Hi i dont know if anyone else has this issue i had a friend sent me a gif file that he made on his iphone and sent it to me i couldnt open it, it just opens as a regular picture my wife has an samsung note 2 she has no issues with stock messaging app.
Thanks for the help
lginsac said:
Hi i dont know if anyone else has this issue i had a friend sent me a gif file that he made on his iphone and sent it to me i couldnt open it, it just opens as a regular picture my wife has an samsung note 2 she has no issues with stock messaging app.
Thanks for the help
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Ill check it out, one min.
Edit: I just tested an ani gif on my G3 with no issues; however, I made the .gif in Photoshop, not an i-device.
try to open it in the app called QuickPic, its very stable and fast
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try to open it in the app called QuickPic, its very stable and fast
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This! This is the first app I install whenever I get a new device. QuickPic is rock solid. Good recommendation Motrin.
I'll try with the app next time he sent it to me. I tought maybe there's a way to open it with out third party app.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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I have the same exact problem. It's irritating because gifs used to work with the stock messaging app and Hangouts but one day they just spontaneously quit. Now whenever anyone sends me a gif it just comes through as a still like a jpg. I found that Textra will work if you want to use a different texting app and you don't need a different 3rd party app to display them. But, that still doesn't explain the problem. It's really only a band aid solution. I hope this helps and if anyone reading this thread has a solution, id love to hear it.
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I've tested some apps from this skyrocket thread and some work for our phone while others don't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1573221
Work:
- Browser
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Clock
- Gallery
- MMS (just an app from the market but it looks good and can replace the stock MMS if you freeze it in titanium backup.) update: working perfect now after update.
- Movie Studio
Don't Work:
- Camera (the UI doesn't scale right).
- Email (massive force closes until apks are removed).
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I was thinking of trying to get the dialer from an ICS rom. I tried the ex dialer from the market but I'd like the stock one back. Maybe I'll look for it tomorrow.
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Phoneguy589 said:
I was thinking of trying to get the dialer from an ICS rom. I tried the ex dialer from the market but I'd like the stock one back. Maybe I'll look for it tomorrow.
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I tried an ICS dialer from the Skyrocket forums but it just messed up my phone had to use nandroid backup. I'm thinking it was maybe a GB update and not for 4.0.3
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Coffinfeeder said:
I've tested some apps from this skyrocket thread and some work for our phone while others don't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1573221
Work:
Browser
Calculator
Clock
Gallery
MMS (just an app from the market but it looks good and can replace the stock MMS if you freeze it in titanium backup.)
Don't Work:
Camera (the UI doesn't scale right).
I didn't test:
Calendar
Email
Movie Studio
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I was just saying to myself if the toggles work and theme the status bar then shouldn't a whole theme work? Are there any good themes for ics skyrocket? worst is i have a skyrocket but can't stop using my note so its not rooted nothing! i let my girlfriend use it :-(
Coffinfeeder said:
I've tested some apps from this skyrocket thread and some work for our phone while others don't.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1573221
Work:
Browser
Calculator
Clock
Gallery
MMS (just an app from the market but it looks good and can replace the stock MMS if you freeze it in titanium backup.) update: working perfect now after update.
Don't Work:
Camera (the UI doesn't scale right).
I didn't test:
Calendar
Email
Movie Studio
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Thanks for this. I much prefer the stock MMS app. Additionally, I've tested the Calendar app on DAGr8's ICS alpha 2 and it works great and includes the stock widget.
Are you able to receive MMS messages with the stock MMS.apk frozen? I have not been able to. They just fail to download.
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Are you able to receive MMS messages with the stock MMS.apk frozen? I have not been able to. They just fail to download.
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Yep. Wasn't sure what freezing in Titanium Backup was so I tried my own thing. All I did was install it from the Play Market. Then in Titanium Backup under "Backup/Restore" I long pressed on "[SMS/MMS PREFS] Messaging 4.0.3-144" (see first attached image) then clicked "Open system details...". In there I disabled Messaging (see second attached image).
