Text message delay

My boyfriend and few co-workers have android and after I got the iPhone 6 , I get their text messages I don't get them until one or two hours later, let's say, If they text me at 8 am. I don't receive until 9 or 11 am... anybody else with the same issue? I never had this problem with my iPhone 5s.

With different sim-card?
I haven't tried another sim but it's hard to tell if that would work because it's works fine sometimes as it is. But when I think the problem is solved, there's the delay again..
The operator (Tele 2) says that there's no disturbances in my area, and there's always at least 3 (usually more) "connection bars" or what it's called, on the phone.

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IPhone 3G S - Calls not coming through. Text Message Delays in NYC

I know it's not a down tower.. I was just transfered to a "Tier-2" ATT tech rep.
Here's my problem.. Between 25-50% of my calls are not showing up on my phone, they just go straight to voicemail.
I upgraded from the 3G 16gb to the 3G S 32GB yesterday and noticed these side effects immediately after activating through iTunes. The tech re-activated my phone to the new sim card and had me reset my network settings through general -> reset -> reset network settings..
Before I go and bring my 3G S back to the store and
a) Exchange it
b) Return it all together
Has anyone else experienced these issues? I also noticed text messages have been delayed anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours.

I am seriously disappointed here.
I own the black 32GB iPhone 3GS and have been an iPhone user since the original iPhone 2G in 2007. I have upgraded my iPhones every year and religiously use Mac products. I am not a fan boi. Mac products work for me.
Except the 3GS.
I need so help here.
I purchased the 3GS not because of the 3G data advantage but because of the video recording features and the compass and the general battery life enhancement.
Let me give you a run down.
I have 4 email accounts: MobileMe-Push, AOL- Fetch, Yahoo-Push and Gmail on fetch.
I have 1,465 songs, 13 videos and 1497 photos. Of those, only 5 were taken by the 3GS' camera. I have 17GB free. I don't rush to fill space. I have 46 application installed.
Now there are three things that are happening that never happened on the other phones that have me deeply disturbed and praying that Apple issues a fix because this is serious!!!
I got the phone about 3 weeks after its launch.
It burns through the battery and that incoming call issue.
I use the term 'burn' because the phone does get hot and it has never lasted more than 1 day in standby.
However, all of that stops when I turn the push notifications and push email off.
When I turn push notification off for Beejive and I turn push off for Yahoo! and MobileMe and restart the iPhone, I realize on a full charge it lasts long. I get all my calls and text and everything.
But that is an inconvenience.
I, like many iPhone users, have opted to not sync my contacts through iTunes but use MobileMe instead. Not only that, but Apple's MobileMe 'Find My iPhone' feature only works with the push services on.
All of this is with 3G services turned off in the Network settings. I prefer to use the Edge as I have a 10 Mbps wifi network readily available and I don't require the speed for YouTube so much as I listen to music and rarely use the online video service.
With Push email on and Beejive push notifications on, I do not receive any calls. Callers hear my line ring twice then it goes to voicemail. I don't even get the voicemail notification until hours after. Same thing with text. I always get delayed text whenever I make a call.
Wasn't it Apple's idea to do push notification as compared to background processing to save battery life? So must I chose between push notifications and push email and being able to receive my phone calls? And what's the use of use push notifications when it eats battery life anyway? How come the 3G and the 2G running 2.2.1 give this problem. And Apple insults people when they tell us to turn Push notification of! I NEED my push emails. I do business with contacts in IM and if they didn't want to give us background processes why make a big deal about push notification and profess that it doesn't use all that battery life? Why is it 2.2.1 never gave these problems.
AT&T ***** but it is not all their fault. I know this is an iPhone issue because when I put the SIM card in another phone, it works perfectly.
I did not upgrade to 3.0 to have to chose between push email and receiving calls and battery life. The 3G worked just fine. The 2G worked just fine.
I seriously hope that 3.1 addresses this because this is utter nonsense!
The iPhone is the best in it's class otherwise I would have seriously ditched it long time and gotten a Pre or an Android phone but they are not close. Their app offering ***** and the iPhone's keyboard is really good. (I'm a God with that thing!)
Give me a 2.0 for my 3GS and let me at least live with push email and be able to receive calls.

