[Workaround] Galaxy S10 - iodeOS 6.9 - unable to send SMS (receive working though)

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Hello iode community,

I recently updated my Samsung Galaxy S10 (“beyond1lte”) to iodeOS 6.9 the manual way. This means I made some backups und installed iodeOS 6.8 from scratch. (Btw.: Using v.6.8 made me test the builtin update process, which went well :-)) After installation I used SeedVault to restore as much apps and settings as possible.
I do not often use SMS these days so it took me a while to recognize that sending a SMS does not work. I searched the WWW for some ideas to solve the problem and came along with configuring the SMSC (Short Message Service Center). Now here is what I encountered when I tried to change:

  • Open phone app, type *#*#4636#*#*
  • Select “Telefoninformationen“
  • Select “Phone 0” (first SIM card) in the up most dropdown menu
  • Scroll to bottom of the page –> SMSC setting
  • The input field is empty, two buttons are active: “Update” and “Refresh”
  • Input “+491710760000“ and push Update –> nothing happens, send SMS not working after that, when leaving and reentering “Telefoninformationen“ the input field is empty again
  • Push “Refresh” –> the input field shows ":¡m",0 –> send SMS not working either

So setting up the correct SMSC didn’t work for me. In addition I need to mention that “Nachrichten” (the default iode OS SMS app) had an issue with restored data from SeedVault: The list of conversations had showed names and texts from different people i had conversations using SMS. When trying to send and SMS the sent text suddenly appears on a different conversation (and “Nachrichten” switched to that conversation too).

I even tried a different SMS app “QUIK“ which was unable to send SMS either (conversations are displayed correct though).

Now I made a strange discovery: When removing “Nachrichten” from my system, QUIK is able to send SMS!

For the moment this seems a valid workaround for me…

Does anyone have an idea what I could have done wrong on my phone or what I could do to make “Nachrichten” work again (after reinstallation)?

kind regards

Chris

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Thanks a lot! I had Quick already installed as i love the app. Now, without the default, i can now send messages. Awesome!

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I can’t speak to not sending SMS, but to clarify, your messages are not stored as part of the app but instead as a separate DB on the device so you should be safe to clear the storage of the Messages app which may clear up the issues with it showing the wrong thread, etc?

Regarding not being able to send SMS, maybe that is fixed by clearing the storage as well?

Since you uninstalled it, you could try reinstalling and see if the same “mixed up messages” issue still exists, or if it re-breaks SMS sending.