Just tested MMS and was able to receive a picture text from my fiance (see third attached image for success!) Hopefully this helps.
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Yep. Wasn't sure what freezing in Titanium Backup was so I tried my own thing. All I did was install it from the Play Market. Then in Titanium Backup under "Backup/Restore" I long pressed on "[SMS/MMS PREFS] Messaging 4.0.3-144" (see first attached image) then clicked "Open system details...". In there I disabled Messaging (see second attached image).
Just tested MMS and was able to receive a picture text from my fiance (see third attached image for success!) Hopefully this helps.
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Thanks, I use TiBu all the time.
Apparently, there's some bug where it won't receive MMS from iPhones. This would be a problem for me since my wife has an iPhone 4. It would also explain why I thought I want getting them at all since she was the one I kept asking to send me test messages.
No success with email.apk
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Thanks, I use TiBu all the time.
Apparently, there's some bug where it won't receive MMS from iPhones. This would be a problem for me since my wife has an iPhone 4. It would also explain why I thought I want getting them at all since she was the one I kept asking to send me test messages.
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Sorry about that. I'm new to TiBu so I figured I'd err on the side of caution and be thorough with what I did (plus I had no idea if that was how to freeze an app and there was no mention of freezing in TiBu itself). I meant no disrespect, friend
Movie studio works fine
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Sorry about that. I'm new to TiBu so I figured I'd err on the side of caution and be thorough with what I did (plus I had no idea if that was how to freeze an app and there was no mention of freezing in TiBu itself). I meant no disrespect, friend
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No worries, your post will help others, too. Providing more information is never a bad thing.
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No success with email.apk
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Did you also replace exchange.apk as well? You have to do both.
lactardjosh said:
Apparently, there's some bug where it won't receive MMS from iPhones. This would be a problem for me since my wife has an iPhone 4. It would also explain why I thought I want getting them at all since she was the one I kept asking to send me test messages.
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I am in this same situation. I can send/receive sms messages fine to and from iPhone users. I can send MMS to iPhone user without any problem, but I can not receive MMS from iPhone.
Is there any known workaround for this?
Nevermind.
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Did you also replace exchange.apk as well? You have to do both.
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Yes, I used the CWM flashable version. No dice.
BlkSquad said:
Yes, I used the CWM flashable version. No dice.
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Odd, I grabbed them out of a Galaxy Nexus CM9 package and installed them manually and no issues at all. I attached what I used, try them out. Make sure to replace or rename the existing Samsung versions.
Anyone has issues with the aosp mms not be able to receive mms from sprint phones? Mms sent from another att phone shows up fine but the ones from sprint phones will say fail to download.
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Tried that. It just made my phone freeze, and un-freeze, and freeze again over and over. Any special trick to it?
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Odd, I grabbed them out of a Galaxy Nexus CM9 package and installed them manually and no issues at all. I attached what I used, try them out. Make sure to replace or rename the existing Samsung versions.
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I'm having several issues with FB, the biggest being after I look at "X" pictures (My man Club?) no pictures will open. I have to reboot the phone and it works for a minute, then same thing? It seems to me, each time a i open a photo/movie and I backout, it stays in memory until FB is usless?
Lastly, and not that I really give a crap, some of my ex-wife post I get, others I dont. The Only reason I mention, she will post pictures of Granddaughter. Friends of mine get them and call and tell me how cute she is. I dont get them. The she will post something else, I get it, so she did not defriend me? makes no sense!
I have version 1.9.6
Anyclue?
Anyone? 100 views and no replys, any thoughs would be appricated.
Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Don't know about the pictures and videos, but I know you can block specific people or groups from any post you make, so your ex could be choosing to block you on certain posts.
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Not to be smart, trust me, she has no clue how. Matter fact, no one in that family nor mine (except me) could do that. Oh well............
More worried about my phone freezing after I open "X" amount of photos. I cleaned up text messages, e-mails, mobile photos today (Photos are on FB anyway). Maybe Photon will run better?
Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
Well, mystery #1 solved (I think), she (they) are not smart enough to defriend me and she swore off FB. But since my daughter loves it and so do her religious friends, they created secret goup just for them. Click on THAT group and post, only they see it. I guess now and then, she slips and just post on her main wall. If I go to her profile, I see ALL the post! That makes sense.
With the freezing, clueless. Since Feb 18th, 2012, I have not installed or updated one single app!
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Use friendcaster. Much better than official fb app anyway.
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Friendcaster is nice; there's also Fast and Scope (Scope is invite only; install the app and then use invite code "theverge" to create an account) but none of the third-party Facebook apps can see your entire feed. There will always be some things that will not show up in third-party clients.
A more elegant solution I have found is to use Facebook on your mobile browser. It takes some tweaking to get the desktop site to display, but it can be done. Make sure you're accessing www.facebook.com and not just facebook.com; also setting the user agent to desktop can help as well.
Also, you can get the customizable Maxthon (google it, it lets you customize the name, icon, homepage, and other settings). Name it Facebook, give it a Facebook icon and splash screen, and set the homepage to Facebook, bam, you got a Facebook browser. The browser itself is very capable, and has the user agent feature if you want to use it for the desktop version.
It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
I use SEESMIC. It works surprisingly well. Works with twitter too, but I use tweetcaster for that.
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It just helps to have options. The Facebook app has always been sub-par.
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When my phone starts messing up, it's the first app I delete. Works everytime! and the funny thing, I don't have the other apps you mention here and my auto-update is off for everything. FB just crashes the phone for no reason out of the blue. Always has!
Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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Are you on stock? I'm running MIUI and mine crashes mostly when rotating the screen but sometimes for no reason at all.
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I'm stock, but it seems not to matter as I was unlocked and running CM7. Sadly, the only people I know NOT having issues are the 4 iPhone users I know. If I were adding apps and/or doing auto updates, I would maybe understand. I'm not.
Facebook I'd a billion dollar company, producing crap apps. The problem I have with there app is that every update will make or break the functionality. On a side note, the reason handloom works so well on, iOS, is because they have a whooping 10+/- devices to support, versus the hundreds of android devices on various os software. Ie: eclair, froyo, gingerbread, ics, honeycomb, etc. So I can't hate the facebook android devs completely just hate the issues that come with updates!
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Is, facebook. hate predictive text sometime.
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I don't use any facebrick app I only check facebrick from the stock browser. I don't have any issues whatsoever.
Granted the function of uploading pictures to facebrick is done through the gallery on the rocko rom I am using.
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hi there!
i hope this is the right forum. i have installed cm9 on my samsung i9001 (galaxy s plus) so far so good, beta 2 is running smoothly.
sadly there is no standard email application included in that install, or correct me if i am wrong, at least i couldnt find any.
and whats even more sad is i cant download the gmail app from the market because of my location and something i believe is a name infringement or whatever...
so i am in need of a descent email app. i am currently running a gmail.apk for the v2.3.5. which is kinda buggy...
i think the best for me would be the email app that comes with the sgs+ on stock rom or an up to date gmail.apk would be nice too.
since email is kinda delicate i dont want to use any 3rd party app from the market or is there anything trustworthy?
please help me!
thanks in advance!
Try K9 mail. If an email app is not trustworthy there would be bad reviews.
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gagdude said:
Try K9 mail.
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works like a blast! thanks for the tip! just one thing, is there a way to display the messages on the home screen, so without opening the app itself?
bad1080 said:
works like a blast! thanks for the tip! just one thing, is there a way to display the messages on the home screen, so without opening the app itself?
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Hm... this is what I found... https://play.google.com/store/apps/...le&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=k9+mail+widget
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Thought i might share this for those interested, download this https://app.box.com/s/vh0m2xvwcq3ljt1qqtem
use root explorer rename LGmessage.apk and LGmessage.odex both to .bak
Rename mms.apk to LGMessage ( not sure if renaming matters)
reboot and the message app works perfect! quick reply, etc.
DARK THEME for quick reply will not work.
