Don't try SMS me

[lnr]

It won't work.

Got an SMS from Andrew on Tuesday night (with a strange icon) that won't view and won't delete (any attempt to do so freezes up the phone) and since then new text messages aren't getting through. Have contacted Siemens to see if they can offer any advice.

Til then call me or mail me.

Comments

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Can you save any other messages from your inbox that you want to keep, and then do a "delete all" on the inbox?

[lnr]

It freezes on "delete all" too: I tried that!

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Bugger. Can you manage the text messages remotely on a PC and bypass the phone UI, or is it not that flashy?

[lnr]

Um, how?

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Oh, just that some newer phones come with a CD and some form of data connectivity (USB cable, Bluetooth, IR: my crock-of-crap 3G phone came with all three). You can install client software on the PC and then manage the address book, calendar, text messages etc., and often sync them with outlook too. Because they talk under the bonnet, if the problem's because the text is screwing with the phone's UI, you might work around it. If the problem's that something's trashed your SIM card, you're still stuffed of course.

What happens when you put that SIM card into someone else's phone?

[lnr]

Haven't got anyone else around to try at the moment, but might have a go later.

No, phone didn't come with data cable or anything.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

What model of Siemens is it? There are actually a couple of text-based virii that certain Siemens models are vulnerable to. Might be worth checking.

[lnr]

A50. But the message is one that a friend did actually send, and I'm not sure how it would get a virus that way.

[catyak]

Is the message on the phone or the SIM? If the latter, you could see what happens if you try the SIM in a different phone (or a different SIM in your phone) as a temporary thing.

D

[lnr]

Turns out it was on the phone not the sim - as I discovered when I stuck the sim in Mike's phone. But once I'd deleted all the other messages off the phone it suddenly became readable for some reason, so I finally got rid of it. Was the first half of a two part message, which I guess was why the icon was the way it was. No idea where the other part went mind!