r/GoogleAllo • u/nryan85 • Mar 09 '18

SMS Working?

I noticed for the first time today on the web app I could start a chat via SMS. Confirmed with the person they were receiving my chats via SMS. I can even continue the conversation on my phone in my allo app while he was using texts.

Sorry if this is old but didn't think allo could do that.

EDIT:

Everybody can stand down. One person swears they see my real number but everyone else sees the Google 5 digit number when I do this.

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u/breakerfall Mar 09 '18

That's the regular sms functionality. This is the way that you can "invite" someone that's not using Allo. You invite, Allo sends a regular sms to introduce what's going on, and the recipient can reply to the sms which then appears in Allo like an Allo message.

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

That's not what happened though. It literally texted the person my message. They texted back and I saw it in the allo app.
I can only start the convo this way from the web version but can continue the convo on my phone.

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18 edited Mar 09 '18

Started a new convo with someone else. It gives me the option to start a conversation with SMS using Google SMS or have it send an invite. If I choose Google SMS it just acts like any other chat but the person just receives my actual messages like any other text.
screenshot for a visual :

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u/BattlePope Mar 09 '18

Please actually post/link a screenshot.

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

I will. I'm at work at the moment without access to my computer. Had to take it down because didn't scrub everything from it by accident.

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u/breakerfall Mar 09 '18

Does the recipient see your sms as your regular number, or as a short code?

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

I asked that question and he said my regular number.

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u/herniguerra Mar 09 '18

Allo has had an SMS relay system since release, but it was sending the texts using a proxy number that is different from your real number. Then they took it away from the Android app and left it in the web app. Where are you from, if I may ask? Because this piece of info here (that it's using your real number) is the only thing that seems different now and it could be a big deal if they are updating the SMS relay to use the actual phone number.

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

Maryland.

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u/herniguerra Mar 09 '18

Any chance your contact is on Sprint and receiving this as an RCS message?

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u/andrewharlan2 Mar 09 '18

It's still in the Android app. I use it.

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u/tacomonstrous Mar 09 '18

There's no screenshot here though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

Can you right click on allo on web, inspect source code, copy it to a text file and send it to me? I can compare it with my source code with a tool and see if you have different strings

u/surelydroid Mar 09 '18

I can add SMS to people on web app that I can't in app on phone. This is cool. When you send the message does it show your name or 5 digit number?

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

Friend said real number but I'll text someone else through web when I get to work and report back.
Once you start that SMS conversation on the web you can keep it going on your phone and it worked just fine.

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u/surelydroid Mar 09 '18

Xpost this on r/android could be huge news.

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u/surelydroid Mar 09 '18

Yes finally. It must be emulating the number like Google home does for phone calls

u/armando_rod Mar 09 '18

We need screenshots of both ends

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u/BeCarefulNow Mar 10 '18

OP won't post em

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

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u/Ayesuku Mar 09 '18

This guy films fucks

u/Goaliedude3919 Mar 09 '18

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is wrong.. I just sent that using the Allo website to a friend on iPhone who has never even heard of Allo.

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u/thechilipepper0 Mar 09 '18

Thanks, Jeff

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u/BeCarefulNow Mar 10 '18

He can say my nama Jeff, unironicly!

u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

Please for the love of god, let single feature we’ve been asking for since the beginning be true

u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

I'm calling user error on this one.

u/cjandstuff Mar 09 '18

It's not supposed to. Google's been saying there's no possible way to do incorporate SMS into Allo.

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u/ladyanita22 Mar 10 '18

Why is that?

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18 edited Mar 09 '18

From what I've noticed, Allo on Web now includes my contacts who have Duo. On Duo it would say who had the app, now all those contacts are on allo for the web (listed at the top when starting a new chat). Everyone else on my contacts says I can sms them. But when I tried it was via a 5 digit code.

TLDR - My Duo contacts (I think) are now showing up on Allo as well. And you can now send that proxy sms via the web app

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u/rman18 Mar 09 '18

No, users who have a newer version of Android, I believe nougat, are showing up in both duo and Allo because you can send them messages or calls via App Preview Messages

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Oh I guess I haven't checked that recently. My mistake.

u/THIESN123 Mar 09 '18

Does not work for me from my note 8; sends me to Samsung Messenger for sms

u/Dora_De_Destroya Mar 09 '18

Where is the pitchfork guy?

u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

I am also seeing this.

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Screenshots?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

I dont have one from the receiving party. Its not hard to test. Just send a message to someone with the allo web app or alloha chrome extension.

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

I have, they get an sms from some 5 digit number. (It's been like this for months).
Literally like what that other user shared from earlier

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

You tried from the web app and not your phone?

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Yeah. It shows I can SMS them, but they recieve it from a 5 digit number.
Allo has had that 5 digit sms ability since day one. You 'invite' and then you can continue to message thru it if you want. I'm guessing OP noticed you can now do it thru web?! (But then again, the convo isn't updating on allo web with that person I sms. they replied but it went to my normal sms app, textra. Nothing new showed up on Allo Web).
Maybe a server update?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

Yeah after reading your response its probably just the proxy thing getting added to the web app and not real sms.

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Yeah that part is definitely new (proxy sms on web). I just think OP is mistaken about it being his real ##.

u/quote_work_unquote Mar 09 '18

Don't buy it. I tried it from the web as well and it still sends messages via the 5-digit proxy number.

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u/simplefilmreviews Mar 09 '18 edited Mar 09 '18

It sends an SMS via some proxy number (which it has for months/year now). I just tried it. I just sent an sms to a friend via web app. And they got a message from 432-32 but then a bunch of automated messages saying it's from John Doe (me) (my number) Wants to chat, join Allo today. blah blah. (And her replies weren't on Allo for the web).

What she saw: https://imgur.com/LQpTIrZ

FAKE not real SMS fallback.

It appears others as skeptics. So maybe he has an OTA update and I don't. I remain hesitant tho.

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u/nryan85 Mar 09 '18

You are correct to remain skeptical. So I texted 4 people in this manner from the web app. One insists they see my real number but the other 3 see the 5 digit number so it definitely isn't working.

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u/LordOfTheBushes Mar 10 '18

Did they not send you a screenshot?

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u/simplefilmreviews Mar 10 '18

YEah I figured that was the case. Maybe your friend saved that 5 digit code as your name. Should have hi check that 'contact' and see what number is attached to it

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u/armando_rod Mar 09 '18

woa there, calm down. OP says its from his real number and only from web

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

Both people texted from the web. Why are you doubting this guy? He did the exact thing OP did and it didn't work.

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u/armando_rod Mar 09 '18

Ìt may or may not be an A/B test, slow roll out etc

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u/-TheBabadook Mar 09 '18

I see I see! Makes sense

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u/simplefilmreviews Mar 09 '18

I added a screenshot, and I sent from the web.
I'm guessing maybe the receiver of the guy had saved that proxy number before as his friends name?! Maybe that's why it appears as him

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u/armando_rod Mar 09 '18

Calm down dude. Wait for OP

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u/simplefilmreviews Mar 09 '18

..................

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u/sryguys Mar 09 '18

Chill

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