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Can this happen to texts?

  • 17-01-2006 2:29pm
    #1
    ApeXaviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭


    I was expecting an important text off somebody yesterday (yeah ok it was off a girl..). In a low signal basement type area. So I switched my phone on and off to get a signal cos it was about the time I was expecting the text. I got a text then my signal went again. The text was off an "nfc-mms" or something similar, no number anyway. Then it was just a line and a half of gobbledeegook. Also it was dated Jan 2nd. Could this have been her text coming through but getting scrambled in some way?


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  • #2
    Shrimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    perhaps it was an old text only coming through now?


  • #3
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Yes it happens. You get a body of text similar to €&$£ etc etc with other randoms symbols a keyboard cannot input.

    It happens very, very rarely - I sent a hundred or so messages a day and it happpens to me once a month if even.

    Pity it happened on the one time you really didn't want it to happen :D


  • #4
    ApeXaviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭ApeXaviour


    Shrimp wrote:
    perhaps it was an old text only coming through now?
    Perhaps.. but considering everything else was utterly scrambled on it could the date not have been too?


  • #5
    ApeXaviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭ApeXaviour


    MobileInfantry wrote:
    Yes it happens. You get a body of text similar to €&$£ etc etc with other randoms symbols a keyboard cannot input.

    It happens very, very rarely - I sent a hundred or so messages a day and it happpens to me once a month if even.

    Pity it happened on the one time you really didn't want it to happen :D
    Really!.. Yeah it was a bunch of &/^€£# etc. Ok this changes my outlook on it (basically whether I call/text her back or not). Hmmm yes, damn pity you're right. It's never happened to me before.


  • #6
    MiCr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭MiCr0


    My guess would be that its a notification for an mms that isn't compatable with your handset.
    What type of phone do you have?


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  • #7
    ApeXaviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭ApeXaviour


    MiCr0 wrote:
    My guess would be that its a notification for an mms that isn't compatable with your handset.
    What type of phone do you have?
    K700i. It's been set up for mms since the day after I got it in november some time. When I'm recieving/sending an mms (which I do all the time) the little web/gprs thing comes up and it takes a while. This was recieved like a text message though, in sms format.


  • #8
    BrianD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,221 ✭✭✭BrianD


    Moral of the story ... never send anything important by text! Though it is rare that you only "half" get a text unless it's a multi-part message. Generally, it arrives, doesn't arrives or arrives hours later. Whatever happens the network will state tough luck as they say that will not guarantee delivery of any SMS.


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