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| Thread ID: 70519 | 2006-07-06 03:08:00 | Really weird text messaging problem......... | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 468961 | 2006-07-06 10:35:00 | I dont think you understood what I meant. If you have a line of text and according to the text count you have say for example 25 characters. If you then create a new line (press 0 X3) and dont type anything else does the character count increase? |
sam m (517) | ||
| 468962 | 2006-07-06 10:36:00 | I dont think you understood what I meant. If you have a line of text and according to the text count you have say for example 25 characters. If you then create a new line (press 0 X3) and dont type anything else does the character count increase? No. |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 468963 | 2006-07-07 03:03:00 | I would like to have seen answer to Jens question,as that had occurred to me. You seem to have this abilty to complicate thigs B. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 468964 | 2006-07-07 03:34:00 | I would like to have seen answer to Jens question, as that had occurred to me. You seem to have this abilty to complicate things B. The answer to Jen's question would have been no Ciccy. They wouldn't get the same problem because they would never use "proper" punctuation or new lines in any text message. It was me souperia edjumacation wot done it to me. :( If you want to get the same garbage out, you have to put the same garbage in. Anyway, Telecom have been very good and helpful throughout (as usual, you get back what you put out) and I got a healthy credit on my phone by way of compensation for my troubles. No doubt I will hear back in due course what the trouble was, but in the meantime I'd be interested to know if this software error affects phones other than Nokia, so if anybody on 027 (with a phone other than Nokia) cares to send themselves a one-word text ending with three presses of the zero key, and doesn't get a "message cannot be displayed" in their inbox, post the brand of phone here. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 468965 | 2006-07-07 07:17:00 | I can text myself on my Nokia 2112 all I like with new lines and it works fine. I really did try to reproduce the problem, but couldn't. Maybe they fixed it? |
george12 (7) | ||
| 468966 | 2006-07-07 09:48:00 | I can text myself on my Nokia 2112 all I like with new lines and it works fine. I really did try to reproduce the problem, but couldn't. Maybe they fixed it? No, they haven't yet George. The latest is that if the text goes to certain other brands of mobile it will be displayed, but as a series of random-ish ascii characters, so entering a line break will render any text message from a Nokia 2280 unreadable. At this stage it appears that the problem lies in the software of 2280 mobiles, and maybe one or two other closely related Nokia models. Telecom are keeping in contact with me as the investigation progresses, so hopefully I'll know the answer soon. Either that or they will give me yet another phone. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 468967 | 2006-07-09 10:36:00 | Well, I have now narrowed the problem down to a software issue involving a particular (now identified) coding error, and as far as I can tell at this stage, it is confined to Nokia 2280 mobiles only . It could affect all 2280s because they should all run the same software, and there is a faint chance it is coded into the actual hardware, which means it will be unfixable . That make things interesting because that model is now obsolete (or so I'm told) so I doubt that Telecom/Nokia will be interested in fixing the problem even if it is a remediable software issue . Since the phone is still under warranty, they would probably prefer to either replace it or refund the purchase price . I guess that's up to them but I'll have to see what they say once they've looked at the problem now that I have shown them exactly what it is and where it hides . Watch this space . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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