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Problems Texting on In-Flight WiFi
I flew a domestic round trip on American Airlines recently, and for the first time on both flights I was able to get free WiFi with AA with my Go5G plus plan. However, the texting didn't work on eit...
jauntz wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I was only using the default Android (messages by Google) texting app and sending messages through short, simple SMS. No MMS or RCS.
I recall sometimes having trouble with SMS if my phone (OnePlus 8T 5G) was in airplane mode with WiFi turned back on. To get it to work I had to turn airplane mode off. While this is not kosher on an airline, you might give it a try next time.
drnewcomb wrote:jauntz wrote:Thank you for your reply. I was only using the default Android (messages by Google) texting app and sending messages through short, simple SMS. No MMS or RCS.
I recall sometimes having trouble with SMS if my phone (OnePlus 8T 5G) was in airplane mode with WiFi turned back on. To get it to work I had to turn airplane mode off. While this is not kosher on an airline, you might give it a try next time.
That crossed my mind as well. So I gave it a try on my home wifi network. When I turned on airplane mode and wifi calling at home, I could send and receive texts like normal. It sounds like airplane wifi just might be different.
My thought right now is to get on the plane, and restart my phone before logging into the plane wifi. Then after logging on, I will try to send a text from my phone to my Google Voice account and see if that works. If it doesn't, I might just turn off wifi calling for the flight so that none of my text messages get dropped. Hopefully, I can do all of this on the ground during boarding.
I appreciate everyone's help! The ability to text during the flight would help me get some things done before landing. It's a 4 hour flight.
¡Gracias!
