I have a Motorola phone and I message a lot with it. Tonight it misfiled a message…essentially it put the wrong time stamp on it. Even though I sent it at 5:35 CST on 12/7/2020, when I dove into the messages I found it had been stamped something like “4/12/2001, 12:01 PM.”
Anybody else? I got this phone in September or so and it did it once before. IIRC the phone I relplaced (an LG android) did the same thing once. So I’m guessing it’s an Android problem. I don’t delete messages from my wife…not sure if that long string could be somehow responsible.
Here is a possiblity I know of, because I ran into the same thing once or twice.
On some phones, deep in the well lit, yet still creepy bowels of the obscure hard to find arcane settings, you can (maybe) set a toggle (ime this is usually on by default) to automatically resend a failed message, which would have the “wrong” time stamp. Unless that isn’t what happened at all and the recipient received it in a timely manner when you hit send.
Thanks for the reply. FWIW it’s a Tracfone which might add a layer of weirdness.
Interesting. I went in and made it to “chat features,” where the help said I could access said “resend.” I almost never “chat” with multiple people but my sister texted both Mrs. L and I recently. I don’t think anything didn’t send. Hmm. My bro sent me a file in a text and ordinarily, the phone would handle it fine—I’m at home and it should be on wifi. But this said I had mobile data off.
A little googling said that sometimes service providers may be doing things that will temporarily cause a problem. Mostly it says to make sure time is set to automatic. I went in…yep that’s what it was set to.
I don’t seem to have problem with the texts others send me. Their phones are probably timestamping them just fine.
Tracfone, yeah, that’s about equal to darkest africa or Antarctica for me, I’ve never even held a tracfone. “Chat features” makes me think of yahoo messenger from back in the day:grin:
That sounds like the timestamp might actually have been lost completely and the software is just displaying the equivalent of zero/null in whatever storage format it uses for times and dates