Has this file been modified to work with MMS/Group messaging?
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I mean, does it work?
CM's MMS.apk needs to be modified to work with each device's Telephony code, so unless it is pulled from another device that pretty exactly mirrors the LG G2 code, it won't work.
i dont know i never ever use it lol
and i did not know that.
try and find out ?
just download 8sms from google play, its basically the cyanogenmod mms.apk with quickreply and all the good stuff. Textra sms it's really good too, I like textra sms more though.
adrian_nene16 said:
just download 8sms from google play, its basically the cyanogenmod mms.apk with quickreply and all the good stuff. Textra sms it's really good too, I like textra sms more though.
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Holy moley. Never knew about 8SMS. All I ever ask for in any SMS program is a Mark As Read from the notification drop down. This is perfect.
This works on the vzw version, although the names are a bit different... LGUSMms.bak and .odex This is great, I hated how little of the conversation you could see with the stock app.
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Like he said, just use 8sms from play store!
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adrian_nene16 said:
just download 8sms from google play, its basically the cyanogenmod mms.apk with quickreply and all the good stuff. Textra sms it's really good too, I like textra sms more though.
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even better! :good:
CM mms.apk causing phone to crash
I just installed the mms.apk onto my rooted Nexus 4 and followed installation instructions perfectly, but now the app crashes every time I receive a text. Can someone offer a suggestion how to fix this issue or how to revert back to stock messenger, which doesn't appear to be on the phone anymore (the CM apk replaced it)? I know this isn't the correct forum but I am just hoping someone can help with this. Thanks for the help.
did anyone confirm if this works on ATT lg g2
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I just installed the mms.apk onto my rooted Nexus 4 and followed installation instructions perfectly, but now the app crashes every time I receive a text. Can someone offer a suggestion how to fix this issue or how to revert back to stock messenger, which doesn't appear to be on the phone anymore (the CM apk replaced it)? I know this isn't the correct forum but I am just hoping someone can help with this. Thanks for the help.
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Are u on a custom rom or just stock rooted?
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First, let me say love this phone.
I received an MMS, which i could tell was a group text sent to multiple people. I could read the text and see who sent it, but I was unable to see any other recipients who it was sent to. On my Nexus 4's stock messaging app, it would show the other numbers that the message was sent to. Is there anyway to enable this? Not sure if it matters, but I know it was sent from an iPhone, and was sent to myself and another iphone.
Edit- Also confirmed that my response was only sent to the original sender.
Thanks!
I don't own the G2 yet, but a great text app alternative on the Play Store is called 'Textra', and it looks just like stock Android, very system light, and super fast. It allows group messaging, and works perfectly, I always text my two brothers, one is on an iPhone, the other a Nexus, and we can keep a conversation going in one thread.
Zorachus said:
I don't own the G2 yet, but a great text app alternative on the Play Store is called 'Textra', and it looks just like stock Android, very system light, and super fast. It allows group messaging, and works perfectly, I always text my two brothers, one is on an iPhone, the other a Nexus, and we can keep a conversation going in one thread.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check out Textra, if I can't get the stock app figured out.
530farm said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check out Textra, if I can't get the stock app figured out.
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I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
Zorachus said:
I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
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Looks like you have a Nexus 4, may I ask why you choose to use Textra over the stock App?
I noticed the same group text recipient list missing thing on my stock g2 app
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mike2518 said:
I noticed the same group text recipient list missing thing on my stock g2 app
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I edited the OP, but i confirmed that my replay was only sent to the original sender.
Zorachus said:
I find 'Textra' the best MMS App on the Play Store. It's very light, basic and simple. Super fast, smooth as butter, and looks and acts like stock Android messaging App.
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Just installed Textra and tested it. Sent a group text same from iphone to my g2 and another iphone. I received the group text in normal fashion w/ both people, however my reply was sent as a new message to the original sender and not in the original group text thread. Any idea how to fix that?
Edit - NVM, I found the MMS settings in the app, had to enable MMS for group texts and it seems to work now.