Mobile phone question - I was wondering if anybody has had the same problem as me and if anyone knows the cause or the solution - noone seems to be able to help me. The problem is that I get SMS messages merging in to one another. I have one contact who I text a lot and sometimes the end of the message from him is missing and is replaced with the end of an earlier message. Some of the earlier message endings are from several months ago. This does make for amusing reading at times but can be irritating. It only happens with this one contact and seems to be random. Can anyone enlighten me?

Yes, this is a common failing of mobile phones, which have a limit to how many messages can be retained in their memory banks. Once you reach or approach the limit, corruption occurs, as the phone tries to cram all the messages into the remaining memory, resulting in the mixed-up text. Transfer important texts to the external memory card, or dump to a computer software application that will retain them in a separate file; this will then release the internal phone memory for operational needs!

This will happen if you exceed the amount of texts (20) that can be held by the SIM card. Transfer some to the phone memory. Messages never do "go away" and can always be recovered, even after deletion.

This page will enlighten you!
http://tinyurl.com/3pg284v

It IS possible that you or the other person has a mobile phone software virus - the only way to deal with that would be to reset the firmware and start again - best done by a specialist, unless you're very confident.