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Receiving blank text messages, CM 6.1

Hey guys,
I've had an issue for quite a while with my unlocked Virgin Mobile HTC Legend, which is being used on Rogers, receiving blank text messages from one person (who is using Bell). All of my other texts come through fine - I've had a few issues with texts, but none as bad as this - and one in every... 5 or so from this one person will actually come through.
When using my iPhone 3G, they all come through without issue. The application I use for texts doesn't make a difference (have tried Handcent and the stock texting app).
I've been using my iPhone until I can get this sorted out, but the 3G really isn't working well on iOS 4, so I'd love to move back to my Legend.
Anyone have ideas/suggestions? Are there log files I could check that would help diagnose the problem?

Anyone? Hate to bump a thread, but this is really a showstopper for me :\

simon.andrews said:
Hey guys,
I've had an issue for quite a while with my unlocked Virgin Mobile HTC Legend, which is being used on Rogers, receiving blank text messages from one person (who is using Bell). All of my other texts come through fine - I've had a few issues with texts, but none as bad as this - and one in every... 5 or so from this one person will actually come through.
When using my iPhone 3G, they all come through without issue. The application I use for texts doesn't make a difference (have tried Handcent and the stock texting app).
I've been using my iPhone until I can get this sorted out, but the 3G really isn't working well on iOS 4, so I'd love to move back to my Legend.
Anyone have ideas/suggestions? Are there log files I could check that would help diagnose the problem?
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no issues like that for me on fido but im using official htc ruu.exe froyo

[Q] Handcent sms???

did anyone else encountered my problem with handcent sms??
i am in love with this app, but...somehow im unable to send mms to iphone users...its really strange.
had to uninstall it. now im using go sms which is fine but...its not as great as handcent.
since we're all using mt4g's...does this happen on your device too??
plus i was rooted/stock...now im back to unrooted/stock...since i had thought rooting was the issue..urghh, such a waste of time. im a bit reluctant to install handcent again onto my now unrooted device if in case the same issue occurs again...it will be once more, a waste of time.

I haven't ran into that issue, my niece and her husband have the iPhone 3GS and I'm able to send and receive SMS and MMS with them and they are on TMO, wife's best friend has iPhone 4 on AT&T and we are both able to send and receive SMS and MMS with her.

[Q] Automatically Turn Data On When Sending/Receiving MMS

I got my Nexus 4 a couple weeks ago and noticed that on stock rom, data does not automatically turn on when trying to send/receive mms messages. I am currently on minco v6 with franco kernel and am still not able to. I've searched and found this thread on the gnex forums about the issue http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850749 Was wondering if anybody has found a way to do this on non-samsung devices? thanks

If you're using Tasker, it shouldn't be very difficult to do. If you don't have it I hear there's an almost as capable free alternative – Llama. I haven't used it so I don't know exactly how capable it is but you can try it. What I know for sure is both of these have small learning curve and require some patience in the beginning till you understand how things work. After that sky's the limit.

Sorry for the late reply been busy lately. But I looked into using tasker to turn on everytime a mms is received but people figured out that it turns data off too late in order for the mms to be automatically retrieved. In the thread I posted someone wrote a line to put into samsung phone (Even though it was in the gnex forums) so that they have that feature. I was wondering if there was anyway we could implement this into our aosp based roms.

So is there any solution for Nexus 4?

Alot of the messaging apps do this on their own. It is a normal feature for most mms apps now. Not sure why the stock app is not doing it. Could try handcent.

handcent doesn't work for me. I'm not so sure apps can overwrite it, could be wrong.

iPhone MMS not appearing on Messages but they show fine on Google Hangouts... WTH?!?

