Android messages not downloading and moving to group chat

Don't get me wrong, I love the work from Signal devs and wouldn't stop using Signal myself, but I can appreciate the more intense pressure some of you are under from friends, family, and significant others who don't grok the need or desire to protect privacy. It's hard to get them on board in the first place and then having to come clean that it's the app you want them to use that is the culprit makes it so much harder to convert them.

Ugh again. I finally dropped it. Just too many Apple people or MMS groups that message me. I messaged greyson twice over 2 weeks with no response. I know a lot of people less technical than us they don't even know what github is that are just ditching it for good.

Pretty sure people like that won't come back even when it's fixed. Really too bad if there's a fix that actually works, but nobody around to roll it to production.

They aren't going to put a pull request in a stable release that just came out. It needs to be tested and verified first. Once they fix the issue just try to convert your friends back. If the bug was easy to fix it would have been fixed a month ago.

Luckily yate may have solved it. Now just let Greyson and the Signal team integrate and properly release it if its the proper solution. BUT I can understand yalls frustration, I do feel like this should be a 1 priority since its a piece of the core functionality. So we're looking to ship this fix in 4.

Thank you! Amazing news. I can't wait to send out my mass text saying, "you can now set Signal as your default again! If anything, the situation seems worse than before, because before, I could tap the message, restart the phone, tap the message again, and the message would then download and appear correctly, but that is now not working. I also seem unable to send group texts to non-signal users ; likely unrelated but I mention it because you may see this in the debug log.

Done, thanks. I'd open up a separate issue. Have not yet re-verified that Signal works for me but will do so soon. Edit: other apps- samsung messages, Google messages, textra, messenger, color messages All tested then uninstalled. Full restart reinstall of signal, full restart still not working. ProNoob please open a separate bug report. Make sure to fill out the issue template and include a debug log.

Without it, it's really hard to figure out what's going on. Edit: someone says "beta is" I do not know what that means. I am commenting on the version available in Google play store. Edit2: haffenloher I'm not opening up another report it's the same issue. I will just delete the app and advise my friends having the same issue to give up also.

Cheers - and good luck. ProNoob : This issue should be fixed in version 4. The developers are most likely doing a staged rollout, so if you're still on 4. As haffenloher said, it's impossible for anyone here to figure out what's going on on your device unless you can share a debug log. I somehow got it fixed on my oneplus! Not sure exactly what fixed it, but I think the most important thing was downloading "Carrier Services" from the google play store.

I followed the troubleshooting suggestions below as well and made sure I gave signal unrestricted access to everything and also restarted a few times. Hope this helps! Skip to content. Star New issue. Jump to bottom. Labels mms. Copy link. Signal Version 4. Paulieb81 mentioned this issue Nov 12, MMS Receiving not working with non signal users Sending images works.

MMS downloads from non-Signal user using Android. Standard messaging app works fine. Tursko mentioned this issue Nov 13, MMS from Grops is sent as direct message from individual contact with error. Same problem here. Me too. Hey folks, here's an update: Plenty of people tested yate 's fix, and all seems good! Gigantic thanks to yate and all the testers that reached out! I can confirm that at least in all of the devices I've tested, things look good!

So I installed version 4. MMS downloading with beta 4. This is absolutely not "fixed". As someone who is now running beta - it DOES appear to be fixed and i'm quite happy.

It is on and totally not working Cerberus0 mentioned this issue Dec 22, What version do you have? Happy day! Signal keeps crashing every time I try to download MMS This is not working for me on 4. Kage1 mentioned this issue Sep 29, Error downloading MMS message when a group message is received. Randomly cannot send sms. Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment. Linked pull requests. I have searched to the ends of the internet, worked with my provider, verified my APN, worked with Samsung support and went to an authorized Samsung service center without any luck on resolving my issue.

I am not receiving all of my texts when in a Group text - MMS. I will receive all of my texts, however, if I am in a one-to-one text message. I have factory reset my phone, ensured that the MMS auto download is on, the service center flashed the phone, and I have done all the things. When I am in a group text, I will recieve some of the texts but then some of them will not download.

The text will fall under the person who sent it and it will have the following:. At this point, I am ready to give up on Samsung.

The service location could not resolve the issue and told me that I would have to send the phone into the service center without a temp being provided. Obviously, sending my phone in without a back up is not an option. I have been having this issue for about two months now. It happens when I am on my mobile data only and wifi only. If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate it. This is my last ditch effort before I move unhappily away from Samsung and to an iPhone.

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