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The facebook pictures for my contacts used to show up on the stock messaging app, but after restoring a nandroid it doesn't anymore. This is also the case with other messaging apps, so I don't think it's related to the app.
Is there any way I can make messaging apps show contact pictures again? (the contact pictures are still there btw - checked the dialer)
Have you checked if your FB account is still linked and set to sync? If yes, try removing & re-adding it. If all else fails, try linking contacts manually.
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
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socktug said:
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
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Steve, actually. That's why it's crammed in between John and Doe.
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Steve, actually. That's why it's crammed in between John and Doe.
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Deepest apologies. lol.
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Have you checked if your FB account is still linked and set to sync? If yes, try removing & re-adding it. If all else fails, try linking contacts manually.
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socktug said:
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
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Ah, I didn't try the obvious one. The account was still linked and was set to sync, but I deleted and re-added my facebook account and now it's working.
Thanks for the help guys . I should have tried this before posting a new thread here, my bad!
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Deepest apologies. lol.
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Apology accepted.
Glad we could help!
Thanks
I thought this was going to be a more serious problem but all I had to do was re add my facebook account thanks for the help!
thank you so much. I was searching for a while, but turns out to be a simple fix.
i had the same problem and i have managed to fix it by this way, thanks.
however i have another similar issue which i couldn't fix until now. even if sender's facebook or profile picture seems, my own picture doesn't seem at the conversation.
is there anyone who managed to overcome this problem??
I'm having this "odd" problem too.. however I do have facebook sync-ed (similar to leventmann i guess)
The problem appears to be that the messaging app thinks the contact comes from the SIM (thus lack of profile pics).
Short of deleting the contact form SIM, i've managed to 'trick' the phone into using the facebook/google contact by fiddling around with area codes.
However, whenever I have the contact pic, I then get this "ugly" extra (M <mobile numb>) appended to the name:
ie.
John Doe (M 1234567890): blah blah blah
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Which I guess is 'ok', but it just takes up so much space in the message itself (even more so with the new Sense 3.0 messages having an iPhone-like look with messages being left/right speech bubbles)
At first I thought it was because the contact had 2 mobiles associated with the account, so removed (unlinked) one of the mobiles, but problem still exists.
Any ideas on how to keep the contact pic but remove (M xxxxx) ?
Also, is there a way to get the original htc messaging style back? (Sort of like the one you see if you go to "Persons -> <contact> -> Messages"; a basic list of the messages where sender/recipient avatars are on the left...)
I've got a bunch of my contacts "linked" to their FB accounts, but for some reason their pics are all pixelated, I'm currently using RCMix's ROM.
When I was using SGBS ROM the pics weren't all pixelated.. anyone else have this problem?
I don't think it's specific to the ROMs mind you.
hmm, no dno't have problems with pixulated FB pics, when I do manage to get the to display they display fine.
Small update...I've noticed something that may be part of the cause of my problems... in the "People" application the SIM numbers/contacts are not shown (I chose to not view them). However, when I open 'Phone' (to dial someone) I see the SIM numbers/contacts!!!
I vaguely remember seeing this in another thread (shall go digging for it later) but wondering if anyone reading this thread knows how to fix it?
Thanks!
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I've got a bunch of my contacts "linked" to their FB accounts, but for some reason their pics are all pixelated, I'm currently using RCMix's ROM.
When I was using SGBS ROM the pics weren't all pixelated.. anyone else have this problem?
I don't think it's specific to the ROMs mind you.
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I have changed my ROM from Starburst Froyo to Cool VisionS and i can see my own profile picture now after creating a Google profile with picture.
However now i have this problem above. Pictures are pixelated and i am not sure if it is because of ROM. Another suspicious point is : Before i had "Facebook for HTC Sense" in the settings for syncronization but now in this ROM i have only "Facebook" to syncronize. Do you think it can be related to one of these reasons?
