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

Categories: Apple, iOS / iPhone OS, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 1:15 PM

iPhone v1.1.3 sms text message fixIf 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 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…

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About The Author

Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • sherrie

    I have looked all over the web and can NOT find anything about broken texts. I'm currently running Iphone 3g Jailbroken and unlocked ios4. Only text messages that come from AT&T are broken and out of order. So say the text I'm receiving is a long paragraph. It might get broken into 2-10 sentences PER string and each string will come in out of order. Now imagine piecing together 10 different strings of bubbles that are all out of order. I don't get this from other users of different carriers. I have 3 friends on AT&T that text me. Two out of the 3 AT&T users, this has always happened whereas any other texts from any other carrier is fine. I also experienced this exact same problem on an Iphone 2G jailbroken on AT&T and on fw 2.1.2 from the same AT&T user that was texting me. Also sometimes the word count is still small about maybe two sentences and it still get's broken up into many different strings breaking single words apart and continuing on the next string… and of course the strings are out of order just as you listed above in your example. Please help. This has been going on for years now.

    Thanks much for the help as I'm sure no one who has this problem has found any relief online.