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i'm not a fan of handcent and looking to move on from GO. The stock HTC just doesn't do it for me either. Any others I should be checking out?
thanks!
Other than the ones you've mentioned, Chomp is decent. It's not the prettiest, but it's pretty quick and functional.
alphabets said:
i'm not a fan of handcent and looking to move on from GO. The stock HTC just doesn't do it for me either. Any others I should be checking out?
thanks!
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I've only ever used the stock app and had a dumbphone before the Rezzy. What are you getting out of other sms apps that you don't get from the stock one? What am I missing out on?
I used to love chomp until the changed the quick reply popup from black to white background. Im currently using handcent and havent found a replacement yet. I didn't like go sms.
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I've only ever used the stock app and had a dumbphone before the Rezzy. What are you getting out of other sms apps that you don't get from the stock one? What am I missing out on?
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Better handling of large message counts, pop-up reply/compose windows, more customization features, etc. The pop-up windows are the biggest things for me...you can send, receive, and reply to messages without leaving the app you're in.
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Better handling of large message counts, pop-up reply/compose windows, more customization features, etc. The pop-up windows are the biggest things for me...you can send, receive, and reply to messages without leaving the app you're in.
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Oh, I like that... which one do you use?
I use gosms. I absolutely love it. It's way better than handcent. It has everything handcent does (emoji, pop ups, customization) and more like:
A very clean ui
Option for different running modes(i use lite mode. It has no addons and runs fast)
Emoji. I can't stress it enough. It has better encoding. On handcent my iphone friends had problems viewing it but on gosms it works great.
Private box. A locked in box where you can receive messages without people seeing them. I have all the conversations I have with girls in there.
Group chat. No need to download 15 addons or pay like handcent. All you have to do is go to send settings and turn on "mms group chat". Works flawlessly.
All around gosms is so much better. Don't bother with handcent or chomp.
Used to use Handcent then switched to GoSMS. Been using GoSMS for quite a while now.
seems like i might be sticking with GO. I don't dis-like it, but it seems even the "lite" mode is becoming bloated. I like the stock htc app except when downloading group messages or attachments it takes forever, unlike GO which would show up immediately.
Be weary of GO products. I noticed a while ago (when I stopped using them) that they seem to use a lot of data ... I wonder what they could be doing... And what data they gather... Anyway just sayin
I stick with stock aosp on cm9. I'm normally a go sms fan for all it's features but I hate how it's always running while aosp isn't. I personally think go devs implemented unnecessary services into it.
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I stick with stock aosp on cm9. I'm normally a go sms fan for all it's features but I hate how it's always running while aosp isn't. I personally think go devs implemented unnecessary services into it.
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Well I would use AOSP but it lacks emoji. All my friends have iphones and holy s*** do they love their emojis
The stock version from the Ville C Sense 4.0 base.
Specifically, Nils' Business ICS 4.0...
Yea, I just use the stock messaging app. I also use SMS Popup to get the popup window with the quick reply, delete, etc. And if you really want emoji there are ways to get emoji in android with special font files. I dont care about them so its no big deal.
I'd rather have an SMS app that's not running nonstop since SMS apps with emojis have excessive services and such running. waste of battery when you aren't using it. even if go SMS is configured to not run persistently there's still unwanted crap running
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Yea, I just use the stock messaging app. I also use SMS Popup to get the popup window with the quick reply, delete, etc. And if you really want emoji there are ways to get emoji in android with special font files. I dont care about them so its no big deal.
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You must not text much because everyone uses them and those font files are for them to show up in black and white.
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I'd rather have an SMS app that's not running nonstop since SMS apps with emojis have excessive services and such running. waste of battery when you aren't using it. even if go SMS is configured to not run persistently there's still unwanted crap running
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Well you obvious don't know what your talking about because the reason why mine runs nonstop is to receive messages. If you uninstall stock message(which btw runs all the time ) you need to make sure gosms is the one receiving messages. Also it doesn't waste battery its like a 5mb process that runs in the background. There's no unwanted crap...
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You must not text much because everyone uses them and those font files are for them to show up in black and white.
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You can't really say that. I average around 1000 texts a month and I have never once received a single message with emoji. People I communicate with don't use them.
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You can't really say that. I average around 1000 texts a month and I have never once received a single message with emoji. People I communicate with don't use them.
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Yeah I probably shouldn't have said that but almost everyone at my high school has an iphone so they use them a lot.
Ive tried them all and always seem to come back to stock
yojoe600 said:
Ive tried them all and always seem to come back to stock
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I do like stock except for the group message and attachment issues out gives me.
