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submitted 3 days ago by Hera@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Hera@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I cant find that option. Maybe being stupid about it? I have a samsung s25

[-] Zulu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 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.

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So far so good! Thank you so much for that!

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry, should have specified textra settings lol glad it's working!

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Try setting it to the very lowest and very highest and have a friend send you an image for each.

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours 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.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours 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.

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Thank you! I will try that.

[-] Hera@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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.

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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