The title says it. I use chomp or Handcent so there is no point for the stock messaging app.
Unless you cook your own rom and remove the messenging apk file, or find how to remove it on the device using a file manager like estrongs, or astro.
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If you use chompSMS and remove your stock messaging app you will not be able to receive text, only send them.that's what happened to me when I used titanium back up to remove stock app and used chomp...didn't try handcent though
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Make sure you nand backup before attempting to try to remove it. I always removed it on most roms with no problems but since flashing kaosfroyo, I'm reluctant since I did it on my wife's moto droid with froyo you are not supposed to remove it. Not sure if it's a froyo thing. You can remove it via adb or if you have root explorer app, you can go into /system/app and delete Mms.apk (make sure your system is mounted as read-write)
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If you use chompSMS and remove your stock messaging app you will not be able to receive text, only send them.that's what happened to me when I used titanium back up to remove stock app and used chomp...didn't try handcent though
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I tried it recently with Handcent. Was able to send and not receive.
Best to just leave it alone & turn off the notifications in the stock app.
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*known bugs* May send text message to wrong recipient. I have not had this happen yet, but it has been reported.
I have attached the MMS.apk that I used for this. If you have an updated MMS that you want to try go for it. Also if anyone has the cm 7 MMS and can get it working let me know. I couldnt extract it and get it to work. I got this mms from a ROM someone made for the captivate. I only use it for the long multiple vibrate notification for text messages that I often miss when I am at work due to the noisy factory conditions I work in.
Method for install
1. Android Central Sideload Wonder Machine the mms to your phone. Alternately you can put the mms.apk on your phone and just install it from there, but it requires sideloading to be enabled, although if you have it rooted, you probably have sideloading enabled too.
2. Uninstall the "Text messaging apk" using titanium back, or root explorer. *requires root*
The old apk is called text messaging apk in titanium backup. Not sure the exact file name(text.messaging or whatever) as I have deleted it already.
Thanks for this. Stock mms is the best IMO. Speedy and stable
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I have been really wanting to do this, but I am not seeing mms.apk anywhere on the phone itself. I am guessing motorola calls its mms app something different? I have the new one on the SD card ready to go, but I don't know where the old one is to backup/freeze in the meantime.
Edit: Maybe it's conversations.apk?
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I have been really wanting to do this, but I am not seeing mms.apk anywhere on the phone itself. I am guessing motorola calls its mms app something different? I have the new one on the SD card ready to go, but I don't know where the old one is to backup/freeze in the meantime.
Edit: Maybe it's conversations.apk?
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Step two says remove "text messaging apk" its called text messaging apk
Athailias said:
Step two says remove "text messaging apk" its called text messaging apk
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You're right, it seems to be called Text Messaging in TiBa, I don't see an actual file when using root explorer, but freezing "text messaging" in TiBa and installing this mms.apk is working perfectly. Thanks for your help
This MMS apk still has the pre 2.3.2 SMS bugs.
Well that's not good. Ill ask around in the captivate forum for a newer version. I get a parsing error when I try to pull it out of the update file on cyanogenmod. I even tried swapping out the cert files within the apk itself and I still cant get the newer apk to install. I will update the op.
I have just recently rooted my phone and now I can't receive or send text messages. I was wondering if there was an app that I may have removed on accident. I still can receive phone calls tho. Thank you for any information.
What else did you do besides rooting? As far as I know just rooting will not break MMS or SMS.
What method did you use to root? If anything I would say your radio is wrong but we would need to know more information.
I tried to put Froyo on the phone but failed at it twice, so I decide to restore to factory settings and just root with FascinateRoot_v02. Installed Titanium Backup, SetCPU, Root Explorer. Went through Titanium Backup and removed the Verizon Apps like Music, Video, Nav, etc. and some other bloat ware.
When you say "went back to factory" how did you go about doing that?
I used this to go to Froyo the first time, there is one that is just the leaked version a clean version and all of the SuperClean roms.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/ver...tom-roms-w-root-clockwork-updated-3-25-a.html
It's possible you deleted something when deleting the bloatware that you needed. I would suggest going back to stock using the stock odin files. Which is here I think, I have the files saved to my computer now.
http://www.dkszone.net/samsung-fascinate-dl09-odin-download
Since you are using TB I would freeze apps before you remove them completely so you can be sure they wont mess up your need to have apps
make sure there is no +1 in the number you are texting... as in +1-999-999-999
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Thank you, texting is working again.
