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IPhone 3G will not send text, getting "error sending message"

I recently upgraded my IPhone 3G to 2.2 and about a week later I was getting a "error sending message" when sending text messages. I can receive text just fine. I have tried restoring using ITunes and even had the ATT store tech swap the SIM card with no results. HELP!!!!!!! I am very upset with ATT and Appple. I know other folks out there are having the same problems and someone out there has a fix.
I feel I have a 600 dollar brick. Ron Bak ronbak@earthlink.net

Macbook Pro 2.2, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 7, 2009 1:23 PM

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Jan 9, 2009 12:59 PM in response to ronbak

Throwing in my $.02. I called AT&T and they did some stuff to try to resolve it (reboot phone, turn off the phone while they mess with the SIM, etc). Nothing they did worked. They transferred me to Apple, who had me run some diagnostics on the phone, and send the logs to them. Apparently this is beginning to be a more common issue, as both the Apple and AT&T rep had stated that they have started to get several calls on this issue.

Where it stands now: Apple Engineers will look at the logs and try to determine the issue. They say they will get back to me in a few days.

Jan 12, 2009 11:48 AM in response to brian4

I kept receiving an "Error Invalid Number" message while trying to text one specific phone number. I went to the AT&T store and was told to take the phone to the Apple store for a replacement. I was about to leave the parking lot and remembered something else that I was having trouble with and went back in and had a different employee help me. I told the employee about the text problem and she told me that I probably had the phone number duplicated. I told her that I didn't. She deleted the specific number number and related contact, re-entered it and it has worked ever since. I am still not sure if there was a duplicate number that she removed, but the contact information had been transferred from my previous cell phone and that could have created a conflict with information that I added later.

IPhone 3G will not send text, getting "error sending message"

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