How do I select groups to text with? is there a program for this?
I ran across something like what your are talking about a while ago. Never got around to trying it though. It is called Tatango
You can also use Group SMS. It works great. Give it a shot
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I've been looking for a program that could send SMSes to lists, like forward an important SMS to colleagues, jokes to friends etc. The cases are numerous. But even after having created custom categories and assigned them to each contact, there still didn't seem a way to use the categories for this purpose.
But I found Group SMS 1.4.1 over on softonic that adds a menu item "Add Group" which lists the categories that exist in the contact list, and lets you check which you want to add people from. On the next screen you remove checkmarks from those in those categories that you dont want to be added.
Very helpful, I hope it comes in handy for someone else.
Hey Shen why did you not post this just one day earlier. Yesterday was our Eid Festival and I was scrolling through my list of around 400 contacts selecting one by one whom to pick and whom to leave out while sending out "Eid Greetings" message. It took me kind of 45 minutes for just that. You know I really cursed MS for not building into their operating system something as basic as this. So well done I have not tried this yet but I am sure this is what I need.
Yeah I know how annoying that was But I had just found out about that program an hour before I posted here
yeah its a great app used it on my hermes as well to text my team, didn't know there was the add group function on my contacts list when i installed it until last week. Just by chance i found it.
It sure was frustrating when I didn't find any "Send to list" or "Send to group" option when i tried adding recipients for the first time.
Anyone know if theres any app for the TyTN II that combines group sms with disctintive sms sounds?
Title pretty much says it. To clarify: we are starting to experience not receiving texts. When we discuss with the sender, we find they have sent to several people at once.
Is anyone else experiencing that? Any fix?
ewingr said:
Title pretty much says it. To clarify: we are starting to experience not receiving texts. When we discuss with the sender, we find they have sent to several people at once.
Is anyone else experiencing that? Any fix?
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Is the sender an iPhone user? iPhone group texts go out as MMS, which Google Voice doesn't support.
Hmmm....that's interesting. Given so many folks are iPhone users, that could almost negate the value of GV, as it relates to using for texting.
I know that not all of the folks sending them are iPhone users.
I know I have gotten texts from my sister who I believe is an iPhone users. But now I need to double check that.
My wife was with her friends this morning, and thd texting discussion came up. Turns out that many strange things happening for them when sending to a group: some get them, some don't; some get them as if from a different person than who sent it. I'm beginning to think that SMS group sending is just problematic. I would tend to think that maybe they are doing it wrong, but I don't see how a person could even do it in a way to hve a message look like it came from someone else.
Thanks for your thoughts.
ewingr said:
Hmmm....that's interesting. Given so many folks are iPhone users, that could almost negate the value of GV, as it relates to using for texting.
I know that not all of the folks sending them are iPhone users.
I know I have gotten texts from my sister who I believe is an iPhone users. But now I need to double check that.
My wife was with her friends this morning, and thd texting discussion came up. Turns out that many strange things happening for them when sending to a group: some get them, some don't; some get them as if from a different person than who sent it. I'm beginning to think that SMS group sending is just problematic. I would tend to think that maybe they are doing it wrong, but I don't see how a person could even do it in a way to hve a message look like it came from someone else.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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I agree that it is odd. I never noticed it until recently, although it that could be due to me not paying attention as much as anything. I wouldn't have picked up on it at all except that I use GoSMS with popups and, instead of showing the message when I get a group message from my wife (who has an iPhone), I get the MMS icon. Click on it and you get the message.
As far as I can tell, iPhone (and maybe others, I'm honestly don't know) send their group messages as MMS. If another iPhone user replies to it, all of the original recipients get the reply. If I reply, only the sender gets it. I think it has to do with if the message goes out as an iMessage. I don't know what makes an iMessage special, but I do know that my wife can't send one if she doesn't have a data connection, which would support the MMS theory. I'll look into it more when I get home from work tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.
I dumped Google Voice due to it's lack of MMS support as well. You just can't expect people to remember to send pictures to one number and text messages to another, it's just not a realistic expectation. I just use it for voicemail now.
I did validate that I do get text messages from my Sister, who is on an iPHone.
But regarding pictures, I don't really get or send pictures, and don't particularly care. If I want to share pictures, I typically do it on Facebook, or put on my picture site, and send links.
I do feel though that GV should support pictures. I don't know if that is in the future for GV or not.
I am a little confused. Are you saying that when you did use GV, you did get TExts from iPhone users, but if setn to a group you also got it ,but only sender got your reply?
Again, we do get individual texts from iPhone users, but not when they send to a group...at least not consistently.
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I am a little confused. Are you saying that when you did use GV, you did get TExts from iPhone users, but if setn to a group you also got it ,but only sender got your reply?
Again, we do get individual texts from iPhone users, but not when they send to a group...at least not consistently.
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I worded it strangely. What I meant was that on my normal phone number (not using GV), if I get a text message from an iPhone user it comes through as a regular text message. If I get a group message, however, I get it as an MMS. If I reply to that text, just the sender gets it (I believe anyway), but if anyone with an iPhone replies, every recipient (including me) gets their reply.
