[Vibrant Android Development] S1lent Echoes:
SMS/GPS issues, Laggy

Hi, first off love the ROM and I have since the Jelly Bean version. Thanks for the hard work.

I recently updated to Build 5 and have had no major problems (though the text message issue is becoming more and more of a problem) but a couple very annoying little ones have cropped up. I always clear caches and do a full reset when it is suggested to, if that helps eliminate that possibility at least. Other than that, could these issues be a user error on my part somehow? I really cannot think of anything I have done differently in between build installs. My carrier is T-Mobile and I am using a Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant (SGH-T959).

The first and biggest being that I started receiving duplicate text messages to the extreme. This has honestly started within the last couple of builds (pre- Build 4) but it was always intermittent being a text here, and a text there at first, plus it was limited to just one sender. My last install though (Build 3) it started happening more, though still no more than a couple-few times a day. Now with Build 5 it is started happening for every message and from every sender and not just one duplicate, more like 10-15 of each. It was so bad that I had to up the Security limit from 30 in 30 minutes to the max of 200 because I was not receiving some text messages because of it. Also, for the first time in Build 5 it has started sending multiple copies of my texts to other people. One other side effect of this is that it is severely draining my battery. I do not have delivery confirmation or any of those options turned on. I have not in any previous builds either and none of my Message settings in general have been different from previous builds.

The other and much smaller/less annoying problem but also one that is seeming to get progressively worse is my GPS service. It is almost constantly "searching for GPS" now in Build 5. It does stop, making me assume it found the signal but only a few seconds later it needs to search again. It, like the text message problem, used to be intermittent but has recently been almost non stop starting in Build 5. Because of the similarity it makes me think the two are connected but seems unlikely, still, I thought it was worth mentioning.

The last and definitely the least is that my phone is noticeably laggier this build. I know I have an older phone and I am not expecting it to be overly quick or anything but even in previous builds it was never this laggy. Now, I assume this could a user error on my part either with installation or possibly more apps being installed than in previous builds but I wasn't sure if it could be due to extra features that have been added as well.

Anyways, thanks again for the hard work and really, though I want to get rid of all three of those annoyances, if I can just get the SMS problem figured out it would be great as it has developed into a big problem.

[Edit] This should help in diagnosing. I took out the SIM card because it got so bad but the phone is still registering received text messages. I thought it could have been a network or SIM issue but this all but means it is a phone problem whether user error or something else.....doesn't it? One other thing to add and further complicate it is that the GPS does not seem to be "blinking" on and off since I removed the SIM card, but I am not positive if that is tied to the network signal or not, is it? Also, I know one problem could be migrating system data (like SMS/MMS data) but I do not migrate any system data anytime it is suggested to do a complete wipe/re-install, only User Apps.