Hi Everyone,
Finally switched my my original HTC EVO to Samsung Galaxy S3 on sprint. Have been really disappointed so far and hoping you can help. I have always used SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel from the Play store when restoring text messaging back to the EVO, whether I broke or lost a unit. I restored the 13K in messages to my new S3 and I have had continuous problems with the messaging app. It either doesnt load at all, take 10-15 seconds to send each message, or provides a popup stating that sms need to be forced closed. I restored my wifes 12K in SMS to her new HTC EVO 4G LTE and it has worked flawlessly. Any ideas as to the cause?
Also, I could not sync my phone to any of my pc's at home as it would not load drivers. After spending 20 minutes with Samsung Advanced tech support their only advice was to do a factory reset, wth??? The factory reset, as suggested by other posts, fixed the syncing/USB driver issues. It also fixed the SMS issues but I am wondering if that is because I just have restored my old messages yet.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Well, there's no reason to have 12000 messages on a phone, but if you insist...
What about other messaging apps? Could be Samsung's just doesn't handle huge threads very well.
Felnarion said:
Well, there's no reason to have 12000 messages on a phone, but if you insist...
What about other messaging apps? Could be Samsung's just doesn't handle huge threads very well.
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Yea I guess I don't need them all, just bothersome that a 2.5 year old phone with a slower processor handles them without ease and that my wifes had no problem with the restore.
Do you think the factory reset might have fixed it all, should I try to restore my texts and see?
Honestly I use mybackup pro that one lets me back up texts up to 12k is my highest that I had just to see if it could do it. it backs up SMS, MMS or both. It does a good job for me. I've used it continually since I had a problem with SMS backup+. Try it out.
esfan_adam said:
Hi Everyone,
Finally switched my my original HTC EVO to Samsung Galaxy S3 on sprint. Have been really disappointed so far and hoping you can help. I have always used SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel from the Play store when restoring text messaging back to the EVO, whether I broke or lost a unit. I restored the 13K in messages to my new S3 and I have had continuous problems with the messaging app. It either doesnt load at all, take 10-15 seconds to send each message, or provides a popup stating that sms need to be forced closed. I restored my wifes 12K in SMS to her new HTC EVO 4G LTE and it has worked flawlessly. Any ideas as to the cause?
Also, I could not sync my phone to any of my pc's at home as it would not load drivers. After spending 20 minutes with Samsung Advanced tech support their only advice was to do a factory reset, wth??? The factory reset, as suggested by other posts, fixed the syncing/USB driver issues. It also fixed the SMS issues but I am wondering if that is because I just have restored my old messages yet.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Here's a great ideal. Just port your number to Google voice and from here on out you'll have no worries
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qhinton said:
Here's a great ideal. Just port your number to Google voice and from here on out you'll have no worries
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esfan_adam said:
Yea I guess I don't need them all, just bothersome that a 2.5 year old phone with a slower processor handles them without ease and that my wifes had no problem with the restore.
Do you think the factory reset might have fixed it all, should I try to restore my texts and see?
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I bet it has something to do with differences within the HTC and Samsung messaging apps.
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Samsung and HTC are very different when it comes to software so it could be that your EVO messages simply aren't compatible with samsung but why would you even want them on your phone?? just put them on your PC and if you ever need the texts you'll have them there. I think this belongs in the questions forum so watch out cuz your in big trouble!
This belongs in Q&A not A&D close this thread and move
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locomariachi said:
Honestly I use mybackup pro that one lets me back up texts up to 12k is my highest that I had just to see if it could do it. it backs up SMS, MMS or both. It does a good job for me. I've used it continually since I had a problem with SMS backup+. Try it out.
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Thanks, did your galaxy s3 handle the 12k in messages without freezing. My could not but GO SMS Pro handles them fine. My wifes EVO 4G LTE factory messaging app handles them fine also...
wramos93 said:
Samsung and HTC are very different when it comes to software so it could be that your EVO messages simply aren't compatible with samsung but why would you even want them on your phone?? just put them on your PC and if you ever need the texts you'll have them there. I think this belongs in the questions forum so watch out cuz your in big trouble!
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Haha, scary stuff. Thanks for the suggestion!
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At first i thought it was just swype, since that always acts up. Ever since I've had the phone anytime a picture is present in an sms thread, it makes the app go bonkers. It either freezes up, the keyboard flashes at epilepsy inducing speeds or the "soft" menu buttons that pop up flash as well.
I could normally make the problem go away by deleting the picture/media out of the thread manually by selection. Now it does it sometimes without any media being present. Basically if a picture is present, it either refuses to let me type or does so at turtle speeds.
I emailed HTC days after receiving the phone, but the help ticket went down the road of them trying to help me with my frustration of not being able to download .mpo files through the native gmail app, only preview.
