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Sg2 flashed from Boost to Straight talk- weird SMS

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Maryelizabeth

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I have a Boost Samsung Galaxy 2 that I had flashed to Straight Talk (Verizon) everything worked fine initially, then some of my incoming texts were in Russian characters and were obviously unreadable. The person who flashed it is not available. Any ideas where to start with this?
It's a SPH-D710BST, Android version 4.1.2, Baseband version S:D710.10S.GC01, Kernel Version 3.0.31-1014517, Build number JZO54K.SPH-D710.GC01, Hardware version D710.10, Software version GC01

Thanks
 
Welcome to AF. I would say try clearing data on your messaging app in settings/application manager. That will kill off any messages you have to save any pictures you wish to keep.
 
When you say, "some of your incoming texts", do you mean not all of them are affected? If it is just texts from one person that this is happening to, then the problem is not likely with your device.
 
Hi, I haven't been able to figure out a pattern. It happens with about 6 different friends most but not all of the time, four of those have iPhones on different carriers. Sometimes their messages are readable, sometimes Russian gibberish. They are able to receive and read my texts.
 
That is odd. SMS uses the control channel on the cellular voice to send and receive texts, and that it pretty much a standard that is independent of phone model. you do have people that the texts come through ok always, yes?

MMS (picture messages) are different and use your data connection (3g), and I have herd of those having problems getting pictures from iPhones before.
 
Texts from 2 family members on Straight Talk always work (not on iPhones either) everyone else is hit or miss. For example, sometimes if I'm receiving 3 texts from someone, the first one will be normal, the next two in Russian. The phone worked fine before flashing (Boost had horrible coverage in my area, checked coverage maps first too) The person flashing had not done Boost to Straight Talk Verizon before.
 
I would try clearing data in the app first. Like I said SMS is standard across the board, Maybe clearing the data settings will help if there is a corrupt setting. I don't have any friends on straight talk, to poke around in their phone to see what things are set for.
 
I cleared the messaging app data and had three people text me whose texts were consistently in Russian characters. 2 worked great for 2 texts, the third persons 3rd text was Russian, back to English for the next several.
 
I looked in my phone's language settings and there isn't even the Russian language as an option, sigh. I would say do a factory reset, but I do not know how the person programmed it and if it was made to use self activation or did it manually. Have you installed any nonstandard apps? It is just to odd of a problem to be an every now and then thing.
 
I don't have anything weird on the phone, most all my apps are from the play store, a couple from amazon.
My phone only has English and Spanish as language options, I don't even know where it is getting the Russian characters. Thanks for your help, by the way :)
 
Okay if I am understanding right, you have had this problem from the moment it was flashed to straight talk? If that is the case you may want to have it checked at a cellular repair place that does flashing.
 
Okay, try this, download a different SMS app from the play store and try it. Who knows, maybe the stock app don't like straight talk for some reason. If that don't work I would consider taking it to a place and have it checked out. Maybe some setting somewhere is messed up. I can't imagine it being a hardware issue, because it is not constant, and SMS just isn't that taxing on a device. Here is a question for you. are the texts that are garbled long ones (like shorter ones are fine)? Although that shouldn't matter, because the 160 character limit is due to the method used by SMS and not the device.
 
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