Repeated Flash Messages

Hello People,

I'm in desperate need of some help. I started getting flash messages repeatedly (about 1 every 2 minutes) starting yesterday. It's like a standard flash message, the word 'Helo' [sic] with only the green dismiss button at the bottom. I'll click on dismiss, only for the message to re-appear in a minute or so. Its driving me crazy. Does anyone know what might be going on?

I have tried a hard reset and restoring the phone, but that hasn't helped. Its driving me nuts. Any help would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks Tank. I restored from a backup. Should i just clear everything out and restore without any applications?

I had 'Find my Iphone' installed, maybe I should let that go as well. I'll gladly let go of all my paid applications if it means that I stop getting this message. Left my phone on to sleep and had to press 'dismiss' about 500+ times.

 

Tried the hard reset again but it didn't work. Going to try my brothers sim on this phone to see if the problem is that my number is being bombed by some flash sms flooding program.

I called up the phone company and asked them to block all flash messages to my phone. Don't think its going to work. Worst case scenario would be to change numbers because this is proving to be impossible to deal with.

 

OverRange / Anshul,

Yeah, I think the problem might be Airtel related as well because thats the carrier I'm on.

Here's what I did, I switched sims with my brother's iphone and he started getting the messages. So its safe to assume that the problem isn't with the phone or any app that we might have downloaded. Thats a relief. Once I switched sims back, the messages stopped coming. Now, it might be coincidence or the folks at airtel actually did something after the bollicking I gave them.

Didn't get any messages until today morning - around 9am or so. Now I'm getting them again but more infrequently, about 1 every 10 mins or so as opposed to yesterday. I'm going to see how this goes over the next couple of days and in a worst case scenario shift to another provider. Shame really, since I've had this number for 8 years.

 

Yep, its definitely tapering off now. Havent got one for a few hours. Fingers and toes all firmly crossed that it doesn't.

Out of curiousity, was your message 'Helo' as well or was it something else? Trying to figure if it was the same source for all Airtel or different sources.

 

That's the one. Damn right it was a nightmare. Seems to over now, thankfully. Gave the good people at Airtel a nice talking to.

Now I keep getting weird balance messages now and then. But much more infrequent and tolerable.