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Texting to more than 10 people at a time
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Posted by: daveg93

I just purchased an LG VX9800 for my side business because I do a lot of bulk texting to the members of my team. Now that I have been playing with it, I found out that the phone only lets you text 10 people at a time. Could anyone please tell me how to get around this?

Posted by: C DM

Unfortunately the only way to really do it is either to send the same message multiple times to different recipients (using perhaps preset different groups of 10 members each), or, alternatively actually use email on the phone to send messages through email (which is probably even less convenient).

Posted by: ParthG

What C DM said.
Making your font size that obnoxiously large will not help you get any more answers than the usual. It actually makes people not want to help you.

Posted by: taoman54

As CD M said your best 2 options are to make groups (in Contacts) and send the same message to multiple groups. You're still limited to sending to 10 at time, however. Or use an email account.
The only way I know of to send a text to more than 10 people at one time is via email. Here's how I do it.
Create a Gmail account for this.
In the Gmail account create a group that holds all the email addresses of the phones you want to text to (number@vtext.com, etc)
Create a filter in Gmail that says when an email from yournumber@vtext.com comes in then forward it to the group you created.
Then just send your text message from your phone to the account @gmail.com.

Posted by: C DM

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Originally Posted by taoman54

As CD M said your best 2 options are to make groups (in Contacts) and send the same message to multiple groups. You're still limited to sending to 10 at time, however. Or use an email account.
The only way I know of to send a text to more than 10 people at one time is via email. Here's how I do it.
Create a Gmail account for this.
In the Gmail account create a group that holds all the email addresses of the phones you want to text to (number@vtext.com, etc)
Create a filter in Gmail that says when an email from yournumber@vtext.com comes in then forward it to the group you created.
Then just send your text message from your phone to the account @gmail.com.

The filter/forwarding method is somewhat more convenient than going to the actual email account on your phone and sending the email yourself. The only downside with the email approach in general is that those who receive it will see it coming from your email account rather than your phone, which is not a big deal as long as they can receive texts from email and would know your email address on their phone. If they reply I guess you can also set filtering/forwarding on the email account to forward any text messages back to your phone.

Posted by: Majinko

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Originally Posted by C DM

You can have GMail spoof your phone's email address. It might show up as <phone numbeR>@vtext.com or prnt=5555555555-555555555!@vtext.com. That's what it does when I do it sometimes. OP, if you still haven't found a suitable work-around, I'll play with my email settings and work something out for ya.

Posted by: C DM

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Originally Posted by Majinko

Yeah, for reply purposes you can probably do it, although the recipient will still generally be able to tell it's a message from an email rather than phone itself (which usually isn't a big deal).