Posted by YEOPK
Just a word of warning to all those bluetooth(BT) phone users, pls. remember to switch off the BT function when it's not in use. I've known of cases where people actually sent corrupted sms(es) to other users just to break their phones down. All data installed in the phone will be gone, and users will have to reprgram their phones. Not surprise when people will start to use it to steal the data in the phone.
Posted by whizkidd
And how do they create 'corrupted' sms' ? Is this for real?
Posted by jcwhite_uk
Thats clever, considering that you cant sent SMS`s via bluetooth.
Posted by shyam335
I had once received a corrupted mms.But how can you send 'corrupted sms' via bt,i think the only thing you can do is to print the sms via bt.
Posted by whizkidd
What is a corrupted sms?
Posted by shyam335
Im not quite sure but by comparing it with corrupted mms i received i think , In a corrupted sms,the contents will be corrupted and you wont be able to read or see the content. You will see a broken letter icon in your inbox rather than the normal letter icon.
Posted by Sutitan
My bro wrote me a letter in chinese on his Nokia phone and sent it to mine Via Bluetooth (Not Sms, but Contact) And then I recived a msg showing rectangle type figures...
Posted by whizkidd
That can't be a corrupted sms. It is just that your phone doesn't recognise the chinese fonts. Or Is this what a corrupted sms is?
Posted by shyam335
That might be bcoz your phone has no chinese character support.
Posted by Vlammetje
how can an sms (which is text only!!) be corrupted in a way powerful enough to break phones?? Does it have a 'corrupting spell' in it??
Posted by mkush
Sounds like a load of horse Shite to me. But don't u av to accept the tings sent via bt 1st?
Posted by PIANOSSO
How stupid is that??? Why doesn't a corrupted sms breaks the sender's phone?
Posted by Ayush
@shyam broken letter is when message partly recieved. How did you recieve corrupted mms?
Posted by Vlammetje
nope, a broken envelope indicates a partial message. Brokken letter to my knowledge indicates what was posted before: language characters that the phone cannot read.
Posted by djordje1yu
These all are bunch of gremlins shit![/quote]Jebo majku svoju!
Posted by etaab
He probably means bluejacking, which doesnt normally harm your phone..
Posted by Ayush
@vlam i actually meant broken envelope ;-)
Posted by Lembo
Wow!!! Everyones falling for this one
Posted by Ayush
WhO is falling?
Posted by Raen
Anyone who is foolish enough to beleive someone who says that its a sms via bluetooth and hasn't come back to help inform us about this
Posted by nikee
im not sure if this falls under the same topic but it seems like it..
a friend of mine uses a nokia phone one that has bluetooth..im not sure which one though..and he received a file something like femme fetale..and after he opened it and all his phone got all weird and whacked..some of the programs that he used to have got erased for no reason at all the only thing left untouched was his phonebook and messages and now it keeps on hanging and stuff....any suggestions or ideas bout how to fix this one?
Posted by MTNT68i
maybe somebody used a PDA to bluesnarf him or something....!?!?
Posted by Residentevil
I do not see my knees shakin'.
Posted by MTNT68i
u could turn of the BT....
Posted by Raen
You could NOT own a Nokia...
Posted by Ayush
@mile it's rather difficult to catch a virus. Just take it to nokia to get fw reflashed
Posted by shyam335
@ayush i had received a corrupted mms from you,i think once i had mentioned about it. Im sure its not because of any unsupported characters. I have also received one corrupted mms from a friend near by,i asked him what if sent,all if sent was a mid and pic from his t230,no text! Ill try to post a pic of my mms inbox with corrupted mms.
Posted by Ayush
It's rather confusing
Posted by emanuelj
I always turn off bluetooth..
Posted by discub
All that is only bull shit, SMS is just text, exept if u can send JaVa prog whith it.
U sould just use BT in Automatic mode, so u'll have it "ON" only when u need it.
Posted by vineet_d
i recieved one mms from my friend and it was corrupt i mean he had send me a 3gp small video file and when i tried to open it my k700 screen started to flicker and on the very next movement it got restarted, may be this happened because my friend is having a Nokia 6230 i guess there is some compatiablity issues with nokia.
Posted by scriblesvurt
Prety sure you mean BlueJacking, which can't really do any damage, although you could transmit a contact called "Virus Detected", if the phone user hadent heard of Blujacking they could think they have a problem.
So far all phone viruses have resulted in apps being instaled and run. If someone bluetooths you an app, just don't run it. Simple....
Posted by Ayush
You can bluetooth an app?