Android: Google Messages - Messages for the Web... Texting from PC

[roamer_1]

I have been searching for quite a while for a way to get cellphone txting on my desktop. I spend so much time at my desk that trying to fuss with txts on a stoopid phone gets me irate.

ANYHOO, I don't know when the option was added, but I lately discovered a pretty cool thing.

You need a droid, with Android Message replaced by Google Messages

On your PC:
Open any common browser (works for sure with FF and Chrome) to this page:
https://messages.android.com/
You may want 'Remember this Computer' turned on.

On your phone, Open Google Messages, and in the top right, find the triple dot menu and select 'Messages for Web' in the pulldown.

Once the dialog presents, push the button, and point the phone at the QR code square visible on your PC, and the rest just happens. Poof! Instant txting from your PC!

Seems to work really well, better than anything else I have tried... but it tends to hawg my batt some. Not a problem, as a power cord is always available.

LOL! I have had Google Messages and Google Keyboard on my phone nearly from the beginning! Funny that the answer was there all the way along.

Hope this helps somebody else. 

[Frank Cannon]

Great going. Now Google is going to know about all your drug deals and hooker transactions.

[roamer_1]

Great going. Now Google is going to know about all your drug deals and hooker transactions.

Nah, Frank. I have a burner for such things.

[Frank Cannon]

Nah, Frank. I have a burner for such things.

I like a man with a plan. Carry on.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Nah, Frank. I have a burner for such things.

So did Richard Pryor.

[roamer_1]

So did Richard Pryor.

Yeah... But he didn't know how to shut off location. 

[DB]

So did Richard Pryor.

Burners and rum don't mix well.

[Sighlass]

I have been searching for quite a while for a way to get cellphone txting on my desktop. I spend so much time at my desk that trying to fuss with txts on a stoopid phone gets me irate.

http://textem.net/

Used it for years now.

[roamer_1]

http://textem.net/

Used it for years now.

I was on Yahoo Messenger (YIM) for years and years, till one day, they suddenly quit being able to text to phones. Switched to AIM for a couple more years... Then same thing. On Slack now for IM, only with family... Literally all my IM buddies are gone now. Every now and then, when in my Yahoo Mail, it will notify me of a YIM message, but for all intensive porpoises, Internet IM is dead to me.

Thanks for the link (been there before), but it is now unnecessary.
I only wish there was a stand alone app. 

[Blizzardnh]

https://mightytext.net/

[roamer_1]

https://mightytext.net/

Yep. Mightytext is alright (though you have to pay if you txt too much), as is yappy (which I like even better)

But this is free, easy, and takes no extra apps (for me anyhoo)

[Blizzardnh]

Yep. Mightytext is alright (though you have to pay if you txt too much), as is yappy (which I like even better)

But this is free, easy, and takes no extra apps (for me anyhoo)

So women will be the ones paying mighty text.

[Sanguine]

https://mightytext.net/

That looks interesting. 

I refuse to use Google anything.  Well....except for Google Maps.  There is no substitute and I don't have location turned on, so hopefully they don't get any usable info from me.

[roamer_1]

So women will be the ones paying mighty text.

LOL!

[Sanguine]

So women will be the ones paying mighty text.

 

[roamer_1]

That looks interesting. 

I refuse to use Google anything.  Well....except for Google Maps.  There is no substitute and I don't have location turned on, so hopefully they don't get any usable info from me.

It don't matter. If your phone is a droid, they got every little thing you do on it anyway.
And Apple or Microsoft ain't no better.

[Sanguine]

It don't matter. If your phone is a droid, they got every little thing you do on it anyway.
And Apple or Microsoft ain't no better.

I have a Samsung and use the Samsung apps.  Not sure if it helps, but maybe it does.

[roamer_1]

I have a Samsung and use the Samsung apps.  Not sure if it helps, but maybe it does.

NOPE.
Google owns the Android OS. And it does phone home.
And I know of no way to stop that.

Which is why I don't limit myself on the phone. They see it anyway.
Now, give me a laptop and it's a different story. That can be anonymous.

[Cyber Liberty]

We have Verizon phones, Verizon has a web page for messaging, and also a Win10 freestanding App.  I use them all the time. Not all features work properly.  I typed a lengthy multi-paragraph Text to somebody, and it stripped all my paragraph breaks.

[roamer_1]

We have Verizon phones, Verizon has a web page for messaging, and also a Win10 freestanding App.  I use them all the time. Not all features work properly.  I typed a lengthy multi-paragraph Text to somebody, and it stripped all my paragraph breaks.

No Verizon for me, but thanks for the input!

[Sanguine]

We have Verizon phones, Verizon has a web page for messaging, and also a Win10 freestanding App.  I use them all the time. Not all features work properly.  I typed a lengthy multi-paragraph Text to somebody, and it stripped all my paragraph breaks.

I didn't know that!  I'll have to look for the app.

[Cyber Liberty]

I didn't know that!  I'll have to look for the app.

There is a separate app for the phone, too.

[Sanguine]

There is a separate app for the phone, too.

Cyber, do you have a link?  I'm not finding it on the web site.

[Cyber Liberty]

Cyber, do you have a link?  I'm not finding it on the web site.

I fund the "Verizon Messages" app for the phone in "Play Store," and it's in the Microsoft Store for the Win10 PC.  In verizon.com there is a link to the web-based app. but you have to look for it.

Here's the sign-on link.  https://login.verizonwireless.com/amserver/cdcservlet?realm=vzw&goto=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2Fvma%2Fredirect%3Fgoto%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fweb.vma.vzw.com%253A443%252Fvma%252Fweb2%252FMessage.do&refererservlet=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2Fvma%2Fredirect%3Fgoto%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fweb.vma.vzw.com%253A443%252Fvma%252Fweb2%252FMessage.do&MajorVersion=1&MinorVersion=0&RequestID=s20694389e812db5512f98fd2dffaa2a8babb38f0&ProviderID=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2F%3FRealm%3D%252F&IssueInstant=2018-11-15T17%3A52%3A36Z&ForceAuthn=false&IsPassive=false&Federate=false

[Sanguine]

I fund the "Verizon Messages" app for the phone in "Play Store," and it's in the Microsoft Store for the Win10 PC.  In verizon.com there is a link to the web-based app. but you have to look for it.

Here's the sign-on link.  https://login.verizonwireless.com/amserver/cdcservlet?realm=vzw&goto=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2Fvma%2Fredirect%3Fgoto%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fweb.vma.vzw.com%253A443%252Fvma%252Fweb2%252FMessage.do&refererservlet=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2Fvma%2Fredirect%3Fgoto%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fweb.vma.vzw.com%253A443%252Fvma%252Fweb2%252FMessage.do&MajorVersion=1&MinorVersion=0&RequestID=s20694389e812db5512f98fd2dffaa2a8babb38f0&ProviderID=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.vma.vzw.com%3A443%2F%3FRealm%3D%252F&IssueInstant=2018-11-15T17%3A52%3A36Z&ForceAuthn=false&IsPassive=false&Federate=false

Many thanks!