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Old 08-16-2015, 11:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Receiving a picture message from an iPhone via a Samsung

I have had my phone for a bit over a year and I like it, but my sister just sent me a photo of her computer screen, because screen shots are difficult, and my phone just showed a five-second slideshow of the one picture, without allowing me to zoom in, which is necessary to view a computer screen on a laptop.

According to Viewing pictures received via text message: Can't zoom in? | Android Forums, this only happens when someone sends a picture message from an iPhone to a Samsung. The only way to zoom in is to save and view the picture with the gallery.

Most of the responses indicated they did not actually read the original message.

Do any of you know how to fix this?

I appreciate any useful responses.

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Old 08-17-2015, 01:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Copy the picture to an actual computer, and view it there. (Tablet works well, too.) That's what I do, because the (old, cheap, dumb) Samsung phone screen is too small to see much of anything anyway.

Also it helps to save the image to the phone (not as part of the message, IOW). I can zoom those images without problems, other than the aforementioned really small screen.
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Old 08-17-2015, 02:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Yes, the only way to zoom in is to save and view the picture with the gallery.

I use Mighty Text, which allows me to use my laptop to send and receive text, but it seems that if my phone has a problem with the message, it does not forward it to my computer. I needed to send it to my e-mail through my phone, and then it showed up in Mighty Text on my laptop, or I could have accessed it via e-mail.

Still, it was a photograph of a screen. Can you imagine how much less popular I would be if I posted stuff like this:


(that was far more work than taking a screen shot!)
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I just plug in the USB cable, which allows me to access the phone's memory card as a USB drive. Then just mount it and copy files. (Works both ways, so I use the SD chip in the phone as a backup storage for important stuff from the computer.)

I could give more explicit directions for Linux. Imagine Windoze works much the same, but I've never used it.
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Old 08-17-2015, 11:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Good point, James. Hopefully, I can do that in the future.
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Burn the iPhone with fire...

I'm currently trying to figure out how to move photos off of an iPhone 5, but apparently it isn't supported. I even went as low as installing the horrid iTunes software on my PC, and I got a message saying I have to update my iPhone with the latest iTunes, but instead it's installing iOS 8.3.

Just got a message saying my phone could not be updated. An unknown error occurred. I'll probably have a bricked phone by the end of the evening.
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Old 08-18-2015, 02:19 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Redpoint,

Good luck. I hope that you are able to avoid that.

I was given two Apple products as gifts and they are fun toys, but I remember charging one, it asked if I wanted to sync, and since I did not have any music on that computer, it wiped my iPod.

Apple update periodically pops up on here, wanting to install various programs that I would never use. I wonder why I even have it.
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Old 08-19-2015, 12:45 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Just adding to the many reasons I'd never buy an Apple product.

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