Can't send texts to some contacts.

I've had this problem for quite a while now. I have an iPhone 4 and it's been updated and stuff and I don't know when it started, but I can't send texts to certain friends. I can receive them, but I can't send any back. I have noticed that the ones I can't text are Samsung Galaxy users--I can text people who have iPhones old phones and stuff just fine so I don't think it's a problem with my SMS or MMS (whatever they are...). Please help

Try going to settings, general, reset, reset network settings. This will restart your phone automatically. Then see if you are able to send the SMS message. If then the same error occurs try a hard reset by holding down the home button at the same time as the sleep/wake button for a few seconds forcing the phone to restart. You will not lose any data doing these resets. Good luck

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