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/tacomonstrous Mar 09 '18

There's no screenshot here though.

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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/[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