Hi. I have a dual SIM P9 on the latest software (EVA-L19C432B386).
I just got the phone around 2 weeks ago, and I did a full update and full wipe/hard reset when I got it. I finished setting up all my apps and settings and everything has been really great and I really like the phone.
Until two nights ago, I noticed that when I send texts, it would just say "Sending..." under the message bubble for 15 minutes or more (sometimes upto an hour). It's the same with both SIMs on two different networks. Calls would come in just fine, and I could still receive texts, so it couldn't be a signal issue (Signal was 4-5 bars on both networks)
I tried swapping out the SIMs, putting my sim on another phone, and on the same location, texts send really quick. I also tried putting other SIMs on my P9 and the same thing happens, the text messages take forever to send. Sometimes it works well, I could easily send texts on both networks. But after a few minutes it starts acting up again and it just says sending for the longest time.
I've tried clearing the data of messages app (it didnt delete the text messages), I also manually deleted all texts, I tried using another SMS app, and I also tried clearing cache and dalvik data, to no avail.
Any thoughts?
UPDATE:
Hard reset fixed the problem. I was almost sure it would fix the problem but i was hesitant since I didn't want to have to set up all my stuff over again.
I did a nandroid backup before doing a hard reset. Restoring the backup also restores the problem.
So hard reset fixed it, but I probably would never know what caused it. I didn't install anything new on the day it happened, and I havent installed any apps I havent tried before. To think it's only been 2 weeks since my last reset. I hope I wouldnt have to do another hard reset 2 weeks from now.
ANOTHER UPDATE 7/14/17
It's back again. Texts take a really long time to send. After I've set up all my stuff, apps, accounts, etc, it was all well. Less than a week later its back at it again. Didn't install anything new. It just started acting up on its own. Not sure how to solve this, or where to look first.
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This is really weird, but reinstalled the PDAVIET rom the other day, and now I've noticed that whenever I soft reset the phone, and I go into my messaging ... I've lost messages.
Even my gmail account that's setup via pop3 on the phone loses like the last couple messages, and then re-downloads them and they show up as new.
With SMS or MMS, it seems the last couple of txts or mms I received dissappear... it's really strange and that's never happened to me before
Anyone have any ideas as to why and how to fix that?
dD
Me too.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing when I reboot. But it's usually the unread messages. Is it the same with you?
phreke
no, the ones for me were read and replied to ... it's really weird.
The only thing I have done differently is I did a hard reset on the phone with the pdaviet rom on there ... i don't know if that would make a difference.
Hmm...strange. It's almost as if it's not writing it to storage and keeping it in memory. Don't have a clue. Anyone else?
phreke
im still getting this... and it happens on the stock tmobile rom ... bc I was flashing the new 2.3 beta touch it ... and a message came in right after I flashed the RUU and the phone came on. So I put the phone on flight mode, and installed ASERG policies and soft reset ... when the phone came back from soft reset, the text was gone.... so it happens with the stock TMO Rom too.
About a week ago I hit delete and let it do its work over night since it was going to take forever.
First off, my Tilt only deleted the messages in the inbox, not the outbox. Then a few days later I reset my phone to check something, then ALL my text messages were back, and all of the texts that I've sent/gotten in between were gone.
Is there a certain way I'm suppose to delete this stuff?
I don't know how that happened, and I cannot think of any kind of special procedure to deleting SMS messages. What happens if you just delete like 10 at a time? Does that work?
Dave
Well the thing about that, I have over 20,000 text messages stored on my phone hah.. So doing 10 at a time would just take wayyy too long.
Whenever I hit my soft reset button, all my text messages from that day to a couple days before are gone. It's kinda weird and I don't quite understand it. But yeah, I'm just trying to figure out a way where I can delete them all to where they won't come back hah. Who ever thought it'd be so hard.
Has anyone else ever had this problem?
I can't view MMS messages now because it tells me to clear more space. I've deleted several large size mms messages off of my phone, on top of a grip of text messages to clear space, but it hasn't cleared anything. How can I fix this?
Hard-Reset
I had the same problem on my T-Mobile MDA...never did figure it out. But whenever I deleted them, they always came back. I haven't tried deleting all my texts on the Tilt yet.
- Mark
I think unpredictable things start to happen when you have upwards of 20000 messages.
The other week my phone crashed and i had to hard reset it because it was carrying 47000 SMS messages, i think the problem i had was the SMS datbase corrupted when i as attempting to delete my biggest thread, with well over 6 months of messages in it.
So yeah, backup your messages if you want them and hard reset, and id try to not let messages get higer than 15000, just so the phone has space to breathe
I have the same problem with msgs that return mysteriously on my ATT tilt running the factory (att) default rom. The first time I tried it I had around 5000 msgs and I ended up having to hard reset. Right now I have around 15,000 msgs and still have the same problem (obviously haha). I'm probably gonna upgrade my rom anyway, but I just figured I'd let you know you're not the only one (and not crazy haha).
-Brad
So apparently I didn't pay enough attention and maybe applying the OTA 246 update from a rooted 905 creates problems. I knew that the update had been around for at least a little bit so I finally decided to go ahead and do it. I did make sure that there would be a way to root again after the update but in all of that investigation I never noticed anything about needing to unroot before applying the update.
So I did it with no problems. After it booted to the homescreen again it was a bit slow but I figured that it was due to things getting settled and loaded for the first time. But after a few minutes of the phone being on and me just looking around the new menus, the phone froze. After a minute or two of being frozen it automatically restarted. If I leave the phone alone once it has booted I can come back to it 10 minutes later and it will unlock and I can mess around for about 2 minutes before it will freeze again.
