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Posted on Jan 25, 2009

Sidekick 3 wont receive text messages but can send them.

Brand new sidekick 3 wont receive text messages but will send them. I put the sim card in one of my other phones, and it received all of the text that didnt go through to my sidekick at once.

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Ok i have a sk 2008 and the samething happend to me, what i did was just turned of my phone took out my batter and sim crd and let it chilled there for a min...then i put it all back together and my phone started flooding with texts...i think a sidekick can get clogged up with texts..i also think that the battery can over heat and thats what causes some problems..so when ever i have a prob with my kick i just take out the battery and let it cool down :] ok hope i helped

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It's an issue with the SIM card. I was on the phone with customer support for half an hour and then I just decided to take it in. They switched out my sim card and all was well. They didn't have any real reason as to why it needed to be replaced but as soon as it was I got all my text messages I didn't get earlier.

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