What does the "hourglass" mean?

I was sending a text message, then when I clicked send the screen was blank and there was an hourglass for at least 5 seconds (sand counter), and there was an option to exit. After that delay, I checked sent messages and it said that the message was sent, but I never got a reply from the person. This is the first time an hourglass appears on my cell so I'm wondering what the reason could be and is it 100% that the message was sent, or could it have been an error? Thanks.

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I've gotten the hr glass thing in the past...when in doubt send the text again....and I would assume the hr glass means that the cell phone is in the process of doing its function.....lol if I'm wrong sum1 correct me=)

The above sounds about right.

Originally Posted by Princesa

I've gotten the hr glass thing in the past...when in doubt send the text again....and I would assume the hr glass means that the cell phone is in the process of doing its function.....lol if I'm wrong sum1 correct me=)

That is correct Princesita,

MMS/SMS messages sometimes will have a delay due to network congestions and yes sometimes they will not reach their destination.

Did you get the delivered report? sometimes it may be due to network congestion, the message would have delivered after sometime.