Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
I reposted this this in the correct section. Please help me in the Q&A section. Thanks, Nick
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I've searched and I've read threads, some of which are a bit older, and I've gotten to the point I need to be smart enough to ask for help.
I have a Droid Razr and my wife has the Razr M. We're on Verizon. We both currently use the Verizon Messages app and it's really ok for everyday messaging. However, about once or twice a month, my wife needs to send a group text to about 15 people. To do this in Verizon Messages, you have to add each recipient individually. If we can have contacts in Groups, why can't we just select a group?
Whatever.... maybe that horse is dead.
Is it worthwhile to install an app just for group texts? If yes, do you have a suggestion?
I want to avoid anything with ads because I hate them. I want to be sure I don't add something that will start causing double notifications and confusing things going on in the status bar. I'd also like to avoid having to sign up for a service. I just want to be able to send a group text and see the responses all in one thread (not separate ones).
Is there a reasonably simple way to do this? In one article I read there was mention that installing one of the 3rd party apps (like handcent or chomp) somehow enabled Verizon Messages to be able to select a group as recipient. I tried installing on my phone and didn't see that happening.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Oh and neither of the phones is rooted. They're both running 4.1.2 I believe. I know my Razr is.
There are a few SMS apps that support group messaging. The one that I always go back to is GoSMS Pro. I hate bloated apps, but you can manage to trim some of the fat off GoSMS through the menus of the app. Functionality wise, GoSMS works great.
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I love this phone, been on android since the olden days of android 1.0, but I;m having a severely annoying problem with my group messaging app. I can receive and view pictures and texts from my friends perfectly fnie in the group thread, one of which has a Sprint GS4, but when i go to respond, it sends them out as if I had the "individual messages" tab selected in the thread. I've made sure 100 times that I have the settings correct, that I have the "group message" tab selected when I send the text. Everything looks like it should be in working order.
Phone is basic, unrooted, regular messaging app in use at all times, it still doesn't seem to work.
has anyone else ran into this problem (or more specifically its solution)??? My friends and I use group messaging all the time for plans and sports, meetup spots etc... And i would really like to be able to contribute without sending out 5 or 6 separate texts.
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I love this phone, been on android since the olden days of android 1.0, but I;m having a severely annoying problem with my group messaging app. I can receive and view pictures and texts from my friends perfectly fnie in the group thread, one of which has a Sprint GS4, but when i go to respond, it sends them out as if I had the "individual messages" tab selected in the thread. I've made sure 100 times that I have the settings correct, that I have the "group message" tab selected when I send the text. Everything looks like it should be in working order.
Phone is basic, unrooted, regular messaging app in use at all times, it still doesn't seem to work.
has anyone else ran into this problem (or more specifically its solution)??? My friends and I use group messaging all the time for plans and sports, meetup spots etc... And i would really like to be able to contribute without sending out 5 or 6 separate texts.
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i have the same problem
anyone solution ??
Bump, still hunting for an answer other than use use a different messaging app. I'm not a fan of GO SMS and I am having to use the Verizon Messages app for the time being, which is poorly built but works with group messages
Bump because I'm STILL hunting for a solution to this. The app Textra was working for a few days but it suddenly stopped.
achmedclaus said:
Bump because I'm STILL hunting for a solution to this. The app Textra was working for a few days but it suddenly stopped.
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I just got my S4 and found out my messaging was doing this as well! I've tried Textra and that did not help for me. Is there any fix for this? Are there any ROM's that fix this issue?
Hey, folks. I'm new, obviously.
I recently rooted and s-offed my LTEVO. I installed TWRP 2.6.3.0 and CM10.1 Stable (I also installed the exFAT fix). The problem I'm having and that I'm reading a lot of people are having is with MMS. I'm not sure if group messaging falls into MMS or SMS but I can neither send/receive picture or media messages, nor can I SEND group messages (although I can receive them). I'm not sure what's going on behind the scenes, whether there's a fix that I just haven't found (I have done extensive searching/trolling before making a profile to ask this question) or if this is a common issue which may have been resolved in newer builds. Essentially, I was wicked pumped when I found out that I could receive group messages from people because the stock, unrooted LTEVO would receive "multimedia messages" from everyone participating in the conversation individually instead of all within the same thread or whatever you wanna call it. But, as I've come to find out, I can't actually participate in these group sessions, I can only SEE them organized within one text thread (which is still better than stock, but disappointing that it doesn't take one seemingly essential step further). Also, I thought it was just crappy Sprint service, but it seems that I can't send or receive multimedia messages (that aren't in text form). I was excited, again, to see that the preview of the image I was going to send was minimally compressed, if at all. I was sick of sending people screenshots of blurry, illegible caca, but again this feature falls short and now I can't actually send or receive any form of media.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong, or maybe what I'm just NOT doing right. At any rate, if anyone could shed some light on my unfortunate situation that'd be stellar. I'm forced to use Voxer for the time being.
I'm having the same problem. Any assitance is welcome!
I can't say I completely understand your issue but will give an answer with my best guesstimate as to a fix.
You are trying to group messages with others that have iPhones. iPhones natively send texts as mms while android natively sends as sms. Hence your problem (I think).
You need to use a third party messaging app. There are a couple that handle this but I use Go Sms Pro. It allows you to send and receive texts all while staying in the group without splitting the messages.
Once you install go sms pro you need to change a few settings in the app (you can find the correct group settings on Google easily) and disable the notifications from the stock messaging app (so you don't get multiple notifications for one text).
Hope this is what you were asking about as it is an issue for a lot of people.
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Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
Gear Notification Extender app
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Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
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On the playstore will let u reply to messages an alternative way... may help
demonkc135 said:
Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
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In the Google Play store, there is an app called "Notifications for Gear S" it supports a bunch of messaging sevices, that you may want to check out. I don't know all of them, but Hangouts is on the list, which supports texting to regular cell numbers. May be worth looking into.
In terms of a different ROM, there is a Rooting thread here that you could check.
Good luck.
Hello, I am looking for an app that can actually remove me from a group message so that I do not receive tons of useless texts that end up using my data. Currently I use Google's Messenger as my main texting app, as we all know the stock one is terrible. This app works great and I love it, however when I get flooded with MMS it does not seem to know how to react and then refuses to send any SMS. Now I am also up to download another texting app if someone knows one that handles MMS better, I have tried Textra in the past however I kept recieving a notification that said something about my MMS APN but I never touched anything in Textra's settings to break that because it did work for a while. I am open to other options if someone has any ideas. Thanks
Handcent it's pretty reliable but has ads. I like hoverchat as well.