Cannot receive text messages from iPhone users using iMessage. - One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

First thing you need to know is that I've never owned an Apple device. I've been having this issue ever since Apple upgraded to iOS 6 & 7. My girlfriend and some of my friends are iPhone users, and sometimes they send me messages but I receive them late or even never receive them at all. Sometimes I get their text that got mixed with a text that they sent sometime before (even from convos that are days or weeks old) in the SAME message (WTF?). I event get spammed by the same message 5+ times, example http://i.imgur.com/ij8GtPu.jpg which is annoying and ridiculous!
Ive searched the web and did not find a single solution, only thousands of people complaining with no fix. The only solution to this is to use another chat app with the other person, which is really hard to convince someone to do that. Especially Apple fanboys and fangirls like my GF. I suggested Whatsapp or Hangouts and even suggested her to disable iMessage (there's a feature that lets you disable the iMessage feature so the iMessage app only sends SMS to the users) which my GF denied also. -_-
TLDR: I don't get texts and people wait for me to respond and think that I'm ignoring them or I get spammed. How to fix pls?
Edit #1: I've never been an Apple user so "disconnecting" my number from iMessage by sending a "STOP" text to 48369 probably wont help. BUT I did try it today and we'll see if that works lol...
Edit #2: Oh the irony... http://i.imgur.com/7gmUN54.png
Edit #3: My phone is stock. Never did any modding.

IMO, not much can be done on Android side but I remember reading a great article about this issue.
http://readwrite.com/2014/05/23/apple-imessage-for-android
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If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

.Ryker said:
If you haven't used iPhone still try this.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
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Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
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Khalil_y said:
Yeah that doesn't work. I don't receive a text with the code unfortunately.
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Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?

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Thats bizarre. How long have you had the phone number you have got now?
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I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.

Khalil_y said:
I've had it since early 2011, so almost 5 years. It was a new T-Mobile number too, I got to pick the last four digits.
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I would maybe call Apple support. Even though you don't have an apple device it seems their system thinks that your number is register for imessage.

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Is there an app for filtering text/calls from specific numbers?

First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.
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First, if I see another "use the search" reply I'm gonna flip out...unless it's sarcasm because of me typing that. I have searched...and search, and searched, and searched. Not just on xda either.
All I want to know, is if there is an app, free, not free - WHATEVER - that can be set to delete/reject texts and call from a phone number you enter into the program. I'm sure someone would suggest it, but changing my phone number isn't an option...so after about 150 texts from the most obnoxious, stuck up, self centered.....yeah.....in the world, I need a way to keep their texts (and calls, but especially texts) from coming through.
And please don't say it isn't possible, because it is. My old Samsung had exactly that feature and it wasn't HALF the phone the Rhodium is.
So please, if anyone knows of one, please tell me and accept my apologies if my post seems rather blunt... It's been a stressful day and I don't sugar coat what I say when I'm frustrated.
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use the search button!!!! jk, look for pocket bouncer.it lets you put in numbers to block im pretty sure.
Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
-edit- looks like Pocket Call Bouncer is only for calls. Is there one for texts? Even if it lets it through and deletes immediately it I'd be happy.
refyused said:
Lol, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it out after I get back from my run.
-edit- looks like Pocket Call Bouncer is only for calls. Is there one for texts? Even if it lets it through and deletes immediately it I'd be happy.
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just call your service provider and have them do it.prolly the easiest way.
Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.
refyused said:
Just called them, didn't realize they could do that (Sprint couldn't when I worked for them). They want to charge me $5 a month to do it... I'm already paying too much for AT&T's lousy service that works less than half the time. Guess I'll just keep searching and pay their monthly fee as a last resort.
Thanks bud.
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i just told them i wasnt gonna pay that and if they wanted to lose 3 customers over 5 bucks a month be my guest. they cracked. i pay them nothing{not to mention got a new phone for free!!}
I'll try that when I call them tomorrow... Been a frustrating day.
i used kaspersky mobile security about a month ago, they have a 30 day free trial. im not sure if it will block phone calls, but it has a black and white list for text messages. it got kind of annoying to accept the first text from each different person, but maybe there was a way to add your phone book, or only worry about the black list page. had lots of extra features too you might find interesting. let me know what you think and post back for other people who have the same question!!
Use the following cab, its blocks both calls n text
Thanks for those two replies. Got some testing to do now. Thanks again!

