Just upgraded from a Samsung Intensity II to a Galaxy S4 around New Years. It was working fine and then I started getting "message failed" errors on some of the text messages that I tried to send.
From scanning the discussion boards there seem to be others with a similar issue with no good answers. So obviously, I'm pretty ticked that my new "smart" phone can't send simple texts consistently.
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Sometimes when I go to send a text message the message will hang/spin for a while. After a few seconds, the phone goes to sleep and I assume that the message got sent because I was not told otherwise. Then it could be hours later or whenever the next time I unlock the phone I get a message that says that the text failed.
These failures don't seem to be tied to anything specific. They happen both when I am connected to Wifi and when using data. It happens in my apt, where I have decent service and a good wifi connection. Recently, I started restarting the phone after the message failed a few times and sending the message (as a fresh text) again after the reboot. Every time I've done that (including twice today) the message has sent without delay.
The intervals between failed messages seems to be getting shorter which doesn't bode well for my phone actually being able to reliable send texts after another few month or so which is unacceptable for a phone released 5 years ago let alone a phone that way considered the cutting edge last year.
So what? when the phone is on too long it just decided to stop sending texts? I would love a concrete answer on this. Or a new phone that works.
