Getting mms download errors on signal in android

Actual result: I receive the error described in the issue title over and over. Device: OnePlus 2 Android version: 6. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Sorry, something went wrong. Happening quite a bit on my S5.

Highly annoying as it keeps retrying, even if you delete messages or indeed the entire conversation. After growing tired of the endless automatic attempts to resend the failed MMS messages to my phone's Signal app, I switched my default messaging app back to the OEM messenger application. This cleared the queue of the residual messages, which were part of a group text a contact of mine initiated. They were not media messages, but apparently group texts are sent as MMS messages, and Signal was unable to process slightly more than half of them, setting up the endless cycle of repeat-send-attempts.

I am a caveman mechanical engineer who can't code his way out of a paper bag regardless of its moisture content, but perhaps a future release of Signal could address this, please? Just two of these in a row. I asked the sender and she said she sent the msg days ago Not sure if that matters. I've had to switch back to Messenger for primary use, with Signal only for other Signal users. I have this issue constantly.

I deleted the app and reinstalled and MMS worked for some time, then the issue came back. I've been forced to use a non-secure app as my default messaging app now. Please address this issue. Is there any way to attempt to debug this? I was thinking if there was a dump of the malformed MMS I could get to, I maybe could post that somewhere. This confused the carrier somehow and caused major issues with MMS. This can not be the case with me as the issue is intermittent I actually got one of these errors again yesterday.

Upon reading the "how to submit a bug" docs, I attempted to download the mms again to make it fail so i could submit a debug log but it succeeded this time I reboot it and then everything works great.

It doesn't take that long but since I kept forgetting what I was doing I actually have a piece of paper reminding me on those two complicated steps stuck on the back of my phone case : Hope it's as easy for everyone else as it is for me. I get this too. I've tried connecting and disconnecting wifi, rebooting the phone, selecting download this and that.

Nothing works. This issue annoying me and my friends for half a year. Devs, will it be fixed soon? It's hard to determine when it started, cuz I delete old messages limit I always updated Signal app when when a newer version came up. I think also that telecommunications provider is not a problem. Me and my mate, both we are using "Play" wikipedia , for him everything works great With newest version of app too. Play uses domestic roaming, so i tried fix MMS issue by allowing for all types of MMS in "media auto-download" option for roaming.

It didn't help. And everything works half year ago so Submit a debug log like I did so the devs have something to go on. The easier it is for them to figure out the more likely it is to get fixed. I peek at logs and started digging in code. In my case issue occure because I use application with "Signal messages and calls" disabled I disable it cuz me and my friends had problem with to long time between sending and receiving an SMS - sometimes few hours.

When MMS arrive, You guys check:. I think you can just somehow skip it, and download MMS like dozen apps on market do. Sign in to your account. I started looking for an alternative to the clunky stock app, and for a while the Google Messenger app was working perfectly.

Recently, that stopped working as well, so I tried Signal as an alternative with no success in downloading MMS messages from non Signal users. Actual result: Signal unable to download MMS messages from non Signal users, stock app can no longer download the message I attempted to download in Signal when switching default apps.

Device: LG V10 Android version: 6. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. I cannot see anything MMS download related in the log. Can you capture another one directly after the download failed? Sorry, something went wrong. I just asked my wife to send me another MMS with her iPhone, here's is the debug log I captured immediately after it failed to download:. Duplicate of ? Not necessarily. I saw the fix in that thread by changing Advanced MMS settings in Signal, but I don't have that option in my settings.

That's not the same behavior as in Over there appears an exception. Here the download seems to start or to be initiated and then nothing more is logged about it. That seems strange. I'm seeing this with Android 6. Not sure if this points to a bug in Signal or Android 6. They seem to fail to download only when Signal is the default messaging app?

I wonder if it's this Android 6. Still no solution? GitHub Issue Cleanup: See for more information. Skip to content.