Why is my samsung 3 gusto receiving jumbled messages?

[jimcheval]

I'm getting the same problem, have several times over the last two months. Sometimes one person's texts will mainly be fine, then I'll get gobbledy-gook on my Samsung flip phone. Sample: @H@ [two non-standard characters]@ @ [pound sign]@H... Etc. Lots of @ with other characters of very sort.

This simply shouldn't be happening.

[Ann154]

Like it is the older basic phones can't translate the many special characters used on smartphones.

[boringusername]

They are probably including emojis. The good news is your new phone which you will have to get within the next 345 days won't have this issue