I received a text msg and it shut my phone off and now I cannot get into my text msgs. What should I do?

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I received a text msg and it shut my phone off and now I cannot get into my text msgs. Help!

I received an group msg and in this msg contained a text msg that turns your phone off. Now it has screwed up my phone and I cannot get into my text msgs.
 

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Are you saying you can't open the Messages app, or you can't get to that particular text message?
 

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The way that I fixed was to get Siri to read my messages to me. Will probably be the 1st message that is hanging it up. After Siri read me that I had a message from whatever # I then told Siri to reply with FIX. That fixed problem. You can't get into regular message to fix it. This was the only way.


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Was it similar to this one ?


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When I got the message it locked my messages up where I couldn't even open the messages app.


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I just heard about this today. That's crazy!!
 

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It's crazy, and what's even crazier is that people are punking their friends who use iPhones. I've seen comments on some sites where people boasting about doing it.
There are some sick people out there.
 

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It's crazy, and what's even crazier is that people are punking their friends who use iPhones. I've seen comments on some sites where people boasting about doing it.
There are some sick people out there.

Some people have a strange sense of humor. I'm not sure what my reaction would be if a "Friend" did this to me but I am sure that i would not post my ideas of retribution on the internet. LOL
 

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I hope to see iOS 8.3.1 in the next day or so. . . .
 

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It will not do any permanent harm to your device but it's not expectable to send at all
 

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Some people have a strange sense of humor. I'm not sure what my reaction would be if a "Friend" did this to me but I am sure that i would not post my ideas of retribution on the internet. LOL

True. The kinds of infantile behaviours exhibited as a result of platform wars are astonishing.


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