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Need a replacement messaging app for Samsung (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Trying to ditch Google messages without success. I hung onto the old Samsung app forever but it is super buggy for me. I tried to switch to textra, bought the paid version, but keep getting this "MMS timeout" message so idk if im not getting or sending messages correctly. Have tried all the fixes i found online to no avail. So, is there any real, decent alternative to Google messages?

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (17 children)

I'm in the same boat as you. Used Textra and Mighty Text years back but want to try swapping back. Doesn't seem like anything can compete with the robust features Messages has right now, unfortunately....

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    I've been using textra for about 9 years now with no problems. Can't imagine the default offers anything it doesn't.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    Im honestly fine without RCS I just dont know how ti get rid of the error message

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Oh shit, I missed that part in the post. Go into settings/mms/mms advanced and turn down the carrier send limit. It's trying to send it in too big of chunks so your carrier blocks it

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months ago (11 children)

    I cant find that option. Maybe being stupid about it? I have a samsung s25

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Open up textra itself like youre going to text someone but havent chosen who yet, hit the three dots in the top right, settings, under messaging is MMS. Carrier send limit is in there.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    So far so good! Thank you so much for that!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    Sorry, should have specified textra settings lol glad it's working!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately I got the error message again, so I guess that isn't the fix?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Try setting it to the very lowest and very highest and have a friend send you an image for each.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I set it to 100kb and got the Pic fine and then 2000kb and got the image fine. I previously set it to no limit.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    There's the ticket. Just set it to the 2k and forget about it. Something about the "no limit" setting makes it choke on the data.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine how much your private data they harvested during whole that time...

    https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/reports/705884

    You aware of what tracker is?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Instead of advertising to me about issues I'm trying to escape, can you help me find a reliable way to get a phone that runs cr droid or graphene? I want out of the corpo chokehold but getting a divice I can do that with is a fucking nightmare.

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