I have searched many forums and the market to no avail so I was hoping someone here could help.
Is there any way we, android users, can get a function similar to iOS4 users with their "group mms" option. To those of you not familiar, its basically a chat room like feature that uses your text messages. For example, if I were to create a new text on the iphone, I could add more people to it. Once it's sent out, if anyone replies, that reply will go to all of those in the group and so forth. In essence, a chat room is created where everyone receives a copy of everyone else's text.
At any rate, a few of my friends have iphones and I was hoping to be able to communicate with them in such a manner but neither the stock messaging application or handcent has this function. The few options that might work would involve having all of my friends download some new app along with myself and even that doesn't work all the time.
ANY help would be much appreciated.
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this would be helpful for me also as i communicate with multiple people. As of right now i just email stuff out to them so we can all see the replies. To have this on text would be awsome.
I would also like to setup groups so i can just select 1 group to text. I had this on my treo pro and it disappeared when i went to these new smart phones.
As far as I know, there is no such feature currently available without the use of third-party applications (that use data to do it).
Sorry
Maybe someone will build that feature eventually lol
The iPhone's ability to 'group chat' is just Apple being smart about the fact that MMS message details contain all recipients. They simply made their SMS app able to receive all the recipients and reply to all as a group.
An Android app like Go SMS or HandCent (or Google's stock app) could easily be modified to work just like this, if someone would do it.
dcdttu said:
The iPhone's ability to 'group chat' is just Apple being smart about the fact that MMS message details contain all recipients. They simply made their SMS app able to receive all the recipients and reply to all as a group.
An Android app like Go SMS or HandCent (or Google's stock app) could easily be modified to work just like this, if someone would do it.
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I wish someone would do it already, I felt pretty stupid the other day when I was in a group text with a couple people with iPhones and didn't know it.
App in the market called groupme works perfect even though this thread is super old lol.
dirkyd3rk said:
App in the market called groupme works perfect even though this thread is super old lol.
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lol last reply was may 25th, i swear that was last week! just playing but group me didn't work. It's all good, I'm hoping Android implements a feature like this soon...
stryker707 said:
I have searched many forums and the market to no avail so I was hoping someone here could help.
Is there any way we, android users, can get a function similar to iOS4 users with their "group mms" option. To those of you not familiar, its basically a chat room like feature that uses your text messages. For example, if I were to create a new text on the iphone, I could add more people to it. Once it's sent out, if anyone replies, that reply will go to all of those in the group and so forth. In essence, a chat room is created where everyone receives a copy of everyone else's text.
At any rate, a few of my friends have iphones and I was hoping to be able to communicate with them in such a manner but neither the stock messaging application or handcent has this function. The few options that might work would involve having all of my friends download some new app along with myself and even that doesn't work all the time.
ANY help would be much appreciated.
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Have you tried GO Sms Pro it has what you are looking for built in. Gave that a Try
I've been using GOsms pro for a while and i don't see this feature listed anywhere. Where is it?
I've have also been looking for this feature. The sad part is that it was possible on my old blackjack 2. All of the messaging apps that I have used so far including go sms and handcent only allow you to send texts to more than one person in one conversation, but when they reply, it goes back to being separated. Group chat should be implemented in android like it is on the iPhone.
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I've been using GOsms pro for a while and i don't see this feature listed anywhere. Where is it?
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bump for this.
I woke up this morning to a group chat with 3x iPhone 4S users and I had to reply to each of them individually.
I use go SMS also...
I think you have to be the one to start the group chat, just start a new text message and put in all the numbers/names u wanna text, hit send. it'll automatically group them together in 1 text
bump this i have the same deal , a bunch of friends have iphones...
