I have searched this topic up and down and can't seem to find a straight answer. I have a toroplus GNex that is currently on Beanstalk (but this problem has persisted across multiple clean flashes of carbon and vanir as well) if I select Hangouts as my sms app I Ann able to send and receive sms and send mms but when trying to receive mms hangouts FCs. it continues to FC while the message truss to redeliver itself until I clear app data and switch sms off in hangouts.
I have tried everything I know to help myself with this. I have fully uninstalled the app, cleared caches and installed from market, tried freezing stock messaging app, etc.
so my question is, is this across the board for toroplus users? or threads have slowed to a crawl since the n5 release and no one had mentioned this big that I've seen.
t.i.a.
Z
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Hello everyone, I would like to start by saying thank you to everyone here, all of your posts, info, etc has been excellent in helping me along my way to learning enough about this stuff to be dangerous to mine & my friends phones...we're all still using them so that's a "Win" in my book
Now, on to my problem. I've tried googling & searching posts here, and I don't know if it's just the terminology I've searched but I've found nothing similar to my problem except where a thread had to do with EMBS messages coming through incorrectly.
First off, I'm on a Sprint Branded Samsung Epic Touch 4g Galaxy S II (whew that's a mouthful already) It is on Verizon Prepaid Service.
When I first set this phone up, everything worked correctly - Talk, Text, Web, MMS, WiFi Hotspot, Etc - all working perfectly. I was able to send & receive picture mail through MMS, etc.
I am currently running CyanogenMod 9-20120416-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-Alpha 3
Android Ver 4.04
Kernel Ver 3.0.15-SPH-D710.FD10-CL377892
This is the updates I installed to this phone originally:
gapps-ics-20120429-signed
StockCWM-EL26.tar.md5
update-cm-9-20120416-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-alpha3-signed
mmsfix.zip (and made the correct changes for Verizon)
As I said, the phone was 100% functioning at this point for several days. The problem that came up happened out of nowhere, no changes were made to the phone whatsoever, not even a random app was installed from the market.
The only apps I have installed are
Wifi Tether (Rooted Users)
ES File Explorer
Facebook
GMail
Craigslist
Facebook Contact Sync
NFL Scoreboard
QR Droid
SuperUser
Rom Toolbox
Rom Manager
Terminal Emulator
Other than that, it's just what ICS & GApps Installed.
So here's the problem - whenever I recieve a text from anyone now, if it comes in multiple texts (ie 1/2, 2/2/ etc) it shows up as all special characters when I recieve it.
Here is the last one I got, I sent it from another phone on the same carrier - I just typed myself a message until I was sure it would be a 2 part message and this is what came through on my Epic
First Msg
ß<xp¿AcGÉ?üööysgOS&Læ;6lX9W/Ü<9rfEØΨ+FøÆ8xp¿A¥ìÅß<xqF<9$fÅz<EEggÜNixw¿
5¥rdåÆΩÖÅΠ'ålÄ3gF
3vø)rlyscW/Ü>ñzsbEKΨ/ÜÆ_gGEìgVLhurd1äñ2AÅZ#ΛC<z¡@@@@@@@
Second Msg
Ü=ävhPfOÉ?N3vlY1cnÖ<yreIΨ/Ü<9rfEØC¥ìÅÆ8xpaCì
Λ(XΔA$éZTGøΔHEwì/ÖrsOà#Ec=P
I put it in a hex/text converter and the text version came up all "?'s" so I'm pretty much at a loss at this point.
I apologize for a long winded message, but I wanted to include as much information about my phone, etc as possible to get the best answer I could.
Again, thank you all and if anyone has any insight to what might be causing this, I would greatly appreciate the info.
Oh, and in case I didn't make it clear - at this moment, text works fine (if its only 1 text at a time incoming) I can send multiple page texts & the recipient gets them no problem, and I can send/recieve pictures, etc as mms with no problems...the problem only exists if it's multiple pages of text coming in at once.
Thanks
What happens if you use a 3rd party messaging app like handcent?
someguyatx said:
What happens if you use a 3rd party messaging app like handcent?
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I just tried a few diff versions of Handcent, with the settings Default, then again with the settings on "Default SMS/MMS App (Disables Stock & Other Messaging Apps) and got the same results...
The wierd character code that comes through is exactly the same, both with the stock app & handcent in case that might be a question...
**Update**
I have Google Voice number sending voicemail converted as text to my phone on a secondary number. I got one today, was 3 pages SMS and it came through perfectly, right after that, I got a reg text from someone elses phone that was 2 pages, and it was the same type characters, and a few more since that were all the same special characters.
I've tested the Google Voice translation a few more times, and it comes through perfectly. I also tested just sending a multi-page text to my google voice number, which just forwarded the texts to my phone via SMS and they also come through perfectly.
