Messages to multi recipients fail

[shubhashish]

Hi,

I have noticed this for sometime now. Don't know if its an issue with my Nokia Lumia 800 or a bug affecting the entire OS or the phone. I am unable to send smses to multiple recipients. They just don't get delivered to even a single friend.

Help?

 

[dannejanne]

I have had no problem with that. Might as well be carrier related?

 

[freestaterocker]

HD7. No problems here, and I do it a lot. Something like that is more likely carrier or signal related... I used to have an issue on my old feature phone where if I couldn't maintain signal long enough for each contact to get sent none of them would receive it. And since WP doesn't give you a progress bar for texts or even emails it would be less apparent that it's happening.

 

[buynowhhh]

Solution to the problem - tested

Try turning off the Group Text feature in the Messaging app.

Open the Messaging app and tap the ... at the bottom right of the screen.
Tap Settings.
Slide "Group Text" to off.

What is happening is when you send a text to multiple people, the Group Text feature attempts to keep the messages in one chat thread by using MMS.

 

[Jaime Garch]

This worked! Thanks! I knew that you were right when i saw that the group messaging was an app. THanks for the absolutely helpful solution! Happy New Year!

 

[salas kovacevic]

Thanks, this works