The sidekick 4g has this feature built in. My friend group chats with me and other friends all the time. To tell u the truth it gets annoying having so many texts at the same time lol
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Any one have solutions for this? A lot of my friends use this on iPhone and its annoying not to participate. So I'll get a text and if I respond it only goes back to the originator, while I then get what look like individual texts from others that are clearly responding and going to everyone, and I'm assuming my responses would only just go back to the original writer. Even if I could just see everyone included and then include them manually I'd be ok.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I also have this problem, and its really annoying me. For me group texts are split into each persons single sms thread, when I would like them to be grouped. Do any of the devs think that they could come up with a solution? Honestly, I would be willing to pay to get this solved
I currently have a thunderbolt and it has SOAB rom from BAMF. With this rom I can see the people on the group list. However, when i was on a different rom I would only see the sender. Since now I can see the the group, I can respond in the thread and join the chats and not be left out. the way I did it was to respond to thread in an mms format. If you guys notice, the iphone group comes in as an mms. So my question to you guys, do you see all the people on the list when you receive that message? If so try replying in a mms format. You can do that by putting a dot in the subject line and it'll convert it to mms. The only annoying part about it is yo have to manually be converting a mms message all the time. If you dont, the sms message will go to them in a seperate thread. I tried to find an app that give you the option to chose a message wheither mms or sms without adding a subject line. The only app i found was verzion messages app which auto converts group messages into mms. However, the app doesnt work all the time. I hope it works for you guys cuz I am really happy now since I dont feel left
Mine does that, although to reply to all u have to long press and select reply to all, which I think is better the iPhone does it automatically,
On sense 3.0 messaging, but sense 1 allowed for group Txts to be sent, so I imagine it had a reply all as well
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Hey there,
on my old phone (SE Satio) I was able to send one MMS to several people in a blind-copy mode (BCC) so that none of them saw all the other people I sent this message to.
Is this also possible on the Arc / on Android?
What I want: one MMS to several people not seeing each other.
Thank you in advance!
Stock Android messaging app:
MMS multi-recipients see each other.
SMS multi-recipients don't see each other.
You can try the other popular SMS/MMS apps and see if there's a difference.
Handcent: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.handcent.nextsms
Go SMS: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jb.gosms
thanks for your answer!
i tried handcent, but there is no difference. so the chances for go sms are not good, i think...
although it is technically possible as symbian shows.
i hope there will be an app supporting this feature.
maybe a developer in this forum can look at this issue?! or may custom roms give a better chance?
lets wait
Hey guys,
I'm new to android and I've done my research, but for some reason I can't come across an app that will let me group chat with iphone users. This is crucial to me and it is getting really annoying to have to answer to each iphone user when they are in a group chat. Is there a messaging app that will let me group chat with iphone users without having to set up a new account with other messaging apps like whatsapp and viber? I don't care about imessaging with iphone users. I just care about group chatting and I don't want to set up an account with other apps and force my friends so talk to me through those apps.
Any ideas?
I can't say for certain but I think GO SMS Pro will allow you to configure it to do what you want. Handcent SMS also claims to let you "group mms with iPhone". I will look into it a bit more and let you know if there are any others.
Handcent does do group messages as of recent. It was bad at first, but its now pretty good and usable. I use it quite often with friends who are on iPhones.
I assume that's what you mean by "group chat".
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I'm a go sms pro user and it does the job very well!
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Handcent does it.
To enable, go to Settings (in handcent), choose default messaging application and set to all.
Then at the bottom tick "Thread group conversation."
Finally, in notification settings, tick "Notify after download", for a better experience.
Done.
I'll give these a shot, guy. Thanks a bunch. This should really help me out with group messaging.
Is group messaging. like that on the Verizon S4, not available on the T-Mobile version?
Group messaging like we're you select more than one contact? Because I did that earlier today and didn't know if they replied everyone would see it
It's works for me. Selecting more then one contact coverts it to a mms group message. Replying also seems to go to everyone in the group. I only tested the reply portion with three GS4's though.
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I am having an issue where one contact of the group will have their replies pulled out to a new thread.. The other 3 contacts in the group work as normal group. This happens in the stock app only.
In go sms it works fine (not a huge fan of the app tho).
Any ideas why this is happening?
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hi i have a question hopefully you can give me an answer asap. i have google messenger installed as my default sms app. i also have hangouts. but i was wondering how do i send group messages on which i already have a group made up rather than adding one by one. i hope that made sense what i said. for example i get a text saying hey basketball at 330. i already have a group made up called bball but i cant see anywhere to add it on messenger or hangouts. i dont want to have to add one by one i want to select the group it just says frequent or all contacts. please help me by giving me step by step. im using the latest lollipop rom from gpe on my m919 s4. thanks.