On my version (the lastest one just downloaded), under "Stagefright Protection" there is no "Activate Mobile Data" option. Either without data in their plan, or with data but want to save their data by sending text messages with photos via wifi. Just be sure that the phone's "mobile data" is turned on even if the phone's plan does not have data included. So in summary, Google Messenger really works well when sending text messages with a photo via Wifi. Hung for a long time sending the text msg and eventually stopped with a green border on the left side of the text msg. But unfortunately it still choked on sending the 1.26MB photo taken with my wife's phone's camera. So yes, Google Messenger is indeed auto resizing photos down to less than 1MB. I checked the size of that received photo on my phone and it is 814.3 KB. Sent that using Google Messenger and bang, it sent it in about 5 seconds. So I copied a 2.38MB photo from my PC into my wife's phone. Noting Bg260's reply, it looked like Google Messenger was auto reducing the photo. I checked the size of the received photo in my phone and it is 952.8KB. Wow, what a difference! Google Messenger sent the text message with the 1.26MB photo in about 5 seconds.
So I turned "mobile data" on, on her phone. I had turned "mobile data" off on my wife's phone for testing text messaging via Wifi since her phone only has Tmobile's legacy voice only prepaid plan. Then from Googling I read a review of a text msg app (forget which one) and it said that some services require that "mobile data" must be turned on when sending text messages via Wifi. I had tried Google Messenger to send a text msg + the same 1.26MB pic and it took a long time (like over 10 minutes) but eventually sent the message successfully. Attached a 1.26MB photo from her phone's 5MP camera and Textra took a really long time (like over 10 minutes) and then failed to send the text+pic message. I tried Textra and set the "Carrier send Limit" to 300KB. (She didn't want a data plan since she said she won't use it while out of the house. So she can only use Wifi to send her text messages. I need to clarify that my new phone has Tmobile's 5GB data plan but my wife's new Galaxy On5 phone is continuing her legacy Tmobile voice only prepaid plan. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out.
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