[GSM][T-Mobile] Not receiving SOME texts

I text this friend of mine everyday as well as other ppl.. however I do don't get some of her msgs even after she sends it twice.. She has an iPhone 4S and I'm on GNexus - Liquid 1.4, I switch from Aokp bcuz I thought It was the rom... but it still happens I have signal I can send msgs during the time and there's times where she text me other things while still resending the one I don't get. It happens quite often and is annoying. Anybody know why? Anything helps
Apples iPhone, There's a patent for that. Solving lifes dilemmas one lawsuit at a time.
Did you have an iphone before and using iMessage I don't see how other way your not getting them I had multiple phones and carriers same number and I have no problems now that I'm on Tmobile
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No I have never used an iPhone myself always had an android.. Cliq, HD2, SGS2, Now GNex. All regular SMS I always seems to get mms tho. The person would send a screen shot so I can see the actual reply she sent that I didn't receive. Twice. My sim is kinda new as well.
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[Q] Trouble Receiving Text Messages From Friends W/ iPhones

Hello,
My wife has an iPhone 4 on AT&T and I of course have an S3 on T-Mo. I also have another friend with an iPhone 4 on Verizon and I cannot for the life of me figure out why I cannot get texts from them. I can easily get texts from everyone else BUT them iPhone. Is there an issue with my phone? I've tried Googling the answer, and I'll I'm reading is responses like "That is Apple for you." but can I get a technical response or an idea of what I can do to remedy the situation?
Thanks all! :good:
GS3 dont play well with iphones. Everytime an iphone user sends me a MMS all i get is tiny thumbnail. seems the sms/mms issue has been discussed here but i havent had a real answer yet :/
I get pix from iPhone users daily with no problem.... I've gotten over a hundred MMS and over 6000 texts from people with iPhones over the last month or so... not sure what to tell you.
Tell them to get an android.. duh
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First off, that's gonna be hard to pinpoint. Why? Because a text is a text unless the iPhone is doing some sort of encoding magic that the Galaxy S3 somehow rejects but that shouldn't be the case because if it was, it would be an android issue. And at the end of the day, texting between the Galaxy S3 and iPhone work just fine because I have friends with iPhones and I received their texts without any issues. So it has to be something to do with your specific phone.
Have you tried putting your SIM card to different phone and seeing if you get the texts then? And also have you tried someone else's SIM card in your phone/just going and getting a new SIM from T-Mobile?
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Never heard of that op. My brother and sister both have iPhones and I get MMS/SMS from both.
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Might be your phone op. My Co worker has an iphone and we send MMS and links and txts all the time with no problems.
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I have no problems getting texts but picture messages take hours sometimes to come through very strange
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Hey all, thanks for the pointers. I'll check my SIM today. I do have a backup micro SIM actually!
If you had an IPhone as well before you could be linked to Apple ID. If that's the case when iPhone sends you message it detects its linked to ID and your Galaxy will never get it. Hope that sends you in right direction to solve it.
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johnowa636 said:
If you had an IPhone as well before you could be linked to Apple ID. If that's the case when iPhone sends you message it detects its linked to ID and your Galaxy will never get it. Hope that sends you in right direction to solve it.
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This is a good point. I had my email linked to iMessage and someone with an iPhone texted my email address and instead of going to my email inbox it showed up on my iPad. Not sure how it works with your phone number though.
johnowa636 said:
If you had an IPhone as well before you could be linked to Apple ID. If that's the case when iPhone sends you message it detects its linked to ID and your Galaxy will never get it. Hope that sends you in right direction to solve it.
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psykhotic said:
This is a good point. I had my email linked to iMessage and someone with an iPhone texted my email address and instead of going to my email inbox it showed up on my iPad. Not sure how it works with your phone number though.
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I actually DID have an iPhone 4 before switching back to the Android platform. Let me look into the Apple ID situation and I'll report back! Thanks! :good:
Well I fixed my phone. It WAS related to the Apple ID. Like I said, I had an iPhone before the S3 and when I had the iPhone on and left on Wi-Fi people's iMessage was pointing their texts to that phone. I wiped the phone (as I'm about to sell it) and that fixed the problem.
Thanks again for the insight people.
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Well I fixed my phone. It WAS related to the Apple ID. Like I said, I had an iPhone before the S3 and when I had the iPhone on and left on Wi-Fi people's iMessage was pointing their texts to that phone. I wiped the phone (as I'm about to sell it) and that fixed the problem.
Thanks again for the insight people.
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Glad you got it fixed! I know a lot of phones have issues with the stupid iPhone. Even Kylee old touch pro 2 had issues. I just think the iPhone is horrible.
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Switched from ios to android

