Error sending public key

[n8fr8]

When I try to send my public key on T-Mobile USA using a Nexus One (with Cyanogen), I get the following error message back from the carrier:

"Unable to send message to 1917xxxxxx. Please try again without a symbol in the text"

Perhaps you need to Base64 encode the data you are sending?

[jklardie]

Hi Nathan,

thanks for submitting the issue. We used to sent messages base64 encoded, however we were able to send binary messages, so we skipped the base64 encoding and decoding part (also since base64 comes with some overhead).

We will look into this quickly.

[erikwt]

I searched around a bit, and it seems a known issue for the Nexus One (and other devices). For some, the SMSC number was wrong, might be in the Cyanogen APN list.

Can you try this, Nathan? I found it here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3f4ad5ffac46bf92&hl=en

• Dial ##4636##
• Go to 'Phone information'
• Scroll all the way down on the page that opens and type in your SMSC number.
• T-Mobile's SMSC is +12063130004
• Hit UPDATE.

Also, can you e-mail me your Nexus One phone number so I can send my public key, see if that works. Thanks for testing!

[prabhasp]

Erik,
At #guardianhackday, three people tried to send public keys over the T-mobile network. Was tested on N1, MyTouch and G1 phones, all normal builds. None worked. The fix you pointed to seems to be for sending normal SMSs; all these phones can send unecrypted SMSs.
It seems to be an issue of sending binary SMS that are not base-64 encoded (discussed further on IRC)..