Problems with group texts - Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers

Sometimes I can not send out or receive group texts. When I know the group text function is not working, I can usually fix it by a doing a re-set. But, I don't always know the group function is not working. Has anyone discovered a permanent solution to this problem? Thanks.

I get group texts completely out of order from how they were sent or sometimes get a flood of messages after a 10-15 min delay. It all started when I switched to the pixel 2 from my honor 8. I've been using Textra on T-Mobile this whole time. I've even tried using the Android Messenger and it works even worse.

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[Q] A few issues with SMS messaging

Might be a slow work day, so I'm hoping I can get rid of some the little bugs that have been bothering me....
1. Sometimes I will receive the same text message multiple times, up to about 10 but it's usually only one or two duplicates. This can happen over a period of about 20 minutes.
2. Messages get delivered several hours later or only after a reboot. There is not usually any indication that the sms failed to deliver. I sent a text yesterday to my brother, and it seemed to go out fine with no error message. After rebooting my phone today, I shortly thereafter received a confused text asking what I was talking about. The text I thought I had sent yesterday now appeared in our conversation with a timestamp of when I restarted my phone.
3. The stock messaging app doesn't give me any notifications at all. Obviously, that's not acceptable, so I'm stuck using a 3rd party sms app (handcent). Don't know if this is related, but I use Google Voice for my voicemail and that also doesn't give me notifications (have my voicemails sent to my gmail account as a workaround on that). If I open the apps my voicemails and texts are there, just no notification from the phone.
I know at least the first two issues could be an issue with the carrier (at&t), but I had none of these problems with an iphone prior to switching or when using the mediocre AT&T Messages app on this phone.
I was hoping these problems would magically disappear after rooting and installing a new ROM (viperXL), but that hasn't been the case.
Thanks for any help!

[Q] Not Receiving SMS messages through Hangouts

Is anyone else having this problem?
I'm only getting very few messages through when people have told me they've text me, I have a few theories as to why this would be happening, but hoping someone has a solution:
As I've come from an iPhone, their phone is still trying to send as an iMessage
Google hangouts doesn't work properly yet
I've just ported over from O2 to Vodafone (serious mistake) which is causing the problem
If it's the latter I'll have to take the problem up with Vodafone, but just wondered if anyone else was getting a similar issue with Hangouts and normal messaging?
Cheers,
Joel
i can assure you it's 99% most likely that it's an imessage issue. i've gone through the hassle of trying to force a sign off of the imessage service and it's a major pita.
you need to get a hold of an iphone, and turn off the imessage service, it should start defaulting to sms on other people's iphones in a few hours/days, but it will immediately start giving your iphone using friends an error that the imessage can not be sent, they can then tell it to send as an sms, or if they have the option to revert to sms when imessage doesn't work it will do it automatically for them.
imessage is such a horrible system, and not being able to manually log out of it is very very annoying
adiliyo said:
i can assure you it's 99% most likely that it's an imessage issue. i've gone through the hassle of trying to force a sign off of the imessage service and it's a major pita.
you need to get a hold of an iphone, and turn off the imessage service, it should start defaulting to sms on other people's iphones in a few hours/days, but it will immediately start giving your iphone using friends an error that the imessage can not be sent, they can then tell it to send as an sms, or if they have the option to revert to sms when imessage doesn't work it will do it automatically for them.
imessage is such a horrible system, and not being able to manually log out of it is very very annoying
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Great thanks for the help. I'll give it a go and see if it's any better in a few hours.
No problem, it took almost a week for it to really stop trying for me
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joeyh51 said:
Is anyone else having this problem?
I'm only getting very few messages through when people have told me they've text me, I have a few theories as to why this would be happening, but hoping someone has a solution:
As I've come from an iPhone, their phone is still trying to send as an iMessage
Google hangouts doesn't work properly yet
I've just ported over from O2 to Vodafone (serious mistake) which is causing the problem
If it's the latter I'll have to take the problem up with Vodafone, but just wondered if anyone else was getting a similar issue with Hangouts and normal messaging?
Cheers,
Joel
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I'm on KK 4.2 and Hangouts continually doesn't save text messages sent to me. An app called Ghostly SMS and Mighty Text will show me a couple messages every so often that never show up in Hangouts. I noticed Hangouts also has an "Import SMS" option in settings but it doesn't resolve the problem. Have you found a fix for this?
r3sidual said:
I'm on KK 4.2 and Hangouts continually doesn't save text messages sent to me. An app called Ghostly SMS and Mighty Text will show me a couple messages every so often that never show up in Hangouts. I noticed Hangouts also has an "Import SMS" option in settings but it doesn't resolve the problem. Have you found a fix for this?
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I"m having an issue also. i've never had an iphone so i know thats not the problem..
I started noticing that when I send out group messages to my friends.. i get maybe 60 to 70 % of the responses.. I only know because my wife shows me the messages she received and i'm missing several almost consitantly.. it makes me wonder if i'm missing texts that are sent straight to me.
I thought originally it could have been hangouts.. so i switched to 8SMS.. still continued.. now i'm using the Stock AOSP messaging app and still missing texts..
As far as I know i'm not having issues with calls or missing calls..
i'm praying its just a matter of getting this mysterious 4.4.3 update...
adiliyo said:
No problem, it took almost a week for it to really stop trying for me
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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A week? I got my fiancee a Nexus 5 at launch and she still has issues with group messages sent from iPhone users.
raptir said:
A week? I got my fiancee a Nexus 5 at launch and she still has issues with group messages sent from iPhone users.
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stupid iphone!
Jaws4God said:
I"m having an issue also. i've never had an iphone so i know thats not the problem..
I started noticing that when I send out group messages to my friends.. i get maybe 60 to 70 % of the responses.. I only know because my wife shows me the messages she received and i'm missing several almost consitantly.. it makes me wonder if i'm missing texts that are sent straight to me.
I thought originally it could have been hangouts.. so i switched to 8SMS.. still continued.. now i'm using the Stock AOSP messaging app and still missing texts..
As far as I know i'm not having issues with calls or missing calls..
i'm praying its just a matter of getting this mysterious 4.4.3 update...
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Get Ghostly SMS from the Play Store. It captures all of your sms messages so even if Hangouts or any other app misses a message you'll see the notification from Ghostly. I turn off the sound notification in Ghostly, by the way, so my Nexus 5 doesn't get annoying with beeps. The "Move to Inbox" feature doesn't work on KitKat though
Toggle your default SMS "Account to show SMS in"
joeyh51 said:
Is anyone else having this problem?
I'm only getting very few messages through when people have told me they've text me, I have a few theories as to why this would be happening, but hoping someone has a solution:
As I've come from an iPhone, their phone is still trying to send as an iMessage
Google hangouts doesn't work properly yet
I've just ported over from O2 to Vodafone (serious mistake) which is causing the problem
If it's the latter I'll have to take the problem up with Vodafone, but just wondered if anyone else was getting a similar issue with Hangouts and normal messaging?
Cheers,
Joel
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My wife had this problem on her N5. Solved it by going to Hangouts>Settings>SMS>"Account to show SMS in". Change it to SMS only account. Click back confirm the missing SMS messages appear. Then go back into Hangouts>Settings>SMS>"Account to show SMS in". Change it back to your gmail account to re-merge the SMS texts with your Hangouts messages.

