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Hide sms

Hi guys,
I like threaded SMS but we cannot create folders anymore to store sms. I used to do that as a form of "privacy" to move sms into folders. Is there anyway to do that now? Any recommendation of an application that can "hide" sms from the inbox without moving them anywhere?

Custom Contact SMS and Email Notifications QUESTION

Is there a way to customize the Contact: SMS and Email Notifications within the Contacts application or is a 3rd app needed?
I know there is a section for Ringtone, but what about SMS and Email?

Im not sure even 3rd party apps can do it..
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA

Email notifications come from Gmail or the Email app so custom notifications are not possible. I think Handcent SMS has the option to assign a contact a custom ringtone.

Ya, I was there was a way to have a custom sound for each notification. Email, text, etc...

For emails i dont think so, for text you can use a 3rdparty sms like gosms or handcent, or you can use ringo https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.electricpocket.ringo
Sent from Flip's SGS2

It would be a bit of work but you could get Gmail label notifier and make labels for different contacts and then assign specific sounds to the labels.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

How to Change tones
The phone is capable of doing it by itself without the need of a third party app, simply go into the app you wish to change the notification tone for example gmail.
1. Open app>menu button>more> then go into settings
2. Choose which account if you have multiple accounts or just select your account then go all the way to the bottom where it says labels to notify and choose your inbox. It's set to default by default which is the notification set generally in your phones settings.
3. Choose whatever notification tone you want, be it a custom one you added yourself into the notifications folder on your internal or sd card memory or ones that are on the phone by default and voila! You're set.
Example 2 SMS app (default since I use that one)
1. Open app (obviously)>menu button>settings
2. scroll all the way to the bottom and choose "select ringtone", it's set at default just like the default on gmail, changing this doesn't change your default, only changes the tone for sms app.
Have fun changing your notification tones to be able to differentiate different forms of mail, same method works for fb messenger etc, only app I haven't found a way to change the tone is yahoo mail, but that's unique so I have no need to change it.
Hope this helps.^_^

[Q] How can I send an sms to multiple receivers?

Hello,
Sorry if this question sounds a bit... dumb... but I cant find a way to send an sms to multiple recipients.
I come from sgs2 where i could select as many recipients from my contacts as I wanted but in galaxy nexus stock sms app I cant find a way to do that. I have to type the first letters and then my contacts appear.
Is there a way that i missed ??

I'm afraid there isn't any way to access your "list" of contacts and just check/uncheck boxes to send messages to that particular group of people. You have to type out their name/number in the "to" field. But I know a handful of 3rd party texting apps that allow you to do this, handcent comes to mind... GoSMS maybe?

Create a new sms then type some until you can Select one of the numbers, after that at the end of the number and name of the contact you will see a ", " touch the screen there and type some after the ", " and Select the second contact and so on, or download ex dialer wich have way more features and options than stock gapps, exdialer its free and works great thats what i use
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Thanks for your replies guys. I've never used 3rd party sms/dialer programs but i'll do now.

[Q] SMS App

Hi,
Coming from an iPhone background, I am finding the transition to this phone great!!!
One minor problem is group messages of 7 or more getting converted to MMS (as I found out to my expense). Is there an alternative SMS app that doesn't do this??

Go sms
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i use chomp sms

MySMS
MySMS is really great. Support different websms Provide, A perfect backup function and a lot more. Free Messages between Mysms users are also included...

Thanks for the replies :good:

I know this thread is a little old, but I remember that there was some hidden options in the SMS app on Gigerbread (3 Android version ago). One of them was whether or not you wanted to auto convert SMS messages longer than 160 characters to MMS. If your phone was rooted, you could edit an xml file to make this option appear so that you could check it.
In the same .xml file, you could actually set the numbers of character required for the auto convert to embark. I remember putting a crazy number.
In the end, on your phone it would still show as one huge message, but the recipient would receive multiple messages of 160 characters. Your phone would do the magic and send regular SMS instead of MMS.
If I can find the thread, I would link it, and then see if those options still works in KitKat on my rooted Z1c.

Check out sliding messaging. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smitten.slidingmms
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Textra is hands down the best messaging app I've used. Try it out!

textra is a simplified version of chomp. i just like the more customisation that chomp offers

LOS sms app - character encoding (simple characters)

I remember that with CM13 there was an option to use simple characters when sending sms but with LOS I can't find that option anywhere.
This would be nice to have as sending an sms with "special" characters will greatly reduce the number of characters per sms and will cause the sms to be split into multiple sms even for quite short messages.

I have the same problem,did you find a solution?

The only workaround I've found is to use google's sms app which is almost the same but has that option.

You can install SMS app QKSMS from F-droid. There is a 'remove accents' choice in settings which will do the job.