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Troubleshooting: Some SMS don't get through (German Network)

Hey everyone,
I face a SMS sending problem. I'm texting to Australia quite often and I'm (different to my t-mobile button above) with E-Plus. A long time me and my partner down under had no trouble sending/receiving text messages. But lately only half my texts get through.
We had a problem earlier this year when she was with Optus. All of a sudden my messages did not get through anymore. All of them. Then she changed to Vodafone and it seemed to work. But E-Plus (I'm actually with MedionMobile, just using E-Plus network) made their messages cheaper and now I face this problem!
It's really anoying. Now -
when I have such a problem - does it have anything to do with my Radio / Rom installed on the phone? Or is this just a network fault?
Would changing to Vodafone solve this problem since Vodafone Germany and Vodafone Australia are partner networks?
It's just that E-Plus is so much cheaper (1/3 of the price for a SMS!)
Please try to help me!

Is your operator billing you for the txts? If so, you can be sure they're transferred to your operators server correctly and your phone's alright. But you probably won't be able to get a deeper insight into what happens after that- if and where your txts are lost....
Changing networks MIGHT help, but don't count on it.
You might wanna try sending your txts using an internet-based service?! just to check... and, btw, that might be cheaper, too. I remember seeing a tool that allows you to send txts via internet-based services from your xperia using your data connection. i just can't seem to find it right now.

first: thanks for your help!
My operator is billing me for the text messages, yes. So they send it correctly. I even tried out to get a confirmation for sent items, you know? I always get the message that it has been delivered. But then she does not get the message...
I tried out to send messages from two of my class mates and from my mums phone as well as from my dads phone. Their messages all get through...
I think I know what you mean with internet based SMS sending. Innosend is such a service, huh?
But items sent throught that service do not get stored in my SMS store...But I will try it out, I guess. As well as I try a Vodafone SimCard.
I hope there is nothin wrong with my phone...

Out of interest, what phone does your partner have?

Oh, I think you got me there. Long time it was a Sony Ericsson...older one. But she got a new one two weeks ago or so. But I don't think it's her phone because the fault occured on both, her old and her new phone. I'll write it in here as soon as I know...

Ah ok cool. The reason I was asking: When I got my Xperia I soon realised that my gf was only getting around half the texts I was sending. It drove me crazy as nothing seemed to fix it - I got my phone replaced, she got hers replaced, we both got new SIMs. Just like you, the texts were showing up on bills, and O2 could see them going through their message centre, so they could not identify the problem.
Eventually I figured it out, my gf did not receive my messages when they were longer than a single message. Anything more and it simply did not show up on her phone (LG Renoir), but still seemed to send successfully and show up on my bill. I then realised that the same thing happened when sending long texts to my friend (also an LG, but a Viewty). They can both get long messages from other people, just not me, so I think there must be some sort of incompatibility between the Brands/softwares.
Probably of no help to you really, but maybe you send long messages too?

No, it's fine since I experience such a thing on my own now. Thanks for sharing! I'm gonna ask her what kind of phone she uses now. Today I removed the SIM Card from my phone and replaced it. The Xperia did a new setup on my network and afterwards my 2 sent messages came through. Maybe I just had to do that because I flashed a new Rom and later a new Radio without renewing my network options...
As you, I do not have a clue where the problem is...But also takin my mums T-Mobile Sim Card in my phone she got all messages. I believe it's the operator...I keep you guys updated when I have my Vodafone card or if it should work normally now...
Thanks for your help. Always appreciated!
edit:yes, I experienced that longer messages have less chance to get through. Sometimes they are messed up or just the first part (first 160 characters) get through...hmm

I can text in Korean, but can't receive Korean texts.

I'm asking this question on behalf of my friend. He downloaded the Korean IME to his Captivate, and has no problem typing or sending texts in Korean. The problem that he's having is he can't receive any Korean texts. All he gets are ****** instead of the written characters.
When he changes to locale to Korean the texts still come in as ******. Any idea what's happening? My other friend's Vibrant has no problem receiving Korean Text. I thought it was weird that the Captivate couldn't.

skyungjae said:
I'm asking this question on behalf of my friend. He downloaded the Korean IME to his Captivate, and has no problem typing or sending texts in Korean. The problem that he's having is he can't receive any Korean texts. All he gets are ****** instead of the written characters.
When he changes to locale to Korean the texts still come in as ******. Any idea what's happening? My other friend's Vibrant has no problem receiving Korean Text. I thought it was weird that the Captivate couldn't.
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Mine is fine. I text with my bro/friends all the time in korean and I receive them perfectly. Is his phone rooted? Maybe he can try going back to stock via odin.

