I use Hangouts for messaging, are there any other sms apps ppl like using that we could use our original phone number on the G watch that we can reply with?
I don't really like hangouts and how they don't show anything but Google contact photos. Just curious of to what everyone's setup is like. I'm really liking the G watch and the convenience of it, no question android wear has a long way to go.
Which apps do you find convenient and worth the download besides watch faces?
Evolve sms works perfectly
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Evolve sms works perfectly
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How do u like it compared to hangouts?
I like it alot better. I don't use hangouts except for ingress related talk. Evolve sms is always being improved. I try to use other sms apps sometimes just to try something different but always go back to evolve
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I like it alot better. I don't use hangouts except for ingress related talk. Evolve sms is always being improved. I try to use other sms apps sometimes just to try something different but always go back to evolve
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Yeah i actually just downloaded it.. I can see why u like it.. It's real smooth and the ui looks great. Haven't tested it with the watch yet, but u do get full voice reply correct?
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Yeah i actually just downloaded it.. I can see why u like it.. It's real smooth and the ui looks great. Haven't tested it with the watch yet, but u do get full voice reply correct?
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Yes I works perfectly with the watch.
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Yes I works perfectly with the watch.
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Yeah i used it today at work. I'm definitely keeping it and using it over hangouts.. Its beautiful on my phone too.. Only thing I hope they add is being able to see the conversation on the watch.. There sas a couple times someone texted me back and I forgot what I said so u had to dig for my phone lol.. No biggie, but would be nice!
8sms. Way better than Evolve IMO. Evolve is horrid tbh after using it for a while you'll see lol.
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8sms. Way better than Evolve IMO. Evolve is horrid tbh after using it for a while you'll see lol.
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Lol what makes you say that? And how is 8sms better?
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Lol what makes you say that? And how is 8sms better?
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Just go look at the evolve g+ community it's nothing but bug complaints lol. MMS barely works, it's buggy as hell and the devs focus on aesthetics rather than a fully functioning app, it's crap IMO. 8sms keeps it simple and works 100% of the time.
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Just go look at the evolve g+ community it's nothing but bug complaints lol. MMS barely works, it's buggy as hell and the devs focus on aesthetics rather than a fully functioning app, it's crap IMO. 8sms keeps it simple and works 100% of the time.
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Hmm. I guess I'll try it out. Do you mean in general or on the watch specifically ?
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Hmm. I guess I'll try it out. Do you mean in general or on the watch specifically ?
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Both to be honest.
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I'm trying out chomp sms now. Evolve is nice but the Ui on my phone made it kind of confusing. If u check one person's message it marks them all read? There were times I didn't realize someone sent me a message until I swiped and didn't recognize reading that message or so
Ugh.. Nevermind, I can't handle the ads.. Trying 8sms now. I like it so far, but some of my messages I'm sending from the watch aren't sending or appearing in my sms on the phone..
... Aaannnnd back to Hangouts I go..
Try the new Textra. They update to a material look. And it works with my g watch
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I'm trying out chomp sms now. Evolve is nice but the Ui on my phone made it kind of confusing. If u check one person's message it marks them all read? There were times I didn't realize someone sent me a message until I swiped and didn't recognize reading that message or so
Ugh.. Nevermind, I can't handle the ads.. Trying 8sms now. I like it so far, but some of my messages I'm sending from the watch aren't sending or appearing in my sms on the phone..
... Aaannnnd back to Hangouts I go..
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The dev of 8sms @bengtan recently updated 8sms and the update killed Android Wear voice reply lol... but I mailed him about it and he fixed it the next day. Here is the APK, it should push out to Google Days within the next couple of days (according to him).
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The dev of 8sms @bengtan recently updated 8sms and the update killed Android Wear voice reply lol... but I mailed him about it and he fixed it the next day. Here is the APK, it should push out to Google Days within the next couple of days (according to him).
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Thanks for sharing the fixed apk. That did the trick! :good:
Any new apps or tricks we should look out for? I know they said an update is coming next month, I just hope developers don't forget about us... Android wear/ LG g watch could be so good!
Google's message app actually let's you go through the entire conversation. I like it has material format.
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Looking for an App that will let me send texts from my touchpad to my phone,
I have seen a few but i really want to hear what other people are using to get it done. or if this is just something i like the idea of
I have a google voice account but i hate that it doesn't use my real phone number, also before you talk about the integration, its UI is horrible so i would rather not use it.
