TextSecure failure with Republic Wireless

[anon8675309]

Phone: Motorola Defy XT O/S: Android 2.3.7 Provider: Republic Wireless Possibly related: my provider does not support MMS messages (at least not on my plan/model of phone).

Steps to reproduce: 1.) Send message to someone who has the latest version of TextSecure (as of 2/24/2014) 2.) Message was not encrypted 3.) Attempt to initiate secure session via the unlock icon 4.) Green speech bubble appears from the right with a key icon which says "Error sending message" 5.) Register phone number over cell data plan/SMS, failed 6.) Go home, turn on wifi, connect to AP, register phone number successfully 7.) Now secure testing works as expected

There are two reasons I don't like this: A.) I'd prefer to not be on a list of phone numbers that use TextSecure. I don't understand why such a list exists. B.) Since the new protocol doesn't appear to require SMS nor MMS, I would like to be able to use TextSecure via WiFi on a phone with no provider. If registration was not required, or if it were possible to register without providing a phone number and requiring that an SMS be sent/received, it seems like this would work fine. It'd be especially awesome if it would integrate with SIP/VoIP.

[moxie0]

Can you provide adb logcat output from step 4? We need that information to determine why it's failing.

As for B, a server routes messages for users instead of the telco via SMS/MMS. You need to be registered with the server for it to be able to route messages to you, otherwise it doesn't know where to send them.

[anon8675309]

Thanks for the explanation on why there's a central server. I trust you guys with metadata more than the telco, so I it's an improvement over SMS to be sure.

GitHub apparently doesn't attaching .txt files to bug reports. Lame. Well, here it is in comment form (sorry in advance for the formatting):

