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group mms question

this is wierd....Im having this issue and hopefully someone can help me out. I can group mms with all my friends except 1. He has a verizon s3 and everytime he responds to a group mms it just goes into his seperate thread. My wife has an iphone and when he responds it goes into the group mms thread like it should. Its really confusing the hell out of me since hes the only person it happens to and i feel like its just with my phone. I looked at his phone and he is responding in the group thread like he should be but it send a seperate text to me instead of going into the group mms thread.
Anyone got any ideas?

newtonfb said:
this is wierd....Im having this issue and hopefully someone can help me out. I can group mms with all my friends except 1. He has a verizon s3 and everytime he responds to a group mms it just goes into his seperate thread. My wife has an iphone and when he responds it goes into the group mms thread like it should. Its really confusing the hell out of me since hes the only person it happens to and i feel like its just with my phone. I looked at his phone and he is responding in the group thread like he should be but it send a seperate text to me instead of going into the group mms thread.
Anyone got any ideas?
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His S3 is not on 4.2 or higher I'm guessing so his phone can't do group SMS (which uses MMS to communicate).
Blame Verizon, they are always freaking late on everything! The last update was 4.1.2 which came out in May but was released long ago. The other Samsung S3s all got 4.2 already (I think) but Verizon is slacking.

shotta35 said:
His S3 is not on 4.2 or higher I'm guessing so his phone can't do group SMS (which uses MMS to communicate).
Blame Verizon, they are always freaking late on everything! The last update was 4.1.2 which came out in May but was released long ago. The other Samsung S3s all got 4.2 already (I think) but Verizon is slacking.
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He can..my gf has an iphone and he responds right in the group mms thread on her phone but it shows up in his single thread on my phone...weird

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Sorry to bump this post but I'm having the same exact issue..
My friend has a VZW S3 and his replies do not come under group chat.

Glad to see I'm not the only one. I've come to find out..if I use a third party app like handcent it works like it should. So its something with the stock app which sucks cuz I hate the third party apps
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Have a question about new Hangout and SMS feautre

So I was all excited about it, the new Hangout and today I installed it. Now let me get this straight, the SMS feature, that will just replace my native messaging app and I will be sending SMS via Hangout instead of my native app, and it will be sent normally via my carrier. I mean why on earth would one use this feature? What am I missing here? What's the point?

Same here... In my case the most annpying thing is that it doewnt allow to cuztomize who shows and who doesnt, i have now a lot of people that i dont care just for following them on g+...
Nah... Uninstalling
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ktouy said:
Same here... In my case the most annpying thing is that it doewnt allow to cuztomize who shows and who doesnt, i have now a lot of people that i dont care just for following them on g+...
Nah... Uninstalling
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Yeah exactly. If iPhone 5C is the most ridiculous device of this planet, then this so called 'upgrade' of G-Talk to Hangout is the most ridiculous software update ever made
God I am so happy I kept Talk's backup in several places.:victory:

Google Voice MMS now supports VZW

Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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Thanks, good info! :good:

I guess I'll finally give Hangouts a try now, thanks.

le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
I'm looking forward to a way of making hangouts being less laggy on the Note, if anyone was able to make it more smooth, please share.
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I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..

yznhmr said:
I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..
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I'm one of the people who think one laggy app can't be the result of defective device. Just makes no sense. Thanks anyway bro
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while I tend to agree with you, I have a note 4 on Verizon and hang outs is not lagging for me. If you do a search in xda there are people talking about this problem.

yznhmr said:
while I tend to agree with you, I have a note 4 on Verizon and hang outs is not lagging for me. If you do a search in xda there are people talking about this problem.
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Right... it is weird, it is very laggy on my wife's S5, was laggy on my S5. It is laggy on a G3 I have laying around and also on my Galaxy Tab S. I have a original Moto X and on the Moto X it isn't laggy... I'll keep an eye on the development of this issue, I have 2 year warranty anyway (and never keep a phone for that long) if it turns out to be a defective device I'll replace it.
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Im sure most of you read the news about hangouts now supports vzw mms or vzw finally supporting google voice... regardless, this is great news for me since my primary phone has being my Google voice for a long time.
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Thanks for this! I've been giving out my Google Voice number for years and the whole MMS thing has been the one thing I hated about it.
I just tested with a friend who sent me a pic and it got shifted over to email. Not ideal, but since I get email on the phone too it's a lot better than it just disappearing into cyberspace.
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Voice yet so maybe that's why it got turned into an email. I've been hesitant to integrate the two. Does anyone know how to separate them again if I try it and don't like it?

