Hi, after using my HTC Hero since it was launched I finally recieved an SGSII at work.
I really love the phone, and have been able to tweak most things to my likings, but the iPhone-wannabe-ish SMS thread viewer is definately not to my taste. No big issue, ofcourse, but I'm still posting about it in case some of you skilled Android-hackers/users have an easy solution. On my Hero I really loved the look of the SMS app in FroydVillain (Froyo) and Decked (GB). I'm honestly not sure, but I think they both ran stock unthemed SMS apps. Black baground, white text, clean interface without those silly bubbles. I've been trying to do a Google image search but haven't found out how the stock SMS app really looks in ICS so I don't know if the cartoonish iPhone-bubbles are from TW or AOSP.
I dont want some bloated and ugly SMS apps like Handscent or Go SMS that I've heard cause problems like duplicate sms-es.
Also, since the phone is my eployer's I want to avoid flashing/rooting it, so simply installing mms.apk from a different ROM is not possible afaik.
So, any suggestions? I guess I'm sort of hoping someone already compiled a binary/apk based on mms.apk that can easily be installed and used as the default messaging app.
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Hi, I am a somewhat new user here starting originally with xtrsense 4.6.5. I am now using v 5.0.1 but I believe all the xtrsense roms use the original sense message app from stock 2.1.
My issue is that the messenger doesn't seem to split the messages up before sending them. From what I have read this isn't a problem for verizon users but I am not on verizon. I have set up my apn, prl, and everything else manually to get the phone to work, but this is the one last bug that I haven't been able to solve.
I know that I could use go sms or handcent, but I kinda like just sticking with htc's messenger. Does anyone know which files I could edit to help change this. I just downloaded the android sdk today so that I could poke around from the computer instead of just on the phone itself with a file manager. Also out of curiosity, where is the mms max message size stored? I think the default 1.2Mb is working fine but I want to play with some of the mms settings to see if I can get a better quality receiving/sending. I think it's just that my user agent isn’t really understood on this carrier, so I should change it to an android phone that they do have.
I'm soon getting a vibrant and since I've already seen an internationl galaxy s, I've gotten to like the way it handles contacts (swype left and right for sms, calling) and the widgets for social integration.
I've seen that most custom roms get rid of touchwiz, and I don't like the launcher since it looks iphonish (ugly ) but I wonder if custom roms keep the other stock stuff like the dialer, contacts, widgets, etc.
Could anyone clarify this for me please?
Yup some of them do.
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I'm soon getting a vibrant and since I've already seen an internationl galaxy s, I've gotten to like the way it handles contacts (swype left and right for sms, calling) and the widgets for social integration.
I've seen that most custom roms get rid of touchwiz, and I don't like the launcher since it looks iphonish (ugly ) but I wonder if custom roms keep the other stock stuff like the dialer, contacts, widgets, etc.
Could anyone clarify this for me please?
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with some roms there is a app they include called bloater. Thats all the stock items removed but can be reinstalled.
parhelion69 said:
I'm soon getting a vibrant and since I've already seen an internationl galaxy s, I've gotten to like the way it handles contacts (swype left and right for sms, calling) and the widgets for social integration.
I've seen that most custom roms get rid of touchwiz, and I don't like the launcher since it looks iphonish (ugly ) but I wonder if custom roms keep the other stock stuff like the dialer, contacts, widgets, etc.
Could anyone clarify this for me please?
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I think 99%, if not 100% of the roms use the stock samsung dialer and contacts.
That's great to hear (ok, read )! Thanks guys.
Then you're not losing much going to custom roms, going to try em as soon as I can.
Is there any way to port the stock messaging apk to a non-rooted mt4g (2.2.1)? Ive been looking for this for awhile and cant find a solution. Im trying to add it along side the htc messaging app which is really slow and fc's a lot. So is there a dev that can try to make this successful for me please!
Btw: Ive already tried Handcent, chomp sms, and go sms and none have satisfied me.
Thanks
Is there a simple way of disabling sense completely for the Flyer?
I've changed to ADW EX but I know the processes are still running and taking up resources in the background.
I'd love to be able to disable sense and reinstall the stock contacts, calendar, etc.
From what I gather, even HC has it baked in :'(
From what I've read elsewhere for other devices this is a near-impossible task, however given that this is the first tablet I've known about I figured it may be worth asking.
Alternatively, is there a ROM without Sense available? The few I've checked out have included it for some bizarre ( ) reason.
Thanks!
Lol I have one out that I'm working on that doesn't have sense. If you didn't want to flash a ROM you could probably freeze all the sense apps using titanium backup (i think)
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I checked out the ROM, looks good and I like what you're trying to accomplish but is there nothing at the moment that's completely Sense free at all?
No, unless a Asop rom comes about
Is this something that is likely to appear? CM or similar?
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Hello all,
I searched around this forum and other places of how to fix the compression on SMS but haven't found a clear solution. I don't know that much about coding and cant really get into it to fixing it. I'm currently on the Super Nexus 4.2.1 build 2 Rom and love everything about it, except the Android SMS compression. On my last Rom I was able to sent out pictures that were 200-400KBs or higher in size and looked good, but on this one I barely get over 100KBs. I don't want to use any 3rd party apps like handcent sms, I just want to know how this can be fixed. ShoStock rom has a modded SMS.apk that works perfectly, but I don't know how to replicate that.
Thanks again and sorry about my noobnes