It seems the people that forced the update are having a variety of issues with the update. i cant confirm as i have not done it, and have not had any issues thus far. I am still waiting for the OTA to hit my phone.

 

Before the update I needed to have the country code for MMS messages 1-XXX-XXX-XXX to go through but after the update I had to take the 1 off to get them to go through. Doesn't seem to matter for regular texts.

 

I have occasionally had this happen to me also. No rhyme or reason to it. I'm still on 2.0 and using the stock SMS app. I hit the little letter icon and it usually resends ok.

 

My wife had this same problem on her Eris in addition to a number of other wonky things going on like, a seriously bad echo, sending blank texts to random people everytime she successfully sent a text etc... I finally called tech support and I'm not sure which one of these was the cure but hers is now fixed. I did a hard reset and the tech removed her phone from the system entirely and then re-added it.

 

I've had this problem a couple of times on the Droid. I haven't figured out how to re-send a txt that is stuck. On my old iPhone there was an option to re-send a txt, but this phone doesn't seem to have that option. I'm using Handcent, btw.

 

I had this happen on my Droid (stock and Handcent) my wifes dumb phone and buddy's BB.

I called Tech support and they took down all 3 phone numbers and the next day everything started to work. This was only with MMS not regular txt.

I know this is not much help but after the phone call (next day) everything is great.

 

Long press the message that is pending or shows that it failed to send and you'll have the option in the pop-up menu to resend.

This option is not present once the message has been confirmed sent.

 

Do you not have the little envelopes beside your texts that indicate when a message has been received?

 

Interesting. I haven't seen that option when I've had failed messages before. I wonder if the Droid is automatically trying again and succeeding, but just not clearing the "failed" message.

 

I don't. I use Handcent and I don't think it has those.

 

Oh, sorry. I use the stock messaging app, I'm not sure if either of my previous statements would be the same when using Handcent.

 

The little envelope changes size to indicate when it has been received, it starts out large and then shrinks to indicate that it has been received. If you press it while it is still large it will show pending. Failed messages are indicated by an envelope with a red ! instead of the i in the bubble.

 

If you don't want the icon with the envelope with the "i" over it, uncheck Delivery reports under settings for the message app. I couldn't figure out why I was suddenly getting that icon, and it turns out I accidently checked that box. All the reports for messages I sent to verizon customers say "sent," whereas all the reports for the messages I sent to non-verizon customers say "pending," even though I believe they were all sent correctly.

 

I'm having the same problem. My text inbox reset by itself this morning then later in the day my texts all have the pending symbol. People are still getting my texts because they reply, but the symbol stays for all of them. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

alostpacket's reply to this thread is pending....

 

Just to bump this but I seem to be getting this text pending message everytime I use the group text. If I try to forward the message to an individual it is still pending yet if I write the message directly to the other person it sends no problem.

Basically means the Group bit is useless which is a shame.

I'm using a Desire btw.

Cheers.

 

This may not be much help, but I have never had this happen. I use Handcent SMS and haven't touched the stock messaging app for a few months now. Maybe try using Handcent and see if it still happens.

Kratos

 

My Wife just had this issue today as well and found the "delivery reports" checked. She swears she never checked anything and that it just started happening on it's own. Unchecking the box clears it right up so at least it's an easy fix.

It started when I was using my phone as a tethered modem and responded to her text in the popup that appeared on my laptop.

 

Try erasing the data and cache for handcent. Or uninstalling and reinstalling. On handcent, a long press will bring up the message options, scroll down the menu to the resend option.