I also took it to the sprint store where of course the phone magically started functioning properly when I tried recreating the problem for the tech (yay?), it only took a few tries to recreate the glitch, where she just did a wipe of the phone (don't remember if she did it through the recovery mode or "regular" wipe). But I shouldn't have to wipe my phone every time the stock messaging app starts acting up.
Ill try to get video of it happening tomorrow, it's 3:30am right now... Kinda late to be borrowing anyones phone for such things
Tl:dr stock messaging app acts wonky when media is present in thread
Is anyone else having this issue?
I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
I Haz 3D!
I use the stock SMS app. I like having the integration the stock SMS app has with the home screen and address book. Anyway I haven't had any of those issues the OP is having with the stock sms app. If it happens again try clearing the data for the sms app, that won't clear out your text messages.
Just tried it, data was only about 864kb anyway, problem persists. I dont have a ton of threads/messages in there clogging it up.
And I know about chomp and handcent, ive used them both. I honestly do like a lot of stock apps though, it's not from ignorance... I had a cm7 evo 4g.
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I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
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i use stock and it works fine
knowledge561 said:
I think no one here uses stock sms app anymore. Gosms and Handcent are great replacements. Plus on gosms you can text from anyscreen, if your in the browser, your sms will pop up and you can reply from their without switching apps. Its very useful, give it a try.
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I use stock without issue as well. I prefer it now over those apps. For popups I just use SMS Pop-up from the market. Problem solved.
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Are we not phones?!
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i too use the stock app. No issues at all here.
Im wondering if I should temp root and backup all my crap. Dont feel like individually downloading all these apps again if I take it to the store and all they do is wipe it again... If it comes to that and the issue persists, hopefully they swap it out.
My just puts all kinds of weird times on the messages like it'll be 1pm but the time stamp will be 6
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Never used stock messaging...It sucks
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dabackwoodboy said:
My just puts all kinds of weird times on the messages like it'll be 1pm but the time stamp will be 6
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Same here. And I'm not roaming. And also if I reply within the same minute the text came in my text goes above theirs in the thread, so it looks like I'm replying before they even send the text which obviously isn't the case... But regardless, I do love the stock app.
I recommended the EVO 3d to a colleague at work and he is now having issues opening text messages from his other half he has over 6123 on the device from here and when you try to open the thread it just says "loading" constantly
is this due to him having to many messsages from her?
HELP PLEASE HE WAS AN iSpac CONVERT AND NOW HE IS THREATING OVER GOING BACK!!
teshiburu2010 said:
I recommended the EVO 3d to a colleague at work and he is now having issues opening text messages from his other half he has over 6123 on the device from here and when you try to open the thread it just says "loading" constantly
is this due to him having to many messsages from her?
HELP PLEASE HE WAS AN iSpac CONVERT AND NOW HE IS THREATING OVER GOING BACK!!
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over 6000 messages with one person? Yeah, I'd bet that was the problem...
Try having him download another SMS app such as handcent or gosms and see if they can open the thread.
Thanks Freeza!! resolved the issue (is it only the HTC messaging app that struggles like this?) i personally used GOsms on my DHD before moving over to my EVO3D
teshiburu2010 said:
Thanks Freeza!! resolved the issue (is it only the HTC messaging app that struggles like this?) i personally used GOsms on my DHD before moving over to my EVO3D
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After a certain amount of texts the stock messaging app for every ROM loads forever or crashes when trying to open. I use Handcent and it always works. 10000+ texts.
私のEVO 3Dから送信される。
I'm the exact opposite. I have over 5000 messages with one person and stock messaging app is fine for me. It's my 3rd party messaging app thats breaking. Good luck though!
Why not just delete some texts?
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Why not just delete some texts?
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I had the same issue, kind of. I couldn't send a specific person any texts. The word "Loading" would pop up and nothing else would happen. I had to delete the contact and create it all over again.
For good sake, delete some messages. I mean, what, are they legal briefs? I used to always beck up Mt messages before flashing a new ROM. I finally realized, who the hell needs to keep texts (unless they're legal based). I don't bother anymore. But I realize that's nit the best solution for someone new to Android who things o'er may be better
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For good sake, delete some messages. I mean, what, are they legal briefs? I used to always beck up Mt messages before flashing a new ROM. I finally realized, who the hell needs to keep texts (unless they're legal based). I don't bother anymore. But I realize that's nit the best solution for someone new to Android who things o'er may be better
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I just like having them haha
SMS Backup & Restore app followed by Message Cleanup app.
Copy your restore file to your computer and relive those great moments on a large screen.
Hi,
Please tell me how to get rid of the god-awful slow texting app that comes with this phone, and replace it with the stock android texting app.
Thanks!
