My carrier charges 50 cents per inbound/outbound text message when roaming outside of North America. I would like to have my phone turned on to receive emergency calls - but don't want to rack up a huge bill receiving non-urgent text messages.
Is there a setting or app that allows one to turn off inbound text messages on the LG Optimus One? (I'm using the Cyanogen Mod 7.1.0.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dave
snsd said:
My carrier charges 50 cents per inbound/outbound text message when roaming outside of North America. I would like to have my phone turned on to receive emergency calls - but don't want to rack up a huge bill receiving non-urgent text messages.
Is there a setting or app that allows one to turn off inbound text messages on the LG Optimus One? (I'm using the Cyanogen Mod 7.1.0.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Dave
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you cant.. your carrier can help you out.. better complain to them if they can do that for you.
or if you just don't want to notice any SMS then turn off sms notifications!!
Unfortunately, my carrier cannot turn off text messaging. That's why I asked here...
Thanks for your help anyways.
Dave
Remove libwms.so and you won't be able to receive or send SMS.
Thanks for the response. A couple of questions:
1) How do I locate and remove the file.
2) When I want to restore my text messaging service, how do I do so?
Thanks in advance for your response. I'm hoping that you've provided the solution I need!
Dave
Use Root Explorer and navigate to /system/lib
Click Mount R/W
Rename libwms.so to libwms.so.bak
Reboot
Or use adb:
>adb connect
>adb remount
>adb shell mv /system/lib/libwms.so /system/lib/libwms.so.bak
>adb reboot
I have never tried this myself so I can't guarantee that this works so prepare to flash CM7 again.
Remove the messaging app using titanium backup (or any other similar app) and use third party app like go sms, handcent or pansi. You can install and remove third party apps whenever you want. No need to reflash the ROM. Ofcourse you will not have stock messaging app. I always remove stock messaging app and use third party app
One more way is to use sms blocking app from market. I think you will still be charged for incoming sms and only that you wont receive notifications
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I have a black list of contacts. I want block incoming and outgoing sms for this contacts. How block incoming sms I know, but how about outgoing sms?
Please, help me with this task.
Thanks a lot!
I don't see the problem with outgoing sms ??? Just don't text these people.
As for incoming sms have you tried applications like Call & SMS Filter or Call Blocker X?
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I don't see the problem with outgoing sms ??? Just don't text these people.
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It's not so easy
I want to block some contacts, so that my children never have written to them
I can think of 2 options quickly:
1. Don't let the kids use the phone
2. Buy them their own phone
I suppose an application could be created to do what you want. Or maybe something like adding a password to certain entires in you Contacts.
I'm actually finishing-up an app that functions as a SMS spam blocker; maybe my next app will be adding a password function to Contacts.
Just checked android default sms app and sms content provider source code, it looks like it's not possible to intercept and cancel outgoing message. It's a pity that we're not able to add this functionality to our future parental control app.
I'm not overly impressed with whomever coded the SMS and Contacts databases and have given considerable thought to writing my own. I found this out when writing my SpamText blocker which I kind of put on the back-burner due to fear of deleting ALL text messages from someone's phone. That whole "thread_id" is scary, at least to me.
I like the "conversations" feature of SMS, but it really should be broken-down by day or make any text in the conversation deleteable. I might get 10 texts from one person in a day, but just might want to save 4 of them because they have some valuable information.
Then there is a security issue with coding this type of application; Android gives the developer a lot of rope regarding messaging.
If your children are the one whos playing with your phone, why don't you use one of those pw locking apps? You can choose to lock whichever app you want with it.
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If your children are the one whos playing with your phone, why don't you use one of those pw locking apps? You can choose to lock whichever app you want with it.
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I think the use case is just to allow children to sms and call to fixed numbers only.
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or make any text in the conversation deleteable.
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You can't delete individual texts? What?
Nope, at least on my Droid X default SMS client. All distinct phone numbers and SMS messages are grouped together in a "conversation" no matter if that person texts 10 times in one day or 100 times over 6 months.
I know you can set a message limit, but I'm not sure what it does if you set it to 5 and get the 6th message from the same #; maybe someone else knows...
