Garbled text (SMS) messages

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Garbled text (SMS) messages

Every now and then, the SMS (text) messages that I send from my iPhone to my friend arrive all garbled. In one instance, there was an @ sign inserted after every letter of the original message. Other times, it is completely jumbled. She has a Treo phone, and is on the Sprint network. Interestingly, it does not happen all the time.

Has anyone here experienced this? Does anyone know the cause/cure for this?

Thanks!

Rafael

iMac Intel Chip, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Former PC user

Posted on Dec 30, 2007 2:14 PM

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BlingMe

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Dec 30, 2007 2:32 PM in response to cationic

Are you using any symbols, etc.....that maybe your friends phone does not have in their phone? I know when I went into the Spanish mode (for the fun of it) on my phone and put in the upside down question mark and upside down exclamation point....and sent a message to my husband, those symbols did not show up on his phone because he does not have that capability....so another symbol showed up on his phone.

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cationic Author

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Dec 30, 2007 2:39 PM in response to BlingMe

Thank you for the reply. In your case, did the symbol replacement was a one for one? That is, one instance of the symbol was replaced with an individual (albeit different) symbol? I ask because I did use one Spanish character in the whole message (the accented letter á), but the whole message got garbled, not just that letter.

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Dec 30, 2007 3:01 PM in response to cationic

this has happened to me once about a week ago and never before since iDay... I kind of just disregarded this to a random fluke of data bits getting lost within the stream

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BlingMe

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Dec 30, 2007 2:21 PM in response to cationic

Have never had that happen or heard of that happening.

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macjock

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Dec 30, 2007 2:22 PM in response to cationic

typing probably. If it is an error that is repeated, you may well naturally lean on one part of the screen over and over causing the mistake.

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cationic Author

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Dec 30, 2007 2:26 PM in response to macjock

No, it is not a typing problem - the message looks perfectly fine on my phone, after I send it. I can see it as part of the "conversation" that is shown in the iPhone Text Messages screen.

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