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[REQ] App to pull/merge Google Voice SMS w/Native SMS

I wanna throw this out there, and see if this would be useful to anyone besides me.
I use my Google Voice number as my primary number. I don't even give out my main cell. So, all of my SMS' go through GV. I also text a lot from my laptop.. cuz it's easier. I know this isn't the case for everyone, and that's why I'm posting.
Granted, the Google Voice app has recently gotten a lot better, but it's got a ways to go.
I use Handcent because I like the customization options, e.g. personalized notification sounds, notif bar icons, popups, colors, etc. I also keep a nice backlog of texts since they're searchable.
But most of my SMS logs (on handcent) consist of responses, and not my messages, whereas the Google Voice app or webpage contains the complete logs. I don't know if the messages could be scraped, and pretty sure there's not an API available (and I'm def not a developer anyway), but curious if there is an "app for this", or if this would be useful to anyone.
Basically yielding:
Accurate conversation (sms) threads in Handcent or native sms app, as well as easier backup system (for Google Voice SMS, at least).
Tangent:
In fact, I'm not sure why Google wouldn't want to give the capability to sync ALL of your SMS' to google voice.
k. hope this doesn't get moved to General land.

[QUOTE/]hope this doesn't get moved to General land. [/QUOTE]
Right, nothing is ever answered there. I would like to see something like this too.. voice should definitely have this built in.
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schnowdapowda said:
[QUOTE/]hope this doesn't get moved to General land.
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I would like to see something like this too.. voice should definitely have this built in.
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ya, I've been looking since the days of WinMo 6.1..

I was just about to make a thread about this. I'm willing to make a app that does this, but I don't know the file structure of where google does things.
If you download the Google Voice App, you can see that some where they store all the SMS data about a txt, they just don't expose that to the user through the web interface.
My idea is to take the Google Voice SMS DB, convert it to the XML format supported by SMS Backup & restore and then merge the 2.
If this app existed or I could make it, I would be able to send through the web-interface and my ipad, etc. Now I don't cause when people reply and I'm at my phone, I have no clue what they are talking about.
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actually, I'm going to make a thread in the dev-section about this.

I wouldn't post in the ddevsection. Its against the rules, as it doesn't belong in there.
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Too late I guess... but where on this site would a developer ask a question?

General or Q&A. or pm someone specifically
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well, I hope someone moves it then.

Just go to Google Voice, Settings, Syncs and Notifications, Receive text messages, Also via the messaging app. Now you'll get all you're messages through the stock messaging app or Handcent or whatever else you use.

In correct. Go to https://www.google.com/voice and send a SMS and then check your phone to see if that sms that you just sent is on your phone.
You will find that it isnt.

revaaron said:
In correct. Go to https://www.google.com/voice and send a SMS and then check your phone to see if that sms that you just sent is on your phone.
You will find that it isnt.
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Are you referring to me? I have Google Voice fully integrated and only use Handcent to text, not Google Voice. So I'll find that the text is on my phone like the other hundreds of texts I receive daily.
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younggangsta_s said:
Are you referring to me? I have Google Voice fully integrated and only use Handcent to text, not Google Voice. So I'll find that the text is on my phone like the other hundreds of texts I receive daily.
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yes and that misses the whole point of this request.
I (and the OP) want to be able to use the web/iOS/etc... to sent/receive SMS via Google Voice. If you do that now, the replies show up in your native app/handsent, but your txt out are only in google voice.
I want to be able to txt from my iPad through my gv# and when I go back to my android phone, I can follow the convos. Also, they would get backed up with SMS Backup+

revaaron said:
yes and that misses the whole point of this request.
I (and the OP) want to be able to use the web/iOS/etc... to sent/receive SMS via Google Voice. If you do that now, the replies show up in your native app/handsent, but your txt out are only in google voice.
I want to be able to txt from my iPad through my gv# and when I go back to my android phone, I can follow the convos. Also, they would get backed up with SMS Backup+
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Oh oh oh, I misread. Yes, I don't think there is a way around this.

im also very interested in this. i text all day on my comp using gv and if i try to go back and read a convo with go sms i only se received texts and not mine.
if u are willing to just turn on 3g and open the gv app, however, u can view the convo in its entirety. still would be nice to do this without having to enable data.

