iPhone to Android iMessage bug fix

Hey, Apple. Looks like you got some egg there on your face:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/05/19/ditch-your-iphone-and-apple-b reaks-your-sms-but-here-is-the-fix/?partner=yahootix

Get ready for the storm because this story is blowing up. Stop playing dirty tactics and just release that fix you've been sitting on since 2011, and we can close this thread. As an Apple-loyalist since the Wallstreet Black Powerbook, you've just lost my faith because of this. Grrr.

mike90909090 wrote:

Interesting.....a pro-apple poster doesn't get his post removed even though he is using......what did that Apple Host call it when they ripped down my post????? Oh yeah....inflammatory statements......which mine were actually less than what you wrote....but of course Apple has its own set of standards when we are drinking the kool-aid.

Z....irrefutable evidence? Please look that up on google and learn what that means dear Lord. If we were in court I can bet you what I wrote goes over better with a jury. No one's personal account of what has happened is irrefutable. And again, just because you had an instance where things worked doesn't mean THEY ALWAYS WORK. The issue with this whole mess is that your steps IMPROVE things but they do NOT fix things. My point to you is that even this far out you have no idea what you have missed unless you are a socio-path and are stalking everyone with an Iphone and asking them every day if they sent you a message and then reconciling some spreadsheet you have started......so, U R WRONG Zelous, WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG........WRRRRRROOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG (sung with a British accent). Random issues that drop texts that you may never know got sent is impossible IMPOSSIBLE for you to know if it still occurs with your phone. IMPOSSIBLE. Unless, you are 13 and have 2 friends with an Iphone..........which you might be.

And when Apple loses the class action lawsuit, I'll come back to gloat........

if u spent as much effort trying to fix ur imessage issue as u do trying to prove how much u can be wrong on a forum i think u would be a happy person by now. and btw its very simply really. i have an ipad that was signed into the same apple id. so all messages that were coming in as imessage showed up there. i KNOW when i dont get a message. in other words, ur mouth must very much taste like feet after all of this. and that ends my trolling on mike because quite frankly, its just getting boring (for now).

as for the people on here that are reading this to actually fix their problem and not just complain like whiney little children that it doesnt fix itself without some work:

1. call applecare and have ur number removed from the system

2. wait 48 hours

3. tell anyone that u suspect is still sending u imessages instead of regular sms text messages to update their software and turn on send as sms in their message settings. if u dont feel like troubleshooting their phone with those steps then u can alway have them call applecare instead.

these steps have not proven 100% effective for everyone, especially for group messaging, but they are the best method to getting the issue resolved as of right now.

Because you have made several (no i am not going to go back and count them) statements that make it seem this "hidden" problem that hasn't been acknowledged by Apple is the same as other "glitches" from other devices....suggesting if other devices aren't perfect then it is the same as this problem........which is a complete reduction of the size and magnitiude of this problem (have you seen the article posted by Forbes? How many billion SMS get sent every year? this is a very big problem.

Hello, My wife has an iPhone 5S and she does send messages to me on my Samsung Galagy S5.

Verizon/AT&T said that Apple has a workaround, but required that the person with the iPhone turn off iMessage, delete your contact card from their address book, restart their phone, then create a new address book entry and then turn back on iMessage. It's a fiasco, but it can be fixed. Problem is that you might have to make sure that all your contacts do this in order to get everyone else's messages!!!!!!

Verizon/AT&T said that Apple has a workaround, but required that the person with the iPhone turn off iMessage, delete your contact card from their address book, restart their phone, then create a new address book entry and then turn back on iMessage. It's a fiasco, but it can be fixed. Problem is that you might have to make sure that all your contacts do this in order to get everyone else's messages!!!!!!

