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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: RCS messaging Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:49:02 +0200 Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vRK0AJRbiuOunPQQXfhl6gDxBaGB3s2Y6sydVTfA+MKwCItfk3 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:XVJedQPaZfsbCac81Rs0zfAftR4= sha256:t9z507dhwMW0XFoI632urBG3rliOC4ear3v8Rq/c2rM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2456 On 2025-04-01 21:19, Stan Brown wrote: > Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app moto g52 and moto g62, Android 13 both. > > A couple of months ago I turned on RCS chats. There are a couple of > downsides, but I wonder if there are any upsides. > > Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on: > 1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted > as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a > photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages. Not here. > 2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to- > text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for > forwarding but the text is discarded. No Verizon here, so can't replicate. > > 3. If I start a text, then take a photo and share it with the > intended recipient of the text, Messages throws away the text I > typed. Not here, I just tried. > 4. When someone _starts_ typing a response to a text I sent, I get > the sound for a received text, and then I don't know whether to wait > for them to finish and hit send, or go back to what I was doing and > then get interrupted again when they do. Not here, I just tried. > 5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very > distracting animations. I think this feature can be activated/deactivated, I saw something about it. I just posted a reaction to a message and the receiver gets no animation. > > Good -- What am I missing? It is gratis, even internationally. SMS are not gratis here. -- Cheers, Carlos.