Can't Forward Text Messages - Used To Work

tidbits wrote:

the_chemist wrote:

tidbits wrote:

Are you using Samsung Messages, or Android Messages?  

It only happens when forwarding messages only?  Everything works correctly other than forwarding messages?

 

This may sound kind of stupid, turn off your sim then turn it back on in your settings for about 10 seconds.  RCS interoperability is so messed up on the S22 series.  Samsung messages targets T-Mobile RCS servers and switching back and forth through Android Messages and Samsung messages will temporally lock out and a restart is required.  Android Messages just started to connect T-Mobile RCS network instead of their own Jibe.  It has connection issues and at times messes up sending basic text messages until it connected again.  

 

settings → connections → sim card manager

turn off sim 1 and then turn it back on after 10 seconds.  This will happen from time to time.  So far it's been like that since release day and it happens to random people at random times.  It fixes for some then breaks for others.

 

 

Did not work. Turned SIM 1 off for 30 seconds, then back on. Also rebooted. 

After forwarding, I get a message that the text was forwarded, but it does not come through on the receiving end. 

Ugh…

Did this from a Note 20 to an S,22 Ultra. 

T-Mobile to Verizon. 

 The Forwarded SMS will not forward myself on T-Mobile either. 

 

Have you tried forwarding a text message that wasn’t a short code?  

I just spent 20 minutes typing a reply and an error occured and lost my entire reply. Here goes again.. 

I took the SIM out of the Note 20, placed it in the LG-V20.   In the V-20 I could receive texts, but not send or forward them. 

I took the SIM back out of the V-20 and placed it back in the Note 20 Ultra 5G. 

Now the Note 20 could not send texts in any way shape or form, but can receive them. . An error kept popping up saying SIM card data changed, Device will reset automatically. Well, it didn't. 

I called T-Mobile tech support and spoke to an agent. He checked and found a fatal error on the SIM card. 

The agent told me (and I never heard of this one...), that when a SIM is not connected to the network for an extended period of time it loses connectivity and developed an unrecoverable error. The tech said they have had other instances of this. My phone was off for 29 days. 

The tech said he would note in my account what the issue is and I should go to a T-Mobile store and get a new SIM at no charge to me. The store would activate the SIM. 

I refused to go to a T-Mobile store. 

When my girlfriend and I first opened this account, my line could only periodically receive calls. There was a bad network switch in my area. Tech support thought it was a SIM card issue. 

So I went to a T-Mobile store after my girlfriend and I were dead tired from being at a Memorial day party at her parents house all day long. 

The store issued me a new SIM card and activated it with my girlfriend's phone number. I figured out the mistake they made by calling my Verizon phone and her caller id would show up. She totally lost service. At this time she was 15 miles away at her apartment. So the store had to issue me a new SIM card again and issue my girlfriend a new SIM card which I had to run down to her. 

This time the T-Mobile technician is going to UPS me a new SIM and call me on my Verizon phone Thursday evening to activate it. He also said he would send me his information after our phone call which he did not. 

If what he said is true about the SIM developing an unrecoverable error from non-use, it's fascinating, but frightening. What do you do in an emergency when you keep a second phone for an emergency backup?

Its been a great T-Mobile experience!