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Can a text message wipe the numbers in your phone?

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  • 08-04-2004 2:16pm
    #1
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,072 ✭✭✭✭


    Can a text message wipe the numbers in your phone?

    This has just happened to a friend of mine. The numbers stored in her phone have been wiped.

    Has this happened anyone before?

    Is there anything that can be done to get the numbers back?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #2
    Seraphina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭Seraphina


    text virus!


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    #3
    DUX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭DUX


    I don't know any way to get the numbers back, but if you know how she did that (have all her number deleted with a text message) then I beg you to tell me please..... I know some people I would like to play this trick to :D


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    lol, sms trojan:D
    sounds a bit unlikely, she prolly deleted them by accident & is trying to cover her mistake up...


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    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    A textually transmitted disease???


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    not a personal issue
    I'm moving it to Mobiles / PDAs
    B


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    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Originally posted by Silverfish
    A textually transmitted disease???


    oh dear......


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    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    As far as I am aware, its not really possible.


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    #9
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,995 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Could happen, some text messages can take advantage of vulnerabilities in certain phones. Think that happened to a friend of mine with a Siemen's phone before.


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    shepthedog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭shepthedog


    not possible at all. must have deleted by mistake, or she had number saved on phone and switched phones or something along those lines


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    #11
    segadreamcast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,872 ✭✭✭segadreamcast


    Something similar happened to me recently...I started receiving odd messages from a person claiming this was 'their number' and then my phone kept turning itself on and off intermittently/erratically for the next few hours.

    Any ideas?


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    alleepally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,027 ✭✭✭alleepally


    remember hearing something about this a long time ago and found the link

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1762298.stm


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    Mad Hatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭Mad Hatter


    Originally posted by Silverfish
    A textually transmitted disease???

    10/10 - :D:D:D:D:D LOL


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    #14
    smiles
    Registered Users Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    Bluetooth bug:
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1532469,00.asp

    << Fio >>


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    Ryo Hazuki
    Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭Ryo Hazuki


    What about service texts? Like the ones that open straight away, carrying operator settings etc. They can instruct the phone to do certain things.

    Friend of mine has a text on phone, every time we try read it, the phone turns off. Stange.


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    #16
    Woden
    Registered Users Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭Woden


    she didn't switch the selected memory from sim to phone or something like that, for example all my numbers are on the sim, if i select the phone memory i have no numbers

    get "selected memory empty"

    data


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