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I'm looking for an app that deletes sms message after a set period of time. I used to used SMS Cleaner Pro however it no longer works since I'm now running a JB ROM. Does anyone know of an app that will do this simple automated task as I'm yet to find one that works?
Ideally i want a minimalist app with the sole purpose to delete any sms older than a week to keep my inbox tidy, cheers.
No suggestions?
ste2610 said:
No suggestions?
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I think you can set sms limit in JB.
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I think you can set sms limit in JB.
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Hi, yeah you can set limits to the number of texts per conversation, however I'm looking for an automated way to delete messages by time
Maybe 'history eraser' at play Store
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Try Go SMS PRO, a great messaging app replacement:good:
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haha sorry posted this twice
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Maybe 'history eraser' at play Store
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Unfortunately that would delete all my sms messages and not just those older than a specified age great app non the less so thanks
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Try Go SMS PRO, a great messaging app replacement:good:
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Again Go SMS just does as the stock JB messaging app does and deletes messages when a maximum number is exceeded per conversation, unfortunately not what I'm looking for, thanks for the response and screenshot though
I think I get what u think in ur mind, u want an app that clean ur obsoleted sms sort by time u received.. But I never seen an app like that out there.. Jb sms n go sms both auto delete msg sort by amount,. Maybe u can send an request to go sms developer to add that feature..
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Was this request ever filled? Did you find an app to do what your asking? If not, I'm down to make one. I've been looking for new app ideas to make.
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Was this request ever filled? Did you find an app to do what your asking? If not, I'm down to make one. I've been looking for new app ideas to make.
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Never found one, would be amazing if you could make it, shouldn't be too difficult either Thanks redincali
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Never found one, would be amazing if you could make it, shouldn't be too difficult either Thanks redincali
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Yea. I actually made one. I just didn't finish it, I think. It had alot of options...
Delete older than...
Delete sent/received
Truncate to set size of messages
Delete messages with certain keyword
Do any of these for a specific number or for all numbers.
Probably more, I just can't remember. Ill check it out here shortly and see if its working or incomplete.
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Any update? I'd like this
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Any update? I'd like this
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Sorry I got busy that day and forgot. Didn't remember until now. If you want to test what I have now, download this. It doesn't actually delete anything, it creates a log of what it did. View the log, which is minimalistic, and tap each one to see its full message detail. I did it this way because I want to give the users the ability to test and make sure its working correctly for them first. Plus, without actually deleting the messages, the process is super fast. The actual delete process does take some time. Which brings me to my next topic...
Before releasing a version that is fully functional, ill have to reconfigure some code. As of right now, everything is done in the screen. If you turn off the screen, or it times out, during its deleting process then it will be paused until the screen comes back on. And no one wants to have to leave their screen on while it does this, as the processes can take up to a few hours depending on how many your deleting. So its a change I must make.
Also, the autorun function hasn't been implemented yet. Good new is if your a user of my Bing app, then you know I already know how to do this. So it can and will be added!
I am still new to writing android apps, so I try my best to learn new things daily by bringing new features and fixes to to my current apps. So all suggestions and ideas for new features, or apps, are always welcome.
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Sorry I got busy that day and forgot. Didn't remember until now. If you want to test what I have now, download this. It doesn't actually delete anything, it creates a log of what it did. View the log, which is minimalistic, and tap each one to see its full message detail. I did it this way because I want to give the users the ability to test and make sure its working correctly for them first. Plus, without actually deleting the messages, the process is super fast. The actual delete process does take some time. Which brings me to my next topic...
Before releasing a version that is fully functional, ill have to reconfigure some code. As of right now, everything is done in the screen. If you turn off the screen, or it times out, during its deleting process then it will be paused until the screen comes back on. And no one wants to have to leave their screen on while it does this, as the processes can take up to a few hours depending on how many your deleting. So its a change I must make.
Also, the autorun function hasn't been implemented yet. Good new is if your a user of my Bing app, then you know I already know how to do this. So it can and will be added!
I am still new to writing android apps, so I try my best to learn new things daily by bringing new features and fixes to to my current apps. So all suggestions and ideas for new features, or apps, are always welcome.
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May I suggest an app that works with Tasker? Then it can easily be scheduled
It could be, but I haven't attempted to make anything to work for tasker yet. When this is complete, you would want to use the autorun feature included anyways. As it will have multiple options such as running daily, weekly, auto trim, and others, all with the option of choosing all, or specific, contacts.
