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Any one else getting "Configuration Notification" messages?
I keep receiving sms messages from short code number with the following text:
Configuration Notification. Your MMS Service Settings have arrived. Open the configuration message and save the settings.
the messages never contain settings or an attachment which I would not have trusted anyways
I have received them from the following short codes: 909, 5129, 5126, 5128, 5127. I'm using a one plus 3t and I have verified I am using the correct messaging settings as per https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090
Hola, @djsnd! Thanks for creating a profile and chiming in with your ticket numbers.
From the sounds of it, simply switching the SIM is causing the messages to generate. I only have one user's ticket numbers. If any other users have ticket numbers, please pass them along as this will speed up the resolution time. If you do no have a ticket number, I'd like to send you a PM to collect a few pieces of info so you can be added to the list. Please let me know if you'd like me to PM you.
Wiping the cache did NOT work. I received 5 messages in the span of 15 minutes this morning.
I blacklisted those numbers using Textra as my messaging app and am no longer troubled.
I have also been receiving these texts from the same sources for months daily. I did go to my local T-Mobile to have the issue looked at but they did not see where or why the texts keep coming. I also have a OP3.
I have noticed that it is more likely for me to receive these texts when I drive through dead mobile zones. When I am drive from a dead zone into a live area, I will be bombarded with these texts.
Textra's blacklist has been the most helpful with resolving the texts, but I would like to know where these are coming from and if they are capable of entering malware into my phone.
Need to trace and/or block this spammer.
I also have OP 3T phone and started receiving these "configuconfig notification" messages since.
June 21 1 message from 5128.
2 messages on July 12 from 909.
2 messages on July 13 from 5125.
1 message on July 13 from 5128.
2 messages on July 24 from 5129.
July 29 2 messages from 5127.
July 30 1 message from 909.
1 message on August 8 from 5128.
I've been receiving these on an axon 7 by zte for a while now. Can't seem to be able to block them either.
So for some reason t mobile auto slected magenta as the user name which I thought it was a reply to option.
Anyway I'm on an essential ph1 and have the same problem. It seems to only happen when I am at home where I typically get bad reception. Often it will say "no reception" or "emergency call only". Like others said it seems to be a problem when disconnecting from the T-Mobile network. Could it possibly be from 2g network?
Kevin87k
That's less than helpful... Several customers have reported that they are getting these messages on other 3rd party phones. These are coming across the TMobile network and you're saying that Tmobile doesn't know where they are coming from? Ridiculous. At best, this is some misconfiguration that needs to be fixed, at worst it is some sort of malicious attempt. Perhaps if we make this a bit more public it would light a fire under someone to resolve it. It shouldn't be on the customer to have to find a way to resolve a problem with the Tmobile network.
My phone is One Plus Two. Was abroad in July, had T-mobile sim in slot 2 (as it always has been), but also got a local sim and put it in slot one. Upon return from the trip started receiving configuration notification messages about 30 times a day from all the short numbers listed in this thread.
One person above mentioned changing sim card positions. I decided to do that. I removed the non t-mobile sim card, and moved t-mobile sim card to slot 1. This IMMEDIATELY cured the problem. It's been a week and I have not had a single "configuration notification" message.
I do not know if removing the sim card, or moving the t-mobile sim to slot one was the deciding factor, but I do suspect now that the messages may have to do with the fact that OPT (as well as other phones mentioned on this thread) seem all to be dual-sim phones.
So.... if your phone is receiving these messages and it is a dual sim phone try (a) removing all other sim cards (if you have them), and/or (b) moving the sim card to the other slot.
I've received a few of these messages! I got a Samsung S7 Verizon phone I was trying to get to work on T-Mobile. Every time I took the SIM card out of my current phone and put it into the new phone to try to get it to work, when I would take the SIM out of the new phone and put it back into my current phone, I would get 1 message for every time I tried to change the APN settings. It was so weird! I haven't received any of the messages except for when I put the SIM card back in after trying to get the new phone to work, and only got 1 message for each time I tried to change the APN settings. So, when I first put the SIM card into the new phone, I messed with the APN settings 3 different times. I put the SIM card back into my current phone and got 3 of those messages back to back. A little while later, I put the SIM card back into the new phone, messed with the APN settings 2 more times, put the SIM card back into my current phone and got 2 of those messages back to back. Haven't put the SIM card back into the new phone since then, so haven't taken it out of my current phone, and haven't gotten any of those messages.
