Swtiched to non-iPhone device: Failed SMS

Dad finally kicked me off the phone plan (end of college) and I had to port my number to a different device. On my new android device, I am able to recieve messages from my friends, but they are presented with the "Failed to send" on their end and have to manually send it as SMS every time. It appears that their phone is still associating my phone with iMessage. Now, before I start, let me clarify that I have tried almost every known solution in the book:
Unregistering my device
Turning off imessage/facetime on old phone
Changing password
Changing Apple ID
I talked to a Senior IOS advisor, and he said that my number was completley off of the server. Have you guys had any luck? I have scowered the internet for a few days now, and there doesn't seem to be a well defined answer anywhere. It appears to be a major projem with iOS 7. Thanks in advance!

Been fighting this for over month. Not 100% fixed yet. Having my friends reset their network settings fixed most of the issues but I still have one lingering issue where I do not receive MMS messages from a mixed imessage/SMS recipient group. I only have issues with my iMessage peeps. All other platforms users (Android, WinPhone, Blackberry, etc.) are working OK.

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You can try the following on your friends phone:
1. Remove the contact card
2. Then turn off iMessage and then back on again
3. Go to Messages and compose a new message
4. Press +. This will make a list of recent contacts pop up.
5. Click on the info button number of the contact you are trying to reach.
6. Remove from Recents
7. Try to compose another message
8. If the message attempts to send as blue (imessage), press on the message.
9 Option to send as SMS will appear (as long as they have SMS turned on.
10. Repeat and rinse.
11. Messages will start changing over to all SMS as the user will show as non-imessage user.
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From the iPhone there is now an option to add a subject field to your iMessages. This can be nice but what about doing it from the MAC or other device. Also how do you insert a line break (which I'm told is alt/option enter) from an iPhone. Sorry two questions in one.

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The Messages app on the Mac has no means of indicating a "title" or subject matter.
It only sends messages be they iMessages to Contacts or IM (instant Messages) to Buddies on various services that you could join.
Re 1) The AIM service added the ability to use the "/me" lead in/pre-emptive text which adds the little grey center info text to AIM chats as my pics show.
In other services that do not support "/me" you see a sentence that starts "/me".
On the iPhone as an iMessages item it appears like this
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I am just suggesting using a feature that works in the Messages (and the previous iChat) App using an AIM Account in Messages (as it appears to work at your end all the time in any account) so that you can create something that can be used as a "subject" marker.
re 3) Yes.
The original premise was you sent something like "/me waves" which appears like the time stamps as "Your Name waves" (Your Name on the other depends on what they have in their Address Book or Contacts app as your details (you could appear as just a Buddy ID of some sort.)
Enlarging part of that earlier pic.
The so called Subject one.
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AOL (who Own AOL Instant Messenger) gave out AIM names with AOL accounts and with accounts with other companies that they owned.
At one time they owned Netscape Mostly Netscape referred to a Browser that was popular on the Mac at the time. It had a Messenger part added to what it could do and registration gave you an AIM ID (Screen Name)
This tended to be the Username part of your your account name which was an email.
We are talking when there were computers sold by Apple that could boot into OS 9 as easily as they did into OS 10.2.
iChat 2 that did the first Video chats was in OS X 10.3
At that point iChat was an AIM only client. This continued until iChat 3 which added Jabber (and that version required a small amount of work to add a GoogleTalk ID)
Basically when I bought the G4 Tower listed below I already had an AIM name by preferring to use Netscape over Internet Explorer.
At various points I have tried ProteusX (the Original Site seems to have gone now).
I have also tried AdiumX
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I got it for doing this http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
These instructions need you to be able to "register" for Transport on Jabber servers which then allows you to link to your MSN or other service account to in turn add those Buddies to your Jabber Buddy List.
I have tended to Stick with using my AIM name as my main form in iChat and Messages because it has the Privacy and Security settings that allow you to Block people, or have Allow Specific people or Allow Buddy List only people as ways of restricting who can see when you are on Line.
AIM also works with Apple IDs ending with @mac.com and iCloud linked @me.com and @icloud.com (Lapsed @me.com from MobileMe will not work)
You have to keep the password to 16 characters or less to work with the AIM servers.
There is also MeBeam which has been known as Koowy (coo-we) for a while and currently seems to promote itself as "CuSeeMe.tv"
It as a site you will need Flash for.
It then, when you allow it, has access to your Camera and Microphone and you can video to people in "rooms" (private URL) you create.
I have tried Skype in it's early days.
It shares your connection to the internet to make lots of connections to maintain a non centralised service.
This makes it vunerable to "Man-in-the-Middle" attacks becasue at time you are the man in the middle.
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I have Office 2004, and 2008 and whatever the last one for Macs was called. (2011 I see on the box)
This has MSN Messenger which I have tried but don't like (Microsoft do some great Apple apps in the Office collection but MSN is not one of the).
Yahoo has been in some variant of Beta 3 for almost as long as the OS has been OS X (it is certainly about 8 years).
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This can do "video" but broadcasts this to anyone and the Audio is then to one Buddy.
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Google has been there some of the way.
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I am not a great phone user so iMessaging people is limited for me.
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