Are you referring to the AT&T messages app? 'Cause the SMS app that comes stock works fine for me :/
Stock messages app works fine for me. If you have root you may be able to find differnt message apps, but my first suggestion is to give handcent a try as it is my go to sms app for when I'm having issues with cusom ROMs being buggy with mms. Its got a threaded look to it, much like iphone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLmhhbmRjZW50Lm5leHRzbXMiXQ..
It also has font packs and other stuff on the app store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=handcent_market
I far prefer GO SMS Pro, love the interface and features, but with all the third-party SMS apps I have an issue of double and triple texts being sent to people. I agree the Samsung SMS app is painfully slow. I hate using it, but it's my only choice because it doesn't send out duplicate texts. :/
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I far prefer GO SMS Pro, love the interface and features, but with all the third-party SMS apps I have an issue of double and triple texts being sent to people. I agree the Samsung SMS app is painfully slow. I hate using it, but it's my only choice because it doesn't send out duplicate texts. :/
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Thats very odd, I've never got complaint of this. Have you googled the issue to see if there is a known solution or work around? As common as these apps are you can't possibly be the only one misfortunate enough to experience this. I have had issues in the past getting numerous notifications despite turning native notifications off for SMS, but thats an entirely different issue.
How do i replace the Samsung message app with the vanilla android one? The Samsung one is slow and is a failed attempt at copying iphone. The keyboard even blocks the send button!
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How do i replace the Samsung message app with the vanilla android one? The Samsung one is slow and is a failed attempt at copying iphone. The keyboard even blocks the send button!
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Google is your friend to find an mms.apk. you need to be rooted. And have root explorer and a little knowledge
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what i did was use LauncherPro Plus and GoSMS.... i used handscent but prefer go... you can change the launcher icons and apps in the lower row with launcherpro.
hyelton said:
Google is your friend to find an mms.apk. you need to be rooted. And have root explorer and a little knowledge
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I am rooted and have root explorer. Can you share the little knowledge?
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Thats very odd, I've never got complaint of this. Have you googled the issue to see if there is a known solution or work around? As common as these apps are you can't possibly be the only one misfortunate enough to experience this. I have had issues in the past getting numerous notifications despite turning native notifications off for SMS, but thats an entirely different issue.
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Mostly I see people on ICS complaining about this issue, but there are several people on GB complaining about it as well, for both GO SMS and Handcent and a few others on Google Play.
I had the duplicate notification issue with Handcent - even though I had disabled notifications for the stock app AND frozen it. Didn't have that problem with GO SMS. Had an odd problem when I tried Chomp SMS, where all incoming messages were anonymous and upon trying to view them, the message couldn't be found. That even happened in the stock app, so long as I had Chomp installed. Uninstalling fixed that issue immediately.
But so far as I can tell, some people just have the problem, and most don't. I have yet to see a reply from any of the devs about the issue. I've tried completely resetting the phone to factory spec but I still got the duplicate message issue.
I really, REALLY want to use GO SMS. Although something else I noticed is that some people's messages were being sent to the wrong contacts... Perhaps I'll try the vanilla Android apk...
How do you try the vanilla android apk?
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This is the ics messenger app, you can try it without needing root.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mms.ics.ext
Thanks but I don't really want a third party version with ads. I don't get it...isn't there a plain messaging app that comes with android (like what was on the nexus one), or is it proprietary to every device? It seems like this shouldn't be such a difficult thing to install instead of the crappy samsung one. Am I missing something?
i'm surprised. the sms app is not bad i'm the note. I've seen worse. (though i am using the rogers version)
I'm coming from a rooted Inspire 4G (cyanogen) and I've noticed that the texting on the Samsung Messaging app is a bit sluggish. And some keys don't respond to my fast fingers.. Yet the app itself runs very fast (ie open app, open threads, go back, etc).
One thing I did was uninstall Swype through Titanium and I think I've noticed a difference in the keyboard speed. It may just be my imagination though
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I'm using go SMS, no issues..as long as I leave stock installed and not frozen..if I do..no mms messages
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Old trouble, no answer
As we all know, SMS will convert to MMS all the time when we have a long sms ( more than 3 sms )at most of stock HTC or samsung messager. Although that, some device have [Mod] to fix like samsung galaxy s. I have try at my old galaxy s and I can sent whatever long sms as I like without being force convert mms. How about evo 3d? This is old problem, but I still can not have solution for evo 3d
Is there anyone can help ?
lionhealth said:
Old trouble, no answer
As we all know, SMS will convert to MMS at most of stock HTC or samsung messager. Although that, some device have [Mod] to fix like samsung galaxy s. How about evo 3d?
