Hi everyone! I recently did a warranty replacement on my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. I received the new device yesterday (I believe the first day of the marshmallow update) and updated it to 6.0 when I first booted it up. Everything went fine and I returned the old device back to AT&T. I woke up this morning, however, to discover that AT&T Messages Backup and Sync will not work. Under the settings under messages the box for it is grayed out and it says "Checking with the cloud, please try again later." I did a backup of the device to my google account and while all my apps carried over, none of my pictures and messages did (the pictures aren't a big deal though because I save them with google photos). The message thing is a problem though because I have group chats and other messages that I now don't have access to on my phone. I checked on the AT&T message thing on the computer and all my messages were there but they still aren't on my phone. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks!
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I recently Flashed a new Radio on my AT&T Tilt/HTC Kaiser device with Stock AT&T/HTC Rom running Windows 6.1 Pro. Recently as in 3 days ago. I haven't sent one text message until I tried to this morning. I have on my Today screen: Date, Messaging and Calendar. I can click on the date field as well as the Calendar..but the Messaging Field was Bricked! Now I received a Text notification from Tmobile around 3:45AM after I paid my bill. So I know my Text Messages were working at that time. This morning around 10:00AM..is when I noticed that it was Bricked and I couldn't check it. I couldn't even access it from Xpress Mail..it would not allow me to..and for that matter..Xpress Mail with my Hotmail Email is not working. I went into the Windows Folder and clicked on Tmail.exe and it does nothing. I rebooted the phone...I even took the battery out...still nothing. I'm getting an error message when I try and re-register my Xmail S770 something like that or to that effect...can someone help me!!! I made a backup file 3 days ago but whenever I used Sprite to restore my phone it always leaves me with duo selections in my menu options to which I cannot uncheck any of them.
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When I had stepped out the Doctors Office to see if that would make a difference..I immediately had an H in place of the E...the H then switched to 3G as I was still yet walking to my car..."Bowie, Maryland" I get to the car then it goes back to EDGE. I actually tried placing a call and getting on the Net when I noticed the H and 3G and I was denied.
Hello!
I have a Diamond on the Sprint network. I had set up my Yahoo email account on my phone to download only messages from the last 3 days and automatically check every 5 mins. I got this phone back in March or so and never had a problem with this, but starting last week, it's been randomly downloading my entire inbox of 16,000 messages which includes messages from as far back as 5 years. (There's unlimited storage space on Yahoo, so I don't delete old emails.)
Anyway, this slows down the phone immensely, as you might imagine. And it takes me a while to be able to clear my inbox on the phone because of its slowness. I've done this a few times and tried resetting my inbox settings, and also once deleted the account on my phone and re-set it up, but the same thing will ultimately happen-- when left alone for a while, the stupid thing will just download the whole inbox.
Like I said, for the last few months it was working just fine. I didn't change any settings on my phone. Anyone have any idea how to fix this??
For now my temp solution is to transfer my older messages on Yahoo to another folder so that my inbox is smaller; in that case, if the phone decides to be stupid again and ignore my "download only messages from the last 3 days" setting, it still won't be downloading 16,000 messages. But I shouldn't have to do this as the phone should be following my instructions, as it was for a while!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
RS
EDIT: My temporary fix (moving old emails to another folder) didn't even work! My phone still downloaded all the folders and all the messages. Help please!
<bump> still looking for a fix...
hey everyone! a unusual thing has been happening all morning. Every time i try to send a txt message it keeps saying "failed". i have restarted the phone already, i can still make calls but cant send messages. It was working fine all last night and just this morning it keeps displaying failed for everyone i text. ....the only new thing i have installed is Dialer One...hmmm...any ideas why this "failed" txts are happening?
just tried my sim card in my old back up phone...seems like its a issue either with my sim card..or Rogers is doing some sort of repairs or maintenance. :S
edit** i can txt through my old samsung phone but not the galaxy...
what time was that?
last night i had an issue with the voice mail service
seems like their server went down for a couple of hours
this morning tested it again and voice mail is back
I'm on Fido, and I had failed texts this morning as well. No problems now though, seems to be working again.
