Low res MMS images - LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone experienced getting very low res picture messages via text?
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Me too!

How does it look after you download it to your phone?

Yes. The MMS picture resolution is terrible on my LG v10, regardless of previewing it in the Message+ app or after downloading it to my phone (usually around 270x480). I've checked the LG V10's outgoing MMS picture quality by sending one to my son's Galaxy S6. The resolution is fine for the pic when it gets to his phone, so it seems to only be an incoming issue. I haven't found a setting that allows me to adjust this. If anyone has any additional info on this issue, I'd love to hear it.

I think mine are OK. This is a random picture sent by a coworker of mine who has an iPhone 6.
Seems to look ok to me. I'm T-Mobile just for the record.
(hopefully it uploads here the same as it looks in my message app)
*edit*
Well this one looks OK but I just went back through other texts and found that on other pics I can see what you're talking about. Grainy look to them. (incoming only)
Sent from my pretty nifty brand new LG V10

I have had the same issue! All pictures texted to me are very low quality. I had a note 3 and never had this issue before. Not only are they extremely low resolution but if someone sends me multiple pictures they come out black and white! I have been looking all over the settings to see what the problem may be but can't find anything to fix it. I was at Best buy today and asked them to look but they couldn't figure it out either. They suggested to go back to where I bought it (verizon store). I tried both messaging apps but the results as the same regardless. They are also low resolution after downloading. Will have to call lg tomorrow..

Yeah I think i'll go to Verizon and have them explain this for me.
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Dwain_Thomas said:
Yeah I think i'll go to Verizon and have them explain this for me.
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Did anyone find a fix for this yet?

I'm waiting for a call back from Verizon. I talked to them today (finally had the time) and they see it's an issue with the phone model and will try to resolve it. Or possibly exchange the device.
And I wanted this over the Note 5. Kinda irritated with the phone now... ?
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It's very likely the Messaging app. I use Hangouts for texts, and I've had no problems getting high quality MMS messages. Actually, I get low quality messages if they are sent through Hangouts as Hangouts messages, and I have to wait for them to buffer. But if pictures are sent as MMS, they download immediately as high quality and I have no trouble viewing them.
Very unlikely that this is the phone's fault. It's either your messaging app causing the issue, or another issue revolving around everyone's carriers and APN settings. I use AT&T's network on a T-Mobile V10.

ubergeek77 said:
It's very likely the Messaging app. I use Hangouts for texts, and I've had no problems getting high quality MMS messages. Actually, I get low quality messages if they are sent through Hangouts as Hangouts messages, and I have to wait for them to buffer. But if pictures are sent as MMS, they download immediately as high quality and I have no trouble viewing them.
Very unlikely that this is the phone's fault. It's either your messaging app causing the issue, or another issue revolving around everyone's carriers and APN settings. I use AT&T's network on a T-Mobile V10.
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If you aren't having any issues on AT&T, then it may be a network compatibility issue....idk. Verizon has put a ticket in today for the problem so we'll see what happens next

Any updates on this?

Samsung.Galaxy.S3 said:
Any updates on this?
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nothing yet. I've only been able to talk to a rep via text messaging and only been asked to send sample incoming picture messages and what app i am using. Neither stock nor Message+ makes a difference. They have a ticket in for it. My conversation yesterday said I should hear something within 48 hours. We"ll see

I've noticed that Google Messenger and Hangouts send terrible quality images. I use ChompSMS and I just changed the settings to 2mb MMS limit (I'm with Verizon, yours may be different" and I'm able to send images without the pixelation you see when it's sent through messenger/hangouts.
Try using a different app to send your texts, preferably one that lets you change the MMS send size limit.
Note that this problem happens when sending through AT&T and Verizon, so I'm pretty sure it's the app causing the problem and lowering quality to save bandwidth.

I use Google Messenger. I never had this problem on my other phone (VZW).

I am having this same issue. I am with verizon. Whats worse is I can't even download high res. Photos from websites either! Frustration...I love this phone otherwise.
Any word on a resolution yet?

