Text selection is a mess - Xperia Z General

I wish they would test things properly. Try and select text in an email you have received using either the stock email app or gmail, and most likely any other app too. Frigging impossible to select more than one word. Selecting text you have entered, however, in a compose window or in the note app works fine.

Dr.Paul said:
I wish they would test things properly. Try and select text in an email you have received using either the stock email app or gmail, and most likely any other app too. Frigging impossible to select more than one word. Selecting text you have entered, however, in a compose window or in the note app works fine.
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thats odd, I just tested it on received emails in both the stock email app and the gmail app and it seems easy enough to me, press and hold anywhere in the text in an email until the little quotation things appear, then drag them to either end of the text you need..

Dr.Paul said:
I wish they would test things properly. Try and select text in an email you have received using either the stock email app or gmail, and most likely any other app too. Frigging impossible to select more than one word. Selecting text you have entered, however, in a compose window or in the note app works fine.
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I can confirm that this is happening. Running on rooted stock.
Sony has to address this issue.

Works perfectly in Gmail for me, with both wrapped text and full HTML mails. Sure it's not because of some modification you made?
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Ambroos said:
Works perfectly in Gmail for me, with both wrapped text and full HTML mails. Sure it's not because of some modification you made?
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Same here working perfect on stock no root no tweak
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Ambroos said:
Works perfectly in Gmail for me, with both wrapped text and full HTML mails. Sure it's not because of some modification you made?
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Try wrap-selecting text in the Chrome address bar.

Supersaiyan.IV said:
Try wrap-selecting text in the Chrome address bar.
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Select text works fine for me for email app.
Wrap-selecting in chrome works fine too. Just double tap the address you will be able to copy the whole url. It is just impossible if you want to select & copy part of the link only, which i find it rare to do so.
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ffviiifan said:
Select text works fine for me for email app.
Wrap-selecting in chrome works fine too. Just double tap the adsress you will be able to copy the whole url. It is just impossible if you want to select & copy part of the link only, which i find it rare to do so.
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Pasting the entire URL is not the case here, that works.
But wrap-selecting doesn't work in several cases, and the Chrome address bar is just one of many. Coincidentally wrap-selection in Chrome works in official Vanilla Android from google, which makes this a bug.
If you want another nice bug here's one:
Go to developer options.
Set Window Animation, Transition Animation, and Animator Duration to off.
Reboot phone and see if the phone even works. Nothing works.
Go to settings and reset the same options to 1x again. Reboot.
Now you're back to a forcefully animated environment.
EDIT: I have posted both of these bugs on Sony's forum in the Xperia Z bugs / issues noticed thread.

Supersaiyan.IV said:
Pasting the entire URL is not the case here, that works.
But wrap-selecting doesn't work in several cases, and the Chrome address bar is just one of many. Coincidentally wrap-selection in Chrome works in official Vanilla Android from google, which makes this a bug.
If you want another nice bug here's one:
Go to developer options.
Set Window Animation, Transition Animation, and Animator Duration to off.
Reboot phone and see if the phone even works. Nothing works.
Go to settings and reset the same options to 1x again. Reboot.
Now you're back to a forcefully animated environment.
EDIT: I have posted both of these bugs on Sony's forum in the Xperia Z bugs / issues noticed thread.
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Mine works just fine after disabling all those options. Even after a reboot.

Ambroos said:
Works perfectly in Gmail for me, with both wrapped text and full HTML mails. Sure it's not because of some modification you made?
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Hmmm. Tried on another few email messages. Completely messed up on some, perfect on others. Yet the ones it messed up on work perfectly on my nexus 4.

Not to mention it was seriously annoying at the time as I was trying to copy a phone number in a signature in the stock email app. While google can recognise phone numbers, and allow a top to bring up the dialer, in gmail but can't be bothered to implement it in the stock email app is beyond annoying. So is the fact that sony can't be bothered to add it like samsung do.

100% stock
Works perfectly fine here

Like I mentioned earlier, it depends on the email. Some work as expected while others are a complete mess.
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Is there any way to "add recipient" in stock messaging app?

