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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 09:29 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: sms time lag question

sometimes (maybe 20% of the time?) i received text messages some 20 minutes after the sender sends it out. who's phone is the culprit? mine or the other party's? we both are china mobile subscribers if that helps at all.
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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 09:33 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Maybe the clocks of your phones are set at different times?

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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 09:53 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Alligator, maybe it's your girlfriend's enormous baps that are causing some kind of time space continuum kinda thing. You never know. Call Mythbusters.

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Post subject: Re: sms time lag question

8lrr8 wrote:
sometimes (maybe 20% of the time?) i received text messages some 20 minutes after the sender sends it out. who's phone is the culprit? mine or the other party's? we both are china mobile subscribers if that helps at all.


Happens to me and the gf about the same amount of times. I am bill pay, she is prepay, both CMCC. I assume it is some problem with load in their network. Possibly they prioritise some traffic based on subscriber subscription plan or else just congestion in the network may 'lose' some traffic.
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Post subject: Re: sms time lag question

officeguy wrote:
Possibly they prioritise some traffic based on subscriber subscription plan or else just congestion in the network may 'lose' some traffic.
i'm guessing it's the first explanation, as this has happened to me for my previous 2 other phones as well.

and of course sometimes (5%?) i never receive the sms at all.
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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 10:12 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ziccawei wrote:
Call Mythbusters.
completely unnecessary, buckley. that shit is only for dumbfucks who cant figure shit out themselves.

like queenie.
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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 10:18 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ Why do you think I suggested it to you?

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Post  Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 10:44 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ cuz u've got nothing else better to do than jerk off to pix of your "favorite niece," hyena, or queenie.

dunno, just a guess...
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8lrr8 wrote:
^ cuz u've got nothing else better to do than jerk off to pix of your "favorite niece," hyena, or queenie.

dunno, just a guess...


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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:33 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

20 minutes? Fuck you are lucky. several hours sometimes, specially if from abroad. It's the shoddy network here, nothing else. Hey TIC

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 07:03 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ziccawei wrote:
Laughing
so it is true then!

whatever helps u sleep better at night, buckley. glad i could help! Laughing Laughing
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You wish, fag.

Cool

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:04 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ u mean like twitter?

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:21 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

No idea what you mean now.

I no twitter. Twitter stupid.

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:21 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

A semi-related tip (for that 5% OR so of the time that you or the person you're sending it to doesn't receive the SMS at all): check the sent messages folder on your phone, scan down to the bottom of the message where it lists the sms recipient, etc. If there's no time stamp down there, it means that the message didn't get sent, even if it's in your sent folder. Usually, if I turn my phone off, turn it back on, and try sending the message again, it does then go through. On of China's weird little mysteries I guess...
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:23 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ziccawei wrote:
No idea what you mean now.

I no twitter. Twitter stupid.
good, u've raised your standards. party
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:24 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

IntellectualEyes wrote:
check the sent messages folder on your phone, scan down to the bottom of the message where it lists the sms recipient, etc. If there's no time stamp down there, it means that the message didn't get sent, even if it's in your sent folder.
thx for the tip!
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 11:32 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I claim the record for the longest delay for an SMS. A few years a colleague called me and said "OK what's the problem?" As I hadn't seen him for 6 months I asked him what he meant. Apparently he was back in Asia and had just received an SMS I had sent 6 months previously during his earlier visit. I was surprised as I thought they would automatically get deleted after a day or so if they had not been delivered.
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:11 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Re: sms time lag question

8lrr8 wrote:
sometimes (maybe 20% of the time?) i received text messages some 20 minutes after the sender sends it out. who's phone is the culprit? mine or the other party's? we both are china mobile subscribers if that helps at all.


You drive a DeLorean?

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:18 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ no, but that's my loss.
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:20 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Doesn't your Big-Bapped-Baby make up for it a little?

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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:28 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

^ naw, but an lp560-4 would.
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Post  Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 12:33 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Your threads are like a William Burroughs novel.

They make no sense at all, but funny as hell.

Mr. Green

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