Trouble with SMS Messages

[Simon Redman]

Hi Jonathan,

If this has just started recently, most likely you are suffering from 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464392

The instructions for how to take a logcat are on the wiki: 
https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#KDE_Connect_Android_app_crashes

Thanks,
Simon

On 1/16/23 19:18, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 16:20 -0500, Simon Redman wrote:
>> If you are using a privacy-focused SMS app (Signal is the most 
>> common), they are designed to prevent other apps from being able to 
>> operate on SMS.
> I use Samsung's standard app, "Messages", version 13.1.22.1 (the 
> latest). Do you recommend another messaging app?
>
>> A few users have reported that they are able to see SMS but not send. 
>> Nobody has been able to collect a logcat from the KDE Connect Android 
>> app. If you are able to see message but not send them, please 
>> subscribe to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425638, and please 
>> post a logcat if you are able to get one.
> My problem sometimes looks like the one described in 425638. SMS 
> worked correctly for some time and then started to fail. I use SMS 
> messaging infrequently, so I'm not able to say exactly when the 
> problem started. Sometimes my desktop computer is unable to access SMS 
> messages; when I start it, the progress wheel just turns and the popup 
> "Loading conversations..." appears.
>
> I thought that logcat would be a function provided by android-tools; 
> but it looks like this isn't so. How do I get logcat? Is an 
> introduction to it available?
>
>> On 1/15/23 17:10, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>
>>> Both my desktop computer nor my cell phone report no problems 
>>> connecting with each other and SMS doesn't report any errors, except 
>>> for occasional slow refreshing, but SMS messages don't work. I can't 
>>> send new messages, and new messages sent from the cell phone don't 
>>> appear on the desktop computer's screen.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what's going on or how to investigate?
>
> -- 
> Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan<jonrysh at pacbell.net>
>
> 	A man who carries a cat by the tail learns
> 	something he can learn in no other way.
> 	-- Mark Twain.
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