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[Aquila]

I've heard that it is because of iMessage. Which is fine. But does anyone know how to avoid it being compressed?

Thanks for the quick response from the two above.

The only way is to share it via a link or other app, such as YouTube, Drive, Facebook, etc.

And the stereo speakers causing the pause is correct.

 

[maverick7526]

My phone does the same thing when rotating. The sound will cut out for a second whenever I rotate the phone from vertical to horizontal. It's the strangest thing but I thought it was just my phone.

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That's because the phone has stereo speakers and it is flipping channels (Left vs Right) depending on which way the rotation ends up being in.

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[Ry]

MMS can't support videos the way you're used to with iMessage. That's across the board.

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[rodney0905]

That's because the phone has stereo speakers and it is flipping channels (Left vs Right) depending on which way the rotation ends up being in.

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Well now I guess I know that it's by design. I feel like it's more of a bug, because it's an inconvenience for me. But at least I know the answer now. Thanks

 

[Wildo6882]

I don't expect my family and my social circle to start using an entirely new app for them just so I can use the phone I want. If you can get them to use it, more power to you, but I'm not expecting everyone around me to cater to my phone desires.

Now I don't completely agree with this line of thought. So because he switched phones, he just has to deal with it? It's not that much to ask a friend if he/she was sending video to him, to please use something like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or Google Photos. It's not like anything else with SMS messages was affected - only videos. So if they had a video to send, just use something else. Not too difficult to me. Otherwise, it's just telling the OP "you're screwed because your friends all use iPhones."

 

[Aquila]

Now I don't completely agree with this line of thought. So because he switched phones, he just has to deal with it? It's not that much to ask a friend if he/she was sending video to him, to please use something like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or Google Photos. It's not like anything else with SMS messages was affected - only videos. So if they had a video to send, just use something else. Not too difficult to me. Otherwise, it's just telling the OP "you're screwed because your friends all use iPhones."

Yeah no the only person that has to change one tiny thing is the new phone owner who merely has to text a link to the video instead of sending the video MMS. It'll be invisible to everyone else.

 

[Wildo6882]

Yeah no the only person that has to change one tiny thing is the new phone owner who merely has to text a link to the video instead of sending the video MMS. It'll be invisible to everyone else.

The OP was saying that videos coming in weren't working. So they would have to have the sender use something else. I would assume most of these people probably have other social apps loaded on their phone and could easily just jump over there and send the video really quick. No harm. No foul.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

The OP was saying that videos coming in weren't working. So they would have to have the sender use something else. I would assume most of these people probably have other social apps loaded on their phone and could easily just jump over there and send the video really quick. No harm. No foul.

But they then all (anyone in that conversation or that OP was using iMessage with) have to use that separate app each and every time they want to send a video. It won't be inline with the rest of the conversation, could come in delayed, or who knows what else.

It breaks the flow of conversation for sure. So yeah, "no harm, no foul" is technically correct, but will make the conversation awkward to follow.

 

[Ry]

Cool kids use Snapchat anyway.

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[Aquila]

But they then all (anyone in that conversation or that OP was using iMessage with) have to use that separate app each and every time they want to send a video. It won't be inline with the rest of the conversation, could come in delayed, or who knows what else.

It breaks the flow of conversation for sure. So yeah, "no harm, no foul" is technically correct, but will make the conversation awkward to follow.

A link in the conversation breaks it? I literally have dozens of links daily in conversations. I'm not following this fully. Does imessage have YouTube preview?

 

[swarlos]

A link in the conversation breaks it? I literally have dozens of links daily in conversations. I'm not following this fully. Does imessage have YouTube preview?

It does in iOS 10. Don't even have to leave the messages app to watch it.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

A link in the conversation breaks it? I literally have dozens of links daily in conversations. I'm not following this fully. Does imessage have YouTube preview?

No I mean if an entirely separate app is used.

 

[neo905]

Some people don't want to deal with that. Their choice.



I don't expect my family and my social circle to start using an entirely new app for them just so I can use the phone I want. If you can get them to use it, more power to you, but I'm not expecting everyone around me to cater to my phone desires.

Be together. Not the same.

- Google

That pretty much sums it up. It's not like WhatsApp is some fringe app. I would argue there are more smartphones with WhatsApp on it than imessage. I use it a lot for groups of friends and family all over the world on different devices and it has been excellent way to keep in contact. At the end of the day there are more people around the world with Android devices than iPhone ones so on the flip side should all iPhone friends be telling Android ones to get an iPhone just for one app if they find the rest if the phone OS more functional for them? None of these mobile OS are perfect but they are converging in many ways so there are less differences each year.

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[rodney0905]

But they then all (anyone in that conversation or that OP was using iMessage with) have to use that separate app each and every time they want to send a video. It won't be inline with the rest of the conversation, could come in delayed, or who knows what else.

It breaks the flow of conversation for sure. So yeah, "no harm, no foul" is technically correct, but will make the conversation awkward to follow.

This is the biggest issue. We have one group message. So the sender sends a video and my other friends receive it fine, but I don't because I no longer have an iPhone. So to ask that person to use a different app just to send the video to me doesn't seem like something they'd want to do.

 

[rodney0905]

Looking at my OP. Just wanted to make sure I'm on the right track in thinking that 2 of the 3 questions have been answered.

1. The Bluetooth connection stuff sounds like it might be fixed in N.

2. No way to avoid video compression unless I return to iMessage or use an a different app.

3. This may be a silly question. If the sound is due to stereo speakers, why does the video pause? Is there a way to turn off stereo sound so this doesn't happen?

 

[LeoRex]

3. This may be a silly question. If the sound is due to stereo speakers, why does the video pause?

It's paused to maintain sync with the audio while the audio channels are shuffled about. The choice is either to mute the audio, or pause the video.. they choose the latter.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

To add to the above, I'm not sure if there is a way to turn off stereo audio or not.

 

[rodney0905]

It's paused to maintain sync with the audio while the audio channels are shuffled about. The choice is either to mute the audio, or pause the video.. they choose the latter.

This is interesting. Mine does both. Pauses video and sound.

 

[neo905]

I just tested my phone with different apps and I am not getting that pause or stutter with respect to sound. I've heard others with thus sane issue. I must have lucked out.

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[cwbcpa]

I just tested my phone with different apps and I am not getting that pause or stutter with respect to sound. I've heard others with thus sane issue. I must have lucked out.

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I've been trying too. I can't seem to recreate that issue at all. I guess I'm lucky as well. That makes me wonder if a complete reset of the phone would help. I can't recall if the OP has done that already or not.