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Three Times the Charm with Nexus S?

Hello everyone:
I don't set my expectations too high. I know that this is a new phone, and it is not without it's bugs, but it is an awesome phone and from reading others who were having issues, I wanted to get a Nexus S working right for me!
I purchased my first Nexus S at a local Best Buy.
Everything about the phone was fine, the battery life seemed good, it ran quickly, did not notice any lag or any other major problems. However, I did begin to notice the back-button being unresponsive, as many others have stated experiencing. From reading threads on XDA, the jury is still out on whether this is a software or hardware issue, but that some people were able to get a phone without the issue by returning it for a replacement.
So I did...
I exchanged for my second Nexus S at a local Best Buy.
This one was kind of odd. Took a little while the for the 'important system updates' notice to come up, so I had already synced with my gmail and had also manually updated google maps and a few other apps.
When I finally did install the system update and the phone booted, I got a systemcore process FC error off the bat. Not good news. Later on, all seemed well, but I noticed a lot of lag with using the GB keyboard (unresponsive at times), and also having difficulty with the end-call button to end a call in progress (again, unresponsive so I had to press it a bunch of times before it would respond). Also, the battery life did not seem to be nearly as good as the first Nexus S.
So... I turned it back to Best Buy, but they did not have another replacement. So I turned it in for a refund.
I called Best Buy toll-free number, told them about the trouble that I was having, and they waived the overnight shipping fee, took my order for a new Nexus S, and I got it via UPS the next day (just at the 24 hour mark)
With this phone, I booted the phone and chose skip to login/create a gmail account. Phone loaded up completely, and I was just signing into my gmail account when I got the 'important system updates' message.
I updated immediately. Everything went smoothly.
I have not noticed any problems so far. The phone runs smoothly. It had no FC upon first boot after the system update. The back button works as it should. I don't notice any lag with the keyboard. I pulled up engadget.com full site and did not notice any lag out of the norm, apart from it being slow to load as I'm working with the crappy Edge network here (who cares if there are 4G phones out when my area doesn't even have 3G yet and that is where I am mostly). I have also tested the ringtones. I moved some music to my SD Card. I downloaded/installed Ringdroid. I created a ringtone. I set the ringtone. I have rebooted my phone three times and my ringtone still works. I mounted and unmounted my SD card (even moved some files to it), and I still have my ringtone.
So, what was it? Was it three times the charm? Was it there was a bad batch at the local Best Buy? Was it that because of the volume of Best Buy over phone and online sales, you'll get a newer and better Nexus S going through that route? Was it because I installed the system update before doing anything else, including syncing my gmail? I'm not sure...
But I do know that I love this phone, and *knock on wood* it continues to work the way that it should, I'll be happy with it for a long time to come.
My advice for those who are experiencing the issues that I had with my first two Nexus S to try try again. I know it's disappointing that a customer would have to do that in the first place as it is time consuming and stressful, but in the end, there might be a happy ending with you and your Nexus S.

Glad everything is working out for ya. Luckily my first nexus s has been great from day one.
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I have my second phone and it feels like the screen is less sensitive as on my first one. Unfortunately I cannot say if this is a problem with 2.3.1 because my first phone never got the 2.3.1 update and got stuck with 2.3. I have the feeling that 2.3 was much faster and less laggy than 2.3.1. I probably will return the phone again to see if this is a phone problem or if this was introduced with 2.3.1.

Does your front camera worK?

cyc1120 said:
Does your front camera worK?
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Yours does not?

cyc1120 said:
Does your front camera worK?
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Just took a picture... it works. But I haven't tried video calling with Tango yet
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Camera works but weird thing is it does not allow zoom...it does work on tango though....
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ankit.subs said:
Camera works but weird thing is it does not allow zoom...it does work on tango though....
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There is no zoom yet for gingerbread stock camera app.

mr mystery said:
Yours does not?
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it force closes if i use it in the default app.
it's just black if I use it in Tango.
I'm from Canada and bought the phone off someone from craigslist

Not getting some new text notifications

Anyone else notice that they're not getting notifications for some received texts on the Inspire? It seems to be random, and I don't notice the new text until I open up the messaging app and see it there, I don't get sound/vibrate or anything in the notification bar. I'm using the Inspired ROM and rooted but I don't think that's the cause of the problem.

