I recently picked up the Lumia 920 from Rogers and transferred my contacts over, then did some searching to find out that there appears to be no way to transfer SMS from iPhone to WP8.. correct?
no 3rd party apps or txt file import export, anything? I'm quite pissed about this as it stands and losing 2+ years of SMS history.
I did a search on the Lumia 920 sub forum, but not on other WP8 device forums here, so appreciate your help even if this has been answered already.
so if the answer is we are SOL for SMS transfer, has anyone complained with Rogers or Microsoft directly?
From my searching we are not able to do that. And it's just plain frustrating!
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Hello,
Thought where I can land this thread, in Q&A or here, but since it concernes original android development I though I'll land it here.
Bare in mind that I don't know anything about dev, kernels, source codes or coding, just my thoughts in here.
I used HTC Desire for 2 years before I bought SGS2 two weeks ago.
One feature that isn't avaible in SGS2 and is in all HTC phones which I miss most is SMS vCard.
This is mostly used in business enviroment, but original android doesn't supports it, HTC made his own implementation.
You can say that you can get that feature by installing handcent or some other market app, but you CANNOT.
Why?
Not sure, but I guess it's a special implementation by Nokia (did they develop that?), maybe it's even patented, not sure.
If you try to send SMS vCard from any Nokia symbian or other phone to SGS2, you will NOT receive any message. Your message app will not see anything, message will not reach it.
I had same problem on my HTC Desire, but after contacting HTC they fixed it in Gingerbread release. They said it's because SMS vCard messages longer then 160 char are compressed (I had problems with long vCard, 2-3 numbers, email, organization...).
So my thoughs were, if someone from dev could look into HTC Desire HD or HTC Sensation source, would they be able to find parts of code connected to processing of vCards sms and port it into SGS2?
Which part is processing received sms's, kernel?
I know this wouldn't solve sms vCard sending (right now when you use Handcent to send vCard, Nokia cannot import it automaticaly, it probably misses some headers or something), but it would allow receiving of vCards from other business users.
Just a thought if you are thinking what to do next with your time and skills.
Best regards,
Mikeyy
whats a vcard? is it different to sending a namecard by text then?
Is that not a windows thing vcard .
I have old VCard folder on PC and if i click it i get multiple contacts opening .
Could be a leftover from old Nokia .
\is it just transfer contacts Nokia to SGS .
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
Version 2.1 is used widely. It's basicly automatic contact import in people/contact app. If you don't use vcard you need to enter name, organization, number, second number, fax, e-mail etc... manualy. This way you automaticly import contact.
It's an standard for contacts exchange, used in e-mails, mail clients, smartphones and almost everything that has contacts in it.
Android uses it in people/contacts app, you can import and export (backup) contacts as vcard. One vcard file can contain 1 or more contacts, it can store contact pictures also.
Most of old (dump) phones support it, Nokia especially since Nokia was 1st business user choice for a long time, and quite frankly, still is.
Android can exchange contacts as vcard but only over MMS, it attaches vcard file to MMS.
Cheaper way of sending is SMS, not sure who invented it, but I bet it's Nokia, I recall someone mentioning that Nokia has patent on SMS vcard. That can explain why Google STILL didn't implement it in Android.
Or they are just lazy and not interested in business user support.
Anyway, I use it often and I see other business users use it alot, but since I switched to SGS2, it's not supported.
My dad switched from the Sensation to the Radar and needs all of his texts imported into the Radar. He is on 7.5 I think and I have only seen methods for going from WM to Android. And also haven't seen much on WM 7.5. Any ideas?
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You will have to transfer the SMS from the android to the simcard.
There are some free android apps to upload your SMS to gmail under a SMS folder. That would give you access to them via mail app. That's another possibility.
Luckily he went back to the Sensation (hail Android) so I don't have to stress over the swap anymore. Thanks for all the input though
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If you people are not willing to discard comfort of android and change the philosophy ... avoid the WP
Does anyone know how to change the SMS contact limit with AT&T. I created a few groups of friends and family to send a quick message out to. Groups are limited to twenty which would work for some groups just fine but when I send an SMS text out, I get an error message saying your carrier limits sms texts to 10 contacts at one time.
This has got to be a setting somewhere since I was able to do this all day long on my WM6.5 device. I even had a group of nearly 100 and had no trouble. Network is network so my thinking is this is a setting somewhere.
Ideas?
Got a lot of views on this but no one has been able to add anything. Should this get moved to WP General or WP Q & A?
Are you sure it's just with ATT and not an O/S limit? i think it's so you don't spam.
I have got to think that any carrier can tell if someone is spamming versus communicating with a group of people. In my case it was for someone that ended up in the hospital.
