This is something I've had issues with for a while, but I found switching to Textra and enabling "legacy mode" in it's settings fix it (or at least bypassed it).
At any rate this fix is no longer possible due to Google so now I'm looking for a real fix or custom ROM to truly uncover just WTF is going on. I'm hoping a really smart person here knows exactly the what and why and hopefully even knows a setting in system that I'm unaware of.
Short version is that when I receive GIFs they are not animated and pictures are very compressed and pixelated on almost all texting apps... and the few that don't do this I dislike (I also suspect they too will have the issue with the update to Google policy).
Here's my Reddit post looking for help to which I at least learned I can't update my app any longer... the dev explains some on what's going on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/textra/comments/a5lkdk/received_pics_and_gifs_compressed_nonworking/
I'm on a V30, unlocked and Rooted bought from B&H on release.. I used to be on GfUDP, but updated to Above Beyond a couple months ago. It seems since I didn't buy from Verizon I started having issues like this... which is BS (like the inability to use the visual voicemail from Verizon).
thanks for any insight or help about this. I'd like a permanent solution on system so I can use any text app I want or at least upgrade my current one.
edit, oh... sending gifs of pictures has never been an issue... only receiving them. go figure.
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Using my new Atrix (from bell unlocked to rogers) and am getting a time stamp of 4 hours ago for all my incoming messages. the good news is that it doesn't shuffle the messages in terms of the order its displayed. I am assuming this is a setting fix that I can't find. I have gone in to date and time and have it set to the network time and it still happens.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=atrix+sms+timestamp+issue+on+rogers
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=atrix+sms+timestamp+issue+on+rogers
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No need to poke fun lol.
We all know how to use google, and more often than not google leads you to an xda website anyway.
People come to XDa because we are friendly and help.
As for the original question, what timezone have you chosen in your phone settings?
cute..real cute.
I rarely start threads as normally things are found through searching, the problem I had was that its a rogers android issue while I was looking to see if it was a problem with the atrix. (never used rogers in my search)
For anyone that runs into this problem and finds this thread, it is similar issue to the "pay phone" issue where because it is a bell phone and bell does certain things differently than rogers. In this case bell corrects the timestamp for you, while rogers has the device do it. much like bell doesn't have name display and rogers does. so the atrix wasn't designed to change the timestamp with its stock sms app. two potential fixes, use a different sms app like handcent or try the sms timestamp fix app
My nexus one didn't have this issue (thus me thinking it was atrix and not rogers+atrix)
Thanks to both of you for replying, snarky or not.
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For anyone that runs into this problem and finds this thread, it is similar issue to the "pay phone" issue where because it is a bell phone and bell does certain things differently than rogers.
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The call display "pay phone" issue is due to some phones are not coded to handle the Rogers' name display feature. If you have this issue on the Atrix like I did, simply call Rogers and ask them to exclude the name display feature as it's messing up your call display. Call display should start to work properly again within minutes.
In this case bell corrects the timestamp for you, while rogers has the device do it. two potential fixes, use a different sms app like handcent or try the sms timestamp fix app
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Right. I use the free app "sms time fix" by Matthew Precious. It's small and doesn't use much resources, and simply setting the offset method to Time Zone fixes this bug in the Rogers network using many Android phones.
My nexus one didn't have this issue (thus me thinking it was atrix and not rogers+atrix)
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Both HTC phones I used experience the issue on Rogers. The iPhone and older "dumb" phones do not. Not sure about BlackBerry devices.
So I run the risk of showing myself as a complete cretin on my first post here but I can't work this out, and I've tried searching all over.
On the Atrix Entertainment Center I want to view my photos but they come up in a completely random order as far as I can tell - not sorted by date nor filename at least.
Surely there must be a way I can sort them either by date or filename, so that a slideshow is chronological?
This problem saved my family from my boring holiday photos this evening at least, but I'd like to trap them some other time.
Edit: I'm running Gingerblur ROM, if it makes a difference. I couldn't get anything to work with HDMI on the stock software (UK T-Mobile handset)
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Any updates on this issue? I hate that behaviour too..
Late last year I switched from the iPhone to the Galaxy Nexus and really enjoyed using Android but I did have a few issues. Once Jelly Bean was released, almost all my issues were rectified except for two major ones that I couldn't get over and ultimately forced me to switch back to the iPhone when the 5 was released.
