Develop Bugs

Text Messages loads SO SLOW on Tilt 2.

I used PIM backup to load all my texts from my previous phone (about 13,000 total)
Whenever I slide to the Messages tab it literally takes 10 seconds just to load the 25 messages in TF3D. If I click view all it glitches out and takes almost a minute to load the entire all messages screen.
What the hell? Isn't this device supposed to be FASTER than my original AT&T Tilt?! It had no problem loading messages like this.
My device is nearly unusable as a messaging device. Any suggestions?
Very dissapointed.

redsrule2500 said:
I used PIM backup to load all my texts from my previous phone (about 13,000 total)
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Not to sound sarcastic in any way, but maybe if you didn't have 13,000 text messages it may run a bit faster.
Was it running that slow prior to the transfer?

agreed, what purpose could you possibly have for keeping that many text messages around?! thats most likely your issue

Even so - my Tilt original was able to handle it is the point.
I keep all my texts I've ever sent - does anyone have a better method of backing up all messages online or something rather than keeping them all on the phone?
Ugh...

Now I keep getting filesys.exe errors.
**** this.

There is no way of viewing all messages? I can only delete about 200 at a time now. I hate this phone.

It MIGHT have something to do with the version and build of windows mobile...
I've had a handful of backup problems when flashing to different ROM, even when I just wanted to restore sms and/or calendar.
I decided to forget about sms, since I rarely found myself needing somehting from even a month ago. Calendar is now part of exchange, so no worries there.

Try Jeyo Mobile Extender to backup your SMS to Outlook. It just doesn't do MMS so make sure to move those to a different folder.

try pocket sms.... with this, you can easyly export your sms to an excel file.
13.000 is way to much on your phone

Caspertje19 said:
try pocket sms.... with this, you can easyly export your sms to an excel file.
13.000 is way to much on your phone
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Ah, this looked perfect....but I can't get it to work!
Just sits on Syncing Inbox....ugh

Exif data from mms pic

Does anyone now a way to retain exif data information from mms pics that are received.It seems whenever I save a pic all the exif data gets wiped,lol I remember when I had a tmobile dash (windows Mobile) it gave you the exif data flawlessly.And now Im on my third android and it seems that the exif information does not get included when I get pics from mms,anyone know any codes or anything inyo term emu to enable this feature,
Thanks

You could ask people to gmail them to you instead of MMS, I assume it wont be converted in.anyway.

phatmanxxl said:
You could ask people to gmail them to you instead of MMS, I assume it wont be converted in.anyway.
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good idea,im going to try that now I remember someone sent a pic to me from an ipod before lol.

I don't remember what phone it was (might have been the Samsung Moment) but the cooked ROMs had MMS broken for a while. Gmail is great cause it will stay in your mailbox for as long as you want instead of your phone, even when you switch carriers, phones or ROMs.

brianhot1 said:
good idea,im going to try that now I remember someone sent a pic to me from an ipod before lol.
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Yea it seems as tho this might be the only way to view exif I saw some info there,I wish I could get this thru regular mms, not everyone has my gmail, and I don't want any and everybody with it lol

phatmanxxl said:
I don't remember what phone it was (might have been the Samsung Moment) but the cooked ROMs had MMS broken for a while. Gmail is great cause it will stay in your mailbox for as long as you want instead of your phone, even when you switch carriers, phones or ROMs.
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O ok, and I am stock rooted ek02

Try the email app, make a separate email account through yahoo or what ever. Im not sure if you can download attachments though I never used it.

the email would be a good idea,I would really like it for mms tho that I receive from my phone number,anyone know of any scripts or anything to run in term emu for that to happen,or would this not ever be possible

brianhot1 said:
the email would be a good idea,I would really like it for mms tho that I receive from my phone number,anyone know of any scripts or anything to run in term emu for that to happen,or would this not ever be possible
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BUMP ... This would be a great feature to be able to script something( Tasker maybe ) to email you any mms that comes along.

RubenRybnik said:
BUMP ... This would be a great feature to be able to script something( Tasker maybe ) to email you any mms that comes along.
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sounds good to me,I wonder if such a thing is possible

Anyone? Or no one else is interested

I'm pretty sure there isn't a script you could use for this. It's really going to depend on the senders phone. Some phones will compress the image, reformat it, remove 'junk' information such as exif when sending an MMS. Sometimes it's the carriers servers that remove exif. Other times it's the recipients phone.
The thing is, Android has a MAJOR flaw. MMS
Unless you have devs that remove or minimize compression from the stock app (or you use Handcent or Go! SMS) there's nothing that can be done. Android horribly compresses pictures and videos. a 1MB picture can be cut to 5kB or less. I remember my Blackberry 8900... on EDGE no less... would send a 3MB pictures through MMS with no issues. I even think the exif data was retained when I received them, assuming the sender or carrier didn't strip that info. Those were the days...

