That is SO frustrating. As far as I know I just have one group text mainly that is affected. But I feel like a jerk asking 7 people to delete their content on my behalf. I feel like I have to choose between abandoning my phone number and inconveniencing people… how can I ensure it will work if they delete theirs? I hate to ask and then it still doesn’t work. I’d like to do everything possible.
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Therein lies the proverbial “rub.” It sucks. There’s no mincing words about it.
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Ultimately I blame Google and not Mudita. But that doesn’t make it any easier! I also heard t-mobile is going to phase out 4G, so I really hope Mudita can keep up with newer networks!
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This is continuing to be incredibly frustrating. I use my number for business and I don’t think asking a bunch of business contacts to delete their group messages with me is a viable option. Even if I tried it, I’ve been group messaging with this number for a very long time with phones I no longer own with contacts I hadn’t saved. At some point, someone is going to send me a group message from a group that had been previously set to use RCS/iMessage and I’m going to end up missing it.
I tried giving up on degoogling/deappling and sideloading an app that can handle RCS messages. Tried BlueBubbles, OpenBubbles, Beeper, and a few others and got nowhere. I don’t think this is really possible. Their either uninstallable on the Kompakt or require you to maintain another device with a separate SIM card which I’m not interested in paying for.
I’ve also opened a support ticket with Mudita. They checked a bunch of settings, all of which seemed fine, then recommended the same as Stephen - ask all my contacts to fix my problems for me. To me, the fundamental purpose of a phone is to enable reliable communication and silently dropping RCS messages is a failure of that purpose. As annoying as it is that Google is forcing this, I still think it’s Mudita’s responsibility to come up with a robust solution if they want to be a phone manufacturer to the US. Still working through it on the support ticket.
My latest strategy, which is going to be super annoying, is return to my iphone for a while, turn off iMessage and RCS messages in settings, use it like that for 30 days at which point Google claims they will fully deregister it. I’ll monitor it to see if I start receiving SMS/MMS messages instead of RCS messages. Hopefully eventually (maybe after 30 days?) it will switch over and then I can switch back to the Kompakt.
Still after all this would really prefer to be using the Kompakt over the iPhone, so if anyone (and really I wish that someone would be Mudita) comes up with a robust solution, I’m all ears!
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I know this must be super frustrating, however, if you were originally an iPhone user & then tried to switch to a Samsung (or any other Android for that matter) you would probably still have issues with getting text messages (group messages included) from iPhones.
I’ve had this happen to friends & they were also frustrated. It’s not just Kompakt.
The main issue when switching from iPhone to an ANDROID is that messages from other iPhone users may not be received because THEIR DEVICES still attempt to send them as iMessages (which only work on Apple devices) instead of standard SMS/MMS messages. That’s why deleting the threads & asking others might help.
The iPhone-to-Android switch is nowhere near as painful as the iPhone-or-Android-to-Mudita switch. The problem is that both iPhone and Android use RCS these days. Turning off iMessage isn’t difficult at all in comparison to ditching RCS.
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Turning off iMessage is SO EASY compared to RCS. If you know how to do it it’s automatic and not frustrating at all. I turned off iMessage on my work iphone and continue to receive every message. RCS seems to be a nightmare to turn off, and actually impossible based on the information available. I’m very lucky not to be a heavy group text user. If I were I think the mudita would be incompatible with my lifestyle. Unless you’re prepared to get a new number… I don’t think I’ve seen a single foolproof fix for this.
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Preach! 
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