Is there a way to send and receive SMS on multiple cellular devices without using iMessage?

I currently own a cellular iPad mini and an iPhone 4s and would like SMS to be the same on both devices as well as my desktop.
After many months of struggling with iMessage, I decided to turn it off entirely. I discovered that my best friend did not receive dozens of my texts over the span of a few months (I compared our message history side by side). Seems like it had something to do with traveling in and out of wifi zones or possibly conflicts between our two carriers, ATT and Verizon. Regardless, I am not willing to dive into iMessage fully until this gets sorted out. Further, SMS is the standard message format for everyone outside of the Apple sphere, and I do not feel comfortable lumping them together into one app. If I decide to switch to Android, will all of my contacts with iPhones continue sending me iMessages?
Thank you for your help!

Is there a way to send and receive SMS on multiple cellular devices without using iMessage?
Search the iTunes App Store for any 3rd party SMS apps that may be available.
If I decide to switch to Android, will all of my contacts with iPhones continue sending me iMessages?
Android phones don't receive iMessages, they can recieve SMS messages sent through the iOS Messages app. The app that your contacts choose to use to send you messages is completely up to them.

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Hello!
Please, can anyone tell me how can I create an application which send and receive SMS at the same time.
I�ve got an GSM modem. This application must run under Linux. I did it with Windows 98 and it ran fine, but when I try run it under linux I only can send or receive, but not both. I think this is because there are problems with threats ( I'm not sure ), when I created a ServerSocket to accept the socket connection to send messages.
I don�t know how resolve the problem. I attach the code here:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.comm.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SimpleRead implements Runnable, SerialPortEventListener {
static CommPortIdentifier portId;
static Enumeration portList;
final static String CR_LF="\r";
final static String AT_ENVIAR="AT+CMGS=";
final static char CTRL_Z = 26;
final static String AT_RECIBIR="AT+CMGR=";
final static String AT_BORRAR="AT+CMGD=";
InputStream inputStream;
OutputStream outputStream;
SerialPort serialPort;
Thread readThread;
Thread sendThread;
Send s ;
public static void main(String[] args) {
portList = CommPortIdentifier.getPortIdentifiers();
while (portList.hasMoreElements()) {
portId = (CommPortIdentifier) portList.nextElement();
if (portId.getPortType() == CommPortIdentifier.PORT_SERIAL) {
if (portId.getName().equals("/dev/ttyS0")) {
SimpleRead reader = new SimpleRead();
}//fin while
}//fin m�todo main
public SimpleRead() {
try {
serialPort = (SerialPort) portId.open("SimpleReadApp", 2000);
}catch (PortInUseException e) {}
try {
inputStream = serialPort.getInputStream();
outputStream = serialPort.getOutputStream();
}catch (IOException e) {}
EscuchaSocket es = new EscuchaSocket(outputStream);
sendThread = new Thread(es);
sendThread.start();
try{
Thread.sleep(5000);
}catch(InterruptedException e){}
try {
serialPort.addEventListener(this);
}catch (TooManyListenersException e) {}
serialPort.notifyOnDataAvailable(true);
try {
serialPort.setSerialPortParams(9600,SerialPort.DATABITS_8,SerialPort.STOPBITS_1,SerialPort.PARITY_NONE);
}catch (UnsupportedCommOperationException e) {}
readThread = new Thread(this);
readThread.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY);
readThread.start();
}//fin SimpleRead
public void run() {
try {
while(true){}
} catch (Exception e) {}
public void serialEvent(SerialPortEvent event) {
switch(event.getEventType()) {
case SerialPortEvent.BI:
case SerialPortEvent.OE:
case SerialPortEvent.FE:
case SerialPortEvent.PE:
case SerialPortEvent.CD:
case SerialPortEvent.CTS:
case SerialPortEvent.DSR:
case SerialPortEvent.RI:
case SerialPortEvent.OUTPUT_BUFFER_EMPTY:
break;
case SerialPortEvent.DATA_AVAILABLE:
byte[] readBuffer = new byte[20];
try {
while (inputStream.available() > 0) {
int numBytes = inputStream.read(readBuffer);
System.out.print(new String(readBuffer));
}catch (IOException e) {}
break;
}//fin switch
}//fin m�todo serialEvent
}//fin clase
class EscuchaSocket implements Runnable{
ServerSocket sv = null;
OutputStream outputStream;
Send send;
int puerto = 7117;
public EscuchaSocket(OutputStream out){
outputStream = out;
send = new Send (outputStream);
try {
sv = new ServerSocket(puerto);
}//fin try
catch (IOException ie) {
System.out.println("Error en run de EscuchaSocket:"+ie.toString());
}//fin catch
public void run(){
while(true){
try {
Socket sc = sv.accept();
BufferedReader inSocket = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sc.getInputStream()));
String leida = "";
int c = 0;
while((c = inSocket.read()) != -1)
leida = leida + (char)c;
if(!leida.equals(""))
send.sendString(leida);
inSocket.close();
}catch (IOException ies) {
System.out.println("Error al leer del socket:"+ies.toString());
}//fin catch
}//fin while
}//fin run
}//fin clase
class Send{
OutputStream outputStream;
public Send(OutputStream out){
outputStream = out;
public void sendString(String s) {
try{
System.out.println("s:"+s);
outputStream.write(s.getBytes());
outputStream.flush();
}catch(IOException ioe){
System.out.println("Error en sendString:" + ioe.toString());
}//fin m�todo sendStirng
}//fin clase

To send and recv on the same pipe, I suggest a thread to handle the socket... as you are doing in your code, then create a thread reader and writer for the I/O ( one for input, one for output ). Run your thread and buffer commands/messages/whatever to a byteoutput stream, then when the thread wakes up, it reads the buffer and writes the bytes to a dataoutput stream. The reader will work the same way but you only need to buffer for each command. Of course there are little gotchas along the way, but it's fun programming....
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