Switched from the Verizon Message+ app too the Samsung Messages app.
I do not see an option anywhere to block contacts.
Help?
When you are on the Message screen, hit the MORE button on the top right corner, there is a choice for Block number.
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As the title says. i have the HTC tytn. First my messages were grouped by contact. now when i receive a text message, they are just showed 1 by 1.
whereas in the past the text messages of the same contact were grouped
hope you understand. now I ressetted my device and I don't know how i can set it back.
On the upper right corner of the messages screen, tap the pull down menu and select the option you like. eg. Message Type, Recieved, Subject.
Hope this helps..
So I had received text message that I wanted to forward. I pressed and held the text, selected "Forward" from the menu, and I get the "to" box and the body, but where are my contacts? I can't select a contact to fwd the message to, can you?
Tapping the "to" box just brings up swype, and taping the little contact icon does nothing.
Help!
update--- okay, so apparently the samsung messaging app on this phone sucks, but fwd'ing happened to be my first run in with it. When I click on messaging from the home screen, then "compose new" @ the top, I can't select from a list of contacts. Instead, I have to start typing out the name of who I want to send it to in the "to" field and find them in the drop down autofill list. Also, the name that appears at the top next to the "contact" icon only shows the first name entered.
So, it would appear this is more along the lines of an annoyance with their program than a bug. Can anyone confirm these issues? Is it maybe just that my contacts aren't synced correctly or something?
Hi there
I'm receiving spam SMS from such with no phone number, thus it seems impossible to block those morons. It's so annoying that Samsung has no option to block spammers without a number!
I had used Hangouts before and I was able to somewhat block such but now Hangouts is stopping being an SMS app so I switched to Samsung Messages app.
Any way to somehow block those spammers?
Tru Calling App maybe?
choccy31 said:
Tru Calling App maybe?
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Caller ID apps have nothing to do with SMS and they wouldn't be able to recognize spammers without numbers.
Somehow these spammers send SMS via different way that allow them to send SMS without showing their numbers or having no numbers at all.
It's freaking annoying that Samsung doesn't include an option to stop these.
Same problem here. I used chomp sms and i had that option. Now i´m trying to use the default app and thats impossible to do. It´s really annoying.
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Caller ID apps have nothing to do with SMS and they wouldn't be able to recognize spammers without numbers.
Somehow these spammers send SMS via different way that allow them to send SMS without showing their numbers or having no numbers at all.
It's freaking annoying that Samsung doesn't include an option to stop these.
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Try Calling does SMS also.
Hi there ! I have also the same problem here in Turkey . I just called the customer technical service of Samsung ( for my S8 ) . They informed that the only way to block these SMS is : go to block messages > there are 3 options , select the second one ( block icons/symbols ) > for example I'm receiving sms from 'marsbet' , so I wrote marsbet and clicked on the '+' icon . Now I will wait if it works or not . Please also try the same and keep us posted if it works or not . Thank you guys..
Just to explain more clearly :
Tap Messages.
Tap the 3 dots icon.
Tap Settings.
Tap Block messages
Tap on the second option ( Block symbols or block icons , or something like that ) , write the name or word of the message and tap on the '+'
That's all...
yes that will work but if the spam caller is called John and you add that name to your block list I believe that will block all messages from any john even if they are in your contact list
I have similar but opposite problem.
I receive emergency response messages via text with caller ID being a name not number.
I cannot add this as a contact or change the notification tone for them meaning I don't know if it's a fire call or just a normal message
Hey Guys, Listen, there are some apps out there, which give notifications to show that they are active, for example: All In One Gesture, Jio4GVoice etc. I don't want to see these sticky notifications, and for that I can bock notification from setting. But if I block from setting, it will block all notification from that app, let's take Jio4GVoice, it says "Jio4GVoice Online" in the notification and this stays there all the time, and if I block notification for the app Jio4GVoice, then I don't get other notifications from the app too, so I want to block the exact persistent notification "Jio4GVoice Online", so Please help...
I have tried "MacroDroid" But didn't get success.
Those who don't know about Jio4GVoice:
In my country "India" there is a telecom company "Reliance Jio"
which gives calls and SMS on full VoLTE network. But for those phones which doesn't have VoLTE, they releases an app called "Jio4GVoice" to call and message. Since for some reason Google have not pushed VoLTE update to "Nexus 6P". And I have to use Jio4GVoice in such a premium phone.
Anyway Please help
I had an app that would block all calls that were outside of my contact list, it was awesome, but ATT pushed a few updates and now the calls are still being blocked but I am getting a notification that I do not want with each blocked call. Is there a way to turn this notification off?