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[Q] Unable to Send SMS suddenly

Hi Peeps,
For some strange reason my SGS has decided to stop sending sms. After hitting send the messages just get stuck on "sending"
I have checked the message centre number and the mms setting just in case. I have tried the sim in an old nokia and it texts just fine.
It was having intermittent issues with sms around a week ago, where it wouldnt send a message, so i would send the same one again and then both would send simultaneously. However now its not sending at all.
I am running Froyo.xwjp6 with kernel 2.6.32.9.
I have also tried instaling Handcent SMS but i just get the error "message not sent"
Thoughts on a postcard?

Same here, although trying handcent has allowed me to send, but strangely, will intermittently fail, im sure its a froyo bug.

tommyturbo said:
Same here, although trying handcent has allowed me to send, but strangely, will intermittently fail, im sure its a froyo bug.
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I managed to fix it. Couldn't be bothered with trying to reflash the modem or even the os, so tried the Privacy-return to factory settings option just out of curiosity. Can't figure out what it did exactly but when it rebooted i had not lost any settings or applications, and all my home screen app shortcuts were still there. The only discernable difference was the lack of gadgets on the home screen, which I had to reinstall.
The important thing however is that messaging worked again. God knows why.
One susipicion I have is that this is due to my usage of Titanium Backup. I installed it when i was running Eclair, and each time i upgrade the OS i use it to restore my old system data and apps. Perhaps some change between Eclair and Froyo's messaging settings is being overwritten by and older version by Titanium. I suspect this as following the above factory restore I tried a Titanium restore and instantly it broke my messaging again. So I did the factory again and got them back. There wasn't really any need to use Titanium as I said before I didn't seem to lose any setting or apps, but did it anyway out due to that old cat's friend curiosity
Give it a go if u dare and see what happens
Let me know how u get on...

Ok so im still having the same problem.is there really noone out there with an idea?
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[Q] Serendipity 5.0 not receiving incoming calls

I have a Samsung Captivate and just flashed the Seredipity ROM v5.0. Everything is working great except I cannot receive incoming calls. The phone will ring once and then go straight to voicemail or will do half a ring and go straight to voicemail. Anyone experience the same issue or have a fix?

Dropped Calls
I had the same problem the day after I flashed to 5.0. I'll be watching for a pattern. Hopefully note a major issue.

dalai lama said:
I have a Samsung Captivate and just flashed the Seredipity ROM v5.0. Everything is working great except I cannot receive incoming calls. The phone will ring once and then go straight to voicemail or will do half a ring and go straight to voicemail. Anyone experience the same issue or have a fix?
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I had the same problem, it was frustrating. The problem was that when I restored my apps through titanium backup, I backed up some call settings that screwed it up. I reflashed and only restored my apps with data, not apps and system data.

crossover37 said:
I had the same problem, it was frustrating. The problem was that when I restored my apps through titanium backup, I backed up some call settings that screwed it up. I reflashed and only restored my apps with data, not apps and system data.
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Same problem I had. When I reflashed 5.0 and used titanium I deselected the phone app on my batch restore list and haven't had any FCs on my incoming calls. It would ring for a split second then FC. Hope this helps. Love this rom!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

crossover37 said:
I had the same problem, it was frustrating. The problem was that when I restored my apps through titanium backup, I backed up some call settings that screwed it up. I reflashed and only restored my apps with data, not apps and system data.
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you saved me. thanks

No name/picture on incoming calls after 2.2 upgrade

Does anyone know how to solve this issue? Since I've upgraded to 2.2, my contacts no longer show a name or picture when I'm receiving incoming calls. I've tried restoring my contacts through Google, Lookout, and tried factory reset several times but nothing seems to fix the issue.
All I get is the telephone number when receiving calls, even if I have the person on my contacts list with a picture. Please help! I did not have this issue in 1.6.

Thats odd. Im not experiencing that. The only thing I've seen thats worked for that (as I've seen a couple other people with the same issue) is to do a factory reset.
But you've already done that, so Im clueless.
Anyone?

Same happened to both Zio's on my acct, factory reset solved it.