I still haven't received any updates on a solution. I'll try to reach out to them before the week is over.for a minute I thought things were getting better but not so much

So my results are in. They say nothing is wrong on their end and everything is working fine on my end. They ran some tests measuring image size. Apparently everything is compressed as it should be, but my images are looking crappy. But in the end, I still have no resolution
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This problem has been plaguing me for over a year, this is them most helpful information I have found. https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel...ottom-comments
From what I can tell, if Verizon doesn't recognize your phone (mine is on a custom rom) Verizon servers automatically compress incoming MMS to 30-40KB.
"Pixel is resizing the images much more than they should. Take a look at the google pixel product forum. There are many complaints about this.
Every other comment so far is wrong, it's not just due to MMS. Yes MMS compresses/resizes the images to get a smaller file size, but no carrier restricts the image size down to the 30-40KB that Pixel is receiving.
From what I can tell the phone isn't in the carriers MMS phone info database yet, so it doesn't know the phone's capabilities so it defaults to a really old, flip phone user agent that restricts incoming MMS images to 30-40KB.
I have seen other reports of brand new phones having the exact same issue.
So hopefully it's just a matter of time before the carriers fix this.
Edit: I almost forgot, to prove this is an MMS issue and not 'just the way MMS works', download Textra or Chomp and under MMS settings choose Legacy instead of System. I'm not sure what it does, but it forces some other MMS settings to be used and will allow you to receive much higher quality photos."
I finally got it to work better by using Textra and setting it to "legacy" MMS.

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Customize HTC Messaging?

