Your Phone app shows duplicate sent messages

Anonymous
2019-07-15T14:34:47+00:00

My Your Phone app is duplicating messages sent, sporadically. This has been happening the past few days. Windows and Your Phone apps have been updated. The duplicates are appearing in my Android texting app (Textra) as well. I have used Pulse, Google Messages, and Samsung Flow previously w/o this occurring.

Windows 10 Pro 1903

Android Pie, standard, non-rooted ROM

'Advisors', please don't ask me to run scannow or complete a repair install...thanks.

***Modified title from: Your Phone app duplicates messages sent***

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-10T21:00:04+00:00

    Same here, s20 ultra, W64 latest updates as of 5-10-20.

    Worked fine for the first few weeks, now it's ****.  Duplicates, constant failures to send, then it does later.  As usual there really is no help to actually solve the problem from MS so I'm about to ditch it and go back to Pushbullet, which was flawless, quick and had more features.  

    Also the copy from my pc to the app doesn't work despite having it set to do that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-30T19:54:07+00:00

    FWIW on a few occasions I have looked at/shut down YourPhone via task manager,

    Looks like it got a new component part a little over a week ago. I am about positive I have never seen YourPhoneServer.exe before today. It is dated 4/20/2020 and shows no older versions.

    A TON of stuff relating to YourPhone in the registry as I looked through there today. Registry is dangerous territory but I was just looking.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-30T16:09:18+00:00

    Hi Geo,

    Thanks for chiming in.  Although not everyone mentions the manufacturer of their mobile device (i.e., phone), it seems that the ones who do are all using Samsung.  If that's the case, then it seems reasonable to assume that it's something with Samsung's customized Android build.

    But, right now, that doesn't really help anyone; all we can do is just work with it as best we can.

    Good luck!

    DaveTheBatMan - no, it's not just Samsung devices [phones].  Mine does the same thing and I have an LG G5 Android phone.

    melliemelb

    +1. Same issue with an LG G7. Note that it doesn't happen all the time for me -- just sometimes. I haven't noticed a pattern as to what makes the duplications happen, though.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-30T14:44:25+00:00

    Hi Geo,

    Thanks for chiming in.  Although not everyone mentions the manufacturer of their mobile device (i.e., phone), it seems that the ones who do are all using Samsung.  If that's the case, then it seems reasonable to assume that it's something with Samsung's customized Android build.

    But, right now, that doesn't really help anyone; all we can do is just work with it as best we can.

    Good luck!

    DaveTheBatMan - no, it's not just Samsung devices [phones].  Mine does the same thing and I have an LG G5 Android phone.

    melliemelb

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-24T16:42:04+00:00

    Interesting about the recipient.  I have definitely messaged the same people I had horrible duplicate issues with since I changed the backup & sync settings - no dupes.  So I can't corroborate your experience there.

    Probably 75% of the people I text are on iPhones, so interacting with the iMessage platform.

    At this point my only real wish is for support for RCS messages.  That would make this app very complete for my use.  I am messaging with a number of people on phones that support RCS, and they don't even show up on Your Phone.  I have to switch to viewing my phone screen on Your Phone, open the phones messaging app, and respond there.  I can still use my keyboard, but that's still a pain to have to do, and I've missed a few messages because of it.

    I use that same method of accessing my phone screen to use a productivity app that is only available as a phone app, which saves me having to have my phone in my had for hours while doing that work.   Useful stuff.

    Jeff A.

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