I/InputDispatcher( 192): event_report_payload event_id=431 length:5 pEvent->length=16 pEvent->event_id.event_id_field.payload_len=3 E/InputDispatcher( 192): Event_report_payload: Failed to write keypress event to kernel, error = 5 D/InputTransport( 192): channel '40749760 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity (server)' publisher ~ publishMotionEvent: deviceId=65538, source=0x1002, action=0x1, flags=0x0, edgeFlags=0x0, metaState=0x0, xOffset=0.000000, yOffset=-287.000000, xPrecision=1.000000, yPrecision=1.000000, downTime=37463987121019, eventTime=37464060189330, pointerCount=1 V/ViewRoot( 5379): org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity got MotionEvent{407d37e0 action=1 x=147.0 y=255.0 pressure=1.0 size=0.0} D/PowerManagerService( 192): userActivity mLastEventTime=37463987 time=37464060 mUserActivityAllowed=true mUserState=0x3 mWakeLockState=0x0 mProximitySensorActive=false timeoutOverride=-1 force=false D/PowerManagerService( 192): setTimeoutLocked now=37464060 timeoutOverride=-1 nextState=3 when=37470060 W/MmsSmsDatabase( 5379): Executing query: SELECT _id, body, type, thread_id, address, address_device_id, subject, date_sent, date_received, m_type, msg_box, status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, transport_type FROM (SELECT DISTINCT date_sent * 1 AS date_sent, date * 1 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, type, address, address_device_id, subject, NULL AS m_type, NULL AS msg_box, status, NULL AS part_count, NULL AS ct_l, NULL AS tr_id, NULL AS m_size, NULL AS exp, NULL AS st, 'sms' AS transport_type FROM sms WHERE (thread_id = 2) UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT date * 1000 AS date_sent, date_received * 1000 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, NULL AS type, address, address_device_id, NULL AS subject, m_type, msg_box, NULL AS status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, 'mms' AS transport_type FROM mms WHERE (thread_id = 2) ORDER BY date_received DESC) LIMIT 1 W/SMSSender( 5379): Got message id for new message: 309 V/WindowManager( 192): Desired input method target=Window{40bba4d8 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity paused=false} willMove=false W/SmsSender( 5379): Sending message: 309 W/MessageDatabase( 5379): Updating ID: 309 to base type: 22 W/MmsSmsDatabase( 5379): Executing query: SELECT _id, body, type, thread_id, address, address_device_id, subject, date_sent, date_received, m_type, msg_box, status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, transport_type FROM (SELECT DISTINCT date_sent * 1 AS date_sent, date * 1 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, type, address, address_device_id, subject, NULL AS m_type, NULL AS msg_box, status, NULL AS part_count, NULL AS ct_l, NULL AS tr_id, NULL AS m_size, NULL AS exp, NULL AS st, 'sms' AS transport_type FROM sms WHERE (thread_id = 2) UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT date * 1000 AS date_sent, date_received * 1000 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, NULL AS type, address, address_device_id, NULL AS subject, m_type, msg_box, NULL AS status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, 'mms' AS transport_type FROM mms WHERE (thread_id = 2) ORDER BY date_received DESC) LIMIT 1 W/SmsTransportDetails( 5379): Padding message body out to: 60 W/SmsTransportDetails( 5379): Encoded Message Length: 147 D/InputQueue( 5379): Unregistering input channel '40749760 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity (client)' V/WindowManager( 192): Found focus @ 5 = Window{40bba4d8 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity paused=false} V/WindowManager( 192): Desired input method target=Window{40bba4d8 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity paused=false} willMove=true D/WindowManager( 192): Input focus has changed to Window{40bba4d8 org.thoughtcrime.securesms/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.ConversationActivity paused=false} W/org.thoughtcrime.securesms.sms.MultipartSmsTransportMessage( 5379): Complete fragment size: 152 W/SmsTransport( 5379): Secure divide into message parts: 1 E/JPK ( 293): encode 1 E/JPK ( 293): encode failed with exception E/JPK ( 293): com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.sms.BearerData$CodingException: encoded user data too large (143 > 140 bytes) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.sms.BearerData.encodeUserData(BearerData.java:651) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.sms.BearerData.encode(BearerData.java:835) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.SmsMessage.privateGetSubmitPdu(SmsMessage.java:1126) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.cdma.SmsMessage.getSubmitPdu(SmsMessage.java:407) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.CdmaSMSDispatcher.sendText(CdmaSMSDispatcher.java:461) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.ImsSMSDispatcher.sendText(ImsSMSDispatcher.java:214) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.IccSmsInterfaceManager.sendText(IccSmsInterfaceManager.java:378) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.MSimIccSmsInterfaceManager.sendTextOnSubscription(MSimIccSmsInterfaceManager.java:129) E/JPK ( 293): at com.android.internal.telephony.ISms$Stub.onTransact(ISms.java:248) E/JPK ( 293): at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:320) E/JPK ( 293): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method) E/JPK ( 293): exiting encode NULL E/JPK ( 293): MO (encoded) BearerData = BearerData { messageType=2, messageId=146, priority=unset, privacy=unset, alert=unset, displayMode=unset, language=unset, errorClass=unset, msgStatus=unset, msgCenterTimeStamp=unset, validityPeriodAbsolute=unset, validityPeriodRelative=unset, deferredDeliveryTimeAbsolute=unset, deferredDeliveryTimeRelative=unset, userAckReq=false, deliveryAckReq=true, readAckReq=false, reportReq=false, numberOfMessages=0, callbackNumber=null, depositIndex=0, hasUserDataHeader=false, userData=UserData { msgEncoding=2, msgType=0, paddingBits=0, numFields=163, userDataHeader=null, payload='6CC583462DDB346ED7E63E5DD849CF165C9A359BCFDDBE3AF695395A73E19C9D3AACEBA1C186FD50AB74E2C21339B07A78AFCF0E1D7E734FD1061C783074D09CD766D950FAC39B371CAA10727692AD7C8E956368DFBA5EF619FB50D352CD39712BCA578A1D063A25AFE8C7B78ADAEB46A7460DA8F964F685BE5489F32A699BD615A6D52934F12EC51ECD394889C980', payloadStr='[REDACTED]|crw0IgEKIQV7OnoG/4TrZ9x3IijYkPp0ojBVtq0B3MAtxWsaakyfOhACGAAiPN5lmJCuCMMcJPAdvI+/HtUFhonKo0gvPiTYSKDWJ+bCP1hK/t1vxVkVFSQAZGeIvBoJHOLTiMuBZ6TR4xKXQv4rHDr0' } } W/SmsTransport( 5379): java.lang.NullPointerException W/SmsTransport( 5379): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1328) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1276) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at com.android.internal.telephony.ISms$Stub$Proxy.sendTextOnSubscription(ISms.java:820) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at android.telephony.