I have the TMO LG G6. Had the S7 Edge before this. I use Google Messages app as my default messaging app. When I send pictures or videos they end up compressed to the point that the they get very pixelated. Never had this issue before. It's fine when I send images on WhatsApp. Haven't tried other apps. Anyone running into a similar issue or dealt with it in the past?
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Yes, but it's usually the app compressing it, not the phone. I would check the settings in the app. I'm not sure of the Google app is connected with the built in application.
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I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
mustang8918 said:
I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
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The messaging app Silence does some heavy compression as well.
mustang8918 said:
I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
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Yeah, there aren't any settings to change this. Unfortunate. It happens across videos and pictures for me, I can't figure it out. Still happening post update from 4/1. I tried to change the camera to 16:9 to see if that helped, no luck.
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My wife easily sends/receives pics and videos through email (hotmail) on her iphone. But when i try it says things like "file size too large"...or, i send it, but the receiver never gets it. For the iphone, if the file is too big, it will ask to resize or compress the video/pic....any help please? thanks
Try Image Shrink from the Market.
Or change the size of the pics the phone takes, in camera settings, i have minr set at 640x480. Not sure the resolution the iphone shoots at.
I just switched to Handcent SMS... you can change the settings for how large the MMS pictures can be, and then when you try to send one it will automatically resize it for you. This is a problem with Samsung's Messaging app. The weird thing is I was able to send to iPhone users for a while, then it just stopped...this has fixed the issue...and I actually prefer it over the built in app anyway now.
yeah I love handcent sms
Mine will do this automatically on the stock rom, with the stock text messenger app.
Does the LG G2 messaging app lag a little bit? Does it take a second or two to open messaging threads?
The phone is really fast but does the LG Messaging app seem a bit sluggish?
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Yep, that's the way it is. That's one of the only small complaints that I have about the phone. Maybe and hopefully it will be fixed by LG or a dev.
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I agree with both of you. It doesn't lag, especially when opening up a specific thread. My main reason for not changing it is that I like the quick reply feature, or whatever weird marketing name they decided to give it. I like being able to reply straight onto the notification.
No one has really even mentioned that in any of the reviews.. Actionable notifications are a big deal, I think.
I own the LG Pro and the LG Messaging is also slow to open threads. Unfortunately it has yet to be resolved and strictly limited to LG Messaging app.
I'll be getting the G2 in October when I am eligible to upgrade. Thanks for the feedback.
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alias3800 said:
I agree with both of you. It doesn't lag, especially when opening up a specific thread. My main reason for not changing it is that I like the quick reply feature, or whatever weird marketing name they decided to give it. I like being able to reply straight onto the notification.
No one has really even mentioned that in any of the reviews.. Actionable notifications are a big deal, I think.
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That is part of 4.3.... Had CM10 running on my Gnex. I would much prefer the stock messaging app.
I have noticed this as well. Odd, since it wasn't that way on the G Pro. Add to that the omission of group messaging.
I don't want to use a different app, either. The stock app lets you send videos as MMS (no matter the size) and I like having that functionality. And I may be alone in this, but I like the taskbar popup for new messages.
Noticing the same in my G2.
anybody with kitkat update can tell if it is fixed???
I am on AT&T. Cannot send or receive pictures through standard texting which was working good before kitkat update. Message app lagging too
Sprint considers your message app has problem only if you are unable to send or receive text messages and displaying error codes or network messages when you try to send a text message. But if your app only lags, it's just part of it. Live with it.
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Gulfcoastowl said:
I am on AT&T. Cannot send or receive pictures through standard texting which was working good before kitkat update. Message app lagging too
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AT&T customer representative did solve the issue. She changed the service number and she told me she changed some provisional settings on her end...Finally it worked. I am now able to send and receive picture messages.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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First time using a OnePlus because i heard great things from it. I'm trying to leave everything stock and give it a chance but I'm having trouble with the stock messaging app..Why doesn't it let me attach video files? Also it won't let me send some gifs saying it has exceeded the maximum size. On a side note now that I remember on Hangouts it won't play media when I click on it. I have to download it first and then play it which is annoying. I've searched settings on both messaging and Hangouts no luck.. Any help? I guess I'm just used to everything being automatic on my s9.
Hey everyone, I have developed a text message problem. My phone is a verizon galaxy note 4, on modestrom 11, and I use textra for messaging. Sometime over the past year (especially the past 4 months) I have noticed I am not receiving all texts. Occasionally i will restart the phone, and will get a dozen or so messages that people had sent up to a week or so before. That problem has pretty much stopped, but I have gotten a new problem in its place. My received text message pictures are blurry. I can send pictures perfectly clear, but ones I receive through textra are blurry, and small in size. Usually they are around 30kb in size. However, when I set the stock messaging app as default, pictures come through perfectly clear. I really like textra as my wife and I send each other moving gif images, but the stock app wont let them move. I have tried setting the max size on messages received or sent to unlimited, this has not helped. I have gone into twrp and cleared cache multiple times, it also has not helped. I can't seem to track this down. I realize this may be a textra problem, as it seems to happen only using the app, but thought I would ask here for help. The textra app is the newest and I have had good luck on previous versions not having this problem. I was using version 4 when the problem started, but even after updating to version 4.8, it's still having blurry photos received. I was thinking possibly a sim problem, but ruled that out by trying the default text messaging app and the pics came through clear. Can someone please try to give me some help sorting this out? I would rather not have to factory reset and restore everything if I can avoid it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.