Do you have any idea how many calls and separate texts you'd have to send or make if you didn't have somethingng like this set up? Not asking a dumb question but more like an obvious one.
I am one of the few I bet that doesn't have unlimited text's and I would be willing to pay for my overage if that happens for the comfort of texting to a group that needs this communication.
Let's face it, someone can create an app to loop through a distribution list and fire off a text msg and loop to the next contact in the list and fire it again. Not looking for performance but convenience.
At some point I need to stop comparing WP to WM6.5 and just get over it.
I'm replying to an old thread ; hoping this generates a fresh look at an old problem:
I have an unlocked AT&T-branded Samsung GS4 (SGH-i337) operating on the Cricket network. I created a new contacts group "Buddies" consisting of 15 people in my Contacts. However, when I try to send an SMS text to this Buddies group, the stock Messaging app enforces a limit whereby I'm allowed to select and send the SMS to a max of 10 people from my Buddies group. This 10-person limit has been around for several years, so I'm wondering if anyone has found a simple/easy way to remove or adjust this 10-person group sms limit?
Interestingly, I also have an unlocked Verizon-branded GS4 (SCH-i545), and its stock Messaging app allows me to send an SMS to as many as 20 people from an established Group of contacts.
As a partial solution to the 10-person limit on my ATT GS4, is it technically feasible that I could simply copy/extract the Verizon Messaging app, then import and use that Verizon Messaging .apk on my ATT GS4 in order to increase the person limit to 20? Sounds simple, which probably means it's too easy to be true.
Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me as I have searched quite a bit and not ever had my question answered.
I grabbed a Lumia 800 to test WP7.5 (& 7.8 when it is released) as I have an eye on the Lumia 920 and want to test the waters before committing. I understand that 7.8 is not going to be the same as 8 but I can only assume it is going to be better so if I like the 7.8 OS I should in theory like WP8.
I currently am using an iPhone 5 as my main phone but I also have a GS3 too that I use from time to time. My issue is that when I swap sims from the 5 to the Lumia 800 I cannot get group messaging to work and I think it is due to iMessage on the iPhone 5. Even though I turn off iMessage before swapping sim cards it will not allow me to do a group message. iPhone users who text me have it show up as an iMessage at first before it going as a normal text.
Group texting is one feature I extensively use on IOS and would not want to forgo it so I was hoping someone had gone through the same issues but had it work for them.
I have turned on group messaging in the settings on the Lumia but that makes no difference as all responses do not go to the thread but individually.
One last question as well, if I can get it to work are all recipients able to reply to all like the iPhone version of group messaging or will they only see the message from me?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
iMessage is one of the may ways which Apple uses to lock users in. It is not a normal or 'standard' group text function but a propriety system. So you can't communicate using iMessage with other devices but iPhone, in those case you will see normal SMS messages.
Group text will require MMS to be set up and available. Also you must enable the group text option in settings for the messaging hub. When enabled you will send one MMS to all recipients and responses and responses will remain in a single conversation. For the recipients to have a reply to all option they too will have to have MMS enabled.
I know understand the issue is not on the WP7 end it is down to the way that iMessage interprets text messages as almost like emails.
I have found a program that will allow you to use Group Messaging on Android, IOS & WP7 so will tell people I know to grab it to be able to do group messaging when required.
I'm a current iPhone user that is contemplating making the switch to Android. One of the things I most like about the iPhone is iMessage. Sure it's not cross platform. But for fellow iOS users, it's as simple as it gets. No need to launch any extra app. It's all baked into the standard messaging app, so it simply falls back to standard SMS if the user doesn't have iOS. And even more convenient is the ability to quickly send and receive iMessage on my Macbook. I'd say 90% of my friends and family use an iPhone so it's difficult to make the switch (Apple has me by the balls!).
But one thing that would make the switch easier is if I can at least keep the convenience of sending and receiving text messages from my Mac, and not through some hacky way of requiring a second line (Google Voice line). I want it to work with my existing number.
It seems as though this could be handled via Bluetooth, so that all messages are synced between Android and PC/Mac. Motorola offers a pretty cool feature called Motorola Connect (though this looks to be limited to Motorola phones, requires you use Chrome (ugh), and doesn't support MMS or group text messaging).
What are my options for having a convenient way to send and receive texts from a Mac or PC, and have it all synced up with my regular phone number? Thanks!
Looks like MightyText might be a good option, though I'm curious if people have other suggestions. Thanks.
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Looks like MightyText might be a good option, though I'm curious if people have other suggestions. Thanks.
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I haven't played around with anything recently and from googling quickly there definitely seems to be a few new options out there, but I used DeskSMS and was pretty happy with it. Found that in the end, I ended up only using it once in a while and didn't reinstall on a new phone.
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