This didn't used to happen, but I noticed it about a month and a half ago. Early on with this phone picture messages would come in fine...I could click on them and they'd look normal when they open up in the gallery. Those messages from then still look fine and function normally. But any picture messages I've received in the last month or so don't work right...They download to my phone (when I have mobile data on, which makes sense), but there's a play button over the picture. When I click on it it it opens up the photo but it looks tiny and I can't zoom in or anything or open with the gallery, etc. If I longpress the message without opening it, it only lets me play as slideshow which is still reallllly small. If I "download attached to SD card" it saves in my file system and when I open it up later it looks normal. But I don't want to have to download every picture message I get to my SD card just to look at it...
What's the deal here? I use GoSMS but I got this problem sometime after I started using that. Either way, the problem occurs in my stock app as well. I can't remember if this coincides with when I flashed GingerBlur or not...
FYI, this happens when I get messages from any iPhone AS WELL as friends with android phones. Any thoughts?
EDIT: also, if anyone thinks it IS GoSMS though, let me know! I don't remember this happening when I first started using it, but I dunno I'm willing to try all possibilities. Maybe a rogue setting in GoSMS is screwing it up?
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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PixoNova said:
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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Interesting, so that should mean GoSMS, the GingerBlur flash or the stock GingerBread messaging app aren't causing it...hmmm...
This is an android issue. Had the same issue when using my nexus one, Dell streak 5 and now the Atrix. It sucks. Never found a way to fix it. Some messages used to come through fine but I haven't notice any work lately at all. They all come through like a small video file and are much smaller in size unless I copy to the sd card.
I'll try to grab some friends phones ( evo 4g, epic 4g, droid x) and see what it's like on their phones.
I also noticed that with animated gifs as well! They are showing up to people as pics only and are very small in size no matter how big they originally were! It's quite aggravating and I tried gosms, handscent, chompsms, and a crapload of others and none are working right!
This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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I see. That's quite absurd, and even if it isn't a real Android problem, this should be changed...
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Okay so i have seen a few threads on this but none of the Atrix. i know phones automaticly resize pictures, but not THIS bad. i just sent a 1mb picture to my phone from hotmail and it seriously made it look 10kb. really? it looks like giant pixels LOL, whats the point of MMS if you can't even see details of the picture. it seems i can send decent size pictures, but recieving them is a different story. i have tried GoSMS, Handcent, and stock messaging app. It did this on stock ROM and does same on gingerblur pROM. My last phone was the HD7 and it had NO problem like this, before that i had the mytouch 4G and it had no problem as well, even the mytouch 3g, and 3g slide i had didnt lmao. This is the first att phone ive had, maybe its something to do with them? everyone else that has had this problem only has seemed to have it with sending pictures, not recieving.
I just did a test and sent the same picture twice from my GMail to my phone. In the first I attached the picture and in the second I copied it into the body of the email. Both pictures came through to my phone as mms in their original size. I know this doesn't help solve your problem, but it might help in narrowing it down for you. BTW, I am AT&T.
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I just did a test and sent the same picture twice from my GMail to my phone. In the first I attached the picture and in the second I copied it into the body of the email. Both pictures came through to my phone as mms in their original size. I know this doesn't help solve your problem, but it might help in narrowing it down for you. BTW, I am AT&T.
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okay, i will try it on my Gmail account. maybe it is hotmail. I actually use Tmobile, i was just saying its my first actually att phone. lol
lol look how much smaller it made them. 6XXkb to 20kb. -_- 1440x990 to 160x110. i REALLY hope motorola unlocks the bootloaders so we can get other ROMs on this thing. this is rediculous lmao.
Did some research. Apparently T-Mobile resizes pictures to 160 x 120 if they are larger, and if they are on a cell phone which T-Mobile does not sell. Might want to call them and ask about this. You will see the following under the "Mobile-to-e-mail or e-mail-to-mobile" section:
"NOTE: All images will be resized to match the recipient’s phone’s capabilities. If the capabilities are not known (such as phones not sold by T-Mobile USA) images will be resized to160 x 120 pixels if they are larger."