I think the best solution for us who now use a "Galaxy S5 phone" that used to have an "iPhone" is to use WHATS-APP!!!!!!! That way, everyone receives your messages and is happy!!!!! Have a nice day.

victor319 wrote:

I think the best solution for us who now use a "Galaxy S5 phone" that used to have an "iPhone" is to use WHATS-APP!!!!!!! That way,

everyone else will need to also download and use Whatsapp!!!

victor319 wrote:

Verizon/AT&T said that Apple has a workaround, but required that the person with the iPhone turn off iMessage, delete your contact card from their address book, restart their phone, then create a new address book entry and then turn back on iMessage. It's a fiasco, but it can be fixed. Problem is that you might have to make sure that all your contacts do this in order to get everyone else's messages!!!!!!

might want to actually speak to apple to get the best facts first.

try telling everyone u know to update their software. the latest patch helps out with imessage for a lot of people (some others are still experiencing the issue even after that). they should try and keep their software updated anyways so telling people that shouldnt be to bad even though its still a pain in the butt.

another good step to try is to have them turn on send as sms in their settings>messages. this is something i would personally think should be on by default but its unfortanetly not. its function is to turn any imessages that are sent to someone not using imessage into a regular text message instead.

I guess I should be a little more clear here. I have the latest iOS software on my iphone 4, I think it is 7.1.1 My friend here at work has an android phone. She was not getting my texts because it was sending it in an iMessage which is only reserved for iphones. Turning the iMessage feature off on the phone worked for me and now she gets my messages. You just wont be able to imessage between iphones with it off it will just be a regular SMS message. So it worked for me and should work if you have the latest iOS software. this is the only thing that i have come across that works untill apple fixes this issue in a future iOS update.

eclipsed1 wrote:

I guess I should be a little more clear here. I have the latest iOS software on my iphone 4, I think it is 7.1.1 My friend here at work has an android phone. She was not getting my texts because it was sending it in an iMessage which is only reserved for iphones. Turning the iMessage feature off on the phone worked for me and now she gets my messages. You just wont be able to imessage between iphones with it off it will just be a regular SMS message. So it worked for me and should work if you have the latest iOS software. this is the only thing that i have come across that works untill apple fixes this issue in a future iOS update.

that solution should work for anyone regardless of what software they are using. its just impractical to have to completely turn off imessage on every phone that is trying to send messages to a new droid.

In my experience, even this "work around" doesn't fix the problem with group messaging. So while you can get a direct message from your wife you should see if your wife and you were on any group imessage threads and try to send a message to that entire group. In my experience those messages do not come through to the non-iphone user yet no error message is displayed to the sender.

victor319 wrote:

Hello, My wife has an iPhone 5S and she does send messages to me on my Samsung Galagy S5.

Verizon/AT&T said that Apple has a workaround, but required that the person with the iPhone turn off iMessage, delete your contact card from their address book, restart their phone, then create a new address book entry and then turn back on iMessage. It's a fiasco, but it can be fixed. Problem is that you might have to make sure that all your contacts do this in order to get everyone else's messages!!!!!!

Yes this works, but it is not a consistent solution. It does work more often than not, but then there are times when I find that the message was not received by the iPhone user. Sometimes, the iPhone user gets the message failed response from thier device when attempting to text me. Looks like Apple has some more de-bugging to do and a class action suit to avoid. Not that it matters to the iPhone cult.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/tech/mobile/aple-imessage-problems-fix/

Ok party people as I mentioned in Mid May i'm reporting back. To review: most of us know all of the potential "fixes" needed by the iphone users to enable messages to be received by non iPhone users- for some they work and for some they do not. They did not work for me. Someone here (fromsouth?) had referenced a 45-day period where apples servers purge your information. I have to say that that time frame has passed and it now appears that receiving text messages from IPhone contacts is working for me.

The thing i do not understand is the 45-day timeline- i understand the timeline but i do not understand (at least af of Mid May- the last time i was researching this issue) is why Apple has not been forthright about it anywhere in online support or via support calls. Again, another poster informed me and others about it. That's my 2 cents.

I certainly didn't read all of these posts...

Has anyone tried just having the iPhone user (sender) change the YOUR contact type from "iPhone" to "Mobile" in the THEIR Contacts menu? That would be the most obvious and easiest solution I can think of...

As stated before, the FIX is to call APPLE SUPPORT and have them remove your number from the imessaging server.

That will fix it 100%.

Im also switching from my iphone 4s to a Galaxy note 3 this friday. Excited for the change because iphones are SOOO boring after having it for 2 years.