[T-Mobile LG G3] Lou_Cipher:
Hey Phantom, love the new builds, great to have cm updater, makes my life that much easier (I'll take all I can get of that!). Have a rather unusual question, thought you might be able to shed some light on whether this is rom-related or not. I've had this issue on both stock and cm 12. I get texts from our nagios system at work, using email to text, sends it to myphonenumber@tmomail.net. My coworkers on other phones (including two on Verizon G3) receive these messages and see them as being from the email address from which they were sent. I have one other coworker who is on tmo, but uses a different phone (htc or something, I think). He also receives email-to-sms as being from the sending email address. I do not, mine show up as being from a random 4-digit number starting with a 9, and the sending email address is the first part of the actual sms message. Upon examining my bill details, I see that email to sms always comes from a tmo-owned phone number in the 202 area code, and the 4 digit number is the last 4 of the phone number from which they are sent, which changes with each message. Because of this, my email-to-sms texts don't thread (each one shows as coming from a different source), and by the end of the day I have to delete sometimes a thousand individual message threads, instead of having a single ongoing thread for all nagios alerts.

I spoke extensively with tmo tech support, actually made it up to an engineer, and they said it was normal, but obviously other phones don't have this issue, including others on tmo's network. I was very sincerely hoping it would prove to be an issue with the stock rom, but I have the same issue with this rom (and the other cm12 based roms I've tried, like pac). I'm wondering if you have any insight as to whether this is related to the os (after all, no reason this behavior couldn't exist in both lg rom and aosp/cm roms, but not some other stock roms out there), or if this is a firmware issue. Being on call and getting sometimes a thousand texts over the course of a day, and having each one appear as a new thread (and this is not messaging client related, either, I've tried them all, including several that work for my coworkers). If it's OS related, would you know where to start looking for the relevant code? This one is annoying enough that I'll devote some serious time to fixing it, it almost makes the phone unusable for work. I'm half ready to take a hex editor to my coworker's verizon g3 modem firmware (my other likely suspect, if not the rom itself) and see if I can patch the d851 modem, if that's what it takes (not that this would necessarily be possible or successful, but hey, on-call's rough enough without deleting a thousand individual texts per day!).

I'm posting this here instead of an IM because I also want to ask everyone who has a d851 and has used this rom, do you also experience this issue? If you send an email to yourphonenumber@tmomail.net, what shows up as the sender in your messaging app? The email address, or a 4 digit number? I've been able to find precious little useful information about this issue so far, so any input from other d851 users would be much appreciated.