Anyone know if it's possible to add a bit of colour to HTC Messaging? I don't mean turn it into an iPhone but it would be nice for the conversation view to have a bit of character, it's as boring as hell in gray and white.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Extremely boring interface for messages. Iphone is more "fun" and maybe childish. But i mean, some sort of in between that.
maby your looking for this
vito sms chat
http://vitotechnology.com/threaded-sms-messaging.html
have fun
I installed vito, but it desn't send sms message
I mean htc message doesn't allow it to send sms
do you have any other program for sms manager?
I have a lot of problems with htc messaging. it is very slow and disturb me alot.
Mehrdad201 said:
I installed vito, but it desn't send sms message
I mean htc message doesn't allow it to send sms
do you have any other program for sms manager?
I have a lot of problems with htc messaging. it is very slow and disturb me alot.
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If its too slow, maybe you should try Swype
try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622520
pooh4o said:
try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622520
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Nice app, I see, but I think it won't work with our LEOs.
SMS Messaging is a proprietary application and it can't be replaced or modified, unless you want definitely change it, installing a different client.
The post you linked talks about a WM 6.5.x SMS app, that is way different from the LEO one, it kind of looks like the previous WM versions. If you wanted to use it, you'd leave the main SMS client out and install it. But I don't frankly know how it'll turn out.
Cheers
pooh4o said:
try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622520
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That's just a modification on the layout of the standard WM SMS thing, you can't use that because HTC has their own messaging client now which overlays the old WM one.
EDIT: You can use that but you have to disable HTC messaging if so.
For Vito, you have to install Zenyee Disable Htc mesaging
You mean like this?
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ArtieQ said:
That's just a modification on the layout of the standard WM SMS thing, you can't use that because HTC has their own messaging client now which overlays the old WM one.
EDIT: You can use that but you have to disable HTC messaging if so.
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It does work actually. Just have to follow the instruction. But you would need to disable HTC's messaging client first.
The one posted by mmafighter077 looks cool
sitaniace said:
vito sms chat
http://vitotechnology.com/threaded-sms-messaging.html
have fun
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I have used Vito in the past but it's very buggy. And with HTC Messaging needing to be disabled in order to use it, sending MMS is a real pain and requires the frankly dire Arcsoft to be installed.
I'm just looking for something to spruce up the look of HTC's offering, I have no issue with it other than the design.
has anyone tried or seen sms pop up..? like in android where you can see sms message popping up in the screen?
i hate to open notification everytime!!
also no light buttons
I still can not believe that with all of the wonderful CABs around that no one has actually just designed a decent replacement message client..
One that does SMS and MMS, both in conversation and non conversation format.
One that has a built in file manager so that you can redirect messages to a folder of your choice etc.. and basically just File Manage..
The current client is total pants and I have disabled it and used the original version but I have no MMS now as I just can not get on with Arcsoft client.. The crop of currently available message clients are just not worth my effort..
HINT:
SPB or RESCO take note... business is waiting for you.
So if any budding programers are interested, I for one would be tempted to bung some Euros your way for support..
iwang said:
has anyone tried or seen sms pop up..? like in android where you can see sms message popping up in the screen?
i hate to open notification everytime!!
also no light buttons
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Install S2U2, it has a feature which allows message popups for SMS, MMS and email. Works very well.
EFMax said:
I still can not believe that with all of the wonderful CABs around that no one has actually just designed a decent replacement message client..
One that does SMS and MMS, both in conversation and non conversation format.
One that has a built in file manager so that you can redirect messages to a folder of your choice etc.. and basically just File Manage..
HINT:
SPB or RESCO take note... business is waiting for you.
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100% agreed. Especially if you consider all the different SMS/MMS clients available for jailbroken iPhones. I used to use iRealSMS and it was superb, something similar for Windows Mobile which replaced HTC Messaging would get a purchase from me.
Pagnell said:
100% agreed. Especially if you consider all the different SMS/MMS clients available for jailbroken iPhones. I used to use iRealSMS and it was superb, something similar for Windows Mobile which replaced HTC Messaging would get a purchase from me.
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It does beg one to ask, what were HTC thinking (or not thinking as the case maybe) when they took a average but workable message client (tmail.exe) and replace it for something much worse..
At the moment the way my phone is configured (and I am not 100% sure how or why) but with Resco Contact Manger in place, HTC client disabled and tmail working, I get the options of all my folders from tmail, conversation from Resco and a variety of combinations in between depending on what message icon I press from the screen.. its all okay but there is so much more room for some serious improvement.. and to be honest a lot of phones are used for texting and communicating.. oh well, I can dream..
This is just the normal text message in Sense.
If I click on the centre of the message I get this conversation reply option.
If I am in Resco Contact Manager I get this message screen.
If I am in Resco Contact Manager I get this conversation reply message screen.
If I click "All Messages" I get this old style folders screen.
This is my "New" or "Reply" screen within the old HTC style.
So with HTC Messaging disabled, how do you send MMS?
Unfortunately, no MMS, which is a pain really as I have 125 included each month in my package.. I am still waiting for a work around as before I use to burn that 125 up every month..
I can compose them, it is just the phone won't send them..
I send quite a few unfortunately so anything that equates to no MMS is a no-go for me.