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:136) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at android.telephony.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:86) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.SmsTransport.deliverSecureMessage(SmsTransport.java:85) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.SmsTransport.deliver(SmsTransport.java:58) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.UniversalTransport.deliver(UniversalTransport.java:66) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SmsSender.handleSendMessage(SmsSender.java:86) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SmsSender.process(SmsSender.java:60) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SendReceiveService$SendReceiveWorkItem.run(SendReceiveService.java:247) W/SmsTransport( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.util.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:46) W/SmsTransport( 5379): Recipient: [REDACTED] W/SmsTransport( 5379): Message Total Parts/Current: 1/0 W/SmsTransport( 5379): Message Part Length: 152 W/SmsSender( 5379): org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.UndeliverableMessageException: java.lang.NullPointerException W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.SmsTransport.deliverSecureMessage(SmsTransport.java:93) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.SmsTransport.deliver(SmsTransport.java:58) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.UniversalTransport.deliver(UniversalTransport.java:66) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SmsSender.handleSendMessage(SmsSender.java:86) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SmsSender.process(SmsSender.java:60) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.service.SendReceiveService$SendReceiveWorkItem.run(SendReceiveService.java:247) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.util.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:46) W/SmsSender( 5379): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException W/SmsSender( 5379): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1328) W/SmsSender( 5379): at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1276) W/SmsSender( 5379): at com.android.internal.telephony.ISms$Stub$Proxy.sendTextOnSubscription(ISms.java:820) W/SmsSender( 5379): at android.telephony.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:136) W/SmsSender( 5379): at android.telephony.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:86) W/SmsSender( 5379): at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.transport.SmsTransport.deliverSecureMessage(SmsTransport.java:85) W/SmsSender( 5379): ... 6 more W/MessageDatabase( 5379): Updating ID: 309 to base type: 24 W/MmsSmsDatabase( 5379): Executing query: SELECT _id, body, type, thread_id, address, address_device_id, subject, date_sent, date_received, m_type, msg_box, status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, transport_type FROM (SELECT DISTINCT date_sent * 1 AS date_sent, date * 1 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, type, address, address_device_id, subject, NULL AS m_type, NULL AS msg_box, status, NULL AS part_count, NULL AS ct_l, NULL AS tr_id, NULL AS m_size, NULL AS exp, NULL AS st, 'sms' AS transport_type FROM sms WHERE (thread_id = 2) UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT date * 1000 AS date_sent, date_received * 1000 AS date_received, _id, body, read, thread_id, NULL AS type, address, address_device_id, NULL AS subject, m_type, msg_box, NULL AS status, part_count, ct_l, tr_id, m_size, exp, st, 'mms' AS transport_type FROM mms WHERE (thread_id = 2) ORDER BY date_received DESC) LIMIT 1 W/InputManagerService( 192): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@4096a9a8 I/ONCRPC ( 161): rpc_handle_rpc_call: for Xid: 4924, Prog: 31000000, Vers: fc37ad5c, Proc: 00000012 D/ServiceStateTracker( 293): signalStrength = 99, rssi = 255 I/ONCRPC ( 161): rpc_handle_rpc_call: Find Status: 0 Xid: 4924 I/ONCRPC ( 161): oncrpc_proxy_handle_cmd_rpc_call: Dispatching xid: 4924 D/dalvikvm( 6095): GC_EXPLICIT freed 695K, 43% free 7990K/13959K, external 5544K/6924K, paused 78ms I/ONCRPC ( 161): rpc_handle_rpc_call: for Xid: 4926, Prog: 31000000, Vers: fc37ad5c, Proc: 00000012 I/ONCRPC ( 161): rpc_handle_rpc_call: Find Status: 0 Xid: 4926 D/ServiceStateTracker( 293): signalStrength = 99, rssi = 255 I/ONCRPC ( 161): oncrpc_proxy_handle_cmd_rpc_call: Dispatching xid: 4926

[moxie0]

Strange, does your service provider limit your SMS length to 140 characters?

[moxie0]

Oh, republic wireless! This isn't going to work, republic wireless isn't actually using SMS. The only way you could use TextSecure with republic wireless is over push.

[anon8675309]

It appears that they do, in a sense[1]. There are others complaining about incoming messages which are 141-160 bytes being chunked into two 140 characters message and being delivered out of order. I've personally seen the problem of out-of-order messages, but I never made the connection of them being long messages.

Between the aforementioned thread, and the CodingException "encoded user data too large (143 > 140 bytes)" exception, it sounds like that's exactly the problem. I also find it intriguing that it said "Encoded Message Length: 147" just before failing to send a 143 byte message. I mean, I understand they are both >140, but what happened to those 4 bytes?

[1] https://community.republicwireless.com/thread/1753