Problem Sending SMS to group

[Appalbarry]

(Cross posted, as may be a Telus specific issue)

Nexus S; Jellybean; Telus Mobility

One of the main uses that I have for text messaging is to send a message to a group of about 45 people once or twice a month. I have yet to figure why I can't do this, despite trying several messaging apps.

I select the group that I wish to send to, and compose the message, and hit "Send."

All looks good, but then suddenly I get the following pop-up. And then need to click it 40 times, seemingly once for each message.

Is this an Android thing? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

My messaging app (Textra, love it) says it's nothing to do with them.

Or is it the idiots at Telus Mobility?

 

[Appalbarry]

Telus claims "Hello Barry! Sending multiple text messages from a phone is not a network feature, its a mobile phone feature. Most phones can only send up to 10 contacts at one time, so 44 people maybe the reason why you are being asked for the "allow" warning."

So, how can I remove this limitation in Android?

 

[Appalbarry]

Okay Barry so after doing a little bit of research, its a security feature on the Jellybean to stop an application from sending large amounts of text messages without your knowledge. It seems that there is a way to disable it but it is out of our scope of support.

 

[Appalbarry]

Just to wrap up, this is an Android "feature." Severely limiting the number of people that you can text to is supposed a "security" enhancement.

Idiots.

Here's one workaround: Remove SMS Sending Limit on Android You will need root access.

Here's the bug report at Google - go there now and add yourself to the list.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36617

 

[mikelepage]

Personally I think that this is a pretty smart security feature. Most people don't send SMS to groups of that size. The only thing that normally does that is SPAM related apps and bots, so having this as a security feature makes a ton of sense to me.

Glad you found what you were looking for, but as far as Android having it set that way, I think that it's the right move. I seriously doubt it's a bug.

 

[Appalbarry]

It's a bug if it prevents a reasonable and arguably essential feature from being used. If I need to send to a group of people, and if my cel provider is prepared to handle the traffic, then it's not Google's business to tell me that I can't.

This is roughly equivalent to Google deciding that your phone is only allowed to make ten phone calls per day because some telemarketer might use it to flog time share condos.

If they set the cut off at a 1000 messages, or even a hundred, I could live with it, but TEN recipients? That's just stupid and unreasonable.

Reflashed the phone with Cyanogen, which doesn't have this limitation.