I noticed the same thing this morning. I'm completely stock for the moment.
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Well, I guess I'm glad it's not just me. I hope somebody has a fix for it.

I only sent a test message last night after I got the Inspire and it was received and I was notified without issue. Then I installed Handcent and turned off stock messaging app Notifications and Handcent has been working fine.

Rooted with a dhd rom here. I didn't think I was having this problem but checked my messages and sure enough I had one from a hour ago I never got a notification about..... the gf soooo isn't going to believe me its my phone again.
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yg17 said:
Anyone else notice that they're not getting notifications for some received texts on the Inspire? It seems to be random, and I don't notice the new text until I open up the messaging app and see it there, I don't get sound/vibrate or anything in the notification bar. I'm using the Inspired ROM and rooted but I don't think that's the cause of the problem.
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I had a similar issue where my 2 Gmail accounts weren't giving notifications when I received new email. Also my Sense clock/weather wasn't always updating the weather when I unlocked the phone.
I ended up doing a factory reset and reinstalled all my apps manually and everything appears to be fine at the moment.

Yep, same problem. Seems to only happen later in the day?

ditto
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Anything guys?? This is really frustrating

Really need help with this. Bump.
Sent from outside your window with my Inspire 4G

I've had the same thing happen. I was in the middle of a conversation and it seemed like the other person just disappeared. Was going to send them another text when I noticed they had actually responded.

The issue clearly hasn't been resolved... It's happening to me as well. No notification. Or I get it, hear it and feel it, and then unlock my phone and no notification in the top bar or on the msg icon on my homescreen. But its def there when I open msgs....this is very frustrating as I've been patiently waiting by my phone for an answer about a new job. Has anyone had a fix for this? I'm completely stock no root. I'm about to go on to ATT and have words with them if it can't be resolved I'm geting a new phone...this is stupid we can't get basic functionality to work....out of the box.

You could try using a different SMS app like Handscent that does notifications itself. I think Go SMS does notifications too.

Or they could admit there is an issue and fix it. I shouldn't have to get a third party app to do basic phone functions like sms and phone. Wtf!

Or you could root your phone instead of expecting AT&T to fix something when it takes them months just to release updates for things that should have been included in the first place.

Well its not really on ATT its on HTC. And besides rooting would void my warranty. And if I get this job ill be leaving the country, in which case id like to return the phone as I doubt it will do me much good in the Netherlands. Either way. Shoulda worked correctly out of the box. It's an HTC sense/Rom issue not an ATT service issue.

Receiving Duplicate Text Messages

I know this is probably something that can't be fixed without working with T-Mobile, but they can't seem to figure out what the problem is and I'm getting desperate
Whenever someone sends me a text I get duplicates of it over and over until I turn on WiFi calling, which seems to work fine. I have had this problem with two different G2x (I sent the first one back thinking it was a hardware issue). This also does not happen on my Nexus One (I moved the SIM card back over and the issue disappears).
I am thinking it has to be something to do with the communication between the G2x and my T-Mobile cell network. Any information anyone has about this that could help me help T-Mobile find the issue would be great.
Thanks.

You don't have another messaging app installed, do you?

First thing I did when I got the replacement was sync Google contacts and tell someone to text me and it started happening. I factory reset the original one I had 3 times and the problem persisted.

Are you running juicedefender? I get duplicates of some messages because juicedefender shuts off mobile data, so the network doesn't receive the notification that the MMS was received. It will try and resend every 5 minutes for a specified number of times until the message is received.

