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Not receiving text messages on Galaxy S5 from iPhone friends

Apr 28, 2014 2:50AM PDT

Galaxy S5 help please

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Not receiving text messages on Galaxy S5 from iPhone friends
May 1, 2014 9:52AM PDT

Did that work?

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group messages?
Apr 28, 2014 3:33AM PDT

Are the messages group messages? or just any message from iphone users?

This happened to me with my S3

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Link, comment. Is it iMessage?
Apr 28, 2014 3:44AM PDT
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Link, comment. Is it iMessage?
Apr 29, 2014 7:08AM PDT

Try this:

Go to Settings - messages - be sure "send as SMS" is on. Some phones have this off to avoid non-wifi charges.