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[Marcin Wójcik <masheleni@xxxxxxxxx>]

A plausible conclusion,

However, in my case, this SMS was received from someone I just got off the
phone with, in which I requested additional information to be sent via SMS,
The notification showed that there was content in the SMS, so I tapped on
it to view the whole message, and was presented with my initially described
situation.

Marcin


On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> El día Monday, November 28, 2016 a las 12:53:42PM +0200, Marcin Wójcik
> escribió:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just recently experienced an issue where I received a notification of
> an
> > incoming SMS message.
> >
> > I tapped on the notification to view the SMS, which promptly opened the
> > Messaging app showing nothing in the details screen other than the phone
> > number in the header.
> >
> > I proceeded to open the terminal and search for the message in the
> > history.sqlite database, only to find that there are no messages from
> that
> > number in the database.
> >
> > " select * from text_events where senderId = 'number' "
> >
> > The Messaging app's list view does not show this message either.
> >
> > It seems like this message has just disappeared into the abyss...
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this issue?
> > I fear that there are messages being sent to me that I never receive.
> >
> > I have a BQ Aquaris e4.5 with Ubuntu 15.04 OTA-13 Krilin.
>
> What comes to my mind is "Silent SMS" used by German secret services
> (any may be others):
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service#Silent_SMS
>
> And may be the absents of any text related to the event makes the
> message-app dropping it.
>
> IMHO an OpenSource phone should notify the user when it detects such so
> called "stealth pings"
>
>         matthias
>
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