Ive downloaded and use Handcent and yes it is nice. The reason I looked for and started using it was because of the lack of add recipient option when composing a new message in the stock app that is included. I feel like Im just missing how to do this in the stock app. Is it possible? It seems like it would be the most basic option but I can't seem to figure out how.
yeahyeahyeah1981 said:
Ive downloaded and use Handcent and yes it is nice. The reason I looked for and started using it was because of the lack of add recipient option when composing a new message in the stock app that is included. I feel like Im just missing how to do this in the stock app. Is it possible? It seems like it would be the most basic option but I can't seem to figure out how.
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Normally,in the stcok app, after you put the name of the recipient, you just have to tap again inside the recipient box to add another one. else if you put phone number instead of a contact in the phonebook, then you just have to put a comma between the two phone number.
You misunderstood. The idea is that I don't want to have to type in their name. I want to be able to choose from my list of contacts in my phonebook.
I think the only options now are separating recipients with commas or FORWARD the message to another recipient after you have sent it out. I prefer the latter since it doesn't create a whole new thread.
lol is no one actually reading the question???
I haven't come across a way to add recipients, I always just type the 1st 2 letters and add them from that, IMO its easier than scrolling through a list of a few hundred people
Open contact list. Long press contact then select send message. It then opens messaging app.
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Seeing as everyone is misunderstanding you're request I will give you the short answer.. No.
You can't select multiple recipients from a list in the stock app, unlike handscent, where you can.
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Sorry... where in the question does it mention multiple recipients? I think i did answer the question!
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M3mPh1z said:
yes its very easy to turn the light on, just go to the camera settings and go to photo light and click on
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HAHAHA!!! Best answer ever!!

Google voice text messaging

Using Google voice. Is there any way I can disable my text messages from going through voice and instead using stock android messaging? Its really annoying.
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Just go into the Google Voice settings and then sync and notifications. There you can disable the notifications.
do i uncheck "inbox notifications"? i already had "text messages" unchecked.
Wondering the same thing. I don 't have anything checked and everything is still routing to my GV inbox. Aggravating.
Go to www.google.com/voice
Click on Settings in the top right corner
Find your Sprint phone in the list of phones and click Edit
Toggle the check box for "Receive text messages on this phone."
(I don't know if this works or not but someone can try it )
awesomeindeed said:
Wondering the same thing. I don 't have anything checked and everything is still routing to my GV inbox. Aggravating.
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Everything is going to be in your Google voice inbox, you can't change that. Unselect notifications in your phone's Google voice app.
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dmora01 said:
Everything is going to be in your Google voice inbox, you can't change that. Unselect notifications in your phone's Google voice app.
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What do you mean? Can you give in detail steps please...
This is really getting me mad that text won't go to the text app.
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matt2053 said:
Go to www.google.com/voice
Click on Settings in the top right corner
Find your Sprint phone in the list of phones and click Edit
Toggle the check box for "Receive text messages on this phone."
(I don't know if this works or not but someone can try it )
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This is exactly what you need to do.
I had this problem yesterday.
First, go into the Google Voice app on your phone and turn off all notifications.
Then, goto voice.google.com and change the setting Matt2053 is talking about.
Works perfect for me now.
-Ash-
AshsToAshs said:
This is exactly what you need to do.
I had this problem yesterday.
First, go into the Google Voice app on your phone and turn off all notifications.
Then, goto voice.google.com and change the setting Matt2053 is talking about.
Works perfect for me now.
-Ash-
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It's still going to both the Google voice app and the text app but only making the noise notification for the text ...
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Yogi3 said:
It's still going to both the Google voice app and the text app but only making the noise notification for the text ...
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Maybe im not understanding you, but is that not what you wanted?
You say texts are now coming to your text app, and that you are only getting notifications for the text app.
Sounds like its working normally to me.
AshsToAshs said:
Maybe im not understanding you, but is that not what you wanted?
You say texts are now coming to your text app, and that you are only getting notifications for the text app.
Sounds like its working normally to me.
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Correct ... but on Google voice app and web site there is still a copy of the text I have received or sent to someone ...
Now my question is will there always we 2 copies as long as I have my Sprint number linked to Google voice?
If so that blows but I guess its a small price to pay...
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Yogi3 said:
Correct ... but on Google voice app and web site there is still a copy of the text I have received or sent to someone ...
Now my question is will there always we 2 copies as long as I have my Sprint number linked to Google voice?
If so that blows but I guess its a small price to pay...
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Yes, there will always be two copies.
But honestly thats partly why i love having it integrated.
You can check your texts from your phone or your computer. You can even send texts using your number from your computer if you wanted to.
Its neat!
AshsToAshs said:
Yes, there will always be two copies.
But honestly thats partly why i love having it integrated.
You can check your texts from your phone or your computer. You can even send texts using your number from your computer if you wanted to.
Its neat!
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OK thanks for answering my questions sir
And after thinking about it makes sense that there would be a back up using GV.
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After linking google voice to my sprint account it says google voice is using 27% of my battery.... not cool.
I don't mind getting messages via gvoice, i'm just trying to receive messages via stock app. It just sucks having to go thru gvoice to access my texts.
p00kienrayray said:
I don't mind getting messages via gvoice, i'm just trying to receive messages via stock app. It just sucks having to go thru gvoice to access my texts.
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Hmm, well I get them in both. The instructions posted earlier were for disabling it in the stock app.
p00kienrayray said:
I don't mind getting messages via gvoice, i'm just trying to receive messages via stock app. It just sucks having to go thru gvoice to access my texts.
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You have to enable your phone to receive texts in the settings under google.com/voice. Make sure its checked. But you will be double notified, which annoys me.
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Google needs to make this simpler to the users and much better in my opinion ...
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I'm actually thinking about not using voice at all just because of this...
p00kienrayray said:
I'm actually thinking about not using voice at all just because of this...
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I'm not using Google Voice because of this. I used to use it because of the visual voicemail and it being converted to text, but I don't want it running everything on my phone. It needs much more customization.

