hello all
I was just asked how I could set up a single contact for group messaging, for both email and text.
example
I want to text all my managers without entering each name, is there a group send contact or anything that I can set up?
are there any third party applications for this?
Also is this possible with email?
I know that a messaging group can be set up on the domain but how would I do it for a device.
thank you.
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Is there a way to setup SMS or Email Distrbution Groups with the XDAII.
I used to use Simple SMS with a IPAQ5550 and found the capability to send an SMS to an entire category or group of contacts invaluable.
Any Ideas????
I've made a group of contacts in the people app. I want to send a text message to all those people, but I can't add the group in the recipient box in the messages app. What's the purpose of having contact groups if you can't send anything to the whole group at once? i'm using CM10. I know handcent sms has this feature, but that app is ugly as hell. Is it possible to do this in the native messages app?
Try go sms.
Hi, just got my Nexus 4 but I can't work out how to send a text to a group? Am I missing something? I used to be able to do this in my old Symbian phone.
I can add contacts individually but text type changes to MMS which costs extra so I don't want to do that and the group I created doesn't show up in the messaging screen. I set up a group with 21 contacts so I'd rather be able to add the group than individually add them each time and send it as a SMS.
Group messaging works as a MMS - you can turn that off and it will send out 21 SMS messages which isn't group messaging. Go into the settings screen and turn off Group Messaging.
You can not send to a group with the normal SMS app, maybe Handsent or GoSMS can do that.
girlfrommars said:
Hi, just got my Nexus 4 but I can't work out how to send a text to a group? Am I missing something? I used to be able to do this in my old Symbian phone.
I can add contacts individually but text type changes to MMS which costs extra so I don't want to do that and the group I created doesn't show up in the messaging screen. I set up a group with 21 contacts so I'd rather be able to add the group than individually add them each time and send it as a SMS.
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Hi,
simple install any of the available thirdy part SMS app from the Play Store (eg. GoSMS)
You can SMS directly to a group
Regards.
I'm posting this here because it seems to be an issue specific to the messaging app on my S4.. I have ONE contact that, when I try to send an MMS to, can never find the right person, unless I go to a chat with her and attach it after the fact. Here's the way I typically do it (and what happens):
- Open Gallery and find a photo
- Choose Share and Messaging
- Start typing her name in the To: field
At this point, her name will show up, BUT the name that shows up only has an email address associated with it and no phone number. If I send, it sends her an email and no MMS.
If I open the Contacts app, her name shows up twice: once with just the email address, and once with all the contact info I have.
If I log in to Gmail (where I normally go to reconcile all these quirks) and look at her in contacts, her name shows up once with all the contact info.
WTF do I need to do? Where is the email-only contact coming from??
Is there a way in the stock messaging app, or is there a specific messaging app available in the play store where I could:
Draft a txt and then send to multiple recipients without each recipient being able to see the other? Basically the same thing as sending an email to multiple people via BCC option.
Would be handy for business purposes. I don't care if they see my contact. I just don't want them to see eachothers contact since not everyone I'd send to would know the other (and/or want their contact information shared).
Obviously I could copy and paste the same message to multiple people via individual txt msgs... but being able to send a group txt would be way more efficient.
Thanks!
If you go into the settings of the messaging app there should be an option to group text messages as MMS. Just uncheck that. At least that's how it works with hangouts for SMS.