This is my first smartphone & I am a newbie to texting.
I see the internet indicates many issues texting between iphone & android users...some with group messaging. Some with switching from iphone to android.
I am not switching.
My 2 sons have iphones. I cannot read their text messages.
Hangouts shows SMS messages in my que.
After selecting a message, it says to "Touch to download MMS message." (must be a media message)
But the message never opens. There is an indicator that shows it is working at a download...then retrying.
Messaging works fine to my daughter's android phone & my wife's flip phone.
I sent a photo image with no problems to my daughter.
So I believe my APN settings must be OK.
Any ideas?
Do my sons need to change their iphone so that they do NOT use imessage format?
Any users out there who do this with no issues?
Update: I had my son turn off his "imessage toggle" option and send using SMS. The text only message was received OK. But with imessage off, he cannot send me a photo. It greys out the option to send on his iphone. With imessage ON, I cannot receive his message containing images.
Update #2: I cannot send text messages with photos attached (to my son) ... indicates "message not sent".
Thanks
I see the internet indicates many issues texting between iphone & android users...some with group messaging. Some with switching from iphone to android.
I am not switching.
My 2 sons have iphones. I cannot read their text messages.
Hangouts shows SMS messages in my que.
After selecting a message, it says to "Touch to download MMS message." (must be a media message)
But the message never opens. There is an indicator that shows it is working at a download...then retrying.
Messaging works fine to my daughter's android phone & my wife's flip phone.
I sent a photo image with no problems to my daughter.
So I believe my APN settings must be OK.
Any ideas?
Do my sons need to change their iphone so that they do NOT use imessage format?
Any users out there who do this with no issues?
Update: I had my son turn off his "imessage toggle" option and send using SMS. The text only message was received OK. But with imessage off, he cannot send me a photo. It greys out the option to send on his iphone. With imessage ON, I cannot receive his message containing images.
Update #2: I cannot send text messages with photos attached (to my son) ... indicates "message not sent".
Thanks
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