Google Hangouts No Notifications

so i downloaded google hangouts and it wont give me notifications whenever i get a message? does anyone else have this problem? it gives me notifications on my ipod touch but not on my razr m or xoom
me too. seems buggy...
ifrankie10 said:
so i downloaded google hangouts and it wont give me notifications whenever i get a message? does anyone else have this problem? it gives me notifications on my ipod touch but not on my razr m or xoom
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I'm getting notifications fine over here. Stock rom. Android 4.1.1. Apex Launcher. You using 4.1.2?
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Jersey846 said:
I'm getting notifications fine over here. Stock rom. Android 4.1.1. Apex Launcher. You using 4.1.2?
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I am in stock 4.1.2 with nova launcher and it only gives me notifications sometimes
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Buggy, I'm still getting talk notifications
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I've got the same problem as OP. Galaxy Nexus 4.2.2, no solution found yet..
ifrankie10 said:
so i downloaded google hangouts and it wont give me notifications whenever i get a message? does anyone else have this problem? it gives me notifications on my ipod touch but not on my razr m or xoom
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maybe you have logined on several client, the hangouts will notify only one time!
I have the same issue across multiple accounts and devices. all unique accounts. all on latest stable software
Galaxy Nexus
Nexus 4
Nexus 10
Same here beyond annoying.
Notification Issues
I noticed that my lack of notifications was only happening with one contact. Everyone else who messaged me would come through just fine, but my wife's messages would come through without a peep. I finally did figure out what was wrong and wanted to share that here in case it helps any of you.
Specifically, although we'd installed and used Hangouts on her Nexus, in the Gmail desktop site, she hadn't click the "Try Hangouts Now" button (left click on your account's picture in the Gmail buddy list). Once I clicked that, all of her messages now resulted in notifications on my devices. Long story short, if you're having issues with notifications, see if the person messaging you is still using "Talk". A bit silly that Google didnt move her account over to Hangouts once she installed the mobile app, but oh well.
Hope this helps.
can I ask a stupid question - is hangouts allowing for text messaging now?
hblinqiang said:
maybe you have logined on several client, the hangouts will notify only one time!
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Its supposed to pop up on all of your devices and when you open it on another device it is supposed to clear them in the other devices
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wedmiston said:
can I ask a stupid question - is hangouts allowing for text messaging now?
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Not yet coming soon. I'm assuimg when they update the app for this they will fix the notifications problems
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Also the person I'm trying to use it with is using hangouts
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I just confirmed that "Hangouts" does allow instant messaging - it does not hit your text messages (but it does hit your data). the other person must also have "hangouts" installed too in order for you to communicate with them via this app
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I just confirmed that "Hangouts" does allow instant messaging - it does not hit your text messages (but it does hit your data). the other person must also have "hangouts" installed too in order for you to communicate with them via this app
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thanks for clearing some things up for certain users! but is anyone else experiencing this problem besides us.