[Q] Google Voice No Notifications

I am not sure if I setup the new phone correctly or not. With my old phone I went under Settings--Call-Voicemail Service and could select voice. With this new phone not seeing the option. Also I have to click and open to view if someone left me a message or not inside of Google Voice application. Is this because of how HTC is doing multi-tasking a little different? Thanks for any help or insight.
I'm not getting voicemail notifications from GV either. It started after I flashed a custom rom.
could be the sleep issue that seems to be plaguing everyone, but other than that im not sure what it could be
I saw someone else post but did not fully understand the sleep issue and since I have not unlock phone was not clear if that is what cause the problem or stock has the same issue. Thanks for the information.
asuman1179 said:
I saw someone else post but did not fully understand the sleep issue and since I have not unlock phone was not clear if that is what cause the problem or stock has the same issue. Thanks for the information.
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i really don't know if it affects stock, but since all custom roms are having the issue then i would guess its also a stock issue? just a guess though since i dont develop roms, i just tweak them to my liking lol
I just called myself from a land line and left a voicemail. Within 30 seconds, I got an email and a text from GV notifying me of the new VM. I'm on Fresh 5.1.1 and have been about a week now. This is the first I've heard of this problem so I was worried that maybe something had recently changed. All appears to be fine here.
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The issue is deep sleep, after the phone has been off for a while it turns off WiFi and data to conserve battery
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erikivy said:
I just called myself from a land line and left a voicemail. Within 30 seconds, I got an email and a text from GV notifying me of the new VM. I'm on Fresh 5.1.1 and have been about a week now. This is the first I've heard of this problem so I was worried that maybe something had recently changed. All appears to be fine here.
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That's not the issue. Those are separate notifications. He's talking about getting a notification directly from the google voice app. You can turn off text and email notifications and just rely on the app. I have not been getting notifications from the app either.
You are correct timtlm that the app is not giving me the notifications anymore or I guess ever but still pretty new to the phone. Also wanted to mention in my old Evo 4g I had it setup to not to use the carrier voicemail service. Does not seem to be an option but that might be because of IC version.
timtlm said:
That's not the issue. Those are separate notifications. He's talking about getting a notification directly from the google voice app. You can turn off text and email notifications and just rely on the app. I have not been getting notifications from the app either.
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Sorry abut that, I misunderstood.
asuman1179 said:
You are correct timtlm that the app is not giving me the notifications anymore or I guess ever but still pretty new to the phone. Also wanted to mention in my old Evo 4g I had it setup to not to use the carrier voicemail service. Does not seem to be an option but that might be because of IC version.
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OK, I just got it to show the notification. I had checked the settings in the app to be able to review google voicemail within the call history. I'm guessing sense doesn't support that since I don't see anything in the call history. After unchecking that, I started to get notifications again.
timtlm said:
OK, I just got it to show the notification. I had checked the settings in the app to be able to review google voicemail within the call history. I'm guessing sense doesn't support that since I don't see anything in the call history. After unchecking that, I started to get notifications again.
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Can you clarify, did you uncheck "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log?"
I am not seeing "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log" inside of google voice app? Am I looking in the wrong place?
asuman1179 said:
I am not seeing "Voicemail Display: View and play voicemails from the phone call log" inside of google voice app? Am I looking in the wrong place?
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I unchecked it. It's in the Google voice app under menu, settings, voicemail display. It was unchecked by default. It's supposed to be a new ICS feature.
I already have that one checked. This is just so strange but guessing it has something to do with the sleep feature of the phone.
asuman1179 said:
I already have that one checked. This is just so strange but guessing it has something to do with the sleep feature of the phone.
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He said he UNCHECKED it i believe.
I also was not getting notifications for voicemails, but was for texts so I don't think it is a sleep issue. Sounds like unchecking that setting should give me voicemail notifications too, thanks.
I've been using Google Voice with these settings from the Sync And Notifications menu with no problems. I never did set up the Voicemail on the phone, and for messaging its Google Voice unless its a MMS instead of SMS. Google voice doesn't support MMS so it automatically goes to the messaging app. Notification works fine for all.
Just flashed cm11 and don't get GV text notifications.
Well I see them slide up in the top if I'm looking while I get a text but they don't stick. (Or no notification if it's off)
I didn't set up vm within GV, and I've reset GV app data, still no luck.
Also I use 2 accounts. 1 main one for email (and app purchases), and 1 primarily for Google voice.
I have no sync off for gv account. But the thing is the same setup on my tablet, I get notifications. (Same amounts, same sync settings, running jelly bean on tab, kit kat on phone)
Any suggestions?

