Motorola moto G - Manual (Page 53)

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New Messages Notification
Depending on your notification settings, the phone plays a ringtone, vibrates, or shows an icon in the
status bar when you receive a new text or multimedia message. To change the notification for new
text and multimedia messages, see
Text and Multimedia Messaging for details.
To open the message, slide the status bar down to open the Notifications panel. Touch the new
message to open and read it.
Message Options
Change your text and MMS options.
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Touch Apps > Messaging > Menu > Settings.
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SMS Enabled: Touch SMS Enabled and then touch Default SMS app to select an
alternate messaging app (such as Google Hangouts).
Note: If you choose a default messaging app other than Messaging (for example, Google
Hangouts), you will not be able to use the Messaging app unless you restore it as the default
messaging app.
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Storage
o Delete old messages: Check to delete messages as limits are reached.
o Text message limit: Touch to change the maximum number of text messages to store
in each conversation thread. (This does not include locked messages.)
o Multimedia message limit: Touch to change maximum messages per conversation.
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Multimedia (MMS) messages
o Group messaging: Touch to choose if MMS is used to send a single message when
there are multiple recipients.
o Auto-retrieve: Touch to let your phone automatically retrieve MMS messages.
o Roaming auto retrieve: Touch to let your phone retrieve messages when out of your
network coverage area.
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Notifications: Touch to have phone message notifications appear in the status bar.
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Sound: Touch to choose the notification ringtone from a list.
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Vibrate: Touch to have your phone to vibrate when it receives a message.