When this is intermittent, it often results from one or the other phone falling off the network. Sometimes the drop is so brief that it is not easily detected. A recent contact with AT&T regarding a phone with this behavior yielded such helpful responses as: They do that sometimes. In short, they don't really know. In this case the person involved does not have a texting plan. So, when this occurs, she gets charged for a text.
-Len On 7/11/2012 8:43 AM, Wayne Merritt wrote: > I have had this happen as well. Sometimes, I will go into my contact > information for that person and make sure their number is listed in > the iPhone field, instead of the generic mobile number field. I also > have this happen a lot when receiving group messages from work. > Another possibility is the person you're exchanging messages with may > not have iOS5. Since you say you've exchanged iMessages with her > before, then this wouldn't make sense. > > Wayne > > On 7/11/12, Blinkin <blinkin4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> The only thing I can think to try is have your mom confirm that she has >> iMessaging turned on in her settings. Aside from that I am not sure. >> Sorry for the not so great advice. >> >> Mike . >> On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Hope Paulos wrote: >> >>> Hi all. I’m having an i-message issue. I’m trying to send one to my mother >>> but it only offers text messaging. Mom has an IPhone like I do and in the >>> message history there is a mix of i-messages and text messages that I was >>> able to send. Can anyone provide any information as to what I can try or >>> have her try to be able to get this feature back? I-messages work with >>> other I-phone owners in my contacts. >>> Hope >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >>> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