I am experiencing this too, but seem to have noticed a trend. I do get notifications but only on the device that I most recently used to send the message (not both devices like it should). For example at 1 PM, I send a hangout message to another person from my Galaxy S3, they respond at 1:30 PM and it notifies my GS3 but not my Nexus 7. At 1:45 PM I then respond to their previous message from my Nexus 7, and they respond at 2 PM with only my Nexus 7 receiving the notification. Not sure if this is just coincidence but that's what I've noticed so far.
I'm on a Nexus 4 CM 10.1 (initially RC2, now most recent nightly) w/ Nova Launcher running and get no notifications that I've been messaged. In fact, if I chat with someone via Gmail and then check in the hangouts phone app, it will typically not include the chat that was done on my desktop. This is really irritating. Uninstalled updates back to talk for now.
dwhogan said:
I'm on a Nexus 4 CM 10.1 (initially RC2, now most recent nightly) w/ Nova Launcher running and get no notifications that I've been messaged. In fact, if I chat with someone via Gmail and then check in the hangouts phone app, it will typically not include the chat that was done on my desktop. This is really irritating. Uninstalled updates back to talk for now.
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it is really irritating.
I had same problem with Hangouts, it coming after upgrading to 4.4.4
What I've found on some forums and working for me:
1. Move all hangouts ogg giles from sdcard(emulated)/ ringtones to system/media/audio/ringtones
to do this you have to go to twrp , mount system and use file manager inside twrp
2. Got it working with :
Settings --> Sounds --> Volume --> Volumes --> Uncheck "Link ringtone and notification volumes".
Then an additional choice appears for the Notifications.
After that I started to get the sounds when notifications arrived. I rechecked the "Link ringtone and notifications" and the volume still worked.
Seems like something that needed to be initialized once.

[Q] Notifications with text of SMS

With Sense and CM10.1 on the Evo 3D, I could read texts or at least see who texts were from without going into the messaging app. With Touchwiz on the S4, the dropdown notification just says that there's a new message. Since expandable notifications are a big part of JB, why doesn't the messaging app use them? Is there any way I can change this behavior without rooting or installing another ROM yet?
Download another messaging app such as handcent or go sms?
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smke said:
With Sense and CM10.1 on the Evo 3D, I could read texts or at least see who texts were from without going into the messaging app. With Touchwiz on the S4, the dropdown notification just says that there's a new message. Since expandable notifications are a big part of JB, why doesn't the messaging app use them? Is there any way I can change this behavior without rooting or installing another ROM yet?
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1. Go to the messaging app.
2. In the main part of the app (not inside individual thread) tap settings button.
3. Scroll down and look for the "Preview Message" and check that option.
4. Multiple messages can be previewed by sliding down with two fingers on the message notfication.
5. Hit thanks if this helped
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nemesis93 said:
1. Go to the messaging app.
2. In the main part of the app (not inside individual thread) tap settings button.
3. Scroll down and look for the "Preview Message" and check that option.
4. Multiple messages can be previewed by sliding down with two fingers on the message notfication.
5. Hit thanks if this helped
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This.
It's a feature some people use because they don't want their messages being shown the second they get them for privacy in case anyone is looking at their phone. Be sure to peek around in the settings.
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Group messaging

