Since WM2003 it's great not having to use the sms name fix programs to make names from Outlook appear on incoming texts.
However, it's still the case that if you click on someone's name in Contact and select Send SMS, it just puts the number in the To box, rather than the name and / or number.
If you reply to someone who has already sent you a text through the context menu whilst reading the message, it DOES put the name of the other person in.
Is anyone aware of any programs etc that will make the xda work in this way? It can't be that the name would cause a problem as it works perfectly fine when you reply to existing sms's with it in.
I'd appreciate any comments on this.
Cheers
Anthony
Instead of selecting the contact and creating the SMS message, create a new message and start typing the name of the contact. A pop up box appears with contact names in and when you select the contact their name is entered in the TO line.
Just goes to show you don't get anywhere if you don't ask huh?
I should have thought Pocket Outlook would work the same as normal Outlook, but just always did contacts > name > send SMS. Now it's just New > Message and type in the name.
Cheers for that!
Anthony
PS - this forum is great
I installed the theaded sms cab and now my messages are gone.
I know this always happens and I just forgot to delete them before the
install.
Now: I can see all the messages in Windows\Messaging
they are unknown files and they look like 8f3500011000001f
Can I just delete all the files in this folder or will I mess something up.
Thanks in advance for anyones help.
These could be text messages (SMS), emails, or MMS message bodies.
If all of your various message inboxes,outboxes, sent folders, drafts folders, etc are empty, and any of these files still exists (happens often where WMx loses track) you can indeed safely delete them.
But if you have (and wish to keep) any messages in any of your messaging folders, you should keep them around until such a time when you can safely clear them all. I have only found limited number of means to try to figure out which of the various .MPB messages are which.
Also, I don't know if it's possible to save and decode these files into their original text. THAT would be cool!
HTH,
-pvs
Sup guys. I'm having some problem with someone sending me strange sms from the web service of the my phone service. I really want to discover who is, and I think I can find the ip of the guy in decrypting the file where the sms conversations are stored. So, where I can find it?
never seen that but might be under sys folders
you can also backing up them not using SE but a small transfer that is inside sms settings
or look for a converter/back up and send them to an xml
not sure if that can help you hope it does
Hi, I have been using go SMS pro and I made some backups and made it auto backup by schedule..
I've noticed now that something probably went wrong and now I've got most of my SMS twice or trice, or even 4 times duplicate..
And if ill try to fix it handily by my self it'll take me 40 years, cuz I got over a thousand messages.. and each one is 2-4 times..
Is there any app that you know that could scan it and delete it by its own?
Like scanning the whole SMS and delete those who are the same..?
Please help. Its very important for me.
Thanks,
Yarden.
I'll second this one! Most other SMS apps have a way of sorting duplicates? They see sent or received dates. Would be cool if GOSMS could do this too. I noticed that a 3rd party sms app cannot back up GOSMS's SMS (geeze that's a mouthful to say lol)... the only way you can allow them to function is if you uncheck the box for disable other SMS apps inside GOSMS; but doing that in it's self causes other issues.
Hey
You said "most other app got way of.sorting duplicates.."
Can you name one please?
Although this is very old post and I already fixed the problem of duplicating the messages each backup, I still got a lot of old messages twice / trice...
Can you name a app that can scan and fix it?
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You could use "SMS Backup & Restore".
Make a Backup, Check if it was ok, Delete all SMS, Restore from Backup -> There you can choose if the Restore should check if the Message exists...
How do I choose such a thing?
Can you be more accurate please? I can not see such an option.
Do you talk about go sms?
Thanks.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
Oh that's exactly what I was looking for!!!
It fixed my problem so easily!
God will bless you for inventing this simply genius app!
Thank you!
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Kamma I downloaded your app to try and remove some duplicate messages I have but I get a force close.
I have an HTC ONE X running ICS
Life saver! I used SMSBackupRestore to restore backups after my phone got factory reset, and it kept hanging about half way through. I ended up with three or four copies of all my messages. Your "delete duplicates" option saved the day! Thanks heaps
kamma said:
you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
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Your App does have the delete duplicates feature, which is the only thing I needed (due to a mistake using SMS Backup & Restore).
It was HELLA slow, > 2 hrs for 7500 SMS, but it did work.
Thanks'd
kamma said:
you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
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The delete duplicates function didn't work for me. Running CM11 on a i9305 S3. It just says "Error while deleting duplicate messages."
pizzaman79 said:
The delete duplicates function didn't work for me. Running CM11 on a i9305 S3. It just says "Error while deleting duplicate messages."
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Have you yet found a solution to this?
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Have you yet found a solution to this?
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Yes, but it's a bit of work. If I recall correctly, this is what I did.
- use titanium backup to export your sms messages to xml
- rename to .txt
- open in excel, don't import the xml, just the plain text line by line
- take a look at your file: are duplicates exactly the same? How to uniquely identify them?
- on column two, use a formula to extract part of the text that identifies a text message, use excel help or ask me by posting an example
- next column use a formula if(the identifier on column two = identifier of previous line, "", first column)
- copy column three, paste in column four data only
- sort column four to get rid of empty lines
- in titanium, delete all your text messages
- import the cleaned xml file.
- done
I'm a bit of an expert in this, so it took me maybe half an hour. Note that there may be text editing tools that remove duplicate lines, but that only works if the whole xml code of duplicate text messages is identical. Also not that importing xml files in excel is nice, but exporting them is difficult.
pizzaman79 said:
Yes, but it's a bit of work. If I recall correctly, this is what I did.
- use titanium backup to export your sms messages to xml
- rename to .txt
- open in excel, don't import the xml, just the plain text line by line
- take a look at your file: are duplicates exactly the same? How to uniquely identify them?
- on column two, use a formula to extract part of the text that identifies a text message, use excel help or ask me by posting an example
- next column use a formula if(the identifier on column two = identifier of previous line, "", first column)
- copy column three, paste in column four data only
- sort column four to get rid of empty lines
- in titanium, delete all your text messages
- import the cleaned xml file.
- done
I'm a bit of an expert in this, so it took me maybe half an hour. Note that there may be text editing tools that remove duplicate lines, but that only works if the whole xml code of duplicate text messages is identical. Also not that importing xml files in excel is nice, but exporting them is difficult.
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Hi, my backup file have sms and MMS inside, thats why editing it via txt file is pointless
do You have any sollutions how to delete duplicated sms messages from it ?
Because "kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android" didn't work for me - I get an error message...
azmo said:
Hi, my backup file have sms and MMS inside, thats why editing it via txt file is pointless
do You have any sollutions how to delete duplicated sms messages from it ?
Because "kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android" didn't work for me - I get an error message...
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Maybe you can separate the sms and mms and then use my excel procedure to delete duplicate sms messages and delete the mms duplicates by hand?
To behonest, I'm surprised anyone uses mms...
Hi guys,
I've a question... I've a list of names and phone numbers in a text file in my computer... Is there any way I can send text messages to all of them from my Galaxy S2 by importing the file?
I don't want to add all that people to my Contacts, just want to send them a text message...
Thanks in advance!!
Hey,
hmmm u can try to copy all phone numbers in a test file or mail, separated by an "," or ";" and then copy the content of file or mail directly into the message contact box...
Didn't tried yet, but should work
CHEERS
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
Hmmmmm good idea... Let me try that l...
It partially worked, as the maximum amount of recipients on the phone is 10 people... Can I add all phone numbers to a "group" but without adding each one as a separate contact?