KCRic said:
I'm pretty sure there isn't a script you could use for this. It's really going to depend on the senders phone. Some phones will compress the image, reformat it, remove 'junk' information such as exif when sending an MMS. Sometimes it's the carriers servers that remove exif. Other times it's the recipients phone.
The thing is, Android has a MAJOR flaw. MMS
Unless you have devs that remove or minimize compression from the stock app (or you use Handcent or Go! SMS) there's nothing that can be done. Android horribly compresses pictures and videos. a 1MB picture can be cut to 5kB or less. I remember my Blackberry 8900... on EDGE no less... would send a 3MB pictures through MMS with no issues. I even think the exif data was retained when I received them, assuming the sender or carrier didn't strip that info. Those were the days...
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o ok I also been looking at this to online
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3251

would this help anyone,anyone who is a programmer? this looks french to me lol
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2323722/using-the-android-sdk-im-not-seeing-any-exif-in-my-jpegs

brianhot1 said:
would this help anyone,anyone who is a programmer? this looks french to me lol
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2323722/using-the-android-sdk-im-not-seeing-any-exif-in-my-jpegs
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NO ONE?

brianhot1 said:
would this help anyone,anyone who is a programmer? this looks french to me lol
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2323722/using-the-android-sdk-im-not-seeing-any-exif-in-my-jpegs
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For the issue of exif data not being sent with mms pictures - or being received that will not help.
What that's about is the person is using a call used to access the camera in another app that they're developing. The issue is that it doesn't by default save any exif data. That's a different code. For him/her the issue isn't not being able to access exif data from a picture - it's the fact that it's not saving to begin with.
Now, in the mms app there may be a line telling it to remove all non essential data from a picture before sending. However, even if you allow the information to be retained odds are it will only work on your end - not the receivers. Same goes for them if they send a picture. Then again - carriers may just as well block exif data for safety reasons. A lot of people unknowingly have geotagging activated. I'm sure you can see how that could be very bad in some situations.

[Q] Looking for App to secure delete or shred old files

I'm looking for an app to automatically and securely wipe previusly deleted data from my phone. Preferably when its idle and sitting in the background.
When I get rid of my phone, I don't want anyone to be able to recover my sensitive data such as my emails, and my text messages. It could be a little embarassing.
I've tried SHREDroid for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus but it crashes everytime I start it. Does anyone know of other available options?

The difficulty for someone to recover your old files (if even possible) is not worth the time.. You really shouldn't worry because your emails are gone when you remove your account, and if you delete a text it is gone. I think the only thing you have to worry about is your Google login data, and even that is more trouble than it's worth to recover (unless someone really hates you) and even then 99% of potential buyers probably don't even know it is possible (or care).

I'm not sure this is entirely true. Here's my example: I have a Verizon HTC Thunderbolt that I have been using since Dec '11. I wanted to make a back up of my text messages, so that I could restore them to me new phone.
I downloaded an SMS backup from the Play market, entered my gmail credentials to store my SMS and when I checked the next morning, I had over +8000 backed up SMS messages. I was curious, and looked through to see what was somehow restored. I have routinely kept my text inbox tidy because it feels slower when one thread has over 2000 messages.
This is what prompted me to search for an answer.

mhguy15 said:
I'm not sure this is entirely true. Here's my example: I have a Verizon HTC Thunderbolt that I have been using since Dec '11. I wanted to make a back up of my text messages, so that I could restore them to me new phone.
I downloaded an SMS backup from the Play market, entered my gmail credentials to store my SMS and when I checked the next morning, I had over +8000 backed up SMS messages. I was curious, and looked through to see what was somehow restored. I have routinely kept my text inbox tidy because it feels slower when one thread has over 2000 messages.
This is what prompted me to search for an answer.
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What app? I will give it a go as well, but I do not believe the phone keeps the deleted texts. Could be wrong though.
"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."

The app I'm talking about is SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync

I'd really like to know as well....Ive been researching the last couple of hours....
Im gonna give SHREDroid a shot and see what happens...
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I'd really like to know as well....Ive been researching the last couple of hours....
Im gonna give SHREDroid a shot and see what happens...It appears the below journal paper is what spurned this app....it seems to be the real deal....but its new and i believe its still pretty much in development....
[links to come after my 10 posts}
If it doesnt work I found some other interesting methods....
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Good luck!
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SHREDroid worked on my Droid 3!

