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Got Desire want to "polish" it

Yep finally happened, got mine Desire, I bought it first day when it came to my country
For now I love it, speed is decent and generally it is amazing device but, I found some minor "problems" that I want to "fix"
So first thing that I really want to fox is weather problem, if I disable to Desire so that it doesnt gather location info from WiFi or GPS I cannot see weather info for any city on my homescreen, can I set my location manually so that I can see weather info on my Clock homescreen widget?
Next thing is battery, whenever I plug in my Desire to PC/laptop it is starting to charge, can I somehow stop it(like in WinMo I have an option for it)?
Thirdly problem is mail, I can read them I can sync and all that but on my PC after I read e-mail on my Desire it still says that mail is unread, also when I delete e-mail on my Desire it is still on server when I look on my PC
Another problem is in market, I don't see any paid apps(I only see free apps) and there is no option to sort by best rated/most popular?
Last I want to is to disable stupid haptic feedback on a phone dialer, it annoys me and it uses battery too, any idea how to disable it, I have disabled it in keyboard settings but phone dialer still vibrates on touch.
If you know solution to any of these problems please let me know

Market will display paid apps only to visitors from certain countries.
Country is determined by your SIM card.
If you want to purchase apps, you can insert e.g. UK SIM card and surf the Market via WIFI.

i think the heptic feedback in the dialer currently cannot be switched off, i have already made a topic about it, searched everywhere in the phone and nothing

when adding the weather/clock widget you can specify the city, its the last step. set mail up to delete mail after downloading... open mail app - menu - settings - send and receive - select delete from server
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milan_ns said:
Market will display paid apps only to visitors from certain countries.
Country is determined by your SIM card.
If you want to purchase apps, you can insert e.g. UK SIM card and surf the Market via WIFI.
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Ok but why I can't organize them by e.g. most rated?
cez10 said:
i think the heptic feedback in the dialer currently cannot be switched off, i have already made a topic about it, searched everywhere in the phone and nothing
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Ok, at least I know it is not possible for now
farnsbarns said:
when adding the weather/clock widget you can specify the city, its the last step. set mail up to delete mail after downloading... open mail app - menu - settings - send and receive - select delete from server
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Thank you for answers
One more thing I would like to disable is Lock Screen, can I completely disable it?

search nolock in the maket!
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farnsbarns said:
search nolock in the maket!
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tnx for this
Since all of you are so good at resolving problems I have come up with another tweak I want to make.
Is it possible to remove in "all programs" some icons, or even better uninstall some apps, like GTalk, Teeter, QucikOffice(I have Docs To Go)....

benko286 said:
tnx for this
Since all of you are so good at resolving problems I have come up with another tweak I want to make.
Is it possible to remove in "all programs" some icons, or even better uninstall some apps, like GTalk, Teeter, QucikOffice(I have Docs To Go)....
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And app that will track my battery leak, so that I can see battery draining in graph
Tnx for all answers

Bump plus one more request, is there any 1x1 widget that can simply turn brigtness to auto or off(0%)?

check your battery drain via the following steps. create a contact call battery info with phone number *#*#4636#*#*. call it then hang up straight away. go to phone and long press on the number in history.
select edit before call, you can view loads of in-depth detail about the battery from there.
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Ok, but I would like to see app in which I will be able to see graph on which will be battery drain during hours!
Hope you have understanded

benko286 said:
Ok, but I would like to see app in which I will be able to see graph on which will be battery drain during hours!
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Download Battery Snap in the Market. It's free.
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1x1 app to modify brightness is "Brightness Toggle Widget" in the market....

Tnx for battery app, about brightness widget, it is not what I want, I only want to toggle auto brigtness to on or to turn off backlight
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EDIT: it seems that this is a bug, nobody can autoupdate rss news

Sry for an old bump one thing is really bothering me.
When I have my profile on Normal, I decided not to have vibrate on incoming calls and SMS/E-mail, but when I set to vibrate I want vibrate on all of them, BUT it only vibrates on incoming call, on any other notification no vibrate only LED is flashing, and how the hell I can know when I received e-mail/sms?
Any idea how to fix it?