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Looking for an App that will let me send texts from my touchpad to my phone,
I have seen a few but i really want to hear what other people are using to get it done. or if this is just something i like the idea of
I have a google voice account but i hate that it doesn't use my real phone number, also before you talk about the integration, its UI is horrible so i would rather not use it.
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I don't know about texts because of your touchpad doesn't have phone signal, but why not just email yourself?
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get an IM app
I think he just wants to be able to use his tablet to send texts via his phone. Meaning, he can come home and plug his phone in and use his tablet to send/receive texts from his phone. I am interested in the same thing actually. I don't wanna tote my phone around with me, if I'm chilling downstairs and using my tablet.
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if you havent done so on sprint. get on Google voice.(its free for sprint) u can use the official Google voice apps on your tablet to send text thru wifi, also received them.
i tried a bunch of apps on my touchpad but never found one that works as good as google voice. my touchpad and phone are both set up with google voice and it's integrated with my sprint phone number so no weird number to deal with. works great for me. only thing is once you integrate, no more going back to vvm unless you call sprint to get it set back up.
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I have a google voice account but i hate that it doesn't use my real phone number, also before you talk about the integration, its UI is horrible so i would rather not use it.
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if you havent done so on sprint. get on Google voice.(its free for sprint) u can use the official Google voice apps on your tablet to send text thru wifi, also received them.
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Ummmm...did you even read the OP?
I have been looking for the same thing for a while. I have been using Airdroid which is webbased and it seems to work ok for me.
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Ummmm...did you even read the OP?
I have been looking for the same thing for a while. I have been using Airdroid which is webbased and it seems to work ok for me.
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Thank you for at least reading the OP
If google would spend about 20 minutes working on google voices UI I would probably use it.
I will look into airdroid, tablet text also has a decent amount of good reviews so I have been looking into that as well
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I use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kMGxwaDFuazFuZy5zeW5jc21zIl0.
It uses dropbox to sync the messages between your phone and tablet. Works great on my wifi only flyer
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I use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kMGxwaDFuazFuZy5zeW5jc21zIl0.
It uses dropbox to sync the messages between your phone and tablet. Works great on my wifi only flyer
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how is it for UI, and for speed between syncing? that was some of the stuff i saw in the comments
because i have a dropbox account already and was looking at that, i also like that if i am out it mean i can use my phone to tether and then sync my sms anywhere.
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how is it for UI, and for speed between syncing? that was some of the stuff i saw in the comments
because i have a dropbox account already and was looking at that, i also like that if i am out it mean i can use my phone to tether and then sync my sms anywhere.
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Personally I like the UI. And the speed between syncing is almost instant when you have push notifications enabled. Here's a screenshot of it if you want to see it
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Personally I like the UI. And the speed between syncing is almost instant when you have push notifications enabled. Here's a screenshot of it if you want to see it
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I think we have a winner
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I use mysms on my touchpad. You just install the app on your phone and tablet and then send texts from your tablet. I use it on my touchpad and works flawlessly.
Heres a market link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysms.android.sms&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5teXNtcy5hbmRyb2lkLnNtcyJd
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I think we have a winner
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Just an fyi: If you want the push notifications, you have to press the version number like 10 times or something (I didnt count I just hammered it until the option became available lol)
TexTab without question. I love it, and the UI is nice and simple (uses BlueTooth). It uses your messaging app in that it uses your phone's signal and leaves the text message in the history of the conversation on your phone.
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When I bought my Transformer Prime, I looked at a couple. This one is great. Called Heywire - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediafriends.chime haven't had any issue. send/receive pics, it's immediate when sent or received. plus it's actually free.
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I have a better one for you go to Google play and search for mightytext, this app can be used on Google Chrome and the tablet and the flawless features are: sending mms, making out going calls, and it has notification of your text and the people who call you.
Plus one on mighty text. Use it in chrome and loaded the website on my iPad a few times
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ob3dldHRsLnRleHRhYiJd
textab works great on my transformer
TextPlus
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I'm having several issues with FB, the biggest being after I look at "X" pictures (My man Club?) no pictures will open. I have to reboot the phone and it works for a minute, then same thing? It seems to me, each time a i open a photo/movie and I backout, it stays in memory until FB is usless?
Lastly, and not that I really give a crap, some of my ex-wife post I get, others I dont. The Only reason I mention, she will post pictures of Granddaughter. Friends of mine get them and call and tell me how cute she is. I dont get them. The she will post something else, I get it, so she did not defriend me? makes no sense!
I have version 1.9.6
Anyclue?