Hi,
Just got the verizon S8 a week ago and this has been driving me nuts. When my gf calls, her name doesn't come up. Only displays her number. My contacts are on my gmail account. All other contacts i have show up. She has an iphone and her name showed up on my old s5. Her phone is already set to display caller ID and so is mine. I spend like a few hours aday trying to troubleshoot this.. No luck whatsowever. Weird thing is, sometimes when she calls, her number appears with a ;oli=62 behind it. Example: 714-555-5555;oli=62. I googled oli (originating line information) but it makes no sense to me..
Things i've tried already:
1) resync gmail contacts
2) deleted her contact on gmail/phone/etc
3) readded her contact to phone internal storage and also gmail again
4) tried in safe mode to see if a application is blocking it
5) rebooted phone of course
6) re-adding her contact info with her data deleted from gmail
7) called verizon support
8) and last but not least.. reset/restored original s8 to factory
HELP.. i was gonna try to exchange the phone for another s8 but i really don't think that might be the issue.. i tried researching IPHONE issues with caller ID not showing up but all her settings seems correct.
Thanks in advance.
Same...
I'm having the same issue on my Note 5 after updating to Nougat. I'm having the issue with only one friend, no one else.
I found a temp fix. Go to your a computer and log into your Google contacts. Add that weird number. Example. 555-555-5555;oli=62 to the contact along with the regular number. That should fix it.
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Same issue on my new s8+, adding the number plus ;oli=62 on the Google contacts via editing from your Google contacts from googles website works great, thanks for the work around. The only problem I have with these Samsung devices is the slow ass updates. Their still on 7.0 even though 7.1.2 has been released for months
Me too. I have a Note 5 on VZW. Pretty sure it started after the Nougat update as well. And also for only one contact. I know I could add those characters to the contact info, but I want to know why the heck it happens for only one contact. Found this info (not that it cleared up jack for me, lol) - https://www.dialogic.com/webhelp/IMG1010/10.5.3/WebHelp/oli_isdn_sip.htm
i have this same problem. It is on a S6 and has been happening since before the Nougat update. It only happens to me for 2 contacts 1 full time and the other off and on. If i look at the missed calls screen afterwards the phone displays the correct contact just during the incoming call is it not displaying.
the problem actually stopped for me around the time of the roll-out and then started back up a week or so later.
The only connection that i can find is that both of them use Family mobile (T-mobile) service.
Last time i researched this problem, i found the same problem a few years ago with T-mobile and VOIP phones but never found a solution
its the feds
Are you just being a douche or are you serious?
cwats04 said:
i have this same problem. It is on a S6 and has been happening since before the Nougat update. It only happens to me for 2 contacts 1 full time and the other off and on. If i look at the missed calls screen afterwards the phone displays the correct contact just during the incoming call is it not displaying.
the problem actually stopped for me around the time of the roll-out and then started back up a week or so later.
The only connection that i can find is that both of them use Family mobile (T-mobile) service.
Last time i researched this problem, i found the same problem a few years ago with T-mobile and VOIP phones but never found a solution
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This is the same problem I'm having. I have the S8 on Verizon the two contacts whose numbers don't work are both on T-Mobile. One of the numbers it happens to constantly and has the xxx-xxx-xxxx;oli=62 while the other number does it intermittently w/o the extra's at the end.
"Me To" Bus
Ok, I'm a "Me to" I blocked all phone calls except for people in my contacts, because of all the Spam calls.
But my best friend gets blocked because of this problem.
I have a Samsung S4 Note, Also using Verizon. And google contacts.
I'm going to save him only under Verizon Contacts. And see if that does anything.
He is using a Blu Phone and also using T-Moble.
Anyone have any idea's?
Jim
my phone just started doing this when I installed a reminder ap. I uninstalled it, and it stopped. Hope this helps.
Need help diagnosing and solving a bizarre problem: S10 doesn't receive texts from a specific sender, except after restarting, retroactively receives all texts sent by that sender. Supernatural powers might be involved, given the sender's phone is mine, and the fickle S10 is my wife's.
