Help Weird text message behavior

[LoBatt]

When I send a text message, the recipient shows that that it's from some strange number, a 16 digit number. But if the recipient clicks on it, it shows my phone number as a call back number. If the recipient simply replies to the text message, I don't get it. But if the recipient replies to my call back number, it comes through. Anyone else having this issue or know what's going on? I'm using the default messaging app.

 

[redraider1]

It is the sim number. There is an article about this on the main page of phandroid. Early HTC Thunderbolt Units Experiencing SMS Bugs? | Android Phone Fans

 

[AustinTech]

People are reporting success when they turn off the phone, pop out the battery and restart everything.

Other people said the problem went away after an hour or two. Or after they made their first phone call.

 

[LoBatt]

Powering down, pulling the battery then restarting seemed to fix it.

 

[Yellow Snowman]

been on the phone with vzw for an hour now. my SMS still sends in 3's. driving me crazy.

 

[TxGoat]

People are reporting success when they turn off the phone, pop out the battery and restart everything.

Other people said the problem went away after an hour or two. Or after they made their first phone call.

And yet other people are posting up threads before doing a search...

 

[LoBatt]

D'oh! Was off the board for an hour and missed the other thread. My bad.

 

[Xyro]

And yet other people are posting up threads before doing a search...

Please remember of the Zero Tollerance Policy we have here:

We welcome EVERYONE to this forum. We don't care if their grammar isn't perfect. And, albeit a little annoying when someone doesn't, we don't "require" people to search first before they post a question. Replying to a thread by saying "use the search" is just as bad or worse than not searching first. Either reply to a thread with a helpful solution or don't reply at all.

So please, don't worry about it LoBatt.

 

[TDRaul]

I had the same issue. Powered it off then pulled out the batt. Put it all back. FIxed. Thanks Guys

 

[flazer]

Folks, glad the forums do a search for you as it helped prevent me from creating a new one

Anyway, does this still seem to fix the issue? Powering down, pulling out battery then plopping it back in ?

Seems kinda voodoo to me... I'd have tried the fix already but am doing proxy research for my wife, who is actually driving the Thunderbolt (lucky her - my phone doesn't even require a data plan).

 

[Mallissa]

Same problem here the first time around. They had me pop my battery out, slide out the sim tray and wait for 1 minute. After that I never had a problem. Good luck to ya.