DeskSMS?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.desktopsms

younggangsta_s said:
DeskSMS?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.desktopsms
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there are bunches of desktop sms integration things.
still that doesn't fix the issue since I want to use gv sms from my iPad.

revaaron said:
there are bunches of desktop sms integration things.
still that doesn't fix the issue since I want to use gv sms from my iPad.
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Hmmmmmmmmm

Why wouldn't desk sms work from your iPad? All it's doing is forwarding stuff to gmail.
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the only missing piece here with GVI is that when you send through GV, you don't get the sent messages back on your phone. The only solution that I've been able to come up with to fix this is an app that syncs between the native GVapp and the native SMS app.
there has to be a db on the phone that stores GV data for the GVapp. If someone could find that for me, that would be just swell.

Anyone ever find a resolution to this?

[Q] Group Messaging? iPhone style

All of my friends have iPhones and they like to do the group message with iMessage that sends out a mms text to everyone but keeps the text organized into one simple conversation thread. It works great for them, but for Android it sends me a MMS from each of them every time someone replies to the group message but it sends them as individual texts and not group texts.
I have tried both GoSMS and Handcent as well as the stock messaging app and nothing seems to work. Even if I create a group of contacts called Friends and I text something to Friends it will send them each a message, but it wont keep the responds together. I know there are apps in the market that will do this, but I don't want to download something. I know the new Droid RAZR will do group messaging perfectly. Anyone have any ideas?
Maybe I could pull the RAZR messaging apk and try that?

Hey i know you dont want to download anything but personally i use Whatsapp. all my friend even thos that have iphone use it and it works flawlessly. its 99 cents on the iphone and free the first year on android (Win). works over 3g and sms.

Mu5ic92 said:
Hey i know you dont want to download anything but personally i use Whatsapp. all my friend even thos that have iphone use it and it works flawlessly. its 99 cents on the iphone and free the first year on android (Win). works over 3g and sms.
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Yeah, I know there are apps that do it. But I'd rather not download anything or have my buddies pay for anything. But thanks.

Get them to use Google+ Messenger. If it works on the iphone.

bubbles7361 said:
Get them to use Google+ Messenger. If it works on the iphone.
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You know iPhone users... they want it to be simple and not put any work into it. Why would they use g+ when they're messaging app does it fine? See what I'm saying. I would love it if I could convince them... but I doubt it.

Group MMS Issues

Has anyone else been experiencing issues with receiving MMS's when they were sent to a group? For example, if someone sends me a picture, with a few other people on the message, I won't get the message. The message will come through and just say "downloading" and I'll never get the picture.
When I get replies then, they are all individual texts instead of embedded in a group.
Thanks for any advice!

That's because androids stock messenger doesn't support group texting. You can send a group text but replies will always come back in individual threads...sorry
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So what is everyone doing to get around this?
I loved the group texting on my Droid RAZR....

Smallsmx3 said:
That's because androids stock messenger doesn't support group texting. You can send a group text but replies will always come back in individual threads...sorry
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I was part of a group message last night that worked perfectly fine the way it should have. This was using CM10 so I don't know if they made changes to enable it.

I thought it was an iOS issue, when an iPhone sends a group message. Have always had problems receiving those.
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I experienced the issues receiving group messages from everyone using either a Droid RAZR or Bionic....
I'm trying Handscent now to see if it works...but I like the stock UI much better....

rehughe said:
I experienced the issues receiving group messages from everyone using either a Droid RAZR or Bionic....
I'm trying Handscent now to see if it works...but I like the stock UI much better....
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Use GoSMS Pro, It's free on the market, and you can make it run in "Lite" mode, It will fully support iPhone Group texting. If you want to reply in the same group, Go to settings, Tap advanced at the top then Send settings > Check the box that says Group MMS chat.
If you want to go into "Lite" Mode, go into the settings and change the running mode. It will still allow you to receive and send group MMS as well as have custom themes. It is really fast in "Lite" mode.

