[Q] sms messages - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Galaxy s ll/GT-i9100 --sms messages from pc to smartphone which way to go? what do you suggest?

What i can suggest is.....install sms backip and restore app and export some sms and it will export that sms in a xml format......try creating the messages in ur pc to that format and import it....
Is that msgs is getting moved from some other phone....then there is some utility which can export in xml format which is accepatble for the sms backup restote app......
Just throwing my 2 cents but u may have a better option.....
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If u r trying to send sms from pc to phone then u can try airdroid or desk sms from play store.

sms/mms
hey guys
i havent the sms/mms apk at my rom (Resurrection Remix ics v1.3 for i9100). i made a fullwipe incl /system. now the sms/mms app is already missing how can i manually install these app.

try installing classic themed apps.or u can install go sms or handcent sms.

Ill try but i havnt got much hope, im i bit slow with some of the app i can't seem to get ardroid to run it come up it gives a web address but what do i do with it? do i put it in the pc box or in the phone box, neither seem to work?

batzen21 said:
hey guys
i havent the sms/mms apk at my rom (Resurrection Remix ics v1.3 for i9100). i made a fullwipe incl /system. now the sms/mms app is already missing how can i manually install these app.
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u have no backup?

ron101 said:
Ill try but i havnt got much hope, im i bit slow with some of the app i can't seem to get ardroid to run it come up it gives a web address but what do i do with it? do i put it in the pc box or in the phone box, neither seem to work?
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insert that address in pc browser address bar and login in with password given in airdroid.

ive done that (http://192.168.0.5:8888) but its only a normal page (with every ones web page) and no where to put a password?

ron101 said:
ive done that (http://192.168.0.5:8888) but its only a normal page (with every ones web page) and no where to put a password?
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open airdroid and click start if the service has not started, then open browser in ur pc and type the address shown in airdroid app. the page will load and ask for u to login then enter 4 letter password shown in airdroid app and login. i hope that solves it otherwise use desksms app from play store and install addons in firefox or chrome browser in ur pc and login in both addons as well as desksms app in ur phone with ur google account.

the page will load
But it dosnt ill have to try desksms ............... that works thanks

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Google Contatcs on the NOOK now working

