Why does my cell phone take so long to send a text message?

Question

Why does my cell phone take so long to send a text message?

Answer 1

Well, it could be lots of things... the file size compared to your available memory (especially for pics)

Your signal strength

Your carrier

The person's carrier you are sending it to (because of different types of towers some carriers take longer to connect to a different tower type... GSM TDMA CDMA....

Your antenna could be going bad, though if that were happening you would be dropping a ton of calls

If you have a decent amt. stored to your phone, you may want to try putting in a memory card if don't have one already.

Try resetting your phone to the towers...

AT&T & T-mobile... turn it off and back on

Cricket... Turn it off, wait a few.. turn it on and dial *228 and send.. let it do it's thing... it will beep when it is done.

Sprint... Turn it off and on, then dial *2... it will reprogram

Verizon.. I don't remember the code for them, I've been in this business too long, but if you have them, or some other carrier I haven't mentioned, just call customer care and ask how to do a hard reset.

What this does, it just resets your phone to the towers, recieves updates, and in a lot of cases improves signal strength.

Good luck!

Answer 2

u may have a low connection.

if thats not it. go to the verizon store.

Answer 3

Most of the time this is a network problme, call your carrier and ask them to troubleshoot the issue for you.