Nope, had no apps installed. Plus I get the duplicates sometimes less than 1 minute apart.
Thanks for the responses so far. This problem is really starting to get irritating.

I was getting a lot of duplicates. Seems to have spied for now. No clue what was doing it

Its really irritating because I love the phone, but I can't use it if I am constantly getting spammed by duplicate text messages.

yea i got 55 texts from 12 am to 11 a m from the same person 2 different texts and it kept going for a couple hours after too idk why i just got a new one today though but it's got a bad bleed so im just returning it and going to wait a week or two hope they solve it by then already sent lg a pic so

If your problems anything like mine a replacement won't fix the problem, unless I somehow got stupendously unlucky.

Anyone figure this out. I have the same problem. It is not every text message and not every person. It is pretty random. The same person can send me 4 texts 2 are normal, one repeated twice and one 24 times over a period of time, usually a couple hours.

Check any of the apps/widgets that have anything to do with calls/texts, even just showing a number of unread texts. If there are any that have the permission "Your Messages: Send SMS-received broadcast" uninstall it and see if the problem persists. I think I may have had an app called Organizer Widget that was blocking my phone from sending that broadcast.

I had your problem.
I was running on stock G2X, and I was receiving text after text after text.
I spent time on the phone with the T-Mo reps, and he concluded that:
"it's a server problem. You see, our messaging database isn't reading that your phone got the text, and thus it re-sends it in hopes that it receives it."
Basically, he is saying that the messaging server is tripping. But, this is not exactly true, because if it was the messaging server, then it would be universal. It is simply a G2X stock-rom problem.
I think it actually might have something to do with the baseband, but I am not sure if CyanogenMod updates it or fixes it when flashing.
I have a fix.
After I flashed myself some CyanogenMod, the problem was instantly fixed.
So, I think its a problem with the stock rom. Definitely. The CM rom works perfectly, no repeating messages. Also, the current nightlies are mighty stable.

I have this issue as well. It doesn't happen often but when it does it sends 10 or more duplicates.
I have handcrafted sms and launcher products which displays the number of texts on the dock. Running rooted stock.
It hasn't happened in a while, so I doubt it is related to the Apps.
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I've had this issue on ALLLL my android phones I've owned . Even non Android phones and my unlocked iPhone. I have tried different similar cards as well.
I have noticed it happens the most when I receive messages from a Verizon user; followed by AT&T users. I never (not that I've noticed) had duplicates from Sprint or other T-Mobile users. Only Verizon and AT&T.
My point being I think it's a T-Mobile issue. Or a communication issue between providers.
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JRudnik said:
I had your problem.
I was running on stock G2X, and I was receiving text after text after text.
I spent time on the phone with the T-Mo reps, and he concluded that:
"it's a server problem. You see, our messaging database isn't reading that your phone got the text, and thus it re-sends it in hopes that it receives it."
Basically, he is saying that the messaging server is tripping. But, this is not exactly true, because if it was the messaging server, then it would be universal. It is simply a G2X stock-rom problem.
I think it actually might have something to do with the baseband, but I am not sure if CyanogenMod updates it or fixes it when flashing.
I have a fix.
After I flashed myself some CyanogenMod, the problem was instantly fixed.
So, I think its a problem with the stock rom. Definitely. The CM rom works perfectly, no repeating messages. Also, the current nightlies are mighty stable.
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I'm actually having this problem running CM7 Nightly 63, it's irritating as hell.

Dont know, but I'd like to know the problem too. I have chompsms installed but it shows duplicate in the stock messaging app too.

I really don't think it has anything to do with the phone...
Like I said earlier, all my phones have done it. Even my crappy clamshell Samsung back in the day. Or my unlocked iPhone.
Server makes the best sense.
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I have the issue as well...although it seems to be only with certain contacts, however across every carrier. Averages 3-4 duplicates. Never had this problem before with any phone. SIM card went straight from my N1 to my G2X. Kind of an old SIM. Maybe I'll try a re-provision on a new SIM to see if that makes any difference.