Yes, i found the solution for pixelation problem (at least for my situation)
When i tried to add account for syncronization (under settings - accounts&syncronization) i noticed that there is also "Facebook for HTC Sense" which requires another login process.
Use this account for syncronization and remove simply "Facebook".
It fixed pixelation problem
That did indeed fix the pixelated picture problem for me as well.
The pictures for my contacts in the messaging app are missing though, aside from the few that I have setup to use a picture on my SD card.
have you ever done "fix permissions" from CWM?
permissions's related problem.
leventmann said:
however i have another similar issue which i couldn't fix until now. even if sender's facebook or profile picture seems, my own picture doesn't seem at the conversation.
is there anyone who managed to overcome this problem??
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I have exactly same problem. Any ideas how to fix this?
I've tried to save my own number to contacts and linked it to my own facebook, but the pic just wont show up? I'm using CM-3.7 rom.
I am experiencing the same issue under stock 2.3.3, from time to time (in a SMS thread, my contact's picture is shown as default). The only solution i've found for this is to open my contact's details and re-add my custom picture.
I can't even find my own contact profile from the phone? Is this someting to do with CM-3.7 ROM or am I just blind? In the stock ROM, it was first at the contactbook, but after I installed the ROM I haven't seen it anymore.
My DZ just lost all my stored SMS/MMS messages.
Got a new msg this morning but I couldn't view it in the standard SMS app, in fact there were no old messages displayed. I could see it in the widget view but it was the only msg there.
Deleted it and now I have no old messages.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
I'm running the stock ROM in my UK SIM free DZ.
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Richard
Weird, someone else had the same problem earlier today.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865035
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Weird, someone else had the same problem earlier today.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865035
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Happened to me last week! Backing up all my SMS to Gmail now.
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Happened to me last week! Backing up all my SMS to Gmail now.
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How do you do that? Cut and paste or is there an app to do it?
R.
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How do you do that? Cut and paste or is there an app to do it?
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http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/wiki/UserGuide
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http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/wiki/UserGuide
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Thanks. That's a really useful app.
R.
The same happened to me last night. The sms app crashed first and when i opened it again all was gone.
I'm now running the 'SMS Backup & Restore' app to autobackup since backing up to Gmail isn't able to restore your sms back to your phone.
Something similar happened to me. All of the contacts on my sim card disappeared. I had to send them to my z using bluetooth from my old phone...
But my messages remained intact
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It just happened to me, one hour ago all were there, but now .. empty list ..
That's very strange..
Happened to me once last month. Luckily I use SMS Backup+ to backup my SMSes to gmail. Interestingly, the messages are also gone from htcsense.com, which is supposed to back it up to the HTC cloud.
Seems like it's a known problem but HTC doesn't know how to fix it yet.
Happened to me yesterday also...
I suspect it's htc sense synching with the website, loosing all the data!?
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Happened to me yesterday also...
I suspect it's htc sense synching with the website, loosing all the data!?
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That's a good suggestion, I wonder if that's what it is ?
Hello,
It happend to me last week. All my SMS are gone, but I'm not synching my SMS with the HTC Sense website.
Is that a HTC Sense problem or a general android problem?
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one thing yall havnt noted is that how many text messages did yall have before it all got erased? On my g2, ive had around 6000 messages before it erases everything, then i just restore my backed up messages. But it is still messed up that it clears
Had the same problem, with over 1500 msgs sth went wrong and all the txts were gone ...
now got problems with flashing camera but will tell about it in different thread.
I had this happen to me once about a month ago.
I can't remember exactly how many messages I had, but it was no more than 200-300.
It occured while I was running CM6 RC3. Have not been able to reproduce the issue since...
Interessting, so when it happend with CM6 its probably not a HTC Sense issue.
I lost something about 1100 SMS with plain HTC Sense 1.72. I was receiving an SMS and I saw the message text in the notification bar. When I draged the notification bar down all SMS were gone.
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Interessting, so when it happend with CM6 its probably not a HTC Sense issue.
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If it happened with CM6 it's probably a different issue though, since CM uses a different SMS app anyway.
