Windows Phone

[Admiral Yi]

If these are regular text msg, you are probably not doing anything wrong. Networks throttle text msg all the time.

I can expect a few messages to be a day or more late?

[Grey Fox]

Yeah, it happens.

[Liep]

A day late sounds like too much for throttling. Maybe on New Year's eve around midnight, but on regular days it shouldn't happen.

[Admiral Yi]

Any other explanations then?

[Liep]

Any other explanations then?

I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but a text message is such a tiny amount of data that I can't imagine the need to throttle those messages in this day and age.

Did everything else work? Phone calls, 3G, etc?

[DontSayBanana]

I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but a text message is such a tiny amount of data that I can't imagine the need to throttle those messages in this day and age.

Did everything else work? Phone calls, 3G, etc?

It's not so much about the amount of data being transferred as the signal uptime being used to send those messages.  SMS is an antiquated, agonizingly slow transmission that sits in that radio spectrum for a long time to transmit a relatively small amount of data.  Also, there's so much comingling among the carriers now on the portions of the radio spectrum they're using that they can't afford to let things like that sitting idle anymore (the last big holdout with a lot of isolated spectrum all to itself is AT&T, with a huge swathe of transmissions in the 600-750MHz range- very low, which is why AT&T is generally better than the others inside buildings... but that may be changing the next time the FCC auctions off spectrum in the C block).

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but a text message is such a tiny amount of data that I can't imagine the need to throttle those messages in this day and age.

Did everything else work? Phone calls, 3G, etc?

Didn't make or get any calls in that time.  Don't know what 3G is.

[Admiral Yi]

So I've been messaging my pot dealer to arrange a purchase.  Yesterday and today both, as soon as I messaged her, a previous message from her, time stamped prior to mine, showed up on my phone.

Am I doing something wrong?  Should I be tapping some refresh button that I'm not aware of?

I thought I could just turn on the phone, and if I had any unread messages they would pop up in my inbox.

[Grey Fox]

Stop turning the phone off.

[Liep]

Stop turning the phone off.

Haven't you seen The Wire? They can tap that shit.

Yi: When I turn my phone* on it takes about 5 minutes before messages sent to the phone while off ticks in. Sometimes it alerts me, sometimes they're just there.

*Nokia non-smart phone

[Grey Fox]

Not every police corps is the NSA.

[Admiral Yi]

Thanks Liep.

Are you serious General Wolfe?  Just leave it on all the time?

[Barrister]

Thanks Liep.

Are you serious General Wolfe?  Just leave it on all the time?

Umm, yeah.  They go into a low-powered state when the screen isn't on.  That's how they're designed to be used.

[Admiral Yi]

Umm, yeah.  They go into a low-powered state when the screen isn't on.  That's how they're designed to be used.

Hmm.

There's an app called battery saver.  Should i do something with that?

[Grey Fox]

I am.

Just like anything other modern device :computer, tablet, streaming device, phone. I avoid turning them off as much as possible. Hell, some can't even be turned off.

My phone has a current uptime of 731 hours.