MMS oddities

[2Fast08]

Most of my MMS that get backed up show up in Gmail as a single thread to myself, and thus, not included in the proper conversation thread in gmail.

Samsung Galaxy S7

[psykauze]

Same for me. I'm not using a lot MMS but the issue has started from May 26th (X-smssync-version: 1556) for me.

Edit.: I've got more infos, before I had this issue I'm using the X-smssync-version: 1554

[psykauze]

Looks like it is from commit 7884ec6. Need confirm.

Here a sample: (I've replaced my name, phone number and email by John Doe ones. The "references" line is also not correct "xxx.3335" instead of "xxx.3315") MMS.txt

[psykauze]

I think this part of "HeaderGenerator.java" is broken:

private void setSmsHeaders(Message message, Map<String,String> msgMap) throws MessagingException {
    message.setHeader(Headers.ID, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns._ID));    // Why use a MMS class for SMS header ? Also, I don't find an explanation for "_ID".
    message.setHeader(Headers.TYPE, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.TYPE));
    message.setHeader(Headers.DATE, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.DATE));
    message.setHeader(Headers.THREAD_ID, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.THREAD_ID));
    message.setHeader(Headers.READ, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.READ));
    message.setHeader(Headers.STATUS, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.STATUS));
    message.setHeader(Headers.PROTOCOL, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.PROTOCOL));
    message.setHeader(Headers.SERVICE_CENTER, msgMap.get(Telephony.TextBasedSmsColumns.SERVICE_CENTER));
}

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private void setMmsHeaders(Message message, Map<String,String> msgMap) throws MessagingException {
    message.setHeader(Headers.ID, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns._ID));    // I don't know what does "_ID" mean.
    message.setHeader(Headers.TYPE, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns.MESSAGE_TYPE));
    message.setHeader(Headers.DATE, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns.DATE));
    message.setHeader(Headers.THREAD_ID, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns.THREAD_ID));
    message.setHeader(Headers.READ, msgMap.get(Telephony.BaseMmsColumns.READ));
}

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[computerdude95]

Same problem here - MMS are shown in gmail as emails from myself.

SMS Backup+ 1.5.10 Android 6.0.1 Samsung Note5

[mdes]

I just add some precision to the faulty MMS about the joined picture. See my link just above.

[2Fast08]

It's been 3 months and the issue still exists, are we going to get an update on this or not.

[jberkel]

@2Fast08 @mdes Can you post some headers from backed up MMS emails (anonymized) ?

[2Fast08]

I would if I knew how.

[jberkel]

@2Fast08 don't worry, got some already.

[dtuma]

I would really love to see a fix for this as well. For me, I see normal conversation threads in GMail for almost all messages; but whenever I reply on my phone and attach a picture, that picture message gets pulled out of the correct GMail thread. Instead, every picture I've sent to anyone at all shows up as a single GMail thread of me talking to myself. Looking at the backups, I have no way of telling who I sent a given picture to; and when reviewing individual threads, the conversations are disjointed because every MMS message I sent is missing.

In the past, this behavior would occur for MMS messages that were part of a group conversation. I forgave that behavior because I could understand the difficulty of properly sorting group messages. But now, it happens for every MMS message I send, even MMS messages to a single individual. (Received MMS messages do not fall prey to this problem.)

This used to work properly in the past, but some change has broken it. Looking at the backed-up messages from three phones in my family, it seems that all of our phones received the update with the breaking change sometime around Feb 1, 2016.