Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask Samsung mobile users

14 replies

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 06/10/2015 12:30

Do Samsung smart phones show when messages are read?

Not sure which model phone it is. But ds has been sent some texts (to a non Samsung phone) and he doesn't want to reply (yet).

Modern touch screen Samsung. Probably not the newest, but still fairly new.

Can the sender see if they are delivered? Read? Anything?

I think ds phone is set with 'read reports' on, but not sure if that only works with his type of phone?

OP posts:
Thatpoorpig · 06/10/2015 12:47

With my s3 you can only get delivery reports for texts but can get read reports for mms. Both of these have to be explicitly set, they don't come as default.

Not sure it that helps...

UselessArticle · 06/10/2015 12:54

I've got a touch screen Samsung. It can be set to receive delivery reports but not read reports. You have to alter the default settings to get them. I've never bothered.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 06/10/2015 14:44

Thanks. I think it might be an s3, but not sure.

So he can possibly see they have been delivered? Nothing more. Ok.

OP posts:
BalthazarImpresario · 06/10/2015 14:52

There is a chat function on some androids note where if messaging another android you can see if they are typing etc bit like on what's app. If you go into settings in messaging there will be an option

brokenhearted55a · 06/10/2015 14:55

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

BertieBotts · 06/10/2015 15:14

It's not the samsung you need to know about, it's the other phone.

But it's my understanding that SMS (normal text messaging) doesn't have any feature which would provide this function, no matter what phone. Delivery reports, yes, but read reports no. For that you need Whatsapp or Facebook messenger (which is unreliable) or another instant messaging app.

BeautyQueenFromMars · 06/10/2015 15:46

Does the sender of the text have a Nokia? Because Nokias used to have a read report function on them, as well as a delivered report. I know this because my ex used to pretend he hadn't read my messages, when my phone clearly said they'd been both delivered and read...

BeautyQueenFromMars · 06/10/2015 15:48

Sorry, just re-read the OP and it's registered with me that the senders phone is a Samsung!
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 and can only get delivery reports, not read reports.

BertieBotts · 06/10/2015 21:37

Oh, I'm confused. But Beauty is right, it's the sender's phone you need to know about. I must have misread the OP.

Sandalwearingdoglady · 06/10/2015 21:48

No you can't see if texts have been read.

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 06/10/2015 23:03

Ok, sorry for confusion.
Xp has a Samsung. I think s3, but don't know.
Ds has old iPhone 4. No Internet/3G.

Xp has texted ds. Ds wants to wait to reply.

Xp can see text has been delivered?

I know I can check they have been read, i guess this is because its iPhone to iPhone?

OP posts:
Junosmum · 06/10/2015 23:41

Xp can't see if they've been read unless it's iPhone to iPhone or they are using a data based text service such as whatsapp. Xp may be able to see it has been delivered, or may not. Likely he can't.

BeanGirls · 07/10/2015 09:01

What Bertie said

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 07/10/2015 09:37

Thanks

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page