Is his capticvate and his friends all on at&t network?
at&t phones can send and recieve each others while for outside networks we can send ours but we cant recieve theirs... i know it sucks but thats what it is.
i use kakaotalk for those people outside my network. its a program you can use to text pictures and even videos.
any smartphone and iphone can use it to text each other in korean.
just a suggestion and if you are running low on text messages you can use it also since it uses data.
just a thought and im not promoting this app but telling you what i use. ^^ GL

sorry to bump this all thread but im having this issue now. rooted and installeg d congnition4.1 korean is selectable in locale languages
but same as op i can send korean text but recieve it only as*****

Not sure if it would work, but try installing 'MoreLocale 2' from the Market and trying it that way. I use Korean often as well, but never had a problem like this...

If you are on ATT, then its an ATT issue. Something weird about the way it processes messages or something.

thanks, for the replies. got a friend to send me an mms were both on at&T doesnt seem ot have a problem. i guess its jsut from other carriers - at&t. but for the korean text still no solution yet .. il keep reading around .thanks for the replies

[Q] How to send Chinese SMS

Hey all, I own a G1 on tmobile's network. I've been trying to send SMS in Chinese, but when I send them, the recipient only gets ***** instead of Chinese characters. For example, if I send 你好, they would get **. I did some research, and eventually found out that it has something to do with unicode support. I installed Handcent, which says it has unicode support but the same problem is present. Does anyone know how to make it work?
Thanks
EDIT: Apparently, if I send it to others on T-Mobile's network, it displays fine, but if I send to a different network, then it becomes stars.

I think that everyone you send it to has to have it supported on their phone. Not 100% sure though... Hope this helps.
Taylor

The person I sent to has an iPhone, and was able to send something in Chinese back to me, and I received it fine. When I contacted T-Mobile about this, they gave me some BS about how other carriers (such as AT&T and Verizon) do not have the right encoders for T-Mobile's unicode texts or something.

That's a known issue with Tmobile, they just have to blame it on any and everything else they can. it's the only network that you can't send any foreign language from it to another network. very frustrating. the last thing I got when I called them (and after ruling out everything else possible) is "it's a known issue, we are working on it" but it's been like this for years.

CDMA does not support Chinese SMS
As far as I know all CDMA providers in North America does not support Chinese at all! It is their system, not the phone. My wife have a Palm Treo 700p(CDMA) & I have a Palm 680(GSM). I can sent & receive Chinese, she can sent but turns out garbage on the other side.

Problem with receiving MMS

Hi,
I am new here, sorry if this thread is somewhere but I cant find any information about my problem. I got my new smartphone HTC ONE. Everything working great but when my brother and wife sent me MMS with differently picture from another HTC smartphones (a specially HTC ONE X and HTC Desire C) I got only message - ,,Image attachment(s) deleted from the message to adapt to your device capabilities"
If I tried send MMS from Samsung I received all MMS without problems. Before I had HTC ONE X, HTC SENSATION and here all MMS was without problem. I changed phone and I have problems now.
Please help if you know how I can figure it out.
I am from Slovakia and my provider is ORANGE.
Big THANK YOU :angel:

Hi I have the same problem, I´m from Slovakia, and have Orange Too
Hi, I have that same problem too, Im too from Slovakia, and I have Orange. You can contact me via E-mail and we can speak in Slovak language, maybe we can figure out something together, or share our expreriences with this problem.
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jjjavisss said:
Hi, I have that same problem too, Im too from Slovakia, and I have Orange. You can contact me via E-mail and we can speak in Slovak language, maybe we can figure out something together, or share our expreriences with this problem.
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Ok send me a e-mail, I have solution for this problem.
bye

Hello could You send Your solution here in case it could be publishable. I have also this problem with receiving of MMS (Orange SK), probably after upgrade from ICS to JB on LG L7 P700 (offcial firmware v20d).
Lolkor said:
Ok send me a e-mail, I have solution for this problem.
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My solution
Hello,
my solution is very simple. I had big problems with that problem and I check all websites and forum´s what I know it. Google doesnt help me and after couple of days I called to my operator - for his expert line (ORANGE SK) and explain him all my problems with mms. There was a man which told me that he will try it and he will call me back. After 3 or 4 hours he called me that ORANGE expert people find out where problem is and was there problem with some protocol inside the NET. I asked what now and he said that everything will be putted in and he will call me again. After one hour he called me and send me couple of mms from differently phones included HTC.
After that everything working on my HTC ONE without any problems.
Good luck

MMS recieve problem
I got It. After calls to ORANGE (my provider), they have done something to their NET settings (something with my phone-type support) and now it works fine. Now I can recieve MMS pictures bigger then 30 kb (max. 300 Kb).
The solution is - ITS THE CARRIER PROBLEM, not the PHONE.
My Alcatel one touch idol ultra works now fine. (to solve this, it took 3 months of studying the android, forums, carrier settings and many many calls to provider!!!)
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SMS oversea problem? please help

i bought this s6 edge in usa on ebay, then i went back to my country,
my phone's working well with receiving sms, calling, but the problem is it cant reply sms any number with prefix like "+65" , i have to manually remove prefix number then the message's gone through, but it's happened again when new message's come , do you guys have any solution for this problem , thank alot