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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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468951	2006-07-06 03:08:00	Hi Team We have four 027 Nokia 2280 prepay mobiles in the family. Everybody else but me has 100% succes rate in sending texts, even the luddite Mrs T, who swore she would never text etc etc, but has recently started. When I send texts, they often arrive unreadable and the recipient's phone reads: "message cannot not be displayed" After various tests, including rewriting of the phone's software, this week Telecom couriered me a new phone (full marks for great service Telecom). Great I thought, my problems are over, but nope, it still happens. I use the exact same process to create and sent my texts as the rest of the family (my children, who know everything, made sure of that) but still this annoying problem persists. If I resend the same text, it seems to go through OK, so it is not some peculiar issue in the way I format or write the messages, and it doesn't matter which I enter first, the text or the recipients phone number, the result is the same. The only thing that this phone has in common with the old phone is that my address book and messages etc were transfered over so I am wondering if the problem lies there for some peculiar reason. Has anybody ever experienced or even heard of this error message before? Cheers Billy 8-{) :confused:	Billy T (70)
468952	2006-07-06 04:02:00	Simple. The phones have (just like the PressF1 software) an "Ignore" option. Very handy, that. :D So of course they "cannot not" display the message.	Graham L (2)
468953	2006-07-06 04:58:00	If the same problem is repeated with a new handset then the problem must be at network level. Ring Telecom. BTW what happens if you text yourself?	sam m (517)
468954	2006-07-06 06:11:00	Simple. The phones have (just like the PressF1 software) an "Ignore" option. Very handy, that. :D So of course they "cannot not" display the message. I dunno what you're smoking Graham, but I wouldn't mind some of it. That was totally incomprehensible. :confused: These are messages to people who need to (want to) get them but can't read them. Moving on to Sam's answer, that's a good idea, I didn't realise that you could text yourself. Just tried it and one message came through, but the second didn't. The big difference is that instead of being displayed with a "letter" image in front of it, the failed message says "data". Now, the only thing I am doing that could possibly be interpreted as data is using the 0 key to insert spaces between words, and using 3 presses of the 0 key (carriage return?) to start a new line. That's the theory, and it is straight from the manual, but neither work. By that I mean that the message looks OK on my screen before sending, but there are no spaces between the words and no "new lines" when I get it back. I should have stuck to the electric telephone, or megaphones, semaphore and morse code. :groan: I bet even Jack can text, if he has a cellphone that is. Cheers Billy 8-{) :waughh:	Billy T (70)
468955	2006-07-06 06:54:00	What happens if you get your kids to use your phone to txt message themselves? Do they get the same problem? That will help eliminate user technique error. :)	Jen (38)
468956	2006-07-06 07:24:00	Well I'll be damned :( Either the Nokia manual is wrong, or there is a programming error somewhere in the data chain, because I can now reproduce the problem at will! All it takes is three presses on the 0 key and the message is interpreted as data. It has to be a programming error actually, because the manual lists the functions of the 0 key as "space, 0, return", then later on it confirms that by saying "To start a new line, press 0 three times." So that's the up-front cause, now to find out the underlying cause! Look out Telecom, answers will be requested! Cheers Billy 8-{) Edit: Would anybody else on the 027 network care to text themselves and see if they get the same result if they end a line with three presses of 0? It would help narrow down the cause for me.	Billy T (70)
468957	2006-07-06 07:28:00	I get that message on my samsung, normally when people include a certain type of icons (not the emoticons but another type), for some reason it clashes on my phone. The only difference between our phones are the model number. :2cents:	rob_on_guitar (4196)
468958	2006-07-06 09:01:00	I dont have one of those phones but I am wondering. If you have successfully created a new line (pressed 0 X3) and send it then are you sending lots of spaces and that is what is being corrupted when it gets sent via the network. So therefore the phone software is correct but the network is misinterpreting all the spaces being sent. Can you send to an 021 phone?	sam m (517)
468959	2006-07-06 09:16:00	Edit: Would anybody else on the 027 network care to text themselves and see if they get the same result if they end a line with three presses of 0? It would help narrow down the cause for me. I get "Message cannot be displayed" as well. :illogical	FoxyMX (5)
468960	2006-07-06 10:13:00	I dont have one of those phones but I am wondering. If you have successfully created a new line (pressed 0 X3) and send it then are you sending lots of spaces and that is what is being corrupted when it gets sent via the network. No, I follow the line break with further text so there shouldn't be any other characters. I get "Message cannot be displayed" as well. Thanks Sis, that's all the confirmation I need to go back to Telecom. I'll be looking for a system fix plus a credit for my time and costs. Watch this space............ Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs:	Billy T (70)
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