I have a Verizon Tour 9630. I'm having problems with my SMS messages. Most of them are going through fine, but a few are either not delivered (although it says on my end it has been delivered) OR they're getting scrambled. For example, I'll write something and when I see the message on my recipients phone, it's coming through with half my message and then gibberish. I compare it to my original sent message and it's completely different. It's almost as if my message has been intercepted/crossed with someone elses message.
So this all started about two weeks ago. Every time i get a mms message from someone i get it first about 5-10 min after they send it, then again about 1-3 hours after they sent it. Ive tried several battery pulls, with no luck. Im running 5.0.0.591 (I know it has problems, but I couldnt get the Sprint upgrade figured out )
Why does my messages icon take me to a missed calls list and not my SMS messages? To get to SMS I have to "view folders". Please tell me there is a quicker way.
hello, I just upgraded my phone to the .732. Everything went smoothly during the upgrade, ever since then I have been having trouble with receiving text messages and MMS messages. I have gone to 3 sites for free ringtones have sent the ring tones to my phone, I have not received anything. I also have setup google voice and I am not getting any text messages from people tht text my google voice number.
Up until the day before yesterday (with no iOS updates in the interim), I was able to use my iPhone 3GS (iOS 5.1) as a mobile security key with my PayPal account - when I want to log in to my Paypal account or make a payment, a confirmation code is sent by SMS to my phone. This has all been working nicely and adds a layer of security to the use of my Paypal account. Until this morning when I went to make a payment and the SMS arrived but was totally scrambled. Instead of the usual "Your 6-digit code is....." message, it's all wacky characters like upside-down triangles, and characters from other languages like Greek and Russian. Tried turning phone off and on again and re-adding to Paypal account but problem persists. Googling indicates that this may be a problem with iPhone interpreting SMS rather than Paypal sending rubbish, however I can't find anything more recent than 2009 on this problem.
recently started to get this on my N5, won't turn 'on' just displays a scrambled screen for a short time, won't start up at all. Weirdly gets somewhere to allow the notification light to show, but can't call the phone.
Tried the holding vol up / down for periods of time. Any other way to factory reset in the hope its not a screen issue?
My phone screen is "scrambled" like an anologue tv channel that hasn't been tuned properly - kinda like colour snow. The phone works and appears to responds to button presses as the "snow" moves and changes colour with each button press.
Droid RAZR - bought in November from Verizon store. Screen protectors and case are used; phone has experienced no trauma. While in Gmail today, the screen pixellated, became unresponsive, and now is inoperable. The screen appears as a mostly uniform field of slowly shifting color (pink, green) with a perhaps .75 inch bar of white on the bottom; see attached picture (it was hard to get a good shot because of the lighting). The phone still "works" internally - if you call it, it rings; the screen sleeps after an appropriate time and you can push the power button to bring it back; I hear the chime of emails and texts coming in. However, none of the menu/home/back buttons work, and touching the screen apparently does nothing. When I push the power button to "wake" the phone, the previously described white bar appears instantly, and the fuzzy colored remainder of the screen "develops" over about ten seconds.
I forced a reboot via the power button/volume trick, and heard the reboot process - but the same screen issue stayed throughout the reboot.I am at about 15% power; perhaps a complete shutdown forced by loss of battery power will eventually help. Plugging it in to a charger did not help.
I just got a new tour from verizon to replace my original tour that had trackball issues. I did the device switch with DM and everything seemed to copy over just fine with one exception. I keep getting new messages (both email and sms) and the top bar is showing that I have 6 new messages but they are not actually showing up in my messages.
I can see everything the group does but noone sees me. They were able to see my messages before I did a software upgrade to version 4.7.1.61. I've done a couple of battery pulls and they are not working.
I've had 2 Tours on Verizon and they both have the same problem. Certain people's texts come in on my phone, and I can read the first "preview" line in the SMS menu. When I try to open the text to see the rest of it, my phone freezes up for a minute of so and then the text is blank (with just the arrow next to it, so I can see it is missing. ) This doesnt happen every time I get a text from them, but it happens enough to be annoying. I downloaded Crunch SMS as a backup because that opens the texts that my normal SMS app wont, but I like the BB text program better.
Once I get one of these blank texts I have to delete the entire history with that person to start recieving the text again, which is also inconvienent since I lose a lot of texts every month because of this.They also have to edit at least one character in their original text to get it to show up on my phone when they resend it.