[FIX] Android Calendar bug with Calendar Sync and end-of-month events

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Hi folks
Might want to sticky this one... many rely on the Google Calendar for business like myself and this Google Calender issue has been well documented all over the internet with no apparent fix, so it might be worth making this visible for people to see. There is a bug with Google Calendar that some of you may already know about. I have tested this fix noted below and it works flawlessly on two different HTC devices.
Issue:
When you sync Google Calendar via any android phone, it will only pull entries within a 30 day date range, anything older than 30 days will NOT be displayed.. The data in your Google web calendar will display calendar dates older than 30 days (mine goes back to 2003). This issue was raised with Google in 2009 and nothing has been done about, there is a fix though!!
Fix:
From home screen hit menu and go to settings
In settings go to Accounts and Sync
Turn off the background update and autosync.
Go back to main settings menu and go to Applications
Go into manage applications
Press menu button again and select Filter and then All.
Find Calendar and select it and delete all data (it will warn you about losing all files just hit OK).
Do the same for Calendar Storage.
Go back to main Settings menu and scroll down to Date and time.
Turn off Automatic and then set date to January 1st 2009 and hit set. (I tried to go all the way back to 2006 on my first try and it just kept rolling the date back to the current one)
Wait a second and make sure date remains set to the date you selected. Then select Date again and select your desired date (should be before first entry on calendar.)
Go back into Settings menu and select Accounts and sync.
Select the Calendar to sync and then go into calendar to ensure its all there.
Once it is you can then safely turn on auto time and date again and let all apps auto update in background.
Thanks to Wade for his help.

thanks, will give it a try. I must admit I never had any problem syncing my calendar since 2001 while using HTC roms. The problem only occurs using non-sense roms for which it would only sync the past 30 days.
Why does it affect non-sense roms only?

nforsans said:
thanks, will give it a try. I must admit I never had any problem syncing my calendar since 2001 while using HTC roms. The problem only occurs using non-sense roms for which it would only sync the past 30 days.
Why does it affect non-sense roms only?
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This effects everyone, regardless of the ROM Sense or none Sense. Here are the tickets to Google...
Android Calendar bug with Calendar Sync and end-of-month events
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3672
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Mobile/thread?tid=4d54201a9dff8730&hl=en
http://www.google.la/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6d1605a796be89fd&hl=en
http://www.google.td/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=37379484ae8fb31d&hl=en

Thanks - that's odd cause I did not experience the problem on my hero and desire until I started using a non-Sense ROM a few weeks ago - i've had my full calendar since 2001 on both devices until a few weeks ago!
By the way the trick did not work - my exchange server refused to synchronise my calendar when i set a date that did not match the date on the server...

given the lack of interest of others for this thread it sounds like only a minority of users are experiencing the problem - as i wrote earlier, i did not experience it in 3 years of running Android on various devices until I rooted my desire and installed a non-sense froyo rom. My calendar went back to 2001, and I could sync them all with my android devices until recently.
btw I have not seen many threads about the problem on xda either....

nforsans said:
given the lack of interest of others for this thread it sounds like only a minority of users are experiencing the problem - as i wrote earlier, i did not experience it in 3 years of running Android on various devices until I rooted my desire and installed a non-sense froyo rom. My calendar went back to 2001, and I could sync them all with my android devices until recently.
btw I have not seen many threads about the problem on xda either....
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Interesting... point.
I only noticed this after I rooted as well. I guess the people that experienced this in the links I provided above must have rooted their phones too. Anyway, this thread is here for those that need to reflect back on previous appointments that aren't visible.

