Well, I have tried to find the answers for a few weeks now with no luck so I will just pose it.
Has anyone been able to send a Gif. using the default KitKat rom and Hangouts application? I have attempted multiple images with no luck. I am trying to send to an iPhone.
Things I understand:
I know you can send a gif using hang out to hangout (gtalk to gtalk)
I am ABLE to recieve gifs sent to me from an iphone and they move and work in the hangouts app
When i try and send a gif the Nexus 5 compresses the image considerably so much so that it sends just a single static image whereas the iPhone will compress it as well without sacrificing the motion. I appreciate your time and any thing you wish to contribute.
My buddy said the gif I sent were just stills.
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I am experiencing the exact same problem and would love a fix. Has anyone found a solution?
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So I came from an Iphone 4 and so far am happy with my captivate, except for one area, pics and vids.
I have two kids and like to take tons of pics and vids of them. With that I always found myself sending what I took via MMS or email to my flickr account. With the iphone this was a breeze. If the size was too large it could compress or allow me to choose a smaller video size. Unfortunately I can't even send simliar pics or vids via MMS or email as i have before.
Yes..I know you can choose the MMS mode for video, but to be honest the quality sucks. Pictures, there is a reason I take the pic at 5MP cause I want to view and send it that way.
I find myself wanting to go back to my iphone for this reason. But I am enjoying everything about my cappy. If anyone in a similar situation has any advice or possibly resolution to allow my cappy to act as before, please let me know.
Appreciate any advice.
I use handscent instead of the defult messenger. It compresses all my 5mp pics and sends them at a good quality.. i dont know about video because i havnt used it
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I use Pixelpipe to upload videos and pics all the time with no issue.
Thanks for the suggestions...
I do see that handcent dose compress so I am actually happy about that. Appreciate it.
The video issue is two fold though. Although I am on the cappy, my wife and mom have iphones. So you can rest-assured I get messages wondering where the latest pics or videos are.
So quick (good resolution) videos is a must via MMS. Hell, even email I can send a full video to my flickr account. I compared the two recently actually. Took a video on my iphone 4 and my cappy. Same length, same subject, lightiing everything. I was able to successfully send it, recorded resolution, to my flickr and normal email on my iphone. The captivate not so much. "FILE TOO LARGE" blaring everytime.
So i guess the search OR wait is on to make this happen.
Thanks
Switched over to TB from Nexus1 and the stock sms app and now when I attach a picture to an SMS it automatically creates a slideshow. I just want a single pic attached I hate how it comes through as a slideshow and dont want to send the picture out that way. Is there anyway to solve this problem short of a 3rd party app or rooting and getting rid of senseui (For the record I have installed Handcent for now and plan on rooting and getting rid of sense just not there yet)
I'm confused to what you mean? If you just put one picture in it won't send it out as a slideshow. I have sent a bunch of MMS and no one ever gets it in slide-show form.
It creates the template and will convert it to a slideshow mms message if you add another picture, but for just one it shouldn't be doing that. Are you on the stock rom?
Yes stock and unrooted. It states it is creating a slideshow with one photo, I never sent it out to check and now for the second time in 10 days all of my sms and mms are gone, i restored them all from SD Card when I got the new phone and they have all disappeared
Yeah check with someone who you sent it to first, it always makes it look like it is making it a slideshow, but that is just preparing it in case you decide to add an additional photo.
Got it thanks, stock app didn't handle it that way and I hate when I get pictures as slideshow
I'm noticing this with picture messages that are being sent to me. I've gotten one from two different people in the past week and both are slideshows. It's kinda annoying and not sure how to fix it.
YES, it is extremely annoying. It did that with the EVO on Sprint, and my friend's Vibrant on T-Mobile does it also.
You have to tap it and pause it to view it for more than a few seconds and you can't zoom.
Pic quality viewing when you get it by text seems to suck as well.
I just sent htc an email about this when i get a response back I will post what they say
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I'm noticing this with picture messages that are being sent to me. I've gotten one from two different people in the past week and both are slideshows. It's kinda annoying and not sure how to fix it.
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Same here.. had a friend send me some pics through sms. I asked him how he sent them as a slideshow.. he said, I didn't. Now I realize it's my phone doing it. It only happens from certain people though. He was using an iPhone.
Been like this since HTC released Android 2.2 with sense. My dinc didn't do it on 2.1. Horrible idea wish they'd revert back.
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Wen to phone and called *18
It refreshs data and I got mms message
I use handcent sms and never have this problem.
I don't like any of the stock apps with the droids.
My question is that when I'm using any roms even the stock rom I can't seem to view .gif files. People sends me these funny animated pictures but it seems to me that android doesn't support them. Is there any way to view them on my text messages? there are apps to view them but you have to have it saved onto your sd card, but when the person sends it to me I can't even save the file. Is there a way anyone can make this happen or work? On my brothers Iphone he can view them when ppl text it directly to him.
