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Hi can anyone help me?

Suddenly about 2 days ago, every time i text a message, i get an error when the message goes through which says:

SORRY!
The application Messaging
(process com.android.mms)
has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.

It asks me to force close. I read somewhere that it is due to having low space on the on-board memory so i deleted apps and texts, to no avail. :(

Is there anything I can do?

Oh another thing, this problem always seems to send a blank text that doesn't get sent to 1 person in my contacts after every error for some reason - if that helps hmm.
 
Rmg12gra said:
Hi can anyone help me?

Suddenly about 2 days ago, every time i text a message, i get an error when the message goes through which says:

SORRY!
The application Messaging
(process com.android.mms)
has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.

It asks me to force close. I read somewhere that it is due to having low space on the on-board memory so i deleted apps and texts, to no avail. :(

Is there anything I can do?

Oh another thing, this problem always seems to send a blank text that doesn't get sent to 1 person in my contacts after every error for some reason - if that helps hmm.
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Try this ... with the phone ON and at the home screen ... Pull the Battery and the SIM ... let the phone set fro a couple of minutes ... put SIM and battery back in an power up normally ... Try send a text msg ... with the phones default messaging program ... I assume you are not using a third party messaging app ?
 
im having the exact same problem with my G1!! im using the built in android messaging app. i read something online about a security hole in android that has been found where missformed messages are sent and something about it causing the sim to restart?!?! im just searching my history now!!
 
Hi, I'm also facing this problem. I've tried taking out the battery, etc., and nothing seems to work.

Any advice?

I can't understand what to do with the oCERT Advisories page. Is there anything actionable there?

Thanks in advance!
 
Same problem but alos with mine when I receive a picture message it will stay at the bottom. Or the text will go somewhere its not sapost to be (half way throught the text)
 
I had this problem: every time I tried to send a message, the "closed unexpectly" error would pop up.

I looked at previous threads in the messaging app. One of them had about 20 blank, unsent messages. I deleted all of them, and no longer saw the error. Hope that helps!

This is on a Samsung Moment running Android 1.5.
 
Thank you hotani for your advice. I did the same thing after reading your post - I checked my previous threads in the messaging app and found about 50 unsent messages to a person I hadn't texted in quite some time. I deleted them all and the 'Force close' messages went away. My messaging app was actually bad enough that I think I wasn't even receiving text messages. This is on a T-Mobile G1. Thanks again for the help.
 
I have the same problem but everytime it force closes I restart my phone and as soon as I turn it back on it sends random old messages to people I have previously texted. How do I stop it?

Also, how do you delete unsent messages? Or better yet, how do you know if you have unsent messages?
 
I had the same problem on my Moto Droid 1 with OS 2.2.1 and fixed it by doing the following:

  • Open Google native Messenging app (the original Messenging App installed on the phone)
  • Select Menu button
  • Select Delete Threads
Problem solved!

P.S. This deletes all of your old messenging threads, but nothing in this Post worked and I was ready to do a Factory Reset, so I can deal with it :)
 
Same Problem on a Nexus S. Had to delete all the threads(messages) like techdude99. I looked through all my messages and had no unsent messages.
 
yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....
 
i get the exact same thing, iv had my phone for 2 weeks and its doing it, ill be in the middle of a message and it will close comming up with that and this time it deleted ALL of my messages including unread ones
please help!! i need the messages back asap:(
 
Had a customer come in with a similar issue getting the error code process com.android.mms error everytime we'd try to send take a picture and send it via mms. Eventually wound up just doing a factory reset after trying to go through the settings and it started working again. Perhaps a little extreme but the customer was able to send pics again so she was happy. Not sure if this will help but it did wind up working again.
 
pfarrelly said:
yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....
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what's the sms content, pfarrelly?
 
pfarrelly said:
yep seems to be caused by rogue messages - received an sms from a source in china yesterday and from then on it crashed out... managed to find the backdoor to delete that message..and all fine again - Andriod really do need to fix this hole....
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what's the sms content, pfarrelly?
 
well
seems my problem is completely different !
i dont know exactly after installing which application it happend
but all i know is after appearing this error for messaging,it appears for any application u run,gmail,gtalk,task manager,contact...
i mean,it does not appear only for messaging,when it starts,it applies on any thing
plzzz tell me what should i do
but do not tell me to do a factory reset
im really tired of doing this job!!!
by the way
the model is Galaxy s2
 
techdude99 said:
I had the same problem on my Moto Droid 1 with OS 2.2.1 and fixed it by doing the following:

  • Open Google native Messenging app (the original Messenging App installed on the phone)
  • Select Menu button
  • Select Delete Threads
Problem solved!

P.S. This deletes all of your old messenging threads, but nothing in this Post worked and I was ready to do a Factory Reset, so I can deal with it :)
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i've deleted all my threads, and i've also done a factory reset, but it still does the error on me... p.s mines an andriod optimis chat and it's only a week old
 
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