I have been searching for blocking outgoing test messages also but for a different reason.
I live near the border and allthough my phone is set to only my home network every now and than it switches to roaming and pretty often I send text messages by accident while roaming. Sometimes it switches networks while I am typing the message or it looses connection and I am at the mercy of which network it will connect and send the text message.
So an app that would block outgoing text messages while roaming (or maybe even only sending on home network) would come in very handy.
Why don't you just delete the contacts? Easiest solution
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Why don't you just delete the contacts? Easiest solution
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You should read my post! Obviously I need all my contacts to call/text whenever I am not roaming!
I m also interested in blocking outgoing msg to specific number, my wife is Canada so she send me msgs from her canadian phone no. and I reply to serbian one, which is free - included in my monthly fee, but every now and than i reply to her canadian which costs me, and it wouldnt be big of a deal, but my courier dont have contract with hers so they charge for the sms, which she doesnt receive, so was trying to find a way to block outgoing msg to her canadian no. but need to be able to receive from it
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I m also interested in blocking outgoing msg to specific number, my wife is Canada so she send me msgs from her canadian phone no. and I reply to serbian one, which is free - included in my monthly fee, but every now and than i reply to her canadian which costs me, and it wouldnt be big of a deal, but my courier dont have contract with hers so they charge for the sms, which she doesnt receive, so was trying to find a way to block outgoing msg to her canadian no. but need to be able to receive from it
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As far as I know there is no way of intercepting outgoing messages. very strange that we can do almost anything on a smartphone but have very limited control over basic operations like sending text message options.
Same goes for LED notification, should be standard on all phones. (2 of my biggest annoyances espcially as it concerns very basic phone operations)
Android system does not provide a way to block outgoing SMS.
The similar question was discussed on Android Developers hung out on
26-Apr-2012, and Android Developers stated clearly that it is not
possible.
One suggestion was to put the phone into Airplane mode at the time of
sent SMS intent, but again its unlikely to put the phone into
airplane mode pro-grammatically.
The similar issue has been already discussed on android-platform Group
as well.
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want to block foreign sms's
I also have the above problem of my wife sending texts to foreign countries and getting charged. Usually she sends via fishtext which is affordable but every now and then if she is in a hurry or forgets to use the fishtext widget she sends via normal sms mode which costs a ton.
I cant believe there is no simple app to stop the user sending sms's.
Everyone has a 'cute' solution (like delete the contacts lol!) but they don't realise the difficulty of trying to manage another persons phone but one that you still have to pay the bills for e.g. kids or spouse.
Surely there must be an app out there that does this although I can currently find it!!!
Anyone??
There some app in android send sms without permission
It is always not easy when children are involved in any process They are so quick that sometimes it is difficult to notice that they have taken your phone and started pressing buttons. When you realize it, it is already late and the messages have been sent.
Why not get an app locker and lock the messaging app.
On a per contact basis, many apps have block features built in but not to block sms completely.
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I don't see the problem with outgoing sms ??? Just don't text these people.
As for incoming sms have you tried applications like Call & SMS Filter or Call Blocker X?
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Some apps send messages without your consent.
And even some ROMs.
For example son phones (Xiaomi) with MIUI try to send an SMS to China to activate your SIM but they don't do it well, it doesn't work you spend money every time you reboot your phone.
Does anyone know how to remove the 1000-messages limit from motorola RAZR? It seems that we can't have more than 1000 messages in a single thread.
Thanks,
Ronan
I would also like to know this
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The only thing I found is go to a different text program. I'm using handscent and don't have this arbitrary limit
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keeb119 said:
The only thing I found is go to a different text program. I'm using handscent and don't have this arbitrary limit
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Could you please inform how many text messages are currently in your largest conversation?
I only use Handcent for my text messaging, but my Razr Maxx still keeps deleting the texts and calling each conversation at 1,000.
I'm going to post another thread, and I hope I can spark enough interest to get rid of this annoying limit. I actually need all my text messages on hand. I sell phones, and I can't stress how important my text messages are to the business.
EDIT : How can I get better exposure with this request? I would very much like to have this fixed. I'm willing to pay to have a solution. I use Handcent, and I need more than 1,000 texts per conversation. I didn't want to repeat this post.
