Wish I could help, but I suffer from similar issues too. I seem to receive my messages but a lot of them are empty without any text. It has to be a bug in the Android OS.

I use the default Messages app, so I doubt it's a handcent problem. Plus my text messages have been 100% reliable for years on other phones with my carrier.

 

Same issue here. Read up a few places and it does appear to be an os issue. If I try and read a message as soon as it arrives it seems to then disappear. Handcent seem to be working on a fix but from what I've read this issue is not particular to their software.
This is the biggest issue I have with the phone and I'm surprised it isn't higher profile. Data loss if it continues will be the end of this handset for me.
Does anyone know if this is HTC hero specific or an android os problem across the board?

 

Apologies for the double post.

Same issue here. Read up a few places and it does appear to be an os issue. If I try and read a message as soon as it arrives it seems to then disappear. Handcent seem to be working on a fix but from what I've read this issue is not particular to their software.
This is the biggest issue I have with the phone and I'm surprised it isn't higher profile. Data loss if it continues will be the end of this handset for me.
Does anyone know if this is HTC hero specific or an android os problem across the board?

 

Try this:

Open Handcent-> settings from menu
sms receive settings-> click sms retrieve setting
scroll down to Auto-retrieve and put "check" on box

a little further down there's also Self-Check. Description is " when receive the message make sure it saved". Check that too.

If you want, can disable similar on native sms client.

Hope this will work if I'm understanding the problem correctly.

 

Thanks for the info. Have changed the settings so fingers crossed this works.

 

Out of interest, what build number are you all running, i have had similar problems when on the original 1.7 build, just recently upgraded to new orange rom 2.73.

I havent put any sms programs on for the moment just using stock program.

I did this upgrade under the dubious instructions from htc support saying it would clear the fault, been honest i am not convinced, i think they were just wanting to clear the call and any suggestion would do.

I dont get a great deal of texts but have had a few and no missing ones to date, but no where near enough to prove this fixes it.

Anyone else running on latest rom had this problem?

Jock

 

I'm on 1.73 build. It's an un branded handset. Still testing out of my sms issue os fixed ny the settings posted. Will update In a few days once I've done more testing.

 

Worked perfectly for me! Thank you very much! +1

 

No more lost messages for me over the last few weeks for me.