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm21396.xml?#m-to-e
Same issue here, everything gets dumb resized.
My iPhone 4 would resize too, but not this bad.
CaelanT said:
Did some research. Apparently T-Mobile resizes pictures to 160 x 120 if they are larger, and if they are on a cell phone which T-Mobile does not sell. Might want to call them and ask about this. You will see the following under the "Mobile-to-e-mail or e-mail-to-mobile" section:
"NOTE: All images will be resized to match the recipient’s phone’s capabilities. If the capabilities are not known (such as phones not sold by T-Mobile USA) images will be resized to160 x 120 pixels if they are larger."
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm21396.xml?#m-to-e
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thanks for the info, that is RETARDED though xD ill give them a call haha
If using Go SMS, upping the MMS size limit and checking the "preserve image resolution" box seems to do the trick for me.
Now, if the Gmail app would ask if you would like to resize like the iPhone, I'd be happier.
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If using Go SMS, upping the MMS size limit and checking the "preserve image resolution" box seems to do the trick for me.
Now, if the Gmail app would ask if you would like to resize like the iPhone, I'd be happier.
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i have tried this and it didnt work. im wondering if there is some setting or hack/mod to make it seem like its a tmobile phone.. like HD7 or something. seeing some people do it on Nokia and other phones but cant find anything on this.
btw, do you have tmobile??
I was on the phone with tmobile, then called att. they put me on the phone with motorola, the rep put me on the phone with a tech class 2 and none of them could solve it. im sure its what the other guy said. reading some other forums and other people are having the issue with other phones. this is so irritating.
edit: heres one source http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25437608-Dammit-TMobile-
okay so its been modified on the G1, and other phones
http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showt...eceive-higher-resolution-mms-picture-messages
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542540
If i could find a way to change the user agent, it would be fine.
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okay so its been modified on the G1, and other phones
http://forums.miuiandroid.com/showt...eceive-higher-resolution-mms-picture-messages
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542540
If i could find a way to change the user agent, it would be fine.
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I posted some time ago about the same problem. I just putt mms.apk from cm6 into /system/app, then froze the motorola text messaging app.
And... Tada! Mms custom user agent.
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silentecho13 said:
If using Go SMS, upping the MMS size limit and checking the "preserve image resolution" box seems to do the trick for me.
Now, if the Gmail app would ask if you would like to resize like the iPhone, I'd be happier.
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It's not the phone or SMS/MMS app. It's the carrier.
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I posted some time ago about the same problem. I just putt mms.apk from cm6 into /system/app, then froze the motorola text messaging app.
And... Tada! Mms custom user agent.
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There ya go! Circumvent the carriers bs network settings!
Nice work!
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I posted some time ago about the same problem. I just putt mms.apk from cm6 into /system/app, then froze the motorola text messaging app.
And... Tada! Mms custom user agent.
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i tried this from the G2X nightly and nothing worked, what cm6 did you use? and where would i get text messages since it deletes (freezes) the app? just download handcent or something? lol
edit: could you upload the Mms.apk file? they dont have cm6 up anymore.
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i tried this from the G2X nightly and nothing worked, what cm6 did you use? and where would i get text messages since it deletes (freezes) the app? just download handcent or something? lol
edit: could you upload the Mms.apk file? they dont have cm6 up anymore.
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This is the mms.apk I've been using
http://db.tt/4xZlQQI
You have to push it to /system/app, then
freeze text messaging and message with titanium backup.
remember to set the right permissions to mms.apk (chmod 0644, I'm almost sure)
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This is the mms.apk I've been using
http://db.tt/4xZlQQI
You have to push it to /system/app, then
freeze text messaging and message with titanium backup.
remember to set the right permissions to mms.apk (chmod 0644, I'm almost sure)
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yeah i figured out that it was because i was using CM7 mms.apk.
i found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999711
apparently it has some "known bugs" do you know if the mms.apk you are using has any issue? apparently sometimes it sends your text to the wrong person..
i set it to nokia n95, now pictures are abour 230kb.. better than 20.
stratax said:
yeah i figured out that it was because i was using CM7 mms.apk.
i found this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=999711
apparently it has some "known bugs" do you know if the mms.apk you are using has any issue? apparently sometimes it sends your text to the wrong person..
i set it to nokia n95, now pictures are abour 230kb.. better than 20.