Just got my note 3 on Monday. Had an iPhone 4s before. Now it seems some ppl that used iMessage that try to text me it won't let them text me it just says I'm still connected to iMessage but doesn't go through. I have turned off iMessage on my iPhone already and that hasn't worked. Any suggestions?
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dude same thing happened to me... i called apple support and they put me in touch with some higher level technician... he was the only one that could fix it, it took about 3 days and a few calls to finally figure it out.
disaznguy817 said:
Just got my note 3 on Monday. Had an iPhone 4s before. Now it seems some ppl that used iMessage that try to text me it won't let them text me it just says I'm still connected to iMessage but doesn't go through. I have turned off iMessage on my iPhone already and that hasn't worked. Any suggestions?
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Make sure your friends have a phone number for you in their contacts first. Second tell your friend in imessage to click the red error icon and tell it to send as sms. Then future messages should go as sms.
Yeah I tried that with my sisters iPhone but I don't really want to tell all my friends with an iPhone to do that thought there would be an easier way. Thanks though.
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It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
Go to iCloud.com and remove your phone from find my iPhone. Then on your iPhone turn off/delete your iCloud account. Also turn off iMessage and FaceTime. I had this issue as well and doing the following helped me solve it.
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Thanks guys will do that as soon as I get to a computer.
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Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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To most iPhone users that's considered a high level technician lol.
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Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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I deleted my number from my iTunes and online and still no dice. So I had to call Apple because none of that crap was working. This ain't my first rodeo buddy
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Here is how to fix it:
I hope you still have the iPhone. Take the sim card from your phone and place it back to your iPhone.
Go to settings, messages, then switch off imessage.
The reason why you need the sim card is because without it, under send and receive, your phone number is still activated but grayed out.
Once that is done, you can place your sim card back to your Note 3.
Have one of your iPhone friends try to text you to test it out.
Pedro2NR said:
hope you still have the iPhone. Take the sim card from your phone and place it back to your iPhone.
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The reason why you need the sim card is because without it, under send and receive, your phone number is still activated but grayed out.
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Why would he be using the SIM from the IPhone in his N3? The N3 would have its own SIM which has ISIS support in it.
I never said his iPhone sim. One needs the current sim card that has the phone number activated to it to go to the iPhone to be able to fully disable iMessage.
iMessage still has his phone number linked to the phone, sim card or not. One needs to turn it off.
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To most iPhone users that's considered a high level technician lol.
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lmao.. HILARIOUS:laugh::laugh::laugh:
Anthony820 said:
It doesn't take a "high level technician." Just google it. You log in to one of Apple's sites and disable/deactivate that phone number from your iTunes account. The problems will immediately fix.
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bahahah
high level technician. I bet they googled it too
Apple genius. BTW, op. Congratulations on upgrading to a real operating system.
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Lol the 4s was temporary since my note 2 was damaged so I completely agree hah
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Can't receive group messages from iphone.

I am using Straight Talk, and I can receive pictures from everyone, and group messages from everyone except one person. This includes iphones and androids. That one person has an iphone 5s and they use Verizon. This issue only started about a week ago, before that it was working fine. I have used an OPPO N3 and am now using an HTC One M9 and am having the same issue. I even have a new sim card.
If the same problem exists on 2 devices it makes sense to blame crap software.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
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If the same problem exists on 2 devices it makes sense to blame crap software.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
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Are you saying it is an android issue?
So, you've used 2 different phones. Both worked fine when getting messages from everyone except one person. That one person has an iPhone 5s.
I think you're in the wrong forum, and the thread should be titled "Problem sending messages from a Verizon iPhone 5s."
Really. It's an iPhone problem.
The problem is my phone, because that one person can send group messages to everyone, including other android phones no problem. I think it has something to do with me using Straight talk wireless.
Widafer said:
The problem is my phone, because that one person can send group messages to everyone, including other android phones no problem. I think it has something to do with me using Straight talk wireless.
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It definitely sounds like a carrier-specific issue - you've already ruled out device-specific and OS-specific issues by using different phones and reproducing the same results, and by verifying that the person you can't get messages from has no problems sending messages to other people using android on different carriers.
Turn off imessage on the iPhone and see if the problem persists

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