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Boostin

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Sometimes when I turn on my inspire from a charge it takes over 5 minutes to receive several texts sent from the night before.

Has anybody else experienced this? It's kind of annoying!
 
Hello and welcome to the forums, Boostin.

Your device is probably not at fault when it comes to how sms or emails come in following a power up.
 
Frisco said:
Hello and welcome to the forums, Boostin.

Your device is probably not at fault when it comes to how sms or emails come in following a power up.
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I am in the city with great signal strength from power up and still get a delay on sms messages.


I am glad to join the Android force once and for all.
 
It could be that your device is not notifying you of the texts immediately because of other syncing (resource grabbing) going on as it powers up.

Take a look at what apps/widgets are configured to sync, such as Weather, Facebook, etc.

You may want to make adjustments.
 
Frisco said:
Hello and welcome to the forums, Boostin.

Your device is probably not at fault when it comes to how sms or emails come in following a power up.

But if you're out roaming, and your PRL is not up to date, there could be a slight delay as your devices seeks signals from the wrong towers first then hits the one(s) on your Preferred Roaming List (dial *228 and select option #2 to update that list).
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The HTC Inspire is an AT&T GSM phone, NOT a Verizon CDMA device. *228 for PRL updating does absolutely nothing on the Inspire. You will get an invalid phone number message if you try calling it.

Honestly, a delay in receiving messages/alerts after the phone has been off for a while is normal. When the device first comes back on the network, any messages or voicemail alerts that are queued take a few minutes for the network to recognize you are back online and it can push the notifications to you.
 
Christopher.Lee872 said:
The HTC Inspire is an AT&T GSM phone, NOT a Verizon CDMA device. *228 for PRL updating does absolutely nothing on the Inspire. You will get an invalid phone number message if you try calling it.

Honestly, a delay in receiving messages/alerts after the phone has been off for a while is normal. When the device first comes back on the network, any messages or voicemail alerts that are queued take a few minutes for the network to recognize you are back online and it can push the notifications to you.
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You're absolutely correct; my mistake (moving through the forums a bit too quickly this morning :o).

I've edited that out of my response to the OP, so that users doing a search won't happen onto it and then get frustrated thinking their phone isn't working right trying that *228 thing.

AT&T provides automatic PRL updating, as said, and no need for the device user to do anything.
 
Frisco said:
It could be that your device is not notifying you of the texts immediately because of other syncing (resource grabbing) going on as it powers up.

Take a look at what apps/widgets are configured to sync, such as Weather, Facebook, etc.

You may want to make adjustments.
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How do I check this?
 
Happened again today! Powered up phone before getting in the shower. Came back 25 minutes later and no new text messages. Sent one text message to someone and finally received 2 text messages sent from last night.. What the heck?
 
Apparently I do have a problem if nobody else is experiencing this. I may take the phone back for an exchange. Wll they let me do that for free since I am in the 30 day period still, or will they charge me a re-stocking fee for swapping phones?

cheers--
 
My htc inspire has been delaying text messages from 15 mins to 2 hours... if im continously texting then its ok... if i stop texting for more than 10 minutes then my text messages are delaying....to any contact.... I've called AT&T twice on the matter.. they trouble shoot it, it works for a while and starts doing the same thing... i have excellent coverages in my area... I have had my inspire for over 30 days and this problem just started yesterday... does anyone have similiar issue with their inspire...
 
it's not your fault mate its stupid Android.

my Incredible S was fine until I did the Gingerbead Update and now anytime my phone is "sleeping" which is whenever i'm not using it,
it doesn't feel like getting SMS/Emails on time.

I get them half an hour later sometimes.
i'll be out somewhere with someone and I'll get a message they sent me half and hour/hour earlier.

Good old HTC.

Whatever they've done recently has completely stuffed it as it worked fine before Gingerbread.

and no such problems with my Nokias of course.
I can txt and do everything as usual.

So it's not your fault at all.

Stupid HTC have ruined it somehow.
You could hope for a patch, or do what I did and smashed the phone with a small hammer.
 
I have been receiving texts a day late sometimes and just received one that was from Tuesday. I have a friend who has the same issues. Is it a phone issue? Or an AT&T issue?
 
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