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I think that those problems were in early versions of cm7, not sure. At last I've never had that issue.
Try using custom ua, and set a newer phone that your carrier are selling.
I'm glad that it is working for you too.
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I think that those problems were in early versions of cm7, not sure. At last I've never had that issue.
Try using custom ua, and set a newer phone that your carrier are selling.
I'm glad that it is working for you too.
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i tried "HTC HD7" and it didnt work
Edit: i actually had that problem a couple times with my old mytouch 3g slide on cm6. but that had some bugs. it was quite embarrasing as well lol XD
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I don't know about that! Because I've had this same problem and I'm on at&t! Ill send an animated gif to someone thats between 500 kb and say 3 mb and it will convert it to around 12 kb when it converts it to an mms! I've tried messing with all the settings and different sms apps such as handcent, gosms, and a ton of others even some chinese ones where I couldn't even read the damn thing and nothing helped! I just rewiped my whole phone and am gonna attempt it again now! I don't understand why it was doing that!
Edit: Actually mine is a sending problem not a receiving problem so I guess my problem is a little different.
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I don't know about that! Because I've had this same problem and I'm on at&t! Ill send an animated gif to someone thats between 500 kb and say 3 mb and it will convert it to around 12 kb when it converts it to an mms! I've tried messing with all the settings and different sms apps such as handcent, gosms, and a ton of others even some chinese ones where I couldn't even read the damn thing and nothing helped! I just rewiped my whole phone and am gonna attempt it again now! I don't understand why it was doing that!
Edit: Actually mine is a sending problem not a receiving problem so I guess my problem is a little different.
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read post above, you can fix this problem.
At first i thought it was just swype, since that always acts up. Ever since I've had the phone anytime a picture is present in an sms thread, it makes the app go bonkers. It either freezes up, the keyboard flashes at epilepsy inducing speeds or the "soft" menu buttons that pop up flash as well.
I could normally make the problem go away by deleting the picture/media out of the thread manually by selection. Now it does it sometimes without any media being present. Basically if a picture is present, it either refuses to let me type or does so at turtle speeds.
I emailed HTC days after receiving the phone, but the help ticket went down the road of them trying to help me with my frustration of not being able to download .mpo files through the native gmail app, only preview.
I also took it to the sprint store where of course the phone magically started functioning properly when I tried recreating the problem for the tech (yay?), it only took a few tries to recreate the glitch, where she just did a wipe of the phone (don't remember if she did it through the recovery mode or "regular" wipe). But I shouldn't have to wipe my phone every time the stock messaging app starts acting up.
Ill try to get video of it happening tomorrow, it's 3:30am right now... Kinda late to be borrowing anyones phone for such things
Tl:dr stock messaging app acts wonky when media is present in thread
Is anyone else having this issue?
I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
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I use the stock SMS app. I like having the integration the stock SMS app has with the home screen and address book. Anyway I haven't had any of those issues the OP is having with the stock sms app. If it happens again try clearing the data for the sms app, that won't clear out your text messages.
Just tried it, data was only about 864kb anyway, problem persists. I dont have a ton of threads/messages in there clogging it up.
And I know about chomp and handcent, ive used them both. I honestly do like a lot of stock apps though, it's not from ignorance... I had a cm7 evo 4g.
knowledge561 said:
I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
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i use stock and it works fine
knowledge561 said:
I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
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I use stock without issue as well. I prefer it now over those apps. For popups I just use SMS Pop-up from the market. Problem solved.
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i too use the stock app. No issues at all here.
Im wondering if I should temp root and backup all my crap. Dont feel like individually downloading all these apps again if I take it to the store and all they do is wipe it again... If it comes to that and the issue persists, hopefully they swap it out.
