Michael is worried that his Android phone isn't safe, especially with the text messages he gets from random numbers. Leo says it used to be vulnerable, but both Android and iOS have been patched and SMS text messages are safe, as long as he doesn't open the links he's being sent.
Alan is a little league baseball coach and he's trying to create group texts for all parents and players. Everyone gets them except the iPhone users. Leo says that while Apple doesn't support group messaging to Android, Android supports it to iOS. However, there are many different ways to send messages in Android including. If everyone is getting them except one person, it could be that she's got group messaging turned off on her phone, or some setting that blocks it It may be that she disabled receiving MMS because of a flaw that came up last year.
Marty has a Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone and after an update, he can't send pictures to anyone because of a "message size limit reached" error. What can he do other than a hard reset to get it fixed?
Reilly wants to know how to backup his text messages to his computer. For iPhone, PhoneView by eCamm is the way to go. For Android phones, SMS Backup and Restore by Carbonite gets 4 1/2 stars, which is pretty impressive. It will back up his messages to Google Drive or DropBox, and it's free.
What's the difference between SMS and MMS? Leo says that SMS is text, MMS is media/images.
Amy is having trouble sending videos to Android with her iPhone 6. Leo says the problem is likely with AT&T and it should be fixable. Text messages are handled with SMS, while video and photos are sent via MMS, or through Apple's Message. So it's likely Amy's MMS is misconfigured. Leo says to talk to a genius at the Apple Store and ask them to fix it.
Dan has two separate phones, an LG G3 and an HTC One on T-Mobile, with two separate SIMs ( a micro and a nano), and two separate lines. He can't figure out how to send multi media text messages in Google Voice. Leo says that Google just recently decided to support MMS, but it may have not happened yet and Verizon doesn't support it. T-Mobile does though, and Dan uses both.
Anthony has a Samsung Galaxy S3 and he can't send pictures via text back to Australia. Leo says that's an MMS issue and he's experienced it as well. He has a hunch that it's a restriction of the carrier. Sending pictures through e-mail should be fine.
Scott has an HTC One that he used at AT&T but he's had it unlocked and moved over to T-Mobile. But his MMS and text messaging aren't working now. Leo says that it may be that the APN settings are wrong, and that won't allow the phone to send images. There also may be an issue with the frequencies supported.
Brian and his wife have been using Straight Talk wireless and recently brought over an unlocked Windows Phone to their plan. But she can't send images via attachment. Everything else works, just not MMS. Leo says that it may not be supported. Brian says his plan does support it.
Annette bought a new iPhone 5 and she can't send pics to her friends running Android through text messages. Leo says that since Annette is using an iPhone on T-Mobile, the phone isn't configured right for iMessages, is getting confused and won't default to MMS. Here's a technote from T-Mobile. There's also a youtube video that will walk her through it called How To Fix MMS on iOS 6/6.0.1 iPhone 5/4S/4/3Gs Tmobile.