Anyone? 100 views and no replys, any thoughs would be appricated.
Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Not to be smart, trust me, she has no clue how. Matter fact, no one in that family nor mine (except me) could do that. Oh well............
More worried about my phone freezing after I open "X" amount of photos. I cleaned up text messages, e-mails, mobile photos today (Photos are on FB anyway). Maybe Photon will run better?
Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
Well, mystery #1 solved (I think), she (they) are not smart enough to defriend me and she swore off FB. But since my daughter loves it and so do her religious friends, they created secret goup just for them. Click on THAT group and post, only they see it. I guess now and then, she slips and just post on her main wall. If I go to her profile, I see ALL the post! That makes sense.
With the freezing, clueless. Since Feb 18th, 2012, I have not installed or updated one single app!
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Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
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Friendcaster is nice; there's also Fast and Scope (Scope is invite only; install the app and then use invite code "theverge" to create an account) but none of the third-party Facebook apps can see your entire feed. There will always be some things that will not show up in third-party clients.
A more elegant solution I have found is to use Facebook on your mobile browser. It takes some tweaking to get the desktop site to display, but it can be done. Make sure you're accessing www.facebook.com and not just facebook.com; also setting the user agent to desktop can help as well.
Also, you can get the customizable Maxthon (google it, it lets you customize the name, icon, homepage, and other settings). Name it Facebook, give it a Facebook icon and splash screen, and set the homepage to Facebook, bam, you got a Facebook browser. The browser itself is very capable, and has the user agent feature if you want to use it for the desktop version.
It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
I use SEESMIC. It works surprisingly well. Works with twitter too, but I use tweetcaster for that.
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It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
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When my phone starts messing up, it's the first app I delete. Works everytime! and the funny thing, I don't have the other apps you mention here and my auto-update is off for everything. FB just crashes the phone for no reason out of the blue. Always has!
Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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I'm stock, but it seems not to matter as I was unlocked and running CM7. Sadly, the only people I know NOT having issues are the 4 iPhone users I know. If I were adding apps and/or doing auto updates, I would maybe understand. I'm not.
Facebook I'd a billion dollar company, producing crap apps. The problem I have with there app is that every update will make or break the functionality. On a side note, the reason handloom works so well on, iOS, is because they have a whooping 10+/- devices to support, versus the hundreds of android devices on various os software. Ie: eclair, froyo, gingerbread, ics, honeycomb, etc. So I can't hate the facebook android devs completely just hate the issues that come with updates!
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Is, facebook. hate predictive text sometime.
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I don't use any facebrick app I only check facebrick from the stock browser. I don't have any issues whatsoever.
Granted the function of uploading pictures to facebrick is done through the gallery on the rocko rom I am using.
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I neeeed the emojii that the iPhone has, thats the only thing I think I miss, other than facetime (that'll never happen)
I need to be able to see the emojii that they send, and if i could send the ones they have that'd be awesome. Ive searched and to no availl.
There are a bunch of apps for this in the play store, I don't know if any of those are what you want.
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There are a bunch of apps for this in the play store, I don't know if any of those are what you want.
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Yea Ive searched, i just want a mod/app/hack/etc to add a button to my swift keyboard 3 to go to emoji and at the same time be able to see the ones iPhones send me
Get Handcent and the Handcent Emojii plugin. Got a smiley from a friend yesterday from an I phone that was just a blank line. She said that it was a smiley so I installed the plugin then could see it.
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Get Handcent and the Handcent Emojii plugin. Got a smiley from a friend yesterday from an I phone that was just a blank line. She said that it was a smiley so I installed the plugin then could see it.
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Ahhh that woulda been perfect, i want to use the stock sms messenger though
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Ahhh that woulda been perfect, i want to use the stock sms messenger though
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^^^^ THIS^^^^ They only way I've been able to send/receive emojii's that could be seen on my and the iPhone with the stock messenger was when I installed CM10. It works great. Handcent also works but I like the feel of stock.
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The update available in the Play Store drastically changes Google Talk. I haven't come around on it yet; feels weird.
How do you like it?
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It's better. Just because you can now send pics with the app unlike before with gtalk.
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Once they implement sms I'll be sold. But it's a nice update smooth and fast.
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Once they implement sms I'll be sold. But it's a nice update smooth and fast.
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I do miss the ability to see who is on and offline before messaging them..plus I also kept my gtalk contacts seperate from my Google+ "circles"..now they are all jumbled together
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I do miss the ability to see who is on and offline before messaging them..plus I also kept my gtalk contacts seperate from my Google+ "circles"..now they are all jumbled together
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This is kind of how I'm feeling.
