Help The Phone is Sending SMSs Twice

[Xenon]

I have this really weird problem and I'm burning to find out
whether anyone else had it. Sometimes SMSs get sent twice!
I don't think it is because I have accidentally added the
recipient's number to the number field twice.

Anyone?

 

[Rastaman-FB]

ive had this on my old phone before, is it showing up twice in the sms or is the recipient telling you theyre getting it twice?

if its the latter then its not likely to be the phone but the network smsc between your network and theirs

good way to test is trying the sim in another phone. if it still happens report it to your provider

 

[Xenon]

It is both showing up twice in the SMS app and it is being
sent twice. I know because I have checked with some of
the recipients: they really got two messages.

 

[Xenon]

Today I cross-sent an SMS to five people and the phone sent each
of them two messages!

Incredibly annoying. I am wondering whether the commas in my contacts
have anything to do with it. I store contacts as Surname, Name.

 

[Carl C]

have you guys tried sending it from a different sms Program for example if your using the default sms app , use Handcent sms and see if that helps?

 

[Xenon]

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. It's still very weird that only I
have this problem (and it's a bug I can reproduce!). I'd write to
the authors of the default SMS application if I knew who they were.

 

[kam187]

do some simple tests if you can...

- create a new contact name without coma's etc, and see if u have the problem
- try with the same sim in another phone
- try with a different network sim in your samsung
- try a different SMS program
- try a factory reset (backup first if you have rooted)

 

[Rastaman-FB]

i use chomp sms, its fkin ace

 

[Xenon]

Thank God, I am not crazy!

This is a known issue and a patch is even available: https://review.source.android.com/#change,10725

Now, how do I apply this patch to my phone? I hope that there is some mechanism to do that. It would really suck if I had to wait untill Samsung thought the time is right to incorporate this fix into a new firmware.

 

[Andronix]

please update ii5 bugs thread, and lets hope mods will stick it to the top

 

[Rastaman-FB]

what sw version are you on mate?

 

[pegasus21]

Looks to me like it's just the messaging app that contains that bug and not in the system itself so if you compile the messaging app from the updated tree and install it, it should fix your problem or you could just use a 3rd party app like handcent sms

 

[Xenon]

I'm unhappy to report that I'm on IK4 and this problem still persists.

I have bumped this for all the people who are defending Samsung in the
(unfortunately numerous) complaints threads.

Here is one issue which is not simply inconvenient, it's a serious bug that is actually
costing customers like me real money!

It's a daily pain in the ass to work around it so that messages don't get sent
twice.

The case against Samsung here is strong enough to win me a lawsuit in some
jurisdictions and have my costs fully reimbursed by the company.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

I'm unhappy to report that I'm on IK4 and this problem still persists.

I have bumped this for all the people who are defending Samsung in the
(unfortunately numerous) complaints threads.

Here is one issue which is not simply inconvenient, it's a serious bug that is actually
costing customers like me real money!

It's a daily pain in the ass to work around it so that messages don't get sent
twice.

The case against Samsung here is strong enough to win me a lawsuit in some
jurisdictions and have my costs fully reimbursed by the company.

if you choose to use certain chars in your contacts as explained in that bug report that causes this issue for you even after you know what it is that causes it. its up to you

unfortunately most people wont even see this bug as they dont use commas in their contacts names.
i certainly never had this issue myself and not alot of people seem to report it so at this point samsung will assume its not one of priority

 

[Xenon]

I have a couple of hundred of contacts and I store them as

Surname, Name

This is a very common way to store contacts. I do not want
to change all 300+ of them by hand. I do not want to change
them at all! I don't think it's funny to suggest that I should.

The way I circumvent this problem now is to get the contact
from the list, then delete his/her name and leave only the phone
number in the To: field. Works but is tedious. Also, doesn't work
well for crossposted SMSs (messages with multiple people as
recipients) which I actually use a lot.

Problem also doesn't occur once you have an SMS conversation with
someone and reply without using the To: field. As soon as you need
to use To: you have this problem.

 

[Rastaman-FB]

im not saying its funny
im just saying that because its not something thats deemed as common place it wont be a priority to samsung
lets hope when if it gets to the 2.1 android it will be fixed as thats alread patched regarding this problem

 

[aibmegaxp]

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