I'm including a lot of info below, b/c this seems to be a tough problem to diagnose, so I'm erring on the side of completeness.
Specs: My phone is an LG V35, rooted with Magisk, Android 9. Her S10 is not rooted, running Android 9. Her phone is logged in to the same Google account I use on the Play Store, so that she can use any of my paid apps without paying again. (This has never caused any SMS problems in the past, just annoyances like her getting my reminders, which I then turned off on her phone.)
The problem started on 10/26/22 (about three weeks ago). I know this b/c I sent her a long text that day, which her phone received immediately, followed by another text that same day, which she didn't receive until eight days later on 11/3/22. There were several other texts I sent btw 10/26 and 11/2 that she didn't receive until 11/3. However, we did not catch this problem until yesterday (11/17), when she discovered that I had not, in fact, been ghosting her, but that her phone was not getting my texts. We found this out b/c some other app on her phone wasn't behaving normally, so I restarted her phone -- and BAM, all my unreceived texts suddenly arrived on her phone. Since then, I've tried texting her phone, and it receives nothing from me until a restart, and then her phone receives all my texts retroactively.
As far as we can tell, neither of our phones has any problem with SMS communications with anyone else's phone (except some iPhones -- don't get me started). Other people receive my texts normally, and her phone receives other people's texts normally.
I tried texting her from two different Google Voice accounts I have (both different from the Google account our phones share), and her phone received both G-Voice texts immediately.
I tried changing my SMS app (from Pulse to Textra). No effect (her S10 didn't receive texts until restarting). I tried changing her SMS app. No effect. I did a Samsung software update (thru Settings) on her phone. No effect.
I have an old S10e, my last phone before I switched to the LG. As an experiment, I popped her phone's SIM card into my old S10e. I installed an SMS app neither of us has ever used before, Handcent Next, on the S10e. Without doing anything else (i.e. w/o transferring her S10 data or settings to the S10e), I texted her number from my LG. The text arrived immediately in Handcent. I thought, Eureka!
I promptly factory-reset my S10e, and used Samsung's Smart Switch to transfer "Everything" from her S10 to the S10e. After all her data, apps, & settings were transferred to the S10e, I texted her number, and… NOTHING. The S10e did not receive my text, until I restarted it.
So, my question to all Android sleuths out there is: What the hell?
Excellent detail and info.
My initial guess may be because you're sharing the Google account. Yes, I know you said this didn't cause problems before, but now with Google Messages (I know you're not using that, but still) doing lots of RCS and background stuff, I imagine there may be some behind-the-scenes interaction that is causing problems. I'm not saying this is a fault of RCS or anything like that, but I think the sharing may be the issue?
I would suggest trying to create a new Google account, and keeping the phones on separate accounts... it's a free and easy test, I figure... and you seem quite skilled in more difficult things, so this should be easy enough?
Also note, some apps support family sharing, so if you setup a "family" between the two accounts, you may get the purchased apps on both accounts without too much issue. My wife and I do this and it has worked pretty well for our apps. (FWIW, we both have S10+ and use GMessages on separate google accounts, family shared, and don't have any issues with texts, etc.)
schwinn8: I liked your idea & reasoning, and I implemented it -- new personal Gmail account for her, added to my G-family. Restarted her phone, and sent her a text which did not arrive. (I texted her from a Google Voice account, and that SMS arrived instantly.) I then restarted her phone again, and, for the first time, the initial text still did not arrive. That's new, at least.
What setting could possibly delay a text from coming in?
Well, that's not the direction I wanted things to go either!
Not sure what else could delay texts from coming in... not aware of any delay mechanisms in most cases.
Are both on Wifi during this process? Is the LG running a ROM with working VOWIFI? Yes, I am grasping at straws...
Well, recalling my old Windows 3.x experiences, I factory-reset the S10e (my old phone), and installed all of my wife's apps and recreated all her settings on it from scratch -- i.e. no transferring apps or settings from her phone. A labor-intensive solution, to be sure, but it is working so far. The S10e receives my texts normally.