Doesn't work on my I9000
Sync sign appear just for a few sec and then disappears. On Calendar Storage just 40K of data seems to be downloaded instead of several MB (full of events from 2004)...

i tried it but it won't work for me
any other solution?
i really need more than 30 days

UnitedOceanic said:
i tried it but it won't work for me
any other solution?
i really need more than 30 days
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The only fix is to install a HTC rom and you'll get all your appointments back... sorry for not being any more helpful. I must admit this is an issue I have experienced with all non-htc roms on all my devices, from the hero to the desire and my Asus eeepad transformer

did not work
Hi,
I have an HTC Sensation XE, but this trick did not work... any other idea?
Where the limitation is coming from ?
- the server side or device side.. if it is device side it could be that somebody would be able to implement something where we could chose the timeframe for sync (like the gSyncIt tool for outlook)
Thanks

Does also happen at devices which are not rooted
I'm tired of posts blaming rooting of devices for every bug in Android. My brand new (December) Galxay Note is not rooted (yet) and it does not sync events from November. However, many missing basic features (e.g. a bitwise backup of the internal flash, like nandroid) in Android make living without rooting very dangerous: On my old, rooted Milestone 1, the system corrupted itself several times, and I could restore with Nandroid. Many (payed) apps after some time destroyed themselves with "updates", and I could roll back with Titanium.

CalenGoo to the rescue
While I love a technological fight as much as the next guy, this syncing issue with Google Calendar and Android phones is a waste of flipping time.
Yes I know that Google's calendar sync works for some people, some of the time.
Yes, I know theirs is built in... and used to work... and should work... and Google is being a butt for not getting it resolved.
But sorry -- it's time to get back to work.
Following the suggestion of a post earlier in this thread, I installed CalenGoo and all this [email protected] is far, far behind me.
Installed, configured and synced perfectly in about 5 minutes.
I don't work for CalenGoo, don't know anyone who does -- don't get nuthin' for mentioning it. But give it a whirl -- and when you see how quickly it works, you'll be triply pi$$ed at Google.
(f-it -- I'm to new to post URLs, so just search Calengoo in the store)

Thank you so much man, this is even happening in top recent roms like [AllianceROM][6.0][26.01]LS8

Worked on my rooted Note 3
Thanks!!! This worked on my rooted Note 3 but can not get it to work on my Note Edge. When syncing NE it gives the red indicator failed to sync.

It worked, PARTLY. All my Google calendar entries from the beginning (2009) are now synced with my phones. However, when I do a search for particular entries it cannot only find entries beginning November, 2017 not anything earlier.

Apps within Apps... WHY?!

I've been a huge Android fan since I ditched iPhone for N1, and the Galaxy Nexus is by far the best phone I've ever owned.
But there's one niggle about Android that drives me nuts and I can't see any possible UI reason why they do it this way. I hoped ICS would fix it to be more consistent, but it hasn't. It's when an app opens a session of a different app within itself.
For example... take a photo.. hit the thumbnail. It doesn't take you to the Gallery, it takes you to a thumbnail within Camera. Fine, I can understand that as a quick preview.
But now, hit that you want to edit it in, for example, PicSay. Or Tweet it. It will open the editor or twitter app. Except it doesn't. It opens it within the Camera. Want to leave an image to the editor, then go back an take another photo? You can't.
More annoying: tweet or email a web page with a comment. The mail or twitter app is brought up inside the browser. Want to check something on the web page to put into the message? You can't. It's impossible to flick back to the browser and look it up, because the message composition app is 'in front' of it. You're not taken out of the browser to the app you wanted so can't switch between the browser and your message composition.
I can't work out why it's done like this, I find it incredibly annoying. And now with the ICS recent apps list, if you hit home halfway through doing something like this the thumbnail for Browser will actually show Gmail, and it's the Browser and not Gmail you need to flick back to.
Why?

!!11oneone said:
But there's one niggle about Android that drives me nuts and I can't see any possible UI reason why they do it this way. I hoped ICS would fix it to be more consistent, but it hasn't. It's when an app opens a session of a different app within itself.
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Related annoyance. Because each application maintains that "history" (so you can hit back to get all the way out), many apps don't include their own "return to main app" button. You can just hit back, right? Not always.
Take Google Music, for example. Other music apps as well, probably.
Perfectly normal use case:
1). You open it up go to the song listing, pick an album or playlist or song or whatever and start playing.
2). Then you do other things. Email or something, whatever
3). You suddenly decide that want to hear a different song!
4). You go to the notifications tray and click the music icon there (since it's playing music, it's an ongoing app).
5). It opens up the music app to the currently playing song
Music app is open - it should be easy to play a new song, right? Nope. How do you pick a new song? If you had opened the app from a normal music icon, you could hit "back" to go back to the main page - since that progression is saved in the history from when you originally opeend it. But when you clicked it from the notification dropdown, there's no history. When you hit "back", it will just exit back to the Home screen, with the music still playing.
I can't count the number of times I've opened up the music app from the notifications dropdown, hit back, had it exit, and had to re-open music from the normal launcher icon.

