. I've been told to turn off Wi-Fi calling automatically (even if that feature is turned off anyways) and that helped for what seemed like 24 hours. I've done several Master Resets and those, again, only helped for a day or two.
I downloaded Sony's PC Companion and all that did, essentially, was another Master Reset to my phone while saying "Software has been updated."
Now I'm still struggling with the same issue in which my phone won't send texts. I called Sony and talked to them; they're only offering a refurbished replacement. Otherwise, they said to hold the power button and the volume up button at the same time to do a power cycle. This fixes the phone temporarily, but not permanently. Plus, I don't feel like turning my phone on and off 5-7 times a day if necessary. None of my previous Xperia models needed this.
So after I use my phone with VoLTE off for a while, I'll report back. Otherwise... This might be the downfall of Xperia for me.
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I'm also on my second Z3 (T-Mobile) right now. Everything they've told me to "fix" the solution in which my text messages aren't sending through until I retry 5-8 times, has yet to work permanently.
I've just now turned off the VoLTE to see if that will help. I've been told to turn off Wi-Fi calling automatically (even if that feature is turned off anyways) and that helped for what seemed like 24 hours. I've done several Master Resets and those, again, only helped for a day or two.
I downloaded Sony's PC Companion and all that did, essentially, was another Master Reset to my phone while saying "Software has been updated."
Now I'm still struggling with the same issue in which my phone won't send texts. I called Sony and talked to them; they're only offering a refurbished replacement. Otherwise, they said to hold the power button and the volume up button at the same time to do a power cycle. This fixes the phone temporarily, but not permanently. Plus, I don't feel like turning my phone on and off 5-7 times a day if necessary. None of my previous Xperia models needed this.
So after I use my phone with VoLTE off for a while, I'll report back. Otherwise... This might be the downfall of Xperia for me.
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I am having the same issue as well. So is probably a software issue. Hopefully T-Mobile can update soon. It's really annoying. Are you also having problem receiving texts? People send me texts but I never receive them.
:[ Still having issues
Sorry for bringing up the old-ish thread but I'm becoming quite irritated over this issue. I got the phone as a bday gift last month, but since then I've been also experiencing these messaging outages. Before, it was a text delayed by some time, which progressed to some hours, and now some texts I don't receive at all until AFTER I restart the phone. The phone actually will show two timestamps (via the textra app, which I also downloaded to try and help alleviate the problem, but it hasn't) that show when i finally viewed the text (after restart) and when the text "should" have arrived. I notice the problem mostly persists when the phone has been on hiatus for a while; typically if I'm still actively using/looking at the phone or texting, the messages sent from people will arrive when they were sent. But, once the screen has been off for some time, that's when SMS arrives delayed/after phone restart and MMS are just a lost cause. I'm on the TMO service, and trying to contact them have been less than helpful. Literally, they just told me to text myself, and when I said "yes, the text arrived" they assumed the problem was fixed despite me telling them IF I'M LOOKING AT MY PHONE, MOST OF THE TIME THE TEXT WILL ARRIVE. So, I'm also partially ranting about their customer service. I've tried disabling the WiFi, I've already swapped the phone, I've tried tinkering with some of the settings about having data run while phone is off, and nothing has fixed the issue.
Thanks for bringing the thread back up. I have noticed that I have intermittant text sending issues, too. As well as receiving issues (it has been about 3 days now since my wife received the same MMS sitting right next to me with her SGS4. I didn't pay attention if they were when I was connected to wifi, etc, but I just tried disabling volte and will update as I come to more conclusions.
Come to think of it, I have another weird thing with group messages. When I respond, I'll get the same text I send out back, from myself.
Omg this is happening. Seriously nothing but disappoint on this phone on t-mobile. No group text, and trouble sending out some sms.. Hope for an update. Battery has been dying faster too 17 hrs. And sony remote play is just choppy now....3 month on this phone. Sad
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For some reason I am not receiving all text messages . Random texts will not show up on my phone even though they show sent on the other person's phone. Getting frustrating bc I have missed some important texts. I googled the problem and it there was an article from 2 days ago about the issue without a fix available. FYI I am on the TMobile Galaxy S8+ ....anyone else experience this issue? Anyone know of a fix?
i doubt its the phone its probably a bug on your account from tmo
We need to get this to thread going. It's a big discussion topic on Reddit and articles are showing up on Android sites.
I'm with Telus in Canada. I've been using the Android Messages app. I have no idea how many texts I'm not getting but there's one friend who's asked me a couple of times if I got their text and I've said no. I've seen screenshots from them that show the texts they sent. That person actually uses an S7 with default Samsung Messages app.
There's another case today where my kid's school sends messages to parents via both text and email. I always get their messages twice. Once via text, the other via email. Today I only got an email message, so clearly it's not just texts from one person not getting through.
Just received some texts from two days ago. Not all texts, but the last few that never showed up. Maybe something is getting fixed?
As of yesterday I still have been missing some texts daily
Did you recently switch from iPhone? Sometimes iMessage messes up senders that use an iphone, and you wont get it.
On the flipside, though, there does seem to be an issue with texting anyways, or MMS. Like the videos look like ****, or, I have even seen messages that delayed WEEKS come through. For example, my wife uses Handcent, I use Samsung Message app. Over a month ago, my brother in law sent her a pic of our dog, which she forwarded to me...but I didn't get it until a month later, when she accidentally opened the stock messages app, instead of the Handcent app she usually uses. Then, I got all the damn replies a month late from the related group messaging.
This was happening to me weeks ago so is nothing new. Unsure why it's suddenly become such a worldwide issue in the last few days.
I've tried every SMS app going as well as the stock one and it doesn't matter which I use. The messages still didn't arrive.
My S8+ was bought factory unlocked in the UK and it's on the 3 network.
This definitely exists. I have narrowed my issue to long text messages that would be split into 2 or more. I have since switched to the Android Messaging app and no longer have the issue..... I would try it...
My issue existed with the native Samsung Messenger app.