Droid Turbo and Textra

[anthony81586]

So I'm using the "textra" app for messaging and I can't seem to get group chats working and cannot send pictures. Its driving me crazy.

I have the box checked that says to use cellular data for MMS and still nothing. Could it be an APN issue?

I've been a long time iOS user (yes imessage is off) and have tried android a couple of times over the years and as much as I love this device its always these stupid little things that send me back to iOS.

Anyways any help would be greatly appreciated here

 

[anthony81586]

Okay so after some testing it seems that photos taken with my camera will not send, could the file size be too big?

 

[Jay Evans]

I use Textra and don't seem to have a problem with MMS. When my wife gets home I will test both MMS and Groups then get back to you with the results.

 

[anthony81586]

Okay so I was messing with the size limit and I had it set to "no limit" and it didn't work, so I set it to 2mb and it didn't work finally I set it to 1mb and that worked....why would lowering the limit allow it to send?

 

[Jay Evans]

Textra image size is set at 1MB by Default. Anything over that will be automatically resized. It's under MMS Settings

 

[Almeuit]

Okay so I was messing with the size limit and I had it set to "no limit" and it didn't work, so I set it to 2mb and it didn't work finally I set it to 1mb and that worked....why would lowering the limit allow it to send?

Verizon could have been blocking the MMS message. Most carriers will only allow a certain size file to be received / sent via MMS.

 

[Jay Evans]

According to Verizon "MMS message size must be less than 1.2MB. This includes text, picture and video messages."

 

[anthony81586]

Gotcha. Thank you

 

[anthony81586]

Yea pics all set. I think I've fallen victim to the whole imessage issue. I did turn off imessage, factory cleared the iPhone, and reset the icloud password and still having the issue...such a pain

 

[maxman1]

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Yea pics all set. I think I've fallen victim to the whole imessage issue. I did turn off imessage, factory cleared the iPhone, and reset the icloud password and still having the issue...such a pain

Apple's iMessage is, IMHO, an abomination. It cause an enormous amount of grief and as far as I can tell, serves no purpose whatsoever. Way past time for Apple to man up & dump it.

 

[Almeuit]

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Apple's iMessage is, IMHO, an abomination. It cause an enormous amount of grief and as far as I can tell, serves no purpose whatsoever. Way past time for Apple to man up & dump it.

It causes issues for when people switch which Apple needs to fix but it does have a purpose. One big purpose is iMessage sends pictures & videos at full quality -- whereas MMS is limited by the carrier. For people who may take lots of videos -- this could be a plus.