[Q] Group Text Messaging - Problems caused by iMessage

Ok. I apologize if this has been addressed and possibly even answered. I'm finding inconsistent responses on various boards and I've found this is usually the best place for the right response.
I have quite a few friends that use iPhones.
Those same friends love to send group text messages - which I assume stay as grouped messages for anyone with an iPhone.
PLEASE tell me there is a way I can pull this off on my Galaxy? A setting I'm missing perhaps?
I've tried the stock text app.
I've tried GO SMS PRO.
I've tried Handcent SMS.
I can't get any of them to help with this.
Am I missing a setting in one of these apps that can pull this off?
I also find lately that the I have to click a "download" button on the text that comes in. I don't know if this is a function of it coming in as a MMS?
Any insighte would be greatly appreciated.
I searched on this very same topic this morning and from what I read, this isn't native functionality on Android. I've been using an iPhone since the 3G and this is my first Android phone and the fact that this isn't core functionality is really amazing. For all the great things I love about the Galaxy S3, to not have the ability to group texts sent to multiple recipients and follow a conversation in a group is a BIG let down.
I thought I read in some threads that Handcent has some way to accommodate this feature, but it is buggy? Does anyone have any insight on this?
J00ky said:
I thought I read in some threads that Handcent has some way to accommodate this feature, but it is buggy? Does anyone have any insight on this?
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I read the same thing, but I've been unable to get it to work at all.
You can do it with the latest version of handcent but its kind of buggy. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559824
I also believe the native messaging app on the Droid Bionic does it, but I'm not sure how it works.
iMessaging on Android
It is possible, and works pretty effectively.
One thing first, your having to press 'download' has to do with an option in your messaging app labeled 'MMS Auto-Retrieval' or something similar. Check that option and it will download all MMS together.
Anyway on to the part you want. I haven't used handcent's feature but GO SMS does this feature quite well.
1. Go into Settings
2. Go to the Advanced tab
3. Select the 'Sent Settings' option
4. Check the option for 'MMS Group Chat'
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5. You can now group chat with iOS users. Whenever you send a group chat it will default to this setting and all iOS / GO SMS users will see it as one groupchat window. The same goes for when iOS users send you a message as part of a group chat. The only thing is...each message will always come as an MMS. It initially gets added as a new text from the person it came from, then it gets 'redirected' into the group chat conversation thats already open. Its not native...but it works.
hope this helped.
I use handcent for this and it works quite well for me.
1. Download Handcent SMS from Google Play
2. In "Application Settings" click "Default Messenging Application"
3. At the very bottom of "Application Settings", click "Thread group conversation"
4. Go into "Receive message settings" and click "Auto Download"
It is not quite as refined as iMessage but works nearly perfectly for me. Messages go through the individual sender before being sent to the group text and sometimes get stuck for a minute, for instance.
Good luck
I can't get it work with GO SMS pro. It appears to send them properly but they're always received in the individual contacts and don't copy over. This results in a very confusing series of conversations.
Going to give Handcent a try for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the helpful feedback and how-tos
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Going to give Handcent a try for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the helpful feedback and how-tos
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coming from an iphone i can say it's definitely not as good of an experience as imessage, but it's the best the android can do right now.
this is such a useful feature and is clearly possible in apps, i don't understand why it's not integrated better into android!
dirrtyswan said:
It is possible, and works pretty effectively.
One thing first, your having to press 'download' has to do with an option in your messaging app labeled 'MMS Auto-Retrieval' or something similar. Check that option and it will download all MMS together.
Anyway on to the part you want. I haven't used handcent's feature but GO SMS does this feature quite well.
1. Go into Settings
2. Go to the Advanced tab
3. Select the 'Sent Settings' option
4. Check the option for 'MMS Group Chat'
5. You can now group chat with iOS users. Whenever you send a group chat it will default to this setting and all iOS / GO SMS users will see it as one groupchat window. The same goes for when iOS users send you a message as part of a group chat. The only thing is...each message will always come as an MMS. It initially gets added as a new text from the person it came from, then it gets 'redirected' into the group chat conversation thats already open. Its not native...but it works.
hope this helped.
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Thanks for this guide. I was able to get this working using GO SMS.
It's quite disappointing that I can no longer take advantage of the automatic calling when you lift the phone to your face that is built in to the G3 - but I seem to be the only person that liked it anyways.
toddley said:
I can't get it work with GO SMS pro. It appears to send them properly but they're always received in the individual contacts and don't copy over. This results in a very confusing series of conversations.
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Then that person is not replying to all. If you have the above setting checked it works great in GOSMS
stock messaging
yeah, I miss that feature too actually. However one thing that really ticked me off was how the stock app turned the screen on for EVERY single text message. Rather annoying. Aside from the group messaging, i think the screen off option vs hold to face calling was a fair trade off. (i know there are roms that disable that feature for the stock messaging app)
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thacounty said:
Then that person is not replying to all. If you have the above setting checked it works great in GOSMS
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Yes, if the people you are chatting with don't have a form of iMessage / GOSMS / Handcent, then they will only be replying to you and messing up entire thread, haha.
Just think, thats what you were doing before you used gosms/handcent
So I gave Handcent a shot (with the settings provided in this thread) and didn't have any luck. A friend of mine sent out a message yesterday to me and a number of others and every person that responded to the message was a separate text message sent to my phone. I downloaded GO SMS Pro this morning in hopes that I have better luck with this app. It still floors me that this isn't native functionality on the Android platform.
FYI if you are coming from an iPhone and used iMessage before, you have to go into your apple support profile and unregister your idevice. Otherwise some messages - particularly group messages get lost.
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For go SMS pro, follow my guide here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28645499
In go SMS go to:
setting/application setting and check "message grouping"
Setting/Send Setting and check "MMS Group Chat"
Setting/ Receive Setting check "disable other message notification
In your default messaging disable notification just in case.
That's it.
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Google Voice Issue: Multiple threads for the same contact are created