Thank you @shaneledford, uninstalling organizer widget solved my problem... everything's back to normal
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I've also had this problem with previous phones, though it tends to happen much more often when one of them is an Android phone. Only started happening with my phone before this one, though, but that was a Nokia non Android, so it's a fairly recent thing but not Android specific.
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[Q] wifi sms WITHOUT using a new #

I've searched and googled the heck out of this but no luck. Is there an app or hack to get texts to go thru wifi without needing a new number or the other person I'm texting needing the same app.
I live in the middle of nowhere and got att to send me the microcell. But its a pos. It kills my battery within 4 hours (actually destroyed my battery so it doesn't hold a charge even away from home w out the mcell) and it doesn't let me send texts. Long story short att refused to try and figure out the issues. Would t even replace the battery. Bunch of dirty words....I hate them. If I had the 800$ they wanted for me.to cancel my Contract I would.
But anywho. I'm selling the mcell and trying to figure out a way to use wifi without getting a Google voice number and all.
Please and thanks!

katiecakez said:
I've searched and googled the heck out of this but no luck. Is there an app or hack to get texts to go thru wifi without needing a new number or the other person I'm texting needing the same app.
I live in the middle of nowhere and got att to send me the microcell. But its a pos. It kills my battery within 4 hours (actually destroyed my battery so it doesn't hold a charge even away from home w out the mcell) and it doesn't let me send texts. Long story short att refused to try and figure out the issues. Would t even replace the battery. Bunch of dirty words....I hate them. If I had the 800$ they wanted for me.to cancel my Contract I would.
But anywho. I'm selling the mcell and trying to figure out a way to use wifi without getting a Google voice number and all.
Please and thanks!
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I don't know of any app, or just not aware. I use google voice, it's a great alternative. Very easy setup. Notifies me right away when someone sends me a message.
Completely dropped their sms plan because it's too much. I don't care about mms, but they will have it in the future.
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katiecakez said:
I've searched and googled the heck out of this but no luck. Is there an app or hack to get texts to go thru wifi without needing a new number or the other person I'm texting needing the same app.
I live in the middle of nowhere and got att to send me the microcell. But its a pos. It kills my battery within 4 hours (actually destroyed my battery so it doesn't hold a charge even away from home w out the mcell) and it doesn't let me send texts. Long story short att refused to try and figure out the issues. Would t even replace the battery. Bunch of dirty words....I hate them. If I had the 800$ they wanted for me.to cancel my Contract I would.
But anywho. I'm selling the mcell and trying to figure out a way to use wifi without getting a Google voice number and all.
Please and thanks!
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Google voice...gives you a new number. Text thru your data our wifi. Must have...get it from market

Do you have to pay at all for the gv SMS?
I'd reaaalllly rather not need a new number but if it's free and the peopleim texting don't need the app then I guess I'll try.
Ps my battery bc of this macrocell has gone from 45% to 3% in 2 hours. That's not connected to this pos microcell either. Pos!!!!!Gunna get an extended battery....any oneknow of a better than the rest brand or site for them?
Thank you

katiecakez said:
Do you have to pay at all for the gv SMS?
I'd reaaalllly rather not need a new number but if it's free and the peopleim texting don't need the app then I guess I'll try.
Ps my battery bc of this macrocell has gone from 45% to 3% in 2 hours. That's not connected to this pos microcell either. Pos!!!!!Gunna get an extended battery....any oneknow of a better than the rest brand or site for them?
Thank you
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It's absolutely free. No catch. Just set it up, and you're good to go. And no the other party does not need the app. MMS support will come, just depends on our carriers. You can receive MMS from sprint users.
I don't know about the battery, head over to the accessories section of the infuse, there's a thread there with suggestions and links to them.
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katiecakez said:
Do you have to pay at all for the gv SMS?
I'd reaaalllly rather not need a new number but if it's free and the peopleim texting don't need the app then I guess I'll try.
Ps my battery bc of this macrocell has gone from 45% to 3% in 2 hours. That's not connected to this pos microcell either. Pos!!!!!Gunna get an extended battery....any oneknow of a better than the rest brand or site for them?
Thank you
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Battery depends on what is eating it up.
Display, data wifi, music, maps.
Check you battery stats and see what it's using your battery.
You can dim the brightness. Turn off wifi when not using with the toggle.
Download a data toggle from the market, dataswitch. UnInstall maps if you don't use it
These three will increase the battery between charge.
The extended battery from legit company will inc time. They can be expensive. Chinese knockoff aren't really that much more effective..ymmv

