Help Not receiving texts?

[Kenshin Mizuha]

So, I recently got my new L9, and I quite like it. My first smartphone, and it's pretty good for its price. Called T-Mobile, got it all set up, but wanted to keep my number from my old phone, which was on Virgin. Thankfully, my plan on Virgin ran out the day of my doing that. So they gave me a temp number, and said it'd switch over within 24 hours, once they could swap the number over after it wasn't in use through Virgin. And very soon after, indeed it did switch over, and I was back to the number I've had for the past few years, on the new phone now with T-Mobile. Sweet. They said it'd all be good, work phone. My data works fine, I'm getting service, and I can send texts it seems, but I seem unable to receive any, as my friend somehow managed to get a text through to me this morning, and told me she was texting me at my original number as I told her to, now that it had switched, and that she never heard anything back. Thing is, I never got her texts at all. I sent a reply to her, and though it seems it went through, on my messages screen, there's an exclamation mark inside of a red triangle, what does this indicate? And yes, I've restarted my phone several times just to make sure that the changes would take effect in my number change and such. T-Mobile even sent me the messages to tell me that it all went successfully, and like I said, my data works fine, I can call and such, and send texts(?) it seems I just can't receive them; though I texted myself and it went through fine. Is this an issue with the device itself, or is it a carrier thing? I'm assuming the latter, and I'm assuming it's on my end, as up until the number switch, everything went through fine, and now I've got that red triangle and such happening. I'm also very new to Android, so forgive any derpiness of things I may have overlooked. But from what I've checked, everything should be working perfectly fine.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks ^.^

 

[Wolf Howl]

Every time I've ported a number over it has take a couple of days to completely switch it all over to where I can send AND receive texts on my new phone. Sending them was never an issue and it was always just receiving them as they'd without fail go to the old phone. But, like I said, that lasted a couple of days at most and then was fixed. If it's been more than 2 days I'd call T-Mobile back and have them check.

 

[Kenshin Mizuha]

It seems that throughout the day today, it's been getting better and better, to the point where tonight it was working excellently, and my number was only just switched yesterday. So it was a problem that sort of just resolved itself over time once it kinda just processed everything. Cool! And thanks for the info, 'tis much appreciated!

 

[jm101]

Sounds somewhat similar to what I went through back in February when I ported from Virgin Mobile to T-Mobile. Had to be the biggest headache ever. I can't even count how many times I had to call T-Mobile to get it straightened out. I finally ended up going to a T-Mobile store and they gave me a new SIM Card. Cleared most of the messaging problems right up. Once and a while I get a red exclamation point but overall it's okay. I still don't get it.