TakashiMoto said:
Same happened to both Zio's on my acct, factory reset solved it.
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i'm still having that problem. I factory reset my phone several times over as well, redid my sd card, and re-assigned the pics back the the proper contacts but still everytime I get a call from say my mother, instead of the pic I assigned to her number I get my girlfriends pic showing up for my mother and a friends pic for my girlfriend when she calls me. I got so fed up with trying to figure it out I just un-assigned all pics to my contacts all together.

I am having the same exact problem. No name or pic added to incoming calls. Mine does work on texts just fine tho. I have done a factory reset and a *228 to try to correct this to no avail. Any one have any ideas??

Same problem using active sync, gmail or touchdown contacts. Going back to the call log and the contacts will update the call log after 20 seconds or so.

You can always start from scratch. Factory Reset the phone then format your SD card. Take your SD out and update again. Probably best not to use any backup programs
Sent from my from my rooted 2.2 no bloat Zio using XDA App

Mattix724 said:
You can always start from scratch. Factory Reset the phone then format your SD card. Take your SD out and update again. Probably best not to use any backup programs
Sent from my from my rooted 2.2 no bloat Zio using XDA App
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Please do not remove your SDcard. Just make sure it isnt mounted to your PC as a removable drive (via USB mode).
Read my sticky at the top of this section for correct upgrading instructions.

I updated without the SD installed with no issues.
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Can't recieve texts - EXTENSIVE

I would link you to several other posts, however I'm too new to send links! but I've googled and searched quite a bit and all the things I've tried have failed.
I'm rooted with FROYO.... and the other day I stopped recieving texts after recieving a "Low Memory" error.
I send texts just fine, I've had this issue before and usually a flash to a nandroid backup and an update to the PRL and PROFILE fixes it.... however not this time. I've been working on this for 2 days now....
Here's what I've tried
1. Reflash back to earlier ROM.
2. Update PRL, and Update PROFILE --- (done this everytime I Flash/Restore)
3. Reflashed back to current ROM.
4. restored countless nandroid backups
5. Factory reset with different roms
6. FINALLY Chatted with sprint, he made me do a couple diagnostics that he said would "work"
7. He did advanced troubleshooting and made me turn off phone for an hour
Still nothing works.
I noticed by googling that quite a few people suggested deleting telephony.db, however I do not have a telephony.db file... even when I reflash and restore backups there is no telephony.db file.
Anybody else have ideas on what I can do?

Kashank said:
I noticed by googling that quite a few people suggested deleting telephony.db, however I do not have a telephony.db file... even when I reflash and restore backups there is no telephony.db file.
Anybody else have ideas on what I can do?
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With Titanium Backup, it would be Dialer storage, it's listed with sms and mms, you could try that.
Go into your parental controls at sprint.com and make sure sms is turned on, it somehow got turned off on my sons phone once.

if you have your msl code u could restore a sense rom and dial ##3282# go to data setting and change your accolic to 1 that will give you a higher priority for calls and texts just dont change it to 0 because thats reserved for emergency government bans and you might get some notices from the fcc lol.
youll be fine if u leave it on 1though

Bierce22 said:
if you have your msl code u could restore a sense rom and dial ##3282# go to data setting and change your accolic to 1 that will give you a higher priority for calls and texts just dont change it to 0 because thats reserved for emergency government bans and you might get some notices from the fcc lol.
youll be fine if u leave it on 1though
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hmm I googled a way to get my MSL.... it took installing about 3 different pieces of software and several other steps. do you have a better way of getting my MSL?
aiwetir said:
With Titanium Backup, it would be Dialer storage, it's listed with sms and mms, you could try that.
Go into your parental controls at sprint.com and make sure sms is turned on, it somehow got turned off on my sons phone once.
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Sadly I don't have a titanium backup of the sms and mms
And for some reason I can't get the texting link on the sprint.com parental controls to open.... I've tried 3 different browser, I wonder if the link is down

just call sprint and ask tell them u want to do a data restore and theyll give it to u

msl reader in the market if you are rooted
http://goo.gl/AuW5D

IT WORRRKKSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not entirely sure what fixed it.... I just started restoring random nandroid backups....
Took me going through about 10 of them before one worked.

