Hi Everyone,
I have been using the Go SMS messaging app for my Sony Ion since the phone was released. For the most part, the app worked ok and things were good. I always had trouble getting pictures to send through and videos as well. Just recently, I would select a person such as Mike to send a message to and then send the message. Once the message was sent, it would have someone else's name attached to the message I just sent. I would freak out thinking I sent something to the wrong person, open the stock messaging app, which would then relieve my fears as it would show the correct person getting the message even though GO SMS showed a different recipient. So today I had enough of not having texts go through and deleted the app.
I started using the stock messenger app and I am not that enthused about it. First issue I have is that when someone texts me, I have a hard time seeing the timestamp due to the green bubble of the message. Is there a way to either alter the color of the bubbles or the text for the timestamp. My other issue is with the color of the LED for notification, I have blue assigned to email and missed calls, I was wondering if you can customize this somehow. I have absolutely no problem with sending pictures/videos or messages to the wrong person now, everything runs perfect. Just some small appearance issues. Thanks
petes67bird said:
I have a hard time seeing the timestamp due to the green bubble of the message. Is there a way to either alter the color of the bubbles or the text for the timestamp.
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This is something that has me puzzled. It was the same way in GB. I figured they'd fix the themes in ICS. It's insane to me. I can only use the blue or AT&T theme due to the absence of contrast between the timestamp text and the bubble.
How do you use the blue or at&t theme?
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petes67bird said:
How do you use the blue or at&t theme?
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Tap the Homescreen once. Upper left corner will provide the theme setting. Choose it. It's actually called "Sapphire" not "blue". That's' what I use. The AT&T theme is similar. Not sure about Ruby or Amethyst but all the other theme colors make the timestamps indiscernible to me. You can also get to the theme setting through the settings menus.
Thanks much better. I was like Wtf on not having a black timestamp lol.
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petes67bird said:
Thanks much better. I was like Wtf on not having a black timestamp lol.
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Yep.
Hi Keb I gave you some thanks. One last question if you don't mind. Is there anyway to change the color of the led for the stock messaging app?
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Use the light flow app
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petes67bird said:
Hi Keb I gave you some thanks. One last question if you don't mind. Is there anyway to change the color of the led for the stock messaging app?
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Thank you- This app gets some good talk. I've never used it personally. There are others on Google Play as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...jb25zdWx0aW5nLmFuZHJvaWQubGlnaHRmbG93bGl0ZSJd
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Hi I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this
I'm using handcent SMS and i love it the only problem i've got is when im sending a sms or getting a sms it just appears. In the stock sms when you are sending a sms it has a litte effect when youre sending it while the bubble is apearing
Knows anybody how to do that in handcent?
braxas said:
Hi I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this
I'm using handcent SMS and i love it the only problem i've got is when im sending a sms or getting a sms it just appears. In the stock sms when you are sending a sms it has a litte effect when youre sending it while the bubble is apearing
Knows anybody how to do that in handcent?
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I would suppose this feature should be requested from the developers of Handcent. I also use it and have never used the stock messaging app, so I have never noticed that effect until I tried it just now. Pretty nice eye candy...
That eye candy makes it, with that it would be the ultimate sms app
I'm sure I changed this in handset by going into it's "settings -> notification settings" and playing around in there.
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dave_p_b said:
I'm sure I changed this in handset by going into it's "settings -> notification settings" and playing around in there.
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are your sure? because i looked into thos settings and didnt find anything
I might have mis-understood you a bit. What is it that's appearing when you are sending and receiving texts?
I've got mine setup so when I send a text I receive a confirmation message in the status bar that it was sent.
And when I receive a message it's setup so a popup appears on the screen, displaying the message itself and the option of a quick reply.
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I mean when you are in the main app and you are sending a message to somebody in handcent the message if you click send the bubble just appears . In stock sms for example you se how the bubble appears and beeing transfered into the list.
Like ZeroXtreme said it just nice eye candy nothing ultra important
Ah ok. I did misunderstand you lol.
I haven't used stock sms for a long time. I will have to check now.
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Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
bp328i said:
Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
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exuse me but i can't understand you.
could you be more clear?
When you send or receive a text that is longer than 140 characters it is sent or received in multiple messages instead of just one longer message.
Is there a setting that let's you receive messages longer than 140 characters in one text instead of the message being broken into two or three smaller messages?
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bp328i said:
Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
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Try handcent I think that has an option to do that
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I would really like to keep using the stock app if possible. Not a big fan of adding apps if I don't need to.
Here is a screenshot of me sending myself a text. You can see it is received in two parts.
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bp328i said:
When you send or receive a text that is longer than 140 characters it is sent or received in multiple messages instead of just one longer message.
Is there a setting that let's you receive messages longer than 140 characters in one text instead of the message being broken into two or three smaller messages?
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as far as i know, CDMA phones can only go up to 160 characters per text.
so that option in handcent is only for the GSM phones which can send longer texts than 160.
so unfortunately you cant change that. now i do know that there are some roms that after so many messages (like 3 or 4 sms in one) it converts it to an MMS rather than an SMS, i don't know if the stock sms app does it, but i know that the handcent app has an option to disable it to rather then sending 3 or 4 sms as an MMS it sends all 4 SMS's.
but thats my 2 cents worth.
It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
billard412 said:
It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
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Yuuuup it can.... Freeza has a tutorial I believe over in the development thread....
