Hey everyone, I have GOSms installed, but cannot get the emoji add on to work so that I can see emoji. I can send them just fine, but get weird messages when someone sends them to me like: X=/ and etc. I have installed the fonts and can see emoji in twitter and instagram, but not in any messaging apps. Can anyone help?
Has anyone else noticed animated gifs via MMS not working when someone sends you one? My friends and I like to use them as quick responses and they're getting mine just fine but theirs comes through as a still. Despite opening the gif in Gallery or QuickPic, the gif appears to be broken. Also, it doesn't seem to matter which text app I use. Stock, Hangouts, or even Verizon Messaging shows all animated gifs broken. In case you're wondering, I use Hangouts primarily because it shows the gifs animated in-line. I'm also not rooted and I have no interested in rooting until after I've played around with the Lollipop update (whenever that happens).
Here are some things that I've noticed:
(1) It started happening when I got 12B
(2) A factory reset doesn't solve the problem
(3) Hangouts <-> Hangouts shows animated gifs properly but MMS -> Hangouts is broken
(4) People are still receiving my gifs animated
So what's going on? Is anyone else having this problem? Is it a Verizon issue?
Any suggestions, help, info, whatever would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Update
I installed Textra and it appears to be handling animated gifs no problem. But... this still doesn't explain why they don't work in any of the 3 SMS/MMS apps that come with the G3. Problem solved for now but it's really more of a bandaid than a true fix.
Hmm must not be a Verizon issue since Textra works. Shame we can't just blame them. Gifs play in Hangouts for me in-line as you described with 12b. There were some cases on google forums where clearing Hangout app/cache, uninstalling Hangouts, reboot, and reinstalling Hangouts worked for some but I don't think you can do that unrooted. Plus you have already factory reset anyways. I'm assuming your Hangouts is up to date.
On a side note, after taking the LP update you might no longer have the choice to root if they block rolling back to 10b which I'd say is highly likely. Best to unlock bootloader now. Within days of release the devs will release the LP OTA in a flashable zip. Just my two cents.
justbenny2k said:
I installed Textra and it appears to be handling animated gifs no problem. But... this still doesn't explain why they don't work in any of the 3 SMS/MMS apps that come with the G3. Problem solved for now but it's really more of a bandaid than a true fix.
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Could you share your settings? I'm still unable to get gifs to work in Textra. I'm using a G3 on Verizon.
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Could you share your settings? I'm still unable to get gifs to work in Textra. I'm using a G3 on Verizon.
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I haven't touched the settings other than what it automatically took care of. It was weird, though, last night I suddenly stopped receiving texts in a timely manner so I uninstalled Textra and reinstalled it. Problem solved and it was working again. Have you tried that?
The first time I installed Textra on my L3 (I used it religiously on my old rooted HTC Evo3D) I was on one of the previous builds like 10 or something and it seemed to break texting entirely. All texts that I sent stayed in "sending" limbo while I wouldn't receive texts from anyone else. Even uninstalling Textra didn't fix the problem so I had to do a factory reset to get texting back. It has only been since gifs broke in stock/Hangouts that I even decided to install Textra again. I'm on 12B and now it works fine for me but I have no idea why.
I actually just realized that you can access a giphy library from within textra. I was trying to save gifs from chrome and attach but that didn't work. But using the gifs from within textra worked perfectly. I did change my MMS proxy port to 80 based on something I read on androidcentral, but I'm not sure that's necessary.
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Update - that didn't last long
Textra has decided to spontaneously stop allowing me to send animated gifs larger than 2mb. I've gone into the MMS settings and changed the sending settings to "no limit" and it's still rejecting the send. Odd, it worked just fine up until a couple of days ago.
Trying other texting apps allows me to send large gifs but still received animated gifs are still broken. I'm getting really tired of this the reps at my local Verizon store are idiots.
The stock Samsung messaging app struggles to send mms. It seems like it went resizing photos and live messages maybe? When I switch to non stock apps they all work fine, but in the stock app, especially group threads, sometimes they never send, or only some people in the group get the message. Had anyone else experienced this?
Okay I am on at&t and when I first got the Galaxy S9+ with Oreo, sending gif images with the stock firmware/messenger and Advanced messaging presented no issues, but after I downloaded the latest update and try to use Oreo messager with advanced messaging enabled, I cannot send or receive gifs only, everything else I can send.
If I disable AM I can send gif messages just fine, and if I use a 3rd party app like Textra, same, no issues, it seems to only be an issue with stock messenger with AM enabled, after the latest firmware? I like the eature, but not being able to use it and send gifs is a bit annoying.
Can anybody else on at&t confirm this? I use Gboard as my keyboard and I have tried clearing app data on both messenger and Gboard with no success, so I'm almost lead to believe it's a more recent firmware issue.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Recently purchased an Xperia 1 ii which I love but gifs being sent to me by both androids and iphone won't animate in my Google Messages app. Installed Textra and it still does it through there as well. The ones I send are fine and the ones I get through other apps such as GroupMe work fine as well. Even when I save the gif from a sender from my messages app, I open it in my gallery or file explorer and it's saved as a .jpg. Any ideas to fix this would be greatly appreciated.