I have the same issue. I have an hd2 running miui and it plays GIFs just fine but I can't play them on my g2x. I hope somebody figures it out.
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I use Quick Pic as my default photo viewer/organizer. It has a built-in GIF viewer.
Its free in the android market. In my opinion its much better than the default android gallery.
So I just recently came back to android for the moto X from an iPhone 5, and in the past 7 months have missed a lot.
Looking past all the issues I've had with Apple users still sending me imessages that I can't receive, I noticed the stock messaging app and gallery don't show gif animation. So I've been using hangouts. This seems to be hit and miss unfortunately.
Any suggestions or fixes for either/or both apps to allow gif animations?
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So I just recently came back to android for the moto X from an iPhone 5, and in the past 7 months have missed a lot.
Looking past all the issues I've had with Apple users still sending me imessages that I can't receive, I noticed the stock messaging app and gallery don't show gif animation. So I've been using hangouts. This seems to be hit and miss unfortunately.
Any suggestions or fixes for either/or both apps to allow gif animations?
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I'm going to go off-topic real quick, but do you still have an iPhone accessible to you?
To stop that, you have to activate the iPhone with your phone number. Turn on iMessages. Let it activate. After 2 mins, turn it off, and then turn off Facetime (important to do both).
Have someone with an iPhone text you every 20 minutes. Eventually, the blue will stop and they will be regular SMS. After that, you can get rid of the iPhone.
It's happened to me before. According to Apple's servers, iMessage is still connected to your phone number, so any time an iPhone sends you a text, it's going through iMessage instead of SMS. When you turn it off, it eventually tells their servers to cease sending you iMessages and then that will stop.
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So I just recently came back to android for the moto X from an iPhone 5, and in the past 7 months have missed a lot.
Looking past all the issues I've had with Apple users still sending me imessages that I can't receive, I noticed the stock messaging app and gallery don't show gif animation. So I've been using hangouts. This seems to be hit and miss unfortunately.
Any suggestions or fixes for either/or both apps to allow gif animations?
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I do not have the iPhone anymore at all. Also, I have removed all devices from my apple id, as well as contacting apple and having them remove my number totally from their system. I still can't get messages from some users.
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I do not have the iPhone anymore at all. Also, I have removed all devices from my apple id, as well as contacting apple and having them remove my number totally from their system. I still can't get messages from some users.
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I had the same issue, so I had to tell my iphone users to click on the message they sent and it should give them an option to send as a text message. Hope that helps.
mgbrown said:
I had the same issue, so I had to tell my iphone users to click on the message they sent and it should give them an option to send as a text message. Hope that helps.
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good idea
gif files don't work on the moto x no matter what previous phone you had. Hopefully there will be an update to fix this. I use an app to view them. There are several at the play store but yea it's a pain...
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I don't understand. I've never had one issue with animated gifs using Hangouts, Photos, QuickPic.
Gifs play in Google +
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singinfeller said:
gif files don't work on the moto x no matter what previous phone you had. Hopefully there will be an update to fix this. I use an app to view them. There are several at the play store but yea it's a pain...
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QuickPic and Hangouts work just fine with animated GIFs. I just double checked to be sure, stock Moto X.
Prior to owning the Nexus 5, I remember always having an option to attach video, picture, or voice memos straight from the text message app.. is there a way to do this with Hangouts?
You can try textra it is free and allows you to do all of this.
Thanks for the reply.. I'm looking for more of a workaround for Hangouts rather than a replacement.. Looks like there's no way to do it..
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klubhead said:
Thanks for the reply.. I'm looking for more of a workaround for Hangouts rather than a replacement.. Looks like there's no way to do it..
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Yeah. I was really bummed when I found out Hangouts couldn't send anything other than pictures. iMessage on the stupid iPhone can do it. I don't see why Hangouts can't send videos since you're using a data connection and not the phone signal like SMS or MMS.
This is an old thread but I really want this feature! It would be super handy for people who work together but don't want to call and text all the time. Walkie talkie style, I suppose.
Can't understand why they don't have this feature either. I have a group with my children's grandparents and want to send them voice recordings and videos of the kiddies.
This is because google want you to send videos through Google plus so won't let you do it through hangouts. It's not good tbh as a lot of my friends won't use hangouts because of it. I hate messenger but if facebook does it then google should
Agree with all of you. I really want the ability to send a short video or audio clip in Hangouts. Too bad some genius at Google can't figure it out how to that yet.
I have a feeling those from Google don't use Hangouts for messaging. They created a product with crippled features.
Bump it up!
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I have voice message on my phone how can I send it to someone on hangout