"Unable to send message. Too many unsent multimedia messages"

I get this error message whenever i try to send a multimedia message. I've been able to send picture messages fine since i got this phone, but now i get this every time i try to send one. just started a few days ago.
I use go SMS pro. but i have tried the stock messenger app too and get the same error.
any idea how to delete just the unsent messages? or any other way to fix this?

jda2631 said:
I get this error message whenever i try to send a multimedia message. I've been able to send picture messages fine since i got this phone, but now i get this every time i try to send one. just started a few days ago.
I use go SMS pro. but i have tried the stock messenger app too and get the same error.
any idea how to delete just the unsent messages? or any other way to fix this?
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Are you running stock or or a custom ROM?
Sent from my SGSIII with the XDA Premium App

stock, but rooted.

What does the exact message say when you try to send it?
Have you called your phone network yet to see if its a problem on their end?
Sent from my SGSIII with the XDA Premium App

edit: just tried to send one again to check the message, the exact error message i get is: "Can't send message right now. There are too many unsent multimedia messages"
I called AT&T and they said they didnt know, everything looks fine and for me to call tech support.
but i have never had luck with any cell phone tech support, so decided to come here first.

jda2631 said:
I get this error message whenever i try to send a multimedia message. I've been able to send picture messages fine since i got this phone, but now i get this every time i try to send one. just started a few days ago.
I use go SMS pro. but i have tried the stock messenger app too and get the same error.
any idea how to delete just the unsent messages? or any other way to fix this?
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This just started happening on my gf phone, any solution yet?

bigslimoid said:
This just started happening on my gf phone, any solution yet?
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found this post on another board:
I trawled through loads of old messaging conversations and managed to find two failed MMS messages in some conversations. I deleted these and now it's working.
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your gf might have the same situation. there might be a couple failed mms messages in one of her threads

xBeerdroiDx said:
found this post on another board:
your gf might have the same situation. there might be a couple failed mms messages in one of her threads
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Idk she said she deleted all conversations and tryed sending again with the same results. I got it to work the other day by forwarding the Kmart then deleting the one that wasn't sending, worked for a couple days then started with the error msg again.
She's on straight talk, running wicked sensations rom. It will be a few days till I see her and have 5he chance to try to figure out what's going on.

bigslimoid said:
Idk she said she deleted all conversations and tryed sending again with the same results. I got it to work the other day by forwarding the Kmart then deleting the one that wasn't sending, worked for a couple days then started with the error msg again.
She's on straight talk, running wicked sensations rom. It will be a few days till I see her and have 5he chance to try to figure out what's going on.
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Has she tried a different MMS app ?

I had an issue with sending an MMS the other day, didn't get an error message though just wouldn't send. It turned out to be adblock plus. So if she has an adblocker on her phone try deleting it and restarting the phone.

hednik said:
Has she tried a different MMS app ?
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Just had her install handcent. It works but she's up set it ls not pink and don't match the theme on the rest of her phone. I'm never gonna hear the end of it till I can figure it out.

bigslimoid said:
Just had her install handcent. It works but she's up set it ls not pink and don't match the theme on the rest of her phone. I'm never gonna hear the end of it till I can figure it out.
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I'll assume you aren't married and haven't learned how to smile and nood lol
There's got to be a way to make it look pink haha.
One possibility is to remove the secmms.apk reboot and then pull it from the zip and push it to system again, fix permissions, wipe cache, reboot. Maybe that will clear any lingering issues.

hednik said:
I'll assume you aren't married and haven't learned how to smile and nood lol
There's got to be a way to make it look pink haha.
One possibility is to remove the secmms.apk reboot and then pull it from the zip and push it to system again, fix permissions, wipe cache, reboot. Maybe that will clear any lingering issues.
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Lol, nope not married yet. I'm sure i can make it look pink, but ill try what u suggest and see if that works

hednik said:
I'll assume you aren't married and haven't learned how to smile and nood lol
There's got to be a way to make it look pink haha.
One possibility is to remove the secmms.apk reboot and then pull it from the zip and push it to system again, fix permissions, wipe cache, reboot. Maybe that will clear any lingering issues.
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awww, hednik wears a ring.
i'm in the wedded club as well. we'll have to beer it one night. my wife hates android/tech talk...

hednik said:
I'll assume you aren't married and haven't learned how to smile and nood lol
There's got to be a way to make it look pink haha.
One possibility is to remove the secmms.apk reboot and then pull it from the zip and push it to system again, fix permissions, wipe cache, reboot. Maybe that will clear any lingering issues.
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Lol, in hot water now! Flashed cement and now don't have any service after boot.
Hoping if I flash twrp it will let me restore the back up I made b4 flashing cwm. Keep your fingers crossed or ill be sleeping on the couch