hacksaw999 said:
Thanks for this! I've been giving out my Google Voice number for years and the whole MMS thing has been the one thing I hated about it.
I just tested with a friend who sent me a pic and it got shifted over to email. Not ideal, but since I get email on the phone too it's a lot better than it just disappearing into cyberspace.
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Voice yet so maybe that's why it got turned into an email. I've been hesitant to integrate the two. Does anyone know how to separate them again if I try it and don't like it?
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I don't know how to separate them, never tried really but the reason you got the picture on an email is because the Google voice app doesn't support pictures, even back in the day when T-Mobile and Sprint were the only two supported for MMS I think it was received as an email.
Make the jump to hangouts and it will all work fine. By the way, when you switch it to hangouts, you'll have to forward your calls again to your Verizon phone # OR you can use the hangouts app to make and receive phone calls. The calls handled by hangouts are over WiFi or data, like VOIP
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Thanks, le0.br4zuc4. Good info!

yznhmr said:
I heard if hangouts is laggy you have a bad phone...and should exchange asap. just something i read on another post here some where..
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I think that guy had more of a serious problem.
I have tested 8 Notes at 4 different verizon stores now and they all have horrible lag in hangouts.

crazed_z06 said:
I think that guy had more of a serious problem.
I have tested 8 Notes at 4 different verizon stores now and they all have horrible lag in hangouts.
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So tell me how you are experiencing lag? as I don't seem to notice any?

When you hit send, the animation is all jerky. On Motorola devices or nexus, it's butter smooth

so you can receive mms messages now via hangouts.. but you cant send a mms via hangouts ... Is this correct?

u71n4444 said:
so you can receive mms messages now via hangouts.. but you cant send a mms via hangouts ... Is this correct?
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My understanding and experience so far is you can send MMS, get MMS, whichever. Group messages aren't working, though, so not that kind of MMS!

johnchad14 said:
My understanding and experience so far is you can send MMS, get MMS, whichever. Group messages aren't working, though, so not that kind of MMS!
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I didn't try group message yet, that's garbage that it doesn't work...
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
I didn't try group message yet, that's garbage that it doesn't work...
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According to this http://www.droid-life.com/2014/11/10/google-voice-mms-messaging-support-for-verizon-now-official/ , group messaging is being worked on and will "be enabled in a coming update".

Send contact directly to voicemail?

I used to be able to do this on my tmo m8, but don't have an option with this phone. Don't know if it's Sprint or Marshmallow, but it's extremely annoying!
I have a contact called spam which houses all of my telemarketing and other annoying callers and would like to configure it to just send those to voicemail. Is this not possible at all now? And if not, wtf?

ned4spd8874 said:
I used to be able to do this on my tmo m8, but don't have an option with this phone. Don't know if it's Sprint or Marshmallow, but it's extremely annoying!
I have a contact called spam which houses all of my telemarketing and other annoying callers and would like to configure it to just send those to voicemail. Is this not possible at all now? And if not, wtf?
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You can block it from the call log or go online to the sprint site and block it

Soooperstar said:
You can block it from the call log or go online to the sprint site and block it
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Thanks, but that only works for the number. I have something like 30 numbers in that contact at least! I should be able to just block that contact entirely.

ned4spd8874 said:
Thanks, but that only works for the number. I have something like 30 numbers in that contact at least! I should be able to just block that contact entirely.
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Yea you have to do them individually
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Yea you have to do them individually
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Is that a sprint or marshmallow thing? Well, now that I think of it, my old phone was rooted and I was running roms on them. So perhaps it was something was always built into the roms I was using. Still, seems like a really simple, yet effective feature. Don't understand why sprint or google doesn't include that feature.

Not sure but I've been with Sprint for 9 years, and been like that as long as I can remember
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I use Extreme call blocker & it works wonders. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greythinker.punchback
I use to use root call blocker on my M9 which was amazing till the mm update which broke it.
However this app is just as good and no root required. Doesn't affect battery life and it just does it's job and stays out of the way. It's not free but that's a good thing in my eyes, no ads and support got back to me lightning quick if you have an issue but I can confirm it works wonderful on this phone. There is a slight delay when a junk call comes in so phone might go off for a second but I'm guessing this is due to no root access but it's still pretty quick and will keep your call logs clean. Mine is setup to block all calls unless you are in my contacts and other calls get sent to voicemail so if it's important they can leave a message.
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Sim-X said:
I use Extreme call blocker & it works wonders. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greythinker.punchback
I use to use root call blocker on my M9 which was amazing till the mm update which broke it.
However this app is just as good and no root required. Doesn't affect battery life and it just does it's job and stays out of the way. It's not free but that's a good thing in my eyes, no ads and support got back to me lightning quick if you have an issue but I can confirm it works wonderful on this phone. There is a slight delay when a junk call comes in so phone might go off for a second but I'm guessing this is due to no root access but it's still pretty quick and will keep your call logs clean. Mine is setup to block all calls unless you are in my contacts and other calls get sent to voicemail so if it's important they can leave a message.
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Thanks! It appears they do have a free version of this that blocks the calls, but not the text messages. I never had a problem with the texts, just the calls, so this could be perfect! I installed it last night and now I'm kinda hoping for another spam call soon so I can see it in action. Thanks again!

ned4spd8874 said:
Thanks! It appears they do have a free version of this that blocks the calls, but not the text messages. I never had a problem with the texts, just the calls, so this could be perfect! I installed it last night and now I'm kinda hoping for another spam call soon so I can see it in action. Thanks again!
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Yea I just bought the paid version right away, I like to support great devs anyway. I shut off SMS blocking, could be something I use in the future. Yea you can see the phone light up when a spam call comes in. Mainly I like it for keeping my logs clean and not bothering me for numbers I don't want to talk to which is everyone not in my contact list.