Kashank said:
IT WORRRKKSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not entirely sure what fixed it.... I just started restoring random nandroid backups....
Took me going through about 10 of them before one worked.
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Don't restore any system stuff or apps via titanium backup, this is probably what borked it in the first place.

Yeah I'm not entirely sure what screwed it up, however I do know that on most of the ROMS I installed and Nandroid backups, that the /data/data folder on my phone did not exist.
I tried using linux commands to find the "telephony.db" file, and doing this I discoved the /data/data folder was missing. And the "random backup" I restored either recreated it or had it still in memory. And now when I navigate to the /data/data folder on my phone it's FULL of stuff. So I'm sure however that got deleted, that it was the issue.
Thank yall so much for your help

Glad you got it sorted out.

Not Receiving Text Messags

After I rooted, im not receiving any text messages. But i know i can send messages. I could also make and receive phone calls. Ive tried using a sense rom to update prl and profile which updated but still not receiving text messages. Anyone have any ideas why?

mjoel53 said:
After I rooted, im not receiving any text messages. But i know i can send messages. I could also make and receive phone calls. Ive tried using a sense rom to update prl and profile which updated but still not receiving text messages. Anyone have any ideas why?
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Try sending the text 'Allow all' without the parentheses to 9999
Sent from Dorian's EVO 3D

Tried. Didnt seem to have worked. any more suggestions?

If the "allow all" text didn't work, and using a sense rom to update prl/profile doesn't work - I would suggest downloading the RUU and reverting completely back to stock. See if it works then, if it does root with z4 or w/e you like and go back to the rom/nandroid you had before.
if it doesn't work call sprint or bring it in to one of their stores
Also, just wondering; you do have plenty of free space on your phone right? People seem to get really weird problems when their phone is running low on internal storage.
And do you use google voice for voicemail?
And what, if anything, did you do at or around the time it started acting up? (ie installed new apps, flashed new kernel, etc.)
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Question1: Yeah i have plenty of space no apps installed.
Question2:Yeah i use google voice. but is not set up right now since i just rooted.
Question3: First noticed no messages being received when i rooted i believe.
Guess illl try to the RUU and see if that works.

Used RUU. Still not being able to receive messages. going to have to contact Sprint.

Try useing a different RUU if your going to doit again, see if that works...just a thought. Later
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I have been having problems receiving texts as well ever since I installed a new ROM (this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1090234) 2 days ago.
All functions seem to work fine, including outgoing text messages, but incoming do not work at all.
I had been running Cyanogen Mod 6 for about a year without any problems except speed, just wanted to try a newer and possibly faster ROM. I did have issues whenever I would get a "low space" indicator but that doesn't seem to be the case with the current issue.
I am using Google Voice for voicemail.
My service provider is Cellular South, btw, not Sprint.

Ran the RUU but still didnt work. so i updated to newest build and still didnt work. still havent had a chance to call Sprint.
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Problem Solved. Since sprint merged with google my settings where changed and were set to receive text messages to google voice and not my phone. If anyone else has this problem just go to your account in google voice settings and make sure that theres a check mark next to receive text to phone. thanks to all for the help =)

mjoel53 said:
Problem Solved. Since sprint merged with google my settings where changed and were set to receive text messages to google voice and not my phone. If anyone else has this problem just go to your account in google voice settings and make sure that theres a check mark next to receive text to phone. thanks to all for the help =)
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That's what i was trying to get at...I just forgot to respond back to his thread lol
Glad you got it working
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That didn't work for me
Of course, I'm not on Sprint, but Cellular South. Still no joy on my end. I actually reverted back to my previous CyanogenMod via Nandroid, which WAS receiving text messages just fine, but now it doesn't work either.
I have the original Cell South 2.1 RUU I could use if necessary, but hoping not to have to do that. Looking like I might have to, though.

Finally got it up and running.
I was about to run the 2.1 RUU but then remembered I made a Nandroid backup of my 2.1 Sense-based config before the first time I rooted so I restored to it and dialed *228 to download the latest updates. The texts then started working, so then I reverted back to my Nandroid backup of my new ROM and it worked like a charm!

mjoel53 said:
Tried. Didnt seem to have worked. any more suggestions?
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do you have google voice synced with sprint? the messages might be going to google voice