qkster said:
Battery depends on what is eating it up.
Display, data wifi, music, maps.
Check you battery stats and see what it's using your battery.
You can dim the brightness. Turn off wifi when not using with the toggle.
Download a data toggle from the market, dataswitch. UnInstall maps if you don't use it
These three will increase the battery between charge.
The extended battery from legit company will inc time. They can be expensive. Chinese knockoff aren't really that much more effective..ymmv
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I appreciate the tips but I've done it all. The phone will be on standby. Sitting on the desk no gps no wifi and full five bars of microcell. The wench on the phone had the cahones to tell me a phone should on standby only last 6 hours. Eff her in the a. I hate customer services wenches. Seriously. My phone on standby with nothing on gets 4 hours and that's "pretty great" blow me.
Sorry. Anywho I tried juice defender too. The battery is just plain old shot prob from the glitch the mcell is doing g and draining it while its charging when I'm sleeping
Off topic...back on. Thanks for the other above pointed out idea to search for battery threads. Duh.
I evidently have had a gv number for a year or so but never used it. I got the apply but how the hell so I use the sms on it? There's no compose and since I'm not at a lappy for a few more days all I have is my constantly dying infuse to search with....and we are not getting far.

katiecakez said:
I appreciate the tips but I've done it all. The phone will be on standby. Sitting on the desk no gps no wifi and full five bars of microcell. The wench on the phone had the cahones to tell me a phone should on standby only last 6 hours. Eff her in the a. I hate customer services wenches. Seriously. My phone on standby with nothing on gets 4 hours and that's "pretty great" blow me.
Sorry. Anywho I tried juice defender too. The battery is just plain old shot prob from the glitch the mcell is doing g and draining it while its charging when I'm sleeping
Off topic...back on. Thanks for the other above pointed out idea to search for battery threads. Duh.
I evidently have had a gv number for a year or so but never used it. I got the apply but how the hell so I use the sms on it? There's no compose and since I'm not at a lappy for a few more days all I have is my constantly dying infuse to search with....and we are not getting far.
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I'm curious about the micro cell. Can you go in settings, sync, and turn off data n sync for a few hr or at night ?
Gv..download from market and install. After your setup, you should be able to text or call from it. You have to associate it another phone number like your cell #. You can also try setting it up on the pc and under the settings add the phone number linked

No matter what I do with the mcell it.fails miserably. The only work around I found was for texting so I didn't have to hit resend fifty times even though it said five bars. You have to turn off wifi for the texts to go through. Makes no sense to me but after 4 collective hours on hold w att that's what I did to get it to work. They've done nothing but laugh at my issues and thank me for my money. The data turn off didn't help either. Just wouldn't let me emails come through...yea I know that doesn't make sense either.
Its going on eBay tonight or tomorrow. I'm sick of it. At least on my one bar of service in bumblefook I had a day and a half of battery and only had to hit send once. Ill just start using gv for calls if I need to.
Once again eff att
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Since it's been less than a year since you purchased the phone, you can take advantage of the 1 year warranty on the phone and the battery. Go into a corporate location (not an authorized retailer) and have them call the warranty department and send you another battery and/or device.

