This brings back old memories from hardening the sms/text parsers of feature phones of yesteryear. There it wasn’t entirely uncommon that when you sent a malformed sms-deliver PDU (e.g. text message) to the phone and crashed parser that tried to decode it, it took also the phone down before it could ack the message back to SMSC. Which of course meant that as soon as phone was turned on and it registered to network, t…
> There it wasn’t entirely uncommon that when you sent a malformed sms-deliver PDU (e.g. text message) to the phone and crashed parser that tried to decode it, it took also the phone down before it could ack the message back to SMSC.
By yesteryear do you mean the present and feature phones do you mean current android phones? Some models are still vulnerable to a text-of-death.
https://poetengineer.postach.io/post/deleting-the-text-of-de... not my blog, but the same problem happened with my mother in law's phone. The phone becomes unusable because of a stream of org.android.phone application has stopped messages and the only thing to do is use adb to delete all texts, until it comes in again. I was never able to pin down the exact problem.
Edit: Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as snarky, but I just wanted to 1) point out that there are still issues with decoding SMS and MMS messages, even in some modern phones and 2) provide a link to anyone who encounter the same issue as it was very frustrating for my MiL and very frustrating until I figured out I could just wipe all SMSes with adb.