Cement ? The backup should work just fine.
Don't test your luck too much haha
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xBeerdroiDx said:
awww, hednik wears a ring.
i'm in the wedded club as well. we'll have to beer it one night. my wife hates android/tech talk...
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Haha likewise.... Speaking of I need a beer...*hello fridge*
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

Need a little over a year and so is it right for me to I suppose people who get this error just can't send mms anymore, unless reverting with Odin to a completely stock ROM? Haha

Here's what worked for me. Have a Xiomi Redmi Note 3 Pro running latest MIUI developer ROM 7.3.23 and Android 6.0.1 on Rogers network in Canada
Couldnt figure out why I was getting this message only on this phone. My other phones with same SIM card had no issues (Sony Xperia Z Ultra, HTC M8).
Was about to do a factory reset when I came upon an old post. I
1) download the app "History Eraser" from the Play Store
2) open the app and make sure "clear all apps cache" box is CHECKED
3) next, scroll down SMS/MMS section and check boxes "SMS/MMS Draft" and "Failed SMS/MMS"
should delete any messages/other stuff you don't need and is clogging up your system.
Am able to send pics once more using the Xiomi. Good luck!

yep that was the fix for me.
Btw, 3rd party apps wont work on my Xiaomi phone to replace the existing messaging app for SMS and MMS. When I used Facebook messenger I could not send MMS and when I reverted back to the xiaomi messaging app all those attempted to send MMS in facebook messenger were put into the messaging app and I had to go through all my contacts and delete the MMS as they said 'Sending'. Once I removed all the MMS that had not sent it then worked properly again. What a PITA! if your messages aren't that important just delete every chat in your messaging app also works.

Saved me!
sprungy said:
Here's what worked for me. Have a Xiomi Redmi Note 3 Pro running latest MIUI developer ROM 7.3.23 and Android 6.0.1 on Rogers network in Canada
Couldnt figure out why I was getting this message only on this phone. My other phones with same SIM card had no issues (Sony Xperia Z Ultra, HTC M8).
Was about to do a factory reset when I came upon an old post. I
1) download the app "History Eraser" from the Play Store
2) open the app and make sure "clear all apps cache" box is CHECKED
3) next, scroll down SMS/MMS section and check boxes "SMS/MMS Draft" and "Failed SMS/MMS"
should delete any messages/other stuff you don't need and is clogging up your system.
Am able to send pics once more using the Xiomi. Good luck!
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I too was about to do a factory reset on my Mate 9....when I stumbled on your text. Apparently the default SMS/MMS program "sees" failed sends in all other messaging apps (Skype? Viber" Google Voice) because I had ZERO failed messages in the default program. HISTORY ERASER stopped me from pulling the last remaining hairs on my head. Thanks.

HTC m9 Messaging App Time and Date Stamps Vanishing

Hi all,
I have a very annoying bug going on with my stock messaging application. When I go back into my messages I see the date and time stamp but as I scroll up none of the messages have a date and time stamp. This is a big problem for me right now as clients sometimes message me and I have no dates to reference. My phone storage has been low on the phone but I have been keeping some space by clearing it out.
Regardless does anyone know what the cause could be here? I have some really old messages and they are showing no dates.

cloves said:
Hi all,
I have a very annoying bug going on with my stock messaging application. When I go back into my messages I see the date and time stamp but as I scroll up none of the messages have a date and time stamp. This is a big problem for me right now as clients sometimes message me and I have no dates to reference. My phone storage has been low on the phone but I have been keeping some space by clearing it out.
Regardless does anyone know what the cause could be here? I have some really old messages and they are showing no dates.
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From my experience, when HTC messenger is broken, I uninstall any App updates and presto. Good as new.

Thanks for the reply, so the application has no updates that I see on play store. So you are saying you uninstall it, don't your messages disappear when you reinstall it? Don't know if the application is even on play store for reinstall.

cloves said:
Thanks for the reply, so the application has no updates that I see on play store. So you are saying you uninstall it, don't your messages disappear when you reinstall it? Don't know if the application is even on play store for reinstall.
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If you're worried about the messages, use a back up service like Gcloud or similar, but backing up only the messages. But you can't uninstall it unless you you're rooted and yes it's In the play store. But you might want to abandon backing up messages all to together and just email the important ones to your PC.
Just uninstall the app updates already. Lol
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Within your phone, not play store