Re: Why Are My Messages Stuck On Sending?
crazylikeafox11

This has been happening to me since Sunday, 2/5/17.  I noticed that some contacts were "chat" and some were "sms" when I was composing messages prior to that but there didn't appear to be any other issues.  On Sunday, I thought no one was texting me back until the next day I received a text from a friend asking if I had sent her any texts as her car told her she had 3 unread messages but nothing was showing up.  I checked and everything was stuck in "sending" status.  I could receive messages but nothing I sent went through.  All of the people I had tried to text the previous day had my messages showing as "sending".  I logged into my Verizon account online to try to find a way to contact them to troubleshoot the issue and see if the issue was with Verizon's service.  When I logged in, all of my stuck "sending" messages magically sent.  I couldn't find a way to live chat with a representative to figure out the issue and since the messages went through and I was unable to call customer service, I called it good.  Of course a couple hours later after I thought I sent more texts, turns out my texts were stuck in "sending" again.  I deleted and reinstalled the app and that seemed to work.  (Previously I had simply tried to uninstall the updates to revert to the prior version that was working.)  Now it's happening again.  Day 3 of having to check if my message is stuck in "sending" and then try to find a way to force it through.  I can no longer long press on a message to bring up the option menu that previously provided a way to retry sending.  Turning off my wifi didn't help.  I found another thread that said restarting their phone worked.  That worked for me.  Then I tried to text someone else right after restarting and verifying that my previous attempted text went from "sending" to "sent" and that new text seemed stuck in "sending" again and I thought, "Great, I'll have to restart my phone every time I want to text someone."  Lucky for me the message status changed after about 20 seconds.  This is the default message app on my phone.  Having to restart your phone every time you want to send a text is ridiculous. 

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