Increase text size in stock messages app. - XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys. my dads having trouble with his phone. ive just gave him my x10 due to an upgrade and all he ever does is moan about it as he is new to android.
How do i do this. How do i do that. Aughhhh .. Anyway
He uses the stock rom and stock sms program . Is there anyway to increase the font size for this app ? As hes as blind as a bet .
Also any way to forward sms and select multiple contacts from the contact list without having to do it one bye one..
And... Im thinking am putting a new basic rom on for him , Just to improve some things. can anyone recommend one? .
thanks guys
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[Q] App to Send reminders to your friend

Is there any app ( like reQALL, which isn't that user friendly) in which I can send reminders to my friend ( of course if they've installed the same app ) .
e.g: If I've to remind him to call some one at a particular time
I'm using the good old method now, Saving reminder in my mobile and calling him to check with that person
I think I 've asked this question at wrong time.
Looks like i've asked this question at the wrong time where in every one ( including me ) were closely tracking ICS instead of the forum
I'm surprised
I'm surprised to see no replies from XDA . I really thought I will get some answer
Ummm, send a text message. If you need, there are apps that allow you to type a message and have it sent at a particular time.
I'm a bit confused about why you would need an app for this? Can your friend not make a note/calendar entry/alarm for themselves?
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Thanks for the reply Jane. Say Suppose if I want to send it to a group of people ( with Android phone and the app installed in all their mobiles), where in I set an appointment and send it to all of them , a notification pops up whether you want to update your calendar Yes/No . Clicking a Yes makes an entry in his mobile? some thing on this line.
And to answer your other question, Yes he can set a alarm /reminder as well. All the Apps are the just Ideas of making things easy isn't it?
Replying again to push my thread up , Really sorry for the spam I just want the thread to be seen by developer who knows about this .
Suggestion:
Make a Google account, let your friend(s) to sign in. Once you set reminder, everyone will get.
A yay for you?
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
Thanks for the replies.
I thought I will get some real answers, instead all I've got was workarounds and suggestions. thanks for that anyways.
I will Keep the thread alive for one more day and I will close it, i don't want to spam .
I think this is one kinda app which is not in existence, Developers can take this idea and they can build one if they want it

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hi,
i'am a new hower of a galaxy s2.
i ask here as last change as i read in internet this the best forum.
i have android 2.3.6 italian but I am not satisfied of the default phone dial search.
i became from iphone 3g and when i search (with qwerty keyboard) i found all my contant.
my contact are all stored in the field "name" and if have a people called "steve jobs senior" in field name. With t9 defaul search of phone dialer i can't find "jobs" or "senior".
it's possible whit defaul t9 dialer search in each word of field and not only first word? i need to install a roms ?
second question : the tab "logs" is at the top of the screen, there is a skin with this tab at bottom ? like iphone. ?
thank in advance.
i hope in you
danielotti said:
hi,
i'am a new hower of a galaxy s2.
i ask here as last change as i read in internet this the best forum.
i have android 2.3.6 italian but I am not satisfied of the default phone dial search.
i became from iphone 3g and when i search (with qwerty keyboard) i found all my contant.
my contact are all stored in the field "name" and if have a people called "steve jobs senior" in field name. With t9 defaul search of phone dialer i can't find "jobs" or "senior".
it's possible whit defaul t9 dialer search in each word of field and not only first word? i need to install a roms ?
second question : the tab "logs" is at the top of the screen, there is a skin with this tab at bottom ? like iphone. ?
thank in advance.
i hope in you
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Try different dialers. There are a ton in the market. As far as I know, you can't change this behavior in the default dialer on a stock Samsung firmware.
Sounds like you want it to work like an iPhone. I'm not trying to be combative, but if that's so, why did you get rid of your iPhone?
You could always try installing MIUI, that ROM seems popular with ex-iPhone users.
The only way to get what you are talking about is to root your phone and install a custom ROM that is themed to how you like and has different mods to change things such as the dialer.These things cant be changed if they are stock.There are enough ROMs around to suit everyone.The hardest part is finding the one you like.
cooza said:
The only way to get what you are talking about is to root your phone and install a custom ROM that is themed to how you like and has different mods to change things such as the dialer.These things cant be changed if they are stock.There are enough ROMs around to suit everyone.The hardest part is finding the one you like.
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A third party dialer app may suit his needs...
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@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
danielotti said:
@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
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Take this for what it's worth... you're entering dangerous territory. You said yourself you are new to Android. Installing ROMs is not trivial, or something that should be taken lightly. I see more threads than I can count started by people who need help getting their phone working again because they blindly started flashing stuff when they really had no need.
And your only complaint at the moment is how the dialer functions. Why don't you slow down, and try out some dialer apps from the market? There are a ton of free ones. I know I suggested the MIUI ROM above, but I think this is better advice.
Lastly, ICS is still not officially released. Any ICS ROM out there right now is either based on a leak (and therefore full of bugs and is probably less than stable), or really a Gingerbread ROM themed to look like ICS.
thanks ctomgee
i try for some dialer, and i wait for official ics for s2
danielotti said:
@ cooza
can you suggest some roms for s2 perhaps with ics ?
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ICS is still in beta stage and giving advanced users problems so if you dont want to root and flash a custom ROM(GB not ICS) them maybe on the market you can find a 3rd party launcher while you wait.

