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Why on Earth do people use MMS? Am I missing something here?

Every time a device gets AOSP (for the first time) I see a flood of posts whining about MMS being broken. (I've had an Evo 4G and an Evo 3D and saw this on both when they first got AOSP, now I see it in the unofficial CM9 thread here.)
Why MMS? What's good about MMS that you can't get with any other app or service?
Did I miss the train?

Do you know what mms is? From your post it doesn't sound like it.
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bloodrain954 said:
Do you know what mms is? From your post it doesn't sound like it.
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Yea.. I gather that as well.

How else would one sext and send nudes?

1) It's universal.
No matter what phone the other person is using, chances are it supports MMS.
2) It's in-line.
Unlike email, you can just go "Here's a picture" instead of "I just sent you an email, you should go check it out"

xeper said:
Every time a device gets AOSP (for the first time) I see a flood of posts whining about MMS being broken. (I've had an Evo 4G and an Evo 3D and saw this on both when they first got AOSP, now I see it in the unofficial CM9 thread here.)
Why MMS? What's good about MMS that you can't get with any other app or service?
Did I miss the train?
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I know its a serious question but made me laugh a bit. "Why God why!!" Lol

My girlfriend and I send MMS's (plural?lol) all the time. Sometimes she wants to send me something she saw or maybe a new outfit she bought With email I don't always have autosync on for battery life and its just that extra hassle. If I'm trying to send something pretty high resolution I will use email though since it doesn't compress it.

its the easiest and fastest way to send a pic to a person on another mobile phone, any other mobile phone, any OS, any platform, any carrier.
was this a joke?

mbh87 said:
How else would one sext and send recieve nudes?
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FTFY

I guess I just don't get why you couldn't just email pictures or videos. All you have to do is tap after you've taken your picture and the UI asks how you want to share it. I don't know a single human being who still uses MMS outside of these forums and maybe my mother, who keeps buying feature-phones. :^\

It's easier to send a quick picture to a phone than through email. I don't know much of my friend's email addresses off the top of my head

xeper said:
I guess I just don't get why you couldn't just email pictures or videos. All you have to do is tap after you've taken your picture and the UI asks how you want to share it.
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Which is also one way send an MMS.
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Who wants to tell every single person to email them pics instead of texting them. Reminds me of the first few years of the iPhone.

xeper said:
Why MMS? What's good about MMS that you can't get with any other app or service?
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I guess the bigger question is why not?

Almost not wanting to dignify the question... But....
Mms is also used as a group chat in messaging apps like gosms. Allows you to text multiple people at once and everyone in the chat can see everyone elses response. Just fyi
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xeper said:
I guess I just don't get why you couldn't just email pictures or videos. All you have to do is tap after you've taken your picture and the UI asks how you want to share it. I don't know a single human being who still uses MMS outside of these forums and maybe my mother, who keeps buying feature-phones. :^\
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I have a lot of friends who use mms that aren't a part of the forums. As a matter of fact, I'm positive none of my friends are on the forums.
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Here is a better question: Why do people still use CDMA carriers such as verizon and sprint? SIM lacking carriers are almost non-existant outside the USA.

Why MMS??? Then why sms ?? Yeah you could SMS but then if u wanted to send a pic or video then you would have to open a separete app which takes more time mms is simply faster
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Why ? Because they want to.
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xeper said:
I don't know a single human being who still uses MMS outside of these forums and maybe my mother, who keeps buying feature-phones. :^\
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I'm pretty sure almost everyone that I know sends pics through MMS...

Please explain to me...

Hey guys,
Could someone please explain to me why the HOX is so inferior to the iPhone 4S as far as sending and recieving pictures via mms and email. I very rarely am able to actually recieve pics sent by text, and I have to send pictures individually over email versus 2,3 or even 4 pics per email on the iPhone. Video's are totally out of the question on the HOX. This is really the only complaint I have with the HTC. Is thee anything i can do, or are we just screwed?

I send and receive images all the time with no issues. Perhaps you're misplacing blame?
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It's not that hard to add another contact in the "To" line in the Gmail app.
And are you using a different SMS app? Maybe it's AT&T, I only get EDGE on my HOX cause I'm on T-mobile.
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Yeah I've never had a problem with mms messages either, and I can also attach as many pictures to an email as I want. I think you've got something else going on because these definitely aren't HOX related issues.

He probably doesn't know how to use anything besides an iPhone, I just sent an email to 3 people without having to remake the same email.
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I don't use the stock mail app, but gmail allows me to attach plenty of pics. My brother has a 4s, even he can't send large vids via email, we use YouTube for that.
Are you stock or rooted or ....can you be more specific?

