Help Annoying Text messaging problem

[forevr5688]

My wife and I both have Droid X's. When we text each other, it no longer shows the contact name and picture but rather the phone number @vtext.com (xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com). Also, whenever I reply to her it create another discussion thread on her phone with my message in parenthesis and without. For example, if I reply to her message saying ""test" you will see it look like this on her phone: (test) test It is very annoying. Not sure why that started happening. Any ideas? I don't have that problem with any one else in my contacts.

 

[asiaw]

My friends text comes up that way. We don't know how to fix it. It started when he texted me from verizon website and I tried deleteing his number and everything. Its very annoying.

 

[tmcdonal]

My wife and I both have Droid X's. When we text each other, it no longer shows the contact name and picture but rather the phone number @vtext.com (xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com). Also, whenever I reply to her it create another discussion thread on her phone with my message in parenthesis and without. For example, if I reply to her message saying ""test" you will see it look like this on her phone: (test) test It is very annoying. Not sure why that started happening. Any ideas? I don't have that problem with any one else in my contacts.

Bump to see if anyone has a resolution for this. My wife and I got new Android phones, me a Casio Commando and she a Droid X2. I had her mobile number in my contacts, and on her first text to me, I received it as xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com as well. I initially thought it was something she set wrong, but I now think the @vtext.com email address is stored/remembered somewhere in my phone.

I've tried multiple things, but the clincher was when I deleted her contact info, deleted the thread, and created a new message. I manually entered her number as To: xxxxxxxxxx, sent a test message, and it instantly shows as xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com.

I've tried and uninstalled Handcent and Go SMS Pro, but those and the native messaging all do the same thing. Any ideas?

-Tom

 

[tmcdonal]

Here's a follow-up to this. Due to this and one other annoying problem (pictures sent through messaging would show as 20 second videos - 10 seconds of black, then 10 of the picture), I resorted to a factory reset. Since that time, all is working as expected.

Although I was dreading it, it wasn't all that painful. I use Titanium Backup and after the reset, was able re-install all of my apps and settings relatively quickly. Having those annoyances gone was definitely worth it.

-Tom