Group Messaging (ala iPhone) working!!! - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

I made a pleasant discovery today. An iPhone friend sent out a group message and when replies were received they were maintained in a group message. If it's a known feature it was not working for me. Something to note. I use Handcent for messaging and when I installed an antivirus app it gave me a message the Handcent had the highest priority for messaging and and to be downgraded for the antivirus to scan sms/mms. I let it lower the priority for Handcent and low and behold, group messaging works. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or fluke but thought I would share it.
I'm also on Freeza's stock rooted odex rom, with stock kernel.

What antivirus are you using. First!
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Frostacious said:
What antivirus are you using. First!
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Avast Mobile Security. Also, discovered if I send the group message it's received on iPhone as individual message. So my Galaxy will only keep the messages grouped if initiated by an iPhone user. Oh well, still beats getting everyone's individual replies taking up space in my messaging app.

Well there is something there. And i believe that with a liytle investigation you can check the process of which the iphone sends group messaging and possibly mimic there procedure. Dont know but it would be nice.
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Funny our s3's don't have group texting but Verizon and t mobile do....
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MSG & Chubbz ROM has this feature built into the stock messaging app. Its pretty awesome!
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mlin said:
MSG & Chubbz ROM has this feature built into the stock messaging app. Its pretty awesome!
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Time to go pull me a new SecMms.apk....

mlin said:
MSG & Chubbz ROM has this feature built into the stock messaging app. Its pretty awesome!
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Same with Goodness as well.

CNexus said:
Time to go pull me a new SecMms.apk....
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Ummm...TPR has it too.
That is the greatest thing about this Sprint S3 community! The fantastic developers here that actually share their great works!!!! Like Android was meant to be!
Thank you Sprint S3 DEVs!!!

kennyglass123 said:
Ummm...TPR has it too.
That is the greatest thing about this Sprint S3 community! The fantastic developers here that actually share their great works!!!! Like Android was meant to be!
Thank you Sprint S3 DEVs!!!
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Wait whoops...lol I hadn't even tried it out yet, not even when I was still on stock unrooted lol

GoSms has group messaging as well.. and it allows you to start a group SMS with iPhone.. it just slows down when every one messaging at once which is annoying as hell.. I at first thought it was my phone but nope can get into other apps and text in same msging app to another person with no problem.. sucks but it works
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mlin said:
MSG & Chubbz ROM has this feature built into the stock messaging app. Its pretty awesome!
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WHAT?! I'm about to pull this and install...
quick question. I'm still on Freeza's 4.1.1 fre3 (haven't bothered to upgrade yet) - would a 4.1.2 mms.apk work on 4.1.1?

I'm so n moar and don't have group messaging. It has the option in settings but doesn't work. Am I missing something? I had tpr and the same issue. It will not do group messaging. I've checked the setting on and off and still no luck
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phyba said:
I'm so n moar and don't have group messaging. It has the option in settings but doesn't work. Am I missing something? I had tpr and the same issue. It will not do group messaging. I've checked the setting on and off and still no luck
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Did you make groups?
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Did you make groups?
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You mean send a message with multiple recipients? Yea, and also when my dad or sister sends us a group text its not threaded
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I've seen some of the roms implement this but I have hsd scattered messages meaning if onenperson sent a big text in the group chat I would receive message 2of2 before 1of2. I use gosms because at least I get the messages in the right order but as someone recently stated it slows down significantly when everyone texts at once.
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phyba said:
You mean send a message with multiple recipients? Yea, and also when my dad or sister sends us a group text its not threaded
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No, I mean make a group. You can't use group messaging unless you make groups. Just sending to multiple recipients is not the same. Android group messaging is different then iPhone's.

fsalazar504 said:
I've seen some of the roms implement this but I have hsd scattered messages meaning if onenperson sent a big text in the group chat I would receive message 2of2 before 1of2. I use gosms because at least I get the messages in the right order but as someone recently stated it slows down significantly when everyone texts at once.
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When I used gosms it worked ok. Half the messages came as SMS in individual thread the other half were in the group thread and it always locked up and took forever to load. Is there something I am missing?
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kennyglass123 said:
No, I mean make a group. You can't use group messaging unless you make groups. Just sending to multiple recipients is not the same. Android group messaging is different then iPhone's.
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Kenny - Could you elaborate a bit. If I receive a group message sent from an iPhone to 4 people, you're saying I could reply to all 4 people and keep the conversation going??? Just curious since most of my family uses iPhones...

kwheaties said:
Kenny - Could you elaborate a bit. If I receive a group message sent from an iPhone to 4 people, you're saying I could reply to all 4 people and keep the conversation going??? Just curious since most of my family uses iPhones...
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I cannot verify that. I do know you have the ability to make groups such as family, mothers, fathers, etc to be able to send a message to the whole group at once. I never got an incoming iphone group message. Will have to ask my daughters to help investigate this as against my advice they got iphones thinking that's what the cool kids were doing....kids!
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Messaging app compatible with apple iMessages?