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It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
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I was thinking it could be done because I've had that built into almost every ROM I ever ran on Verizon and their network is also CDMA. I just switched to Sprint a few weeks ago so did not know if it was a Sprint thing.
I'm running FreeSG3-v0.0.9.1, if there was a write up somewhere I can decompile whatever needs to be changed and make the changes myself.
I haven't ran stock since I first rooted my OG Droid...
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Naddict said:
Yuuuup it can.... Freeza has a tutorial I believe over in the development thread....
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I looked through the development thread and did not see anything about it. I even used the search. If you could provide a link I would be forever indebted to you.
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If you're running an AOSP rom, open up the Messaging app and hit the menu button. Go to settings and scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see it!
I love Mighty Text. Since switching to Note 3 Mighty text won't send MMS just SMS. If I try and send a photo through Mighty Text even one it previously sent through S4 it won't send just says "waiting for phone to send message".
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks
Dan
njcobra10tha said:
I love Mighty Text. Since switching to Note 3 Mighty text won't send MMS just SMS. If I try and send a photo through Mighty Text even one it previously sent through S4 it won't send just says "waiting for phone to send message".
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks
Dan
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There is a lot of chatter about 3rd party app that are not working correctly when sending picture MMS. I have not seen a solution yet. It may be because our phones are so new and the third party apps have not caught up. I have emailed Handcent, my favourite text app and have not heard back yet.
So I don't know if this will solve your problem. It may be a learning experience.
There is an app on Play Store called Tweakker. I will help build your APN by Carrier. At the end you will see the APN it set up and your default. You can compare the two. Select the one you want to use. I stayed with default after trying other options. Again I think this is a third party problem.
Here are some screen shots of Tweakker
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I tried to install tweakker, but every time I run it, the app quits by itself... Any solution to this? I tried installing Handcent and making that the default for MMS, that did not help either.
Havent been on XDA for a while, but I searched for an updated stock messaging app thats been edited to remove the contact photos from every line in a text conversation and havent found anything yet. Just wanted to see if anyone uses another stock version that has the quick reply popup and also sends/receives pictures or if there is another app from the Play store that doesnt eat battery.
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Havent been on XDA for a while, but I searched for an updated stock messaging app thats been edited to remove the contact photos from every line in a text conversation and havent found anything yet. Just wanted to see if anyone uses another stock version that has the quick reply popup and also sends/receives pictures or if there is another app from the Play store that doesnt eat battery.
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Chomp SMS lets you not use the photos.
patcal said:
Chomp SMS lets you not use the photos.
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I do remember using that at one point on my old smartphone. Are there any stock Android ones? Id really like to stay stock or find one tha looks like the iphone messaging app.
Try textra, 3rd party app but looks pretty nice
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serio22 said:
Try textra, 3rd party app but looks pretty nice
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Its nice, but it doesnt do the quick reply pop up over the stock lockscreen. Always have to unlock and go to messages to read/reply. Kinda why I want to stick with a modified stock that just gets rid of the stupid contact photos.
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Its nice, but it doesnt do the quick reply pop up over the stock lockscreen. Always have to unlock and go to messages to read/reply. Kinda why I want to stick with a modified stock that just gets rid of the stupid contact photos.
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It does with me
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serio22 said:
It does with me
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Im running Slimbean Rom 4.3 so I dunno
Ok I'm running 4.4.2 Sickness Version 2 on a fully rooted S4, is there any way to use different sounds for sms, and email?
wolfen1086 said:
Ok I'm running 4.4.2 Sickness Version 2 on a fully rooted S4, is there any way to use different sounds for sms, and email?
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.... you can change your SMS sounds in the Sounds menu in Settings... As for the e-mail notification sound, that should be somewhere in your e-mail app's settings.
Thanks, I'll look in there while I have this post pulled up
Ok it works if I use the email app to set up Gmail, but can I change the sound in Gmail on the phone? I'm looking right now
Never mind I found that in the gmail app. if you want to reach through the computer screen and Gibbs smack me for asking before looking feel free to do so
wolfen1086 said:
Thanks, I'll look in there while I have this post pulled up
Ok it works if I use the email app to set up Gmail, but can I change the sound in Gmail on the phone? I'm looking right now
Never mind I found that in the gmail app. if you want to reach through the computer screen and Gibbs smack me for asking before looking feel free to do so
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I'll put a shout out for Light Flow. It lets you customize notifications in a very detailed way. It started as an LED flash customizer, and built up from there. I've got three Gmail accounts on my phone... each has a unique sound, LED color, and vibration assigned. So, I can hear, feel, and see the different notifiers. Works great if I'm in a meeting with sound and vibrate off for discretion. a quick glance at the phone shows me if I've got an email in to my "important" GMAIL account, and a different color/flash rate if there was a text waiting.
Check it out. There's a "lite" version of the app but I'm a paid user... it's worth every penny.
Marc
Light flow, I think I'll download that and check it out
Downloaded it, I stalled it
LOVE IT
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Downloaded it, I stalled it
LOVE IT
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I'm not one to gush over an app, but damn Light Flow rocks. It has changed my relationship with my phone, making it so much easier to understand what's going on. And a lot less annoying!
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Hell yea it rocks the only two notifications on my phone now with the sane sound are hand sent sms when I get a text and XDA when I get a notification
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