While most everything works from the rooting process equal to the phone I was not able to import all my google contacts only a handful will import into the Nook (NC). After many tries I found a work-a-round.
Save the contacts in google to (outlook type) CVS file and place it on the external sdcard. Download Navdress Book (the only one of many I tried) and import the contacts.
I still have a very small issue with my screen having everything bump up to the edges, while everything is there just no space around the sides. I am sure I will find some screen font/resolution way to make everything look better. Even if not this is so way cool to use over my Vibrant, as much as I enjoy the screen sharpness the NC is faster (hard to believe)...and larger screen....so I find I read and surf more on it then my phone now. Also being able to connect the NC to the phone I do not need to worry about wifi.
As I was going to get the SamsungTab, yet with their POOR support and software updates I was holding off until next year to see if otherS had a better tab, now I do not need to!
The phone is a phone, searching and maps tool, whereas the NC is a web-surf, email, reader, games, etc. Guess as I write this I would be open to 2/3rd the NC size (about 5" to 6 " thin) tab that had everything the NC and Vibrant has in one package. A "BEST of Both Worlds" kind of wish. Small and light enough to do it all...Hey it is a new year folks...
does this allow you to select contacts within google voice or a mail program? the reason i ask is it seems like a standalone contacts program.
i exported everything to a vcard file and used a program called 'import contacts' to get everyone on my phone (edit - scratch that: my nook). they don't all show up in my contacts app but they can be selected in google voice, k9, etc now. woohoo
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You might wanna look at a dell streak
jadambpharm said:
does this allow you to select contacts within google voice or a mail program? the reason i ask is it seems like a standalone contacts program.
i exported everything to a vcard file and used a program called 'import contacts' to get everyone on my phone. they don't all show up in my contacts app but they can be selected in google voice, k9, etc now. woohoo
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Sadly no just have them available to lookup. Not sure what you are referring to about the phone. I have no problem with the Vibrant and Google, just the NC does not bring in nor allow contacts to be selected in gmail, that I have found. Read and reply works just not contacts lookup...
However, I can goto the WEB interface and reach gmail/contatcs and send that way. Can not use the gmail app on the NC unless I type in the full email address, kind of a drag unless replying is all I was pointing out.
here.david said:
Sadly no just have them available to lookup. Not sure what you are referring to about the phone. I have no problem with the Vibrant and Google, just the NC does not bring in nor allow contacts to be selected in gmail, that I have found. Read and reply works just not contacts lookup...
However, I can goto the WEB interface and reach gmail/contatcs and send that way. Can not use the gmail app on the NC unless I type in the full email address, kind of a drag unless replying is all I was pointing out.
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that's what i meant. i meant nook, not phone this will make it to where you can actually select contacts.
Edit: just added this to the wiki: Making contacts work
So, what do you do once you have all your contacts on the Nook? Can't call them ... can't launch an email to them ... it's just a glorified address book at that point isn't it?
KryptoNyte39 said:
So, what do you do once you have all your contacts on the Nook? Can't call them ... can't launch an email to them ... it's just a glorified address book at that point isn't it?
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Using the method I posted, you can actually start typing their email address or name, etc and it will show up.
Glad I started this
jadambpharm said:
Using the method I posted, you can actually start typing their email address or name, etc and it will show up.
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WOW! other than 25% malformed the other 75% imported and now I have both an address book of ALL my contacts (malformed ones too) and a contatc lists for my emails....
THANKS! very easy and slick...
jadambpharm said:
i exported everything to a vcard file and used a program called 'import contacts' to get everyone on my phone (edit - scratch that: my nook). they don't all show up in my contacts app but they can be selected in google voice, k9, etc now. woohoo
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Sweet - worked like a charm.
... By the way, to get a vcard of your contacts, go to gmail on web, click on contacts on the left side, more actions, export, and choose vcard.
here.david said:
Sadly no just have them available to lookup. Not sure what you are referring to about the phone. I have no problem with the Vibrant and Google, just the NC does not bring in nor allow contacts to be selected in gmail, that I have found. Read and reply works just not contacts lookup...
However, I can goto the WEB interface and reach gmail/contatcs and send that way. Can not use the gmail app on the NC unless I type in the full email address, kind of a drag unless replying is all I was pointing out.
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After importing the contacts into Navdress, I found I was able to choose a contact, select the individual contact icon and the email address would automatically load into email program of my choice (K9 for me). Another option. Going the vcard route would not work for some reason.
Thanks here.david and jadambpharm for figuring this out. Have either one of you explored sending emails to groups? I have tried a number of group contact apps without any success. Thanks again.
Thanx for the post here.david
I also found this method on nookdevs and it worked really well,
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Making_contacts_work
jadambpharm said:
i exported everything to a vcard file and used a program called 'import contacts' to get everyone on my phone (edit - scratch that: my nook). they don't all show up in my contacts app but they can be selected in google voice, k9, etc now. woohoo
Sent from my NookColor using XDA App
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This worked great! Thanks!
Bemuse said:
This worked great! Thanks!
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glad its working well for you guys!
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Hello!
I used another method.
1. Register on soocial.com
2. Import contacts from google
3. install app from market (search soocial in market)
4. Run installed program, enter your registered e-mail and password and import contacts
5. Download and install phonebook 2.0
Everything works fine! It even imported my contacts fotos
Is this method usefull for you?
heartbeatek said:
Hello!
I used another method.
1. Register on soocial.com
2. Import contacts from google
3. install app from market (search soocial in market)
4. Run installed program, enter your registered e-mail and password and import contacts
5. Download and install phonebook 2.0
Everything works fine! It even imported my contacts fotos
Is this method usefull for you?
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Will using this method allow you to send an email to multiple addresses or to a group?
bdcrim said:
Will using this method allow you to send an email to multiple addresses or to a group?
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You mean try to insert "To" contact in Gmail App?
Ok, i`ll try it at home (I am at work now, I`m living in Ukraine).
heartbeatek said:
You mean try to insert "To" contact in Gmail App?
Ok, i`ll try it at home (I am at work now, I`m living in Ukraine).
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Yes that is correct. I mainly use my nook for email and have a number of different distribution groups that I send a mass email to. Thanks (sent from Texas).
heartbeatek said:
Hello!
I used another method.
1. Register on soocial.com
2. Import contacts from google
3. install app from market (search soocial in market)
4. Run installed program, enter your registered e-mail and password and import contacts
5. Download and install phonebook 2.0
Everything works fine! It even imported my contacts fotos
Is this method usefull for you?
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Cool! Does this stay in sync with your Google Contacts, or is it a manual process to sync them?
bdcrim said:
Yes that is correct. I mainly use my nook for email and have a number of different distribution groups that I send a mass email to. Thanks (sent from Texas).
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I have just tested with my nook and two mail apps, gmail and maildroid(i find it more convinient) and it works fine.
the testing procedure was following:
1. Call up phonebook app, find your contact, press on it and if contact has e-mail press email button and select your app to compose message.
2. Call up gmail app, begin typing contact name or email and drop down list appears matching to the keyword and select your contact.
3. Call up maildroid and do same steps at p.2.
All works fine
Note: p.2 and 3 are possible without any contacts manager app, it is available just after importing contacts from soocial account.
I have no groups of contacts thats why i cant test with groups, sorry...
khaytsus said:
Cool! Does this stay in sync with your Google Contacts, or is it a manual process to sync them?
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I dont know, i have not try this jet. Need to check soocial for this possibility.

