Reply With QuoteThat's the format I use in my phone book... Every number has a +1 at the start of it. Using my Thunderbolt, I just sent a few test messages to make sure... They were received.Originally Posted by hillstrubl
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I've got more phones than fingers
This is really annoying.
Coming from a blackberry I always had all my numbers formatted with +CC in front of them. Now I'm realizing that any number thats not just 10 digits will not receive my SMS. Samsung Fascinate is the phone. Tried a hard reboot, no luck.
Verizon has no idea, I've spent over 2 hours with them, 4 different reps and they all just have me do a PRL update...
Thoughts?
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That's the format I use in my phone book... Every number has a +1 at the start of it. Using my Thunderbolt, I just sent a few test messages to make sure... They were received.
I've got more phones than fingers
seems to be a samsung specific issue.
I have a blue tooth
On another forum, there has been a number of people with Thunderbolts that are saying that their phones cannot SMS, MMS, or even call any numbers with a +1 in front of it. Apparently this may be a wider issue than just with the Samsung. I suppose this could be a huge problem for folks with contacts being sync'ed in Facebook as Facebook always appends phone numbers with the country code.
I've got more phones than fingers
Just tried to file a ticket with Verizon.
They won't even process an issue about it because "the issue is because of the +1".
Here's my problem. Some people work that are sync'ed with facebook AND have a +1, some people don't work even removing the +1, some people don't work who don't even have a linked facebook profile.
When asked about when I go abroad, I was told that I'd have to manually add a +1 to any text I wanted to respond to. Isn't that why numbers are saved in international format to begin with?
This is a really bad workaround if thats the case. I just wish the problem would actually be looked at.
My antenna is smaller than yours
I will be moving over to VZW from ATT soon. The +1 problem matters to me because I travel. Is this a VZW system problem or a phone-specific problem?
I've got more phones than fingers
Another problem I'm having. Even if i remove the +1, certain people (my dad's number for instance) it re-adds them. For me to sms him, I have to manually send a new message typing in the 10 digits each time. Responding to a received one uses the auto-added +1. In addition, at least 1 person I know if, its re-adding the +1 yet they're getting the messages...
Anybody @ VZW have any ideas?
I've got more phones than fingers
They're telling me to download chomp sms in order to successfully send messages. I get that this as a user-suggested temporary solution, but seriously this is what the carrier is suggesting? I'm told I've been added to the existing trouble tickets, they wouldn't create one for my particular case.
I am very unhappy with their handling of this. Between telling me to "have your dad check his phone" (which is a verizon blackberry) to asking me to download a 3rd party ad-laden SMS app this really is poor handling of an issue.
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I always thought the +CC format only works with GSM-based handsets. Is there even an option to enter a "+" sign on a CDMA phone? I mean of course on a smartphone you can enter any character on the keyboard, but I don't think ANSI even supports "+" as a dial-able character. Much less is the backend able to substitute "+" with the proper international dialing prefix, which needs to happen for this to work.
VZW's web site specifically says in order to text Japan you have to enter "011 + 81 + 10-digits", not "+81 10-digits" as you would with a GSM handset. I think that's a system limitation with the ANSI core network, not a problem with a particular phone.
http://b2b.vzw.com/international/Tex...fic/Japan.html
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I've got more phones than fingers
Understood, then why did it work with a Droid Pro, Verizon Blackberry 9650 and some people (both Verizon and non-verizon customers) on this particular phone?
Mobile Pro
It works on my Blackberry 9650 also so I don't believe it is a CDMA issue. In fact my blackberry automatically adds the +1 to every contact I add to my phone. The only numbers I have in my contacts list that aren't formatted that way are people I saved after they called me or a few I synced over from my gmail account. Even with the people I have saved without the +1 the phone always shows a +1 in front of their number when ever an outgoing call from me is connecting. It looks like the blackberry just automatically adds a +1 to all outgoing calls.
I've got more phones than fingers
switched phones to a Thunderbolt. Issue has disappeared.
The problem is I still don't know if it was the phone(s) themself (had 2 fascinates with the same issue) something about how it interacted with my account, or the fact that it was Android 2.1.
Oh well, it works now.
Phone Collector
I had the same issue on my fascinate. I also moved from a blackberry where every number included a +1 because Outlook would add it.
Prior to the switch I had moved my contacts to Google.
I fixed the problem by:
1. Export Google contacts to a CSV.
2. Wipe the phone and turn it off
3. Open CSV in Excel.
4. Do a find and replace to remove all of the +1. (Search for "+1" and replace with "") (I also removed all of the spaces and hyphens from the numbers). SAVE IT WITH A DIFFERENT NAME IN CASE YOU MAKE A MISTAKE!!
5. Erase all contacts on Google.
6. Reimport Google Contacts from the CSV
7. Turn on phone. Setup account again and sync.
The process wasn't too painful but not understanding why my friends were ignoring my texts for 2 days was very annoying.
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