My Niki is getting a little, er, awkward at handling MMS at the moment, I'll explain :
It does seem incredibly slow at downloading/opening MMS, and invariably the messages are nothing more than plain text (some friends who have bizarre text plans).
I can be in the middle of writing a text message, and then an incoming (text) MMS is received, and the phone is basically useless whilst the message is coming in.
And earlier it decided that it wasn't going to open any of the MMS that had been received this morning, would only open SMS.
Left it for a few minutes, no change, so decided to do a full power off reboot. Started back up again, and it had deleted all the messages that had been received in the last 10 or so minutes.
Any suggestions on what I could do to improve the general SMS/MMS handling? The phone is running on the stock Orange rom.
ps. please don't suggest using pocketcm instead - it doesn't seem to be able to send SMS at all on my Niki
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I'm starting to get wound up with the way WM6 handles texting, unsure if its specific to the Niki, or the Orange customisations.
I'm running the standard Orange customised firmware, and this is a list of the problems -
- it regularly just saves messages into the drafts folder rather than sends them
- takes ages (well maybe 10-20 seconds) to respond when attempting to send
- keeps a message in the outbox until I told it to send
- it will say "sending failed", whilst the recipient has actually received the message
Any when there's no signal, why doesn't the SMS system just keep the messages in the outbox until there is a signal? It just says "message can't be sent" and stick the message in the drafts folder.
Is this just standard windows mobile? If so, its pretty poor - Symbians messaging systems work absolutely perfectly in comparison.
So far my WM6(o2 xda stellar) seems to text just fine
Only issue same as one of yours is the no signal and moving the text to drafts and it does not resent as far as i know
I'm wondering if WM just isn't suited to anyone who does a lot of texting.
I'm on one of Oranges unlimited text plans, and I'm regularly doing 1000+ texts in a month. Not good though .... I'm thinking of starting to just use the Niki for calendar/data storage, its getting to be useless as a phone.
Yes it was badly designed... use PocketCM
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Yes it was badly designed... use PocketCM
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I have got pocketCM on there, but that will use the same messaging subsystem, its just a different interface on the same systems. Which means it'll have exactly the same problems.
Ok, there's a lot that could be fixed in WM but sms seems to work pretty damn well. Especially 6.1's threaded sms is great to use. I've had no problems with it whatsoever.
Forgive me if this has been discussed before; I searched but didn't find anything. I'm using an HTC Fuze, no major changes like a different ROM or anything. After I tried to send an MMS (two pictures in one message) to a contact, it failed to send for whatever reason. The problem that after attempting to send that message, I looked in the conversation thread for that contact, and all of our prior texts (a few thousand) had been seemingly eradicated, except for the failed MMS that I had just tried to send. Looking in my Sent box, all of my texts to that contact are still there, but neither my sent texts nor my received texts from that contact appear in the conversation in my Inbox.
However, if I turn off threaded SMS via Advanced Config, all texts from that contact appear in my Inbox. When I turn threaded SMS back on, they're gone again. I know they're on the phone, but I can't get them to come back to the threaded conversation! I've deleted the failed MMS that caused all of this, but that hasn't seemed to make a difference. Does anyone have a fix for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't know why my phone is so wacked out...but now I can not send Pics in Text Messages. It trys to send but just gets stuck on "sending". Any suggestions?
Maybe try toggling your data connection off/on. Or, sent out a regular SMS. Sometimes that will help push em thru. I've had issues sometimes where they'll hang like that until I receive a text, then they push thru, but only on certain ROMs.
Hope this helps at all.
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
I had the same problem before, then I learned that my data had to be on in order to send or receive messages through text messages. I'm not sure if this is because of my carrier or if that's just how it is.
Won't work over Wifi, which seems kind of silly.
You need to have the data on to send MMS (picture messages) the carriers do not generally count that against the data you use.
I have problem with delayed text messages since new year. This phone is working on rooted Android 2.3.3 around 1,5-2 years. I'm using GoPro SMS app for text messages. Sometimes I can message with some people without "lags" but after x sms sent next text message from this friend is delayed from 10min to 2h+. As I know after I turn off phone, remove battery and insert, turn on I receive delayed messages. Other times after someone call I receive also delayed messages. On other phones this SIM card is working very well, no any lags with sms. Is there any way to fix this problem without reinstalling/updating Android?
I have been using GO SMS Pro for a long time on my Mate 7 (Lollipop 5.1) without any problem
But after i moved to Mate 8 GO SMS Pro has a very strange behaviour, specially when handling with MMS but sometimes also with SMS
Operator configuration is the same, and advanced MMS configuration is the same I used with Mate 7.
On the other hand native sms/mms app from Huawei works smooth and flawlessly.
Could it be some bug or non-compatibility of GO SMS Pro and android MM?
I would apreciate if anyone could share his/her experiencie with this app
many thanks
I have been using Go SMS Pro for 3 years and have had troubles with MMS as well:
1. Image files are dramatically compressed down to 30 KB, destroying image resolution
2. When an incoming MMS message has an attached image file, the conversation with that contact disappears from the SMS list - to make the conversation reappear on my Droid phone, I either have to swipe down on my home screen right after the message alert arrived, entering that conversation directly (rather than through the Go SMS app), or else I have to send a new text message to that contact, which makes the conversation (and the new received MMS image) reappear (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
3. Sometimes MMS messages will simply fail to download. The only way to recover is to shut down the phone and reboot, and then the incoming MMS image file will be retrieved (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
I do like this app, but the MMS image issues are driving me crazy. I just got a new phone and hoped that the problem would be solved, but it is not. Sadly, I'll have to stop using Go SMS Pro so that I can finally see my friends' photos in their intended original size/resolution.
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I have been using Go SMS Pro for 3 years and have had troubles with MMS as well:
1. Image files are dramatically compressed down to 30 KB, destroying image resolution
2. When an incoming MMS message has an attached image file, the conversation with that contact disappears from the SMS list - to make the conversation reappear on my Droid phone, I either have to swipe down on my home screen right after the message alert arrived, entering that conversation directly (rather than through the Go SMS app), or else I have to send a new text message to that contact, which makes the conversation (and the new received MMS image) reappear (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
3. Sometimes MMS messages will simply fail to download. The only way to recover is to shut down the phone and reboot, and then the incoming MMS image file will be retrieved (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
I do like this app, but the MMS image issues are driving me crazy. I just got a new phone and hoped that the problem would be solved, but it is not. Sadly, I'll have to stop using Go SMS Pro so that I can finally see my friends' photos in their intended original size/resolution.
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I have also stopped using it but my problems where actualy sending mms (and sometimes even sending sms). Last update on GO SMS I noticed some changes in configuration options, probably to solve some bugs, but they did not solve my problems and so i moved to huawei messaging