TXT message from other carrier illegible

Germanpickle · #1 (**permalink**) 10-15-2008, 01:12 PM

I have a Sprint Apache, that's activated on MTS Service. Whenever I get a txt msg from TELUS customers, the characters in the txt msg is illegible. I don't know if there's an ascii conversion happening or what. I know that receiving TXT messages from MTS, or Rogers works fine.

I believe that this could be a setting in the phone. Any assistance would be helpful. here are a couple screenshot examples.

As you can see by the screenshot, there's still some Sprint settigns left on the phone. I didn't want to hack and slash too much for fear of bricking the phone. I don't have a back up right now, and I am happy I can use the phone as a PDA and cellphone.

As I said though, the TXT messages from my carrier and from Rogers work fine. I don't have contacts on other carriers to use as test subjects, if you want to test with me, please PM me.

One other thing I noticed is that my txt msgs always come in as GMT even though the phone's set to my time zone.

Any assistance is most appreciated.

**darren.wlsn1** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2008, 01:38 PM

if i were you, i wouldnt be showing screenshots with phone numbers in them. just a thought.

Germanpickle · #3 (**permalink**) 10-15-2008, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

if i were you, i wouldnt be showing screenshots with phone numbers in them. just a thought.

It's a spam message. I have no friends or family from that area code. As such, I don't mind posting the phone number. you'll see on the other txt message I've removed said information.

Thanks for the tip however.