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Texting on Phones (questions)
Revolutionary
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If I turned my phone off, got texted, and then turned my phone on, would I receive the message sometime after?
And, if for some reason I initially couldn't send a text (i.e. receiving phone was on but the network was being fuzzy), would that text be resent until it was received?
Cheers.
And, if for some reason I initially couldn't send a text (i.e. receiving phone was on but the network was being fuzzy), would that text be resent until it was received?
Cheers.
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Someone texts you while your phone is off: you get the message when you turn it on. Same with voicemail.
You text someone but they can't receive it due to "network being fuzzy": depends on what you mean by that. If their phone has reception, they'll get it. If not, they'll get it next time they have reception.
What? Seriously? Networks I've used don't. The SMS is 'held' by the carrier until your phone comes on and then you receive it.
If you don't have a reception and are trying to send a text, the phone holds the text until it has a clear reception to send it.
If the recipient has no reception the carrier will hold it until they do have one.
Basically like emails. Sender and receiver don't have to be online for it to work. You can even compose offline and then have your email program send it later when you go online.
Yeah, as others have said I think this is wrong. I have AT&T/Cingular and I've gotten texts that were sent while my phone was off.
It won't report missed calls if the person didn't leave a voice mail (because the missed calls are actually tracked by the phone itself, not the service, but voicemail is stored by the service), but texts, voicemails, and other types of messages should come through once you turn your phone on.
Orange, in the UK, do a thing where even if you miss a call and they don't leave a message the network sends you a text message saying This number called but didn't leave a message.
You can also set this up for free on any phone in the US using Callwave.
They won't go international usually, but afaik messages get stored in the last tower you were near for a certain amount of time - not indefinite, but often several days, the length of time can vary with company - and then bounce to you when you resurface in the network. If you don't have an international-equipped phone though, they won't leave the region. Phone contracts here are more expensive if you want the international roaming option on all the time, or you can pay a few extra dollars for one or two billing periods of you're going OS.
Yeah, UK Cell networks naturally include the rest of Europe as international roaming as well, so it's pretty much a necessity for business and recreational users alike (how will I continue to gossip with my girl friends when I'm raving in Ibiza!?! eg). As a nation, we have a love affair with holiday phone bills that lead to crippling debt.
I always just pick up a local sim card. For example, it's cheaper to text the UK from India that it is to text the UK from within the UK...
Operators will dump messages after a few days or a week or something. Some phones have an option to select how long your messages are valid for (up to the network maximum).
But I mean, then it was anywhere from $1 to $3 per minute to call the US. I don't know what it is now.
Or every phone ever made has "Missed Call: <number> at 9:19am Today"
Yes... read up a bit in the quotes... we were talking about missed calls when you don't have service. I'm not sure if it's universal, but on mine and my wife's phones on AT&T/Cingular, if someone calls when we aren't in an area of service our phone does not display "Missed Call" because the call never actually reached the phone. If they left a voice mail of course we will get that when we're back in service, but there won't be any record in the phone of a missed call. This is what he was referring to.