Dailer & Contacts on ICS 4.0.3 issue

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I got a new SGSII through an unwanted upgrade, have stock rooted ICS 4.0.3 and found that keypad, logs, favourites are under one app 'Phone', and groups, contacts and favourites under another 'Contacts'.
An old SGSII running an older version of Litening rom my friends has, got the keypad, logs, contacts, favourites and groups all in one place.
I can't seem to change this/merge them, were the merged dailer/contacts part of the previous rom? Previous touch wiz version? Or am I being dumb and not finding the setting to have them in the same screen?
Thanks for any pointers/mocking/gtfo's etc in advance
Sub Atomic Specialist said:
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I got a new SGSII through an unwanted upgrade, have stock rooted ICS 4.0.3 and found that keypad, logs, favourites are under one app 'Phone', and groups, contacts and favourites under another 'Contacts'.
An old SGSII running an older version of Litening rom my friends has, got the keypad, logs, contacts, favourites and groups all in one place.
I can't seem to change this/merge them, were the merged dailer/contacts part of the previous rom? Previous touch wiz version? Or am I being dumb and not finding the setting to have them in the same screen?
Thanks for any pointers/mocking/gtfo's etc in advance
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sorry dude thats how they are in ICS 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 for now u have 2 leave with it
Well that sucks monkey toes, looks like I got to enjoy several more taps to work with numbers logs and contacts (or use another app) high five for progress...
Cheers Sun90, thanks for the heads up bud
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Let's see on GB you have to click contacts from dialer
On ics you have to press menu than click contacts.
So my question is how hard/tiring is one more click?
Also you have t9....
atifsh said:
Let's see on GB you have to click contacts from dialer
On ics you have to press menu than click contacts.
So my question is how hard/tiring is one more click?
Also you have t9....
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Mate, your sarcasm meter is faulty, send it off for repairs, and while your at it get treatment for those saddle sores.
And you want to raise the question know how hard/tiring one more click per use is, and you are who exactly? how heroically pedantic. Do I tell you how the way you do things are wrong?
After you have used it in a car dock extensively, I'll think you might have half an idea of the implications, until then you obviously don't get what the difference is and just want to jump on the comment about an extra few taps, bravo
"Also you have T9...." And?
Sub Atomic Specialist said:
Mate, your sarcasm meter is faulty, send it off for repairs, and while your at it get treatment for those saddle sores.
And you want to raise the question know how hard/tiring one more click per use is, and you are who exactly? how heroically pedantic. Do I tell you how the way you do things are wrong?
After you have used it in a car dock extensively, I'll think you might have half an idea of the implications, until then you obviously don't get what the difference is and just want to jump on the comment about an extra few taps, bravo
"Also you have T9...." And?
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Thank you for that long letter, your use is specific and valid for you, but not all who whining are using it on a car dock.
And where did I say anything about you being doing things wrong !
atifsh said:
Thank you for that long letter, your use is specific and valid for you, but not all who whining are using it on a car dock.
And where did I say anything about you being doing things wrong !
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HAhaaa...
"Let's see on GB you have to click contacts from dialer
On ics you have to press menu than click contacts.
So my question is how hard/tiring is one more click?
Also you have t9...."
"Thank you for that long letter, your use is specific and valid for you, but not all who whining are using it on a car dock.
And where did I say anything about you being doing things wrong !"
lets call it quit peace!
God god man, you are thicker than a 2x4 mate. :/
can't you just push the GB phone.apk into sys?
You could always install a 3rd party app like Go Contacts which comes with a dialer and have it all intergrated once again.
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Thanks Aikje and Bored Stupid, proper contributions and advice
To be honest, I already had ExDialer and Contacts by the time the good Sun90 let me know it's the lay of the land with ICS. Have had a quick look at others too.
With A N Other dialers I've tried so far, you have to tap a different end of the phone, which still takes your attention away for half a second, which when crossing the A406 to get to the A1 isn't really the one, actually, anywhere in central London to be fair.
It's purely for this reason, it's the 'no look' control on the old dialer I'm after again, as I'm on the blower a lot, so am obviously evaluating other options as there could be better out there, I've only just updated to ICS so contrary to a certain peevish belief, I asked a question on a q&a forum to point me in the right direction, as the better members here of XDA know how to *cough* soap box *cough* hahahaa
Regarding the pushing of the Phone.apk, was going to be trying that tonight after backing up, it came from a custom rom and my knowledge of these things is a bit dry, so will find out if it plays nice later.
Again, thanks for the info guys
Good luck, I thought the "Black infinitum" rom(or something like that) had the combined dialer&contacts, and that is 4.0.3...
I'll try it this afternoon and give some feedback okay?
EDIT: doesn't work...
another ics tryout
try ics passion

