Received messages get messed up after running for some time

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Hello,
I'm having some problems using a SIM900 module with my UNO. After some time of listening to a NeoSWSerial connection (same with SoftwareSerial) I only receive a huge mess of data. The interesting thing is, that if I have this issue and I try to send a SMS (sending is always possible) the connection "gets" healed. It looks like that there is an overflow within the NeoSWSerial of the receive buffer. Does anyone have any idea what I can try? Attached you find the part of the code which is relevant:

bool waitForSMS() {
  if (SIM900.available() != 0) {
    incoming_message = "";
    unsigned long lastmillis = millis();
    int i = 0;
    memset(rx_buffer, EOS, 200);    // Initialize the string
    while((lastmillis + 100)>millis()){
      while (SIM900.available() != 0) {
        rx_buffer[i] = SIM900.read();
        i++;
      }
    }

    Serial.println(rx_buffer);
    incoming_message = String(rx_buffer);
    Serial.println(incoming_message);
    if (incoming_message.startsWith(startPattern)) {
      incoming_message = removeFirstLine(incoming_message, startPattern);
      return true;
    } else if (!incoming_message.startsWith("AT+CMGF=1")) {
      SIM900.print("AT+CMGF=1\r"); //try to "heal" connection
      delay(100);
    }
  }
  return false;
}

By the way, I use a fixed baudrate for the SIM900

SIM900.print("AT+IPR=9600\r");

Hope someone can help me.