Hi guys,
I've just found out that I could not delete now SOME of the messages from one of my contacts unlike before. Menu->Delete Messages are no longer working for that person, and to my amazement for this person only. The feature is still working with my other contact's SMS.
I hope anybody can offer some help.
Thanks.
Just to check, there are messages from that person to delete, rather than an empty list?
Can you select them in 'all messages'?
GS2 allows me to send SMS to contacts no more than 10 Even more annoying is, that also email addresses are counted in a group list. Although I'm writing SMS and try to add the contact group in it, the list shows both the phone numbers and email addresses!!! Helpdesk said: "It is possible to tick the whole group at once, if you have contacts 10 or less." So, if all of them have email too, I can have a group list of 5 contacts max!!!
Is there any chance to get rid of this limit???
Same question
I have a limit to 10 contacts per time to select
See this mod, only for custom deodexed roms though.
Hi All,
Before you say it, I know what I'm doing and understand how Google contacts work, I had a HTC HD2 (thanks Pongster and XDA!) and I am used to Android.
I know how Google contacts work, infact I submitted a bug fix to AweSync to fix up their syncing of Google Contacts with Lotus Notes.
Why does the Samsung Galaxy 1 (and 2!) show me _ALL CONTACTS_ when trying to SMS people? or when I try to save a newly dialled number into contacts, it shows all contacts?
I don't want to SMS an email address! I don't want to sift through 1,300 contacts yet this idiot phone is showing me them.
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It's listing email Address's in the SMS TO: field - yet I've CLEARLY unticked "All contacts" and I've made it only show contacts with a phone number.
What is wrong with this thing?
EDIT: also, forgetting my ring tone every time I reboot isn't impressing me either.
Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
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johncmolyneux said:
Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
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Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
wizzbang3 said:
Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
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It does what you describe above. I don't know what you expect it to do though. You dial a number, click "Add to contacts" or "New contact" to either list all your contacts or create a new one.
is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
Its not a deal breaker for me, i prefer the stock than go sms or handcent, or any alternative i've tried, so if there is no fix i'll grin and bear it but if there is please help out
.... its not that i prefer the stock to any other, its just that no other provides anything that makes me want to move from stock, and since both will be running anyways it seems pointless to be wasting battery .... also i found double contacts problems with other apps aswell
Osmosae said:
is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
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It's just poor design by Samsung.
wizzbang3 said:
It's just poor design by Samsung.
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Why? I think it is a good idea, since I very often MMS to email addresses! It is very handy to automatically downsize an image to MMS size when you are sending it to a person who you know will be looking at the email on their phone (e.g. my friend in Japan doesn't have MMS at all, over there nearly everything is email).
Been wondering about this too, i know the contact app you can customize what to show, which is fine, but the sms app show everyone you have been in contact with on google. Only "fix" i've found so far is to use another SMS app that can filter the contact list.
The solution is very simple. Just open display options in contacts and select only display contacts with numbers. Also untick everything that you don't want it to display. I don't save any numbers in phone or sim card so I save it to gmail account.
Even if I select only gmail it shows lots unnecessary contacts. So I went to gmail on my laptop and opened the contacts (phone book or something like that. Its been over a year so I don't remember)
I created a new category (u can choose an existing one) and transferred every single contact that I needed under it.
And thats it. Everytime I format my phone I just go to contact display settings on my phone and only choose the category that I made. And it only shows the contacts that I need.
It works also if u want to save a contact. I chose to save contacts to my gmail account when it asks. And everytime u save it saves it to the category that u choose.
I have been using this over a year and work flawlessly. I remember beig sick of choosing amongst 1000s of contacts.
I tried to explain as I could. If there is a problem ask me I will try to help.
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I realized this doesn't answer ur question about sms. This doesn't fix that SMS list behaviour.
I'm using Hangouts as my main SMS with a LG G2.
I want to send the same message to multiple recipients... But i do not want everyone's responses to be seen as if it was a chat. How do I do this? (Mass SMS?)
What if i want to create a message chat/group where everyone can see others responses. How do I do this? (Group SMS?)
That's 2 different things I want to do. This was easy to do with my stock SMS. But it's not so clear with hangouts.
Thanks in advance.
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Wow. Nobody knows?
Hangouts on android
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Wow. Nobody knows?
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You can add groups on hangouts this way:
open the chat on any contact with whom you want to create a group.
Tap on the three dotted line on the top right corner of the screen for settings
Go to "People and Option"
From there you will find the list of all your hangouts contacts. You can add as many contacts you want.
Send SMS to multiple recipients via integrated Hangouts & Google Voice?
Freeda gillbert said:
You can add groups on hangouts this way:
open the chat on any contact with whom you want to create a group.
Tap on the three dotted line on the top right corner of the screen for settings
Go to "People and Option"
From there you will find the list of all your hangouts contacts. You can add as many contacts you want.
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OP is not asking how to add additional recipients. My understanding is that he's asking how to mass message a group to keep responses individual. In Google Voice, I could send a text message to a maximum of five recipients. Each person would perceive that the message was only sent to him/her. Each would respond and I would be able to then be able to have individualized conversations with each recipient.
After the integration of Hangouts and Google Voice, I, too, have not been able to figure out how to send a single SMS to multiple recipients. I would like to know if someone has figured this out.
Hello Guys
Can you start communicating with someone in WhatsApp without him being in your contact list? Some people are claiming it's doable. I know you can talk with them if they happen to be on the same group.
I don't want to go through the hassle of creating a contact just to talk to him in WhatsApp for one time
The claim is that there is a button somewhere in the phone call history to select whatsapp as a messaging app instead of sms. All I see is a sms button that links to the messaging app
I found the below instructions but it doesn't work on my phone.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-way-to-send-WhatsApp-messages-to-someone-not-on-your-contact-list
From the link
"This is possible only in certain mobile phones.*
Type the number in Keypad
Press the Menu button
Click Send message option
You will get a menu, saying Send via WhatsApp, Message, Hike and other such apps which you have installed in your device.Click on WhatsApp.
Now you can send message through WhatsApp to the number which is not in your Contact list.