Outgoing Texts Appear to be sent but are not received
smartcookie326

Two days ago, I started having this problem with my Fascinate. Well, specifically around 3:00 p.m. on 5/10/11. I sent a text to my son (he's on my Verizon account) at 2:57 that he received, but nothing after that.

 

I first noticed the problem yesterday morning (the 11th). I was surprised that I hadn't gotten a reply to a couple of texts that I sent late on the 10th, so I went to send that contact another text and saw that the previous messages had a timestamp of the current time and date. I've since discovered that ALL text messages I've sent after that successful one at 2:57 p.m. on 5/10 will display the current date/time when viewed in the normal conversation screen. If I click on the individual message, it does display the correct date/time that it was sent.

 

There is no indication that the text did not go through. It's not a carrier to carrier problem - I can't text my children who are on my same account. I'm not texting to the wrong number - I'm using my Contacts list, and the texts that have not been received are showing up in the conversation screen. I did upgrade to FroYo, but that was a couple of weeks ago, and I've been able to text successfully since then. I can RECEIVE texts just fine.

 

Has anyone else had this problem? Have you been able to resolve it?

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Re: Outgoing Texts Appear to be sent but are not received
wb1349
Newbie

I had this problem for the 1st time in March. Sent text late on a Friday night to friends & husband. Didn't give it a thought until Sat afternoon when I text a friend to ask what time I was to pick her up & never got a reply. Needless to say 1+1 was 2 and I figured out none of my text had gone through. I powered my phone off & then back on, dropped my daughter off and then picked up my friend. I wuold say about 20 min after I turned the phone on & off and as she is sitting next to me her phone is blowing up with text messages. All out of order & not making sense of course. This has happened a few times since. Most recently was Friday when I was texting my husband during the day. He never got the texts, I again powered on & then off. I just got a new fascinate about 3 weeks ago because my 1st one had some weird pixel thing happen to the screen but it only showed on my camera screen & in the pictures so they replaced it for me. So its now happened to me on 2 fascinates, and with family on my plan & friends with other carriers. But I have found that simply powering the phone off & on again does seem to "push" the messages through.

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Re: Outgoing Texts Appear to be sent but are not received
blove329
Newbie

My wife is having the same issue and they told her at the store to take the battery out for a minute then put it back in.  She did that and everyone got all of the messages from the past 2 or 3 days.  She is on her 4th phone now and all they will do is just replace it with another one and not let her get a different phone.

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Re: Outgoing Texts Appear to be sent but are not received
ssnguy
Newbie

I too have been having this issue. It started after there was a software update to the Fascinate phone.  As a side note, whenever I have tried to use my contacts list and direct dial, I would get a Verizon error message stating that the call could not be completed as dialed.  I checked my entries and noticed that the prefix 1 had been added.  After I removed that, the calls went through. 

 

Another funny thing about texting is before the software update, if I had been texting someone in my contacts list it would give the contact name.  Now it just shows the number.

 

I hope there is a fix for this.

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Re: Outgoing Texts Appear to be sent but are not received
LenaA_VZW
Verizon Employee

Blove329, is your wife still experiencing the same issue? If so, please send me a private message with your mobile number or account number. I will contact you to assist you with this issue. 

 

Thank you, 

 

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