fyi, found an important note about this. Hopefully.
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OnePlus connectivity issues using Chat features 0 Replies
Hi Folks,
Some OnePlus devices may experience intermittent connectivity issues when using Chat features. To correct these issues, please disable battery optimization for Messages.
To exclude Messages from battery optimization at any time:
On your OnePlus device, open your Settings.
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Thank you,
Terrell
https://support.google.com/messages/answer/9487020
What are chat features?
Chat features provide an upgraded, rich messaging experience. Chat features:
Show you when someone is typing
Offer read receipts (show when someone has read or received your message, as well as showing your contact when you read their message)
Send messages over mobile data and Wi-Fi
Lets you share files and high-resolution photos
When using chat features, your messages are sent using the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol over Wi-Fi and mobile data. Chat features will be turned on only when all the participants in a conversation have chat features. Either your RCS service provider (e.g., mobile carrier) or Jibe Mobile from Google can provide chat features. This article describes chat features by Google.
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Google just announced "Google Voice" their updated and re-branded version of Grand Central. Along with the old features, they now support SMS, voicemail transcription, etc. etc.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/here-comes-google-voice.html
So you can now send and receive SMS messages for free. But how do we get these messages off of the web and onto our phones?
My idea is a desktop app that interfaces with the grand central interface (scraping if it has to, but hopefully they have an RSS feed or some kind of API) and acts as a gateway to an IM bot. The IM bot passes along any messages.
I say "the IM bot," but to be able to reply to your IMs, it will need to be unique. So sending something via IM to [email protected] will be smart enough to spawn a bot for that person to do two way communication.
So for example:
1. John texts your grand central account
2. This program sees the text and spawns a bot with Jon's phonenumber, combined with your username on whatever jabber server you interface with (your own? I dunno). [email protected]
3. You receive the text via IM on your phone (data connection required)
4. You respond to the bot
5. Your response is interpreted by the program and is sent back through the grand central web interface
This would work with any phone that has IM capability, and your bot could even be smart enough to actually SMS you if you can't be reached over IM or whatever.
Another way to go about it (perhaps less complicated) would be to create a windows mobile app that is dedicated and checks for new sms messages every few minutes through its own internet connection. It could be set up to use windows mobile alerts and give you an interface much like the current sms message interface. Some intelligence could be built in so that it scans for new messages more frequently around times when messages have been sent or received, so you can still have quick conversations.
This combined with iDialer, which allows you to do GC dialing already on windows mobile, would be the perfect solution! You wouldn't even ever have to worry about porting your number again if you switch phone carriers.
Thoughts?
Viber For Android Users Is Finally Out Today Have Fun All Hope We Enjoy This Great App https://market.android.com/details?id=com.viber.voip
Description
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Viber is an Android* and iPhone application that lets you make free phone calls and send free text messages to other users that have Viber installed. When you use Viber, your phone calls to any other Viber user are free, and the sound quality is much better than a regular call. You can call any Viber user, anywhere in the world, for free and now also text them. All Viber features are 100% FREE and do not require any additional “in application” purchase.
Read our privacy policy here: http://www.viber.com/privacy
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* COMPLETELY FREE AND WITH NO ADS: Viber and all Viber features are absolutely free and do not require any additional “in application” purchase. Once you and your friends install the free Viber application, you can use it to talk and also text as much as you want. Just makes sure all your friends get Viber! All you need is an Internet connection: 3G or Wi-Fi where available. On top of that, Viber doesn’t contain any annoying ads.
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* NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Unlike applications like Skype, Windows Live Messenger or Fring where you need to “add buddies” and have them approve you, Viber behaves just like a phone. Just like you don't need to “add” someone in order to call them, you don't need to add your friends in order to call them on Viber. If you know their phone number, then you know their Viber number, and you’re ready to go!
* DON’T KILL YOUR VIBER: To make sure you always get incoming calls/messages notifications, we strongly recommend you to keep Viber running in the background. This doesn't drain your battery or use up memory and improves your Viber experience.
* SOUND QUALITY: Viber uses state of the art technology in order to make sure the sound quality you get is much better than GSM or a regular phone call.
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Is working with videocall as well?
Seems to be the same as Skype but with less users.
MMS has been one of the constant feature requests since we launched Google Voice and we’ve been hard at work trying to make this happen.
Today, we're happy to announce that we've made the first step in our efforts to bring this feature to our users. Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers. The multimedia attachments will display on their mobile forwarding phone and in their email inbox when they enable text to email forwarding in their Google Voice settings. We are also planning on making them display in the Google Voice inbox.
We are working with other mobile operators to make this work across all mobile phones and will update our users as more and more operators offer support for this.
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About Time!
Does anyone know to which app belongs the icon on the image? It is on the right part of the status bar and it is only on when there is an Internet connection. Thank you!
According what I found it is the icon to indicate RCS Service
What is RCS?
Rich Communications Services (RCS) is the platform that enables delivery of communication experiences beyond voice and SMS. It provides consumers with instant messaging or chat, one to one or to groups, live video and file sharing across devices on any network.
RCS marks the transition of messaging and voice capabilities from Circuit Switched technology to an all-IP world. It shares the same IMS investment and leverages the same IMS capabilities as VoLTE and video calls over LTE.
A guide on how to remove...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/how-to/guide-how-to-rid-rcs-icon-nougat-t3546370
If your carrier supports RCS (Rich Communication Services) but the RCS is not enabled on your galaxy S20, sharing this vid you can follow to activate it .
For those who don't know what RCS is, it's a feature where you can send original quality or hi-res photos, video and other large supported files using your phones messaging app. It's like iMessage.