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?

  • RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    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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      5 days ago

      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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          1 day 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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        5 days ago

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

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          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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              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.