[/img]Pardon us if the headline is a little sensational, but this is
one that we've personally experienced -- and it's not pretty. For at
least the last couple versions, Android has been plagued with a couple
extremely serious bugs in its text messaging subsystem that can
ultimately end up causing you to text the wrong contact -- even
contacts that you've never texted before. There appear to be a few
failure modes; the one we definitely experience on the Gingerbread-
powered Nexus S involves being routed to the wrong thread when you tap
it either in the Notifications list or the master thread list in the
Messaging application, so if you don't notice, you'll end up firing a
message to the wrong person.
More seriously, though, there's also an open issue in Android's bug
tracking system -- inexplicably marked "medium" priority -- where sent
text messages can appear to be in the correct thread and still end up
being sent to another contact altogether. In other words, unless you
pull up the Message Details screen after the fact, you might not even
know the grievous act you've committed until your boss, significant
other, or best friend -- make that former best friend -- texts you
back. There seem to have been some attempts on Google's part over the
year to fix it; we can't confirm that it still happens in 2.3, but for
what it's worth, the issue hasn't been marked resolved in Google
Code... and it was opened some six months ago.
This is akin to an alarm clock that occasionally won't go off (we've
been there) or a car that randomly won't let you turn the steering
wheel -- you simply cannot have a phone that you can't trust to
communicate with the right people. It's a deal-breaker. We're pretty
shocked that these issues weren't tied up and blasted to all affected
phones as an over-the-air patch months ago, but whatever the reason,
we'd like to see Google, manufacturers, and carriers drop every other
Android update they're working on and make sure this is completely
resolved immediately.
Want to see this fixed as much as we do? Scroll to the bottom of the
Google Code page and hit "Vote for this issue and get email change
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