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I don't think anybody really understands your question as it doesn't make any sense to me. IMHO
Oh, sorry. Because I see some of the question like it in other forum so I think every body know it mean. I will fix my first post to make it more clear. Thank
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Oh, sorry. Because I see some of the question like it in other forum so I think every body know it mean. I will fix my first post to make it more clear. Thank
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As far as I know no one has really asked this question before. I don't think there is a fix for the 3 page convert to MMS "problem." Is there a legitimate reason why you'd prefer 4+ pages of sms over 1 MMS message?
fix for stopping sms conversion to mms
G.Newton said:
As far as I know no one has really asked this question before. I don't think there is a fix for the 3 page convert to MMS "problem." Is there a legitimate reason why you'd prefer 4+ pages of sms over 1 MMS message?
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Yes all "stock sms apps" when creating sms & it exceeds 3pages it will convert it into mms (most peopleget charged for sending mms)
Darky Rom had a fix/tweak which allowed longer sms text without it being converted to mms..
I am after that tweak/fix !!!
PLEASE HELP
In my country, lot of people use stupid phone, and they can not receive MMS . I usually sent a long SMS because of my job. I am now use handcent SMS but I prefer the stock more .
lionhealth said:
Old trouble, no answer
As we all know, SMS will convert to MMS all the time when we have a long sms ( more than 3 sms )at most of stock HTC or samsung messager. Although that, some device have [Mod] to fix like samsung galaxy s. I have try at my old galaxy s and I can sent whatever long sms as I like without being force convert mms. How about evo 3d? This is old problem, but I still can not have solution for evo 3d
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you have fix for samsung galaxy s..
can you give me link for fix please
lionhealth said:
Old trouble, no answer
As we all know, SMS will convert to MMS all the time when we have a long sms ( more than 3 sms )at most of stock HTC or samsung messager. Although that, some device have [Mod] to fix like samsung galaxy s. I have try at my old galaxy s and I can sent whatever long sms as I like without being force convert mms. How about evo 3d? This is old problem, but I still can not have solution for evo 3d
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Just use BigSMS, Go SMS Pro or Handcent SMS. All of those are free. Stock messaging app on some phones doesn't have a feature that you need.
G.Newton said:
Is there a legitimate reason why you'd prefer 4+ pages of sms over 1 MMS message?
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Some mobile carriers offer free sms and costly mms. Legitimate enough?
STrider90 said:
Just use BigSMS, Go SMS Pro or Handcent SMS. All of those are free. Stock messaging app on some phones doesn't have a feature that you need.
Some mobile carriers offer free sms and costly mms. Legitimate enough?
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very simple fix change your mms the one i use under setting you put a check where it says split sms so when you type a long txt it convert it and it gets to the other person in 2 or 3 txt.
copy it to your sd-card use root explorer or which ever one you use or sdk move it to system/app then click on permissions make the correct settings reboot the phone once rebooted find it click on it then setting and you will see where it says split sms. i uploaded a copy if needed.
Am I missing something here?
I've actually never heard of it being converted over to MMS.
My phone will send an 8 page message as SMSs..
And I get them counted as 8 SMSs on the bill..
DjDom said:
Am I missing something here?
I've actually never heard of it being converted over to MMS.
My phone will send an 8 page message as SMSs..
And I get them counted as 8 SMSs on the bill..
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well let me try usually sms has a split of 160 character so when you go over the 160 it treats it as a mms character but it gets sent as a txt but in 2 parts or depending how long the txt is
It differs user to user (and service provider restrictions)..stock app for some will convert SMS into MMS after character limit is reached..
Only some users will have stock messaging app settings as unlimited characters..
(use Handcent messaging app or better still custom roms)
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Not sure if this helps but I had similar problem way back when I was running NonSense ROM the fix is you have to flash HTCMessageProvider.apk.
PM me if you need the file ...also I am under the assumption of you using a custom ROM.
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Hey all,
I'm having a problem with messaging apps not pulling contact photos and occasionally names tied to phone numbers for threads. I originally had this problem with GOSMS, then after toying with it for a while without any luck, I switched back to Handcent and have the same issue.
All contact photos and names pull to the stock messaging app. Handcent and GO both will pull photos that have been manually set, but not those from Twitter/Facebook/ect. Message threads will also occasionally appear as only the phone number until the phone is restarted. The phone is not rooted and occurs both in Sense and GoLauncher.
Kind of a strange issue. I had my fingers crossed that someone else had a similar issue but I couldn't find a related thread-- please link if I missed it. Thanks.
Here you go. Must be rooted for this app to work
http://db.tt/2KAC8fZs
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Thanks
Thank you! Is there a certain reason I've got to do the work around for this phone when it worked on the original EVO 4G?
I believe lots of people have been having problems with other messaging programs. I've had the same issues that you've had.
Kaitlyngrac3 said:
Thank you! Is there a certain reason I've got to do the work around for this phone when it worked on the original EVO 4G?
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Facebook and google are pissed at each.other so we suffer. Facebook pulls.data from google but doesn't like to share their data, so google and Facebook started blocking.each other in little ways.
Either way we as consumers suffer
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ugh, what a bummer. ah well. thanks again!