Help Text messages to wrong person

This has happened to me and a simple reboot of the phone fixed the issue.

Kris

OK. New to the forum. But, I am at my wits end with this HIGH END phone. By the time I left my service provider, thinking I had the latest and greatest thing, and a shy under $400 poorer. Little did I know that the thing would take on a life of it's own. Seriously, taking the battery out several times a week is the answer? I have taken the thing in several times and the miracle cure (big secret) is to take the battery out and wait 5 minutes and reinstall. I clear out not only my text log, but my call log as well..several times a week and take the battery out..as it still has been known to randomly send a text to the wrong persons. Sometimes it is someone that I recently called and have never sent a text message.
I want my old Nokia back. Never had this problem when just calling and sending a text message was all I could do. Which leads me to the suspected issue.....changed service providers, they downloaded my call log from my old phone and from the very beginning I had problems. It isn't like I am a "happy" over user. I get several text msgs a day and that is about it. But, when the a text goes to your boss that isn't intended.....NOT GOOD. So I'm very cautious as to what I put in a text now.

Mines been working pretty flawlessly but i'm using a custom 2.2 rom

I don't seem to have that many issues when I had 2.1 but just upgraded to the official 2.2 yesterday. I do have to pull the battery out a couple of times a month because the phone froze up on me but often it is because I am impatient and become click happy.
I also reboot my phone (Power Off) once a week. I find it keeps the phone running smooth and faster. Kinda like shutting down your PC.

Those are my only advise but then again I am not a programmer and do not know the in's and out's of Android like some of developers.

Kris

You may want to back up your phone and do a factory reset to see if that helps.

Kris

If you bring it in they aren't likely to back up your phone and you will be stuck inputting all your contacts back in and installing all of your Apps as well.
There are Apps which will backup your phone. There is MyBackup and Titanium Backup which are both very good.

If you want to do a factory reset here is a link which two ways to do it: www.hard-reset.com - Samsung I5801 Galaxy Apollo Android hard reset - PDA Smartphone PNA hard reset soft reset

Kris

You may also want to make sure you have the lastest Drivers and version of Kies. Otherwise you will have issue getting your PC to detect your phone.

Kris

out of interest, when it sends the text to the wrong person, does it show up as going to that other person once sent?

you could try using an app from android market rather than the stock messaging facility to see if that helps - i use Handcent (although have a couple of minor issues with it, otherwise it's fine (plus it doesn't turn texts that are over 3 texts long into mms)

This happens to me too and it's really annoying. Rebooting based on advice from another site but it's taking all day. Have a constant pic on the screen of the android symbol with a triangle next to it and an exclamation mark. It's been doing this for hours. Don't think it's possible to take the battery out of my handset. It's a Galaxy tab and I can't find anywhere for a battery, though there will be one in there somewhere.

I just recently bought a Droid Charge. The first one, worked for a day then took it back to the Kiosk and they couldn't get any SMS card to work on it. (Two employees in this store were using the same phone.)After 45 minutes, one clerk saw the error in their computer and fixed the phone. I brought it back the next day with the same problem. They ordered me a new one.

Now I'm not insane. I send text messages as much as any teenager would, though I'm not that young, and I send a lot of them. What happened was, I kept getting responses from people I know saying "What?" and I'd look and look and sure enough, even though I sent the text to say Charles, I'd get a reply from say, Rebecca. I'd close out of text and open it, and there would be nothing for Charles but there was a message for Rebecca. It wouldn't have my original text most of the time but sometimes it did.

In my case, I was sending a message from a WITNESS to another OFFICER, it went to the PERP. As soon as I had seen what had happened I knew this woman had a lawsuit and the company was going to have me breathing down their necks.

Here are some of the things we can determine.

1. It only happens on 4g.
2. It only happens to people in your phone book.
3. It is seamlessly random.
4. It can be avoided by making phone calls only, or texting from a different network.
5. Phone calls are still the safest way, unless being bugged or recorded.
6. Text messages and now, even phone calls can be recorded and stored, are not often accessed.
7. Yes a warrant is required.
and finally:
8. Don't send anything in a text you wouldn't send to a parent, who is sharing her messages out loud at the dinner table with the local cops.

As someone mentioned, rebooting the phone helps, not a fix and it will be right back to doing again. So unless you reboot your phone after every text message sent, there is no way to avoid this.

I believe this started right after 2.2, I you see in mine I'm way past that. We need to revive this thread, and slap the right people with it. Our privacy could in some cases save lives.