brooksyx said:
I thought it was an iOS issue, when an iPhone sends a group message. Have always had problems receiving those.
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I get this all the time, almost all of my friends and family use iphones. Regularly I get an "empty" text from them and I've been told it's a glitch in the iphone but it doesn't affect other iphones only android users.
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I'd also like to add that iphone users can't seem to NOT reply to all.. yeah I know it's possible but they always reply to all even when it's personal. It's the main reason I go over my 1000 text allowance each month.

tirionfive said:
Use GoSMS Pro, It's free on the market, and you can make it run in "Lite" mode, It will fully support iPhone Group texting. If you want to reply in the same group, Go to settings, Tap advanced at the top then Send settings > Check the box that says Group MMS chat.
If you want to go into "Lite" Mode, go into the settings and change the running mode. It will still allow you to receive and send group MMS as well as have custom themes. It is really fast in "Lite" mode.
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I use group texting everyday. Every single one of my friends have the iphone and I've used Hancent for years, but it doesn't work well with group texting. Event when I selected Group messaging in Handcent, i would receive each message in each persons thread, not the group thread. My friends with the iPhones said that my messages wouldn't ever appear in the group thread, but showed up in my thread instead. So i just switched to GoSMS Pro and so far everything has been working like a charm. Follow the instructions that Tirionfive wrote and you will not have any issues. Group texting is the $hit, and I really wish that Google integrated it into the stock messaging app. Oh well it will likely be in Key Lime Pie (unless Crapple already patented it already).

I've been using Go SMS Pro for the last few days and it is absolutely great! Not sure I'll ever go back to stock text messaging
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sms received messages cut into multiples

I am running the stock sms app on my ATT s3 running JB. I am an iphone convert, so please bear with...
If someone sends an sms to me longer than say 4 lines of text, the sms will be delivered to me in multiple sms'.
Is there a fix/setting for this? My iphone never did this.
-J

Short Message Service (SMS for short) is limited to 160 characters. On an iPhone, multiple texts are usually connected into one by the receiving iPhone (unless using iMessage; I do not think there is a character limit). Android, however, does not do that by default. One choice you have is to download a third-party SMS app, like goSMS. I use goSMS and it works really well, lets you join iPhone group conversations, lets you install themes, and will also connect texts over the 160 character limit into a single text.
Let me know if you have any other questions.

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I am running the stock sms app on my ATT s3 running JB. I am an iphone convert, so please bear with...
If someone sends an sms to me longer than say 4 lines of text, the sms will be delivered to me in multiple sms'.
Is there a fix/setting for this? My iphone never did this.
-J
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Are you rooted? If so you can replace your sec_mms.apk which will give you Emoji as well as an option in settings for SMS to MMS which will transform long texts to mms to keep them together. I just rename you existing sec_mms.apk to sec_mms.apk.bak and paste the new one in and reboot. Hope this helps. Link below to thread with apk. I credit to original uploader...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36239737
I have this installed, but use Handcent which changes sms to mms as wel
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Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
-J

bamastang said:
Are you rooted? If so you can replace your sec_mms.apk which will give you Emoji as well as an option in settings for SMS to MMS which will transform long texts to mms to keep them together. I just rename you existing sec_mms.apk to sec_mms.apk.bak and paste the new one in and reboot. Hope this helps. Link below to thread with apk. I credit to original uploader...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36239737
I have this installed, but use Handcent which changes sms to mms as wel
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This is a bit overkill. Just get one from the market and disable notifications from the default messaging application.
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That is why I just use Handcent personally.. I was just giving the guy options.
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Standard Android Messaging app APK?

So is there an APK of the stock Android Messaging app that was on the GNEX that I can put on the HTC One?
The one thats on the HTC one does not handle MMS group messages right. Every time someone send a message back in the group conversation and I click on the notification it takes me to just my texts with that one person. Not to the group text. Its the last thing I haven't figured out how to fix on the HTC One.
Or is there a setting I'm missing somewhere that resolves this? Or a 3rd party messaging app that works better? I've tried a few but none seem to get this right.

