I have Graphene OS and it seems all the texting apps I tried so far have issues. The default one does not support group chats, if you setup a group it just sends individual texts to each person so the replies come individually. I tried one called Simple SMS, but when you get a reply, you don't actually get it, you need to exit the app then go back in to see it. So I tried QKSMS but I keep re-receiving old texts randomly but other than that it does work properly with group chats.
Any other apps to try? I tried the Graphene OS support chat but they were useless just trying to convince me to switch to Signal but I don't really like the idea of using a 3rd party network as everything goes through their network first from what I'm gathering (tried it and it wanted me to make an account) and it's not like I'll get benifits of encryption anyway as all my family/friends use SMS and I won't exactly convince them to all switch to Signal when it's me that's having an issue with my phone not them.
Just looking to fix this weird issue so I stop getting old texts coming back as it's super annoying.
Honestly about ready to just say screw this and go to Apple like everybody else does since it just works. But I already put a bunch of money towards this phone so don't want to buy another. Suppose I could load the regular Google OS back on again but I really want to try to avoid that too if I can. It sucks that it's so hard to have a phone that's not constantly spying on you. It shouldn't be this hard.
Actually I wonder if having multiple SMS apps is part of my issue... I uninstalled Simple SMS and force stopped the stock one (won't let me uninstall). I'll keep it this way and see if the problem persists. I'll find out in a few days if I start getting old texts again. Back on QKSMS as it seems to be the only one that works decently... aside from the issue of getting random old texts back.
Any other apps to try? I tried the Graphene OS support chat but they were useless just trying to convince me to switch to Signal but I don't really like the idea of using a 3rd party network as everything goes through their network first from what I'm gathering (tried it and it wanted me to make an account) and it's not like I'll get benifits of encryption anyway as all my family/friends use SMS and I won't exactly convince them to all switch to Signal when it's me that's having an issue with my phone not them.
Just looking to fix this weird issue so I stop getting old texts coming back as it's super annoying.
Honestly about ready to just say screw this and go to Apple like everybody else does since it just works. But I already put a bunch of money towards this phone so don't want to buy another. Suppose I could load the regular Google OS back on again but I really want to try to avoid that too if I can. It sucks that it's so hard to have a phone that's not constantly spying on you. It shouldn't be this hard.
Actually I wonder if having multiple SMS apps is part of my issue... I uninstalled Simple SMS and force stopped the stock one (won't let me uninstall). I'll keep it this way and see if the problem persists. I'll find out in a few days if I start getting old texts again. Back on QKSMS as it seems to be the only one that works decently... aside from the issue of getting random old texts back.
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