If you’re one of many Android smartphone users who complained at text messaging bugs on your device, you’ll be glad to know that Google has acknowledged the problem and is working to resolve the issue(s). Notably, users have reported that opening one message caused a completely different message to appear. Similarly, sending an SMS to one contact had the message delivered to another one.
It’s good to know that the search giant is working on the solution, and in the meantime please make sure to cut down on sexting. 😉
Here’s what Google suggested as a work-around:
Thanks to everyone for your patience while we’ve been investigating these reports. As it turns out, we believe there are two distinct situations being discussed on this issue chain. Fortunately, we have fixes for both of them.
When some users tap to open a message in the Messaging application, they’re seeing a different message appear instead. We don’t believe this issue is affecting many users, but we’ve developed a fix that we’re preparing to deploy. Of course, double-checking the displayed message before hitting “Send” will prevent any messages from being sent to the wrong recipients. We’ve found in testing this issue, it is more likely to occur if you tap on a message before the Messaging app is fully loaded, so we recommend waiting for all the elements to load before clicking on the message you want to display.
Separately, some users have reported that their SMS messages are being delivered to the wrong people. It took us some time to reproduce this issue, as it appears that it’s only occurring very rarely. Even so, we’ve now managed to both reproduce it and develop a fix that we will deploy.
While we don’t anticipate any persistent problems, we’ll continue to investigate in case we come up with additional ways to trigger these bugs. Thanks again for helping us improve Android.
Hope that helps…
[Via: Engadget]