Just like the title says. everyone i know has an iphone and all their group messaging comes to my S3 as MMS and do not get downloaded. its very annoying.
any ideas?
metalhawj said:
Just like the title says. everyone i know has an iphone and all their group messaging comes to my S3 as MMS and do not get downloaded. its very annoying.
any ideas?
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get your friends to stop using iMessage.
So far as I know there isn't an android answer to this.
I have a solution that I'm 100% sure will work: get your friends to buy android phones
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Not sure what Imessage is but I use gosms to send and receive group text messages with iphone users.
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metalhawj said:
Just like the title says. everyone i know has an iphone and all their group messaging comes to my S3 as MMS and do not get downloaded. its very annoying.
any ideas?
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iMessenger is a closed Apple messaging system... Apple device to Apple device only. You're out of luck on this one as long as they use that. But a previous post mentioned using GoSMS. if you can get your iPhone buddies to switch to it, then all of you can do group chats. thats your best bet.

Threading group messaging in stock app without root

My friend just recently switched from an iPhone to a galaxy note 2 and I was wondering if there was a way to get the the verizon version of the messaging app because it threads group conversations. This would have to be without root because he would never root.
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shadowdylan99 said:
My friend just recently switched from an iPhone to a galaxy note 2 and I was wondering if there was a way to get the the verizon version of the messaging app because it threads group conversations. This would have to be without root because he would never root.
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I think the app in the playstore called "go sms" does it. Now it doesn't always work. Right now im rooted on a AOSP ROM that has threaded group messaging and it works flawlessly
Excuse my ignorance but what is threaded group messaging?
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Excuse my ignorance but what is threaded group messaging?
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If you send out a text to more than one person it is considered a group message. As it currently is, you will receive a response from each of the individuals in their own message thread. With threaded group messaging all responses to the original text are kept within that thread. It's a really nice feature to have if you do a lot of group texting.

Does anybody know if LG stock Messaging app supports Group MMS?

I've learned that Sense has the ability to, but haven't seen it for us. I also noticed CM10.1 and I read stock AOSP also has it
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I've learned that Sense has the ability to, but haven't seen it for us. I also noticed CM10.1 and I read stock AOSP also has it
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you can do Multiple user MSS, but the text when being received from that user will be shown in a regular text and not as a group chat. if that makes sense lol
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you can do Multiple user MSS, but the text when being received from that user will be shown in a regular text and not as a group chat. if that makes sense lol
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Yes I know that, but I was wondering if there's a way to thread them together ala iPhone group chat. I heard 4.2 has it but I haven't found a way to do it on my friend's N4.
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group messaging?