First was how poorly HTML email was handled in the GMail app. The emails were almost always blown to absurd proportions which forced me to scroll back and forth just to read it. This morning I was pretty excited to wake up to the news that in version 4.2 of the GMail app, it would incorporate pinch to zoom which should make this a moot point!
The second major issue was the inability to be part of group conversations with my friends & family who almost all use either iPhones or Blackberries. I understand that this feature is not important to a lot of people but the lack of this feature is a deal-breaker for me. I tried using all the replacement SMS apps and they were all clunky, buggy, or both. I also tried getting people to install 3rd party apps like whatsapp or groupme but they never caught on.
I've had the iPhone 5 for about 3 weeks now and to be completely honest, I'm already bored. I want to go back to an Android device and preferably the next Nexus device that will be released at the end of this month (assuming it DOES have LTE which, if lacking, would be another deal-breaker for me in 2012/2013). So does anyone know if Android 4.2 will have group SMS/MMS and if not, is there even an expected time-frame for this feature!?
Based on the amount of stars and replies this issue has received on the Android Code page, I'm sure there are many others who would greatly appreciate this feature finally being included.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=24468
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I probably should have posted this in the Q&A thread. I'll post it there so please feel free to delete this thread. Sorry about that.
The stock text messaging app on my gingerbread Droid 3 supports group SMS, never knew AOSP didn't have this feature yet. If someone sends me a text that went to multiple people I can see everyone it went to and by default any reply I send replies to all.
Every Sense based Rom I've ever used has had the Group MMS / SMS option.
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I think you're talking about iMessage? If so, I agree, it seems great.
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No not talking about iMessage and Sense based ROMs do NOT incorporate this feature (I previously had the HTC One X and it didn't have it). What I mean is that when I get a group text message from people, it comes as an individual message from the sender and I'm not able to reply to everyone in the group. On an iPhone or Blackberry, when you get a group text message, you see all the people in the group and can reply to everyone and it will handle it as a threaded conversation in a chat window. This has nothing to do with iMessage (on iPhone) or BBM (on Blackberry), it's simply a group text message. It's currently the biggest drawback of Android IMO.
Very surprised more iPhone to Android switchers don't find this to be a major hindrance. Based on the lack of replies, I guess I'm in the significant minority and that's why it's not being addressed.
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Very surprised more iPhone to Android switchers don't find this to be a major hindrance. Based on the lack of replies, I guess I'm in the significant minority and that's why it's not being addressed.
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I agree with you. I've been using Handcent SMS as a temporary fix, but I've read that code already exists that adds the functionality to Google's messenger. Now we just wait for someone to bake it into a ROM.
Verizon's stock messenger program handles threaded MMS messaging too, but it's the ugliest program I've ever seen. I don't recommend that eyesore over Handcent.
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No not talking about iMessage and Sense based ROMs do NOT incorporate this feature.
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I've been able to Group message on my EVO LTE (Pre-Defined Groups & Manually added Contacts), I'm not sure what is different.
Haven't used anything else but I'm able to send & recieve on my EVO LTE. Sense 4.1.
Not really solving your problem but Sense in general has had Group SMS.
Messaging>Menu>Group Message
Is there any possibility to integrate SMS`s between two different devices(like a smartphone and a tablet) with different numbers? I loved the possibility to send SMS from my Galaxy Tab 2 but I would like to integrate it with my phone(a Galaxy SII).
I am really surprised as to the lack of fuss over this issue as well. I have two cousins that I constantly wish to group message with for planning purposes, both of whom have iPhones and it drives me completely nuts that I can't do it natively.
I'm in the same boat as well. What the heck Google.
Having serious issues sending whatsapp messages and receiving. Just curious if anyone else is...
Same here ?
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WhatsApp is not yet fully compatible with WP8. An update is expected to be available soon.
Curious, what region are you? Because is not showing at all in the Windows Store here in NY.
I got it before they removed it from the store.
I use it on 7.5 and have stopped updating it when updates come out as it keeps getting worse. One of the things I wanted to see in WP8 was the ability to revert to the previous version for when developers release ****ty versions of their app and you want to use the old one.
Ya it sucks. I wish there was an alternative as good as it. Also, when I get a notification, it doesn't show the name I have set for the person in my contacts list. Its like its picking up some other name from another app or,something.