A fix for this would be nice!
Do you think we should create a thread in another subject heading? I believe this is a reoccurring theme with a lot of the newer devices. I have seen that this is on the Droid 4, and it is not only on the Droid Razr Maxx.
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i am also using handcent
4117
3959
432
115
145
that's the number of messages in handcent in my biggest threads
check the options, you probably have to dissable the auto delete msgs
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Does anyone know how to remove the 1000-messages limit from motorola RAZR? It seems that we can't have more than 1000 messages in a single thread.
Thanks,
Ronan
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I don't know if you can do this, but Google Voice. Complete archives of text messages, and searchable as well. The only problem is you would have to change your number.
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check the options, you probably have to dissable the auto delete msgs
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I also have only 1000 messages per conversation.
Could you please point me to these setting in Handcent?
I found only "Delete old messages" in Application Settings - and it`s switched off for me.
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i am also using handcent
4117
3959
432
115
145
that's the number of messages in handcent in my biggest threads
check the options, you probably have to dissable the auto delete msgs
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EDIT: I'm in the same boat as the previous poster.
That's crazy! What device are you currently using? What ROM?
I'm currently using an ICS leak Droid RAZR Maxx and all natural, except for the root. ICS is definitely not the culprit, as it was doing the same thing in GB. I'm also using Handcent with the delete old messages unchecked. I took a screenshot.
https://www.box.com/shared/ddac41ad459b3ca993af
Hi guys!
1000 text message limit is a Razr Blur feature
"For anyone else who wants to get rid of the 1000 messages cap:
(DOING THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY OR POSSIBLY BRICK YOUR PHONE)
1. Root Phone
2. Download/Install a Different SMS(texting) app from the Google Store
I chose to use the 'Handcent SMS' app
3. Download a Root Uninstaller
I used 'Root Uninstaller Free'
4. Uninstall the stock SMS app, it's called 'Messaging.apk' I my system/app. (info added)
5. Profit!!! Just remember to check the setting in your new SMS app for any limit. In Handcent you can turn off any limit or have it save upto 5000 texts and then start deleting old ones."
The above tip was posted here.
I would recomment rename the default Messaging.apk instead deleting it.
Do at your own risk.
Cheers
pedrotorresfilho said:
Hi guys!
1000 text message limit is a Razr Blur feature
"For anyone else who wants to get rid of the 1000 messages cap:
(DOING THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY OR POSSIBLY BRICK YOUR PHONE)
1. Root Phone
2. Download/Install a Different SMS(texting) app from the Google Store
I chose to use the 'Handcent SMS' app
3. Download a Root Uninstaller
I used 'Root Uninstaller Free'
4. Uninstall the stock SMS app, it's called 'Messaging.apk' I my system/app. (info added)
5. Profit!!! Just remember to check the setting in your new SMS app for any limit. In Handcent you can turn off any limit or have it save upto 5000 texts and then start deleting old ones."
The above tip was posted here.
I would recomment rename the default Messaging.apk instead deleting it.
Do at your own risk.
Cheers
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I have read a few threads containing this idea, but I haven't had the intended results. I actually stopped receiving picture messages when I froze the default messaging app. If freezing doesn't work, then deleting would not have any better results, right?
yeah, i just disabled notifications from the stock app.
but i also did this on my sgs4g, and hd2.
i am using j.ydaddy's gsm patched gummy rom.
so ICS with GB kernel.
that's all i did before and never any problems
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I sell phones, and I can't stress how important my text messages are to the business.
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Why don't you use a SMS backup tool, which backup text messages to your Gmail account ?
I use SMS Backup + which let me backup SMS (text) MMS and Call log into my Gmail with corresponding labels.
I always have my text ect. with the searchable features Gmail provides
Basically I'm trying to get my Wife/teens to stop using carrier text messaging without having to explain to them how to use two different applications to send texts.
Doesn’t have to be Google voice, really any app that will act as the default messaging app and when texts come in over the Verizon number and they reply to the text the recipient gets the “free” text number to respond to will work – Gvoice just seemed like the easy choice.