So I recently returned to android after about a year's absence.
I was hoping this issue with google voice had been worked out, especially as I am about to do a full convert/port to google voice. I searched a bit but couldnt find an answer.
So the same contact will text me but often times google voice will create multiple threads making it very annoying to sift through them on the Voice SMS Inbox. It does this also on my browser window. Its not 100% of the time, but almost seems like if its a text on another day, another thread is made. Is there a way to fix this or merge the threads under the same contact?
Any ideas? I also posted on the google forums so if I find an answer I will keep everyone apprised because Im sure others have had this issue.
Thanks!
Here is a screenshot of what I mean (see the multiple threads from the same person "rachael").. Surely someone else out there has experienced it and knows what to do..
I have read some people just archive the old texts, which I guess is a decent temporary fix. One friend with an iPhone uses several apps to work it out, but they arent on android. Seems old this problem can be remedied on the iPhone but not the Google android OS.
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"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Bueller?
...
Seriously I must not be the only one with this annoying issue.
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I'm also having this issue. Someone told me that emptying your texts and inbox solved the issue for them. It had something to do with a bug in google voice for older accounts that was fixed for new accounts going forward. Maybe that may solve your problem. Another thing you could look into is using Talkatone. It manages your Google Voice SMS too.
aznbatman said:
I'm also having this issue. Someone told me that emptying your texts and inbox solved the issue for them. It had something to do with a bug in google voice for older accounts that was fixed for new accounts going forward. Maybe that may solve your problem. Another thing you could look into is using Talkatone. It manages your Google Voice SMS too.
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gosh I'd hate to delete everything in the inbox, but maybe if that will fix it..
I have had the gvoice account for several years, i might create a new one and see if that fixes it or something.
Let me know what you find out, if cleaning out your box works.
Before you do that try downloading and installing Talkatone. Talkatone manages your Google Voice texts too.
Thanks.
Hmm I had tried talkatone a few months ago and it didnt work as well as sipdroid with my setup for voip.
Maybe I will give a second chance. Also the issue would still persist on google voice in browser right?
UPDATE:
I started a new google voice number with a different gmail but the same problem persists.. Quite annoying
3-4 months going and still this unbelievably annoying issue.. Im surprised more google voice users out there arent tearing their hair out.. I have submitted feedback and suggestions several times to google..
Gawwwwwwww
I have the same issue, and yes it's annoying when trying to find old texts, but as a workaround, I forward all GV texts to my regular number. The stock messaging app doesn't have this issue. This might not work though if GV is your only number.
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Thanks. I have thought about that (through google integration apps) but I send at least 50% of my texts from the browser on my computer and I think if I forwarded all the texts to stock messaging if I were to send a text it would not sync it with the browser?
If thats not an issue please go into more detail as i would be interested in forwarding the texts to the stock app..
When you forward to your stock app, all your messages come from different numbers. When you text those specific numbers, it goes through GV and is synced with your GV app and browser.Give it a shot, if it doesn't work, you can always set it back :thumbup:
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I too am very annoyed by this. Hopefully someone comes up with a decent solution soon.
ctowne said:
I too am very annoyed by this. Hopefully someone comes up with a decent solution soon.
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Agree.. So aggrivating. I thought with the latest google voice update it seemed to fix it because I had a few day old replies stay in the same thread but then it happened again later.. Grrrr
Same problem
Yes. I have had the same problem with the multiple threads. Its a big pain. That and my outgoing call log that shows the number i dialed and the GV proxy number. WIsh there is a way to hide that proxy number as well as consolidate the text messages.
austriker27 said:
Agree.. So aggrivating. I thought with the latest google voice update it seemed to fix it because I had a few day old replies stay in the same thread but then it happened again later.. Grrrr
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The threads seem to have a mind of their own...
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I did a lot of research on this as it annoyed me to no end as well. Everything came up dry, except for this post on the Google forums saying it was by design.
P.S.: Sorry for the necromancy... I didn't pay attention to the date...

