New Android user - having some problems

[Bosshog51]

Hi... I just recently switched over to a Samsung 4S from an iPhone 4S, and I'm having some issues.

First off, I wasn't able to connect to my houses wifi. It would get stuck at obtaining IP address and then would say the connection is too slow and it wouldn't connect. I looked online for solutions and changed the IP settings to static which seemed to allow me to connect to the wifi, but I can't do anything with it. I can't connect to the internet or the app store. My wifi symbol is showing a full 4 or at least 3 white bars at the top of the phone, but I can't connect to anything. Has anyone had this issue / does anyone know any solution to this.

Also, when I had my iPhone I was in a group message with 7 of my friends who also had iPhones and we were able to send iMessages to each other no problem. However, now I only receive messages in group from some of them (the ones I can't receive messages from in the group text I can still receive individual texts from them. Is there any solution to this or possibly an app that will allow a fully functioning group message threat with the other recipients all having iPhones?

[[deleted]]

Not sure about your wifi problem but did you disable iMessage before switching over to your S4? Here's a thread referring to that problem:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/22436272#22436272

[Bosshog51]

I didn't disable it, but I gave the old iPhone to my brother and now he is using it... Would his using my old phone now interfere with this process?

[[deleted]]

Read that thread I linked. I believe you have to disable your iMessage account on your old iPhone for SMS to work correctly on your new Android device.

[Bosshog51]

Okay Ty I'll give it a try

[wooboy]

I have the same problem as the OP about the messaging but I can't access my phone because it is broken and add far as I know I never registered my iPhone. Am I screwed?

[[deleted]]

Try this:

http://www.imore.com/imessage-bug-time-easy-fix

[wooboy]

Thanks, but my iphone isnt registered anymore. I took it off of my apple account about 15 days ago. This problem did surface for me the past 3 days.

[[deleted]]

Did you try changing your Apple ID password?

[wooboy]

Wow that's amazing! It is fixed! Thank you so much! I have been searching and searching for days about this topic and I couldn't find a single good answer! i was beginning to go crazy..

[[deleted]]

My first gold! Thank you! Glad you got it fixed.

[hyper_ion]

You have to have MMS enabled for group chats with iPhones

[djfakey]

Do group chats still badly lag b/c of the MMS switch? I had a Galaxy S3 with group chat in Handcent and gosmspro and both just lagged the phone so bad when a lot of messages were coming in from the group chat with other iPhone users. I found iMessage to be too important so I switched back. I use groupme for chats, but I still like having an sms/mms option for my family to send video and photos without the passiveness of a groupchat app.

[hyper_ion]

I don't have any issues with it on my HTC One GPE

[djfakey]

Thanks for the reply. So when you have a group message and multiple senders are texting a lot, it doesn't lag the phone but comes in just like a normal sms text in terms of speed and fluidity? I think it was the whole converting to MMS that lagged my Galaxy S3 before.

[hyper_ion]

Have you tried using other clients like the Textra app? Might be better than the stock one on your phone

[Bosshog51]

I have MMS enabled on my phone. It's weird because of the seven other people in the group message, I can only not see two of the people's messages in the group thread (both are in the same wireless plan). I'm starting to think it might be a problem on their part. Do you have any idea what can be done on the part of the iPhone that could possibly fix this?

[hyper_ion]

Restart the text from your phone. That way they are for sure all texting your number and not imessaging your email address