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WattWanderer said:
Interessting, so when it happend with CM6 its probably not a HTC Sense issue.
I lost something about 1100 SMS with plain HTC Sense 1.72. I was receiving an SMS and I saw the message text in the notification bar. When I draged the notification bar down all SMS were gone.
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Just happened to me as well. DZ and I updated with the OTA the day it came out. very weird. I don't think I lost anything important, but this is very annoying.
Use SMSBackup+. Works insanely easy and it saved my texts when I moved to CM7. Interestingly enough, the next morning all my texts were gone, restored the backup again and haven't had a problem since. Good thing is it will back up each message right after you get it if you want it to.
I recently rooted my evo and removed a few apps using titanium; I am running the stock firmware. The sync icon on the top won't go, earlier it used to show the sync icon occasionally, when I would refresh Gmail or it was synching itself, but now it's always there (which makes me think it's always synching perhaps). I am talking about the one shown in the image attached.
One, reboot, see if it's still there
2, go into Settings > Accounts and see what's syncing, if anything.
Did you remove the friendstream.apk?
@HipKat
1) Yes, it is still there after however many reboots.
2) Nothing is synching. Sometimes it is, but the icon is present even when nothing is.
@mattykinsx
Yes, I did remove the friendstream.apk
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@mattykinsx
Yes, I did remove the friendstream.apk
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Thats your issue.
If I remember right (its been half a year since I ran Sense) you have to remove the friendstream.apk before you set up any accounts to sync.
I think I read once that that apk had a lot more to do with the phone than just showing your social streams. I'm pretty sure it's not one of the stock apps you can remove
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I think I read once that that apk had a lot more to do with the phone than just showing your social streams. I'm pretty sure it's not one of the stock apps you can remove
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You can but only if you do it the right way.
No real reason to remove it if you're running sense.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=769528
friendstream.apk *In ACCOUNTS&SYNC under Facebook for HTC Sense, deactivate sync live feed option. Sync contacts is OK to leave on
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Ok, after reading the entry in that thread it seems it has to do with the fact that I am using Facebook for HTC sense app, since I have facebook completely removed from my phone but do need the contacts synched from FB. Anything that allows me just to have the FB contacts? I don't need anything else from FB actually.
And will removing the FB from HTC sense solve the problem. or if anyone has the apk for friendstream, i can just insert it back perhaps?
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Ok, after reading the entry in that thread it seems it has to do with the fact that I am using Facebook for HTC sense app, since I have facebook completely removed from my phone but do need the contacts synched from FB. Anything that allows me just to have the FB contacts? I don't need anything else from FB actually.
And will removing the FB from HTC sense solve the problem. or if anyone has the apk for friendstream, i can just insert it back perhaps?
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If you turn off the "sync live feed" option for the facebook sync it should stop.
Yup. Matty is correct. Either uncheck the 'sync live feed', or just leave the facebook and friendstream apps alone. They can cause weird issues when removed (as you're currently experiencing). As matty said, there is a proper 'procedure' to removing them, but I don't know what it is at the moment (running AOSP for a while now)
I don't have the "Facebook" application at all. The application I am referring to is "Facebook for HTC Sense". This app actually does not have the "Sync live feed" option. The only option it has is "Sync Contacts" which I disabled, then waited for some time, and rebooted the phone. Still the same.
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I don't have the "Facebook" application at all. The application I am referring to is "Facebook for HTC Sense". This app actually does not have the "Sync live feed" option. The only option it has is "Sync Contacts" which I disabled, then waited for some time, and rebooted the phone. Still the same.
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I'm not on sense at the moment, but I'm almost positive that the Facebook for HTC Sense app DOES indeed have a sync live feed option. That is the facebook app i was referring to (the HTC version)
You are checking in this spot right?:::::
menu>settings>accounts&sync>facebook for HTC Sense? Under that option there *should* be a 'sync live feed' option. Check it out.
