09-12-2020, 11:13 AM | #1 |
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Text message bug?
It appears that only individual text messages are supported. None of the messages sent to (2) or more people appear in the list. I was driving to the tennis courts and the captain sent a message that the courts were not playable! I never got it. idrive is set to read all messages. I tried rebooting my phone and iDrive, but that did not help. I compared my phone to the BMW and only individuals are displayed.
iDrive 3/2020 version. Is this a known bug?
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Some phones will duplicate an SMS to multiple numbers when sent to a "group" and the result is each individual SMS to each recipient (ie 5 member of "group" means 5 individual SMS sent) — that's an example of a "workaround" and would have worked. On the other hand, iMessage and other chat facilities of course do support group chats, but while those facilities may try to look and integrate with SMS, they are not actually SMS — that's an a example of "something else". So ... perhaps what you were sent was a group iMessage, not SMS? Was the received text blue on your iPhone? Or something similar ...
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So, I guess that iDrive does not handle MMS messages. Correct? On further research, the Android app has advanced group settings. "Choose mass text or group MMS as your default. " I will try mass text and see if it helps. I don't know if it will be too ugly.
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It may also be that MMS is not supported over Bluetooth at all or that your phone's implementation may not be able to forward MMS over Bluetooth. Requires research and testing. TL;DR iDrive 7 supporting only SMS and not MMS over Bluetooth seems like a viable theory.
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I just tested the mass text option when sending or replying to a group. It is not helpful at all. If the originator send a group message, you still do not see it. If you send or reply, it sends individual messages. That defeats the group purpose.
not nice. Sticking with MMS group message option.
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