Help S2 stopped receiving certain text messages

[Shazbat]

My S2 seems to have stopped receiving text alerts from certain senders like my GP surgery, hairdressers and chemist. Is this likely? I checked my settings and 'auto retrieve' is on. I also get texts from parcel delivery companies and other organisations so it's not all those types of sender. Any suggestions? I use Handcent and have always been happy with it.

 

[Rukbat]

Are they using automated services to generate their texts? If do, some change to the service they all use could be causing a problem.

If not, are they all running iPhones? iMessage isn't SMS - iPhone users who aren't certain that the recipient of a message is also an iPhone user should use SMS, not iMessage.

If you can come up with something in common with all of them, that would go a long way toward figuring out what's causing the problem.

Other than that, all I can suggest is that some tech expert be at one of those places when they're sending you a text alert (and you be there with your S2 also) and maybe someone can see what's going wrong.

 

[Shazbat]

Hi, thanx

I mentioned it at the doc's a few months ago and they said it was a new system and I think I've had one since. My hairdressers' messages always used to reach me until I changed salons (same company though) and I signed up for prescription alerts and just realised that I haven't received one yet (alerted by meds running out instead!). Yet when I get parcels delivered I receive an alert when they put the parcel on the van, attempt to deliver it, delivery fails and/or it's finally delivered. My hairdressers I know are done via computer/web as I imagine all the others are, rather than a specific phone.

It was just a random thought that I had as it seemed coincidental. I know it's not necessarily reliable but it just seems odd that I get some and not others.