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by lgleason 3774 days ago
Of note: Project FI has been plagued with short SMS issues for the past year. Some are reporting that this has been fixed, but does concern me if Google is going to get into this space.

I'm saying this as someone who is a Android advocate and developer.

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Guessing they fixed it–I've been a Fi user for the past month and haven't noticed any issues, if anything it's been way faster and more reliable than VZW since it goes over wifi now.
It's fixed for me but I definitely had the issue when I was onboarded. It's because I came from T-Mobile, so they had to "reset" the account and then everything was good to go.
I had the exact same experience coming from T-Mobile as well. No issues after the reset and enjoying the service so far, especially when I travel internationally.
I had a bunch of shortcode issues too -- contacted support and they gave me some canned 'its an smpt gateway issue, we cant fix'. Checked online and found that that is incorrect, called support again and linked the support forum discussions and they escalated me to a tech who reset something -- I have since received shortcode texts.