This is a problem with Android in general. Go SMS pro handles group messages. There is an option for it in settings.
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Just FYI, some Android phones DO handle group messages.

kookahdoo said:
This is a problem with Android in general. Go SMS pro handles group messages. There is an option for it in settings.
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Just FYI, some Android phones DO handle group messages.
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Yea, I was hoping it was the app that was having the issues as my GNEX didn't have issues with group messages that I remember. I'll have to look into SMS Pro. Thanks

Try 8sms from the Play Store
Made by CM and handles group messaging well
Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms

PizzaSauce said:
Try 8sms from the Play Store
Made by CM and handles group messaging well
Here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms
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Good look thanks button hit. Wife an I like this I hope it's the 4.3 cause I flat on the hate 4.2.2 text how it don't group then

Tigerstown said:
Good look thanks button hit. Wife an I like this I hope it's the 4.3 cause I flat on the hate 4.2.2 text how it don't group then
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I'm sorry, not quite sure how to interpret that.
I think you'll be pleased with the app. It has Emoji support too if you have buddies with iPhones

PizzaSauce said:
I'm sorry, not quite sure how to interpret that.
I think you'll be pleased with the app. It has Emoji support too if you have buddies with iPhones
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Interpret that your app orwho's ever. Is awesome. What I hate it's the 4.2.2 texting setup om my htc. It don't count messages like if I sent a 400 character text on my wife htc one stock app N it just sends an any order an Don tell you if it's the 1st text or 3rd text. I was saying I hope they would use this idea on there 4.3. In less I overlook a option to fix my texting issue. Anyways iI uninstalled all stock message an turn on stand alone support. It is 3x big app but Nbd... What's Emoji? If you don't mind or if you do I can Google it

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Interpret that your app orwho's ever. Is awesome. What I hate it's the 4.2.2 texting setup om my htc. It don't count messages like if I sent a 400 character text on my wife htc one stock app N it just sends an any order an Don tell you if it's the 1st text or 3rd text. I was saying I hope they would use this idea on there 4.3. In less I overlook a option to fix my texting issue. Anyways iI uninstalled all stock message an turn on stand alone support. It is 3x big app but Nbd... What's Emoji? If you don't mind or if you do I can Google it
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Emojis are the little picture characters that iPhones have native to their keyboard. Android JB has viewable Emoji support I believe.
Are you posting from a phone or is English not your primary language? Sorry, just wondering.

PizzaSauce said:
Emojis are the little picture characters that iPhones have native to their keyboard. Android JB has viewable Emoji support I believe.
Are you posting from a phone or is English not your primary language? Sorry, just wondering.
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English is fine. Trying to program my cnc lathe one headed off blueprint an type on xda lol. Sorry if sloppy

Tigerstown said:
English is fine. Trying to program my cnc lathe one headed off blueprint an type on xda lol. Sorry if sloppy
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Just having a little trouble trying to piece together what you're saying. I'm getting the jist though!
I don't do much group messaging so you'll have to test out how it works on there. The app is CyanogenMod official, so it should be top notch.

PizzaSauce said:
Just having a little trouble trying to piece together what you're saying. I'm getting the jist though!
I don't do much group messaging so you'll have to test out how it works on there. The app is CyanogenMod official, so it should be top notch.
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I will remind read my post at lunch when I don't have A asshole up my back wanting machine set up lol

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I will remind read my post at lunch when I don't have A asshole up my back wanting machine set up lol
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I did 8sms for a while, but then it wasn't showing some picture messages or then not showing my texts (It would just show a small square box in the text field.. going to wait a bit until it has a few more updates.

my favorite so far has been sliding messaging pro. Just got a big update recently as well.
Handles group messages pretty well so far from my testing. At first I was pissed because I wanted to try the app out but then was on a 20 minute phone call and missed the return window (so basically I never got to 'try' it out). I figured whatever, I'll just use it now that I bought it, and it's really amazing

You can try TEXTRA SMS as well. Very simple, lightweight sms/mms that handles group messaging very well. Fast too. Not a lot of fluff.