Phone does not receive sms (still)

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REPRODUCIBILITY: 100% (always)
OSVERSION: 4.6.0.15
HARDWARE: Xperia XA2 - h3113 - h3113 - 1.0.0.12 - armv7hl
UI LANGUAGE: Italiano (user: it_IT, os: it_IT.utf8)
REGRESSION: yes (since: n/a - n/a)

DESCRIPTION:

I know there are some reports already, but wanted to point out that even in 4.6.0.15 phone has troubles receiving sms, like it only receive half of them

Definitely not good when messaging is a very core and basic feature of even dumbphones

PRECONDITIONS:

A working sim card is required

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Send your number a message or make someone send you one
  2. Receive actually nothing on your phone

EXPECTED RESULTS:

I was expecting to receive all the sms messages

ACTUAL RESULTS:

I miss (don’t receive) literally half of them

MODIFICATIONS:

  • Patchmanager: no
  • OpenRepos: yes
  • Chum: yes
  • Other: none specified

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

A phone without sms isn’t really reliable and this problem has been around from ages, so i suppose it should be high priority…
Device Owner User: defaultuser
Home Encryption: enabled

the initial version of this bug report was created using Bugger 0.9.15+git3
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4.6.0.15 on X 10 II, I cannot reproduce this:

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But I don’t think that’s a good test. Who knows, your operator might feel opinionated about sending SMS to yourself.

And what does (still) mean? Are there more reports like yours?

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It means that if someone send me an sms i have 50% chance of receiving it. Based on what i don’t know, but still i have an high chance of not receiving it

And yes, this has been reported multiple times till 4.2 i think, by multiple users but never been adressed

Last time it happened to me just two days ago

Also tried with a friend, sent me 4 sms in a row and i received just 2…

Oh and of course, when i said “send yourself a message” i meant with another number…

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One user suggested this:

I will now send some test messages from another phone, see if I can reproduce the problem.

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So I sent more messages to myself, this time from a different phone.

I seem to remember from elsewhere that “weid characters” could trigger failures, so I tried that.

All 6 messages arrived. For the last 2 I switched my phone off before sending.

The only thing is that one message is now doubled (not so on the originating phone).

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FWIW, here’s another thing, but it has nothing to do with SFOS, at least not directly:

At work we use an (older) Android phone that both sends and receives messages to a lot of recipients. Sometimes messages don’t arrive, on both ends. We haven’t found out what’s going on, but we have wild suspicions:

  • Android changes modes when it sends group messages, and/or some operators restrict how many SMS you can send out at one time. Workaround: groups of recipients have been split into subgroups of <10.
  • Android uses some protocol that goes beyond normal text messages. Other phones - esp. older iPhones? - don’t recognize that
  • Inversely, there are some protocols that our phone does not recognize
  • Network problems (seriously? in 2025? But yeah, this is the countryside)