So i got the G3 the day it came out for Sprint, and everything was working fine. I was sending emoji to everyone with no issues. I started messing with some files, and i thought i broke the emoji somehow because all of a sudden, when i text someone, they couldnt see any emoji. They could see them on social networks but not text. I just chalked it up as a loss
However my phone got stuck in a bootloop so i had sprint replace it for me, so naturally i thought my emoji issues would be over since it is a brand new phone. But its the same! Nobody can get my emojis when i text. Even when i use emoji that are baked in texting apps such as Hangouts. Does anyone have this problem, and whats the solution?
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So I seem to have this HUGE problem. I've noticed this first about 2 months ago. The problem is that my notification light will blink, the phone will vibrate, and a notification for a new text will play. But I go to check my texts, and nope! Nothing! So, I thought it was just whatever. But people actually were texting me and my Evo decided to just delete it for whatever reason. Now this doesn't happen for every new text, I get about 150 a day, and it will do it for around 5 new texts. It gets annoying cuz then I have to text my friends to ask if they just texted me or not since I never got it cuz my phone deleted it. Not to mention I'm trying to patch things up with someone and it doesn't help if they text me and I never reply because I never "got" it.
I can replicate this issue when I play a memory intensive game. I know I'm getting texts because I've tried sending a text from another phone, and it would light up or whatever, but I would NEVER see that text. Plants vs. Zombies can replicate it. So I've considered it to be a memory issue. Maybe my MMS receiver closes as it needs more RAM. So I've been trying to figure out how to lock everything MMS related to memory but with no luck. And yes, I've tried to use MMS apps like Handcent, GO SMS Pro etc. No luck there either. And I've tried to use AMM to bring up the priority of my MMS service, also with no luck as it just resets to hidden app.
I've had this issue on quite a few ROM's. Synergy (Nightlies, RC1, RC2-Currently Running), MikG since the beta days, the Gingerbread leak, Kingdom REVOlution. Even on Froyo! I'm getting desperate to try CM7, I really love Sense but if this issue persists, I might just try CM7, but I wanted to know, has anyone else ever had this problem? Am I just screwed!? I'm afraid to get a replacement because of no root. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I would recommend signing up for Google Voice it backs up all your texts online and because your on Sprint you dont have to change your number Another Pro is that when switching roms it will download your texts for you when you install the App from Market. I am pretty sure this will fix it because your texts will get routed through Google Voice
google.com/voice
go sms pro
To avoid this problem i would advice switching to go sms pro its faster and lighter than the htc stock sms app. ever since I switched i had no probs.
So previous to my installation of CM10 I had been running the leaked TW JB Rom and using GoSMS as my texting app. The emojis worked perfectly, I could see them and I could send them. However, a tower in my area went down so I decided to use Google Voice for texting. Obviously there was no emoji support for it. When the tower seemed to be working again I resumed my use of GoSMS and surprisingly the emojis stopped working. When a friend notified me of this I sent myself emojis to test it and sure enough I got black diamonds with a white question mark when receiving. I tried Handcent and Chomp SMS and the same thing happened with those. So that's when I decided to flash CM10 rom hoping the emojis would work. When I got CM10 up and running I attempted to send myself emojis and I think the first time it may have worked (although I'm not positive as I do not remember LOL) but then I got the same black diamond. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem or had any fixes. See attached for the problem. That was in the stock messaging app on CM10 but I also tried it on GoSMS to no avail.
Okay so I learned what the problem was. Although I deleted Google Voice my number was still registered to it and so my texts were going through that. Because of Google Voice's lack of emoji support I was receiving the black diamond's with question marks instead of emojis. So for anyone with a similar problem, just remember to remove your number from Google Voice online at www . google . com /voice
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Okay so I learned what the problem was. Although I deleted Google Voice my number was still registered to it and so my texts were going through that. Because of Google Voice's lack of emoji support I was receiving the black diamond's with question marks instead of emojis. So for anyone with a similar problem, just remember to remove your number from Google Voice online at www . google . com /voice
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Fantastic work mate! This worked for me as well, I just thought it was a Sprint issue, never would have guess it was Google Voice.
Used the search feature in this forum and google'd the net and haven't seen an issue like this yet.
I got two G3's last week.
My wife will try to send a text to several people that we know that have old style "Dumb" phones (Including my work phone) and either:
1. The dumb phone receives a blank message from her
2. The dumb phone receives a message of about 9 characters​
Called Sprint and the Tech person first said that she had personally received messages from friends to her personal dumb phone, that were sent from other types of smart phones that were blank as well. But she said that it turned out to be whatever alternate keyboard that they had installed and that the stock keyboard would send fine. After a few tests she eventually said they would call us back when they figured out the problem within the next few days.
My wife didn't install anything but a task killer on the phone (I uninstalled it after reading a few posts here). She is running stock everything and sending to other smartphones works like normal.
Have already tried a workaround by telling people that she texts to buy smartphones but I don't think that's going to work out.
What could this be? Any ideas would be appreciated.
I've been using Swiftkey since the day I got my m8 well over 6 months ago. Lately I've been having strange keyboard problems. It has only been since Android 5.0 hit the phone, and oddly enough my wife's m8 isn't having the problem. Probably once a day, I'll open hangouts to send a text or chrome for a webpage (or any app where I would need the keyboard) and the keyboard won't pop up. The only fix I've found is to restart the phone. The only real difference between our 2 phones is that she uses factory messaging and t-mo visual voicemail and I use hangouts for texts and voice through hangouts for voicemail. Anybody else seen anything like this?
I hate the Verizon message app, so I always used the samsung one, well I tried factory reset, cache,etc. The damn thing won't let me send group messages or send pics, any one else have this issue? It's driving me nuts, I use the group's reply for work and stuff. But it works in Verizon message app...
I can't answer your question as I did not like Samsung or Verizon's solution. I have used Textra for a long time and never have any problems.
I had this very same issue with my Verizon Note 8 and never figured out what caused it. If I would switch my sim from my Note 8 to my iPhone and back MMS would work briefly and then fail after a while. Verizon nor Samsung could help me, so I downloaded Textra and never looked back. Funny thing is when I first was dealing with this I couldn't find a single thread with any other owner reporting the issue now 4 months later I saw your post lol.
I just noticed that I'm having this exact issue as well. Re-flashed the entire stock Verizon firmware and still can't send MMS. I can receive but not send.
Is almost like it was sabotaged, so you had to use Verizon message app, I'll try textra, thanks for the help
Use Signal, I beg of you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms :highfive:
I second signal. Absolutely no issues so far. Very reliable
Same issue that stock app just stopped sending mms. But have to use due to watch compatibility.. Help?
Is anyone else having a problem with the badge showing up when you got a message? Im not getting any number on the icon to indicate there are unread messages....
I've been having a problem with mms since updating to oreo. Never had a problem before that. But I'm also having issues with data during calls.