Receiving half a text message mixed with half a previous text message

[#1]

I'm continuously having this problem when my boyfriend texts me.

His text message gets interrupted halfway through by an old message he sent before (be it a previous message from a few minutes ago or from weeks ago!)

It only happens with texts from him, no-one else.

I've tried deleting our conversation but it makes no difference. It's getting so frustrating cos I have to keep asking him to text me again and a lot of the time I just get another 'cracked' text!!!

Has anyone had the same problem? Have you been able to solve it?

Thanks,

Jenny

[Uliwooly]

the problem might not be your phone but his, he probably have poor reception or he has way too many txts, and thats why when you receive one the other txts he sent you a while back are just been sent, does he has a sony ericsson phone?

[#3]

No I'm afraid he just bought a new phone today and it's still happening! No he's never had a Sony Ericsson.

I've read online threads showing other people having the same problem (and they all own Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pros!)

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17769

[Sam]

This is very strange indeed, to at least rule out the phone as the cause of the issue I would advise running a software update.

http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilephones/downloads/subject/updateservice/xperiax10mini?c...

[#5]

I did think of this and updated my phone software last night but it's still been happening today

[Dr_Chris]

Perhaps it's to do specifically with his number, so try adding the country's prefix in front of it in your contacts list, or removing it if it was saved with the prefix before.

[Sam]

Dr_Chris may be right on this one, do try as he recommends and if that does not work you may also wish to try completely deleting him your contact list and adding him again as a fresh contact.

[#8]

Nope I'm afraid none of that has worked... Do you think restoring my phone to factory settings might solve the problem? However I'd only do this if it was possible to retrieve all my data via the Backup & Restore etc.

Thanks for the suggestions though guys, keep em coming lol!

Just wanted to add another forum I found showing people having the same problem:

http://androidforums.com/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-mini-pro/281117-x10-mini-pro-message-problem.html

[Sam]

To be honest I am really out of recommendations as resetting the phone will in fact do less than the software update you have already performed. You could try asking the network provider for a replacement SIM as another possible fix though.

[#10]

Hi,

Has anyone who experienced this problem been able to resolve it? I have the Xperia X10 on Android 2.1 and have just started getting this problem in the past 6 weeks or so. Initially it was just with one contact, so I tried deleting my message history because it was quite large. This didn't seem to resolve the problem. I've now started seeing it with 2 other contacts, both who typically send very long messages.

I get midway through the reading the message they've sent, then it merges (mid-word) into an old one for a sentance or two, then sometimes takes the last sentance back off the intended message. It's very confusing!

I've tried a software upgrade, but it didn't work. Interested to know if anyone has tried getting a new sim and found that to work? I am on O2

thanks.