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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    16 days ago

    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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        16 days ago

        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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          16 days ago

          Thank you!! I tried it and will report back. It would be awesome if this works and I dont have to go back.

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              14 days ago

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

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                  13 days ago

                  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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                    13 days ago

                    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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          14 days ago

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