Ya, did 2 test text messages.....1 got delayed with the error that I posted.
The other went thru right away.

Still think VZW has load issues with there server and causing delays. Still have not gotten the txt msg my wife sent this morning (8am and its now 2:45pm).

Is she on verizon or another provider?

I just sent another my#@vtext.com and no dice. Have not received it. That said, I just got a couple texts from phones while Im waiting for the vtext message. wtf? Im in Socal if that helps.

If this is VZW's issue why did the tech I spoke with say there were not having any issues? Very strange.

I can tell you if you're sending text messages via e-mail, then it's definitely a Verizon issue. I use that a lot (my other even more expensive hobby is home automation). I've had the same problem for a few years, and it was long before I got my 6700. I would even send the e-mail to myself at another address (to prove it was leaving COMCAST), and I would receive it within minutes, yet my text message could be hours to a day behind. I tried arguing with Verizon about it, and all they do is send me a text message from within the system and it arrives instantly. I was unable to convince them that the VTEXT.COM system was having issues. Sometimes I'll get the text within seconds, sometimes hours later. Since I know that I had the problem with my Motorola V710, I know it's not a ROM problem. Unfortunately, I don't have much of a choice, I just live with it.

If you're talking about cell-to-cell text messages being delayed, I've never seen that, but I've also not loaded WM6.

Brian

I like home automation too - control4 :)

I saw over on HOFO that verizonwireless.com has been down some over the weekend. This MAY have something to do with the issues we are seeing.

That said, I've never seen cell-to-cell texts this delayed or dropped entirely like this ever either.

Im a search and rescue pilot who relies on text pages for emergencies. I hope this is figured out soon.

Update: I received the vtext text @ 1:29pm. It was sent @ 12:43pm. Nearly an hour late! :(

My delay was very lenghty.
Like I said before, Wife (on VZW) sent text message with 'OK' in it to me on the 7th of Sept at 8pm CST. I did not get the message till 8am CST today, Sept. 10th.

That type of delay is not acceptable but I can not get any VZW tech to state they were having issues over the weekend. Have talked to several different techs and all say there system is just fine (which is a load of crap). I even went as far as saying that I would bring in both phones to a tech store to prove when the message was sent and when I actually got it. But the Tech said it wouldn't prove anything.....

But around here its VZW or Sprint mainly....and I don't live in a big enough city to have good Sprint coverage so its VZW for now.

I don't receive email text messages from my Comcast account at all. NONE of them go through. I was trying to test my text messaging on 9/3 from my Comcast email, but I did not receive a single message. A few days later (9/6) I got a stream of delivery failures that looked like this:

The following addresses had delivery problems:

[myphone#]@vtext.com
Persistent Transient Failure: Delivery time expired
Delivery last attempted at 3 Sep 2007 21:55:41 +0000


I could send and receive without any problem from my Yahoo account at that same time and standard phone-to-phone SMS worked fine too.

Not sure why this happens, but I have a feeling they are doing some sort of spam blocking that may be affecting some email-text users.

sounds like spam blocking to me. I know there has been a lot of press lately about the amount of text spam, and it is no doubt costing the carriers.

I entered the following key when I upgraded and haven't had any problems sending or receiving texts. Picturemail is another issue however.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Arcsoft\ArcSoft MMS UA\Config\mm1\WspHeader]
"X-VzW-MDN"="Your10digitnumbergoeshere"

That key is an old regedit for MMS, not SMS which is the topic of this thread. As you can see, despite the regedit for MMS, you are still not getting any :)

Isn't this a topic about not receiving text messages?