Android

[Cammo152]

This is driving me crazy, everytime my phone picks up a different tower it notifies me with a SMS. It really doesn't help living in between two towers, I get around 50 SMSs an hour when at home. This is the second time this has happened, last time I had to reset my phone to factory settings which is a pain. Now it has started again a month later, I really don't want to reset my phone every month, surely there is a better solution?

[Balsam]

Might be one for Roger....... 

I have no idea :-)

Balsam 

[lawstudent18]

do you by any chance have an HTC?
My Brother was getting this on his HTC and he played around in the settings in the messaging menus and found a way to sort it out.
Sorry I cant be more specific,
LS18

[Kirsty · Accepted solution]

Hi Cammo152

Cammo152 wrote:

This is driving me crazy, everytime my phone picks up a different tower it notifies me with a SMS. It really doesn't help living in between two towers,

I can definitely appreciate that you want to stop the messages- 50 messages an hour would drive me crazy too! It sounds like you have Cell Broadcast active on your handset  - you definitely shouldn't need to reset your phone to stop Cell Broadcast messages.

Cell Broadcast is a handset function, and  you'll be able to turn this off through your phone.

If you do have a HTC device as LawStudent 18 suggests and it's running Sense, you can turn it off by jumping into your Settings Menu >  Call > Cell Broadcast and then disable this setting.

I've run though this on our "try the phone" section for  HTC One X  here, and the setting looks like this on the One X:

If you're running a non-Sense device, just post back with the model and I'll be able to step you through turning off Cell Broadcast on your phone. 

Thanks!

Kirsty.

[Cammo152]

Thanks guys, I have a HTC desire HD and had a look through the settings like lawstudent suggested, and found the problem. I was just about to post where I found it but kirsty beat me to it, that was exactly what was wrong. Thanks again guys, no more SMSs since last night.

[Roger]

.... This issue also effects the samsung galaxy s2... Same notification same way.
Quite annoying yes.