Text messages waking up the screen when using stock / default messages app

[Abbers27]

Hi

Is there a way for the text messages to not wake up your phone everytime you receive them?

I was using Textra because I'm not sure there's a way. But I like how in the default / stock messages app that you can see when some of your contacts have read your messages.

 

[SpookDroid]

Nope. Unfortunately unless the app you use (in this case, the stock one... Which doesn't) supports disabling this, messaging always wakes up the screen. Also ufnortunate, Textra doesn't seem keen on implementing RCS (i.e. What allows you to see when someone read a text) as they keep blaming Google as not opening up the RCS profile.

You MAY be able to get this to happen if you use Edge Lightign, as that does have an option to toggle 'show while screen is off' (haven't tried it, so don't know if texts still force it to light up and I use Google Messages).

 

[mustang7757]

Have you tried Google message?

 

[TheAngryToaster]

Nope. Unfortunately unless the app you use (in this case, the stock one... Which doesn't) supports disabling this, messaging always wakes up the screen. Also ufnortunate, Textra doesn't seem keen on implementing RCS (i.e. What allows you to see when someone read a text) as they keep blaming Google as not opening up the RCS profile.

You MAY be able to get this to happen if you use Edge Lightign, as that does have an option to toggle 'show while screen is off' (haven't tried it, so don't know if texts still force it to light up and I use Google Messages).

Google literally hasn't released the api for rcs to anyone but samsung. That is an accurate statement by the dev team of textra.

 

[ssj100]

You MAY be able to get this to happen if you use Edge Lightign, as that does have an option to toggle 'show while screen is off' (haven't tried it, so don't know if texts still force it to light up and I use Google Messages).

Yes, enabling Edge Lighting and toggling "show while screen is off" will prevent the screen from being woken up. I would use this, except it's slightly buggy - I often double tap on the notification (AOD enabled) from standby screen to go straight to the message, but this fails to work sometimes. This process which doesn't work 100% of the time is too much for my OCD tendencies haha.

But yes, if you're not concerned about that issue, it's actually a nice way to get notified of new messages.

 

[Abbers27]

Have you tried Google message?

I thought I saw on the Google play store or the app itself when I downloaded it that it didn't have RCS. But I could be wrong.

 

[Abbers27]

When I downloaded and installed Google Messages, it says that my carrier (Spectrum) doesn't support Chat features .

 

[mustang7757]

I thought I saw on the Google play store or the app itself when I downloaded it that it didn't have RCS. But I could be wrong.

It has RCS

 

[Abbers27]

It has RCS

When I re-opened google messages, it was like suddenly , the chat feature started working and paired with my phone. So I was able to get it working.

 

[SpookDroid]

Google Messages now uses Google itself to enable RCS (so if your carrier doesn't support it, it can just go through their own servers and make it work). BUT you have to either be having a conversation with another Google Messages user or a carrier that supports cross-carrier RCS (like T-Mobile) or you won't really see the benefits of it. Also, remember that RCS conversations are 'locked' and cannot be backed up by 3rd party tools or read by other apps (i.e. if you have an RCS chat going and you switch apps to a 3rd party one, those chats cannot be accessed).

 

[mustang7757]

When I re-opened google messages, it was like suddenly , the chat feature started working and paired with my phone. So I was able to get it working.

Great
And Spook gave good details on it .

 

[Abbers27]

Thank you @mustang7757 and @SpookDroid !
@SpookDroid after I re-opened the google messages app, it started pairing / turning on the chat features.

 

[mustang7757]

Thank you @mustang7757 and @SpookDroid !
@SpookDroid after I re-opened the google messages app, it started pairing / turning on the chat features.

Glad to hear that