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interesting is thread creates for one number or for one contact? (one contact can
have more than one phone number)

Good question - since the "corrupting MMS" in this case comes from an e-mail address,
the thread is created using the sender's e-mail address.  I'm looking through the
code now to understand how the SMS/MMS messages are stored in the SQLite database -
perhaps this sender's e-mail address or the sheer length of the MMS message causes an
mishandled corner case?

Let me know if I need to clarify further here...

Hello,

I just wanted to comment that I am having the same issue.  

I only realized it was happening after I added a few new contacts or responded to
numbers that were not in my contact list before I received the
announcements@t-mobile.delivery.net... (i'm assuming this is the culprit)

As a result, any reply I make to someone that was newly added or not in my contact
list will not actually send to them (it just starts a thread that is listed as
announcements@t-mobile.delivery.net) and instead sends to the first number on my
contact list...(I have changed this to my own number...)

I don't want to hard reset bc then I will have to reinstall all of my progs...

If I don't reset, I will be annoyed with responding to all new recipients as if they
are a new number being entered into an sms, for each individual reply...

Please fix this...

Thanks

Nehemiah Richardson

This issue is really annoying.

As you can probably tell, it can get you into alot of trouble.

i.e. you texting one of your buddies a joke and your girlfriend ends up getting it
instead. Yeah. Not a happy time.

For those of you following this issue:

I need to have some test cases that "break" the phone.  If you have experienced the
issue reported above, please copy/paste the entire txt of the "corrupting MMS" to
this thread (please feel free to X out any personal information that you don't want
posted here).  Most importantly, we need the exact text of:

* The recipient
* The subject of the MMS (if there was one)
* The body of the MMS

Some of this info is available when you long press on the offending MMS and go to
"View Message Details".

As an example, the one I received was sent by "onlinebanking@alert.bankofamerica.com".

Also, if you or anyone else you know has been affected by this issue, please ask them
to leave their info here.  I'm hoping that if enough of us leave messages, this will
get looked at by the Google engineers.  Please also mention the link to this bug in
other forums that have been reporting this problem.  Thanks.

having same problem

I'm getting the same problem as stated on the post. This happens when I receive MMS from
Innercircle@marketinginnovators.com this is really really annoying, you can't reply, you have to create a
new thread in order for you to reply

I'm having the same issue and I think it was caused by an email from Citibank.
I tried T-Mobile's technical support, but they had no idea about this problem.

This is extremely annoying.  Is anyone working to fix this problem?

Bueller? Bueller?  Is anyone looking at this or am I going to have to rewrite this
thing?

Happening to me too.  It's been like this since I've gotten the phone, and it's
totally annoying.  I'm working around it by not"replying" to texts.  I'm closing the
text and composing a new message to reply.

I *think* it started when I received a picture message.

I had the above issue several weeks ago.  I performed the hard reset as described by
the author and the issue went away.  In my case the source of the mms message was an
alert email from work and I have since disabled it.  The problem has not returned.  

**** Try this at your own risk ***
There is an application on the market called astro which helps you backup the
applications and thus do not have to document every application before a hard reset.  
Astro will backup the applications to the sd card.  This will save time from
searching and re-downloading from the market.  Astro **does not** backup application
data.  You must go into each application and save or export the application data to
the sd card if the option is available.  A hard reset has never erased the sd card
for me.  After the hard reset, reinstall astro and then start re-loading your apps
direct from the sd card.  You can then reload each application data backup if
necessary.

* I did not have astro when I corrected the issue on my g1.  I did have astro when I
hard reset the phone a 2nd time for unrelated issue.*

1 drawback is that the apps reinstalled from sd card do not show up in the market
cache.  So its a little hard to track application updates unless you eventually
reload from the market or use an application like oi update or atrackdog which track
application updates.

Hopefully a fix comes out soon for this issue.

To anyone who currently has this issue and has not yet performed a hard reset:

Version 1.6 of ChompSMS (an SMS application available in the market) currently does
*not* have support for MMS messages.  Please install this application and check to
see if you continue to see the same behavior (threads being merged, SMS's being sent
to wrong recipient).  This will help us isolate whether the issue is with Android's
core MMS application itself *or* the way that the SQLite database stores the messages
(I'm suspecting the latter).