hey guys..i have been looking for group text app or a mod for it that receives/sends messages in a group thread. I cant seem to find anything. I checked this whole thread and nothing. I even tried to use go sms, handcent, textra, and other messaging apps that have "group messaging."
if I can get some help with this ill gladly appreciate it.
thank you for your time.
Hangouts does it for you. Should already be on your phone. Just enable sms on it.
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shuka325 said:
Hangouts does it for you. Should already be on your phone. Just enable sms on it.
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I tried that and it didn't work. Any settings that need to be turned on other then enable sms??
Have you updated the the latest hangouts? Mine just does it, didn't have to change anything.
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The stock messaging app in 4.3 MK4 does it perfectly. Found this out by accident actually. If they respond to your message. It will stay in the group thread.
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Have you updated the the latest hangouts? Mine just does it, didn't have to change anything.
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Yes I read another thread about hangouts and I updated it yesterday. I tried it with my sis and wh3n she responded it went to her own thread. Does she have to hsve hangouts as well??
goku14238 said:
The stock messaging app in 4.3 MK4 does it perfectly. Found this out by accident actually. If they respond to your message. It will stay in the group thread.
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Is this from the new update or just about any rom running 4.3?? And do they need to have group messaging as well?
Should be on any rom running 4.3 as it is integrated with 4.3 MMS apk.
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Should be on any rom running 4.3 as it is integrated with 4.3 MMS apk.
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Does that work similar to iphones group messaging? I gwve many friends with iphones and I feel left out of the conversation :/..
Yes it does. I group message with my friends all the time. They're all on ios and android.
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Yes it does. I group message with my friends all the time. They're all on ios and android.
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Alright I'll check that out... and is there a ROM that runs 4.2.2 or earlier that has this capability because some 4.3 ROMs don't yet have some things working?? I looked around and found
NoAOSPmod ROM that has it integrated beautifully(I'm using it as we speak) but i want something more like a touchwiz ROM.
Or is there an MMS. Apk that I can install to a ROM?
coolwater22 said:
Yes I read another thread about hangouts and I updated it yesterday. I tried it with my sis and wh3n she responded it went to her own thread. Does she have to hsve hangouts as well??
Is this from the new update or just about any rom running 4.3?? And do they need to have group messaging as well?
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Yeah they do need to have a group text capable app like hangouts... There is an app called slide messenger pro that is really cool and customizable it's 1.99 but I like it better than hangouts and it does group message.
badvcr said:
Yeah they do need to have a group text capable app like hangouts... There is an app called slide messenger pro that is really cool and customizable it's 1.99 but I like it better than hangouts and it does group message.
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Ahhh that makes sense. I tried to group message with my sis and my moms phone and I would get their texts in different threads but they didn't have a group messaging app or phone. Thanks man ..
Ohh I'll look into that app ..
I've tried everything and 4.2.2 and 4.3 have group msg. Or you can try textra. I used to use textra. It's light fast and there are no bloatware. It gets right to the point. Group text works really good in textra.
coolwater22 said:
hey guys..i have been looking for group text app or a mod for it that receives/sends messages in a group thread. I cant seem to find anything. I checked this whole thread and nothing. I even tried to use go sms, handcent, textra, and other messaging apps that have "group messaging."
if I can get some help with this ill gladly appreciate it.
thank you for your time.
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Handcent works fine for me. You have change some settings but works perfect. Also any 4.4 roms stock messaging does group threads.
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What texting app are you using?

Curious to see what texting apps everybody is using. Personally, I am using evolve sms.
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Was using handscent but couldn't resist back to stock
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Yeah, stock for me as well. I've had the urge/need to use 3rd party texting apps.
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Was using handscent but couldn't resist back to stock
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Eric214 said:
Yeah, stock for me as well. I've had the urge/need to use 3rd party texting apps.
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I gotta tell you, evolve is freaking awesome! I would give it a shot. It's kind of a hidden gem.
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jcannon318 said:
I gotta tell you, evolve is freaking awesome! I would give it a shot. It's kind of a hidden gem.
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It may be good, but I'm always of the mind that if a native app does the trick without issues then why add apps that can misbehave or maybe cause battery drains. If I'm not happy with an app i look for a replacement but not if it works fine. That's just my preference.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms
Best messaging app on the market hands down. Simply, straight forward, and just the right touch of customization and intuitive UI.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms
Best messaging app on the market hands down. Simply, straight forward, and just the right touch of customization and intuitive UI.
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I'm actually going to try this!
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Handcent for me. I have been using it for years. I like the customization by contact. You can have different notifications, fonts, backgrounds, sounds and vibrations for each individual. Very nice to know who texted you with customized notifications. I also like the Oops delay. You can set a lag from when you hit send until it sends.
All these features helps visually, physically and by sound who you are communicating with. Less likely to send the wrong text to the wrong person.
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Sadly just using stock because at home I use WIFI calling all the time and stock is the only one that always works, all the time, with wifi calling.
But I do use SMS popup program so I get pop up notifications and a quick reply.
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Handcent for me. I have been using it for years. I like the customization by contact. You can have different notifications, fonts, backgrounds, sounds and vibrations for each individual. Very nice to know who texted you with customized notifications. I also like the Oops delay. You can set a lag from when you hit send until it sends.
All these features helps visually, physically and by sound who you are communicating with. Less likely to send the wrong text to the wrong person.
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I used to use handcent as my daily messaging app. Not exactly sure why I stopped. Definitely going to download again!!
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I use go sms. Good app i just can't find a stock messager with a hidden list for messages
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I love using hangouts with sms it works perfectly I just disable notifications from the main sms
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No hangouts
I use stock. When I had the Nexus 5 and the G2 (CM11), I had problems with Hangouts when receiving MMS and group texts.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms
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I won't use anything from CM these days. Not after what they did to some developers when they became Cyanogen Inc. They basically stole work of other people and left them out to dry. I used to use nothing but CM now, it's just not for me anymore.
Hangouts
I use hangouts, and love how they integrate SMS and Chats.
I had a question though, is there any way our SMSes can be integrated with Gmail Chats?
i.e. If you chat normally on Hangouts, it shows up in Chat history in my Gmail when I see in the browser.
It will be very convenient to have my SMS show up there as well, can search, copy, paste, archive and backup easily.
Anyone else with same thoughts?

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