Texting question

I have a Sanyo flip phone that I bought last year when I put my favourite Samsung in the washer in my pants pocket!!!   If I have the phone open and I get a text, it makes the sound of a text arriving, but most of the time I cannot find the text.  Sometimes, but not always, if I shut the phone, the text will appear.  Most of the time it never arrives, but as I know its my granddaughter, I just tell her to text me again.
 
Is this a fault with the phone, or is that how it works - if you have the phone open the text disappears?  I don't remember my Samsung doing this.

Check the menu on the phone for something called Messaging or SMS or perhaps Inbox. That's where you will find the messages. The way the messages or alerts are displayed will vary from phone to phone.
-steve

stephen boots
MVP-Windows Live
"Life's always an adventure with computers!" - anon.

That's where I'm looking - in the Inbox.  I text all the time.  I pay for my granddaughter's phone and so I will only pay $20 a month or whatever it costs.  I think its probably up to $23 or so now.  For that she gets call display, unlimited texting and the left over is for actual speaking on the phone.  I think she is left with about $8 a month for talking so she doesn't get to talk much.  So she texts me all the time and the texts are always in the Inbox.  But when the phone is open, I look in the inbox and although I heard the sound my phone makes when I receive a text - the last text is always the one before.  The new one is never there! 
 
I won't really worry about it.  I am due for an upgrade in April so I can get a new one.  She has a touch screen phone that I bought her a year or so ago for her birthday.  I am thinking about getting one of those, so long as I can lock and unlock it quickly because the first phone I had used to get turned on by mistake and make its own calls when it was in my purse!!

That's odd, then, that the older read messages are shown in the Inbox, but not the new one(s). Is there perhaps a refresh command to refresh the Inbox display?
-steve

stephen boots
MVP-Windows Live
"Life's always an adventure with computers!" - anon.

If there is, I don't know about it.  I always ask my granddaughter if I want to do something on my phone.  Teenagers are the cell phone experts!!   I always had "dont" until she showed me that if I pressed the 1 and then the T -- lo and behold I got "don't".  I guess someone figures it out and it passes on because I would never have figured that out by myself in a million years!!!    And I have to admit that if I was texting quickly, I sometimes got "foot" instead of "dont"!!!

Sounds like a problem with the phone.

IF you try it in another phone does it work OK? do texts come through straight away?

I guess you could try a factory reset to see if this can help but this will cause you to lose all your data.

Also, if your phone has too many messages in the inbox (can be as little as 20 if it's set to store them on the sim card) then it will actually queue up the messages untill space is available and then deliver them.

Hence why you get the sound to say Hey theres a new text ready, but it's queued and can't be delivered.

Oh, you are probably right.  I had something like 153 messages in my inbox and heaven knows how many sent message -- lots!!  I had deleted some but some went all the way back to October.  They were "unread" messages.  I got a message but sometimes its one word or "K" and then I don't bother actually opening the message, I just read it on the screen.
 
So now I have deleted them all except one.  I always like to have one message because the only person I text is my granddaughter and its a lot quicker to reply to a text than it is to compose a brand new one.
 
Thanks.  Have to see if that fixes the problem.  BTW my phone doesn't have a sim card.  Sasktel phones are CDMA and they are how they are, you can't change the card so far as I am aware.  Everyone I know has a Sasktel phone because the coverage is the best in the province.  Of course, they don't work in the UK, but seeing I don't go there often, it doesn't really matter.  It was a total tragedy for my granddaughter when we were there last Easter.  I bought her a netbook for an early birthday present so she could keep in touch with her friends. 
 
Incidentally, Sasktel is the only mobile phone provider that I know that give you unlimited texting to and from anywhere in the world for $10.  I couldn't find a UK phone company that did that.