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Can't Receive Text Messages but I can Send Them!
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yeah I can do everything on my iphone send and receive calls to it and from it.. and i can txt anyone and they get it.. and i receive txts from any at&t phone.. i just cant receive verizon or tmobile txts or any other network really..
and i added my line to a already existing family share plan with unlimited txting..
i wish i knew what was going wrong
and i added my line to a already existing family share plan with unlimited txting..
i wish i knew what was going wrong
I am having the same problem here. Can send but can't receive. Hopefully this will get fixed some time soon.
i sure hope so.. i mean i was first in line at my location interviewed by 5 news casts.. i just want to txt my girlfriend... lol..
but would it really be a case I can send them and receive them from at&t just not other networks?
cause my friend who waited and line txted his sister on verizon and theres is up.. i dunno maybe tomorrow morning it will work..
if not, do you think these is apple or at&t? and a network error or phone fault?
I just switched from Nextel and I am having the same problem.
I'm going to give it a few days before I panic.
I'm going to give it a few days before I panic.
I did not port my number. I can send text to anyone, I can only get texts from At&T customers. Waiting to hear about a fix on this one....
Hey there, did your incoming text message problem solve itself? I can send to any phone but I cannot receive any text messages period... any idea how to fix this?!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Strange I dont know what is going on then. I woke up this morning and my number seems to have been ported succesfully...as in I can receive and make calls. I just can't receive any text messages.... incredibly frustrating!
My issue was fixed when I woke up the next day,
Looks like ATTs data network is still down. I work at a company with 3000 Blackberrys and ATt told us appx 3:00 PM ETA. Maybe this is what happens when 500,000 iPhones are no longer in WiFi range on the first business day after the launch !
I got my iPhone on Saturday and got it activated in about 45 minutes. Everything works great except for the texting. Brand new ATT account, and like the other users I can send to anyone and they get it just fine. Can't receive any except for ATT users. So I was on the phone with first Apple Tech support, did the usual reset, restore and then no change. Went to level 2 support and still couldn't fix the problems. Apple then sent me over to ATT support. 4 hours later of tech support they have it working, sort of
The only way they could get it working as of now is for the people to send a text message like this. Your phone # and then this,
ex: (XXX) XXX-XXXX@mobile.mycingular.com as the "phone #" to send the text too. This did work! But when I try to reply instead of the usual phone # to reply to you now have that person's phone # plus the web address of their provider. Well, now I couldn't send the text back to this person. So I had to start a new text message with their phone #!
I'm sure not everyone is texting this way, so there must be something going on somewhere! I hope this helps for now.
The only way they could get it working as of now is for the people to send a text message like this. Your phone # and then this,
ex: (XXX) XXX-XXXX@mobile.mycingular.com as the "phone #" to send the text too. This did work! But when I try to reply instead of the usual phone # to reply to you now have that person's phone # plus the web address of their provider. Well, now I couldn't send the text back to this person. So I had to start a new text message with their phone #!
I'm sure not everyone is texting this way, so there must be something going on somewhere! I hope this helps for now.