Issues with MMS downloading via Google apps

[Roose00]

Both Messenger and Hangouts have been frustratingly inconsistent. I've had issues with messenger not sending messages at all. Now I have issues where they will have to download the MMS, which will never complete.

The images will show immediately through textra.

Anyone else experiencing this? I'm on Verizon.

I am also looking for some way to receive picture messages as a larger file, all pictures are grainy and blurry. Any assistance there would be helpful.

 

[tdi1985]

Hopefully there is more out there about this. I use Hangouts for my texting, and one thing I've seen is that when I sent a text from Google Now or a picture from the camera app, the text sends but doesn't show as an outbound text in Hangouts, only in Messenger. I can probably live with this, but it wasn't the case on my previous phone. Hopefully a fix lands soon.

 

[sstephen17]

When I had my Note 4 (I'm on Verizon as well), I used to have a lot of issues with MMS. Took awhile to get messages sent and got a lot of error messages. This happened a lot using Messager, less so with Hangouts.

I've experienced a lot less problems on the 6P. Only a handful of times have I gotten an error and had to resend. I used Messenger exclusively. I deleted the Verizon text message app; not sure if that makes a difference.

 

[Roose00]

Pretty much all apps work better than messenger or hangouts. Which is disappointing.

Are you getting compressed picture messages that are low resolution?

 

[anon(596177)]

picture messages being grainy are going to be a limitation of MMS. If you want them to be clear, you need an option that goes through data,like email or a messaging system that doesnt use your phone number.

The issues you are having with MMS with Messages and hangouts are pretty much known issues with the google apps. Not everyone experiences them, and usually occurrences are very few and far between unless google does a bad update (which they did with hangouts a few months ago) and completely breaks MMS. I get the "Message failed to send" notification in google messages every once in a while even now. its more likely the message sent but the confirmation was never received by your phone, so it thought it didnt, as I will get responses regularly to messages that say "failed to send". It's sadly something you either live with or get a new app.

 

[Shadnic]

I had unending problems with google messaging and hangouts on my htc one m8. Hangouts would just sometimes not send or receive texts (despite saying they were sent), or be extremely delayed, or not show messages sent through other services. Google's messaging app was just unusable on that phone. Probably 50% if not more of the texts I sent would just say "sending" forever. Even if they eventually said sent on another app, they'd just say sending for upwards of 30 minutes. MMS were completely unpredictable. The stock htc messaging app was the most reliable, but even then MMS would always create duplicate messages that were always endlessly "downloading" and "failed' and I'd get constant "generic network failure" every time I was receiving a group text or mms. It was a mess!

On my 6P, things have been MUCH better. Google messaging actually sends things, and relatively on time. I've had some annoying delays where things took a questionably long time to send. I haven't even tried hangouts for mms...it was just so unreliable before that I'm honestly afraid to. It made my life so stressful never knowing if my texts sent or if I ever got a reply.

Is this just...a google problem? Its just generally terrible with text messaging? I feel like this should be one of the most basic things a smartphone can do.

As for pictures, yours should not come in grainy. Even through mms, pictures will retain pretty good quality. Sometimes I notice the app (hangouts mainly) displays images as grainy but if I check back later it will show the full resolution.

 

[husa3695]

This worked for me and I'm on Verizon also

 

[Roose00]

I will try above.

As for quality of images, I'm at a loss. I am usually receiving messages from an iPhone. All are grainy. Pictures I send from 6p to iPhone are high resolution. Reinstated iPhone 6 and used only text messages and files were also full resolution between iPhones.

I use messaging a lot and if that's a poor experience, the phone is unfortunately a poor experience.

 

[Roose00]

So the only app that would consistently show MMS received without any download button was Textra.

Pictures however would show grainy no matter which app I used.

I found a setting to inside textra under MMS advanced to change from legacy to system. Somehow the images are now showing as full resolution.

Still haven't figured out other apps. Even Verizon messages is wanting to download and failing.


Edit: I had disabled and/or uninstalled all other messaging apps while changing setting inside textra. I enabled messenger and the pics were full resolution. It does show a downloading button but completed on its own.

I'm confused at what changed, but thrilled

 

[Indyrobb]

I've been using an app called material messaging because I didn't like messenger. And one of the earlier complaints was about MMS not showing up, and the developer always said that another app can sometimes grab the MMS before his app had a chance and once it's pulled from the server it's gone for his app to download.

You might check it out, he does do a lot of updates based on feedback. I've been using it several weeks now and like it better than messenger.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...=com.project.materialmessaging&token=HCkAR_ji

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[asnigro]

Was having same problem on Sprint with the MMS messages in the default messagin app.

Changed the default browser to Chrome and yes, messages started flowing through. Odd that I had to do that to get group messages and MMS to come through.

 

[dwc_sf]

What worked for me (I'm Verizon btw) was to go into:

Settings -> Apps -> Settings (yes again, use gear icon top right) -> Default Apps

Browser app was not set. I set it to Chrome.

I also rebooted. But then my MMS (group messages) started flowing.