Help HELP! Text Messaging error force close

[Deleted User]

Hi can anyone help me?

Suddenly about 2 days ago, every time i text a message, i get an error when the message goes through which says:

SORRY!
The application Messaging
(process com.android.mms)
has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.

It asks me to force close. I read somewhere that it is due to having low space on the on-board memory so i deleted apps and texts, to no avail.

Is there anything I can do?

Oh another thing, this problem always seems to send a blank text that doesn't get sent to 1 person in my contacts after every error for some reason - if that helps hmm.

 

[justjimjpc]

Hi can anyone help me?

Suddenly about 2 days ago, every time i text a message, i get an error when the message goes through which says:

SORRY!
The application Messaging
(process com.android.mms)
has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.

It asks me to force close. I read somewhere that it is due to having low space on the on-board memory so i deleted apps and texts, to no avail.

Is there anything I can do?

Oh another thing, this problem always seems to send a blank text that doesn't get sent to 1 person in my contacts after every error for some reason - if that helps hmm.

Try this ... with the phone ON and at the home screen ... Pull the Battery and the SIM ... let the phone set fro a couple of minutes ... put SIM and battery back in an power up normally ... Try send a text msg ... with the phones default messaging program ... I assume you are not using a third party messaging app ?

 

[Deleted User]

I tried and unfortunately it didn't work

 

[petay]

im having the exact same problem with my G1!! im using the built in android messaging app. i read something online about a security hole in android that has been found where missformed messages are sent and something about it causing the sim to restart?!?! im just searching my history now!!

 

[petay]

ok so here is the page!!


oCERT.org - oCERT Advisories

just need to figure out the next step!!!

 

[incognitiuz]

Hi, I'm also facing this problem. I've tried taking out the battery, etc., and nothing seems to work.

Any advice?

I can't understand what to do with the oCERT Advisories page. Is there anything actionable there?

Thanks in advance!

 

[kindergarden kid]

Same problem but alos with mine when I receive a picture message it will stay at the bottom. Or the text will go somewhere its not sapost to be (half way throught the text)

 

[incognitiuz]

A little help, anyone?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[hotani]

I had this problem: every time I tried to send a message, the "closed unexpectly" error would pop up.

I looked at previous threads in the messaging app. One of them had about 20 blank, unsent messages. I deleted all of them, and no longer saw the error. Hope that helps!

This is on a Samsung Moment running Android 1.5.

 

[Aelfinn]

Thank you hotani for your advice. I did the same thing after reading your post - I checked my previous threads in the messaging app and found about 50 unsent messages to a person I hadn't texted in quite some time. I deleted them all and the 'Force close' messages went away. My messaging app was actually bad enough that I think I wasn't even receiving text messages. This is on a T-Mobile G1. Thanks again for the help.

 

[Duddles88]

I have the same problem but everytime it force closes I restart my phone and as soon as I turn it back on it sends random old messages to people I have previously texted. How do I stop it?

Also, how do you delete unsent messages? Or better yet, how do you know if you have unsent messages?

 

[techdude99]

I had the same problem on my Moto Droid 1 with OS 2.2.1 and fixed it by doing the following:

• Open Google native Messenging app (the original Messenging App installed on the phone)
• Select Menu button
• Select Delete Threads

Problem solved!

P.S. This deletes all of your old messenging threads, but nothing in this Post worked and I was ready to do a Factory Reset, so I can deal with it

 

[supraz]

Same Problem on a Nexus S. Had to delete all the threads(messages) like techdude99. I looked through all my messages and had no unsent messages.

 

[pfarrelly]

yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....

 

[shrii]

i get the exact same thing, iv had my phone for 2 weeks and its doing it, ill be in the middle of a message and it will close comming up with that and this time it deleted ALL of my messages including unread ones
please help!! i need the messages back asap

 

[metropcsguy]

Had a customer come in with a similar issue getting the error code process com.android.mms error everytime we'd try to send take a picture and send it via mms. Eventually wound up just doing a factory reset after trying to go through the settings and it started working again. Perhaps a little extreme but the customer was able to send pics again so she was happy. Not sure if this will help but it did wind up working again.

 

[armanke13]

got the same exact problem,
and will try deleting messages threads,

for presumes,
maybe the system overwhelmed while waiting 10+ unsent messages reports,

*backing-up 3973 messages..

done, 3 failed

*deleting messages

done,

no need to clear GMail Contacts like this guy says: http://android.modaco.com/topic/295...-force-close/page__view__findpost__p__1161456

 

[armanke13]

yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....

what's the sms content, pfarrelly?

 

[armanke13]

yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....

what's the sms content, pfarrelly?

 

[vaji]

well
seems my problem is completely different !
i dont know exactly after installing which application it happend
but all i know is after appearing this error for messaging,it appears for any application u run,gmail,gtalk,task manager,contact...
i mean,it does not appear only for messaging,when it starts,it applies on any thing
plzzz tell me what should i do
but do not tell me to do a factory reset
im really tired of doing this job!!!
by the way
the model is Galaxy s2

 

[bffl778]

I had the same problem on my Moto Droid 1 with OS 2.2.1 and fixed it by doing the following:

• Open Google native Messenging app (the original Messenging App installed on the phone)
• Select Menu button
• Select Delete Threads

Problem solved!

P.S. This deletes all of your old messenging threads, but nothing in this Post worked and I was ready to do a Factory Reset, so I can deal with it

i've deleted all my threads, and i've also done a factory reset, but it still does the error on me... p.s mines an andriod optimis chat and it's only a week old