Since Google Voice doesn't support MMS of any sort, I get the same behavior that you are describing: on my GV number I can get text messages sent just to me from iPhone users, but I don't get any sort of group text sent from an iPhone to my GV number.
Thanks for the clarification.
I suspect that the ones my wife is having problem with then are iPhone users. I'll have her double check.
Yep. Found out group text msgs from iPhone won't come thru to GV. Come on Google....
Ok, after some research, it appears that Verizon is the reason Group SMS is disabled in Jelly Bean, but I could be wrong. At any rate, can anyone recommend a good tool to send Group SMS text messages that will NOT take over my stock messaging tool? I really like the stock text tool.
I tried Go SMS Pro, and it took over everything, and I hated the interface. bleh. Used it to send my group, and then uninstalled.
So, looking for a tool that will see my Google Groups, and allow me to send group SMS to those groups.
Oh, and has to be separate messages, no group chat tools. I have to send out the mass text, and receive individual replies that don't go to anyone else. It's the best way to deal with the team I'm working with.
Your help is appreciated!
--Glenn.
inspector_Gadget said:
Ok, after some research, it appears that Verizon is the reason Group SMS is disabled in Jelly Bean, but I could be wrong. At any rate, can anyone recommend a good tool to send Group SMS text messages that will NOT take over my stock messaging tool? I really like the stock text tool.
I tried Go SMS Pro, and it took over everything, and I hated the interface. bleh. Used it to send my group, and then uninstalled.
So, looking for a tool that will see my Google Groups, and allow me to send group SMS to those groups.
Oh, and has to be separate messages, no group chat tools. I have to send out the mass text, and receive individual replies that don't go to anyone else. It's the best way to deal with the team I'm working with.
Your help is appreciated!
--Glenn.
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I have this exact problem. Have you managed to find a solution else where yet?
Right now, I am using GroupText. Not awesome, but ok, and gets the job done. Still looking for a better solution.
Anyone have a better solution to group SMS?
My wife got a Moto X a couple of weeks ago, and can't find a way to send a contact by text message. I looked at her phone and it isn't an option under contacts. On a contact, under the share menu, it has several options. None of them are send by text message, and its the easiest way to send a contact. It's kind of weird, but one of the options is send by LAN, click it and it says not supported.
I have a Droid Maxx, and when I open a contact and select share I have a option to send it by text, but the Moto X doesn't.
I've tried searching forums like here, Motorola, google searches etc., and can't find any mention of this anywhere. Only place it is mentioned is as issue # 42174 on code.google.com where it was dropped off the base code after 4.2.1. In her words "Everybody else can, people do this all the time, this is a problem".
The only thing that kind of works is copying part of the contact to the clipboard, and pasting it to a text, some times it takes several texts to send all the contact information though.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I not looking in the right place to do it?
You can't. As of right now there is no vcard support via mms. We can't send or receive. Confirmed by moto rep on official forums. As you stated, it's been removed from android for whatever reason, and moto hasn't added it back in. I noticed it myself the other day, it's pretty annoying considering I send and receive contacts via mms all the time. At least I did.
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You can't. As of right now there is no vcard support via mms. We can't send or receive. Confirmed by moto rep on official forums. As you stated, it's been removed from android for whatever reason, and moto hasn't added it back in. I noticed it myself the other day, it's pretty annoying considering I send and receive contacts via mms all the time. At least I did.
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Thanks for the reply ( I guess). Now I'm going to have to tell her she can't do it, damn. I was really hoping it was something I was overlooking. It really seems to be a pretty big omission by not being able to send vcards that way. I'm a little surprised not many people are complaining about it though. It was really hard to find any mention of it. That's the second strike against the Moto X for her. She has the damn bug where her phone wouldn't get out driving mode, it kept announcing out loud who was calling after she quit driving. Not a good thing to happen in an operating room. I had to disable that part of moto assist to get it to shut up. Hope there is an update soon for that bug too.
Months back on an S4 I sent a group text to 3 co-workers. Now on the Note 3 whenever I receive a text message from 1 of the co-workers it shows up as a group message. I deleted the thread. I deleted the contact. It still shows a group text when I receive a text from that co-worker.
On his Moto X he is only sending me the text. Not as a group. He also deleted me as a contact and the thread and it still does the same.
Anyone else have this issue? How can I fix it so it shows just him.
I am rooted but obviously no custom rom. Using the stock messaging app. I don't want to use a different app.
This happened to me before. I went to my contacts and found the group. It was odd. I went to the contact it was doing this to and edited. There I saw the issue. I can't fully remember what I did but it fixed it. So basically I'm writing to tell you its in your contacts somewhere...You will find all three people as one. Its wired.
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This happened to me before. I went to my contacts and found the group. It was odd. I went to the contact it was doing this to and edited. There I saw the issue. I can't fully remember what I did but it fixed it. So basically I'm writing to tell you its in your contacts somewhere...You will find all three people as one. Its wired.
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I got it. I deleted all the contacts in that group and readded them and deleted each message in that group thread then deleted the thread.