My just puts all kinds of weird times on the messages like it'll be 1pm but the time stamp will be 6
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Never used stock messaging...It sucks
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My just puts all kinds of weird times on the messages like it'll be 1pm but the time stamp will be 6
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Same here. And I'm not roaming. And also if I reply within the same minute the text came in my text goes above theirs in the thread, so it looks like I'm replying before they even send the text which obviously isn't the case... But regardless, I do love the stock app.
Hi,
Please tell me how to get rid of the god-awful slow texting app that comes with this phone, and replace it with the stock android texting app.
Thanks!
Are you referring to the AT&T messages app? 'Cause the SMS app that comes stock works fine for me :/
Stock messages app works fine for me. If you have root you may be able to find differnt message apps, but my first suggestion is to give handcent a try as it is my go to sms app for when I'm having issues with cusom ROMs being buggy with mms. Its got a threaded look to it, much like iphone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLmhhbmRjZW50Lm5leHRzbXMiXQ..
It also has font packs and other stuff on the app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=handcent_market
I far prefer GO SMS Pro, love the interface and features, but with all the third-party SMS apps I have an issue of double and triple texts being sent to people. I agree the Samsung SMS app is painfully slow. I hate using it, but it's my only choice because it doesn't send out duplicate texts. :/
johnus said:
I far prefer GO SMS Pro, love the interface and features, but with all the third-party SMS apps I have an issue of double and triple texts being sent to people. I agree the Samsung SMS app is painfully slow. I hate using it, but it's my only choice because it doesn't send out duplicate texts. :/
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Thats very odd, I've never got complaint of this. Have you googled the issue to see if there is a known solution or work around? As common as these apps are you can't possibly be the only one misfortunate enough to experience this. I have had issues in the past getting numerous notifications despite turning native notifications off for SMS, but thats an entirely different issue.
How do i replace the Samsung message app with the vanilla android one? The Samsung one is slow and is a failed attempt at copying iphone. The keyboard even blocks the send button!
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How do i replace the Samsung message app with the vanilla android one? The Samsung one is slow and is a failed attempt at copying iphone. The keyboard even blocks the send button!
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Google is your friend to find an mms.apk. you need to be rooted. And have root explorer and a little knowledge
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what i did was use LauncherPro Plus and GoSMS.... i used handscent but prefer go... you can change the launcher icons and apps in the lower row with launcherpro.
hyelton said:
Google is your friend to find an mms.apk. you need to be rooted. And have root explorer and a little knowledge
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I am rooted and have root explorer. Can you share the little knowledge?
Chief Geek said:
Thats very odd, I've never got complaint of this. Have you googled the issue to see if there is a known solution or work around? As common as these apps are you can't possibly be the only one misfortunate enough to experience this. I have had issues in the past getting numerous notifications despite turning native notifications off for SMS, but thats an entirely different issue.
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Mostly I see people on ICS complaining about this issue, but there are several people on GB complaining about it as well, for both GO SMS and Handcent and a few others on Google Play.
I had the duplicate notification issue with Handcent - even though I had disabled notifications for the stock app AND frozen it. Didn't have that problem with GO SMS. Had an odd problem when I tried Chomp SMS, where all incoming messages were anonymous and upon trying to view them, the message couldn't be found. That even happened in the stock app, so long as I had Chomp installed. Uninstalling fixed that issue immediately.
But so far as I can tell, some people just have the problem, and most don't. I have yet to see a reply from any of the devs about the issue. I've tried completely resetting the phone to factory spec but I still got the duplicate message issue.
I really, REALLY want to use GO SMS. Although something else I noticed is that some people's messages were being sent to the wrong contacts... Perhaps I'll try the vanilla Android apk...
How do you try the vanilla android apk?
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This is the ics messenger app, you can try it without needing root.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mms.ics.ext
Thanks but I don't really want a third party version with ads. I don't get it...isn't there a plain messaging app that comes with android (like what was on the nexus one), or is it proprietary to every device? It seems like this shouldn't be such a difficult thing to install instead of the crappy samsung one. Am I missing something?
i'm surprised. the sms app is not bad i'm the note. I've seen worse. (though i am using the rogers version)
I'm coming from a rooted Inspire 4G (cyanogen) and I've noticed that the texting on the Samsung Messaging app is a bit sluggish. And some keys don't respond to my fast fingers.. Yet the app itself runs very fast (ie open app, open threads, go back, etc).