Delayed text messages and voicemail notifications

Hi all,
I am really at my wit's end with this problem. For about a week and a half, I have been having a severe text message delay. My sent messages go out fine, and are received immediately, but I have been receiving messages anywhere from a few hours to a few days late. These messages are from both people on AT&T and otherwise. When the messages do come through, they come in bursts--one message right after the other as if they were all just sent. The only luck I have had in receiving my messages in a more timely fashion has been to keep turning off and turning back on my phone.
Additionally, I have been having similar issues receiving voicemail. Someone could leave me a voicemail in the morning and I won't even be aware there was a message until well into the evening. Again, turning off the phone and turning it back on is the only thing that seems to work.
I have spent countless hours on the phone with both AT&T and iPhone tech support over the past 4 days, and each day I am told "all set, the problem's fixed!", and yet it persists. I have already reset my phone, completely restored my phone, etc., etc. Also I have not changed locations recently (that might affect the service, for example), and this problems persists even when I have a full signal. Earlier today, AT&T support completely reset my voicemail, and that has not fixed the situation, either.
Please if anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. AT&T seems to have no more options for me, and naturally they blame the phone, and iPhone support blames AT&T, and ultimately nothing is getting fixed.
Thank you for your help.

Text & voicemail are both carrier features, so I would lean more to the problem being on AT&T's side than your phone. Especially since you've indicated that you've done a restore. However, there are a couple of things left you can do:
1. Get a new sim card. Go to an AT&T store & have them replace your sim, they should not charge you for this.
2. If the problem still persists after replacing the sim, make an appointment at an Apple store. They have diagnostic equipment that can tell instantly if your phone has a hardware problem.

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Hello: I have an 8350i on the Sprint/Nextel network. Latest issues include what seems to be a dump of my text messages--yesterday received a batch at 5:38pm that had been sent at 9:49am, 10am, 11:27am, noon, 2pm, 2:15pm and then another batch last night at 9:08pm that had been sent at 7:31pm, 8:47pm, and again this morning a batch that arrived at just before 7am that had been sent about 2 hours before. And it's not all the time, or just certain messages. Very frustrating.
Second issue is that I discoverd that neither my husband or I am able to call my office landline. Colleagues seem to have no trouble.
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Text message delays are a carrier issue, I would contact sprint and see if there was maintenance in the area or other outages. Quick fix, you can try to pull the battery out while the device is still on and time it for 2 minutes. This refreshes your connection and it may work properly after that. Also, calling other numbers is a carrier issue also.

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Why does my iPhone 4S delay text message alerts?

Many times, my iPhone 4S will not alert me as soon as I receive a text message.
Even if I received the text message when it was sent, my iPhone will not notify me until I unlock the phone.
Then it perks up -- "Oh yeah, you have a new text message. You received it 2 hours ago."
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All of the suggestions I've found have to do with a delay in sending text messages, not in alerting you to new text messages.
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Did you ever find a solution? I have pretty much the same issue. I will receive text messages but not receive an alert. Then anywhere from a few seconds to minutes later my phone will light up and vibrate but there is no notification. I'll unlock my phone and sure enough I have a text message.
Sometimes, I'll receive a text message when the phone is in my hand and unlocked, no vibration, no alert, but there is a badge icon and I'll see that there is a text, read it, and even reply. I'll lock my phone and a few minutes later my phone will light up and vibrate as if I have a text, but there is no notificaion, no badge icon and it will be the alert finally catching up to the text I received minutes earlier. It drives me crazy!
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LG Revolution not receiving text messages from iphone user

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This issue needs fixed asap! I have a few suggestions that should help you get this resolved. If they are showing up in the usage details, that means they are hitting the Verizon network, but for some reason they are not showing up on the phone. I recommend clearing the cache from your messaging/text messaging programs. Go to settings> applications> manage apps> all> Messaging/Text Messaging> Force Stop/Clear Cache/Clear Data. Erase the old text threads that you have saved and retry.
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Ever since the update a couple of weeks ago, any time someone sends me a picture in a text message, it takes hours before it downloads to my phone. I can see that it's there, it just won't come in fully for hours. What gives?

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Good morning.
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I've had the HTC Rhyme for about two weeks. Last week I noticed my text messages were not loading. I I turned the phone off a few times. Still no text messages loading. I spoke with Verizon CS and they tried several solutions that did not work. I finally reset my phone and my text messages started loading again...for a couple of days. Exactly one week later my text messages are not loading again. I am not gonna reset my phone again. In addition to no text messages not loading, my visual voicemail works sometimes ( voicemails show up hours later). My aol email does not update. When I mentioned this to the Verizon CS they said "instead of using the phone's email setup, I should download the aol app from the Google Play Store. So, I downloaded the aol mail app last week. Since I had to reset my phone I had to download the aol mail app again. But, now I can't find the aol mail app in the Google Play Store. I am VERY dissatisfied with this phone.

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Are you able to send text and picture messages? How do you know when you are not receiving a message? Do you get an error message? Are you able to access the Internet on your phone? Are you using a third party message app?
Run the phone in safe mode http://bit.ly/tXe7I4 and have someone send you a text to see if you receive. I want to make sure a third party isn’t causing these issues.
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