Back Up To Gmail - Manual Restore?

I've been using happily using back up to gmail, however on a recent rom change the restore is proving a little frustrating, there's 4000 messages to restore and it keeps dying well before that.
I wondered if there was a way to manually do this, i obviously have the emails in my gmail account, can i drag and drop them anywhere on the phone to do a manual restore??
Thanks
Ben
Try "my backup" pro or root from market.
Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S using XDA Premium
ouch that sucks!
Managed to get it working using a wifi connection, think it was just a bit too much trying to do it over 3g.
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Contact manager?

Now that my Nook is rooted, I'm trying to find a contact manager that will sync with Google contacts. Not having the phone portion of the Android system makes it difficult to load contacts!
Any ideas?
I have also been looking for this without luck. Every contacts app that I have tried force closes. I even copied the CM7 stock app from my Nook Color to my Tablet, but got the same result. Seems something is missing from our Android build....but I don't know what....
I'm using Go Contacts. It's free on the Market.
That did it! Thanks.
dkb218 said:
I'm using Go Contacts. It's free on the Market.
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I'm having a hard time getting Go Contacts to sync with my gmail contacts for some reason.
I all I have to do is download/install, and then make sure it shows my gmail account in the app??
Update
And I need to learn to try every possible thing before I ask for help...I'm not actually retarded, I promise.
For those who are having problems with getting your contacts to sync:
1)Download and install Go Contacts
2)Open Go Contacts
3)Press Menu Key
4)Press Setting Icon
5)Press Backup and Recovery
6)Press Account Sync
7)Select whichever account's contacts you want to sync
8)Check the box to begin syncing Contacts
Anyone had problems creating or editing contacts? I found that for me, this and other functions weren't working until I installed the stock email app using Indirect's method. (Thread is in this same section.)
Now Go Contacts properly allows me to add/edit contacts (I guess it needs to use an outside contact editor for this, and B&N's stock doesn't work.) Now contacts-to-email functions properly.
A nice bonus is that street addresses will open in Google Maps (or Google Earth if you have either installed) and phone numbers will open a chat in textPlus.
I think the stock email app also fixed some issues with other contact managers that were crashing or giving 'no application for that' errors before. I was curious and reinstalled a few that had failed before, and some worked. But overall, none seem as seamless as Go Contacts, so I wouldn't recommend anything else.
I have the stock email installed as well as go contacts...they sync fine but I still can not edit or add contacts...both installed to system/app and both have permissions set to:
Read write
Read
Read
Can not get go contact to edit/add
I shut down and restarted....no luck...anyone have any ideas? Maybe remove the stock social.apk?
taldridge27 said:
I have the stock email installed as well as go contacts...they sync fine but I still can not edit or add contacts...both installed to system/app and both have permissions set to:
Read write
Read
Read
Can not get go contact to edit/add
I shut down and restarted....no luck...anyone have any ideas? Maybe remove the stock social.apk?
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When you say you can't get go contact to edit/add, what happens when you tap the edit icon on the top right of the screen? Can you actually edit the details? Do the changes not save?
Go Contacts works perfectly for me.
Nothing happens when I press the + button. When I long press on a contact it takes me to a menu so I can choose edit...but nothing pulls up. Thanks for responding
Anybody know where I can get the apk for Go Contacts? I see it's not in the Amazon App Store and I don't want to send it to my phone to get the apk. Thanks.
Mycopsycho said:
Anybody know where I can get the apk for Go Contacts? I see it's not in the Amazon App Store and I don't want to send it to my phone to get the apk. Thanks.
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Android Market.
taldridge27 said:
Nothing happens when I press the + button. When I long press on a contact it takes me to a menu so I can choose edit...but nothing pulls up. Thanks for responding
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Do you have a google account set up?
When I hit the + it says "Create contact under account" and lists the gmail account I set up for the stock email account. When I choose it, I can create new contacts.
Edit brings up the same contact editor under the same account.