Conversely, Twicca (my favourite twitter app) maintains an incredibly detailed 'back' history.
So, hitting back can go Search results > other search results > direct messages > direct messages (because you refreshed) > replies > replies > replies > replies (because the last 4 times you used the app was to check replies) > home

Se7enLC said:
Related annoyance. Because each application maintains that "history" (so you can hit back to get all the way out), many apps don't include their own "return to main app" button. You can just hit back, right? Not always.
Take Google Music, for example. Other music apps as well, probably.
Perfectly normal use case:
1). You open it up go to the song listing, pick an album or playlist or song or whatever and start playing.
2). Then you do other things. Email or something, whatever
3). You suddenly decide that want to hear a different song!
4). You go to the notifications tray and click the music icon there (since it's playing music, it's an ongoing app).
5). It opens up the music app to the currently playing song
Music app is open - it should be easy to play a new song, right? Nope. How do you pick a new song? If you had opened the app from a normal music icon, you could hit "back" to go back to the main page - since that progression is saved in the history from when you originally opeend it. But when you clicked it from the notification dropdown, there's no history. When you hit "back", it will just exit back to the Home screen, with the music still playing.
I can't count the number of times I've opened up the music app from the notifications dropdown, hit back, had it exit, and had to re-open music from the normal launcher icon.
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What's funny is Samsung's Music app handles this situation perfectly! The back button has the expected behavior of taking you back to the album/song list from which you came.
Google does not fully understand UI/UX yet. Take the Market app for instance. Scroll down to your list of purchased but not installed apps and check out the last time say, WidgetLocker, was updated. Check its date, hit the back button and what should it do? It SHOULD take you to the spot in your app list you were at. What does it do? Takes you to the top of your "Installed" apps list. Leaving you to scroll all the way back down to your original position in the list.

Coming from an iPhone 4, I have to say that there are a lot of things that Android needs to fix/improve. UI/UX is one of them. Although ICS is a huge step to the right direction. Having said that, to avoid conflicts, I say that I absolutely love my rooted Galaxy Nexus!

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YESSSSS!!!!

This is how windows phone does it as well.. use the phone for a day and you can push the back button for hours.
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[APP] Lockscreen Policy - Disable Android 4.2+ Lockscreen Widgets, Camera

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Published to Google Play, Here
(Attached v1.2.2, v1.2.3)
This gets rid of the lockscreen widgets and camera on the homescreen on Android 4.2 or higher.
If you have root, you can disable the bold-hour clock widget from the action bar menu, under 'Clock Hack'. (since 1.2)
The app is completely free. I don't foresee adding anything much to this app (I could add a couple of toggle widgets).
This is a lightweight app at 80KB.
There's a known issue under 4.2.2:
With the clock hack disabled, the clock widget toggles between the bold hour clock and the non-bold hour clock every other unlock. If your device is rooted, you can use the clock hack to get the device to consistently display the non-bold hour clock. Otherwise, there isn't anything I can do for you immediately. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I had no control over this.
Disable widgets and/or camera access on the lockscreen under Android 4.2.
Usage:
1) Run application
2) Make selections, and press activate
3) In the 'Activate device administrator' screen, choose 'Activate'
4) Verify settings, and press 'Apply'
5) To change settings, either press the 'Reset' button or hit the back key from the app to return to the setup screen
Uninstall:
To uninstall, uncheck the application from the 'Device Administrator' list under 'Security' in 'Settings'.
Privacy:
I do not collect any personal information with this completely free application.
No permissions other than device administrator required.
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Ratings, reviews welcome
Implements root tooles by Stericson
http://code.google.com/p/roottools/

Cool!
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Thanks! The flashing widget placeholder on the lockscreen was annoying as hell.