Both people that this happens with have EnV's on verizon, one of them has had 2 EnV 3's and one has an EnV touch. Sometimes they cant read my texts either.
I've tried battery pulls, updates, and warranty replacements.EDIT: I have the Original Tour with camera. It's on Verizon running the most recent software. Crunch SMS doesnt have anything to do with this, it happens with or without it installed. I have ~80 mb free memory at all times and do a QuickPull every couple of days.
I can see everything the group does but noone sees me.They were able to see my messages before I did a software upgrade to version 4.7.1.61. I've done a couple of battery pulls and they are not working.
I have a 9630 TOUR for about a year and have sucessfully been able to delete email messages without a problem.....except for two that won't delete!!!
I have tried everything and I can't delete these two messages for some reason.. I have tried deleteing them from my laptop sucessfully, but they still appear on my 9630..get rid of these two annoying emails that just sit there on my blackberry...staring at me....
I have an envelope that indicates I have two new messages but I do not. I verified all my message were read, non unread. I did a battery pull twice and it still will not go away.
I have my Tour set to delete messages after 15 days. I just noticed that they're not deleting. I've noticed that emails stick around for a month or so before being deleted, but SMS don't delete. It's been set to 15 days since I got it in September, and I still have every SMS sent/received on it
Is this a known bug? Is there a fix for it other than hope it's fixed in the next OS release?
I downloaded berrybuzz about a month ago and everything has been working great untill two days ago. Now the LED doesn't light up at all.I have tried battery pulls and that doesn't work. Any ideas. My next thing is to delete the app and redownload it.If someone else has an other idea that would be great.
I have recently been on the phone with sprint and i have not been able to receive any messages sms, mms, from att users everyone else is fine this seemed to happen after my number was ported over this week i am a new customer with sprint and the number i had ported over was used from boost that i was running my 8350i with my att friends and family can get my messages but i cannot get theirs anybody else having this problem the advanced tech support for bb at sprint did a master reset and gave me some ## number to enter and th press the call button and had me re-enter two number one being mine and the other with the network this still did not resolve anything i still can not receive any messages and my case is pending wondering if anybody can let me know what might be causing this my phone is only like a week old
I searched other topics and clicked the "similar threads" crackberry offered but couldn't find anything that addressed this. I'm running OS 5 (.419, though I have a friend with me who is running the latest Verizon official and duplicates the same annoyance).
When I receive an SMS text message, the LED blinks as it should. But when I open it, it will continue to blink until I either respond or back out of the message. It's a minor annoyance I know, but does anyone have a fix for this?
is there any possible way to set or add an app so that my bb tour can send sms messages over 160 characters? i have heard it should let you as long as you send to people that have the same verizon carrier as you but it will not work for me?
For some reason when I send a text message it says pending *there is a box next to the message* I check it & still says pending. I can receive them - my husband received all mine hours later. I'm assuming something with a connection - but can't seem to find it.
My BB Tour 9630 is showing 1 message unread. However I can't find the message. Also next to the number 1 is an icon I don't recognize. It looks like two small 0's connected by a line. Does anyone know how to clear?
I just updated my Blackberry Tour to the latest OS (v5.0.0.591). I have a huge problem with my sms messages showing up in my Blackberry Messenger. When I sms a contact that is also added to my Blackberry Messenger, the sms messages appear under "Chat." Ok thats fine...BUT when I go to end the chat on the sms conversation, it asks me to delete all messages in chat. SO if I choose yes, I also delete ALL sms messages that I've ever received from that contact. I also noticed that those same contacts that are added to my Blackberry Messenger, when they send me an sms message, it does not show up in the main message list...only the Blackberry Messenger.
I upgraded my tour this morning. Now every text message I get from my twitter account just lumps into one message. you cant tell whats new or what you have read or who they are from , I need to turn that off to go bacl to individual messages. How do I do that.
i've been on holiday for 10 days and i came home, charged my phone and no text messages, facebook notifications or bbm's have come through! i've tried sending bbm's and the red clock comes up... i also cant connect to the internet! and when i switched my phone back on, it had the same date and time of when i left it 10 days ago! what do i do?
When I turned on my BB tour this morning it hasn't received any email messages. I checked and the network is enabled and working and I can receive calls. I checked my computer and I do have unread emails. Does anyone know what's going on... I did received messages yesterday, so my email set-up is correct.