Full Screen Incoming Call Contact Picture/ICS

Hello all, just updated my to ATT/ICS last week and thought this feature was to be included in the 4.0? After searching here for a bit I can't find any info. Wondering is there a way to do this with out rooting the phone or running a different launcher. TIA
Steve
SportsFans said:
Hello all, just updated my to ATT/ICS last week and thought this feature was to be included in the 4.0? After searching here for a bit I can't find any info. Wondering is there a way to do this with out rooting the phone or running a different launcher. TIA
Steve
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that feature is available on Google's version of ICS, which is AOSP, but also in AOKP/CM9, I have AoCP from The Collective Team and I have full screen caller id, if you're running stock , well that's AT&T/Samsung's fault for not adding it to their dialer, you can try this app out and see if you like it, I don't think you need root for it or anything else. good luck
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androminigsm.fscifree&hl=en
Hey thanks roloracer, this is kinda a no brainer Att Ics? Coming from a windows phone and boy that feature looks just great. Every day I'm getting closer to the ROOT of the matter. Thanks again.
Related question, but backwards.
How would you disable this feature?
Looked through all the options I can find in CM9 (h0tw1r3, not the official CM9) and can't find anything about it.
I don't have contact pictures for 75% of my contacts, and the ones I do have are seemingly tiny images that look terrible on the Note full screen.
cforceleritas said:
Related question, but backwards.
How would you disable this feature?
Looked through all the options I can find in CM9 (h0tw1r3, not the official CM9) and can't find anything about it.
I don't have contact pictures for 75% of my contacts, and the ones I do have are seemingly tiny images that look terrible on the Note full screen.
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the moment someone woudl sync with google .. there server saves the pics very samll so it woudl look bad for everyoneanyway.. thatfeature has been present on htc devices for a long time and i had a mod on my previous samsung phone rom to allow big pictures full res ,but you woudl have to NOT sync google contacts automaticallly and save them to vcard on your phone so you can reload the full res pictures , this issue has been on going since the first android device go look at google 's error reports youll see tht threads is thousands of pages ppl com:laugh::laugh::laughlaining .
@DAGr8*;
thanks for info ..........yes I was wondering , if there is a way to do this eg > lower the resolution of pic ( thus able to add bigger size for display on Ausoem note screen)
will that maybe solve this issue?
<< this feature was one of Major reasons why I went from ICS stock to another ROM from Xda forum>>
I find stock ICS from att =has several things lacking and a MAJOR DISSPOINTMENT
>> thanks in adnace > love your mods and work !
Cheers

[Q] Liquidsmooth Custom Rom - Email app issue

Hi All,
I'm on custom ROM Luiquidsmooth 2.1 and loving it. I only have one problem with it. In the Mail app when I go into the sent items folder I cannot see who the emails were sent to. Only the sender (myself obviously) appears in the title. This makes it extremely difficilt to find specific emails. I have not been able to change this. Very frustrating......
Any help?
Thanks,
Gui
girigiom said:
Hi All,
I'm on custom ROM Luiquidsmooth 2.1 and loving it. I only have one problem with it. In the Mail app when I go into the sent items folder I cannot see who the emails were sent to. Only the sender (myself obviously) appears in the title. This makes it extremely difficilt to find specific emails. I have not been able to change this. Very frustrating......
Any help? Usually in the help section called question and answers .
Try another mail app .
Contact the developer use another rom .
jje
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