Can you send and receive group text messages?
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matthew825 said:
Can you send and receive group text messages?
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both are working great for me. I have verizon version with stock messaging app.
I have a att version and my mms app doesnt have the option. I had to download a third party app
MoDat said:
I have a att version and my mms app doesnt have the option. I had to download a third party app
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this is complete bull...I am beyond pissed...why does group text not work???????????? what app are you using? how does group text work on a stock N4 but not a tricked out G2...can;t wait to root this and de-bloat all the garbage
I'm using textra. Seems to work fine
I'm sure it still works on ATT... Verizon doesn't have the option either, but it still works.
negative. when I try to send a group text it just sends to everyone individually
On the verizon G2 under the stock messaging app it gives u options to send to everyone as a mms or as individual txt messages.
MoDat said:
negative. when I try to send a group text it just sends to everyone individually
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im on at&t and this was my issue before on the Gpro.. now i have the G2, its still the same..
on the stock messaging app i can send group text.. the problem lies when those people reply.
instead of putting their replies on the group text thread, the stock messaging app creates individual threads of each persons' replies..
it sucks but oh well.. guess i have to deal with it or download a different messaging app...
clovis_ll said:
im on at&t and this was my issue before on the Gpro.. now i have the G2, its still the same..
on the stock messaging app i can send group text.. the problem lies when those people reply.
instead of putting their replies on the group text thread, the stock messaging app creates individual threads of each persons' replies..
it sucks but oh well.. guess i have to deal with it or download a different messaging app...
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You need to enable it in settings. you also need to remeber that those you are sending to need to either have their phone support it or have it enabled as well. or use and 3rd party app like Go sms, or handcent.
i am using the stock app for now, i have it enabled and it sends groups just fine if they meet above settings...
i sent group to my wife and daughters iphone, works just like it should send and receive as group, but it didnt work to my other kids older androids, until we loaded go sms and enabled group text...
THats the thing. I don't even have that option in my settings
buenos said:
You need to enable it in settings. you also need to remeber that those you are sending to need to either have their phone support it or have it enabled as well. or use and 3rd party app like Go sms, or handcent.
i am using the stock app for now, i have it enabled and it sends groups just fine if they meet above settings...
i sent group to my wife and daughters iphone, works just like it should send and receive as group, but it didnt work to my other kids older androids, until we loaded go sms and enabled group text...
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Where in settings do you see it because, like I said, I don't see it at all
buenos said:
You need to enable it in settings. you also need to remeber that those you are sending to need to either have their phone support it or have it enabled as well. or use and 3rd party app like Go sms, or handcent.
i am using the stock app for now, i have it enabled and it sends groups just fine if they meet above settings...
i sent group to my wife and daughters iphone, works just like it should send and receive as group, but it didnt work to my other kids older androids, until we loaded go sms and enabled group text...
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MoDat said:
Where in settings do you see it because, like I said, I don't see it at all
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In the Verizon one, it is in settings, group settings...
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Can anyone with a att version confirm that it's there?
MoDat said:
Can anyone with a att version confirm that it's there?
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I can confirm that it is not there on att... unless i am blind..
Verified: the ATT version does not have a setting like Verizon...completely bogus. Anyway---just downloaded textra and it seems to be working awesome. It's a new, very lean text app and has the group text option in settings. Tested it twice with and works flawlessly. Doesn't seem to be hitting my battery at all either.
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Verified: the ATT version does not have a setting like Verizon...completely bogus. Anyway---just downloaded textra and it seems to be working awesome. It's a new, very lean text app and has the group text option in settings. Tested it twice with and works flawlessly. Doesn't seem to be hitting my battery at all either.
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textra doesnt allow MMS does it?
buenos said:
You need to enable it in settings. you also need to remeber that those you are sending to need to either have their phone support it or have it enabled as well. or use and 3rd party app like Go sms, or handcent.
i am using the stock app for now, i have it enabled and it sends groups just fine if they meet above settings...
i sent group to my wife and daughters iphone, works just like it should send and receive as group, but it didnt work to my other kids older androids, until we loaded go sms and enabled group text...
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I already went thru the settings and there is nothing there. Only LG has this coz i also had the GPro before and its the same. Send group text and recieve individual replies as new thread.
I had alot of android phones samsung, htc, motorola and i didnt have to download a third party app for receiving group text.

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