I've done quite a bit of research and cannot seem to find a clear answer so I'm hoping someone here had come across this. What I'm looking to do is change the reply-to number that gets sent to text message recipients from the default messaging app, Go SMS or Handcent SMS. What I do NOT want to do is have two separate text messaging apps. I want all texts to come from one application.
The idea here is to avoid paying Verizon text messaging charges and eventually block carrier text messaging altogether by using Google voice to send/receive all SMS.
Ideally this is how it would work - When a friend sends me a txt using my Verizon number I get a notification. I click reply and then press send and one of two things happens:
1. Instead of sending the text over Verizon’s network the text automatically sends it through Google voice and my friend sees my Google voice number and replies to it, essentially encouraging them to use the new phone number but seamless from my perspective.
2. Another alternative is to send the text message over Verizon’s SMS network but have the reply-to number be my Google voice number so when they reply it will go through Google voice.
While #1 will more quickly reduce the number of text messages sent through the carrier network what's most important is I'm using the same app for all texting.
I don't mind purchasing an app that can do this either.
I using a rooted Galaxy Nexus if that helps.
no app can do what u want sorry
I've been unwillingly receiving some advertisement sms which charge my account once the sms is opened.
Is there a way to delete an sms message without opening it?.
TIA
Ur best bet is figuring out how to stop the msgs in first place i think
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Ur best bet is figuring out how to stop the msgs in first place i think
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yes, maybe some kind of code you can send to your operator/advertisement-sender which can stop the automatic messages, i know that kind of msgs sucks just find a way in google, i know different users experience that alot
You can download "SMS Popup" from the market. However you will need to manually configure it into "Privacy Mode" (or something similar). Once done, you will get a popup everytime you get a message, along with 3 options to "Open Message", "Delete" (without opening) or "Go to inbox".
I had the SMS POpup on my stock ROM but don't need it now on MIUI...
Thanks.
Are you sure it doesn't open the sms?
The android market page for this app reads:
NOTE: SMS Popup does mark message as "read"
so as far as the mobile carrier is concerned, the sms has been received & read, so it will still charge for those spam sms.
@mike,
pls refer to my previous post - the app opens the SMS by default - but once you go to settings and enable privacy mode, it won't read the msg. A message is not marked as 'Read' as long as it's in privacy mode and you don't specifically open it. (Even the LEDs will continue blinking till u don't open the message)
It's a free app, so u can download and check that out.
Thanks for the info
If your with vodafone phone the operator and they will ban the number from your sim
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SMS popup is nice, but does it show a history of all the sms, like the stock sms app on A2.1 does?
Also, to avoid duplicate notifications I've unchecked the "notifications" in the stock sms app, but it no longer shows incoming messages in the messages log. is this a bug, or is this related to sms popup "hijacking" the sms?
TIA
Hello!
I've installed CM11 on my girlfriends S4 Mini. So far everything's fine, but she's really angry because of a SMS problem. On the original firmware it was possible to send long messages as one "message bulb". Directly from the SMS app as well as over airdroid. Now with CM11 messages are splitted in 160 parts. No change with "SMS Messageing AOSP", "hangouts" or Airdroid. The "SMS Messaging AOSP" app is capable of showing long messages as one message, but viewed in airdroid (wich she uses frequently for having better overview, making backups etc..) they are still splitted up. I saw other messages she wrote on original firmware and they are very long. I think she was able to write up to 3 or 4 sms in one message, wich then of course cost accordingly. But it was possible and normal. I know that at some point SMS got transformed in MMS, wich is more expensive, but she's willing to pay more for the better overview in the history.
Is there any chance to achieve that with CM11?
Thanks
in sms app if u find it >> Click Menu > Settings > SMS Split .. and disable it
NOTE :
using cdma network will force the sms to be split according to talks here
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in sms app if u find it >> Click Menu > Settings > SMS Split .. and disable it
NOTE :
using cdma network will force the sms to be split according to talks here
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there are some settings, but not that one.
What I did
Hi, I had that problem with my I9190, so I rooted the phone, also install the Xposed apk (you must to activate the framework before continue) and finally I use the allow long mms apk for Xposed, then I restarted the phone and now I can send up to 12 mms in one message.
I hope it can help you.