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Digits
I am not getting notification that I have a new text..how do I turn that on ? Calls come through fine
It sounds like you have everything set up correctly to get those message notifications loud and clear. There are a few things that you can toggle to try and kick the notifications to work properly.
- Unassign and reassign the line
- turn off notifications in the app and settings and then turn them back on.
- Try turning on Cellular-mode only and test. Then turn it off again.
- If all else fails, uninstall the app and reinstall it. That usually irons out all the kinks to make it work better.
Yep, @HeavenM I agree, there shouldn’t be anything else in that stack to interfere; I’d expect the Digits app to work bar-none in this case, regardless, as TMo has full access to their entire stack, unlike any other party’s app(s).
Google’s web-messaging has worked flawlessly in this regard, for a LOT of years now, and every single time I try to use the Digits (app, web, etc.), I get a few message threads with only a handful of messages on each, I’ve never gotten past that state.
As a (mostly sorta' semi-retired) full stack s/w and h/w (lots of driver/kernel test and similar) I 100% get how the parity should work here, and why the Android stack should lend itself more readily. What I don't get is why not, and since Google's web-RCS tool works SO well, I've mostly abandoned trying to get Digits to work, until setting this thread and giving it another go. I could set up a debugger/Wireshark on both my phone and the win-app, send simple messages to myself, and probably come up with a likely cause of the failure, but then what, what am I going to do with a pile of stack-traces, perhaps bad pointer dereferences or similar, and packet debugs?
I don't have much social presence anymore, other than FB and LinkedIn, I'm sort of an intentional non-user based on the fact I think that some of this is horribly bad for most societies (the misuse, not the use, but these days they're almost equivalent, unless you're a very savvy user/consumer of that info, IMHO/IME). My FB is pretty locked down, I suppose I could post there and tag them (I did do this maybe 3-4 years ago when I was really trying to get this to work, got nowhere with that team, it just trailed off eventually), and try that route again, ugh.
Mostly, it just seems like it shouldn’t be this hard to get the carriers’ version of this to work, again, looking at the stacks of bad reviews in the store, to this end...
