I sent a text to my boyfriend, and he received a totally different message. Why is this?

Question

Okay. This seems far fetched but it is 100% the truth. So I live in England, and my boyfriend lives in Northern Ireland. I have an Iphone 5 on orange, and he has a Samsung on 02. I sent him a message, about 320 characters long. And he received the last part of the message. But the first part of the message was something that I didn't write. And it sounded really dodgy.
Now he has totally flipped, and is basically accusing me of cheating. If I were in his position I'd react similarly, because why would a text lie? But I did not write the first part of the message he received. It wasn't vaguely similar. I wasn't texting anyone else anything similar to the message he received.
I want to know how this is possible and how I can prove it to him? I have a screenshot of the message for proof, but its dodgy ground, and I need concrete proof.
Does this happen very often in the mobile world? I know its not impossible because it happened to me today.
It's almost as if the first half of the message was something totally different, then the part I actually wrote was mixed with the first half, and then went into the end of my text.

Please please please don't give me any talks on trust or call me a liar or anything, I've had enough of that tonight.

Message Details:

The message I sent: (HIS NAME) I'm always right ;) please stop worrying about it. Good good. You better party hard tonight mister cause you won't be able to do that across the pond!...
I think I like you more sir. I could do with a hug!...
What time you heading out? xxx

The message he received: Lol she's something alright...
Haha. What makes you think were having sex? Lol possibly but i did hear someone say each to their own today...
I dont thino that across the pond!...
I think I like you more sir. I could do with a hug!...
What time you heading out? xxx

I know it seems unlikely that I'm telling the truth, and if you do think I'm lying just treat this question impartially!

Thanks so much

Answer 1

ill take this at face value... ok!??!



the ONLY logical and technical explaination is called Inter Carrier Exchange/Misexchange.... it happens but its rare.... SMS is sent to a TEXT APN of your carrier and then his carrier upon recieving.... if its over 160, obviously, its gets broken up into 2... over 320, broken into 3, and so on.... the message parts are coded to be put back together upon TEXT APN receiving it.... but if the server is acting up, you could have gotten jumbled with someone elses text parts....



now here is the kicker..... is it orange's text APN... or O2's Text APN..... who to blame?



fastest fix is you both call your carriers and both report the issue... orange and 02 will get the servers and see i there is a fix..... it may take time.... but it will be fixed.... cause if you 2 have the issue, then others do as well........ i mean, someone..... somewhere.... on orange or o2...... got your part 1.... LMAO!!!!



So... if you are telling the truth.... there is your explaination and fix........ good luck

Answer 2

This has happened to me and my Girlfriend now on 3 separate occasions, we have both checked the others phone and the message received was not what was sent but still made perfect sense and was in the context of what we were taking about. i.e we were texting about a friend the other week and her text came through to my but at the end of the text i received was "and i have never really liked her husband anyway" then the obligatory xxxx. I text back surprised and then she was confused too. I was only 10 mins from home so drove back and looked at the conversation on both phones and that was never sent.

The worse was earlier this week, we are having a few issues anyway and she is at her mother's. following a quite Argumentative set of texts, I received one which stated at the end (after the x's) that we were over and she will not put up with my s**t anymore. I was shocked but then we compared what was said and what wasn't and that was never on the end of the text that she sent. We are both on Tesco which is 02 piggyback.

Answer 3

Good i find it very unusual that he still suppose like this after 2 years,i dont suppose u should spoil up or some thing however i believe u must keep on with moving collectively,first u r both slightly too young to move in together i dont blame u in any respect thu intent i cant wait to maneuver in with my gf but every person tell me its now not a right thing to do when u dont any person utterly as u had a long far away i dont feel u comprehend him that good,u recognize the character totally when u see who r his pals and loved ones in my openion,beside u ought to comprehend what he desires from this relathonship,from this text i will see its just to fulfil his confedant however u cant just inform this through one text,i simply consider a relationship should be some distance more meaningfull than just that,so if i were u i might preserve on and get to understand him higher and would spend extra time with him and his associates and family then decide for relocating in

Answer 4

I have a partial solution/explanation that worked in my case. It seems when texts get over 160 characters they get split up and then there is potential to get recombined with chunks of previous texts over 160 characters.



I was very confused like everyone else until I started to recognize some of the context of the second, and weird, half of the message. Luckily for me it contained a reference to a date, so *all* I had to do was scroll way back in my message history to find the exact wording in the old text.

Answer 5

I believe it! I had the same sort of thing happen yesterday. My wife sent me a reply to a question but at the end added a compleatly differnt ending.

She was explaining how she has baby brain......haha

THIS IS THE EXACT SAME AS SENT AND RECIEVED



Her Mob:

I couldnt minus $5 from $18 dollars it was $13 then she gave me a $20, I eventually worked out $7 change but was confused and thought i gave her too much change..Maybe it just me in general!



My Mob:

I couldnt minus $5 from $18 dollars it was $13 then she gave me a $20, I eventually worked out $7 change but was confused and thought i gave her too muchcant wait to have you in person im craving your c**k and your lips!Xx



WTF!!!



You can imagine the confusion that followed

lucky im not a suspicious husband but i had a minute when i realised it was not written by her or from her of for me... Good luck to the next unlucky people who get done.

Answer 6

I believe you, OP! It happened to me for the first time today. (That I'm aware of) Between my iPhone5 and my wife's HTC phone, a bizarre sentence was added at the end of my quite ordinary text, stating I was going to divorce her and see what a judge would give me! Not funny! I was in no way remotely speaking or thinking about a divorce from my wife! We've been married for 30 years! Gremlins?

Answer 7

This happened to me for the first time today (that I know of). My husband texted me one thing and I recieved the beginning and end of his text, but the middle section was completely different. It caused alot of confusion as he thought I was talking to someone else about their paycheck! We compared the messages and times on our phones when we got home to clear up the miscommunication. So, Matty-James, I believe you!



We both have Verizon - he has a RAZR and I have a RAZR M.

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Answer 9

I know this is a very old thread but I wanted to say this just happened to me. It caused my gf and i to have an argument. If we had broken up I was planning on suing my carrier.

Answer 10

This just happened to me and my boyfriend! I had sent "If you want to come you are more than welcome" to "if that decided to attack everything (laughing emoji)" We are pretty creeped out, I hope someone can figure out what causes this!