Is it possible iPhones only receive certain texts

[TehMac]

or do their receptors break? Or something?

my speakers keep giving off that "beep buh beep" sound when you're about to receive a text, but then I never get it...or it never shows up.

I'm the only person in the accommodation who should have been getting a text/call...

calls randomly fail even when I'm in service.

Is it the iPhone or am I trying to justify why everyone hates me? 😛

 

[TheStu]

I don't think I have ever had a problem getting texts on my phone, certainly haven't gotten any phantom beeps and no one has told me that they sent me one that I didn't reply to.

As for the call failures, is this on the iPhone 4? Are you death touching it?

 

[TehMac]

I don't think I have ever had a problem getting texts on my phone, certainly haven't gotten any phantom beeps and no one has told me that they sent me one that I didn't reply to.

As for the call failures, is this on the iPhone 4? Are you death touching it?

no, this is an original gen iphone. It has had its share of nasty falls, especially on its back where I believe the antennae and all that stuff is.

Also, I have a substandard plan for the iphone, which makes me wonder if AT&T's service just loses the texts/calls in cyberspace.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Text messages must be approved by Steve Jobs before an iPhone accepts them. It's for your own good though. I mean if you think about it, it's really what you, as a user, want.

 

[Tyranicus]

or do their receptors break? Or something?

my speakers keep giving off that "beep buh beep" sound when you're about to receive a text, but then I never get it...or it never shows up.

That noise is made by any data passing on a GSM or EDGE connection. When I had an original iPhone, it would frequently make that noise without anything actually happening on the phone. My guess would be that your iPhone is checking for email, etc.