MMS can send (group/images) but not receive (group or images) (maybe other phones are sending via RCS?)

[unrznbl]

Recently installed e/OS on my Fairphone 4 and found that I could send MMS group texts with either the Messages app or a custom build (hacked by me) of Simple-SMS-Messanger (GitHub - craigcomstock/Simple-SMS-Messenger at as-home-app) which I have used for quite a long time without trouble.

The other participants are using iPhones and I have read that iOS 18 added RCS. When looking at their phones I see their messages to the group and they have a little “RCS” text above them, while my messages have a little “SMS”. I also noticed that images sent to me from iPhones don’t arrive either.

I see that Messages app uses the same android-smsmms (though probably some diffs but same base-layer) so suspect that the issue has to do with de-googling maybe?

I’ll check logcat and see if it says anything interesting.

I am going to install stock Fairphone Android build and see if things work with my iPhone friends or not.

Thanks!

[wyvernwaddell]

I’m having the same problem after the last update.

[mihi]

Mesage - Individual texts from one contact gets sent to 5 people in old group chat

Recently put /e/OS on a fairphone 5. Everything works great besides trying to send individual texts to just one of my contacts in Message. When I go to message just him it tries to send a text to an old group chat (nearly a decade old) but the messages aren’t received by anyone in the group. I can call this contact with no issues. Any group chat I add him to results in not sending to anyone but appears as the old group chat (all 5 numbers) as his contact. I deleted the contact and remade it wit…

Also have been reported before here (and your own post).

[unrznbl]

I would have to go back through my steps at this point because things “work” now with the stock Message app from e/OS. But… I think I may have re-initiated the conversation in one of the other apps possibly? So I think there may be some hand-shake when starting a new conversation that tells the iPhones that the sender can or can not use RCS.

I am going to try and use this android-smsmms library that is in Message for my own project: termux-api (aka command line sms/mms) that I would prefer using and we’ll see how it goes.

If I get real wild (or someone else would want to) I would re-install e/OS from scratch and re-initiate a group text with some iPhone buddies and see what happens. Maybe have my buddies DELETE the group text so that it is re-initiated on their end as well.