Also I was wondering what would be an easy ROM to install that is Froyo?
The first link has Odin files of the superclean Rom. Or if you are familiar with clockwork you get the zip file from the superclean thread in the development section of the fascinate forums.
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Would removing 3G Mobile Hot spot, All Share, Car Cradle, and News & Weather effect my texting ability?
No.
There is a post somewhere either here or on android forums that has a list of the apps you can safely remove from your phone. Ill see if I can find it.
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I have a o2 contract SGSII.
When I try and send a text message which is over 3sms in length, the phone converts it to a mms. This is annoying as I have to pay extra for mms whereas sms is included in my allowance.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Is there a way to stop it?
Thanks
Yup same thing here on Vodafone simfree phone. Be cool to get rid of this limit as I too get free sms but not mms!
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It is a known limitation of stock SMS Android application.
To get rid of this problem, use third party SMS apps, like Go SMS Pro (my favorite), Handcent SMS and many others.
valdigre said:
It is a known limitation of stock SMS Android application.
To get rid of this problem, use third party SMS apps, like Go SMS Pro (my favorite), Handcent SMS and many others.
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Sounds like time to find this and remove the limitation
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Sounds like time to find this and remove the limitation
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Please please please Do!! Thanks in advance!
Many of us use sms a lot and i frequently send out long long long stories to my friends. Here in India while SMS is free for my carrier, MMS is charged!
So please help!
I like the stock app since it has a big field to write the messages, not just two or three lines unlike other.
Does any third party app have this?
Found what's causing it. Now just to figure out how to prevent it
Think it's fixed. I'll pop an experimental fix in VRTweaks for it in the XWKE2 ROM.
I set it to allow 9 SMS messages before making it into an MMS. Equally, I removed the 10 recipient limit and made it 200, for Christmas/New Year bulk texting
OK. Got a few files to test. Backup the files /system/app/mms.apk mms.odex. Delete MMS.odex now.
Then put these into /system/app/ and reboot. Let me know how it goes.
There's a couple to try. Give them a shot
Try first: www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/VRTweaks/XWKE2/TRYFIRSTmms.apk
Then if that fails, try: www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/VRTweaks/XWKE2/TRYSECONDmms.apk
Remember to rename to just "mms.apk" and let me know how it goes.
Downloading n flashing now gimmie some minutes,
EDIT:- Tried through Root Explorer would not let me install, must I push with ADB if so could you explain Iv'e forgotten how.
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OK. Got a few files to test. Backup the files /system/app/mms.apk mms.odex. Delete MMS.odex now.
Then put these into /system/app/ and reboot. Let me know how it goes.
There's a couple to try. Give them a shot
Try first: www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/VRTweaks/XWKE2/TRYFIRSTmms.apk
Then if that fails, try: www.villainrom.co.uk/SGS2/VRTweaks/XWKE2/TRYSECONDmms.apk
Remember to rename to just "mms.apk" and let me know how it goes.
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I have tried the files you have links to, but when rebooting the message app completely disappears.
When I revert to the backup files and reboot the messaging app comesback again.
@XenonAndroid you don't need to install just place files and reboot (I think).
If you have anymore files to try let me know.
Thanks for the effort!
The stock messaging app also opens mms images as videos for some reason
Is that fixable too?
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@Ohmz55; Im sure you rename default mms.apk, copy ova patched and then install it whilst in the System Directory as this is what i had todo to get CM mms.apk working.!
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Strange..
Can someone do a logcat so I can see reason for the failure to appear? You need to reboot and look in the log for "mms.apk"
The fix will work, but I need to work out how to get round signature issues
thanks .. we are waiting
When you send a group sms to over 5 people it sends it as a sms for me (no charges) but all the people recieving it got it as an mms :/
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When you send a group sms to over 5 people it sends it as a sms for me (no charges) but all the people recieving it got it as an mms :/
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Was that using this tweak, or with the stock ROM?
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I just wanted to clarify i was doing things correctly. This is my first android phone so excuse the noobiness.