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It could be, but I haven't attempted to make anything to work for tasker yet. When this is complete, you would want to use the autorun feature included anyways. As it will have multiple options such as running daily, weekly, auto trim, and others, all with the option of choosing all, or specific, contacts.
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Sounds pretty good. But autorun would require a service running. So that's where it's handy for guys like me already having Tasker running.
Hi
Is it possible to see who has sent me a text from the lock screen? Had a look at the lock screen widgets but none there for that - can you download more Z2 widgets?
Thanks
Wrong Forum, this should go in the Q&A Forum.
But a combination of DashClock and DashNotifier will give you what you want.
Or use Hangouts as your messaging app. It has a lock screen widget.
Since this topic was brought up, I might as well ask here. I notice that deleting messages and conversations with the default SMS app is extremely slow. I don't know if it's because I have 30,000+ messages already but even deleting a thread with 2 messages is still slow. I really like the default SMS but is there a faster SMS app that can manage thousands of messages? Go SMS is also slowing down so I want to try a different one.
Lol... If you find one, lemme know. I'm a text-aholic, so I'm sending ~6000 a month, and I like to archive my old ones (OCD I guess). The only solution I've found is to use TitBackup and every month or so backup all messages, then put take that backup and put it on my computer, and delete all messages on the phone.
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Lol... If you find one, lemme know. I'm a text-aholic, so I'm sending ~6000 a month, and I like to archive my old ones (OCD I guess). The only solution I've found is to use TitBackup and every month or so backup all messages, then put take that backup and put it on my computer, and delete all messages on the phone.
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Is it the same issues with you when deleting threads? I tried SMS Backup and Restore for backing up my sms but Sony has Xperia Transfer app as well so either is convenient for sms backup. The SMS app is the real challenge though. Even my previous Galaxy S2 and my cousin's S4 have slowdown issues with their default sms app.
I think that might just be the way Android process text messages. Was your last phone any faster? I can't honestly remember if mine was (and TitBackup still does it quite fast btw).
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I think that might just be the way Android process text messages. Was your last phone any faster? I can't honestly remember if mine was (and TitBackup still does it quite fast btw).
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Galaxy S2 deletes messages and threads faster. Maybe it's because it's a backup file which is why it's slower to process it? Deleting threads takes me around 20 sec or more depending on the size of the thread.
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Galaxy S2 deletes messages and threads faster. Maybe it's because it's a backup file which is why it's slower to process it? Deleting threads takes me around 20 sec or more depending on the size of the thread.
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Yeah, never again am I using any kind of message backup other than TitBackup. I did a test-import of one of my old text archives, and it was done in under 2 minutes.
For now, I'm just gonna have to wait the couple hours for my SMS Backup and Restore backup to be imported, then I'm so done with it.
Can you also test how long does it take to delete a message from your backup? No need to delete the entire thread if it's important, just maybe 4 messages in the thread will do.
use Hangouts as your messaging app. It has a lock screen widget.
There is a REALLY cool feature I'd like to be able to utilize where the G4 pulls up your most recent contacts when you start to share something.
*see attached image* (names and numbers have been edited out for privacy reasons)
Only problem is, that even though my default messaging app is Next SMS if I select one of these recent contacts at the top. It still opens up "messaging" to send the message. Which actually is very limiting because it doesn't like not being default with MMS's.
Is there an easy way to change that behavior?
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The app has to be made To use that function. It is part of stock Android. All my messaging apps use it. I can't say about handcent as I stopped using them a few years ago when the company when down hill and the app went to garbage.
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The app has to be made To use that function. It is part of stock Android. All my messaging apps use it. I can't say about handcent as I stopped using them a few years ago when the company when down hill and the app went to garbage.
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What do you recommend and why it over Handcent? I'm not married to Handcent, but it does ok by my books. I don't really venture out and try other apps either.
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What do you recommend and why it over Handcent? I'm not married to Handcent, but it does ok by my books. I don't really venture out and try other apps either.
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Handcent is known for not delivering messages. Along with other huge issues. I use YAATA myself or textra. Both work wonderfully. I choice YAATA over textra so I can hide that God awful material design. Just avoid Go sms at all costs.
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Handcent is known for not delivering messages. Along with other huge issues. I use YAATA myself or textra. Both work wonderfully. I choice YAATA over textra so I can hide that God awful material design. Just avoid Go sms at all costs.
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I'll give YAATA a go... I can't say that we have experienced much issues with Handcent. Always looking for something better though!
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I'll give YAATA a go... I can't say that we have experienced much issues with Handcent. Always looking for something better though!