This one has me scratching my head looking for answers. I noticed this problem a while ago where my friends MMS sent from iPhones were not appearing on my Messages, I have the option for "fetch MMS automatically" and all I get is the little cloud but its blank, it only shows the time it was received, I've also tried disabling the fetch MMS automatically and even when downloading them it shows me the blank cloud. The doozy comes when I tried using Hangouts just to see what it was and to my surprise I could see all my SMS and MMS conversations from my contacts and all the pictures from the iPhone contacts were shown via Hangouts but they do not show on the stock Messages app.
Things I've tried:
1) Googling for answers only resulted in fanboyism comments and speculations that led to more fanboyism.
2) At first I tried contacting my carrier and they made me reset the APN settings to default, which I did and it was after that that I realized that it was only the iPhone MMS messages that weren't being received.
3) Tried disabling the Hangouts services via the Apps option on the settings menu. Restarted phone and still wouldn't work.
4) Been restarting my phone with each setting I change to see if it helps but no.
5) Been bugging my friends to send me MMS from their iPhones and one did get through but nothing more after that.
6) Made sure their iPhones had the setting of "Send MMS when iChat isn't available" enabled.
7) Made sure my old iPhone account was signed out of my old iPhone 4 so I wasn't receiving anymore iMessages.
I'm speculating that I either need to call my carrier again which is Claro PR and explain the situation to see if it helps, or maybe go to a store. Also, I've been thinking about Rooting my phone so I can uninstall some of the bloat, which included Hangouts but don't want to go down that path yet and I don't know if it would really help anything since I already tried disabling the service via the Apps options.
Please help me figure this out, I love this phone but this thing is bugging the hell out of me.

I have had problems with mms on hangouts and the stock app on Sprint doesn't support group mms. I have been using Go sms pro and everything works fine, including iPhone mms messages.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my Sprint LG G2.

p2cactus said:
I have had problems with mms on hangouts and the stock app on Sprint doesn't support group mms. I have been using Go sms pro and everything works fine, including iPhone mms messages.
Hope that helps.
Sent from my Sprint LG G2.
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Hmm... interesting a replacement messaging app, I would definitely keep this in mind so thanks a lot for the suggestion. I rather use the stock apps while I'm getting used to the phone since this is my first Android device but will definitely use this if resetting to factory defaults doesn't help my problem.
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Any other suggestions for my problem are welcomed.

LG didn't enable MMS group messaging on stock messages. My HTC One and S4 had the option in settings to enable it...LG left it out. If you haven't heard, TEXTRA is one of the best, fastest, light weight messaging apps that can handle iPhone group messages without the bloat on go sms and handcent. Look it up on the playstore...ratings are great and all my Android friends use it now. I've yet ran into any issues with group texting.
Sent from my JEE TWO

SKyRocKeting727 said:
LG didn't enable MMS group messaging on stock messages. My HTC One and S4 had the option in settings to enable it...LG left it out. If you haven't heard, TEXTRA is one of the best, fastest, light weight messaging apps that can handle iPhone group messages without the bloat on go sms and handcent. Look it up on the playstore...ratings are great and all my Android friends use it now. I've yet ran into any issues with group texting.
Sent from my JEE TWO
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Hi and thanks for the reply, I've looked up Textra and seems like a nice alternative and has a very clean interface, I'm currently using Hangouts from Google without a problem but would have preferred the stock message app. It's weird because I went to my carrier and they did some test and everything was fine, turns out its only MMS sent from iPhones that won't show through the Message app from G2. Maybe I should try emailing them to see if I can get some answers?

Yea only the Verizon variant supports group messages. I posted a thread about this in the Themes and Apps forum. Could be the cause.
All my friends group text me all the time and send MMS using the Verizon version Messaging app and hangouts. The stock messaging app world best though.
Sent from my VS980 4G using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Verizon MMS won't download

Having issues with download mms. Some apps work like stock and pulse, but others like yaata, mood, etc don't. I can't edit the apn settings in the native settings app, so does anyone have any suggestions?

Are you cdma_less?
If not, then search. There's a hundred messages about it.

hartleyshc said:
Are you cdma_less?
If not, then search. There's a hundred messages about it.
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Yes.

For me it seems that mms is working in some messaging apps and not others. Signal, for example, cant download mms messages but when i use the default messaging app it seemed to work okay, at least for group messages. SMS works on all and it's been set to CDMA-less

vyruzx said:
For me it seems that mms is working in some messaging apps and not others. Signal, for example, cant download mms messages but when i use the default messaging app it seemed to work okay, at least for group messages. SMS works on all and it's been set to CDMA-less
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Exactly what I'm dealing with. Yaata, textra and mood doesn't download mms at all and I use yaata so I really wanna know what a fix could be.

