My girlfriend has been in the Peace Corps in Niger since July 9. I got my iPhone July 11. There has been a very strange series of events leading up to now, her text messages do not come to the normal SMS inbox in the iPhone.
At first, everything seemed to be fine. I would receive text messages from her occasionally -- sometimes strangely split into two messages, separated by upside-down question marks.
Then, around September 12, her SMS messages stopped coming through to me altogether. They said they were delivered on her phone, but they never arrived on my iPhone. AT&T claimed not to know anything. Everyone else (Sweden, U.S., Niger) could receive text messages from her -- just not me.
NOW -- starting about 2 weeks ago -- I started receiving her messages again, but this time in a really strange way. If I get a message (at least some appear to come through), the message appears as white text on a black screen with a big green "Dismiss" button at the bottom. This happens while the phone is locked, after I press the button on the top of the iPhone. I can't do anything except "Dismiss" or turn the screen off. After I dismiss, THEN it asks me to "slide to unlock." At this point, all record of the message is gone.
Help! -- Any ideas? Solutions? Anyone submit this as a bug? The number is a Niger cell phone.
This seems to be someone else who had this issue at least once:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/564226/
At first, everything seemed to be fine. I would receive text messages from her occasionally -- sometimes strangely split into two messages, separated by upside-down question marks.
Then, around September 12, her SMS messages stopped coming through to me altogether. They said they were delivered on her phone, but they never arrived on my iPhone. AT&T claimed not to know anything. Everyone else (Sweden, U.S., Niger) could receive text messages from her -- just not me.
NOW -- starting about 2 weeks ago -- I started receiving her messages again, but this time in a really strange way. If I get a message (at least some appear to come through), the message appears as white text on a black screen with a big green "Dismiss" button at the bottom. This happens while the phone is locked, after I press the button on the top of the iPhone. I can't do anything except "Dismiss" or turn the screen off. After I dismiss, THEN it asks me to "slide to unlock." At this point, all record of the message is gone.
Help! -- Any ideas? Solutions? Anyone submit this as a bug? The number is a Niger cell phone.
This seems to be someone else who had this issue at least once:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/564226/