Google voice won't play from call log

The play button shows, but nothing happens when I press it. Any ideas?
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jessie02 said:
The play button shows, but nothing happens when I press it. Any ideas?
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Ditto here.
Works fine here, even after the recent update. Perhaps you should uninstall and then reinstall.
Same. I got this message when installing google voice:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
It made me wonder if Verizon was blocking it on purpose to try and get more people to pay for their visual voicemail.
Ok, think I figured it out......I had VZWAVSService disabled. Enabled it and now they play just fine from the call log...
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I have disabled VZWAVSService too because it was popping up an error message every time I restarted the phone. I'll have to mess with it and see if I can leave it enabled without getting that error message.
So far having VZservice 're enabled I'm not getting that message anymore. I was getting it in the past which is why like everyone else I disabled it. Seems to be good now and I have restarted the phone several times which is when I would get the message.
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I defrosted mine, whatever it is, and it force closes soon after every boot just like it did before. I am currently going through all my Google voice voicemails and they play fine, but I think they were already before I defrosted vzwavsservice. I'll freeze it again and see if Google voice voicemail still works.
There is also some Verizon based voicemail on the phone too.
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Still no luck here. I re-enabled the VZWAVSerivce and it still popped up when I restarted with a message like "Unfortunately the service stopped". I even tried deleting the cache for that app and still the same prolem.
Oh well, I get the voicemail notifications from Hangouts and Google Voice app now so it's not I'll ever miss them.
LaTropa64 said:
Still no luck here. I re-enabled the VZWAVSerivce and it still popped up when I restarted with a message like "Unfortunately the service stopped". I even tried deleting the cache for that app and still the same prolem.
Oh well, I get the voicemail notifications from Hangouts and Google Voice app now so it's not I'll ever miss them.
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Ok, but did un-freezing it at least allow yo to play your voicemails from your call log? Just trying to pinpoint the reason I couldn't at first. With VZWAVSerivce un-frozen I can still play voicemail from the call log so I'm guessing thats the reason. And I only get the force close message when I restart my phone so I can lie with that.
Im curious to see if those who have un-fromzen VZWAVSerivce have voicemail playing from call log again? Thanks!!
You can always try the new Hangouts with Google Voice integrated. I've frozen the VZWAVService and voicemails work through Hangouts perfectly.
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Ok, but did un-freezing it at least allow yo to play your voicemails from your call log? Just trying to pinpoint the reason I couldn't at first. With VZWAVSerivce un-frozen I can still play voicemail from the call log so I'm guessing thats the reason. And I only get the force close message when I restart my phone so I can lie with that.
Im curious to see if those who have un-fromzen VZWAVSerivce have voicemail playing from call log again? Thanks!!
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I'm not rooted, so I just disabled it in the application manager. There were no voicemails even listed in my call log anymore... which is weird because I remember seeing them listed before with a little play button next to them when it wasn't working. Maybe that's the problem... Maybe disabling VZWavservice removed all those from the call logs and I need to enable it again and have someone call me and leave a VM to see if it shows up again?
LaTropa64 said:
I'm not rooted, so I just disabled it in the application manager. There were no voicemails even listed in my call log anymore... which is weird because I remember seeing them listed before with a little play button next to them when it wasn't working. Maybe that's the problem... Maybe disabling VZWavservice removed all those from the call logs and I need to enable it again and have someone call me and leave a VM to see if it shows up again?
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Check google hangouts. Voice is being merged at the moment.
manaox2 said:
Check google hangouts. Voice is being merged at the moment.
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I'm hit and miss on Google Hangouts...been using the new Verizon message app as it sends text over wifi and the app itself is multi platform (OIS,OSX,Android,PC,etc..they make an install-able app for all platforms) I'm not sure if Hangouts sends sms over Wifi and if im correct it only sends actual hangouts over wifi? Does Hangouts save sms and hangouts on the server so if I wipe my phone i can get the messages back? (Verizon message does)
I know its slightly off topic but would love to hear a users opinion on Hangouts.
I read in comments on Play Store from Verizon indications that VZWavservice was a rebranded McAfee antivirus.
It is confusing.
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jessie02 said:
I'm hit and miss on Google Hangouts...been using the new Verizon message app as it sends text over wifi and the app itself is multi platform (OIS,OSX,Android,PC,etc..they make an install-able app for all platforms) I'm not sure if Hangouts sends sms over Wifi and if im correct it only sends actual hangouts over wifi? Does Hangouts save sms and hangouts on the server so if I wipe my phone i can get the messages back? (Verizon message does)
I know its slightly off topic but would love to hear a users opinion on Hangouts.
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If you have Google Voice turned on in Hangouts, all of your texts and calls are done over wifi/data. From what I've seen, your texts are saved online because they show up everywhere that you have Hangouts installed. The nice thing is that SMS and calls can also be done through the Chrome extension as well.
I just read a further response from Verizon on Google Play for the Verizon Support and Protection app, which is rebranded McAfee AV, in which it is clarified that VWZavservice has unrelated to Verizon Support and Protection. They did not clarify what it IS for though.
Could stand for Address Verification Service.
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sentry_mode_activated said:
If you have Google Voice turned on in Hangouts, all of your texts and calls are done over wifi/data. From what I've seen, your texts are saved online because they show up everywhere that you have Hangouts installed. The nice thing is that SMS and calls can also be done through the Chrome extension as well.
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I wish this was the case but it only seems to happen with the Hangouts messages and Google Voice messages. Any SMS sent through hangouts using your Verizon number doesn't get synced to all your other devices running hangouts. Google really should do that.
It would mean no more backing up and restoring text messages when moving to a new phone.
LaTropa64 said:
I wish this was the case but it only seems to happen with the Hangouts messages and Google Voice messages. Any SMS sent through hangouts using your Verizon number doesn't get synced to all your other devices running hangouts. Google really should do that.
It would mean no more backing up and restoring text messages when moving to a new phone.
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Ah yes you're right about that. No backup of standard SMS. But Google Voice texts are backed up like you said. I've been using it for so long I don't even think about standard SMS anymore
Well it was working for a while, and now it won't play from my call log anymore. Who knows.....
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