So SMS from Google Voice in multiple texts works great, but from another phone do not.
If anyone has seen anything like this, I would love to know I'm not alone.
I'm having this exact same problem too. I noticed multiple texts incoming from certain people are fine, but when I receive multiple texts from a few others or a group sms from an iphone I get this really wonky characters. Any help would be appreciated. I am using this phone through pageplus.
Hey guys,
I need a little bit of help. My wife's phone is unable to retrieve MMS messages from Handcent or GoSMS. My LGOG works just fine and we're in the same room so I know it's not a signal/reception issue. I did some googling around and did update my PRL and also enter in the APN information into GoSMS. However in Handcent or GoSMS, if you click the download button, it just spins and spins and doesn't do anything. What is weird is that if I go to the stock messenger app and press the download button, it will download. I checked the settings in the stock messenger and it is set to auto-retrieve MMS messages. Once the MMS is downloaded in the stock app, than Handcent and GoSMS will see the image. I think if I can figure out why the stock app isn't automatically retrieving the MMS like it should be, that might solve our issue. I've tried to toggle the auto-retrieve option on and off several times and countless reboots. Cleared the cache.....I can't find anything else in the forums or on google and I'm not sure what else to try. Her phone is unrooted and we'd like to keep it that way.....any suggestions?
Sorry, forgot to mention, this fails regardless if we're on wifi, 4g, or 3g...
I installed Synergy today, so far everything except SMS seems to be working. My only issue is that Messaging FCs. I prefer Handcent SMS which does launch, but if I try to send a SMS it will also FC.
I can receive SMS and replying in the pop-up notification is working... I just can not initiate a new SMS.
Synopsis:
Stock Messaging app will not launch.
Handcent SMS launches but FCs when trying to initiate new SMS message.
Handcent can receive and reply in the pop-up notification.
I see past SMS issues on the Synergy thread, but none match my issue.
Thank you for your time.
TC
Have you tried the aosp MMS option ?
Never had it force close on me before bit I have used Samsung messaging in ages
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium
Fixed
I reflashed the ROM. I did a double factory reset prior to installing... wiped cache/davlik before and after installing.
Everything seems to work now.
Thanks for the friendly response!
Hey all,
Strange problem, I'm unable to send MMS through any app but the stock app, I've tried chomp, textra, and my favorite Evolve Sms, and people can't see my responses to group texts either.
Also, when I try sending the mms via stock app, I get an error saying "Htcsprintservice has stopped"
and I can't get into the ##72786 menu to reset anything. When I type the code, the dialer freezes a second then doesn't do anything.
I'm on Leedroid's Rom, Sprint variant. I tried asking there but didn't get an answer.
Anyway I can fix these issues?
Anyone at all ever have this problem?
I have been having this issue since yesterday morning where as the title describes that hangouts is taking priority over messages. I literally will not receive messages unless hangouts is selected as the default app. I was thinking that this may have been started once I got a bunch of updates through the play store. However, I uninstalled updates and disabled Hangouts attempting to force the problem to stop. This to no avail.
So is anyone else running into issues such as this. Or, does anyone have any advice as to how I could remedy this issue. I know it is quite silly, but I love being able to use GIFs while texting people and hangouts doesn't support googles GIF keyboard for some reason.
nthornton1990 said:
I have been having this issue since yesterday morning where as the title describes that hangouts is taking priority over messages. I literally will not receive messages unless hangouts is selected as the default app. I was thinking that this may have been started once I got a bunch of updates through the play store. However, I uninstalled updates and disabled Hangouts attempting to force the problem to stop. This to no avail.
So is anyone else running into issues such as this. Or, does anyone have any advice as to how I could remedy this issue. I know it is quite silly, but I love being able to use GIFs while texting people and hangouts doesn't support googles GIF keyboard for some reason.
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This is a tough one. I've been there before but it was a while ago and I found the answer I believe on G+ but let's see if we can get you back on track here. Under settings->apps-hangouts what shows under SMS app? Click it and make sure at the bottom that sms app is showing Messages. Also in the Hangouts app itself go to settings and make sure SMS is disabled. Let's start there.
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This is a tough one. I've been there before but it was a while ago and I found the answer I believe on G+ but let's see if we can get you back on track here. Under settings->apps-hangouts what shows under SMS app? Click it and make sure at the bottom that sms app is showing Messages. Also in the Hangouts app itself go to settings and make sure SMS is disabled. Let's start there.
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So yeah I have already done that. Messages will send the message, but the received message will come in through Hangouts. I am going to do a factory reset when I get home (the wifi at my office is terrible). I will see if that makes any difference. I hate to have to resort to that, but I wasn't having this issue prior to the most recent updates.
So I figured out the problem. I am on Project Fi. Within hangouts there is a setting in accounts that takes all calls and SMS through hangouts. Turned that off and now I am good.