This app succeeds where stock Android has failed. :good:

Thank goodness...
The lockscreen was seriously driving me nuts. I hated seeing that widget box every time I turned it on. Thank you for providing a way to turn it off. I just wish Google had made it optional in the first place.
Now, if you could just help me change that ugly, ugly clock font. :good:

It might be possible to change the default clock as more devs support lockscreen widgets, because I think it's just a widget there...

Looks good I am going to have to try this out.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Installing. The lockscreen changes haven't impressed me much.

works on Nexus 7

THANK YOU!
installing NOW.

I'll test it for you on Nexus S, send me the apk via PM or open it on Google Play.

Thanks for the report for the Nexus 7. I checked out some videos and realized that tablets don't have a camera swipe gesture on the lockscreen. Checking the 'camera' option doesn't really hurt anything though, at least as of the currently available Android API.
Functionally the app is not going to change much. The icon is hideous, but I know it's annoying to have to update for something minor like that, so that's not coming until there's a good idea for something that needs to be in the app.
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I'll test it for you on Nexus S, send me the apk via PM or open it on Google Play.
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It doesn't do anything for devices not running Android 4.2. If your device runs Android 4.2 already, you will see it in the Play Store.

chislon said:
It doesn't do anything for devices not running Android 4.2. If your device runs Android 4.2 already, you will see it in the Play Store.
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Alright, when I flash back 4.2 I'll see if I can download from Play, thanks.

APK Download?
Hey, could you please share the APK?
I can't download it on Play Store because my Galaxy Nexus on 4.2 seems to be incompatible...

Allow Clock Replacement Widget?
Thanks for getting this app up so quickly!
I know you're probably not going to add much to it, but I have one request. Is it possible to make it work with clock replacement widgets like the "Fixed 4.2 Clock Widget" (can't link to it in the Play Store because I haven't posted 10 times yet).
That widget fixes the weird bolded-hour clock thing Google decided to do for 4.2, but I can't use it if I disable widgets with your app. If there was a way to disable the addition of new widgets (swiping to the left) but still allow a replacement widget on the primary lock screen, that would be perfect.

Would it be possible to disable Google Now? I'd really appreciate that ability. How did Google screw the lock screen so bad?!

Not sure how the clock widget can be changed.
Also noticed that if a music player has lockscreen widgets, they show up on a new page...
You can disable system apps in Android 4.2. If you disable Google Search in Applications, you lose the swipe up gesture from the soft buttons, but the lockscreen will still show a weird looking dot where Google Now is activated.

AnsenBayer said:
Thanks for getting this app up so quickly!
I know you're probably not going to add much to it, but I have one request. Is it possible to make it work with clock replacement widgets like the "Fixed 4.2 Clock Widget" (can't link to it in the Play Store because I haven't posted 10 times yet).
That widget fixes the weird bolded-hour clock thing Google decided to do for 4.2, but I can't use it if I disable widgets with your app. If there was a way to disable the addition of new widgets (swiping to the left) but still allow a replacement widget on the primary lock screen, that would be perfect.
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Was just thinking the exact same thing. You're right, if this could be done it would be absolutely perfect. :good:

Why oh why do we have to look at that awful clock font? If only there was a way to remove it completely. And why did they decide to have that place holder flash up on the left every single time I unlock? I know I can add a widget, there's no need to remind me every single time I unlock!

I don't think I see a good way of changing the default widget unless you replace the system clock app.

What's up with Message+ texting as default and...

So Sammy or Verizon made this the default texting app. I'm not liking that I can't even set an individual text alert sound per contact. I even went into contacts, added the extra field "Message Tone" and selected a unique one for given contact but always defaults to same stupid sound for all texts from all contacts. doh
Do I have to go 3rd party app to get what I want?

Nope. I disabled that crap and am using the real message app. It's there...

Same here. disabled and using samsung messages

lazer9 said:
So Sammy or Verizon made this the default texting app. I'm not liking that I can't even set an individual text alert sound per contact. I even went into contacts, added the extra field "Message Tone" and selected a unique one for given contact but always defaults to same stupid sound for all texts from all contacts. doh
Do I have to go 3rd party app to get what I want?
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This is definitely a Verizon App and I'm uninstalling and turning off as many of them as I can. I don't even want to their cloud.

