Is your iPhone v1.1.3 SMS text message out of order? Apple’s got a potential fix

If you haven’t already done so, you may want to consider jailbreaking your iPhone. Whether you’re already rocking the new iPhone v1.1.3, or you are still playing with v1.1.1 or v1.1.2 firmwares (jailbroken or not), you can find instructions on how to upgrade to a jailbroken iPhone v1.1.3 here.

Then, after you update, you may notice that some SMS text messages appear “out of order.” The messaging application isn’t “broken” per se, but the text messages seem to have forgotten the flow of normal conversation.

Whereas a normal convo should read like:

me: hi
friend: wats up
me: nothing

Some users may notice that their convos read like this:

me: hi
me: nothing
friend: whats up

This issue has been cropping up time and again, and Apple has finally acknowledged the issue and has recommended a possible fix. If you’ve been dealing with wacky text messages, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) suggests that you:

“Make sure iPhone is setup to receive the network time. Choose General > Date & Time and turn Set Automatically to ON. (Note that in some locations, network time may not be available and in some cases, you may not see this option).”

Admittedly, this solution may not fix your “out of order” text messages. In which case, you may want to try resetting your iPhone, or manually set your iPhone’s clock to sync-up with the time.gov time-server.

Let us know if you have further problems…