So not sure if this is a result of updating while rooted or not. I did attempt to re-root though and was "successful" but now I have SuperSU AND Superuser apps installed.
So needless to say I think that I've messed something up. I have a titanium backup from 905 and was thinking that I should try and do a factory reset. Assuming that it will take it back to stock 246.
Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
Nathan
So interesting tidbit. I read that some others had at least similar problems but they weren't able to make or receive calls so I tried to do that myself. So I called from my landline and connected just fine. After 5 minutes and 45 seconds the phone froze but the call is still connected after 20 minutes. Can't do anything on the phone but the voice signal is still intact.
So another update. I kinda forgot about the call being connected so it was connected for about 25 minutes before I hung up. I left the phone alone for a few while I was researching how to restore texts from my titanium backup that was made on the 905 build, (since the texts were really the only thing that I couldn't get back from the market). When I came back to it I thought that I'd click on the text app just for the hell of it and lo and behold it came up just fine. I checked around with some other apps and made sure that I could both send and receive texts. For all intents and purposes it looks like my phone is functional. For now.
I don't know if something about leaving the call connected for that long jogged something into place but I'm grateful so far. It does look like the wifi has some issues staying connected but that is possibly due to some setting that I haven't figured out yet.
Anyhow, not that there's anything specific here in terms of troubleshooting but I hope it helps someone else too.
Nathan
Forrice said:
So interesting tidbit. I read that some others had at least similar problems but they weren't able to make or receive calls so I tried to do that myself. So I called from my landline and connected just fine. After 5 minutes and 45 seconds the phone froze but the call is still connected after 20 minutes. Can't do anything on the phone but the voice signal is still intact.
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Hey there.
I have a stock Samsung Galaxy S4 Active on the AT&T network. Recently, I've been plagued by a number of troubles.
Bit of background:
For a while, I had the most bizarre issue: the screen thought I was touching it when I wasn't, near the bottom-middle of the screen, and would attempt to open/click on anything in that area. Often turning the screen on and off would help, for a little while. I was reaching my wits' end, because that would obviously be very frustrating to someone who uses their phone frequently throughout the day.
I thought maybe it had been new software I had installed, so I did a factory reset. Problem remained. I factory reset with NO backups. Problem remained. I updated to 4.4.2 via OTA. Problem remained...
And then mysteriously went away on its own.
I've been working in tech for a decade now, mainly in PC and server architecture, so I know better than to look a gift horse in the mouth - but I also know better than to think a problem that "mysteriously" goes away is gone for good. So the first part of my question: does anyone know what could have possibly been causing this?
I'm not super phone-savvy. I've rooted and flashed a few phones in the past couple years, but I'm by no means developer-level.
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Which brings me to my next problem... around the time that this issue went away, another one cropped up. Randomly, my phone will stop sending/receiving texts/calls, and the data connection will not function. This will continue until I turn on airplane mode and turn it off--at that point I receive all my missed texts, and it works again... sometimes for 5 minutes, sometimes for nearly 2 days. It's really frustrating. I've tried factory resets, I've tried restoring default APNs... but I'm at my wit's end with this. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
I should add that, with my last issue, it still shows a data connection in the notification bar - but there is none, or at least, no activity on it. It doesn't simply act as if it's in airplane mode and go "wah no data network" as soon as I try using it--it just simply hangs for ~30 seconds, then times out. Messages don't get received, webpages don't load, calls don't get placed, etc.
I installed that update that upgraded the phone to 4.4.3 and enabled Wi-Fi calling about a week ago. And since then, the SMS app has been incredibly laggy to the point where it is near unusable. I am not exaggerating, it takes literally about 20 seconds from me tapping a letter, for the phone to vibrate that it recognized I touched the screen and display the letter on the screen.
I know that internally the SMS is working fine since I can get replies back on my Pebble before the message I sent that they are replying too even appears on my screen.
Also, this only happens to specific contacts, but always the same ones.
Everything was working perfectly before this update, but directly after installing it this happened. Any ideas?
Cyber Akuma said:
I installed that update that upgraded the phone to 4.4.3 and enabled Wi-Fi calling about a week ago. And since then, the SMS app has been incredibly laggy to the point where it is near unusable. I am not exaggerating, it takes literally about 20 seconds from me tapping a letter, for the phone to vibrate that it recognized I touched the screen and display the letter on the screen.
I know that internally the SMS is working fine since I can get replies back on my Pebble before the message I sent that they are replying too even appears on my screen.
Also, this only happens to specific contacts, but always the same ones.
Everything was working perfectly before this update, but directly after installing it this happened. Any ideas?
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Backup & do a hard reset will take care of it. I always recommend doing a hard reset after any kinda of big update anyway. I would also do a profile update once the hard reset is complete. There was some issues with connectivity for this update that a profile update should take care of, although it's not going to solve your sms problem.
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Backup & do a hard reset will take care of it. I always recommend doing a hard reset after any kinda of big update anyway. I would also do a profile update once the hard reset is complete. There was some issues with connectivity for this update that a profile update should take care of, although it's not going to solve your sms problem.
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Wouldn't restoring the backup bring the problems back though?
Cyber Akuma said:
Wouldn't restoring the backup bring the problems back though?
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It's possible, doesn't really hurt to try. I usually try and restore as little data as possible and do everything by hand. One thing you can do if you wanna keep your sms, is export it, then import sms only back in after the rest. I have had good luck with it. Certain apps I use titanium backup to restore, but a lot of stuff I do by hand. I have tried HTC's backup on a friends phone, it actually worked better than I thought. Sometimes it's nice to not do a backup (other than like sms & photos) It will clear out the old apps you don't wanna use.