My dad switched from the Sensation to the Radar and needs all of his texts imported into the Radar. He is on 7.5 I think and I have only seen methods for going from WM to Android. And also haven't seen much on WM 7.5. Any ideas?
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You will have to transfer the SMS from the android to the simcard.
There are some free android apps to upload your SMS to gmail under a SMS folder. That would give you access to them via mail app. That's another possibility.
Luckily he went back to the Sensation (hail Android) so I don't have to stress over the swap anymore. Thanks for all the input though
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If you people are not willing to discard comfort of android and change the philosophy ... avoid the WP
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Ok so I install the latest Sprint rom on my Mogul. It works perfectly. I dont use HTC today plugs so I have no memory leaks. After 11 hours I still have 20mb of memory left. The phone runs stable. No freezes. I use Spb mods for all my other needs and sirius radio, tcmp, flash bundle, opera mini for all my apps and needs. I run Slingbox and Orb to connect to my home PC media. I have zero problems with the phone so far.
The reason for my post is I was wondering what the benifit to using 6.1 would be. I dont have memory problems. All of the menues work the way I need them ect.. As far as I can tell 6.1 boasts better memory management? I realy cant find any claims to fame on the MS sites for it.
Any info is a big help ty much!
If you use SMS a lot, the new threaded SMS client is MUCH better in 6.1
Question about the threaded SMS. If I backup my sms and load it back in after loading DCD's rom, will it still be there with the new SMS program? Basically, I want to keep my SMSs just like I keep my emails. Does the SMS program use the same database to store them? Will I be able to view the old ones in threaded style? Also, does it distiguish between conversations or does it just thread all the sms between you and said individual?
Also, here's one thing I found talking about 6.1 advantages.
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Hands-on-with-Windows-Mobile-6.1-Professional-article-a_2477.html
The only negative I've found is that WM 6.1's PIE seems to take quite a bit longer to "render" webpages.
Poke_N_PDA said:
Also, here's one thing I found talking about 6.1 advantages.
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Hands-on-with-Windows-Mobile-6.1-Professional-article-a_2477.html
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After reading those ppl's comments, I clearly realize that most people are oblivious of the capabilities of WM phones. Also, the 2nd guy says he wishes he could get WM 6.1 on his XV6800. I want to tell him that he can, but that would make me more of a dork.
hahah!! i thought the same thing about that guy and his 6800! hahahaha
Question about the threaded SMS. If I backup my sms and load it back in after loading DCD's rom, will it still be there with the new SMS program? Basically, I want to keep my SMSs just like I keep my emails. Does the SMS program use the same database to store them? Will I be able to view the old ones in threaded style? Also, does it distiguish between conversations or does it just thread all the sms between you and said individual?
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Yes, if you use PIM Backup to backup your SMS, when restored with WM6.1, it will restore it as threaded. It distinguishes the conversations. It will restore email like normal.
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Yes, if you use PIM Backup to backup your SMS, when restored with WM6.1, it will restore it as threaded. It distinguishes the conversations. It will restore email like normal.
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It does not distinguish the conversations in the way that Poke_N_PDA asked. Every interaction between me and my brother, for example, gets put into the same thread. We might not send messages for a week, but then once we do, it creates the messages in the same thread as our previous messages. You end up having a single thread for each contact you correspond with by text message.
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It does not distinguish the conversations in the way that Poke_N_PDA asked. Every interaction between me and my brother, for example, gets put into the same thread. We might not send messages for a week, but then once we do, it creates the messages in the same thread as our previous messages. You end up having a single thread for each contact you correspond with by text message.
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I don't think I have a problem with that. It would be nice to be able to divide it yourself and start new conversations, but I can live without it.
Also, can you still view and look through messages individually like you could in 6.0? It would be really nice if they just set it up as a view option to where you could select different styles.
Hello,
Thought where I can land this thread, in Q&A or here, but since it concernes original android development I though I'll land it here.
Bare in mind that I don't know anything about dev, kernels, source codes or coding, just my thoughts in here.
I used HTC Desire for 2 years before I bought SGS2 two weeks ago.
One feature that isn't avaible in SGS2 and is in all HTC phones which I miss most is SMS vCard.
This is mostly used in business enviroment, but original android doesn't supports it, HTC made his own implementation.
You can say that you can get that feature by installing handcent or some other market app, but you CANNOT.
Why?
Not sure, but I guess it's a special implementation by Nokia (did they develop that?), maybe it's even patented, not sure.
If you try to send SMS vCard from any Nokia symbian or other phone to SGS2, you will NOT receive any message. Your message app will not see anything, message will not reach it.
I had same problem on my HTC Desire, but after contacting HTC they fixed it in Gingerbread release. They said it's because SMS vCard messages longer then 160 char are compressed (I had problems with long vCard, 2-3 numbers, email, organization...).
So my thoughs were, if someone from dev could look into HTC Desire HD or HTC Sensation source, would they be able to find parts of code connected to processing of vCards sms and port it into SGS2?
Which part is processing received sms's, kernel?
I know this wouldn't solve sms vCard sending (right now when you use Handcent to send vCard, Nokia cannot import it automaticaly, it probably misses some headers or something), but it would allow receiving of vCards from other business users.
Just a thought if you are thinking what to do next with your time and skills.
Best regards,
Mikeyy
whats a vcard? is it different to sending a namecard by text then?
Is that not a windows thing vcard .
I have old VCard folder on PC and if i click it i get multiple contacts opening .
Could be a leftover from old Nokia .
\is it just transfer contacts Nokia to SGS .