[Q] Tethering, setting homepage, phone contacts back up

Hi guys. My phone is Samsung Galaxy Ace, firmware Android 2.3.6, rooted
3 questions:
1. I've been able to surf the web using my laptop thru my phone's tethering capability. Will my carrier know about it and charge me for it?
2. When I tap the 'Internet' app, the default homepage is www.google.com.xx (xx represents my country). How do I make it www.google.com ?
3. I always use Kies to back up my phone's contacts. It saves all contacts in a .spb file (samsung phonebook?). Is there a way to send all contacts to my gmail account so I won't have to use Kies?
Thanks so much!
Hi, answer first two questions I dont know, but contats may be - you must synchronise your contacts with google account - in contacts - press menu, account, enable synchronisation
I am using export to SD.
MarlonKaye said:
1. I've been able to surf the web using my laptop thru my phone's tethering capability. Will my carrier know about it and charge me for it?
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I assume if you exceed your data cap, which is easier to do on a laptop, then yes. For browsing, perhaps they can detect desktop useragent strings if they examine their connection logs, but this would depend on your carrier. Opera on the desktop can tweak useragent strings if I remember correctly, to mask desktop browser usage.
MarlonKaye said:
2. When I tap the 'Internet' app, the default homepage is www.google.com.xx (xx represents my country). How do I make it www.google.com ?
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Settings > Set home page should do it but not sure if google do some redirection magic, at which you may need to delete your cookies.
MarlonKaye said:
3. I always use Kies to back up my phone's contacts. It saves all contacts in a .spb file (samsung phonebook?). Is there a way to send all contacts to my gmail account so I won't have to use Kies?
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What is wrong with google contacts sync? I never have to backup contacts as that just works with my google account. I do have to backup SMS messages, and the excellent SMS backup and restore by Ritesh Sahu archives them to XML and emails me that daily, very handy!
iandol, nothing wrong with google contacts sync.
I don't need the email addresses of my friends in my gmail account to be copied to my phone. What I'm asking for is this: All contacts on my phone will be uploaded to my gmail account, so that if I ever reset my phone, all I need to do is access my gmail account through my phone, and download the contacts. As opposed to plugging my phone to my laptop, opening Kies, and 'import' the contact file (.spb), and 'save to device (my phone)'.
Hope I'm clear.
Thanks!
Yes. When I switch ROMs I never have to back up my contacts (many with *only* phone numbers), I just associate my phone with my google account and it automagically syncs all my contacts after a few minutes of first booting that fresh ROM. What it doesn't back up is my call log, my sms messages and apn settings, which is why I use other programs for that. *And* although Market tries to reinstall the apps I installed I much prefer to backup apps+data using Titanium Backup, this means I get my phone back exactly as I want it with minimum fuss!
iandol said:
Yes. When I switch ROMs I never have to back up my contacts (many with *only* phone numbers), I just associate my phone with my google account and it automagically syncs all my contacts after a few minutes of first booting that fresh ROM. What it doesn't back up is my call log, my sms messages and apn settings, which is why I use other programs for that. *And* although Market tries to reinstall the apps I installed I much prefer to backup apps+data using Titanium Backup, this means I get my phone back exactly as I want it with minimum fuss!
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But when I open my gmail (using a laptop), I don't see my phone's contacts (my friends' cell numbers) anywhere in my gmail. Where is it located?
MarlonKaye said:
1. I've been able to surf the web using my laptop thru my phone's tethering capability. Will my carrier know about it and charge me for it?
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If you don't have data plan at you carrier you will be charged for used MB. And your carrier shouldn't be worried how you spent your MB.
MarlonKaye said:
But when I open my gmail (using a laptop), I don't see my phone's contacts (my friends' cell numbers) anywhere in my gmail. Where is it located?
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If your sync is on and contacts are sync with gmail it will be located under Gmail sign > click mail and switch to contacts.
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iandol said:
Yes. When I switch ROMs I never have to back up my contacts (many with *only* phone numbers), I just associate my phone with my google account and it automagically syncs all my contacts after a few minutes of first booting that fresh ROM. What it doesn't back up is my call log, my sms messages and apn settings, which is why I use other programs for that. *And* although Market tries to reinstall the apps I installed I much prefer to backup apps+data using Titanium Backup, this means I get my phone back exactly as I want it with minimum fuss!
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Try SMS Backup+. It will back-up your SMS, MMS, Call Log in separate label in Gmail.

Samsung Default Email App Download Problem

Hello I'm using a pop3 email for my work
My problem is that the default email app of samsung is not downloading the emails to the phone
For example I check my emails and recieve 3 of them lets say(they are still on the server)
Whenever some colleague check the emails from my office the email dissappear because they are download from the email server
Is there any way to make the samsung app to download a copy of the emails to the phone(like iphone)
I tried other apps like k9 mail app and they work just the same as I want...
But I didnt like the gui of it colors etc
Help appriciated
Mad_Wolf said:
Hello I'm using a pop3 email for my work
My problem is that the default email app of samsung is not downloading the emails to the phone
For example I check my emails and recieve 3 of them lets say(they are still on the server)
Whenever some colleague check the emails from my office the email dissappear because they are download from the email server
Is there any way to make the samsung app to download a copy of the emails to the phone(like iphone)
I tried other apps like k9 mail app and they work just the same as I want...
But I didnt like the gui of it colors etc
Help appriciated
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Use this app, it's only an addon so u can't open it directly but all your email attachment can now be downloaded
It's called "download all files" and is free on market
thanks m8 for you help
But I need to download the whole email so I can check or reply to it whenever I want
I dont want to download only the attachment

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