I have numerous issues, which i guess everyone seem to have. Other than no Video support (I used send and receive videos from my family on my One X ..not any more), all other issues seem to have been identified by the whatsapp guys. See link:
http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/wp/21068167
They blame Microsoft..!
I need this aplication
Its not very useful anyhow. I hope we get a working version soon.
Let me preface this post by saying that I've been dealing with and looking for a solution for this for about a year. Basically, ever since I moved from iOS to Android, and I've not found a suitable solution to it yet. I've searched this forum diligently, googled for it and really just found a bunch of nonsense posts and unanswered questions or suggestion to install handcent or sms go pro. I'll say up front that I don't really want to do that. I like to style and smoothness of the stock messaging app.
Now, to the issue. What I constantly have issues with, across multiple roms and Android versions, is the ability to handle group mms, specifically from group mms where iOS initiates the group mms (if that has anything to do with it or not, that's the observation) or an iOS person is in the reply. Basically what happens is either the group mms ends up having download issues, where the initial mms or replied mms from a user in the group doesn't download and gets stuck downloading and never completes. I've had these issues with gingerbread, ics and now jb as well as across cyanogenmod, aokp, aosp and now aocp roms. I've tried flashing several modems as well as updating my apn settings several times, according to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1576199 The thing is, once I update my apn settings to that, I can send and receive mms message, picture and video just fine. It's only ever group mms that causes the issues.
None of them seem to work well with group mms, and I'm beginning to think this is just an android thing. Now I don't want to get into an iOS/Android thing here, but basically what I'm wanting is group mms capability to just work on Android. I don't want to have to deal with the downloading messages, messages not coming through, or having to sit there with the mms open for 5 minutes while it downloads and finally gets around to displaying it.
Are there just known issues with android and group mms? Is group mms just a thing that apple and at&t have some trickery with? (me not knowing anything about group mms other than it just works in iphones) I just want some kind of answer like, "no, it doesn't work well on Android phones and others are having the same issue." Or perhaps, "no, you're just crazy and doing something wrong because group mms works flawlessly on my sgs2." Either way would give me a sold answer! :laugh:
Lastly, I will add that I have used go pro sms and it did seem to handle group mms much better. However, I prefer the look at feel of the stock app much better, hence why I prefaced this thread with that comment about not wanting to switch. I do realize that if there is a limitation of the stock app, I might be stuck, but to me go pro just feels clunky and cluttered. Thanks in advance for all the suggestions.
I feel the same way about go sms pro, it's clunky. What I've done for now is use a theme that's as close to stock holo as possible. Someday I'll get around to creating a theme that mimics the stock app. The popup notifications are pretty ugly to me in go sms pro, so I use "sms popup" for notifications - it uses the holo theme and is nice and slick.
Don't forget to set mms to auto-retrieve in the stock app. It does hang for sometimes, and sometimes may not download too. Also, the notification doesn't actually popup for mms messages, but it's there in the popup queue the next time I get a normal sms.
Kind of a convoluted setup and i wish it was just built in, but for its all we've got to deal with.
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Thanks for the info. I might consider trying it again and seeing if there is a theme out that that looks nice, but from what I remember, all of the convoluted settings was another thing that put me off. I didn't like having to dig through settings to find a fix for something. Honestly, I'd just like the stock app to work, and I wasn't for sure if people were having my same experience or not, or if I was possibly doing something wrong. I'd appreciate some more opinions if possible.
I thought I'd post back here with a few results. I recently reinstalled Go Pro and tried it again. I still find the UI to be somewhat clunky but have used a theme that minimal and it's bearable. I have, however, had NO with mms messages since switching to it. It really has been pretty flawless. Furthermore, I upgraded to the newest version of AOKP which reset my APN settings. On the stock app, I'd always have to go back in and reset them to the ATT PHONE and ATT MMS settings per the thread I referenced earlier. I wouldn't be able to do anything with mms without settings that. Well, I didn't do that this time using Go Pro and I've had no issues with any mms messages. This just kind of confirms to me this has something to do with the stock messaging app, which is disappointing. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Latest Android 4.2 supports this btw.
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Latest Android 4.2 supports this btw.
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Thanks! I look forward to trying this out.