Cell Phones

Question: I'm having major phone issues...anyone familiar with cell phones really well?

(Posted by: Tiffany on 2010-03-04 23:16:59)

Have a blackberry curve with tmobile and alot of stange things are happening on my cell phone, i get random text messages such as "Hi, " or some a smiley face, I 've recieved some type of rose with a heart text message from some random number, which are from all different types of people I do not know, I also get calls from different numbers and area codes, and when I call the number back its disconnected, ..the other day I'm studying and my cell phone is on the opposite side of the couch and some lady calls me and asks me "If I called her, and I'm like no who are u, and shes like well I seen your number on my caller id, and we're arguing back and forth, and Im like look please do not call my phone, I do not know who you are " so after I get off the phone with her, I checked my cell phone call history and it showed that I had called her a few minutes prior before she had called me, and the thing is this lady has called me a week prior asking for some random person, and I told her she had the wrong number...then about a month ago, while I was at work, I had a missed call from my friend, and she had left me a voicemail, and so I seen her number and called her back and she immediately picks up and she asks me "Do you have a boyfriend or husband or something " and I tell her "no why do you ask me that " and she goes on to say "I'm asking because I just called you and left you a voicemail to call me " " and soon as I hung up some guy called me asking me if I had just called him, and when I asked him for his name he hung up " I'm like what the heck..and then I talked to her the other day and she said it happened again, where she called me, and some guy calls her back asking if she just called...plus I just checked my cell bill and it shows that i ve used 450 instant messages, when I do not even use instant messaging, I only use text messaging, and I ve askes tmobile if instant messaging and text messaging were seperate categories customer service explained that they were seperate...on top of all of this I have changed my number four times, and the same things are happening on every number I get and now I get these calls on my home, work, business, and personal cell phone, where is all of these issues coming from?

Posted by: Red on 2010-03-05, 00:57:12

I don't know much about how the wireless networks for mobile phones work, but it was not at all uncommon for this sort of thing to happen to landlines. Phone companies would get some wires crossed and effectively create an unwanted 'Party Line'. My guess is that the same thing is happening here with your phone, and that the SIM Card is the culprit you need to be looking at. I'm assuming that when you had your number changed you still used the same SIM Card, so I would recommend asking them for a new SIM card entirely. If on the other hand, they did send you a new SIM card each time, then I am completely lost on this one, sorry. It's never too late to switch carriers. If T-Mobile doesn't help you fix the problem, tell them you want the unlock code for your phone because you will be changing carriers. Unless it is already unlocked, in which case just switch asap. Good luck with that.