Is it because of the way Android parses phone numbers that I can’t send texts to five-digit codes? As in, the kind that are used to send charitable donations or to find out when the next bus is due. I certainly used to be able to text five-digit numbers with my old Nokia phone.
I can phone a friend in Romania but when I try to send a text message it says that it can’t send - wrong format. If it was the wrong format I would have thought that I wouldn’t be able to phone either.
In which country are you and what is your mobile operator?
I am in UK. Phone provider is EE via Phone Co-Op.
In fact, it sounds strange to me. Have you saved your friend’s phone number in int’l format +40… ? If not, try this. If also for SMS you actually use this format, then maybe report to your phone company.
There’s a history of Android versions where the phone app has been able to handle more formats for phone numbers than the messages app. I’m not sure whether this still hasn’t been fixed by the Android developers, but what used to be an issue are formats that contain brackets or slashes, for example:
+31 (20) 788 4400
+31/20/7884400
would only work in the phone app, not the messages app. Spaces are fine in both apps, if I recall correctly. If you have any brackets, slashes, or other characters other than numbers, spaces and ‘+’ in the phone number, try removing those.
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On this note, I moved your discussion here, please have a look at several hints in this topic.
Thank you for your reply. I only have + and spaces.
Have been having this but just with one number. I wonder if in this case it is some sort of spoofing software that gives out a dodgy number as I get a tone I don’t recognise when I try and call back the number and if I put 44 instead of 0 in front of the number I get a message saying calls are not being connected to this number?
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