Sending Text Messages- problems..........any help appreciated.
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Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
; ) spaces and hyphens ;-)Yes...how did you do that?
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jonny jeez
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Took me a few attempts to work out the spaces.
swee'pea99
Squire
35p a pop on many plans. Which they don't exactly fall over themselves rushing to tell their customers.
Tanis8472
Guru
Go into the messaging app and turn off group conversations. That converts SMS to mms if you use emoticons.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Also controlled entirely by one company and vulnerable to selling your login or your details or inserting adverts, as they can change their terms at any time without notice.It's much better than text messaging, free to send photos and voice messages unlike texts and I can message family in Spain for free whereas text messaging costs
Jabber (aka XMPP) is better, but there's a choice of providers and apps and some people find choice confusing.
Tanis8472
Guru
No different to Samsung app, Google app and many others. They could all do that
Arjimlad
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- South Glos
I found that I had to download an alternative texting app to my Moto G 3 to be able to continue to send group texts as SMS.
The stock app would not do it without converting them to MMS.
The stock app would not do it without converting them to MMS.
Tanis8472
Guru
Yep, that was google/Android removing quite a few functions of messaging. I used to use it as I could merge sms and im as one conversation.
swee'pea99
Squire
Whatsapp is apparently the go-to medium for the global diplomatic community:
https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-this-alien-whatsapp-emoji-for-vladimir-putin
...tho' concerns about its privacy
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...acy-facebook-consumers-information-commission
..are encouraging more people towards competitor Telegram, which boasts unbreakable encryption and generally makes a major point of assuring the privacy of both you & your communications. It's what my friends & family use as our basic comms medium, for pretty much everything. (I particularly like its @gif capability - you type in @cycle, eg, and it will pop up a hundred cycle-related moving gifs, which you can select, add, and send with your message (or as a message) for free.)
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
No, Whatsapp's actually quite a bit worse. I've not checked Samsung (and I don't know which app you're referring to), but at least Google's terms say they'll give you warning of any changes in their terms. Whatsapp can change theirs silently. It's the difference between evil shoot and sneaky evil shoot, so it would still be better to switch to something less evil.No different to Samsung app, Google app and many others. They could all do that
Tanis8472
Guru
fark me, that's come as a surprise to me. Fb owning it.
Looks like I will be using a different one now.
Looks like I will be using a different one now.
Tanis8472
Guru
swee'pea99
Squire
That's the feller. I have it on my phone and all my computers.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Yeah, Whatsapp is FB, Skype is Microsoft and so on. There were hopes that the post-FB-takeover terms would improve, as FB actually allows users to comment on planned changes to their terms - and actually used to hold votes on them, although it no longer does.
Most of the single-provider services are no better. Why would they be? They've basically no competition once you've got all your friends using it.