Yes, just so there is no confusion:
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Yes, just so there is no confusion:
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Reinstall the freindsteam.apk and see if that resolves all of your issues.
Ok, I shall search for one in the morning and install, and post back.
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Ok, I shall search for one in the morning and install, and post back.
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Hmm, odd. I could've absolutely sworn that the 'sync live feed' was one of the settings in there. I must be losing my mind, I'm half tempted to flash a sense rom right now just to check, haha. Yea, either reinstall friendstream or just restore a nandroid backup, and leave the fb for htc sense app and friendstream apps alone.
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Ok, I shall search for one in the morning and install, and post back.
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There you go.
Firstly, as has been pointed out already, I confirmed and it is indeed an issue with the "Facebook for HTC Sense" app. Simply removing the account from the application gets rid of the icon.
@mattykinsx
Thanks. I have put the file in /system/app, removed the account from "Facebook for HTC Sense", rebooted the phone and added the account again. I'll soon find out if this works, otherwise, nandroid backup it is.
@k2buckley
It isn't just you, I have the same impression for some reason. If I end up doing the nandroid backup we will soon find out.
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I just restored the nandroid backup. Things should work as intended now and I'll just leave the friendstream.apk as it is. There is indeed a "Sync Live Feed" option in "Facebook for HTC Sense" now, which wasn't there before backup restoration. I guess it vanished due to the removal of friendstream.apk or something else.
I know the password and and email is right because i use the same to login on a pc or the mobile broswer, but it just won't let me login or the facebook app from the market. any suggestions?
Did you try uninstalling/reinstalling? Is your version of Facebook outdated?
Well the only way i can remove facebook for htc sense is by forcing an uninstall using super manager. I been flashing a few ROMs recently and noticed it wouldn't work. I have no idea when it stopped working. I just found a ROM I liked and decided to start linking my accounts.
Oh, I was under the impression you were using the market Facebook. Try downloading it from the market. I never link my Facebook to HTC Sense, I skip it, and I download the one from the market.
yea not working either...
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yea not working either...
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Hmm. Weird. What rom are you on?
I just tried Incredibly re engineered 3D. not working on it. So i guess I'll try something else....
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I just tried Incredibly re engineered 3D. not working on it. So i guess I'll try something else....
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I recommend Synergy or Shooter(Joel's or wildstang's). They are solid roms.
I think it's a FB issue. It always worked for me but now won't work on any ROMs.
AgalychnisCallidryas said:
I think it's a FB issue. It always worked for me but now won't work on any ROMs.
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Seems to be working for em everytime I flash a new rom.
Check your Facebook Account>Security>Login Approvals setting from your PC. If it is set to Required, every time you flash a new ROM and reinstall a Facebook app, FB sees a new, unauthorized device and sends an SMS to the device with a numeric code for you to enter instead of your password.
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Check your Facebook Account>Security>Login Approvals setting from your PC. If it is set to Required, every time you flash a new ROM and reinstall a Facebook app, FB sees a new, unauthorized device and sends an SMS to the device with a numeric code for you to enter instead of your password.
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Ive looked at this setting as it was suggested to me over in the thunderbolt-synergy thread, and it was disabled. Ive had this same problem for a couple days now after installing a new rom. Even going to a backup, it keeps telling me to re-enter my password when I try to sync my facebook account, and then tells me I entered a wrong user name or password. I do think it is a problem on facebooks end, but the weird thing is my girlfriend is having no problems with signing in to facebook for htc sense or the market facebook app.
I'll try the facebook account settings, but every ROM I flash it doesn't make a difference.
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I'll try the facebook account settings, but every ROM I flash it doesn't make a difference.
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The facebook account settings didnt make a difference to me. Still wont let me sign in.
So I found a method that worked for me to fix HTC sense. I created a new email account with gmail and made it my new primary email with facebook. That's under account settings. Once I made it the new primary, i tried htc sense and it worked. Logged me right in. Let me know if this works I can give more detailed instructions per request.
