Anyone having weird MMS issues lately? I had this problem on my M8 and the software update to lollipop fixed it. I'm getting anonymous messages in my inbox and not receiving all group texts. Just started happening a few days ago.
I've been having mms issues since I bought the phone. I've been looking online for info. I'll probably go to the AT&T store tomorrow but I doubt they'll be any help. I'll let you know.
What app are u guys using for sending and receiving txts? Maybe switch to Google Hangouts???
I can't get group messages to work for me, idunno if its the people I'm sending to or my device.
I don't face any problem yet. Going well. I can easily send MMS too.
Textra works fine for me. I'm running a Dev Edition phone with Android Revolution HD.
However, I have had a problem that started when I had an M8 with lollipop; Hangouts and Google Messenger cannot receive MMS. In fact, it would "clog" up the "connection," causing rapid battery drain and heat issues. The new Hangouts 4.0 has the same issue. Pictures show up fine in Textra, but will not in Hangouts.
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So I have been playing around loading different ROMs on my razr and I am seeing the same issue with the messaging app within the ROMs. I am currently running Liquid v2.8 and I am seeing the same issue. The issue is I have a group of friends that we have a group MMS that we all respond to. There is a mix of droid phones and iphones in the group. There are two guys that when they send their messages I receive them in their separate thread. Meaning that their message is not added to the group thread.Everyone else receives their message correctly as did I when I was running the stock ROM. The strange issue is that these two guys are using a stock Galaxy S3 running on Verizon. They are the only two using these phones and the only two causing an issue on my end.
Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas on where I should look to resolve the issue? I have searched but have not found anything. I can resolve the issue by installing the verizon messenger from the play store but of course I would rather use the messenger in the ROM that has more options.
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.
achmedclaus said:
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.
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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?
Has anyone heard any new info on when Google Voice will support MMS? Last November GV announced MMS support in early 2014. Well that has come and gone without a peep. Outside of Sprint and T-Mobile has anyone come up with a workaround? I'm not talking about sending pictures. I can do that with email or hangouts. My issue is receiving MMS sent to my GV number. Mainly group texts. I just want to at least know something was sent to me.
I was just reading up on this for the same reason as you: I have missed countless group texts since I ported my number to GV.
There still hasn't been a solid date from Google, or an update to "early 2014" as far as I know. I did read a speculation of May 2014 for GV integration with Hangouts, including MMS support. May 2014 is when Google is planning to switch to the new GV protocol which will block 3rd party apps from improperly accessing the GV service. However, we could see improved integration before then.
Thanks. I switched to GV when I bought my Nexus 5 because I wanted the ability to try out different prepaid carriers. So far I love the features but the missed group texts are killing me. It's becoming a deal breaker. I really don't want to port my number to Net10 but I may have to.
I ported to GV for the same reasons and I too miss the ability to receive group texts. It would be a bummer though to port away from GV now only to have Google add MMS to GV in the coming weeks or months, or better yet, to fully integrate GV and MMS/group texting into Hangouts.
I've been using Google Hangouts to send SMS on my Sprint Note 3 for awhile now with little to no issues. That changed however with the recent Google Voice integration into Hangouts. Now, each time I try to send a text message, the message is received multiple times by the recipient, although I only see it sent once. Occasionally, the recipient will get anywhere from fifteen to twenty instances of the same message.
My Google Voice number is the same as my carrier number, which has never proven to be an issue before, but now I'm wondering if that's the culprit. I've searched all over for an answer to this particular issue, and it seems like I'm in the minority (so far).
Anyone else having a similar problem? It's more of an annoyance than anything, but I'd rather not be blasting out dozens of messages to my contacts if I don't have to.
Thanks.
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GMan56 said:
I've been using Google Hangouts to send SMS on my Sprint Note 3 for awhile now with little to no issues. That changed however with the recent Google Voice integration into Hangouts. Now, each time I try to send a text message, the message is received multiple times by the recipient, although I only see it sent once. Occasionally, the recipient will get anywhere from fifteen to twenty instances of the same message.
My Google Voice number is the same as my carrier number, which has never proven to be an issue before, but now I'm wondering if that's the culprit. I've searched all over for an answer to this particular issue, and it seems like I'm in the minority (so far).
Anyone else having a similar problem? It's more of an annoyance than anything, but I'd rather not be blasting out dozens of messages to my contacts if I don't have to.
Thanks.
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I am having the EXACT same issue as you descibe above.. Using a Note3 on Sprint, until recently it worked without a hitch, now for the past 2-3 weeks, when I send SMS messsages I get people that state they get it up to 40x, when it only shows that it was delivered from my device once.
I am not sure if it is a Google Voice issue, Hangouts issue, Android, Sprint or just a combo of all of the above? If you are able to get a resolution, please let me know!
Thanks,
-Tim
Tim,
I was perusing around the Google help pages the other day and notices a new disclaimer I had not seen before. It was a short blurb on one of the Hangouts SMS help pages that said something along the lines of "If you're using Google Voice with your Sprint mobile number, do NOT integrate Google Voice with Hangouts. It will cause issues with SMS."
Not the most helpful thing in the world. But I ended up just disabling Voice from my Sprint service altogether. I hated to do it, since I've been using Voice on Sprint for several years now, but seeing as Voice is soon going the way of the Dodo, I figured it won't matter before too long anyway. I was only using Voice for voicemail anyway, so it wasn't a huge transition for me. Depending on how reliant you are on Voice, it might be a bigger problem for you.
At any rate, disconnecting Google Voice from my Sprint number solved the problem... no more spam texts!
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!
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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.
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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.