[Q] com.android.mms crash every time - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys.
I have found similar problems, but no definite solution to it.
I use a Galaxy S III GT-I9300, FoxHound ROM.
And every time I try to send or recieve mms messages, the messaging app crashes and I get the message that "com.android.mms app stopped unexpectedly.
There are no conflicting apps, I tried everything short of a factory reset and complete wipe.
Is there any other way of fixing problems like this one, that don't include wiping the whole phone I was struggling to set up for the last week?
Thanks!

You can change your mms.apk or delete your app and setup exdialer.

bingbangs said:
You can change your mms.apk or delete your app and setup exdialer.
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Thanks, I was thinking something in this fashion could help.
Can you please elaborate on those two?
I tried with a dozen other sms and mms applications, they all report the same error with the com.android.mms app.

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[Q] Force closing of application...could use some help.

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on why this is happening to my vibrant all of a sudden. Quick little history on my phone: samsung vibrant, purchased 8/25, no modding, no rooting, no lag fixes, no nothing, straight out of box...i started getting this message after I sent a few normal yahoo emails out the other night:
Application process com. android.email has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again: dumpstate_app 201010071404_com android email.
Log has been saved. Use *#9900# to copy out log.
When I do the *#9900# it takes me to a few options, none of which I would have any clue about which to pick. Does anyone know what this is, how I can get rid of it? I use the app that came on the phone to access my yahoo email ( the app is the one that has the white envelope with the blue at symbol on it. I have deleted the account and configured again but nothing, I received the force close message again 10 min later. I had one person who tried to help me for hours, poor guy! But I really just want to find whatever it is that's doing this. I installed the offical yahoo app and its been working ok, a little slow, glitchy, freezes a lot, but I'm getting my email without a force close! Thanks to my tmobile friend who suggested the app...i would appreciate if anyone could help me. Thanks so much!
You should look for an email you just received that may be corrupted somehow. If you figure out which one, try to delete the email (online). I got similar messages repeatedly after I created a Google contact on line and it appeared in my phone's contacts. I had left the year off the person's birthdate and apparently there's a bug in the Vibrant such that it chokes and core dumps when it encounters an empty year field. I deleted the contact (on line, because I couldn't get to it on the phone without force closing) and the problem went away.
dirtyhamster73 said:
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on why this is happening to my vibrant all of a sudden. Quick little history on my phone: samsung vibrant, purchased 8/25, no modding, no rooting, no lag fixes, no nothing, straight out of box...i started getting this message after I sent a few normal yahoo emails out the other night:
Application process com. android.email has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again: dumpstate_app 201010071404_com android email.
Log has been saved. Use *#9900# to copy out log.
When I do the *#9900# it takes me to a few options, none of which I would have any clue about which to pick. Does anyone know what this is, how I can get rid of it? I use the app that came on the phone to access my yahoo email ( the app is the one that has the white envelope with the blue at symbol on it. I have deleted the account and configured again but nothing, I received the force close message again 10 min later. I had one person who tried to help me for hours, poor guy! But I really just want to find whatever it is that's doing this. I installed the offical yahoo app and its been working ok, a little slow, glitchy, freezes a lot, but I'm getting my email without a force close! Thanks to my tmobile friend who suggested the app...i would appreciate if anyone could help me. Thanks so much!
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Go to app manager in settings and try clearing data. Also, as previous post suggests try deleting the email from online server and restart the sync process.
Thank You all! The force close issue is still happening. I've started using the browser to receive my yahoo email. I've done everything you all have suggested and nothing has helped. Thank you all again.

[Q] Restoring Deleted Texts

Hi All,
I'm new here, clearly. I did a fair amount of searching (albeit I may have overlooked the one thread to answer my question), but I need some help. I'm not familiar with the dev side of phones, nor am I very educated by any means.
I recently somehow deleted all of my texts on my vwz galaxy s4 32gb blackmist. I can see that when I open a contact and view the history - the text messages still exist there. I tried the Dr. Fone app by wondershare (and paid for it). Didn't work. I just rooted my phone to see if that would help, and while successful in the rooting, still have found that I can not revive my dead texts.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Much thanks,
Matt
I too have deleted text messages from my phone when clean flashing ROMs. To restore, download the Verizon Messaging app from the Play Store. Set is as your default messaging app, and refresh the messages. Then open your regular messaging app and it should update with the old text messages.
After this you can uninstall the Verizon app. I use Hangouts for text messaging and for me it's a 3 step process: run Verzion meesaging, then load the standard Messaging apk, and then finally run Hangouts.
Good Luck!
wyefox said:
I too have deleted text messages from my phone when clean flashing ROMs. To restore, download the Verizon Messaging app from the Play Store. Set is as your default messaging app, and refresh the messages. Then open your regular messaging app and it should update with the old text messages.
After this you can uninstall the Verizon app. I use Hangouts for text messaging and for me it's a 3 step process: run Verzion meesaging, then load the standard Messaging apk, and then finally run Hangouts.
Good Luck!
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Thanks so much for the advice; I did download the vzw messaging app and set it as default. I don't see a "refresh" for this app - but have toyed around and think I've tried everything to no avail.
I'm trying my best here to not sound like an idiot - but I'm not sure how to 'refresh.' I still do see quite a bit of messages in the history of each contact.
Do i need to go into settings to make default app or simply just set it when it asks?
Any more advice?
Thanks again.
That app seems to imply that it only lets you restore messages that have been synced with Verizon in the last 90 days. That makes more sense. I didn't think they kept a user-accessible log of all SMS messages (could be wrong).