No problems here bro. Stock messaging app and gmail work fine too... So does k-9 mail..
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Not receiving sms/mms probably has to do with the carrier and not the phone. I've never had any issues sending or receiving picture messages.
As far as sending multiple pictures per email, this isn't that hard either. Open gallery, press the share button and chose your method (example Gmail), then select the pictures you want to attach and hit next. Gmail will open with all the pictures attached and all you gotta do is enter email address (one or multiple).

theking_13 said:
He probably doesn't know how to use anything besides an iPhone, I just sent an email to 3 people without having to remake the same email.
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Pretty easy to see how you got to 2,000+ posts. Do you ever add anything constructive?
Misplacing blame? What a bunch of over sensitive girls. I asked some simple questions and asked for advice. I have never been able to get a video to play from gmail on this phone. I am constantly having people ask me if I got the pictures they texted me. Several times today I tried to email 4 pictures at once. Every time it failed. Finally had to end them individually and they all went through. I'm on AT&T. Handcent SMS and the stock ICS email app.
Metalhead, you seem to be the only one mature enough to give a straight answer. What do you suggest I look at to fix these problems?

I have had the same problem with the mail app connected to exchange on wifi, it wouldn't let me send an email with pics. It might just be the stock rom causing issues.
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gpo1956 said:
Pretty easy to see how you got to 2,000+ posts. Do you ever add anything constructive?
Misplacing blame? What a bunch of over sensitive girls. I asked some simple questions and asked for advice. I have never been able to get a video to play from gmail on this phone. I am constantly having people ask me if I got the pictures they texted me. Several times today I tried to email 4 pictures at once. Every time it failed. Finally had to end them individually and they all went through. I'm on AT&T. Handcent SMS and the stock ICS email app.
Metalhead, you seem to be the only one mature enough to give a straight answer. What do you suggest I look at to fix these problems?
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Need some more information. Rooted? stock? rom? Handcent works fine for me, i'm rooted, can add multiple pics, it does resize them cos its an 8mp camera, i use the gmail mail app and can easily send to multiple recipients with multiple attachments. Dont use the ICS mail app, like gmail one better.

"Misplacing blame" was a fancy way of calling you an idiot. You didnt ask specific questions as much as you did complain and compare the one x to the iPhone.
Maybe if you weren't a retard, you'd be able to figure out how to use your device. Good luck, chief.
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Oooook guys. Chill out .
OP, try a third party SMS/MMS application. Also, feel free to add more data as it may help everyone better understand your plight.
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Coming from an iPhone, I definitely recommend the JB Messaging (formerly ICS Messaging) from the Google Play Store.
Pair this with SMS Popup and it is really great, especially compared to BiteSMS.

nooomoto said:
"Misplacing blame" was a fancy way of calling you an idiot. You didnt ask specific questions as much as you did complain and compare the one x to the iPhone.
Maybe if you weren't a retard, you'd be able to figure out how to use your device. Good luck, chief.
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Ha don't confuse him with your fancy way of insulting him. :good:

OP, your scenario is strange. I haven't had either of the issues that you are experiencing since I've had my HOX. MMS messages send and receive just fine for me and I have no problem sending multiple pictures via the Gmail app.
In the past I have had these issues on other phones, but it was usually due to AT&T network issues. Have you tried holding the power button down for ten seconds? This is supposed to simulate a battery pull. Beyond that, maybe a master reset?

KitF said:
Coming from an iPhone, I definitely recommend the JB Messaging (formerly ICS Messaging) from the Google Play Store.
Pair this with SMS Popup and it is really great, especially compared to BiteSMS.
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Thanks for the heads up! JB Messaging is awesome.
Beamed from my KingCobra1X powered HOXL on Rogers.

As far as the email issue, some more info would help. Is it gmail, exchange, hotmail, or what?
You have to remember that you're sending what can be large files, and you can end up with a size limitation there, which largely depends on your email provider and what they allow/tolerate.
As to the MMS issues, do try stock. 3rd party apps have been known to not always play nice on various devices, particularly brand new ones, and especially brand new ones running custom ROMs. So it could be that, or carrier issues, or the other party's carrier, etc.
Finally, before completely knocking the phone and pissing off people who a) like said phone and b) actually know a few things that can help, check the attitude and tone it down. Don't get pissed at the responses you get when you march in the door and, quite loudly, let your ignorance show.
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SoberGuy has sober wisdom.
Actually.... Some of the most insightful things I've heard have been from drunk people.
I haven't had the photo problem, the video issue was just that my files were too large, I toned down the quality and was fine.

