Hi
Is there any way to change the time stamp on received text messages from the time I received it to the time it was sent? If I have the phone off or out of range, I need to know when it was sent.
Thanks
DT
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Yes, there is a way to change it. Could you not find it when you searched for terms such as SMS and time?
johncmolyneux said:
Yes, there is a way to change it. Could you not find it when you searched for terms such as SMS and time?
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The only solutions I could find is to install a mod, but I need the phone rooted for that or download another SMS app from the market.
Maybe my searching skills ned tweaking, but I can't see a simple way to do it on the unrooted Stock ROM with the standard SMS app.
Anyone able to help me please?
DT
I had the same problem. From what I gathered, there was an issue with the time stamps while on certain nerworks (mine was on Rogers). There is an app in the store that fixes it. its called SMS Time Fix. I'm not sure if you need your phone rooted for this since mine is rooted but its worth a try. It fixed my problem.
Araho said:
I had the same problem. From what I gathered, there was an issue with the time stamps while on certain nerworks (mine was on Rogers). There is an app in the store that fixes it. its called SMS Time Fix. I'm not sure if you need your phone rooted for this since mine is rooted but its worth a try. It fixed my problem.
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Okay, I will try it, thanks.
DT
I am still having issues and I am still unable to find a solution to the problem.
It is not the issue that is described in this thread when refering to the Rogers provider http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1181716 and the SMSFix only makes it worse. It isn't a network issue, it is a phone software issue.
I have an unrooted Telstra phone and I won't update or root it until I have a Telstra ROM to be able to flash back for warranty purposes.
In the Windows Phones it was a registry tweak, so surely in the Android phones there is some sort of tweak to correct this.
My phone is off between 6pm and 8am every day, any texts I receive I need to know when they were sent so that when I switch my phone on at 8am, they all don't show 8am as the time stamp. If it was sent at 10pm the previous night, then I need the sms app to show 10pm the previous night.
Hopefully someone can assist, as I have searched and I am yet to find a solution that works.
DT
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hey guys.
something weird happend on my athena. all of a sudden, the messaging service stopped working. "messaging" wont open. even the sms feature of spbdiary wont load. i cant receive sms. i simply cant send/receive sms. even if i use different applications for sending sms. i dont do rom upgrades. and i havent installed/configured anything today.
anybody knows what i should do first? im hoping there might be a workaround other than a hardreset. i already did softresets a couple of times.
jetherson said:
hey guys.
something weird happend on my athena. all of a sudden, the messaging service stopped working. "messaging" wont open. even the sms feature of spbdiary wont load. i cant receive sms. i simply cant send/receive sms. even if i use different applications for sending sms. i dont do rom upgrades. and i havent installed/configured anything today.
anybody knows what i should do first? im hoping there might be a workaround other than a hardreset. i already did softresets a couple of times.
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Try flashing Mitchy's rom.
the thing is, after reading all through the horror stories here at the forum, concerning flashing roms, im still hesitant to do it myself.
unless maybe you can guide me through all the way tootalk?
i have x7501 bought from the states. also, in a few words, what are the best things that mitchys rom have?
im surprised nobody else had experienced this problem before.
ciao!
if you installed any of those "lost and found" tools, then that's most likely the problem
since i had exactly your problem, until i removed those programs.
those programs might be good,
but unfortunately, it takes your SMS hostage, and wont release it.
making your SMS useless.
so i opted to have SMS, and well too bad if the phone gets lost, then it's lost.
yay! time to buy a new one the perfect excuse
hey allgamer,
what do you mean by "lost and found" tool? you mean like those security apps that sends messages to the owner just in case the phone got stolen? i have two of those installed, but i installed them a couple of months ago, and i never had any problems concerning them.
i'm now researching on how to flash my rom with mitchy.
jetherson said:
hey allgamer,
what do you mean by "lost and found" tool? you mean like those security apps that sends messages to the owner just in case the phone got stolen? i have two of those installed, but i installed them a couple of months ago, and i never had any problems concerning them.
i'm now researching on how to flash my rom with mitchy.
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Sorry for the delay dude. Shoot me a PM with your yahoo or AIM/AOL id and I can walk you through the steps to flashing with his ROM. To be honest, it's way faster and better than any factory ROM. I'm at the point now where If I don't even want to touch any PDA's with factory ROM's anymore lol.... I suggest you read up on how to CID unlock the phone first before you anything else.
messaging comes back if i remove memorycard
the messaging service works whenever i remove the memorycard, so i'm beginning to think that there might be an app that's messing around with the system.
another problem though, after i put back the memory card, the system created a "memory card" folder on the root file system. and the real memorycard now is called "memorycard2". the inbox folder has been created inside "memory card" folder.
anyway, i'm trying to muster up my courage and am going to accept tootalk's generous offer of helping me up with my very first rom flashing.
UPDATED:
i renamed the folder "memory card" which the system created, to "memory card err" and then rebooted. the messaging service is now back to normal.
but i'll still check out on the flashing.
ciao!
