SMS not sent and appears when you reboot your phone

Question

Hi Guys, it seems this is the only way you can get help. My problem is I tried to send a sms when I didn't have enough funds, so now I deleted that sms, now everytime I reboot or take the battery out a blank sms to that exact person appears in my sms folder, as much as I delete it every time I reboot it comes back, very irritating how do I get rid of it, I have a curve 9360 and running os 7.1, this happened when I was running OS 7 but they dissapeared when I upgraded the os to 7.1 but it happened again when I tried to send a sms and didn't realise I had no money on my phone, pls help

Answer 1

First of all, it sounds like you are indeed on Verizon prepaid service (pay as you go).  If you buy a refill card to add money to your account to pay Verizon, you have prepaid service.  If you had non-prepaid service, you would have gone through a credit check to set up your account and you would get a bill from Verizon each month.
With prepaid service you can get a month of unlimited talk, text, and web (500 MB) for $45 but you have to be signed up for the correct plan.  It sounds like you are on the wrong plan. 
Go to My Verizon and look at your Plan.  You are probably on a Daily plan, either Prepaid Basic (25 cents a minute to talk, plus 10 cents for each text) or 99 cent Daily (99 daily access fee, plus 10 cents a minute talk, plus 10 cents for each text). Plus you pay 99 cents for one day of web access with either plan.  Those plans are OK for people who just talk a few minutes here and there, but if you are talking/texting a lot you could easily burn through $70 in just a few days!
In My Verizon, change your plan to a Monthly Plan.  You can select the plan $45 Basic Phone Monthly.  That plan has the features and price you expect. 
Unfortunately because of your mistake, you will have to add more money into your account to pay for your first month, but the good news is that you CAN get unlimited talk/text/web 500MB for $45 a month once you switch from a daily plan to a monthly plan.
If you buy another $70 Verizon card, add it to your account, and switch to the $45 Basic Phone Monthly Plan, there will be $25 left in your account to apply toward next month's fee.