SoberGuy said:
Finally, before completely knocking the phone and pissing off people who a) like said phone and b) actually know a few things that can help, check the attitude and tone it down. Don't get pissed at the responses you get when you march in the door and, quite loudly, let your ignorance show.
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What the heck?
He said this was his ONLY complaint.
Don't jump down his throat because he doesn't think it's perfect.

[Q] Switching from iPhone...Need some help

Making the switch, as you can tell from the title. Deciding between the HOX ($50 w/ contract) or the Atrix HD (30). Ive been leaning towards the HOX and I love the display. My one big question is does it support (or possible with JB?) threaded group texting without a 3rd party app. I tend to communicate alot via group texting. From what I've read the Motorola Atrix HD does, correct me if I am wrong, and is pretty comparable in specs. Any help is appreciated.

I can't answer the texting question, but I hope the answer is yes because the phones aren't even in the same league. IMO.
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JB Cm10 has group text. However if you get 2.20 update on you HOX then rooting is not an option unfortunately. I'm pretty sure the stock does as well though.
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Vermonty23 said:
Making the switch, as you can tell from the title. Deciding between the HOX ($50 w/ contract) or the Atrix HD (30). Ive been leaning towards the HOX and I love the display. My one big question is does it support (or possible with JB?) threaded group texting without a 3rd party app. I tend to communicate alot via group texting. From what I've read the Motorola Atrix HD does, correct me if I am wrong, and is pretty comparable in specs. Any help is appreciated.
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By threaded you mean kinda like a chat room style. On the stock message app all your in coming text will be separated by contacts.

Under contacts there are group actions and group text is one of the options - under cleanrom.

jayv81 said:
By threaded you mean kinda like a chat room style. On the stock message app all your in coming text will be separated by contacts.
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Yea, that is exactly what I meant. Can't believe this isn't standard across the board. Can anyone confirm that it is in the Atrix HD (Prob should go in that forum, but figured Id ask anyways). Leaning towards the HOX anyways, just wish it had that feature without having to use GoSMS or something of the sort.

Nothing like that chat thing on any android that I'm aware of. I use gtalk of Fb for that stuff.
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GoSMS has group MMS.
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why bother with SMS, use whatsapp. You can create ur own group, max to 30 members. Chat online real time, just like BBM, even better

doc_v15 said:
why bother with SMS, use whatsapp. You can create ur own group, max to 30 members. Chat online real time, just like BBM, even better
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This may not work for people who don't use whatsapp.
I had similar issues with using kik messenger. Couldn't convince enough friends to join to make group messages worthwhile.
I can confirm that you can send group messages with stock sms on the stock Evita, but I think responses come back individually. I'll edit this response if I find otherwise.

If somebody sends a group SMS on an iPhone, it will not be like a chat room for you. You will not be able to see everybody the text was sent to and when you reply it will only go to the person who sent it to you. Also, when anybody else who was in the group text replies, you will get each of those replies in an individual thread as an MMS.
Seems like a lot of people weren't really giving you the answers you were looking for.
Having said all that, I love my One X.

Vermonty23 said:
Yea, that is exactly what I meant. Can't believe this isn't standard across the board. Can anyone confirm that it is in the Atrix HD (Prob should go in that forum, but figured Id ask anyways). Leaning towards the HOX anyways, just wish it had that feature without having to use GoSMS or something of the sort.
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GoSMS is leaps and bounds better than stock messaging anyway

Improvements towards messaging app bbm/imessages

So as much as I love android there is one thing that I kinda of envy when it comes to blackberrys and Iphones and and that would be bbm/imessages. Now im well aware there are apps out there like gtalk or chaton which acts like imessages but I personally would like to see this built into the messaging app itself. I am no developer or anything but it seems that imessages works on the device when it is linked towards the email used for the app store so would it not be easy for google to implement this into their os? I mean on the start up of each android device it does ask you for your gmail password so I was just thinking that this just may be a really nice feature to come out with key lime pie or something. Does anyone else feel this way?

Is this any different from Google Talk? Instant Messaging tied to the Gmail account, rather than the phone number. It's just not as immensely popular.
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sweeds said:
Is this any different from Google Talk? Instant Messaging tied to the Gmail account, rather than the phone number. It's just not as immensely popular.
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Well thats the thing. GTalk is perfect but for example all of my friends who own android products havent even heard of it. Im just thinking if google linked GTalk to a phone number then it could be good.