I recently purchased my HTC Hero from a local retailer. (I am in Canada)
My problem is with SMS messages. My messages appear in the conversation with the correct time. All my received sms messages are 4 hours behind the actual received time.
Rogers releases a specific fix for the HTC Magic and Dream (Hero is not supported here and I doubt Rogers will make a patch just for me)
I had the same problem with my Xperia X1, that was solved with a quick registry edit.
Any ideas of what I should do?
I assume that your time stamp is 4 hours behind, i had the same problem. just set your time zone to however far behind you need your time stamp to be
Hi, i am having the same problem as you. I am in Canada too
So here are some solutions (not perfect solutions)
you can EITHER install my modified version of smsfixtimes, it will fix the time stamp when you receive messages. Details about the app can be found on the project page http://code.google.com/p/smsfixtimes/ (the original version posted by the author does not work on hero)
problem with this app:
1)the time showed in notifications is not corrected
2)maybe interfere with wifi connection, sometimes you get connection error in Android Market, not sure if the app is really causing the problem
OR if having correct time stamps is not crucial to you, install chompSMS as a workaround, it have a correct threaded view even the time stamps are wrong
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I assume that your time stamp is 4 hours behind, i had the same problem. just set your time zone to however far behind you need your time stamp to be
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Thanks but I actually use my phone as a time piece. Not worth having a messed up time to make my txt messages appear to be correct.
I HATE ROGERS
man this is so frustrating. If it's not the radio signals that need to be changed its registry hacks to make their faulty hardware work proper.
I tried the SMSfix. Doesnt work fer **** on my phone. Fixed all messages and it did nothing.
skiiirt said:
Thanks but I actually use my phone as a time piece. Not worth having a messed up time to make my txt messages appear to be correct.
I HATE ROGERS
man this is so frustrating. If it's not the radio signals that need to be changed its registry hacks to make their faulty hardware work proper.
I tried the SMSfix. Doesnt work fer **** on my phone. Fixed all messages and it did nothing.
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did you try the one i attached or the one found on market? coz it's working fine on my hero
It isn't working on mine either.
I tried the one you attached. It worked, well sort of. I am now only 2 hours out, instead of 4. So slightly better but definitely not fixed
it's quite simply really
You set your timezone to however far behind your clock is and then you manually manage your time so make sure that automatic isnt ticked off then you just set the time to whatever you want it to be. works for me
flamesprite said:
it's quite simply really
You set your timezone to however far behind your clock is and then you manually manage your time so make sure that automatic isnt ticked off then you just set the time to whatever you want it to be. works for me
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but does the twitter widget show negative times?
my god Tangzq, thank you SO much! That app worked perfectly for me!
This was the only thing that was bothering me about the Hero and I'm glad it's finally fixed!
flamesprite said:
it's quite simply really
You set your timezone to however far behind your clock is and then you manually manage your time so make sure that automatic isnt ticked off then you just set the time to whatever you want it to be. works for me
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Worked for about 10 minutes, randomly "unfixed" itself. Times are now off.
How do I install this zipped app?
tangzq said:
Hi, i am having the same problem as you. I am in Canada too
So here are some solutions (not perfect solutions)
you can EITHER install my modified version of smsfixtimes, it will fix the time stamp when you receive messages. Details about the app can be found on the project page http://code.google.com/p/smsfixtimes/ (the original version posted by the author does not work on hero)
problem with this app:
1)the time showed in notifications is not corrected
2)maybe interfere with wifi connection, sometimes you get connection error in Android Market, not sure if the app is really causing the problem
OR if having correct time stamps is not crucial to you, install chompSMS as a workaround, it have a correct threaded view even the time stamps are wrong
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How do I install this zipped app? its not in the apk format, please help
Hi all,
I have searched the forums and google but couldn't seems to find a solution...
I noticed that my SGS3 with omega rom v27.1 is not receiving all sms sent to me.
I cannot reproduce the problem as the phone just randomly not registering a sms sent to me, it does not have a pattern (e.g. from a certain person) for me to trace the source of the problem.
I thought it was the stock sms app that is causing the issue so I am now using Go sms but still losing sms every now and then.
Is there anyone had a same/similar issues and know how to resolve it?
Thanks.
tonysosw said:
Hi all,
I have searched the forums and google but couldn't seems to find a solution...
I noticed that my SGS3 with omega rom v27.1 is not receiving all sms sent to me.
I cannot reproduce the problem as the phone just randomly not registering a sms sent to me, it does not have a pattern (e.g. from a certain person) for me to trace the source of the problem.
I thought it was the stock sms app that is causing the issue so I am now using Go sms but still losing sms every now and then.
Is there anyone had a same/similar issues and know how to resolve it?
Thanks.
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That is odd, normally you either get sms or don't. If you don't then it's normally a fault APN configuration. Have you tried fixing permission in recovery as well as wiping dalvik and cache? Might try those to see if it gets better
i registered just to reply to your question as i know how frustrating it is!
I had the same problem. Hopefully it will solve yours unless u had done a little more than what i had done.
