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Help Odd code for text coming thru on received text msgs

Same here it started a few hours ago and only seems to be affecting incoming text so far. I am also running stock sprint moment using handcent SMS app.

Never had this problem before and its driving me crazy I can not live with text...!

I have tried rebooting the phone a few times which did nothing to fix the problem, even checking the stock SMS app that comes on the phone and it shows the same crazy stuff so it must be a network issue with sprint.
 
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i had an idea that it might be network related since the phones affected were running either stock or rooted versions of android; that's why i held off on reformatting back to stock/reflashing a new ROM just yet.

Jinski13- hopefully your handset is all stock, requesting a phone to be serviced that's stock is one thing but, when people start coming in with issues attributed to phones that have been rooted/jailbroken, those situations are generally greeted with widespread eyerolls.
 
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i had an idea that it might be network related since the phones affected were running either stock or rooted versions of android; that's why i held off on reformatting back to stock/reflashing a new ROM just yet.

Jinski13- hopefully your handset is all stock, requesting a phone to be serviced that's stock is one thing but, when people start coming in with issues attributed to phones that have been rooted/jailbroken, those situations are generally greeted with widespread eyerolls.


Yea thankfully it is stock, but with responses I've gotten here and other sites it's not a phone issue it seems like and even if it was I'm bad about putting low quality customer srv in its place.
 
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Well it seems to be random because i am getting some text fine, but others are the strange symbols. I have tried both the stock sms app and handcent and both show the same problems.

I also noticed that for some reason my GPS icon keeps turning on and off in my notification bar...and i can't find any running services that would be using my GPS not sure if that has anything to do with this problem.
 
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Ugh, I'm a sprint technician and my phone started doing this today, I dont work this evening or tomorrow so I'm unable to hop into the sprint forums because I believe I've seen a thread that said something similar to this and I think it is strictly related to the Moment but a coworker said something about it being a virus on someones network. What carriers are texting you the strange characters? I've had 2 from ATT and 1 from Verizon prepaid.
 
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i've been having the same problem since this afternoon at about 3 pm. From people on Verizon and i believe at t. Also the only way mine starts working again is for me to reboot the entire phone then it works for about 5 messages and goes back to cryptic messages...very annoying. not even gonna bother to call sprint since i know they won't do crap
 
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I will definitely update with whatever I find out.


Went to the Sprint store was told by a tech that it's a known problem just started today, they're working on a fix. Said it's a network problem only affecting Moments *yay* so if you have anything other than a Moment I'd report it. I doubt I'll find out more, will update if I do.
 
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Yea she was responding in this one earlier and just copy and pasted what I wrote and added a bit of her own words to it lol...

Hmm this whole scene is very strange :thinking:

The character encoding is a serious mix of a whole lotta shit... wow

It looks like ASCii ..... but hell i dunno what this shit is :thinking: just... weird.... :(

Looks like a lot of different character types from all sorts :(

hmm maybe UTF-8 or something hmm in can't figure it out actually! weird... wow...

UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hmm you see if i use this online character encoder but damn just useless

Character set converter - online tool

Hmm i am still new at this.... wow this is wierd hey? :(

I wonder if i am on the right track here???
 
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