katiecakez said:
I appreciate the tips but I've done it all. The phone will be on standby. Sitting on the desk no gps no wifi and full five bars of microcell. The wench on the phone had the cahones to tell me a phone should on standby only last 6 hours. Eff her in the a. I hate customer services wenches. Seriously. My phone on standby with nothing on gets 4 hours and that's "pretty great" blow me.
Sorry. Anywho I tried juice defender too. The battery is just plain old shot prob from the glitch the mcell is doing g and draining it while its charging when I'm sleeping
Off topic...back on. Thanks for the other above pointed out idea to search for battery threads. Duh.
I evidently have had a gv number for a year or so but never used it. I got the apply but how the hell so I use the sms on it? There's no compose and since I'm not at a lappy for a few more days all I have is my constantly dying infuse to search with....and we are not getting far.
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To compose, press the menu button and it's there. I have GrooVeIP setup for free calls on Google voice, but rarely use it because the calls aren't that clear.
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yeaaaaa you see they did that for me the begining of the month. I had issues with the phone so they agreed to send me another one....but then they sent along a battery with it. So the 1.5 hour convo I had day before yesterday w some miserable SOB ended in me being beyond pissed bc she said the magical "notes" said I told them i needed a new battery so they sent it. Which i never said. She said sorry mam i cant send you another one bc you just got one.. even though the effing microcell is the reason the battery is dying and blah blah effing blah i hate them so much wah!
::SIGH::
So yes, they only replaced it once and won't again.
You think if I tried a store they'd help more?
The other end of the microcell story is that they mailed me one from a random store bc the warehouse was out of them....so that means they can't replace it for "malfunctioning" (which its not it just sucks check the att forums and here) unless i wait 30 days. That took me 2 weeks just to get them to send it out....but not to me bc they dont send to po boxes...had to have it sent to someone 2 hours away from me and ask them to drive it out. WOOHOO ATT FOR THE WIN!

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To compose, press the menu button and it's there. I have GrooVeIP setup for free calls on Google voice, but rarely use it because the calls aren't that clear.
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yea thank you...i didnt have a number set up the correct way. Thats why there was no option for it. I can send them but since no one has replied yet...idk if i just have no friends or its not working lol

katiecakez said:
yea thank you...i didnt have a number set up the correct way. Thats why there was no option for it. I can send them but since no one has replied yet...idk if i just have no friends or its not working lol
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Lmao I'm sure you have friends. Anyways, if you still have your sms plan for your phone, you can try sending a text to the Google number. That's how I tested it.
And definitely try going in store, if you are a pissed customer, there is no way for them to sell you some bs to get you off the phone lol because now you're face to face.
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haha true true
it seems that the gv only works over wifi and edge...it struggles with 4g or H+ whatever it is.
Is it true that theres a cap on how many you can send via gv?
I'm going to google the heck out of google (lol) to figure out ways I can make my att plan cheaper and all. I'm already on the lowest minutes and i barely use them but idk what else is even possible.
Alrighty....thank you everyone
Now its time to find a new battery...

katiecakez said:
haha true true
it seems that the gv only works over wifi and edge...it struggles with 4g or H+ whatever it is.
Is it true that theres a cap on how many you can send via gv?
I'm going to google the heck out of google (lol) to figure out ways I can make my att plan cheaper and all. I'm already on the lowest minutes and i barely use them but idk what else is even possible.
Alrighty....thank you everyone
Now its time to find a new battery...
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Hmm my gv works from edge to H+ with no issues. Try flashing a different modem and see if that helps. Are you only running on stock rom?
I haven't heard of a cap for sms on gv. LOL I google the heck out of Google too
I made my plan cheaper by canceling my unlimited text and only use gv to text. $20 cheaper yay. But I'm not suggesting for you to do the same thing.
I'll link you to the battery thread, have to find it first.
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Yeah nvm there's quite a few of threads made for batteries. You should probably buy a bigger battery. But yeah just look around in the accessories section here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1160
Goodluck. And I hope everything works out for you.
Sent from my SGH-I997

