[Q] Question about Froyo's Sms - G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I just obtained a G2...and this is my first time using Froyo. I had a motorola milestone with 2.1. Anyway, I noticed that now...the thread's background color is white, with text msg font in black. I wanted to know if there was anyway to have 2.1's style of text threads (black background w/ white text)? Thanks...

this is actually not a difference between 2.1 and 2.2, this is a difference between motorola's motoblur ui & vanilla android.
and currently, no. srry.

you can use handcent or chompsms to get a custom the look for sms

ruleftbehind said:
this is actually not a difference between 2.1 and 2.2, this is a difference between motorola's motoblur ui & vanilla android.
and currently, no. srry.
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Only thing is that the milestone...well my milestone did not have motoblur installed into it. My old G1s cupcake had the same sms thread style. I don't understand why they didnt give us a choice...eh
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Junior-J said:
Only thing is that the milestone...well my milestone did not have motoblur installed into it. My old G1s cupcake had the same sms thread style. I don't understand why they didnt give us a choice...eh
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They didn't give us a choice because they said we can't have r cake and eat it too. But anyways when prem work comes out we will have a choice. But I like the white so I'm good
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u have a choice, choose another sms app! lol

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[Q] SMS Apps

What sms apps are you using?
Im using Chomp SMS. It's ok...
I personally like Handcent. I can customize the colors and fonts with in the threads. Ou should definently give it a go
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Love Handcent too. I think it's one of the best ones.
Handcent here too. Love it!
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Handcent here too... it's got lots of options and the dev is always working on making it better.
Using Handcent and it's g reat
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HANDSCENT!
I tried to go back to the the basic mms on my evo. But couldn't keep away from hanscent. Can customize way too much, not a bad thing, but I spend a lot of time tweaking it just right. so i love it now lol
CyanogenMod-6.1 mms.apk here I tried hancent, being picky ... I just dont care for the UI and the widget looks like crap but its a good app just not for me.
cds36 said:
CyanogenMod-6.1 mms.apk here I tried hancent, being picky ... I just dont care for the UI and the widget looks like crap but its a good app just not for me.
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can you use that in a sense rom?
Handcent right now. I do like Chomp tho!!
SayWhat10 said:
can you use that in a sense rom?
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Yep using it for weeks now
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I went back to the stock miui messaging app and it looked so boring...Chomp isn't too bad but still +1 for Handcent
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cds36 said:
CyanogenMod-6.1 mms.apk here I tried hancent, being picky ... I just dont care for the UI and the widget looks like crap but its a good app just not for me.
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Can I just delete the mms.apk that's already installed and install CM's? I remember reading some posts about people having problems with picture messages breaking without the original MMS.apk.
"Went back to HTC MMS to fix MMS download problem." - vaelpak
Can someone post the Cyanogen 6-1 mms.apk file please? I tried looking for it , but couldn't find it.
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Default client with cm6 works fine.for me
some place in the world !!!!
so basically theres only 2 SMS apps?
(handcent and chomp) talking aftermarket sms programs
+1 Handcent

Make your phone look nice without root?

Hey, just read the topic and please give me some names of apps that you can buy from Android market to customize your phone
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go launcher,balancer,pro launcher............
Some launchers
I want a really clean and fresh theme. Anyone?
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no way, sir
fabbenation said:
Hey, just read the topic and please give me some names of apps that you can buy from Android market to customize your phone
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have a good search on the market yourself would be the best option for you. there are literally thousands of different options for you. but customisation is relatively limited for non rooted phones, live wallpapers and HTC themes, avaliable though HTC built in Sense Themes.
with certain roms, they take on the T-Mobile theme system what utilises much more themes to download and customise. launchers only make changes to your main screen and application list, icons as such a limited.
adw launcher, launcher pro, helix launcher
Re. Make your phone look nice without root...
This might raise some hackles, but in my opinion, when it comes to the aesthetics between rooted and stock phones, there isn't usually a drastic difference. You can get a stock ROM looking really great. I run LauncherPro Plus on CM7.1, but to be honest the cosmetic difference between that and running it on stock Froyo is fairly minor, to the, uhm, passerby. *hides*
Thanks this helps alot
An here are also some nice Themes for Sense 2.0: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801928 and Sense 2.1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048894
Launcher pro is a good one. You should check it out