I was using a third party sms app (handcent) and so disabled the stock messaging app as i didnt need it. this caused my phone to receive messages i sent myself about a minute later! and was fixed after enabling the stock app and the a quick reboot. Try it!
If not, a full flash to your rom or stock rom will most definitely fix it. But thats the long way.
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jlevy73 said:
That is odd, normally you either get sms or don't. If you don't then it's normally a fault APN configuration. Have you tried fixing permission in recovery as well as wiping dalvik and cache? Might try those to see if it gets better
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Its not odd at all.
I was receiving one of every two texts sent by the same person.
Furthermore, when the text was preceded by a network prefix requesting a delivery report such as *0# for O2, i always received it.
iam_Ibz said:
i registered just to reply to your question as i know how frustrating it is!
I had the same problem. Hopefully it will solve yours unless u had done a little more than what i had done.
I was using a third party sms app (handcent) and so disabled the stock messaging app as i didnt need it. this caused my phone to receive messages i sent myself about a minute later! and was fixed after enabling the stock app and the a quick reboot. Try it!
If not, a full flash to your rom or stock rom will most definitely fix it. But thats the long way.
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Thanks for your reply, I have also had my stock messaging app enabled but obviously that does not solve my problem.
I might reflash my ROM and see how it goes.
temporary solution for you
Me too I have the same problem. I found a fix you have to install Ghostly SMS.
This issue was repported to Google. Can't post outside link.
Look like a problem when you have low memory. I use a custom rom Omega v42 which limit text message to 1000. I just lower it to 200 to see what happen.
What is your SMS limit?
Are you running low in memory?
Anyone experience this? My gf will text on her LGOG and when she receives text the wrong name pops up but under the #info it shows the right names #. You think having her contacts transfered over from her iPhone to her Android at at&t is causing a problem.
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I had this happen a couple of times after flashing new ROMs. It seemed to fix itself after a couple of reboots.
Sent from my LG Optimus G.
I had this happen when I had the same number saved under 2 different names. I'm not sure how it happened, if this is the problem just delete the wrong one and it should fix itself.
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My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
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My wife is seeing the same problem on her phone. She will send a text to somebody but the reply will say it is somebody else. Rebooting the phone then assigns the message to the correct person. We have already checked the contacts to see if there was any duplicate info, but that is not the issue. Might just run a custom rom and hope that fixes the problem.
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can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
ryancnap said:
can't be of much help but I can say it's happened to me on custom roms. really curious about this. clean reflash seemed to fix it.
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I thought about going that route, but ended up just flashing Vanilla RootBox on it instead. Haven't had the problem on that rom. Now just the occasional reboot.
I had this problem this morning received text from my wife under my coworkers contact info as though it came from him. When I replied back under his contact info she received the reply. Very frustrating. He hasn't replied to any of my text this morning. May not be receiving them.
I used to use a HTC One Max. About one month ago, I started getting no sound when a text was sent to me, at least 90% of the time. I tried multiple things to fix it.
1. Tried 4 different SMS apps, with only one being installed at any one time. This is including the built in system one.
2. Checked all sound and notification settings, both in the SMS apps, and in the Android settings.
3. Did a complete factory wipe of the phone.
On Sunday, I got a brand new LG V10. The problem continues. . WTH!!?? My V10 was setup manually, no restore from a backup, and has not been hacked, rooted, etc. Is it possible the problem is with Verizon? I know there are a lot of knowledgeable people on this forum, so I thought I would ask here! Any and all help would be appreciated!! :good:
PS: When this happens, the phone will also not vibrate
Wow! I must be the only person in the world that has this problem!
My phone updated to Marshmallow last week, and this problem continues. Does anybody have any ideas? I find it difficult to believe nobody else has had this same problem here . I did a Google search and I find others with the same problem, but most of them were caused by a setting on their phones. Verizon, at least one of their reps in the store where I bought my phone, also did not have an answer. Anybody??
I think people are not sure what your issue is.
Essentially you are not getting notification sounds when a new text arrives?
Haxcid said:
I think people are not sure what your issue is.
Essentially you are not getting notification sounds when a new text arrives?
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I think thats his problem. But i have no idea how to fix....
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Have you checked the volume settings???
Thanks everybody! The problem is when I get a text message, most of time my phone makes no noise and will not vibrate. I have checked every setting possible. On my HTC, I was using Mood SMS and it worked great up until the last month I had it. On that phone, even after removing all SMS apps I installed from the Playstore and using the stock app. the problem continued. I will say that when I first went back to the stock messaging app, the problem initially went away, but returned the next day. On my V10, I have only had Mood and the stock app on it. I had Zedge installed, but removed it after downloading a few things from it. I read where other people had problems with apps like Zedge, but I have used it for a few years with no issues. Today I went back to the default SMS app on my V10, and so far it is working. If it stays working, great, but I will miss Mood. I really liked that app! I could factory reset my V10, but really do not feel like it!! Maybe other SMS apps do not do so well since you cannot remove or disable the stock one without rooting. I normally do not root my phones, but I guess since I pushed Marshmallow on it, I could not do it anyway.