I've seen threads about this on the galaxy S 1 page, and didn't see an answer about this. There is something that has been bugging me. If I text someone, then delete the thread in the messaging app, then go under contacts>History, the whole conversation is right there. Even though I deleted the message thread. I don't want to have to go in contacts, find each person, go to history, then clear it there too. Is there a way to turn this off? I don't want things logged in two different places, and have to clear two different logs every time I want to clean things up... I am not rooted, and running stock rom. (Just got the phone, didn't want to root it just yet.)
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I've just lost track of the threads where they were resolved.
1) LED notifications (for anything) only lasting 5 minutes or so. I want my LED to keep flashing until i unlock the phone and clear the alert/notification. Thats how it was on my G1 on 1.6 and it was great. I'm certain i saw an app that could fix it somewhere, but i cant find the thread, and no searching for relevant seeming names brings anything up.
2) A bunch of unknown texts/network texts/various other oddities all being attributed to a random facebook/phonebook contact. I saw there was at least a partial solution for this somewhere, but once again, lost the thread
Thanks for any help you can give, really appreciate it.
1) Missed Reminder app does the trick.
I use missed call from the market for the alerts.
I think your sms issue is to do with facebook synching contacts that have odd phone numbers, or text where there should be a phone number. if I remember correctly you need to either delete those facebook friends, or stop the facebook contacts sync.
So ive seen handcent all over the fourm and people talking about how great it is. So i downloaded it and i admit its amazing. The only problem ive run into is that when i get a message is shows up in handcent and the stock text program. How do i disable that so my phone only uses handcent?
In the stock messaging app, you need to go into settings (when it's open hit "menu" and then "settings") and turn off the notifications for receiving a message. Back out of it, and you should be good-to-go. I personally turned off all notifications in the stock app.
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In the stock messaging app, you need to go into settings (when it's open hit "menu" and then "settings") and turn off the notifications for receiving a message. Back out of it, and you should be good-to-go. I personally turned off all notifications in the stock app.
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Much appreciated I though that there might be a way to totally disable the stock program because they will still pile up in there wont they?
Yea, the messages will still be in the stock one. The way I understand it though, all the messages come into/out of a single spot. The messaging programs (Handcent, the stock one, etc.) just look in that area to let you text. So you can just remove the stock one from being linked on one of your home pages, and then you never have to see it again. There might be a way to remove that program itself, but I don't know it. It doesn't bother me though since I just don't ever open it and instead use Handcent.
You could always uninstall it via adb if you are rooted. Search "how to remove bloatware (or unwanted apps)" or some variant.
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Yea, the messages will still be in the stock one. The way I understand it though, all the messages come into/out of a single spot. The messaging programs (Handcent, the stock one, etc.) just look in that area to let you text. So you can just remove the stock one from being linked on one of your home pages, and then you never have to see it again. There might be a way to remove that program itself, but I don't know it. It doesn't bother me though since I just don't ever open it and instead use Handcent.
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Just don't delete it! LOL! Trust me! That and don't delete Facebook out off the phone either. Those were BIIIIIGGGG mistakes. LOL! I won't ever do that again. Good thing I do nandroid back ups before I try experimenting with removing stuff.
Anyone having touble with Hancent opening since 2.2? I have at least a 30 second lag when I launch, almost like a memory full issue.
I have the stock notifications off and am not rooted.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
jfk
freeze it thru titanium backup like i did! u can defrost it any time!
I've tried Handcent a few times and it seems OK but has a fatal flaw. My wife and I use txt-to-email and back. She send my a txt on vtxt.com and I reply through my SMS service straight to her email address which pops up on her Blackberry. Handcent won't sent messages to email addresses.
My wife's EVO is getting really slow when using the stock Sense Messages Application. She has thousands of texts... I've tried everything to try to delete them but the application keeps crashing in the process. I've even gone to the Applications menu item to the Messages Application and cleared data. It told me that all the data would be erased. I went back into the application and they are all still there.