One thing I did was uninstall Swype through Titanium and I think I've noticed a difference in the keyboard speed. It may just be my imagination though
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I'm using go SMS, no issues..as long as I leave stock installed and not frozen..if I do..no mms messages
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It gets really annoying that even when I get a single picture in a text, it plays it like a slideshow. Is there any fix for this, or any other way to disable it?
Aside from getting Handcent or GOSms that is.
Running CM9 btw.
Might want to post in the cm9 thread that you're using. It might be a bug with the rom that the developer could fix.
Nah, it's like that in every rom I've used. It's not a bug, its a "feature" of Android.
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Nah, it's like that in every rom I've used. It's not a bug, its a "feature" of Android.
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Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
You can long press on the message and press on download attachments. Then you could watch the pictures full sized on the gallery without any forced slideshow. I know it doesnt really fix things, but it's the workaround I use.
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Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
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happens to me when my wife sends me more than one picture thru her Iphone. Never gotten it more than one from any other phone before to tell the difference.
phro321 said:
happens to me when my wife sends me more than one picture thru her Iphone. Never gotten it more than one from any other phone before to tell the difference.
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Yes that happens when its more than one picture for me as well, but OP is stating its a single (1) picture that shows as slideshow.
pre4speed said:
Not a feature in any android rom I've used. Never have I gotten a single pic come thru as a slideshow on stock messaging or handcent.
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Everywhere I've seen, even for other phones as well, single pictures play back as slide shows for people, where you click the picture icon, and a play, next, and previous icon show up at the bottom.
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Everywhere I've seen, even for other phones as well, single pictures play back as slide shows for people, where you click the picture icon, and a play, next, and previous icon show up at the bottom.
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That's strange cuz I click on the pic and it asks which viewer I want to use when opening.
Hey everyone, currently running AOKP's newest rom and I noticed I am again having the issue where multiple pictures in one MMS are viewing as a slideshow and not as individual pictures.
In the past (and based on my searching) it appears some ROMs have fixed this issue, but all the ones I could find were about 6 months to a year old. I am weary of flashing any of these as since the phone is now running ICS instead of GB, I don't want to mess anything up.
So, anyone know of a fix, or if an older version of mms.apk will work on ICS?
I'm hoping this is just something no one knows and I didn't ask a retarded question
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I'm pretty sure that's a "feature" of the stock mms.apk. It was like that on stock GB too, and still is on stock ICS (the leaks and stock I9100 TW-ified ICS). Coming from an iPhone, it annoyed me too at first, but I got used to it eventually.
Uhhhh,
On my device running AOKP, I have multiple pictures received in one MMS conversation and when I tap on it to open, it opens just one, that one I tapped, not a slideshow. Don't know what happen to you.
votinh said:
Uhhhh,
On my device running AOKP, I have multiple pictures received in one MMS conversation and when I tap on it to open, it opens just one, that one I tapped, not a slideshow. Don't know what happen to you.
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When you say mms conversation are you referring to a single mms message with multiple pictures or a thread with multiple pictures? I ask because there's a difference.
With an iPhone you can include multiple pictures in a single mms. That shows as a slide show for me. If someone sends a single picture it shows like normal. 3 pictures in 3 separate mms show as normal too.
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When you say mms conversation are you referring to a single mms message with multiple pictures or a thread with multiple pictures? I ask because there's a difference.
With an iPhone you can include multiple pictures in a single mms. That shows as a slide show for me. If someone sends a single picture it shows like normal. 3 pictures in 3 separate mms show as normal too.
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In bold, I meant the latter.
Anyway, with AOKP, I can't attach multiple "picture" in the same single mms but I can add a slideshow, which allows me to add more than one picture.
Again, it's on my Tx end, I don't know how the Rx end looks.
I've been looking for the same thing to remove the slideshow but no luck. Eventually gave up and went to Go SMS pro and have never looked back. Love every service of it and it doesn't display multiple photos as a slide show
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