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Yeah unless you ran a logcat or people contacted you every time you didn't reply then you really wouldn't know. I used to use handcent until people started getting mad I wasn't replying. Then I looked into it and saw it was failing. It was a great app until it was sold to a China based company.
So, how do you turn off the row for messaging if you have a different app (YAATA) doing the messaging for you now?
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So, how do you turn off the row for messaging if you have a different app (YAATA) doing the messaging for you now?
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It should auto replace the normal messaging.
As you can see from my SS
Hmmm.. mine is acting differently. I has two rows. One replaced, one didn't.
As you can see here, top row is YAATA, bottom is still "Messaging".
The more you use it the less they will be there. If you have root you could always freeze it or disable it. It could also be the device. I know some apps are making it annoying to replace the stock apps. Like Samsung devices.
Hi there!
I simply want to backup all my text messages using Titanium Backup. I was able to do this before when I had 5.1 on my LG G3, but after a broken phone and having marshmallow preinstalled on the replacement phone, I didn't worry about it since Marshmallow for the LG was actually a huge upgrade and it retained all the great phone features (like the camera). Now, I'm going to get a new phone and want to transfer my text messages, but Verizon only keeps 3 months of messages or something like that. I also want to be able to do a factory reset, but I need to backup my messages first.
I checked through some various threads (this one kept popping up): http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g3/general/verizon-lg-g3-one-toolkit-vs985-root-t3124846 , but it seems like you have to get rid of firmware, which usually requires a complete flash and a new OS, but I really don't want to do that.
Help please! Por Favor! Bitte!
No one...?
Please don't be impatient. I'll answer just as soon as I have time to carefully read your post, unless someone else answers first.
First, some questions. What are you using for texting right now? Verizon Messages automatically backs up and restores text messages over the internet and I was under the impression that it backs up everything, but maybe I'm wrong.
Even if you're not using VZ Messages right now, you can switch to it in order to have it back up your texts automatically as all the text message apps access the same central store of text messages on your phone.
Also, I assume the phone you're switching to isn't an LG? Otherwise you would be able to use the built-in LG Backup to back up and restore whatever you want, including text messages.
I don't know if you could use Titanium Backup with KingRoot, if KingRoot will root your phone. KR provides a temporary root until you reboot, and then you need to use it to root your phone again. It requires internet every time you root your phone with it and installs a bunch of stuff behind the scenes too, but just grasping at straws for ideas.
I don't know if there are any alternate text message apps you could also install that have some kind of built-in backup ability.
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Yes, sorry, just trying to get the messages backed up before something crazy happens. And no, I doubt I will stay with LG, though a friend got the LG V20 and he really likes it, otherwise I was going to be going with the Moto Z Play for the great battery life it seems to be offering. Verizon might store everything...that is a possibility, I was under the impression it was only 90 days of past messaging though.
All my old tricks for trying to root don't seem to work with Marshmallow though and all the advanced security stuff they put on to prevent rooting.
Anyone else...?
is titanium backup a must for backing up your text messages? if you're willing to try other apps, there are sms backup apps out there that don't require root. http://play.google.com/store/search?q=sms%20backup&c=apps give one of them a shot. i don't have any experience with them though. i use titanium backup to back up my text messages and call logs.
@roirraW "edor" ehT is correct. You can backup your text messages using VZW. That's how I do it.
But there some free apps that will do it as well. I used to use one, but I can't remember what is now since I just use VZW's cloud to backup my text messages.
Their Message+ app will restore them for you. You can just that first to restore your messages and then switch to another default text app after that.
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@roirraW "edor" ehT is correct. You can backup your text messages using VZW. That's how I do it.
But there some free apps that will do it as well. I used to use one, but I can't remember what is now since I just use VZW's cloud to backup my text messages.
Their Message+ app will restore them for you. You can just that first to restore your messages and then switch to another default text app after that.
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I confirmed with a Verizon agent that it is only 3 months of text messages. Though, the agents have often been wrong on such topics. Titanium is great because it actually backs up MMS as well, keeping all the photos inline with the messages. When I tried to use other, non-TB backup apps, they seemed to not actually backup the MMS. I could be wrong though...
Is anyone aware of an app that can upload these into their database? Like google messenger?
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Is anyone aware of an app that can upload these into their database? Like google messenger?
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There is one app I used to use that would back up your messages to the Google cloud.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=backup.email.inapp
I don't know if it still works. It states it is still compatible with the G3 from my Google Play entry. The last time it was updated was back in 2014, so whether this still works on Marshmallow or not is something I cannot answer to since I don't use it anymore.
I use the LG Backup tool which works just fine for backing up text messages and restoring them and it doesn't require root.