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[wiredust]

Just found this thread, I am also going crazy wanting to reply all, my husbands HTC android actually does this in his stock messaging program, so it can be done on the android OS, I just got a new Samsung Stratosphere, and it does not have a reply all. I love my new phone, but this is a huge problem for me

 

[zoyano]

How does it work on his HTC?

 

[gsuaaron]

Will Android ever add this feature? It is as simple as turn the switch "off" to "on" on the iphone group messaging to get this function.

If not, will anyone ever make an app to simply to reply all?

I hate, hate getting a message that was sent to random people and then I see all those people reply to it and I can't! I can't even see who it was sent to which makes it worse. If I could just see who it was sent to, I could at least reply to them all by putting their name or number in manually.

I have Infuse 4g.

Something needs to be done about this.

 

[zoyano]

Will Android ever add this feature? It is as simple as turn the switch "off" to "on" on the iphone group messaging to get this function.

If not, will anyone ever make an app to simply to reply all?

I hate, hate getting a message that was sent to random people and then I see all those people reply to it and I can't! I can't even see who it was sent to which makes it worse. If I could just see who it was sent to, I could at least reply to them all by putting their name or number in manually.

I have Infuse 4g.

Something needs to be done about this.

I can see who it was sent to by opening the message, long pressing on the message text and going to view message details, but then it only shows all the phone numbers and not the names and I don't have everyone's phone number memorized so this really doesn't do me any good anyways.

I'm still shocked that nobody has written an app to handle this somehow, if it's even possible to do so. When I search in the market I just find apps that allow you to send to multiple recipients "easily" but I can already do that from the stock app! It's replying to all that's the issue

 

[KimberlyPekula]

If you click on a text message and hold down... a pop up will come up...then you can click "reply all."

 

[zoyano]

If you click on a text message and hold down... a pop up will come up...then you can click "reply all."

What phone do you have? I tried this on my Droid X, from the conversation list all I get is Open Conversation and Delete Conversation.

If I open a text and find a message that was sent to multiple people and do this all I get is Open message, Delete message, Forward message, Protect message, View message details.

 

[snowmangoh]

If you can do it natively on your device, it's thanks to your manufacturer. There are two solutions that I know of, but they're based on your provider.

Verizon: Go to the market and then go to your carriers apps. The Verizon messaging program provides group sms support and works very well (at least it did on my Droid X i had through work.)

AT&T: Go to the provider apps in the market and DL "AT&T Messages". I have this on my new S2 Skyrocket, and while it let's you reply-all, it seems to be hit or miss for me. Sometimes it will format the contacts number weird. xx(x) xxx-xxxx. this causes the app to tell me "cannot send reply-all sms to international numbers"... other times it works fine... and it can all happen with the same conversation!... but hey, it might work for you!

Honestly, if anyone knows how to grab apks that are only available to other providers and use them on your phone, please let me know, because I'll use the VZW app, as it worked GREAT!

Give me a "thanks" if this helped you!

 

[zoyano]

If you can do it natively on your device, it's thanks to your manufacturer. There are two solutions that I know of, but they're based on your provider.

Verizon: Go to the market and then go to your carriers apps. The Verizon messaging program provides group sms support and works very well (at least it did on my Droid X i had through work.)

AT&T: Go to the provider apps in the market and DL "AT&T Messages". I have this on my new S2 Skyrocket, and while it let's you reply-all, it seems to be hit or miss for me. Sometimes it will format the contacts number weird. xx(x) xxx-xxxx. this causes the app to tell me "cannot send reply-all sms to international numbers"... other times it works fine... and it can all happen with the same conversation!... but hey, it might work for you!

Honestly, if anyone knows how to grab apks that are only available to other providers and use them on your phone, please let me know, because I'll use the VZW app, as it worked GREAT!

Give me a "thanks" if this helped you!

I downloaded the VZW app and it worked! Thanks so much!! I really wish my device supported it natively, but I'm glad there was a solution out there.

The only thing I noticed is existing conversations with multiple recipients will not be imported properly, but if you delete them out and receive new ones it will display as expected and allow you to reply to all. Thanks again!

 

[Bullzak]

Is there any solution for Sprint users? I have tried every app I can find.

 

[graygeoff]

I'm on my second Android.

On my first, the original Moto Droid, there was no way to Reply All, nor was there a way to even indicate that you were even looking at a group text. I had this phone for 2 years and used both the stock messaging app and handcent.

Then, I upgraded to the Bionic and started right in using Handcent. With handcent, the "all threads" window would show that sender's name, followed by the phone number of every recipient. Even if one of those recipients was a contact in my phone, it would just show the number. Opening the thread and replying would reply to all...which has nearly gotten me in trouble a couple of times! There is no option to reply only to the sender. The only option Handcent has with regard to a reply all is to send them as split threads. In that, each reply is sent individually to each recipient in a different thread. So, it breaks up the message and sends it directly 10 recipients, not as a group text....and if any of them wanted to "reply all" to your recent message, they can't. They can't even see who you sent it to. Pretty stupid, if you ask me.

I just took a look again at my stock messaging app. When I go into a group text thread, I have the option to "reply all" by just typing in the "compose message" box at the bottom of the screen. If I long push on a message within that thread, the last option I have is "reply to sender", which breaks the message out of the current thread and allows you only to reply to the person that sent you the message.

Unfortunately, I'm not a fan of the stock messaging app. My biggest gripe is that when choosing a recipient while composing a message in the stock app....you get EVERY single phone number...home, work, cell, etc. I'm a huge fan of Handcent's "filter mobile contacts" option.....which filters out your contacts when composing a new message to include ONLY cell numbers. After all, who the #$%#7 wants to send a text to a landline??!!??!! I also don't like how the stock apps try to mix all of your messaging together....email, text, facebook, etc. It's a great theory to have a one stop spot for all message. But, if I'm working, I don't really need to be looking at texts, facebook message, etc etc etc!!!

I wish Handcent had a better solution, because I really don't want to go back to the stock app.

 

[roddy826]

If you can do it natively on your device, it's thanks to your manufacturer. There are two solutions that I know of, but they're based on your provider.

Verizon: Go to the market and then go to your carriers apps. The Verizon messaging program provides group sms support and works very well (at least it did on my Droid X i had through work.)

AT&T: Go to the provider apps in the market and DL "AT&T Messages". I have this on my new S2 Skyrocket, and while it let's you reply-all, it seems to be hit or miss for me. Sometimes it will format the contacts number weird. xx(x) xxx-xxxx. this causes the app to tell me "cannot send reply-all sms to international numbers"... other times it works fine... and it can all happen with the same conversation!... but hey, it might work for you!

Honestly, if anyone knows how to grab apks that are only available to other providers and use them on your phone, please let me know, because I'll use the VZW app, as it worked GREAT!

Give me a "thanks" if this helped you!

Thanks snowmangoh!

Your solution worked for me too! I found the app easily, it's literally called "Verizon Messages" in the Market.
Basically, it's a knockoff of the iPhone's SMS. Why so many posts for such a simple fix?

 

[cpdo721]

thank you so much for this solution! I've been looking for months.

 

[cpdo721]

Oops, now that I have installed it (Verizon Messages) on my DroidX, I don't find any way to "reply all" to a text message. How are you doing that? Thank you.

 

[dequardo#AC]

I think Handcent has finally fixed this in their latest version.

 

[Jaysus]

I think Handcent has finally fixed this in their latest version.

So, uhhh.... what's the trick in Handcent? Is it the option to force group messages to be MMS?