I need to get this thing cleared out... Why is it so difficult? How do I delete them?
I'm thinking my only option is to do a factory data reset. I've searched google and this forum and haven't found any answers but a lot of people with the same problems.
I'm getting scared cause she came from an iPhone and she's starting to regret it.
Mine crashed also, at least it wouldn't let me open pictures.
Just for giggles try downloading handcent from the market and see if it will let you delete the messages.
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My wife's EVO is getting really slow when using the stock Sense Messages Application. She has thousands of texts... I've tried everything to try to delete them but the application keeps crashing in the process. I've even gone to the Applications menu item to the Messages Application and cleared data. It told me that all the data would be erased. I went back into the application and they are all still there.
I need to get this thing cleared out... Why is it so difficult? How do I delete them?
I'm thinking my only option is to do a factory data reset. I've searched google and this forum and haven't found any answers but a lot of people with the same problems.
I'm getting scared cause she came from an iPhone and she's starting to regret it.
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try "sms Manager" from the market.. works great on my evo..
OK, I figured it out. There must be a timer that the application uses which alerts to forceclose because the app is not responding. However if I hit "wait" over and over it will eventually delete what I want.
I don't know why it's taking so long to delete a thread of texts... A thread of just 200 texts can take like 5 min to delete.
that is AOSP/Android as a whole is glaringly terrible. IOS and even my BB curve could delete months of texts extremely faster with terrible os and hardware
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OK, I figured it out. There must be a timer that the application uses which alerts to forceclose because the app is not responding. However if I hit "wait" over and over it will eventually delete what I want.
I don't know why it's taking so long to delete a thread of texts... A thread of just 200 texts can take like 5 min to delete.
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that is AOSP/Android as a whole is glaringly terrible. IOS and even my BB curve could delete months of texts extremely faster with terrible os and hardware
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I would definitely disagree with android being "terrible". This problem could be directly related to htc sense/messaging app, or who knows what. I highly doubt this is related to the OS itself. I guess I could be wrong though.
try it on any AOSP rom, pretty sure its a function of the OS, could be wrong
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I would definitely disagree with android being "terrible". This problem could be directly related to htc sense/messaging app, or who knows what. I highly doubt this is related to the OS itself. I guess I could be wrong though.
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I have the same issue on my evo, but if I just wait it out it eventually deletes them. My friend has a hero and it took him 4 hours to delete several thousand texts...I'm curious why it takes so long.
Also I was terribly annoyed by how laggy the stock messaging was, so I tried handcent, and that was just as laggy. Then I tried chompsms and it runs a bit faster. Plus it's customizable so you can make it look however you want it to
If her phone is rooted you can use this option.
The fastest way to delete messages granted this will delete every message you have but it works.
use root explorer or
es file explorer and in the setting go to root options and have root explorer checked. ( you need to have a rooted phone to do this.
go to the root of the phone you will have many folders called data, sys, system, etc.
navigate to
data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
in that folder you will see a
mmssms.db
this has MMS and SMS. now you can delete it or move it to the SD Card just make it so its not in that directory any more.
Now reboot the phone and every text and pic mail will be gone as if you deleted it.
Hope this can help some of you.
On another note this can also be away for you to restore all your messages. just take the old mmssms.db file and replace it and reboot the phone and all your texts will be restored.
Reason why it take so long is because it has to rewrite a database when each text is deleted so lets say you have 3 texts this is what it will do.
delete the first text
write a new database
delete next text
write a new database
delete last text
write a new database
it does that to every text.
hope this helps someone if not you all.
enjoy.
DC13
WOW. Thank you for all that information. Completely makes sense.
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If her phone is rooted you can use this option.
The fastest way to delete messages granted this will delete every message you have but it works.
use root explorer or
es file explorer and in the setting go to root options and have root explorer checked. ( you need to have a rooted phone to do this.
go to the root of the phone you will have many folders called data, sys, system, etc.
navigate to
data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
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Ok, I know you said to use those two apps but I tried to look in that data folder with Astro and there was nothing inside...
