Qksms: MMS not received by recipients

[moezbhatti]

Sending an MMS will appear in the app to have sent, but the recipients don't receive it. This seems to be more common with group messages

[moezbhatti]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/8ekxiq/dev_qksms_is_back/dxy2zyv/

[ThatAdonis]

Throwing things out there, but does the carrier have anything tovdo with it? Starting to notice most people that report problems with sending MMS are with T-Mobile just like me. Not saying its the culprit, but just tryna throw stuff into getting the whole MMS issue solved. Maybe son settings?

[ThatAdonis]

Apn*

[JavaCafe01]

I have cricket and I am getting the same problem, pretty sure it's not the APN settings

[matthewfcarlson]

I've seen this on AT&T as well.

[IamEli84]

I'm having group messaging MMS issues now. Pictures seem to send just fine but no one receives my messages in any group chats.

On v3.1.2

[JavaCafe01]

Does this have anything to do with the mms limit?
Not working and on v3.1.3

[IamEli84]

@moezbhatti
Hey dude, so unfortunately I've had to switch apps temporarily as I'm having serious issues with group messaging not working and pictures sometimes not sending. The messages do appear to send within the app but no one get's my group MMS replies and pics are hit or miss.

I'd like to help resolve this however I can, just let me know what information I can send you.

I'm on v3.1.3 loaded from the Play Store
Tried multiple MAX Attachments sizes but nothing exceeding AT&Ts limit of 1MB
MMS settings appear to be fine as pictures do make it through to some recipients

[JavaCafe01]

This might be a problem with klinker's android-smsmms

[matthewfcarlson]

I would agree with that. I've been experimenting with klinkers library and running into the same issue. Picture messages send but text ones do not.

[IamEli84]

So ironically I use Klinkers Pulse texting app as my backup app and I don't have issues with group messages or picture messages. I know Moez say's he's using Klinkers library so it's weird that Pulse works okay but QKSMS doesn't. Frustrating because I'd rather be using QKSMS right now....

[JavaCafe01]

Maybe the androidsms-mms library isn't up to date?

[moezbhatti]

@JavaCafe01 I took a look at the changes made since I imported the library, and none of them seem like they would affect this

[JavaCafe01]

There are some issues posted on the androidsms-mms repo regarding mms, dating back to 2014. None of them have been answered or replied to.

[JavaCafe01]

Version: 3.2.0

So I started using qksms for the past weeks. I have a mms group chat that works, but my other group chats don't.

Details of this working groupchat:

• Three people including me
• We all have the same area code
• Two androids and one iphone

[bronsonelliott]

QKSMS 3.3.2

I've been trying to send a picture to two different recipients but they aren't receiving it. I've tried compression of 300kb and 600kb but still not working. We are all on AT&T. Text shows it was sent and I don't receive any kind of fail message.

Switched to Textra and works from there. So seems to be isolated to QKSMS. What can I check or what other information can I provide?

[moezbhatti]

@bronsonelliott I'm able to repro the issue on my own device. I looked to see if there's any low hanging fruit but I don't see anything obvious that might be causing it. I'll keep digging around. Whatever it ends up being, I think I'll be able to fix it just using my own test device. Appreciate the help though!

[bronsonelliott]

@moezbhatti - I am not a developer so please forgive the question. Looking the in the AndroidManifest.xml at line https://github.com/moezbhatti/qksms/blob/5e76ba9e8fbb0b2e2cf4b3e822f703dd1d8196ad/presentation/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L105 I notice it states 'com.klinker.android.messaging' while all of the other lines state 'om.moez.QKSMS'. It seems to be related to MMS messages so I wasn't sure if that might be a possible cause for the MMS problem we're experiencing. That seems to be the only reference to 'com.klinker.android.messaging' so the code might be choking on that.

[moezbhatti]

@bronsonelliott this is likely not the cause. This class is set up for receiving, not sending MMS. The reason it uses the com.klinker.android... taskAffinity is because it's based on a class from the android-smsmms library, where none of the others are

[Jrdnkasparek]

I am using a Pixel 2 XL on Verizon and I sort of have this issue as well. When I sent a picture to my roommate he got it(also on Verizon) but when I sent it to my friend he did not receive it

[moezbhatti]

I can't believe how hard this was to find. But, I finally figured it out a fix, and it was incredibly stupid