I would try this myself, but I'm currently "MMS Clean" and a little weary of
reinstalling apps (tho thanks to fadeng for his suggestions :)

adamcolon: If you are working on this then we'd appreciate any updates here.  The
good news is that the Google folks have recently done a code drop from the cupcake
branch 12 days ago (as of this writing) that has numerous updates to Android's core
MMS app.  I'm studying the updates now to see if they might have "accidentally" found
and fixed the issue without updating this bug report.

For those interested, the commitdiff for the MMS package is viewable via the web here:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Mms.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f236f55349f070ac94e12cca963847173393da8

I have this issue, and installed ChompSMS today, and it has the same problem as the
built in sms/mms client (messages incorrectly threaded, replies go to the wrong
person). It has the same people mis-threaded as the built in client.

It's incredibly frustrating and makes SMS/MMS essentially useless, I hope it gets
fixed soon.

Just wanted to mention that I have the same problem. I have no idea what caused it,
but I have received some MMS messages since I got the phone. I had mistakenly assumed
that the merged messages didn't mean that replying to the last message wouldn't go to
that person. I learned today that apparently I have been replying and mistakenly
sending lots of messages to the first person in my address book, who I don't know all
that well.

Is there any fix besides a hard reboot? what about uninstalling the app and
reinstalling? is that an option? what about deleting all threads? didn't work for me
to delete SMS's, I will try MMS's and see if that helps.

I have this problem too and it kept texting my landlord >_> the "corrupting" message
for me was onlinealerts@bankofamerica.com

I tried wiping ALL of my messages, still have the same problem. Very frustrating, and
ChompSMS didn't fix it either.

I hoped this would be fixed by the newest Android update, but nope. From the above
info apparently the only way to "fix" it is to hard reset your phone. For me that is
not an option. I am not going to spend hours backing up all my stuff and then hoping
it will all recopy. Ther should be an easier way to fix it.

I do not know what message caused this issue, but I should have all my MMS messages
on the phone, so can potentially assist if necessary using the save mms application.

I did install ChompSMS and it does the same thing, only worse - it gives "internal
error" often when trying to send to groups, then sends the same message out 5 times
without confirmation.

I also have this error.  I am not sure where it came from.  Whats interesting is some
of the people in my contact list who message me are fine.  I can text them back with
no issues.  Thank God my wife is one of them.  No issues.  But certain people in my
contact list, if they text me and I try to reply, it will automatically send my text
reply to the first person in my contact list.  No matter what.  THIS NEEDS TO BE
FIXED.  My phone makes me sad.

I did find a fix.  since it is comming to your phone through
"phonenumber@tmomai.net"  If you delete your number from your tmomail.net email
address than do a master reset it does fix the issue

Hi stinkpickle135,

Can you detail exactly how you did that?  Seems like a good workaround, but I'm not
sure where to delete my number from my tmomail.net address?

Thanks!

That is not actualy a fix, that is a prevention. For people that are already broken
and want to avoid a reset, or already have renamed their phone number and use new
name for some alerts, the problem still remains.

This really needs to get fixed, but even better the fix needs to "uncorreupt" an
already broken SMS environment. Deleting all conversations does not fix future ones,
and once broken CompSMS has the same issues.

I'm willing to go through the pain of resetting my phone ONCE if that's what it takes
once the bug is fixed, but until then I'm living as nightmare as I text all the time.

Yeah I agree with kgbarrett.  I don't want to get a workaround.  I want a code fix.
Even if I reset my phone and do the prevention, the bug might creep up again.  

The master reset is a known work-around that was suggested in the original post back
in November 2008. I ended up doing this because I was sick of not being able to reply
to texts. I have not had the problem since I did the master reset, so I don't know
that this problem still initiates (although obviously it still persists) under the
newest Android release.

I used MyBackupPro and it worked beautifully, even kept my call log and other history
that I didn't even think about.

i have the same problem :(
every new numbers i have in my phone had the onlinebanking from bank of america when
i receive a text message. and the name says teh first person in my contact list.

i took my name off the bank of america list and this still occurs to my phone.
it's really frustrating and annoying becasue i have to delete the thread and start a
whole new one each time i want to text the perosn back