For SMS you can use the AT&T Messages app. It works pretty well on my Infuse.
market.android.com/details?id=com.att.android.mobile.attmessages
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jayson94538 said:
Yeah nvm there's quite a few of threads made for batteries. You should probably buy a bigger battery. But yeah just look around in the accessories section here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1160
Goodluck. And I hope everything works out for you.
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thanks!I just bought the hyperion 3500 for 12$ on Amazon. Had the best reviews from all the craziness I could I find. I'm just going to bling out the ugly backing for it since all of my cases are horribly 3d and shiny lol (I'll show it off eventually) The gv thing i'm still working on....I didn't realize it used minutes so I guess I can't get that crazy with toning down my bill but if the other person on the family plan decides to do the same thing I'll go for cutting out that. How much are texts from people that don't listen to you when you gave them the new number? I kind of figured what....15 cents each maybe....hmmm....25of them a month while I text them back though google saying text this number idiot!
Shouldn't be too bad.
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atoa said:
For SMS you can use the AT&T Messages app. It works pretty well on my Infuse.
market.android.com/details?id=com.att.android.mobile.attmessages
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Now i'm in a conundrum....gv doesn't send pics.....i mms a lot.
This att thing looked like a good idea until I turned airplane mode on and wifi only. It won't send anything.
Ugh. Wah. I really hate living out here.
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Text Message Issues

First things first: I'm new to Android & this phone (came over from iPhone about 2 weeks ago). So I apologize in advance if this is some old issue that's been talked over endlessly - I'm new to this Android stuff.
That said, I'm having tons of issues with my text messaging. First, I downloaded and tried the "SMS Messaging (AOSP)" app and it was giving me problems of not getting messages from people. This was android & ios users alike. So then I switched to Google's "Messenger" app and it seemed to work a lot better - I was getting picture messages, iMessages, everything in order and speedy. I have yet to do my texting thru Hangouts because I'd prefer not to, but if it'll solve my problem I guess I will.
Right now it's at the point where everything is out of whack, and sometimes just not sending/receiving at all. I think WiFi has something to do with it because if I'm sitting at home connected to the WiFi, it's almost non-functional, but if I switch the WiFi off, it seems to work a little bit better. Also, at this point it seems like texting from Android to Android is fine, but sending/receiving from someone on an iPhone is huge problems.
Is there a setting I need to change? A different app? Is this just something I have to live with til Android M? Help!
Thanks!

Did you get the phone brand new? I can't say this is an issue I've seen mentioned really before
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Ben36 said:
Did you get the phone brand new? I can't say this is an issue I've seen mentioned really before
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No. I got it certified pre-owned thru TMobile about 2 weeks ago. It works perfectly in every other way and when I unboxed it and unwrapped the cling wrap it looked like a brand new phone.
I really think it has something to do with WiFi because when I'm out all day and only connected thru LTE, I send and receive messages completely normally from iOS and Android devices. Never heard a complaint or "hey are you getting my messages" when I'm on LTE.
WTF.

kylmorg said:
No. I got it certified pre-owned thru TMobile about 2 weeks ago. It works perfectly in every other way and when I unboxed it and unwrapped the cling wrap it looked like a brand new phone.
I really think it has something to do with WiFi because when I'm out all day and only connected thru LTE, I send and receive messages completely normally from iOS and Android devices. Never heard a complaint or "hey are you getting my messages" when I'm on LTE.
WTF.
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Texts and MMS use your data plan, not WiFi.. How is your signal where you are having issues? Hangouts will send MMS via WiFi if going to someone else on hangouts.
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31ken31 said:
Texts and MMS use your data plan, not WiFi.. How is your signal where you are having issues? Hangouts will send MMS via WiFi if going to someone else on hangouts.
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Signal is just fine when these texts are giving me issues. I'm usually within 10 feet of the router and full signal. If I walk or drive a block away, I'll get texts immediately that I know were sent earlier. Same goes if I turn off WiFi on my phone.
This makes absolutely no sense.