I agree. This would be amazing.

Yes that would be awesome
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So I guess a better question is what are the odds of this actually being implemented into the next update?

I have to admit that I do miss bbm from when I used blackberry's. But besides that mild feeling of exclusivity I don't really think its much different thn just texting

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I have to admit that I do miss bbm from when I used blackberry's. But besides that mild feeling of exclusivity I don't really think its much different thn just texting
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Ya i hear ya. I guess the only reason I feel something like Imessages would be helpful is because if we are in places with almost no service but there is wifi it would be pretty amazing. Then again i would be scared for samsung or google to implement this because the last thing we need is another apple lawsuit haha

blackguy101 said:
So I guess a better question is what are the odds of this actually being implemented into the next update?
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1 in 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.
if google would make it part of the steup wizard and allow images/sounds to be transferred over gtalk, it would be amazing.

[Resolved] [Q] Google Voice/Hangouts Integration

Hi all,
Since the integration of GV and hangouts I've been having some difficulties with SMS on my Sprint HTC One M7 phone as a result. Prior to the integration I was able to send and receive text messages over a standard cell signal but afterwards I can only send/receive them while I have a 3G/LTE/WiFi connection. Which is frustrating for a couple reasons: since I use tasker to turn off my data while my screen is off to help conserve battery, I can’t receive any text messages until I turn the screen on and data is reconnected. On top of this if I'm out of the house in an area without 3G/LTE I can't send/receive any text messages via my google voice number. As I said before this was not a problem until GV and hangouts became integrated.
Before posting I searched through some other posts and found this link: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/6023920
The link states that:
“If you're using Google Voice on your Sprint phone, you shouldn't turn on text messages and voicemails in Hangouts. This will cause problems with your text messages.”
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So I tried this and sure enough the sending/receiving SMS does work again with over a standard cell signal, however, text messages no longer appear on the hangouts website... which is less than ideal.
So I’m wondering if this is happening to anyone else using google voice and sprint.. and if they have any solutions that might help? It’s really frustrating because previously to the integration I had an awesome system where I could send/receive text messages on my phone and as well as my computer very easily and it seems that google’s now trying to phase this out for something different.

I do not have a Sprint phone but the problem is not because of Sprint. The problem lies with your HTC.
The reason I am saying this is because here in Australia, HTC phones are terrible. I am saying terrible to be nice. There is always some sort of problem with them. Whether it's software or hardware, something will go wrong. 100% of people I know that have or used to have an HTC had to get it repaired within the first year of owning one.
Best thing I can suggest is for you to change phones.
Hope this helped.
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Project:Frankenphone said:
I do not have a Sprint phone but the problem is not because of Sprint. The problem lies with your HTC.
The reason I am saying this is because here in Australia, HTC phones are terrible. I am saying terrible to be nice. There is always some sort of problem with them. Whether it's software or hardware, something will go wrong. 100% of people I know that have or used to have an HTC had to get it repaired within the first year of owning one.
Best thing I can suggest is for you to change phones.
Hope this helped.
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Honestly you shouldn't have even posted, this problem obviously does NOT lie with HTC but with Sprint/Google Voice/Hangouts. Also you are from Australia which which means you have absolutely no experience with Google Voice.
I don't know what kind of experience you have with HTC but the HTC One M7 has won many awards for being the phone of the year for 2013: http://blog.htc.com/2013/12/2013-the-year-of-the-htc-one/
Go troll HTC users somewhere else.

Jaeryl said:
Honestly you shouldn't have even posted, this problem obviously does NOT lie with HTC but with Sprint/Google Voice/Hangouts. Also you are from Australia which which means you have absolutely no experience with Google Voice.
I don't know what kind of experience you have with HTC but the HTC One M7 has won many awards for being the phone of the year for 2013: http://blog.htc.com/2013/12/2013-the-year-of-the-htc-one/
Go troll HTC users somewhere else.
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I am not trolling you, just being quite straight and frank with you. I am telling you that everysingle person I know who has owned an HTC has always had something go wrong with it. I am not surprised at all something messed up. Heck, even here in Australia people have had the same problem with Hangouts and Google Voice on both M7 and M8.
If you don't like peoples feedback, don't call them trolls. Just ignore it.