Psych0t1c20 said:
Exactly what I'm dealing with. Yaata, textra and mood doesn't download mms at all and I use yaata so I really wanna know what a fix could be.
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Yeah. I'm in the same boat. Everything is work on the OP6T after hours with Verizon and my own investigation. Pulse, stock, Textra, Android Messages, Chomp, Verizon message all work properly (sms/mms send/receive). Yaata and Mood won't download mms. Can't change APN on phone

I tried changing the apn via adb. It didn't save. Also tried editing the apn dB file but that made the phone shut down instantly when you get past the boot animation.

I used to use ChompSMS buy couldn't get MMS messages to download. QKSMS has been working great so far with 0 issues!!!

mpetruzz said:
I used to use ChompSMS buy couldn't get MMS messages to download. QKSMS has been working great so far with 0 issues!!!
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Just tried Qksms and it works too. Seems only Yaata and Mood won't download mms. Interesting how the most customizable sms apps are the ones that don't work properly. You'd like to think that with all the customization we'd be able to tweak it to get it to work? Sucks because I really liked Yaata; so much that I purchased it back in the early days. And I like Mood too. Wrote to their support so we will see what they say....

TheFonzie said:
Just tried Qksms and it works too. Seems only Yaata and Mood won't download mms. Interesting how the most customizable sms apps are the ones that don't work properly. You'd like to think that with all the customization we'd be able to tweak it to get it to work? Sucks because I really liked Yaata; so much that I purchased it back in the early days. And I like Mood too. Wrote to their support so we will see what they say....
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I liked chomp because it has a lock screen quick reply. But not getting MMS is kinda dealbreaker.

I just had this issue with ChompSMS. Under Settings > MMS, I changed Carrier Send Limit = 1MB, and MMS Behavior = System. Forced Closed ChompSMS and reopened it. Seems to be working ok so far most of the time.

Just to add to this I'm having the same issue downloading MMS with Signal.

Verizon user here with CDMA-less mode enabled and all that junk!
I'm running into the same issue with my 6T using Chomp. I saw this about 2 weeks ago and fixed the issue by uninstalling Chomp, then clearing the cache on MMSservice, then reinstalling Chomp. I then tested it every which way I could think of sending tests from my wifes phones (whos on ATT). All were received without issue, SMS, MMS, group texts (which send as MMS).
However now just this morning it's popping up again. Considering more than just Chomp is having the issue (based on this thread) it seems to me it's either a Pie issue, or maybe something with OOS. Searching around though I've seen a lot of people have the same issue back after just upgrading to Nougat on various phones. So if i had to guess i'd say it's more an OS level issue with our fav text apps needing a small tweet somewhere.
For reference:
OOS 9.0.7
Rooted
Call record module
Viper module

Having this issue as well. Going to try QKSMS now.

I used to use Cuomo but couldn't get MMS to work and I true everything.
Using qksms and have had 0 issues!!

Hmmm I'm still having issues with QKSMS. I'm trying to dual sim at&t and Verizon but can never never get full functionality. Closest I was able to get was AT&T fully working but only able to send with Verizon. Otherwise it's one working fully and the other not working at all.
Anyone running dual lte?
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Also, anyone tried Havoc or MIUI?

ChompSMS was updated yesterday. MMS issues still remain though.

I switched over to QKSMS after my initial post and haven't had a problem yet. Although it took a few weeks for it to show up with Chomp as well so I'm still "waiting". So odd that some of you see it constantly, where it takes a couple weeks for it to crop up for me.
Still rocking the same OS and mods as my previous post for reference:
OOS 9.0.7
Rooted
Call record module
Viper module

Working with the ChompSMS dev to get MMS working. His other app Textra seems to be working well with MMS so far.

replica9000 said:
Working with the ChompSMS dev to get MMS working. His other app Textra seems to be working well with MMS so far.
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Has he acknowledged there is a bug or are you guys still gathering data?