Messages issue - can't send, shows as draft, restart required - Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers

Hey all, I've been having trouble with Messages on my Pixel 2 and curious if I'm alone (currently on version 3.9.039 but has been happening for 6+ months with previous versions too).
The pattern is the same every time, and happens almost daily. I'll type out a message into the box, hit the arrow to send, message disappears from the box (like it's sent), but then doesn't show up in the conversation. If I go back to my list of conversations, a portion of the message shows in the preview as if it's still a draft. But if I touch the thread to go back into it, there's nothing in the message box and it's still not showing up in the conversation. My only solution is to restart the entire device (forcing the app to quit and re-opening doesn't help). After a restart, go back into Messages, message still shows as a draft in that particular thread, but then when I touch it to go back into the conversation it now shows a portion of the message in the text box, I can finish what I intended to say, hit send, and all's normal.
It's quite maddening to have to regularly reboot just to get Messages to cooperate. I've tried searching around generally for tips, but this particular issue is hard to describe in a way that returns any useful hits.
Anyone else experience anything like this?
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I've been having the same issue. No idea how to fix it. Also running the latest Android Messages on a Pixel 2 on Google Fi.
sdsurferbob said:
Hey all, I've been having trouble with Messages on my Pixel 2 and curious if I'm alone (currently on version 3.9.039 but has been happening for 6+ months with previous versions too).
The pattern is the same every time, and happens almost daily. I'll type out a message into the box, hit the arrow to send, message disappears from the box (like it's sent), but then doesn't show up in the conversation. If I go back to my list of conversations, a portion of the message shows in the preview as if it's still a draft. But if I touch the thread to go back into it, there's nothing in the message box and it's still not showing up in the conversation. My only solution is to restart the entire device (forcing the app to quit and re-opening doesn't help). After a restart, go back into Messages, message still shows as a draft in that particular thread, but then when I touch it to go back into the conversation it now shows a portion of the message in the text box, I can finish what I intended to say, hit send, and all's normal.
It's quite maddening to have to regularly reboot just to get Messages to cooperate. I've tried searching around generally for tips, but this particular issue is hard to describe in a way that returns any useful hits.
Anyone else experience anything like this?
Thanks
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Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me.
I just upgrade to the offical Verizon ROM to WM 6.5 and I'm having some issues.
The main problem: I take my phone off of sleep mode or stop it from entering just prior to and my TF3D home screen shows but the banner reads "messaging" instead of "start" like I'm in my messages and the virtual keyboard will pop up. This also happens 85% of the time when I recieve a new txt/mms not with emails however. This is a new development I;ve had the ROM since launch.
Before I call VZW and get stuck on hold for 50 years I figured i would see if anyone else has this issue or knows of a .cab that might fix the issue. I have had luck with .cabs in the past for other issues.
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PaulKiefer1821 said:
The main problem: I take my phone off of sleep mode or stop it from entering just prior to and my TF3D home screen shows but the banner reads "messaging" instead of "start" like I'm in my messages and the virtual keyboard will pop up. This also happens 85% of the time when I recieve a new txt/mms not with emails however. This is a new development I;ve had the ROM since launch.
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I have a very similar problem to you my friend. When I check my messages (txt or emails) and close out of them the Messaging will pop up like yours, although my keyboard doesn't show up. Sometimes it takes 5 seconds sometimes 30 seconds.
My main issue is it will turn my screen back on when this happens. So if I read a txt and close it and I don't wait for it to pop up, my screen will stay on. It's killing my battery life and some funky things happen when its in my pocket turned on..
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[Q] Recent call list keeps showing all texts and calls

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This is a little annoying thing that keeps happening randomly. In my recent calls list I have it set for showing "All calls" only but it keep reverting to showing all calls and text messages. With me texting a lot it gets annoying to see all of that in there, thats why I prefer it to show just calls. I can change it back to "all calls" but day later or sometimes few days later it will go back to showing everything.
Was wondering if this was a glitch or if I am doing something incorrectly, and how could I fix it.
Btw I am running stock rom, no root, on the latest update from Verizon. This has been happening basically for about 6 months now (possibly since the big update to JB)
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Samsung Interface Not Updating

All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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talonpetty said:
All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple interfaces.
norbarb said:
Go to settings and check if your time is setup to adjust automatically.
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That is not the issue. As mentioned, it's not just the clock it's multiple apps/interfaces.
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I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
[Solved]
I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.

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