Thanks for the replies. Didn't even realize it was a damn Verizon bloat app. Going to go back to "Chomp SMS" I think.

I think it has some great features. such as being able to text on wifi if there is no signal. if someone send you a link it gives you a preview of the site before the need to click on it. it also handles pictures that have been sent back and forth very nicely. I could go on but check it out.

midwboss said:
I think it has some great features. such as being able to text on wifi if there is no signal. if someone send you a link it gives you a preview of the site before the need to click on it. it also handles pictures that have been sent back and forth very nicely. I could go on but check it out.
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I was just going to say this. The vzw app is really nice. I have it on my Note 12.2 tablet too. Wifi texting is awesome. It's also integrated with glympse, which is so incredibly useful. my wife and I use it all the time.
Just because it's made by Verizon doesn't mean it's some hellishly crappy battery sucking phone melting app

I started using it last week. I discovered it by accident. It allows me to install it on my computers, my N7, and my phone. I can text from any of these devices and receive texts on all of them.
It is missing some of the cool functionality of the Samsung stock app, but it is definitely worth having. It's kind of like what Apple did with their "being able to text from phone, iPad, or Mac" thing.

Thats kind of cool.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/wcms/consumer/products/verizon-messages.html
If it works then I could stop using MightyText to text from my computer.

Cool will check this out, thx! I use handcent and pay $9.99 for the gold plan to backup all my mms/sms and can use on ipad, windows to text a year. Will check out verizons app more!
: )

Reporting back and it isnt the prettiest or hardly customizable at all but it works and honestly no complaints. Putting Textra and Mightytext sms app sync on the backburner while I try this out.

I installed the update in the google play market for this app and it allows much more customization with fonts, colors, backgrounds, list types, chat bubbles.
First Verizon App I like and use lol. Saying it here.:good:
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"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Screenshot size is ridiculous.

Piercing Heavens said:
I installed the update in the google play market for this app and it allows much more customization with fonts, colors, backgrounds, list types, chat bubbles.
First Verizon App I like and use lol. Saying it here.:good:
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Screenshot size is ridiculous.
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Not sure if I had applied the update or not. Can you tell me if it allows individual per contact notifications assignments?

lazer9 said:
Not sure if I had applied the update or not. Can you tell me if it allows individual per contact notifications assignments?
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It allows individual sounds for different people.
Other than that its texting that works through wifi and my pc.

OK, that desktop app is pretty cool. On my iMac (OSX Yosemite) it wants access to my contacts, then my phone number, then sent me a text with a code that I popped into the app and wham! All my texts are now on my desktop app. Thanks for the heads-up!
BTW - I am still using the default Android text app on my phone and not the Verizon Message+ and I still seem to get the full functionality, so you can have the best of both worlds. One caveat - My Android contacts were not shared on my iMac so some of the desktop app messages show only the phone number and not the contact name. Looks like it is time to synchronize!
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Wow, what a surprise that this app is actually worthwhile. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to stray away from Hangouts though, I get a lot of use out of that app. If only verizon would allow wifi texting to 3rd party apps.
Is it a battery/cpu hog? I'm hesitant to believe this is a well constructed app

theRZA001 said:
Wow, what a surprise that this app is actually worthwhile. I'm not sure I'm curious enough to stray away from Hangouts though, I get a lot of use out of that app. If only verizon would allow wifi texting to 3rd party apps.
Is it a battery/cpu hog? I'm hesitant to believe this is a well constructed app
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I've been using it since yesterday. I haven't noticed any battery drain from using it.

Piercing Heavens said:
I've been using it since yesterday. I haven't noticed any battery drain from using it.
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Is the "cloud" texting intuitive enough to justify jumping ship from hangouts? I'm really torn here.

Honestly. Just use it for a whole day.
Only disadvantage I see is that its not as polished and if your friends are using hangouts then it might not work.

Piercing Heavens said:
Honestly. Just use it for a whole day.
Only disadvantage I see is that its not as polished and if your friends are using hangouts then it might not work.
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Will do. Thanks