Help Text Messages in wrong order

sajmonides · Jan 18, 2011

So I've searched the forums and found 2 topics with similar problems:

http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/114244-sms-messages-wrong-time-order.html

and

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/92798-text-messages-wrong-order.html

To make the story short, when I receive a text message from someone and then respond to them immediately or within 1 minute, my message will appear above theirs. It can be a pain to read again later or to show someone the conversation.
I've just upgraded from Samsung Moment and that I've had that problem with Moment as well. The problem however haven't started occurring until last 1-2 months. I've never had anything like that happen to me before.

The 2 threads that I linked above mention turning off automatic time, but I've looked over all settings in Evo Shift and couldn't find anything like that. (Or maybe I'm just dumb and can't find it). Another solution was to install a third party application for messaging, but I've tried all of them and I think handcent solved the problem, however I really dislike the app and I like the regular android way of text messaging. Has anyone had this problem and successfully resolved it?

momo5 · Jan 19, 2011

I've had this happen alot with this phone. Like you said it only seems to hppen if you recieve a text and then immediately reply. It is veryy annoying. Unfortunately, I dont know of a solution..

EarlyMon · Jan 19, 2011

Have you tried Handcent or would you rather not?

sajmonides · Jan 20, 2011

Yes, handcent fixes the problem but I really dislike the app and prefer not to use it.

mscottfl · Feb 6, 2011

i noticed this when texting across time zones- for example when I was on a business trip last week in central time and texting someone back east- the order was all messed up- but when I got home it straightened itself back out

chris20nyy · Feb 14, 2011

Same issue here. Need a fix for this it really screws up the flow of a text coversation...

EarlyMon · Feb 14, 2011

Well, if you dislike Handcent, there's GoSMS and ChompSMS.

chris20nyy · Feb 14, 2011

There's got to be a fix for this though. I'd rather not use 3rd party text apps, kinda like the factory application.

EarlyMon · Feb 14, 2011

This is an issue with the codebase from Google vs. network time vs. delivery order.

It's not getting fixed because it's not anyone's priority - that's why these third party apps are so effective and popular.

One of them - Go or Chomp - has two modes - iChat-like (Handcent-like) as well as basically identical to stock appearance and feel.

The apps are small, you turn off stock messaging notifications so you're not double-notified and you move on.

Until every carrier's users start suffering this problem - then it gets a Google fix, then it goes into the AOSP repository, then it gets absorbed by HTC, then it gets packaged for an upgrade, then it goes thru Sprint QA - then you'll get it.

So - the fix is there, and so long as you don't let yourself notice - you can get the same look and feel as the factory one, without the long wait.

(Does Google know this is an issue? Yes. Are they actually working on it? I personally don't know. How will they fix it? Probably the same cleverness as the independent devs by ignoring bad network time stamps and just presenting in message delivery order (as a config option).)

chris20nyy · Feb 14, 2011

loaded GoSMS...

has the same issue. Sent a text in the same minute as received, lists my text like it was sent before. So even 3rd party apps are susceptible to this...

EarlyMon · Feb 15, 2011

Check the settings, see if arrival is configurable.

SearMe · Mar 14, 2011

I looked into this as well. And I did try handscent as well and I would rather just use the regular one as well.

In my research someone mentioned to go into manage apps -> all apps -> messages -> "clear cache"

Its worked for me so far. I'm not sure if it will have to be done again or often but it's worth a try..?

sajmonides · Mar 15, 2011

I haven't experienced that problem for a while now actually, not sure why. Rooting the phone might have been the reason, but I think that the problem stopped even before I did that. So I'm not really sure but haven't had that happen in a while now.

wjogert · Mar 17, 2011

This isn't the fault of Google, or the phone. I had this issue with my previous phone which was not a smart phone at all.

The issue seems to be receiving texts while roaming. For some reason, the incoming texts arrive with an incorrect time stamp, usually hour(s) AHEAD of actual time. So the text app places these incoming texts in chronological order. Since your SEND texts are actual time, they are always behind the incoming texts chronologically.

Everyone I know on the Sprint service has this issue while roaming, regardless of phone. This issue needs to be addressed with Sprint. Maybe if enough customers finally whine, they might look into it.

wjogert · Mar 17, 2011

BTW, my daughter's phone also suffers from this incorrect time-stamp while roaming... but her phone has the basic Sprint OS, and as long as the phone is ON when the text comes in, the phone organizes the messages by ACTUAL TIME RECEIVED. The only time her messages go out of order is if the phone is off, or has no signal when the incoming text is sent.

Seems like a "smart" OS should have the ability to recognize that regardless of the time-stamp, that the message JUST arrived. Then again, the app is probably trying to compensate for the possibility of network delays... in which case you WOULD want to organize by the time-stamp. uugghh.

EarlyMon · Mar 17, 2011

There are two time stamps involved, management of one is buggy, management of the other is not.

3rd party apps are known to work without this issue and can be configured to look exactly like the stock app while at the same time providing more features.

Or, you can stick with stock and watch the problem come and go.

arentzjm · Dec 12, 2012

I dont know if this will work, but my brother had the same problem. All I did was go in and reset the phone to factory settings and then it worked perfectly.

EarlyMon · Dec 12, 2012

I believe that they updated the software on this since this problem occurred earlier, however, that's good to know!

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