Although today the norm is to dialogue with messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram, SMS remain essential for certain communications, for example with your bank, the DGT, health appointments, among others. Also, if you’re somewhere with a bad internet connection, you’ll still have to resort to texting to talk to someone. So if you experience Texting problems on your Android phone, here are nine potential solutions to fix it.
Make sure airplane mode is not active
Sometimes the solution is the simplest and easiest thing in the world, but there are those who choose activate airplane mode when you are at home relaxing or during your sleeping hours and maybe later you forget to turn it off when you get up.
When airplane mode is on, you will see an airplane in the upper right corner of your phone as a reminder and more importantly, your mobile data will be disabled, why you are not receiving the SMS.
You can turn it back on either by swiping up and down on the main screen and tapping on the plane or by typing the “Settings” >”Connections” and there by unchecking airplane mode.
Check mobile data status
If airplane mode is not turned on and you are still not receiving messages, one of the reasons may be that your mobile data is not available or the connection is bad. You can quickly and qualitatively find out its status in the upper right corner in the form of vertical bars. If there is no mark or only one bar, the problem is likely there.
More technically and precisely, you can go to “Settings” > “About phone” > “Status” > “Network” (the path may differ depending on the model, so you can always pull the search engine) and there read the signal strength with two numbers: a negative number in dBm and a positive number in knew. Basically, the more negative and positive the first and second respectively, the better.
It could be an issue with your carrier.in which case you’ll just have to wait for it to resolve, but if it doesn’t, try moving around to make sure you’re not in a cover black spot, try disabling and activate Airplane Mode for a few seconds or directly turn the device off and on again.
Reset your network settings
If all of the above didn’t work and you still suspect it’s a network problem, you can always reset these settings, which will resolve unexpected and unknown failures.
Do not panic because it is far from restoring your Android to factory: it only resets these settings, but it does not affect your data or the rest of the phone and the stored information. All he does is reset network settings to original statei.e. mobile data, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, which in practice means you have to re-enter passwords and sync devices.
To do this, go to “Settings” > “General Administration” (may be System) > “Restore” and there select “Reset network settingsYou will need to confirm for it to take effect. If your Android doesn’t have the same options, choose the search engine again and type “reset network settings” to speed up the process.
Check your spam and blocked folders
One possibility why you are not receiving certain SMS messages that you expect is that they may have been filtered into a separate folder, for example spam. It can happen if your SMS management application has an automatic security filtering system.
Assuming you’re using Google Messages (the default app for Android), you can view these folders by clicking the icon with the three lines and navigating to the specific “Spam and Blocked” folder. If you are using another application, it should have a folder with a similar function.
Another possibility by which do not receive text messages from a specific contact you have blocked them, in which case they won’t even reach the aforementioned folder. In this case, to solve it and receive your SMS, you will first have to unblock the contact.
free up space
If your phone is a modest terminal in hardware and is already a few years old, you may already appreciate a certain slowness and you are running out of space. Especially if your space is full, it may happen that you no longer receive new messages. However, in this case, your phone will display a message informing you that You will not be able to send and receive messages until there is a space.
You can free up storage space on your Android by deleting media files, apps you don’t use, clearing cache, deleting data from apps like WhatsApp, deleting downloads, and more.
Did you switch from iPhone to Android?
If you used an iPhone before you got an Android phone, this may be the reason why you are not receiving an SMS. Google recommends disabling “Messages” from the Apple Bite Phone because iMessage is not available on Android, which means you might lose reception on your new device.
To do this, take your iPhone and in “Settings” > “posts“, slide the toggle to turn it off. If you don’t have the iPhone with you, you’ll need to contact Apple to deactivate your iMessage number.
Turn off power saving mode
Power saving mode is optimized for Optimize battery life first and foremost to get the most out of it. Thus, this function is visible to the naked eye due to the brightness of the screen, but it also uses the processes that take place in the background.
Due to the Economy mode, some functions do not work properly, for example receiving messages of all kinds, because reduces the frequency of checking for new milestones, messages and notifications. If this is the reason, it can be solved as easily as disabling “Saving Mode” directly from Quick Access or better, if you consider it important that SMS is out of this optimization process , you can do this from “Settings” > “Apps” > “Manage apps”. There, select messages and mark No restrictions.
Same procedure applied in WhatsApp
update app
As a general rule, any problem with an application can be resolved by updating it, as it is possible that the software has problems or vulnerabilities which should be resolved soon.
Check if you have pending update messages from the Google Play Store app and install them if necessary.
Update your Android version
If none of the above methods work, thenupdating the operating system may be the solution to your problems Because, as with applications, the operating system can also harbor bugs or security flaws that affect its operation.
Check your Android version in “Settings” > “System” > “About phone” and update it in “Settings” > “System“, where you will need to touch “Software update“. A good idea to not have to do it manually is to enable automatic updates.
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