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
Version 2.1 is used widely. It's basicly automatic contact import in people/contact app. If you don't use vcard you need to enter name, organization, number, second number, fax, e-mail etc... manualy. This way you automaticly import contact.
It's an standard for contacts exchange, used in e-mails, mail clients, smartphones and almost everything that has contacts in it.
Android uses it in people/contacts app, you can import and export (backup) contacts as vcard. One vcard file can contain 1 or more contacts, it can store contact pictures also.
Most of old (dump) phones support it, Nokia especially since Nokia was 1st business user choice for a long time, and quite frankly, still is.
Android can exchange contacts as vcard but only over MMS, it attaches vcard file to MMS.
Cheaper way of sending is SMS, not sure who invented it, but I bet it's Nokia, I recall someone mentioning that Nokia has patent on SMS vcard. That can explain why Google STILL didn't implement it in Android.
Or they are just lazy and not interested in business user support.
Anyway, I use it often and I see other business users use it alot, but since I switched to SGS2, it's not supported.
Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me as I have searched quite a bit and not ever had my question answered.
I grabbed a Lumia 800 to test WP7.5 (& 7.8 when it is released) as I have an eye on the Lumia 920 and want to test the waters before committing. I understand that 7.8 is not going to be the same as 8 but I can only assume it is going to be better so if I like the 7.8 OS I should in theory like WP8.
I currently am using an iPhone 5 as my main phone but I also have a GS3 too that I use from time to time. My issue is that when I swap sims from the 5 to the Lumia 800 I cannot get group messaging to work and I think it is due to iMessage on the iPhone 5. Even though I turn off iMessage before swapping sim cards it will not allow me to do a group message. iPhone users who text me have it show up as an iMessage at first before it going as a normal text.
Group texting is one feature I extensively use on IOS and would not want to forgo it so I was hoping someone had gone through the same issues but had it work for them.
I have turned on group messaging in the settings on the Lumia but that makes no difference as all responses do not go to the thread but individually.
One last question as well, if I can get it to work are all recipients able to reply to all like the iPhone version of group messaging or will they only see the message from me?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
iMessage is one of the may ways which Apple uses to lock users in. It is not a normal or 'standard' group text function but a propriety system. So you can't communicate using iMessage with other devices but iPhone, in those case you will see normal SMS messages.
Group text will require MMS to be set up and available. Also you must enable the group text option in settings for the messaging hub. When enabled you will send one MMS to all recipients and responses and responses will remain in a single conversation. For the recipients to have a reply to all option they too will have to have MMS enabled.
I know understand the issue is not on the WP7 end it is down to the way that iMessage interprets text messages as almost like emails.
I have found a program that will allow you to use Group Messaging on Android, IOS & WP7 so will tell people I know to grab it to be able to do group messaging when required.
I'm a current iPhone user that is contemplating making the switch to Android. One of the things I most like about the iPhone is iMessage. Sure it's not cross platform. But for fellow iOS users, it's as simple as it gets. No need to launch any extra app. It's all baked into the standard messaging app, so it simply falls back to standard SMS if the user doesn't have iOS. And even more convenient is the ability to quickly send and receive iMessage on my Macbook. I'd say 90% of my friends and family use an iPhone so it's difficult to make the switch (Apple has me by the balls!).
But one thing that would make the switch easier is if I can at least keep the convenience of sending and receiving text messages from my Mac, and not through some hacky way of requiring a second line (Google Voice line). I want it to work with my existing number.
It seems as though this could be handled via Bluetooth, so that all messages are synced between Android and PC/Mac. Motorola offers a pretty cool feature called Motorola Connect (though this looks to be limited to Motorola phones, requires you use Chrome (ugh), and doesn't support MMS or group text messaging).
What are my options for having a convenient way to send and receive texts from a Mac or PC, and have it all synced up with my regular phone number? Thanks!
Looks like MightyText might be a good option, though I'm curious if people have other suggestions. Thanks.
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Looks like MightyText might be a good option, though I'm curious if people have other suggestions. Thanks.
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I haven't played around with anything recently and from googling quickly there definitely seems to be a few new options out there, but I used DeskSMS and was pretty happy with it. Found that in the end, I ended up only using it once in a while and didn't reinstall on a new phone.
https://desksms.appspot.com/
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Hey folks,
So here's the rundown.
My wife is deaf and communicates a whole lot via SMS. She cannot use voice telephony at all.
I am on Verizon, and they do have the Z2 available. I was looking at tablets that should support SMS.
Verizon does SMS via CDMA only so most of their tablets won't do SMS period. They tell me it is impossible, except I have a friend with an older Nexus 7 with CDMA and it works perfectly with straight SMS.
I have a tablet with LTE, and when I send a SMS message from it, it says it is coming from my phone, not the number assigned to the tablet....(this uses the built-in Verizon Messages app)
What I want to know is if I can add an SMS app, set it as the default, and then actually use it?
In the store, I installed 8SMS but Verizon appears to have removed the menu entries for setting default SMS app, and nor could I do it from within the application.
So, two things: Has anyone done this? Could someone give it a try?
Also, I am reading a whole lot about issues with the touch screen I had never heard of. Is this really wide-spread, or just a small sampling of this model? I really want a solid device for her to use. This will replace her phone and existing tablet if I can get the SMS to work. Do you recommend this device overall?
Yes, I know, I could install some crap app that emulates SMS but I really need to port her number and have the reliability of SMS. Frankly, I don't trust the companies providing SMS gateways on the internet...
I could possibly port her number to Google Voice, and just have her use that. Anyone know how reliable that would be?