Text bug - Working on possible solutions

Wonderful, guess we have another mystery to add to the problem. That's the way I feel about the alarm clock issue, that when the phone is in that text limbo mode that the alarm clock has issues as well, lights up the screen when a scheduled alarm goes off but the phone makes no sound or vibration. I makes you think it's a hardware issue since the alarm (like the music player) isn't realted to texting. I do know I physically checked the alarm clock issue while in the text limbo mode a couple of times, but I can't confirm if that issue is present every time the phone gets in that mode.

But then if it were a hardware issue, getting a replacement phone would fix it...maybe not with the first replacement, but eventually. It's almost like several applications that are running kind of semi-crash. If it's not the actual phone, but the connection or network settings with AT&T, (more speculation here) what bad data is the AT&T network sending the phone causing the applications that were running fine to suddenly stumble? As another member pointed out, it doesn't appear to be an 'action' that we are doing that triggers it, like sending a text. The phone can just silently and randomly go into that limbo mode on it's own. The phone does check in with and exchange info with the network regularly, so maybe during one of those occasional handshakes with the network some corrupt data is sent to the phone? Who knows....

My work iphone i used to have did this as well now that you mention it. when it freezes, you can't send or recieve calls or texts until you restart it. other people i know with an iphone dont have the problem but mine was not a 3gs either

You are having ba luck.

As I said earlier there are many phones having this text bug issue I have been finding out. No one has figured it out yet. HTC is even working on it for their smartphones. They think it has something to do when your phone switches bands and gets stuck. One second you are on 3G+ then it shifts to 3G and when you go to send text it tries to send over edge or something like that.

How many people without data switched their 3G off like I asked earlier and still have the problem? I think I only heard one response.

The real test is for someone with the correct sim that will allow you to turn off 3G with network mode.

Maybe if we all made a petition and sent it to samsug mobile. If there was a way to only make the phone send messages over the GSM 900 band, the problem would most likely be solved for most. ATT uses the 900 band in most of there towers in the US. But honestly, i dont see an end to this problem in the near future.

i can say it has happened to me after emptying my received and sent messages. so, yes it does. at least for me it did.

I tried #*0523#, but it didn't do anything. After a bit of testing, I figured out that the code is actually *#0523#.

I did it, and will see if I get the problem again, but I'm not sure if doing that did anything. Even after restarting my phone, it says 3G+ at the top...