Android Question SMS receipt conformation not sent, causing SMS to get received multiple times

[netchicken]

Has anyone encountered and solved this Android(?) bug?

When receiving SMS messages the confirmation from the phone, that is receiving the message, is not being sent back to the carrier, that is holding the sent message. As a result the carrier continually tries to send the message to the phone resulting in multiple copies thinking that the first one didn't get through.

Someone has noticed it when using an autoreply app i am making for sms messages, and wonders if the app can fix it. They get multiple messages from one person requesting an autoreply when the person only sent one message.

Here is the bug report from Google
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14503

Its interesting that after 2 years it still hasn't been resolved.

edit: sigh typos in the heading...... i can't fix them...

 

[Erel]

I'm not familiar with any workaround to this issue. Note that you can edit the title text.

 

[netchicken]

Thanks Erel. Has anyone else encountered this? One person sent a keyword RETAIL to the phone and received over 23 replies!

Here is his comment on it ....
Here’s the really weird thing … the very first txt that they sent was the keyword “TRAIN” which then gives them a list of courses and keywords to choose from. That “TRAIN” txt was only received once (at 4:07 pm). But then when they replied with “RETAIL” (at 4:08 pm) the Retail one got stuck in the loop. You can see all the times that “RETAIL” was received over the next time period. And they got our auto-reply each time.

They got a retail reply text over 23 times!

The workaround was to delete the retail keyword.I can code to stop the same keyword being sent to the same phone number, buts its an odd error.

btw I can't edit the title, only the body.