I have a NOKIA 6133 - My phone is not receiving the text message from paypal that consists of a comfirmation code that you enter inside your paypal account to verify & activate your cell phone for PayPal Mobile. This allows you to send & receive money in your paypal account via your cell phone. I found out several things today after being on the phone with paypal and t-mobile (even got the 3 of us together on conference call). First of all: Your cell phone number can only be listed in ONE paypal account or you will not receive the text containing your confirmation code because the paypal system will not recognize which account your cell phone should be married to for sending & reciving money. As a result, the message just keeps "Looping" in paypal's system until it eventually fails or dies. Paypal can verify this by looking into the action on your account to see that is is looping because it sends an error to them on their end. They can also tell if the text message was sent successfully. So I deleted my number from all but ONE of my paypal accounts. Should be golden, right? Not so much.... I still didn't get the confirmation text from paypal after trying again!!!!!! and again and again!!!!! So I called paypal back; Paypal then told me I needed to have SMS or PREMIUM text messaging on my cell phone account, so I called t-mobile to see what I had. I have unlimited texting (which I already knew). I also made sure there were no filters or content blocking on my account. T-mobile verified all filters and blocking was OFF & DISABLED and that I am completely free & open to send and recieve all text & picture messaging...COOL right? Then I asked t-mobile about any PREMIUM texting settings for my account. There is no such setting with t-mobile. The text messaging through t-mobile is open for all types of texting, even the type known as Short Code SMS, which is what you see on American Idol & others that tell you to text "bla bla" to 55555. T-mobile texting is completely set-up to handle 4-digit, 5-digit, & 6-digit Short Code SMS. In short it's premium SMS by default. All should be working without any issues, right?? Well I found out from Paypal that the code they send for the confimation text is 6-digits. T-mobile is equipped to handle this.... So, with unlimited texting, filters & content blocking OFF, & full short code support, WHY can't I receive the text message from PAYPAL that contains my confirmation code??!!???!!!!? Can anyone tell me???????????? Is anyone else having this problem??
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