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It is absolutely terrible. Not being able to see whose online is a disgusting decision.
Such a POS that I actually had to restore the old Talk back.
is there anyway to get the old Talk back somehow ...my most recent Nandroid doesnt have it and I forgot to back it up with TB
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is there anyway to get the old Talk back somehow ...my most recent Nandroid doesnt have it and I forgot to back it up with TB
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Find Hangouts in settings > apps > all, then uninstall updates.
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I think they still have ah few things to work out but all in all I like it better
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Its tolorable, but can I for gods sake get back the ability to hide my offline contacts and for f***ks sake, the contacts who don't even have a Talk/Hangout/G+ account?
WTF Google? It's just got a huge list of contacts that you cant even contact ?
I miss the status messages.
Cant go invisible
Why are G+ groups mixed in with the contacts? Make it a drop tab or something.
Only thing going for it is the ability to finally send images.
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I do miss the ability to see who is on and offline before messaging them..plus I also kept my gtalk contacts seperate from my Google+ "circles"..now they are all jumbled together
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Its tolorable, but can I for gods sake get back the ability to hide my offline contacts and for f***ks sake, the contacts who don't even have a Talk/Hangout/G+ account?
WTF Google? It's just got a huge list of contacts that you cant even contact ?
I miss the status messages.
Cant go invisible
Why are G+ groups mixed in with the contacts? Make it a drop tab or something.
Only thing going for it is the ability to finally send images.
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One reason it shows your whole list though is because soon there will be SMS integration, they're preparing for that
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Once they implement sms I'll be sold. But it's a nice update smooth and fast.
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One reason it shows your whole list though is because soon there will be SMS integration, they're preparing for that
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then until the feature is implemented, your contacts shouldn't be.
Mine is special....lol
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JohnCorleone I beg u... Where'd u get it from?
It hurts my eyes atm lol
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I'd prefer if they left it for chat only - if there was an option to hide contacts that are not Google/chat users, I'd be happy with it.
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I have had nothing but issues with this app. It doesn't alert me of new messages. Notifications are on and I don't even get a status bar icon. Worked on my iphone previously fine but my ONE work.
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Gtalk is quickly dying, and hangouts is not getting any better. Like a few have said the inability to view your online contacts is a really big deal. I have no clue how my landline non data contacts will ever be able to accept my hangout request, why must I be spamed by people I might make a phone call to once a year, I could care less if they are using hangouts. The people I talk to on gtalk enjoy using gtalk for its cross-platform ability and the nice services provided by google, sure we could use another "Instant Messenger" service like we did before Gtalk, do we really want to? looks like decision day is quickly arriving, google just about 100% killed Gtalk on android 4.3.
First, let me say love this phone.
I received an MMS, which i could tell was a group text sent to multiple people. I could read the text and see who sent it, but I was unable to see any other recipients who it was sent to. On my Nexus 4's stock messaging app, it would show the other numbers that the message was sent to. Is there anyway to enable this? Not sure if it matters, but I know it was sent from an iPhone, and was sent to myself and another iphone.
Edit- Also confirmed that my response was only sent to the original sender.
Thanks!
I don't own the G2 yet, but a great text app alternative on the Play Store is called 'Textra', and it looks just like stock Android, very system light, and super fast. It allows group messaging, and works perfectly, I always text my two brothers, one is on an iPhone, the other a Nexus, and we can keep a conversation going in one thread.
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I don't own the G2 yet, but a great text app alternative on the Play Store is called 'Textra', and it looks just like stock Android, very system light, and super fast. It allows group messaging, and works perfectly, I always text my two brothers, one is on an iPhone, the other a Nexus, and we can keep a conversation going in one thread.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check out Textra, if I can't get the stock app figured out.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check out Textra, if I can't get the stock app figured out.
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I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
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I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
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Looks like you have a Nexus 4, may I ask why you choose to use Textra over the stock App?
I noticed the same group text recipient list missing thing on my stock g2 app
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I noticed the same group text recipient list missing thing on my stock g2 app
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I edited the OP, but i confirmed that my replay was only sent to the original sender.
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I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
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Just installed Textra and tested it. Sent a group text same from iphone to my g2 and another iphone. I received the group text in normal fashion w/ both people, however my reply was sent as a new message to the original sender and not in the original group text thread. Any idea how to fix that?
Edit - NVM, I found the MMS settings in the app, had to enable MMS for group texts and it seems to work now.