Cannot send text messages

[mikeparkie]

I for some reason cannot send text messages. I can receive them but when I try to send theme on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus I get the following error: Message not sent: Select to review the message and try again. This was working fine and still working fine after I recently upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.2.  Ideas please? 

[JazzyStahh]

Ensure that you have the right message centre number and that the message format is set to text.

The number for Vodafone Message Centre is: + 447785016005.

Alternatively you could call Customer Care on 191 and ask them to send you the message settings.

And the reason this could've happened is that when you upgraded your old Carrier settings didn't pass on.

[Siquo2000]

This has started happening to me over the last week or so.

Before then was fine, but recently started doing it.

I have to turn the phone on airplane mode and off again to get it to work.

I haven't had a 4.0.2 update

[MrBeanOz]

I am currently in Australia. I have an old UK PAYG Samsung SGH-E900 that is used intermittently and a text is sent within every 90 days to maintain the available credit. The phone has suddenly decided it does not want to send texts. Everything else works fine and I have checked that the text centre number is correct. If I call the UK overseas help line, after wasting 2 minutes of my time plugging other services, when the call finally clicks through to customer services it simply plays a recorded mssg that says the service isn't available. The on-line chat is supposedly busy. This situation has persisted for the last 2 days. So where oh where does one get any support?

P.S. It's not the handset as I have tried the SIM in another and, other than sending texts, that works fine too.

[Northern-dj]

Open your message app click settings then messages here it shoes the number that it dials the key bit is +44 that is the world dial code now I have just had a text from my brother in Germany on Vodafone so it is working
The small service has not changed but part of the text is billing info and if the service does not get this info it will reject the text you may find that a new sim card may be needed

[MrBeanOz]

Thanks for the suggestion but given that I live overseas I'm hardly likely to forget the +44 prefix, especially as the number is shown higher in this thread !!

However, the problem does appear to have been with the text service number. I had inserted it and checked several times but it would appear that on saving it was not being updated. I switched the phone off and on and have re-entered yet again and this time it seems to have saved successfully and I have subsequently managed to send a text OK.

Has the text service number has changed in the last few months? I have done nothing to the phone settings and it used to send texts OK.

[hrym]

Is it possible that there's a contention issue with the local network you're connected to? @Northern-dj , this is for you really.

[MrBeanOz]

Either the text service number has changed in recent months or the number stored in the handset had been corrupted by some mechanism. It won't have been finger trouble as that setting is buried so deep in the menu system I didn't even know it existed. Until the last attempt, there seemed to be a problem with the handset saving the correct text service number. Only on checking after the last re-insert and save did it read correctly. 

The handet is widely travelled and passes through airport security screening and and all sorts of electromagnetic fields quite regularly so it's possible one or some settings were unknowingly changed. Changes to settings in electronic equipment can and do happen for I once carried a laptop to and from London on the train and when I powered it up afterwards it mysteriously required a password at log-in even though it was previously set to not require one. That took hours to unravel.

Technology is great when it works.

[hrym]

Something like this came up a few months ago, also in Australia.  In that case, the OP had been using a local SIM (if I remember correctly) and was having trouble getting the Vodafone number to save.   Congratulations on diong that if you have.  I seem to remember the consensus then was that it ought to be read into memory off the SIM.

[MrBeanOz]

Isn't a local SIM, is a PAYG UK Vodafone SIM. I have a cheapo local SIM (Lebara) in another handset which piggybacks on the Vodafone network here in Oz, and apart from poor coverage in some remote areas, it works fine. The appropriate settings are all downloaded automatically as soon as yoiu power it up for the first time.

Sometimes you just have to write things off to experience without an explanation and hope that it doesnt happen again. But if it does, you know the first thing to check!

Thanks for your help and advice.