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10 Messages

Friday, October 14th, 2016 10:51 PM

messages arriving on Chinese characters

Long messages from friends and family are arriving at my phone in Chinese characters. Short msgs from the same people are ok. All phone settings are in English. Any ideas?

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2 Messages

8 years ago

So what is the fix. What does the user have to do?

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2 Messages

8 years ago

bump. i've been researching for days on this issues. my wife and i both have new galaxy phones. i talked to support and they had me try everything all the way down to factory reset. and now i find this post...so its a known issue, yet i wasted hours of troubleshooting.  has there been a resolve to this?

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10 Messages

8 years ago

Yes, the issue has been resolved on my phone and judging by the lack of
comments on this issue for the past few weeks, it has be resolved on other
people's phones, too.

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10 Messages

8 years ago

Yes, the issue has been resolved on my phone and judging by the lack of
comments on this issue for the past few weeks, it has be resolved on other
people's phones, too.

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2 Messages

8 years ago

So what is the solution and how is it implemented?

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10 Messages

8 years ago

The solution wasn't at the device level, but at the AT&T server level. They
fixed the problem on their end and it cleared up on our end. If you are
still receiving messages in Chinese, you might have another problem. After
the problem had been reported fixed, I had family resend messages that had
initially arrived in Chinese and the messages did show up in English.

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10 Messages

8 years ago

The solution wasn't at the device level, but at the AT&T server level. They
fixed the problem on their end and it cleared up on our end. If you are
still receiving messages in Chinese, you might have another problem. After
the problem had been reported fixed, I had family resend messages that had
initially arrived in Chinese and the messages did show up in English.

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1 Message

7 years ago

We just updated to Windows 10.

The ATT phone is now receiving Chinese characters when receing group messages.

Also, the same ATT phone cannot send group messages. 

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3 Messages

6 years ago

This problem continues.  It's not a device problem, it's an AT&T "character encoding problem."    You can take it into the store, but good luck getting someone who knows what to do.  

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3 Messages

6 years ago

This is not a device/phone problem.  It's an AT&T "character encoding problem."   You can take it to the store, but you may not find anyone who knows how to fix the problem.

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