Soooperstar said:
Not sure but I've been with Sprint for 9 years, and been like that as long as I can remember
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Same here. Did you try linking the numbers into one contact?
Personally I hate that option. For me there have always been unintended consequences.
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Kygen said:
Same here. Did you try linking the numbers into one contact?
Personally I hate that option. For me there have always been unintended consequences.
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Yeah, I have a contact called spam and in the past I've been able to set it to go directly to voicemail. I guess that was a feature of the ROMs I was using. Yet another reason to need root on this phone!!

ONLY 1 Caller Name not displaying with incoming call - Message OLI=62

Hi,
Been trying to fix this issue for a week now. When my gf calls, her name doesn't come up. Only displays her number. My contacts are on my gmail account. All other contacts i have show up. She has an iphone and her name showed up on my old s5. Her phone is already set to display caller ID and so is mine. I spend like a few hours aday trying to troubleshoot this.. No luck whatsowever. Weird thing is, sometimes when she calls, her number appears with a ;oli=62 behind it. Example: 714-555-5555;oli=62. I googled oli (originating line information) but it makes no sense to me..
Things i've tried already:
1) resync gmail contacts
2) deleted her contact on gmail/phone/etc
3) readded her contact to phone internal storage and also gmail again
4) tried in safe mode to see if a application is blocking it
5) rebooted phone of course
6) re-adding her contact info with her data deleted from gmail
7) called verizon support
8) and last but not least.. reset/restored original s8 to factory
HELP.. i was gonna try to exchange the phone for another s8 but i really don't think that might be the issue.. i tried researching IPHONE issues with caller ID not showing up but all her settings seems correct.
Thanks in advance.

That's a LOT of troubleshooting on your end and quite frankly I'm surprised you're still having this issue after all of that. I'm kind of bewildered on what could even be the cause of this problem.
So let me get this straight, if you go to contacts on your phone and add someone else's number and details it works normally but even if you manually input her details you still have issues with caller ID?
Only 2 things I can possibly think of
1. Network provider issue
2. I feel like this is unlikely but maybe a sofware bug? Maybe there is a bug in the code that throws some sort of exception or error when your partners specific number is saved.
I couldn't find a definitive answer for this anywhere, its definitely a head scratcher. You don't unknowingly have any other apps syncing contacts do you?
EDIT: Could you get your hands on another S8 to troubleshoot? If adding the number works normally on another S8 then you're Gucci, you know the problem is specific to your device. If not, my two points still stand or I'd be looking at the iPhone as the culprit.

No other apps. That's what I thought it might be too. That's why I did a system restore. And before I did any updates. I had her call me to test it. Still same. Oddest issue ever. I am actually pretty decent at tech stuff but this puzzles me. Lol.
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That's really strange, what about in regards to my edit? Do you have another S8 you can test?

I only have one s8. And yes. No matter if I add her number to phone sim or gmail from the phone it doesn't work. I also tried deleted her contact from gmail contacts and adding it again. No luck. Adding a new contact works from someone else works.
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When in doubt, just blame the iPhone.
Haha, all joke aside I'm all outta ideas mate. I consider myself pretty savvy as well but it looks like you've covered all the bases so far which leaves me at a loss. You sure you don't have any family or friends with an S8 that your gf could call to test? That would be the best way to narrow it down even further at this point and the next logical step IMO.

Yeah. I've been trying to tell her to call everyone in her phone book to see if her name pops up. Lol. She only tried few people.
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I'm having the same issue with my boyfriend's number, I have an s7 and he has an android. It started happening about 2 weeks ago. Before that his contact info showed up
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Does his number show up with a oli=62 also?
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If I miss the phone call yes it does
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Same here. Glad I am not the only one. If u find a fix. Please let me know. I'll do same
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Is he on t-mobile?
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Yes he is
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Welp that just happened when a buddy of mine called​ me a few min ago. He is also with T-Mobile. I am with Verizon. Had this phone since launch and hasn't happened until today. Gotta be something with T-Mobile numbers.
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Welcome to the club. Lol
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OK. I found a workaround to get the name to display. Log into your Google account on a computer and manually add that odd number. Example : 555-555-5555;oli=62. I added that along with the regular number without the oli=62 just incase they send out a fix for it. And that's it. The name showed up for me. Let me know if it works for u.
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It worked! I can't believe I didn't think to try this. Awesome fix.
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Thank you guys so much. I've had this oli=62 problem for two weeks. The Google fix worked great. You guys are the best. I'll tell Verizion then should send you 20% of my monthly bill as you're better than their support!

Lol
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