Q: iPhone 5 bought in the USA does not send text messages in Russian networks

Ok thanks for your feedback, I was contacted by Apple the sameway as you but they didn't provide any sokution, just said they investigate on the pb ... so you are saying that now you can send SMS right ?... What did they ask you to try ? Did you do a restore or something ?

Mauro,

Great news! Would you mind to share what did you do (or what Apple did) to make your phone work? That would help all people on this thread...

I don't know what they did.

It is something related to unlocking. I restored and activated with my local carrier and it worked fine, including SMS. No extra setting.

Check if your iPhone is really unlocked. I think iPhones from sprint are not really unlocked and that might be the problem.

Ok that's cool, for the unlocked settings Apple has confirmed to me last time that my phone is list as unlocked in their database ... Don't know what to do, restore again?

hi guys

i am new to this thread, but after weeks of research on trying to figure out why i am facing this issue, i read all your commnets and realsied that this is a global issue.

I am writing in, just add support to this cause, as i am alos one of the many users who is extremely upset about not being able to use the sms feature on my FULLY PAID iphone 5.

I did call Apple in India (Bangalore) as well, and they confirmed that as per my IMEI number my phone indeed is locked.

I wont repeat any of the issues faced by me as it is the excat same issues that all of you guys are facing.

I TOO AM LOOKING DESPERATELY FOR AN ANSWER.

APPLE: Help pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

hey michael. in india apple had confirmed to me that my phone was locked in thier database and they too had asked me to do a restore and said that post restore the phone shoudl work just fine, however, no such luck, i tried the restiore twice, but the sms error persisted, so i am not sure if the restore function would work, however if it does then your lukcy :-)

guys i was discussing this on another thread and one of the suggestions that came forth actually worked...atleast for me in india...

you can read the below..

i tried sending the sms to an android phone and i tried sending the sms to a blackberry phone, while both sms's seem to go through, the android phone is the only phone that actually received the message...

all the best guys and hope it works for you guys as well....

Alyahmadi

I fond this try it

I had the same problem but was able to find a temporary workaround until Apple/Sprint releases some kind of fix. It's not perfect, but it gets me by for now. worked for me, but I don't know if it'll work for every locale:

I am outside the US and trying to use a GSM SIM card in a Sprint iPhone5 but could not send SMS messages (only receive)

Try this:

1. Go to Settings / Messages

2. Make sure "Show Subject Field" is on

3. Try sending a message but type your message in the subject heading instead of the main box. The key is that the subject line has to have something in it, even a " " blank space will do

I tried sending it this way to other iphones and smart phones and both the subject and body of the SMS would go through, but to older cell phones only the subject heading goes through, and only the first 39 characters.

Hopefully Apple/Sprint will come up with an actual fix, but I'm hoping this is of help to some people out there

C

yes i do agree, and i believe the charges are more expensive as well, however i guess, untill sprint helps us figure a solution, in the interim, this could be a stop gap arrangement of sorts!

Bought a Sprint iPhone 5 from US and using it in India with Airtel as carrier and landed up with non-working messaging . Apple is ready for replacing the phone but getting another Sprint iPhone 5 will not do any good as it looks like something to do with the Unlocking..

Apple called me and they know about the SMS problem. They will release an update In a few days

Heyyyyy that great news. Thank you so much, since we are in India and may not be aware when the update is out would you be kind enough to update or post the same on this thread. Cheers

Few days to me means a lot...did they say when exactly ?

Hey a Ashwath seems like you and I are sailing in the exact same boat, however the most recent post gives us reason to be hopeful that there will be a work around eventually. Keeping my fingers crossed that the update comes soon and puts us all out of our miseries. Cheers

That's exctly what I always told, it's an Apple problem. The problem should be on the firmware/iOS for Sprint version, no hardware problem. The hardware is exactly the same if Sprint or Verizon, and the Verizon's works fine.

Well, I really hope it came soon....