Does Astro not work for this?
No astro does not. ill pm you when i get home of a app that works sorry it wont be sooner.
Long time User, First Time Poster. Lol. And Because Of My Lurking and no Posting, I Couldnt ask this Question In The Thread. Definitely More Incentive To Start getting Involved In These Forums. Any ways:
I'm experiencing an Issue with Randomly deleted Text messages With this Rom. Especially When I've Received Multiple Messages, That Have remained Unread. Lets Say for Example I've Received a 2 part text. 2 Messages Are there, But when i go to read, the first half is missing. Also, I Use An App, "SMS Popup", So It Could Be the Combination of the app and the rom, I guess. But the app has never malfunctioned in this way before across previous ROMS I've Used. After I Experienced Numerous Deleted Texts yesterday, I've uninstalled The app to Test This theory. I Was Unable to Find any other postings in the Thread mentioning any similar Issues, So I Figured it should be brought to attention, And hopefully fixed. Thank you for your Time, And I'll report back My Own Findings Tomorrow When I've Gone through the Day without SMS Pop Up.
Ricanism said:
Long time User, First Time Poster. Lol. And Because Of My Lurking and no Posting, I Couldnt ask this Question In The Thread. Definitely More Incentive To Start getting Involved In These Forums. Any ways:
I'm experiencing an Issue with Randomly deleted Text messages With this Rom. Especially When I've Received Multiple Messages, That Have remained Unread. Lets Say for Example I've Received a 2 part text. 2 Messages Are there, But when i go to read, the first half is missing. Also, I Use An App, "SMS Popup", So It Could Be the Combination of the app and the rom, I guess. But the app has never malfunctioned in this way before across previous ROMS I've Used. After I Experienced Numerous Deleted Texts yesterday, I've uninstalled The app to Test This theory. I Was Unable to Find any other postings in the Thread mentioning any similar Issues, So I Figured it should be brought to attention, And hopefully fixed. Thank you for your Time, And I'll report back My Own Findings Tomorrow When I've Gone through the Day without SMS Pop Up.
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I just posted the same II've experience this problem with that rom as well as Kingdom REVOLUTION and Mik Rom..basiaclly roms with sense 3.0 implementations. Ive tried several diff ways to get rid of the problem...none have worked.
Methods I tried:
Restoring all apps from market (dont use titanium backup)
Use only the stock mms app
a2sd lowmem-default
Hello all,
I'm several months into owning my first Android phone coming from a Palm Pre and I've already taken the measures to root and load Calkulin's rom onto my phone. I however am now growing fairly annoyed with how my phone keeps my text message threads and was just wondering if it was me.
For some contacts I have at most two separate threads running for the same individual and for the same conversation even though I only have one number for them. I was wondering if it was possible to merge these threads together or how to just get one thread going for my text messages.
Any help would be advice or tips would be appreciated. Thank you guys.
iamkt said:
Hello all,
I'm several months into owning my first Android phone coming from a Palm Pre and I've already taken the measures to root and load Calkulin's rom onto my phone. I however am now growing fairly annoyed with how my phone keeps my text message threads and was just wondering if it was me.
For some contacts I have at most two separate threads running for the same individual and for the same conversation even though I only have one number for them. I was wondering if it was possible to merge these threads together or how to just get one thread going for my text messages.
Any help would be advice or tips would be appreciated. Thank you guys.
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Could it be something like Facebook causing the problem with their email/phone syncing? Go into contacts go through them and merge all duplicates?
Sent from my oh-so-sexy Samsung!
Yeah I thought about that and I went through all my contacts and set the google # as the default and then I thought better and went through and deleted all the facebook numbers out of my contacts so I only have the phone number associated with google in my phonebook. Haha am I the only one that has this problem? That sucks lol.
Yeah I'll have a thread with a person with like over 1000 msgs and another thread in the several hundred but with the same person but itll be the same conversion. Oh well I guess I'll just have to endure haha