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So I found a method that worked for me to fix HTC sense. I created a new email account with gmail and made it my new primary email with facebook. That's under account settings. Once I made it the new primary, i tried htc sense and it worked. Logged me right in. Let me know if this works I can give more detailed instructions per request.
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Thank you. I was able to sign in after switching to my hotmail address as primary email. I wonder why we can't use our original email address. I was also able to sign into the market Facebook app.
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So I found a method that worked for me to fix HTC sense. I created a new email account with gmail and made it my new primary email with facebook. That's under account settings. Once I made it the new primary, i tried htc sense and it worked. Logged me right in. Let me know if this works I can give more detailed instructions per request.
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I did the same thing a while back an it fixed a bunch of FB problems I was having.
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Yea, I don't understand why it wouldn't accept the old email. I've flashed dozens of roms before and it didn't matter
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Yea, I don't understand why it wouldn't accept the old email. I've flashed dozens of roms before and it didn't matter
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It only seemed to be the Facebook for Htc sense and the market facebook app that wouldn't accept the old email. Seesmic had no problem signing in with my old email.
maybe you guys can help me with this problem. I recently had to hard reset my phone, but after re installing the app Facebook for HTC Sense it no longer tells me via notification bar which of my contacts has updated there facebook status. it used to show the people Icon with a syncing/refresh ring and tell me which of my contacts updated their status and pressing this would take me to my people app. is there anywhere on my phone where i can enable this? im on a Droid Inc
I searched in this forum already, but couldn't find this.
I'm having issues with sending emails with the gmail application. They just sit in the Outbox with a sending status. I've checked the sync settings, refreshed both from the sync section, as well as in the app. I even tried just text, as well as using attachments. And, no, they're not being received either.
I'm currently running the leaked OTA and the new radio.
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Try uninstalling then reinstalling the gmail app.
haha gmail appreciate.
yeah, try reinstalling the app and/or clearing data/cache
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haha gmail appreciate.
yeah, try reinstalling the app and/or clearing data/cache
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Fixed the misspelling in the header...
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Try uninstalling then reinstalling the gmail app.
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Uninstalling fixed the issue. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I had done the same thing earlier, so restoring it from Titanium Backup may have been the issue...
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Uninstalling fixed the issue. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I had done the same thing earlier, so restoring it from Titanium Backup may have been the issue...
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That makes sense. I use titanium as well but don't backup up any of the google apps cuz they come preinstalled in roms. Pleasure to help ya bud.
My fiancee's Dinc quit syncing overnight. I've had her running Optimized Shift for almost a week now with no issues. Then this morning she work up and her gmail wasn't syncing? I thought it was a rom issue, but I will try reinstalling gmail and see if that helps.
Also, her phone doesn't seem to save text messages as drafts on this rom, as it did with the stock rom. Was this left out of this rom or am I missing where they are stored?
Let us know how uninstall/reinstall works.
I haven't used stock messaging app in months but I believe drafts are saved under Menu>Drafts in all versions from Sense 1.0-3.0. I'm on a Sense 3.0 rom with 3.0 messaging app but I think it's the same in your rom. I know mine used to have trouble saving drafts with no Sender but I know it worked fine if I had a contact in the Send box prior to saving the draft.
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Let us know how uninstall/reinstall works.
I haven't used stock messaging app in months but I believe drafts are saved under Menu>Drafts in all versions from Sense 1.0-3.0. I'm on a Sense 3.0 rom with 3.0 messaging app but I think it's the same in your rom. I know mine used to have trouble saving drafts with no Sender but I know it worked fine if I had a contact in the Send box prior to saving the draft.
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Are you saying Menu > Drafts, from within the stock messaging app? If so, that's where I thought it should be...but it's not, for some reason. These are drafts already addressed to a sender, in an ongoing thread. I know with the stock rom, she could do Menu > Drafts, no problem, but the options appears to be gone now. I believe optimized shift is Sense 3.0, but still, I can't imagine they would take that option out.