I backed up the original mms.apk and mms.odex files.
Then i copied tryfirstmms.apk to system/app. Renamed to Mms.apk (the original had a capital M i dont know if its case sensitive). Then i deleted mms.odex.
Then reboot.
Root explorer gave me the option to install the mms.apk but when i tried it gave me a 'program was.not installed' message.
After the reboot the message app disappeared from the applications screens.
I will try and do a logcat but im just reading up about how to do it.
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@pulser
I just wanted to clarify i was doing things correctly. This is my first android phone so excuse the noobiness.
I backed up the original mms.apk and mms.odex files.
Then i copied tryfirstmms.apk to system/app. Renamed to Mms.apk (the original had a capital M i dont know if its case sensitive). Then i deleted mms.odex.
Then reboot.
Root explorer gave me the option to install the mms.apk but when i tried it gave me a 'program was.not installed' message.
After the reboot the message app disappeared from the applications screens.
I will try and do a logcat but im just reading up about how to do it.
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Sounds fine to me. No need to try to install the APK though... You just need to put it in the folder and reboot the phone You can restore your backups for now to be able to send messages, as I will explain...
I think this will only get fixed when I release VillainROM for the SGS, as I need more control over the system than I can get right now
This fix should work, but Android's security is rejecting the application due to signatures. I know how to fix it, but you need to use a different ROM base which I've been working on here
hey guys, i've been using CM7 for a few weeks now and decided to jump over to OMGFB
one issue i've been having both on CM7 and now on OMGFB is that I can receive MMS but i cannot send them, it just shows that its trying to send but never goes through, no error message just never completes.
any ideas?
tried a fresh wipe and install, JT, glitch kernels but no dice, appreciate any help
What modem are you running? ec09 should work the best with either of those.
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running EC09, i don't think its a modem problem, as I can receive MMS, make calls, send SMS and do everything else, i just can't send MMS
and I was running CM7 7-17, not any nightlies
I'm on CM7. I use GO SMS for the look and feel...always have. And I have no problem with mms.
Maybe try out GO SMS...just for testing.
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i've tried handcent and GO, here is the solution i found it on the CM7 boards
Use root explorer, and make sure it is set to R/W mode (read/write). Navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db and delete that file, then restart your phone. After the restart, you should be able to send and receive MMS messages.
immediately worked, not sure what this file is or what it does but it seems to be the issue
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i've tried handcent and GO, here is the solution i found it on the CM7 boards
Use root explorer, and make sure it is set to R/W mode (read/write). Navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db and delete that file, then restart your phone. After the restart, you should be able to send and receive MMS messages.
immediately worked, not sure what this file is or what it does but it seems to be the issue
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The messaging db is frequently corrupted when killing the messaging app with a task killer. You can also clear the messaging app's data from manage applications to fix this type of problem.
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The messaging db is frequently corrupted when killing the messaging app with a task killer. You can also clear the messaging app's data from manage applications to fix this type of problem.
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I've had this same problem before on both stock and CM7 nightly's.. to this day I don't know what caused it, and I don't know how to fix it; besides a factory reset. I did try clearing the data this way and it didn't work. If it happens again I'm going to try the root explorer method. Actually I cleared the data on every app that had anything to do with SMS/MMS, or had a permission dealing with SMS/MMS.
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The messaging db is frequently corrupted when killing the messaging app with a task killer. You can also clear the messaging app's data from manage applications to fix this type of problem.
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i don't use a task killer so i'm not sure if that was it, but i will give that a try if it happens again
for now the root explorer method of deleting that file has fixed everything
Is there a way to disable the normal call screen, you know someone calls you and what not...I'm using full screen caller I'd, market search it (good app)...also I've never been a fan of stock phone/contacts so I use alternate means ie...go contacts/DW contacts...is there a way to safely delete associated files within the phone because everytime I did delete stock phone I would get a lingering FC...I could freeze using titanium backup but the phone and contacts still remains on the phone...maybe I could extract oxygenation rom find the files and replace with dw contacts re zip the file and flash but I'm sure I'd get FC
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You do need the files, so leave them on the phone
Some programs rely on them.
But if you really want to try, delete them and after fc, reboot your phone, sometimes that works.