Project:Frankenphone said:
I am not trolling you, just being quite straight and frank with you. I am telling you that everysingle person I know who has owned an HTC has always had something go wrong with it. I am not surprised at all something messed up. Heck, even here in Australia people have had the same problem with Hangouts and Google Voice on both M7 and M8.
If you don't like peoples feedback, don't call them trolls. Just ignore it.
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No. By the way, opting out of the google hangouts integration fixed the problem of not allowing SMS to work without Wifi/3G/LTE, thus the problem had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the phone!

Jaeryl said:
Honestly you shouldn't have even posted, this problem obviously does NOT lie with HTC but with Sprint/Google Voice/Hangouts. Also you are from Australia which which means you have absolutely no experience with Google Voice.
I don't know what kind of experience you have with HTC but the HTC One M7 has won many awards for being the phone of the year for 2013: http://blog.htc.com/2013/12/2013-the-year-of-the-htc-one/
Go troll HTC users somewhere else.
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No.
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How about this. I will contact my friends in the US that have an android phone, find out which of them have a M7 and find out if any of them have experienced the problem you have been having? Just to keep you as a happy chappy. I will even go one further, i will ask who their service provider is just to prove to you that the issue lies with the phone, not the provider.
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FYI, the closest thing to GV is Hangouts Dialer. They are extremely similar.

FYI, the closest thing to GV is Hangouts Dialer. They are extremely similar.

Project:Frankenphone said:
How about this. I will contact my friends in the US that have an android phone, find out which of them have a M7 and find out if any of them have experienced the problem you have been having? Just to keep you as a happy chappy. I will even go one further, i will ask who their service provider is just to prove to you that the issue lies with the phone, not the provider.
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FYI, the closest thing to GV is Hangouts Dialer. They are extremely similar.
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I already figured out the problem. BTW don't double post, edit your posts, lazy.
By the way, opting out of the google hangouts integration fixed the problem of not allowing SMS to work without Wifi/3G/LTE, thus the problem had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the phone!
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Look, I appreciate you trying to help earlier. But I don't want your snide advice, and frankly it's quite rude. It's obvious you don't have any personal experience with google voice so please don't say anything if you don't have anything nice or even remotely helpful than, "HTC SUXS" to say.
FYI, the closest thing to GV is Hangouts Dialer. They are extremely similar.
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There are actually three forms of GV. There's the original google voice app, which is being depreciated with the integration of GV/Hangouts for the hangouts app, then there's the new app added, which you mentioned for VOIP the Hangouts Dialer.
As I said before in my original post everything worked perfectly, for almost two years so far until the GV/Hangouts integration, so don't go calling my phone a piece of ****. After a lot of searching, (mainly of google groups support forum) I found that the problem lies with GV/Sprint integration and they're still working out the bugs. But it should work fine for other carriers, which is why in the original post the link suggests opting out of the GV/Hangouts integration.
Although doing this doesn't allow you to use the google hangouts web app to receive SMS, it is still possible to receive them when using the the Hangouts android app as the default SMS app and the google voice webpage as well.

Jaeryl said:
I already figured out the problem. BTW don't double post, edit your posts, lazy.
Look, I appreciate you trying to help earlier. But I don't want your snide advice, and frankly it's quite rude. It's obvious you don't have any personal experience with google voice so please don't say anything if you don't have anything nice or even remotely helpful than, "HTC SUXS" to say.
There are actually three forms of GV. There's the original google voice app, which is being depreciated with the integration of GV/Hangouts for the hangouts app, then there's the new app added, which you mentioned for VOIP the Hangouts Dialer.
As I said before in my original post everything worked perfectly, for almost two years so far until the GV/Hangouts integration, so don't go calling my phone a piece of ****. After a lot of searching, (mainly of google groups support forum) I found that the problem lies with GV/Sprint integration and they're still working out the bugs. But it should work fine for other carriers, which is why in the original post the link suggests opting out of the GV/Hangouts integration.
Although doing this doesn't allow you to use the google hangouts web app to receive SMS, it is still possible to receive them when using the the Hangouts android app as the default SMS app and the google voice webpage as well.
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Mate in Boston who is on AT&T who has the M7 replied saying that he had the same problem, gave it in for repairs and it works fine now..... I am not saying HTC SUX. I have had personal experience with HTC but traded it in for a N4 after 6 months cause I got sick and tired of it messing up.

Honestly, you don't listen, you don't read. The problem has already been fixed and it wasn't a problem with the phone. So stop being all high and mighty with your Nexus phones are the best talk.
I am not saying HTC SUX.
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You're being delusional because this is basically exactly what you said in your first post:
HTC phones are terrible. I am saying terrible to be nice.
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