Forum pool on when we get an official ICS update

I read the forum rules and online gambling isn't mentioned. Any good guesses on when we will be getting 4.0? I am betting $5.00 on 3/30/12.
I'll take the end of February for $0.00... They have to add all the unneeded bloatware.
Way too optimistic dates above me ^
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
as soon as bubby finishes cm7 they can do ics, lmao
$5 we won't see it until August
xSaint21 said:
Id say about a month after the sgs3 is released
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You beat me to it ISaint! That's what happened with official Gingerbread on the Epic. After I got this phone it got released after like 10 leaks
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What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
What about never. Lol. Who knows maybe Sammy will surprise us and drop it on us soon.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Besides Bubby, it Looks like Darchstar is working on an ICS build
https://github.com/darchstar
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I will take May 16.
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SantinoInc said:
What I really want to know is when if ever we will have a fully functional AOSP ICS ROM? I'm sure TW will make ICS look and feel like crap.
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Okay, then you just throw on the Trebuchet launcher from CM9, or even the vanilla ICS launcher, and your problems are solved.
Dang, you wouldn't even have to have Root for that. Just like when I bought this phone: Touchwiz 4.0 didn't even make it out of the Best Buy parking lot before I had ADWEX running. (and Touchwiz 4 actually had a slim chance of survival, because it's the best version they've made so far, to be sure.....)
However, ADW won out merely because of the sheer speed factor.
(And yes, I know that Touchwiz is still there, lurking underneath, but it's really almost transparent compared to HTC's Sense or Motorola's Blur thing....)
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EDIT: Oh, yeah, the pool for "official" release: February 21st.
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
Dr. Droid
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Official ICS? I'm guessing April or May probably.
Unofficial? January is looking pretty likely so far.
raghucares said:
I think you should make the launcher look more in favor of the new flavor. The people app is royally renovated and I am looking the look. Any idea if you can make the theme of the whole phone look like that?
1. Making the status bar transparent
2. Vertical scrolling of the apps menu. Scroll horizontally to go to widgets menu.
3. Changing the whole background to white (pearl white) with black roboto font, or at least an option to do so.
4.to make apps on the dock bar run continuously so that there a no lag when trying to open them.(everyone I try to open the people app, it takes sometime to load and it's irritating)
5 instead of grey background on every pop up menu, a blue white themed menu options would be great. I am new to xda, so if this is in a wrong forum, please feel free to post the same in the right forum.
I greatly appreciate the work your are doing. Good luck!
Dr. Droid
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Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
I was told we will not have it until ....wait for it....sometime in April the latter part of the month. QUOTE me on this
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eao1991 said:
$5 we won't see it until August
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that's more like it! 6-9 months for me as well. gentleman's bet of course though.
My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
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bluefire808 said:
Your making a theme request in a ICS launcb date guessing game thread? Lol did i miss something....
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My request was not exactly a theme. the status bar becoming transparent can be viewed as hiding the status bar. scrolling options is definitely launcher. and keeping the dock icons in homescreen running use definitely launcher again. and yeah dude you missed something. And as long as you don't do anything productive there's no need to lol. And this is me being polite.
Dr.Droid
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Launch date is no fun to talk about. If you are waiting for the update you are in the wrong website.
Dr.Droid
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MIUI style SMS notifications for ICS

Does anyone know if there is something like this out there? I wish there was a built it notification that had a quick reply option without having to replace the stock messaging app. im not a fan of sms pop up from the market.
Any ideas from developers if this is possible? Or if something like this is already out there. I just hate how android currently handles sms notifications, you have to take way too many steps in order to view and reply to the message.
Thanks!
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You're going to have to choose a 3rd party SMS app that you like and does what you are looking for.
Its easier to do that than expect someone to custom-make a system app that can replace the SMS app entirely and add your desired functionality.
Try SMS Popup, I've been using it since 2009 when I got my OG droid...indispensable!!
You should try Go sms pro, i think its the best sms app atm on market.
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Try SMS Popup, I've been using it since 2009 when I got my OG droid...indispensable!!
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Did you even read the op? He said he doesn't like SMS popup
I had SMS pop up installed on my DroidX and when I got my galaxy nexus it didn't work at first. Once I reinstalled it runs perfectly.
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PaulG1488 said:
Did you even read the op? He said he doesn't like SMS popup
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SMS popup does exactly what the OP is asking for. I cannot see why he doesn't like it. It allows quick response, etc...
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.np.smsPopupPlus
Popup SMS does something extremely similar. Non-intrusive, doesn't mess with YouTube playback, and has some level of customization.
Give it a look. I love it.
I use handcent . Give it a shot
Hello guys!
I recently installed the official ics rom on my samsung galaxy s2.
I always used on gingerbread SMS GO PRO (I'm a fan of the team go, their apps are always good) but with ics sends two text messages at time.
I write this post because you suggested just the app that I mentioned. It 's a known problem and I can fix it?
The other proposed programs have themes that are close to holo?
Thanks a lot,
Sli
handcent is pretty nice.
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ok
I download and try Handcent immediately ...
Thanks for reporting,
I do some testing and I update you ...
sli
get beta2 of sms popup:
http://code.google.com/p/android-smspopup/downloads/list
it is now HOLO themed and looks great. Dont bother with those other bloated sms apps.
andy2na said:
get beta2 of sms popup:
http://code.google.com/p/android-smspopup/downloads/list
it is now HOLO themed and looks great. Dont bother with those other bloated sms apps.
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Sweet. Thanks! I like it. =]
thanks...
It work fine, and is beautiful!
Is there an app that permit to write sms for using us sms app? (not only in popup but whit this style!)
Thanks,
Sli

A good SMS app that uses the holo design???

Does anyone know a good SMS app that uses the holo design language? I've been using SMS Pro be am getting to the point that I dislike using apps that don't use the new (can it still be called "new") holo language. In some ways it shouldn't even matter because the Nexus devices can be flexible with their menu button. But I still dislike developers that make Android look old and dated
So I'm at the point where I've gone back to stock messenger but want (for example) a dark theme.
Does anyone have any ideas of a holo themed SMS app. (Holo themes for Go SMS Pro and Handcent don't count as the menu button is still in the wrong place.)
Here's a holo-themed stock messenger:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745830
That's the one I use. Love it!
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NotEnoughMinerals said:
Here's a holo-themed stock messenger:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745830
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ahh that messenger looks so awesome! i dont want to root my phone just yet though
badlucktk said:
ahh that messenger looks so awesome! i dont want to root my phone just yet though
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... why? Its so easy to go back to stock on a Nexus.
Android without root is like drinking beer alone in the dark
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SMS enhancer in playstore. Using it since the galaxy nexus days. Awesome
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