[EVO 4G Android Development] Scudderb:
Lock Screen Call Reject Text Message Error Bug??

Hi...

I posted this issue over at themikmik forum "Bug Report" thread but posting here too to get feedback from other people unaware of or who don't use themikmik forums. You can follow the issue at themikmik here:

http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?8929-MikG-2.55-Bug-Report-Available-Here&p=124530&viewfull=1#post124530

I flashed my first MikG ROM just last week so I'm noticing anything "out of the ordinary" and possibly/likely attributed to the new ROM. I have NOT experienced this on my phone EVER prior to flashing the MikG ROM.

In the Home Screen —> Menu —> Settings —> Call —> Phone Settings area, one can set a default message to be sent via text to an incoming phone call that you choose to reject. The "Default Message" can be edited (without editing it says "I am busy right now. I will call you later"), you can also choose a option to "Edit the Message Before Sending" and, lastly (irrelevant to this bug issue) one can "Save to Contacts" unknown numbers. I do not see an option to "turn off" the text message for a call reject.

It appears that, from the lock screen, when there is an incoming call and the option to "Answer" or "Decline" if you choose to DECLINE and send the call to your voice mail, a text message is generated and sent to the number that tried to get in touch with you.

HERE IS THE PROBLEM

...

Within a minute or so, I receive an ERROR MESSAGE from my Sprint service indicating the following:

From: 9230

Message sent using invalid number of digits. Please resend using 10 digit number or valid short code. Msg 2114

And

HERE IS MY THEORY

about what is going on...

I believe, upon "declining" to answer a phone call, the caller is sent to voicemail and a text message is generated to that person's phone number. However, it appears from the text error message that I receive that the text message that is automatically sent "behind the scenes" does NOT have the proper number of digits. I have NO CLUE if the phone is trying to send with a "1" in front of a 10-digit number including area code....I don't know if they phone is trying to send ONLY a 7-digit number without area code.

It also appears, as SHOULD BE the case, that this text error message ONLY appears if you reject a phone call from a number marked as "mobile" in your contacts. That would make sense (and is a smart/good thing) because the phone "knows" not to send a text to a "home" number or a "work' number or the like.

And, if you simply ignore the phone call WITHOUT choosing "decline" then the call gets routed to voice mail on its own, not text message is generated (I assume) and NO ERROR MESSAGE results in the text message.

Now I do NOT KNOW if this is an "HTC/Sprint issue" or a "MikG ROM issue" but wanted to post here. ANOTHER thing that is weird and that I do not know if it is a phone issue or a ROM issue: even though I have chosen the checkbox to "Edit text messages before sending" I have NEVER been prompted to do so. Everything seems to happen automatically and "behind the scenes"

I am PRETTY SURE you guys can replicate the scenario with the following steps:

1. Turn off your phone so the lock screen is on

2. Call your phone from a number in your phone contacts that is labeled as a "MOBILE" number

3. While ringing, do not answer, but DECLINE the call and send to your voicemail.

4. Wait a minute or 2 and you should get the text error message I am receiving

...

should

get...unless this is NOT a universal issue but only spotty or, with MY luck, JUST ME:(

THANKS FOR READING!! Anyway, would LOVE some feedback on this issue if others have experienced the same thing...and indication whether this is a ROM bug or just "is what it is" with the phone.