Anyone else here using their GS5 as a PDA with no cell service? I decided to keep it and just use it for gaming, camera, music player, etc and to lend to my kids instead of letting them near my G3. I'm probably not going to have it setup as a real PDA since I don't want my email or Evernote syncing with it. Maybe just Dropbox and a bs email account for sending files.
I've turned off data and leave the phone in airplane mode since I can't find a way to specifically turn off the cell radio. Sim is out and now I have a sim message in notifications I want to remove. Any ideas on dealing with those things?
Waiting on the unlock
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Have any of you heard of this?
Yesterday my phone decides it's NOT going to send SMS through the stock messaging app. I don't get an error, it appears as though it sends, but my recipient never receives it.....most of the time. Sometimes they go thru, sometimes they don't. It seems to mostly NOT go thru.
If the SMS does NOT go through, I can never see it in Google Voice.
If I use the Google Voice SMS app on my phone, recipient receives 100% of their SMS, same with Web interface.
If I disable my Google Voice account via the web and sign out via my phone, my recipient receives 100% of their SMS using the stock app.
I have all the settings nailed. Google Voice is set to sync, background data enabled, etc.... It was, has been working flawlessly up until yesterday with nothing on the phone changing.
I have wiped, reflashed, tried different ROMs, etc....
Today I called Sprint, they re-provisioned things, then basically said since it's a third party app they can't help. I want to beat my head against a wall here.
Anyone have any idea of what the problem could be?
I can't offer any help but I can tell you I saw the exact same problem all day on the 16th and 17th. I've since switched the Google Voice app to use it's own notifications and turned off the text notifications. For the time being, I'm not even using the stock messaging app.
I remember Sprint having an SMS problem a few months ago one afternoon, but it wasn't specific to GV. Maybe something in their GV integration system is a little wacky right now. People said they got about half of the messages I was sending before I switched to the GV app full time.
Good to know I'm not the only one. Looks like a couple of other people have the same problem over in the Google help forums. I de-integrated my account for almost two days, I'm getting ready to re-integrate it now, we shall see what happens. The support for these phones is god awful. If this doesn't resolve it I'm driving to the nearest corporate store and returning it through their window.
LOL! I'm hoping it doesn't come to that, but if you do decide to "return" it, you may want to attach a brick or something. This phone feels way to light to do any damage without a little extra help.
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Here's a little update. Not really a good one, but whatever...
All of the text messages I had tried to send though the stock messaging app must have made it to Sprint at least because they all just dumped en mass upon their intended recipients. I got a pile of very confused responses.
Maybe the issue has been resolved. I'll switch my settings back and experiment a little.
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That didn't happen to me, but it does appear that my texts are going through. There's one person who says she never gets some, but I can see they're sycning to GV now, where they weren't before. Everyone else is getting my texts too. I have no idea what happened but I'm a little at ease knowing someone else had the problem. I hope it never happens again, I rely on SMS for my business.
Hey guys i'm using a nexus s on att without a data plan. Fortunately, att hasn't detected that it is a smart phone and i haven't been forced into using a data plan. The only problem is that since i have data blocked, i cannot view mms messages. Is there any way i can retrieve them over wifi?
Ya get them emailed
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well i cant tell someone to email it to me every time. gets annoying
having the same issue... try using go sms and setting the mms setting so that it thinks your using a non smartphone
I recently switched from AT&T (HTC Vivid) to Verizon (Droid Maxx). On AT&T, I would always leave my data turned off, but if someone sent a picture or group message it would kick on, download, and turn back off automatically. My droid doesn't do this though. Is that a Verizon thing, a droid thing, or just an APN issue? If it's just the APN could someone provide the proper one?
It's a phone manufacturer thing.
I recommend using an app like Tasker to turn it on when you get an MMS.
rmoney said:
It's a phone manufacturer thing.
I recommend using an app like Tasker to turn it on when you get an MMS.
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Anyone make a good Tasker task they'd like to share? I tried to make a variable to tell if the data is turned on or off, and then a profile that waits for an MMS, then runs a task to turn data on if it wasn't already, wait for 45 seconds, and turn data back off if it was originally off... it's had mixed results so far. Sometimes MMS push through right away and sometimes I won't receive them for hours. This is the only thing I miss about my HTC phone on AT&T.
I set up my galaxy and gave it to mom so she can call me overseas using GrooveIP, Skype, and also so I can send pictures etc.
I just learned she somehow deleted the WiFi profile and also lost the saved password on GrooveIP and Skype disappeared from home.
Is there anyway to lock everything so phone is like read only with no way to make any changes?
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Just noticed I can't send pictures through Google message app.. haven't tried another app.
Yes, if anyone has a fix for this, please advise.
The thing is, sometimes MMS messages (group and pictures and sometimes even standard SMS) DO work, sometimes they dont. I can't discern a pattern to it (Wi-Fi on and Mobile Data On, Wi-Fi off and Mobile Data On, Wi-Fi on and Mobile Data Off, etc), but toggling thru the states sometimes gets the messages sent or received.
Had this issue with an unlocked Nexus 5X on verizon, but not on a device purchased through the carrier.
I hear stock Samsung message app works and I'm sure Verizon message+ works, but I'm not using those, used to Google Messages for years now.
Thread on Samsung site...https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/GS8QA/page/3/thread-id/625
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