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SMS taking forever |
RSat
Joined: May 15, 2003
Posts: 62
From: USA
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I'm on T-Mobile in the US.
I was just in the UK and I would send an SMS to to a friend and he would receive it immediately on his T-Mobile US Treo, but when he replied to me it took 29 hours!
Then three of us tested it. We were all sitting in a pub next to each other. The Treo would receive within a few seconds, another friend with an older Erricson would take a minute or two, my P800 would take hours! The fastest I received was 3:20.
Any ideas?
[ This Message was edited by: RSat on 2003-07-23 17:24 ] |
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teg
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 157
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Could be your cell provider. Try swapping sims and see if you get the same result 
Tracker backgrounds for your P800
http://echscripts.tripod.com/ |
RSat
Joined: May 15, 2003
Posts: 62
From: USA
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As I mentioned in the post, all three of us sitting in the pub were US T-Mobile.
The only difference was that I had a P800. |
Rashkae
Joined: Jun 03, 2002
Posts: > 500
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The phones you use will not make a difference... it's all with the provider.
Ideally, you should receive an SMS within 3 seconds. ANYTHING longer than that means your provider is dicking with you. |
teg
Joined: Apr 27, 2003
Posts: 157
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Well see since you're in the US, GSM isn't that popular with your cell providers and it's likely that the SMS sent/received is being converted to and fro the GSM network and that's where the bottleneck might lie
And even then it's no guarantee that your SMS will be sent ASAP, there are times when the SMS here takes days to be received by the recipient even though the sender/recipient is in the same network.
Tracker backgrounds for your P800
http://echscripts.tripod.com/ |
julia_ph
Joined: Jul 14, 2003
Posts: 11
From: just around the corner
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Did you check if all three of you were using the same SMS Centre number? |
tbl
Joined: Mar 20, 2003
Posts: 287
From: UK - Glasgow
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Also, all three could technically be on a different base station.
A lot of times your network seems to 'forget' where you are and stores up SMS waiting to deliver them.
Outgoing and incoming calls seem ok, as do outgoing SMS, but incoming SMS seem to be affected.
A lot of times the best way around this is to do the following:
Go to GSM Settings in the phone settings.
Change search mode to manual.
Click on select network, choose a different network from your home/roaming network (you may get access denied here, do not worry)
Come out of the settings page, wait a few moments
Go back in, select network again, select your home/normal roaming network
Change the search mode to automatic again
Nine times out of ten this will sort your problem
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ami6
Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 121
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Put
*N#
in front of each SMS and you get some delivery notification SMS back onto your device instantly.
i.e. When you want to message "hello world!" to your friend, write
*N#hello world!
and send it out...
///Ami6. |
scroitoru
Joined: Jul 11, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Chicago
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Or maybe just beacuse u were sitting in a bar, long hours....
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petrutms
Joined: Nov 17, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Cluj Napoca, Romania
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LOL , but i think is the GSM provider!
ami6 this thing with *N# works on R1D too?
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