messaging keeps crashing

my android deveice a mtn branded phone from keeps crashing. if i try to open a message or type a message i get the error message "unfortunately messaging has stopped" i cant even view sms's people send me. i have tried to do a hard & soft reset/wipecashe clearing e.t.c but nothing seems to work
simonshantu said:
my android deveice a mtn branded phone from keeps crashing. if i try to open a message or type a message i get the error message "unfortunately messaging has stopped" i cant even view sms's people send me. i have tried to do a hard & soft reset/wipecashe clearing e.t.c but nothing seems to work
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Have you tried a 3rd party text messaging app? Textra, Yaata, QKSMS, etc? Stock messaging apps usually suck anyway. Might be a nice upgrade. If you can't access your messages with another app, then something is seriously messed up if it's failing after a factory reset as well. If so, might want to see if there are any custom rom options or maybe a new update from the manufacturer (or an older one if you have the newest).
will definetly try the 3rd party text messaging apps because when i use apps like facebook & whatsap i can type and read messages .
es0tericcha0s said:
Have you tried a 3rd party text messaging app? Textra, Yaata, QKSMS, etc? Stock messaging apps usually suck anyway. Might be a nice upgrade. If you can't access your messages with another app, then something is seriously messed up if it's failing after a factory reset as well. If so, might want to see if there are any custom rom options or maybe a new update from the manufacturer (or an older one if you have the newest).
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simonshantu said:
my android deveice a mtn branded phone from keeps crashing. if i try to open a message or type a message i get the error message "unfortunately messaging has stopped" i cant even view sms's people send me. i have tried to do a hard & soft reset/wipecashe clearing e.t.c but nothing seems to work
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If you prefer the stock messaging app, then try downloading the stock rom and the extract the apk from it. Copy the apk to your phone. Then go to system/app on your phone via root explorer. Overwrite the orignal apk with the copied apk and change it permissions to rw- r– r–.
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com.android.phone closes when trying to send paid sms

Hello,
whenever I try to send a paid sms for voting, parking etc, I get com.android.phone had to close and the sms is not sent. I tried clearing Phone and Messaging data, but that did not help. Anything else I could try, short of factory reset?
Running Nougat here.
mrQQ said:
Hello,
whenever I try to send a paid sms for voting, parking etc, I get com.android.phone had to close and the sms is not sent. I tried clearing Phone and Messaging data, but that did not help. Anything else I could try, short of factory reset?
Running Nougat here.
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did you have a look at premium sms permissions in the app settings advanced special access menu page?
not sure how to add phone to it though

Can't Create New SMS Threads

On my Galaxy S5, running Android 6.0.1., when I try to send a text message to a number that does not have a saved conversation, the app I'm using always crashes, gives me an error, or does nothing instead of sending the message. The built in Messages app and Facebook's Messenger app both crash, while Google Messages gives me an error saying it couldn't create the conversation, and Go SMS Pro seems to work at first, but actually does nothing.
I've also deleted caches/data and removed old texts/conversations, and nothing seems to work.
This is clearly not a problem with one app, but rather something larger at play. What could possibly be causing this?
Sounds like something corrupted your SMS data base and it will take a wipe to fix it. Go SMS pro is the normal cause for corruption. It's a male are ridden app that users here stopped using years ago.
Darn, is there any other way to fix something like that? I use my phone for work, so I don't really want to wipe it and spend a bunch of time updating/reinstalling.
Go SMS Pro was just a last attempt to try any other SMS app, rather than one I've had, so it's probably not the culprit.
If you had root you could try to wipe the data base file.
Give textra a try. They use their own separate SMS data base. So that might help.
Other then that you might spend an evening backing up and flashing a stock clean build.

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