Android still has horrible text messaging bugs

This might not be a bug iin their Messaging app per se. I've noticed a similar problem with ListViews in general: often times what you appear to be clicking on and what you're actually clicking on are different. I've deleted the wrong contact and called the wrong person many times because of this. I've noticed that it happens most often during updates to the ListView (e.g. while it is loading); this leads me to believe it to be due to lack of thread synchronization.

One good side effect of using Google Voice for everything is that I've never noticed or been affected by this bug.

I experienced a text message going to the wrong person just last week, running android 2.2 on my Evo. Completely unacceptable for a communication device, as discussed in the article.

Text messaging app is really dreadful on the N1. Worst bug I experience is hitting the messaging app brings me to the browser and the only way to get back to message is either going to a contact then going to view all threads from their or restarting the phone.

Its an open platform right? So why not just go in and fix the bug yourself?

I'm really surprised a fix for this hasn't appeared on github that I can patch into my android source.

/snicker

Anyone with a link to the bug on Google Code? It seems it was removed from the article.

I've never had this happen to me, but I don't text very much. It has happened a couple of times to my wife, though.

I've experienced two bugs.

1) a warning that two of my messages failed to send wouldn't go away after "clearing" them in the status bar. Had to go to settings and clear all data and force stop the app. Not critical, just very annoying. 2) when auto-completing a name and selecting such name, it actually adds the next person in your contact list as the adressee.

I guess this is another reason to be very careful of anything you say about anyone in an electronic medium!

I've had this happen on my Evo a good number of times. Mainly clicking on a text message thread to reply to someone clicks on a different person who is 2-3 people below in the thread list. It is very annoying as I've sent text's to the wrong person before.

I don't think I've ever had this happen, but my outbound texts on Sprint haven't worked for a week ("invalid number of digits") so I gave up and used Google Voice for texts instead, which is pretty nice as a work-around.

Yep. This is why I turned of text to Twitter: something bad happened once...