Your Phone app shows duplicate sent messages

Thanks much @DaveTheBatMan and @Cutt. I've continued to try everything, including disabling data, removing any app that the OS identified as being able to handle the default texts. For the past couple days its been off the hook, almost duplicating every text... since the latest Your Phone update.

I purged cache, reconnected phone, rebooted PC & phone, still not better. Then I decided to try something different... I disabled the built-in Samsung Messages app. Fingers crossed, not one dupe message in about 1.5 days. I'll post updates on this.

Good stuff DaveTheBatMan.  I have been trying to do more testing and I really do think it is response timing issue that is causing duplicate texts to be sent.

The interesting thing that got confirmed this morning is that not ALL recipents are getting duplicate messages from me, but most are.  The question is what make this one person different technically?  I'm not sure...

Anyway, I sent my thoughts from the previous post to Microsoft dev team.  If I hear something back, I will update here.  Cheers!!

Happy Tuesday!

Ryan N.

Hi Cutt,

Your analysis is quite extensive, and I hope it somehow helps us get a version that works correctly.  It would be great if the people at Microsoft used your information, since (as a developer, I know that) more information is always better, when troubleshooting.

From the information presented, you make a good case that the cause is a timing issue with the (Windows 10) "Your Phone" app -- that it's not getting a "message sent" acknowledgement before its (whatever) timeout, and so it's resending the message.  I've seen many posts from people who've replaced the built-in Samsung messaging app with the Google Messaging app, and their problem went away.  (Here, "replaced" means that they installed the Google Messaging app and selected it as the default app.)

For me, that didn't work, and I think that the Samsung app is (at least partially) causing the problem.  It's possible that the Google Messaging app is getting (and correctly forwarding) the message request from the Win10 app, but that the Samsung app is still actively processing some messages (even though it shouldn't be).  The only real way for me to test this would be to (somehow) disable it or ideally remove it, but both would require that I root the phone.  Sure, I could do that, but I'm not sure it's that important.

Not yet, anyway.

As always, all thoughts are appreciated.

Happy Tuesday!

Dave

I am posting a reply, where i can turn off the notify, in hopes it will work. good idea :)

@PCBPCB,

I'm afraid I don't know.  I have a thoughtbut, even if that's how you became "subscribed" (for lack of a better word), I'm not sure how to stop it:

As I'm writing this reply to your post, there's a pre-checked box at the bottom that says "Notify me when someone responds to this post".  I suspect that's why you're getting updates -- at some point, you posted here and the box was checked, so you're seeing updates.  As for how you undo that... well, I'm rather baffled.