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New iOS Bug Crashing iPhones Simply by Receiving a Text Message [Includes Fix]

uid15 said:
Yeah? I bet you didn't try it did you? Ohhh no. ;)


Let's face it - MOST people on this thread will have searched for it and then tried it; I did, and it works; big deal.
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Yes, its a big deal. If any adult tries this on me. He better have a lawyer, because I need my phone and they'll cost me money. Of course, that person won't be a friend anymore except maybe with a very big amount of groveling.

Only self-centered idiots would send such a message and/or kids under 16 with poor social skills.

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yaboyac29 said:
the police have better things to do.
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Do the court have better things to do? Maybe going to court on the idiots that did this would be my way of educating them. I'm related to a very nice one and I'm sure I can make him do it for free... Got a feeling I'd win it pretty easy (or the person would settle).

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Natashaix said:
Does anyone know how to fix it when someone sent the message and now their phone won't let you into messages now, my stupid bf sent me it as a joke...luckily I knew how to get it back but now he can't get onto his messages and he's got a few from his mum he needs to read. Thanks xx
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Maybe you need a better bf... Hey, you called him stupid ;-).
 
Open notes add a note with anything you like and send it as a message to the person who sent you the bug. That worked for me
 
Gosh what a reactionary, overly serious bunch of people we have in here. Lighten up kids, it's just a bug - it doesn't destroy your phone, and if you've got any wits about you, you'd research how to nullify it in a few mins.
 
uid15 said:
Gosh what a reactionary, overly serious bunch of people we have in here. Lighten up kids, it's just a bug - it doesn't destroy your phone, and if you've got any wits about you, you'd research how to nullify it in a few mins.
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And for some people it does mess up their devices quite a bit.
 
photolee said:
Got the message on Tuesday and been trying all the fixes in this forum multiple times and two symptoms continually to occur:

1. I wasn't able to open messages icon - white screen and quick flash to the desktop.
2. Performing a backup/restore in iTunes kept crashing saying - iPhone disconnected. It also caused issues in Ibackupbot.

What fixed it:
1. Copy any existing iPhone backups to another directory. Completely empty/clear the directory that stores the default iTunes backups
2. Do/attempt a full backup of the phone.
3. Download Ibackupbot - didn't have to buy prem version.
4. In the top left pane you have one item (mine says Johnny Rocket's Iphone - May 29,2015) make sure that it is highlighted and ( You should be able to see a picture of your phone on the right side now).
5. Click on messages in the list below the picture of the phone.
6. I sorted by date and deleted all messages from the current date all the way to a day before i got the offending sms message. right click and "delete selected items" (this process took me a couple times, as the program would randomly shut down but eventually i got it to delete the messages i wanted.

Next:
7. Expand your iPhone backup in the list on the left and click System files under the root of your device backup.
8. Then MediaDomain
9. Click Library, then SMS.
10. Keep both folders "Parts" & "Attachments" BUT delete everything inside both those folders.
11. close the application. To make sure everything i wanted gone was gone, i re-opened the app "ibackupbot" and double checked. Closed that app after the check.
12. Put the iPhone into recovery mode...don't just turn the phone off without putting into recovery mode (look that up if you don't know how to do it....super easy.) After it comes up and iTunes recognizes it's in recovery mode it's going to ask you 2-3 questions.
13. First option i took was "restore" NOT update.
14. Next question says restore and update. Yes
15. After it loads the OS, in iTunes it asked for iCloud verification and then if i wanted to setup a new phone or restore from backup. I chose restore from backup.

520 apps and all my data with the rest of my text messages in 2 hours....done. I can use messages again without it closing on me and i'm able to scroll up through the text messages without any issues :)
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There is an easier way than this:
1. Plug your iPhone into your computer
2. Download iExplorer
3. In iExplorer, go to Backups>Messages, and follow the instructions.
4. Once your messages have loaded, look for the infamous text
5. Once found, go on your phone and send a picture or note to the person who sent you the text.
6. Messages should now open! I fixed many phones at school yesterday using this method.
 
C DM said:
And for some people it does mess up their devices quite a bit.
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Correct and no one to blame but themselves. People also know fire burns, if they touch it purposely, they wouldn't say, 'damn, fire is hot! It's fire fault because even though I know, I still touch it and it burns my finger!' :D
 
ksuyen said:
Correct and no one to blame but themselves. People also know fire burns, if they touch it purposely, they wouldn't say, 'damn, fire is hot! It's fire fault because even though I know, I still touch it and it burns my finger!' :D
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Not when someone else brings something hot and puts it against their finger.
 
MacCubed said:
It made mail instantly crash. I don't think there is a way to fix it since Mail does not combine emails like Macs do. One of my other friends set the text as their phone's name, and now settings doesn't open
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Ah, see what you mean. I thought you were saying my link broke his mail. Yes, mail recovery is a pain in the ass if someone emails it to you.

Just discovered a new way to stop iPhone users being able to use navigation and maps, post a video shortly.

Here is my previous video of the 10 things we've found so far https://youtu.be/tBOzI_jfGb8
 
uid15 said:
Gosh what a reactionary, overly serious bunch of people we have in here. Lighten up kids, it's just a bug - it doesn't destroy your phone, and if you've got any wits about you, you'd research how to nullify it in a few mins.
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The issue is not the bug, but the idiots who vandalize phones for fun. If I lose 1h in a day, that's can be from $500-$10000 in economic losses (depending how many things it screws up in that hour). If you are a student in high school, the losses are probably not so important... Guess I should just take those losses, even laugh at them... (sic) BTW I wouldn't blame Apple for this. I would blame the twit, probably a twit I know, who sent me the message knowing what the result would be.

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MacCubed said:
It made mail instantly crash. I don't think there is a way to fix it since Mail does not combine emails like Macs do. One of my other friends set the text as their phone's name, and now settings doesn't open
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Your friend is beyond help... It seemingly handles all (or most) text display on the phone. So, if you use this thing anywhere it will cause completely unpredictable, but seemingly always severe, failure.

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MacCubed said:
It broke my friend's mail
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From what you said about your friend, he's basically "asking for it"... And I don't blame the victim lightly usually ;-).
 
I received the text, i had message preview turned off, and no banner.
It crashed the phone. Diag .ips file shows exc_bad_access (sigsegv).

maybe it's too much to ask for a fix by monday.
 
stulowe2009 said:
Likely not until WWDC next Monday at this rate if that is there iOS 8.4 release date.

We keep finding things that can be done with this bug, two more below:
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It's a quite nasty bug. I wonder if someone is probably creating such hotspot in Starbucks, etc. that would crash Setting/location/maps.
 
I can't believe there is very little about this bug right now. All articles are from May 29th. This is still affecting my daughter's ipad. Not an official word about when the fix will be.
 
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