[Q] can't send/receive mms, occasionally texts/phone calls

Hi,
I bought the Z3 about a month ago, and so far I'm fairly happy with it after moving from my S5, but, I have a few nagging issues that are starting to drive me up the wall.
My gf and I both got this phone, and both of us have these issues, we have T-Mobile.
I have a lot of issues sending and receiving MMS, both using Textra and the stock messaging app.
I have had under probably 10 occasions at least where people asked if I received their picture, or if I received their group text, but I did not. I have also sent mms messages and had the other party not receive them.
In addition, I have to reboot my phone at least once a week, because text messages will start failing to send/receive, and same goes for phone calls.
Is there a custom rom or some flashable fix for this issue? It's really the only thing taking away from this phone..
Thanks!
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Anyone having refresh issues with Hangouts?

Often when I send messages through hangouts whether it's an sms or a hangouts message, the message sends but the hangout doesn't refresh with my message or even the response that the other person sent back.
The only way I can get it to refresh is to back out or close the app and reopen.
Does this happen to anyone else?
DarkManX4lf said:
Often when I send messages through hangouts whether it's an sms or a hangouts message, the message sends but the hangout doesn't refresh with my message or even the response that the other person sent back.
The only way I can get it to refresh is to back out or close the app and reopen.
Does this happen to anyone else?
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I have been facing this issue too using hangouts and so has my girlfriend. I believe it is definitely an app issue that is due from a recent app update. I also feel like It could be an issue with having to many texts I got over 5k+ texts in the app and every time I have cleared the texts it usually fixes the issues. I don't want to remove my texts so if you are in the same situation I feel your pain. :c I am not 100% certain on the solution though hopefully someone can figure it out.
Definitely the new hangouts. I reverted to the old version of hangouts and the problem isn't there.
I see this on my Note 2 and my work phone which is an S6

Group Messages Sending Seperately

Anyone else having this issue.
Group text randomly sends messages to each individual user in MMS group when using Samsung Messages. It's been happening for months. Most environments are mixed and Android and iPhone users. RCS is turned on for me. Happens several times a day and I get no indication of it happening until someone responds to me separate from the group. My message for me shows correctly sent in the group.
This does not happen with any other messaging program such as Google or Textra. If I switch to Google after this happens I can see the message I sent 3 times in the group thread if there are 3 other users In it. But no individual threads.
Like I said this has been happening for months and every time I switch back to samsung messages after an update it's the same issue that makes me move away from it. The group settings are toggled correctly, data is on correctly, I've cleared storage, reset my phone (after UI3 update) and yet this still occurs.
I'm currently on the U1 Note 20 Ultra, on One UI 3 with a T-Mobile Sim.

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