Android Pie Wrecked My Text Messaging App

[DGarrett01]

So, after I received the OTA update for Android Pie (AT&T) about a week ago on my Galaxy S9+, my stock text messaging app has apparently been corrupted. I don't typically receive texts without rebooting, and even then I don't necessarily receive them.

Even more strange, conversations within the app are all messed up. Messages sent or received between one contact end up interspersed and mixed together with other contacts when I open up the app again later. The contact photos aren't correct, and it's making texting completely unreliable and practically impossible in a lot of cases. I wish I could go back to Oreo. I've already tried clearing the cache and data of the app and, obviously, rebooting. It seems to be permanently corrupted for whatever reason.

 

[Dannydet]

I've never used the stock messaging app ever, install textra from the play store and post your results

 

[DGarrett01]

I've never used the stock messaging app ever, install textra from the play store and post your results

The problem I have with using other apps is that I'm using AT&T Advanced Messaging, and there are no other messaging apps that support it. When I use other apps other than the stock app, the messages I send aren't visible - they're apparently in a different format that other apps can't parse. I like the Google messaging app, but my half of all conversations are missing because Advanced Messaging isn't supported.

I'll try Textra and see what happens.

 

[DGarrett01]

It's just as I expected. Each conversation only contains the messages I've received. Sent messages are all missing. I'm guessing that my only real option is to abandon all conversations and start over with another messaging app, losing the features supported in AT&T Advanced Messaging - at least until there's a fix available for this issue.

 

[lunatic59]

My guess would be that AT&T's advanced messaging app isn't compatible with Pie. An update might (hopefully) fix your current messages.

 

[DGarrett01]

My guess would be that AT&T's advanced messaging app isn't compatible with Pie. An update might (hopefully) fix your current messages.

I guess I'll keep an eye out for an update and use another messaging app in the meantime. Thanks for the help, guys.

 

[Jfalls63]

If the S9 still has a traditional recovery and the option to Wipe the System Cache, that might help. System Cache is different from the App cache and may have left over gunk from the previous system causing the problem.
With a big update, like from Android 8 to 9, it might even be a good idea to backup all your data and preform a factory reset.