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how to change soft key in SMS application

i got wm6 black and once i open SMS up..
the soft key on the left handside is "delete" i wanted to chante to "new"
can someone tell me how to do that please?
thanks.

This is asked for in another thread as well, but not answered I'm afraid. Seems like it's hardcoded in tmail.exe, so there's no way to change it like a normal softkey or in the registry or something.
The delete button is bugging me as well...

I have been searching for this in the registry but i can't find it. I want to change this softkey to new as it used to be in WM5, as it easier to press the softkey then go through the menus while in the car.
If any of the gurus out there can help out on this one..........................

There is a work around with this, if you use the softkey changer and apply one of your soft keys in the today screen to New SMS it will take you directly to a new SMS message. I don't you will find the solution that you are looking for without alot of trial and error. This might help in the mean time.

As Video calling has been disabled in the new WM6 Roms i have used the Video calling button on the Uni as the 'new' key which does get me around but its still so annoying where i am so used to pressing this button when looking at other messages to create new messages and now when i press it it asks if i want to delete the txt.

New SMS Short Cut
I dont know if this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I was looking for the same thing. Here is a link on how to create a short cut for New Sms.
http://www.modaco.com/new-sms-command-t253992.html -or-
here it is already made just extract and copy and paste in ppc:

x-online said:
i got wm6 black and once i open SMS up..
the soft key on the left handside is "delete" i wanted to chante to "new"
can someone tell me how to do that please?
thanks.
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Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.

hey mike thanks for posting that little shortcut.

New SMS
deviusdragger said:
hey mike thanks for posting that little shortcut.
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Your Welome!

I agree that it's frustrating that they changed the key to delete. I personally delete very few messages, and if I do I delete a whole batch of them in one go, the new button is one which I use MUCH more than delete.
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?

street_hawk said:
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?
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This is asked for like 100 times, just use the search function on this beautiful forum, and your answer will be served right at your computer monitor

it's D-pad option in Pimp i enable.
Turn it off and it will fix that issue..
it shoudl be under the IE tab...

bobbyelliott said:
Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.
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My guess is that this was a customer-driven change requested by some of the huger Windows Mobile customers.
I'm not sure what is your background, but I am a "corporate type" and I receive about 100-200 messages per day in my Activesync inbox. I usually reply to messages rather than writing new ones.
I use the Delete key MUCH more frequently than the New key so this is a welcome change for me. Most messages are FYIs or system notification messages, or long threads (and I can read just the last message in the thread and then toss all earlier messages).

Have you changed the size of your scroll bars? if so change them back to default (13) i think.
street_hawk said:
Anyway, I was wondering if you might be able to help me with another issue which I'm having. When I open a message (email or text) it jumps down to the bottom of the page. Has anyone else experienced this, or is it just me?
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Here's another preformatted shortcut. I found the one attached by Mike in post #6 just opened my Inbox. It was easily modified using the link he provided, but for the lazy ones among us! This one opens a new (blank) SMS, tested on my Exec running Jwrightmcps Crossbow ROM Update 2.02.02 WWE.
Unzip the file, and copy it to wherever you want on your device.

bobbyelliott said:
Yes., it's annoying. But what is really amazing is the utter twat that came up with this change and the equally dumb twats that said "Good idea! Let's do it". Really.
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lol! I agree 100%.
Some times MS does something that just makes you go W T F.

mikeo97 said:
I dont know if this helps but I thought I would throw it out there. I was looking for the same thing. Here is a link on how to create a short cut for New Sms.
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This only start the messaging application and go into the SMS view.
It doesn't start a new SMS ; at least not with my Schap's ROM with SMS/MMS combined.
EDIT: Works with the new .lnk file ; Thanks !

Thank you Mike the link to the Modaco site was the solution I was looking for. I created that sms.lnk shortcut and then assigned it as a softbutton on my today screen, now with one click I have a blank SMS ready for sending. Works like a charm.

Why havent we just made an app that is a copycat of AOSP dialer/contacts?

In another attempt of having a stable phone, with the AOSP dialer/contacts/messaging...
I know we have a few [stable, but sorta not stable] roms that are AOSP related,
I understand so much code can/cant be transfered from Sense into making an AOSP Rom, and I understand that. im an older C+ / VB programmer, and understand trying to make something out of decompiled code is a *****, so ...
instead of trying to make a rom that is all converted over,
why hasn't anyone, in the time of Hero/Sense, all the way till now,
hasent anyone just made an app that is coded/looks just like the regular
AOSP Dialer/contact/messaging stuff?
Not to completely replace our phones dialer and what not, but still id end up clicking this "made up" app before I would click my regular dialer icon..
I mean, there are plenty of apps that read our call logs, contacts list
stock dialer/contacts dont look too complicated, is it the layout that would be hard?
Are there any developers that read this? Can anyone lead me in the right direction? Like, list of APIs/whatever type of stuff that is called from in Android coding? Im no stranger to code, but i know nothing about android coding / java.
But again, can anyone send me the right direction? I understand get the Android SDK emulator and what not, but i dont feel like following slow moving tutorials for hello world widgets.
Ill be more than happy to do this day and night, to get desired results.
I dont think im asking too much, and I could make this a way longer explanation.
Thanks again to anyone / everyone thats willing to help, or that is interested.

Really? No one?
Just shed some light for me, come onn

why not extract some .apk's from a working ROM that has the aosp elements and putting them into another ROM you want to transfer them from? i dunno thats where i would start before trying to copy whats already created basically.

Can't you just push the mms.apk and contacts.apk from aosp via adb? I coulda sworn it worked on my hero

Contacts of Same Name Merging

This isn't really a Desire specific annoyance, I think it's since Android 2.1
All contacts with the same name would automatically merge on the phone, although they are different people (with the same name)
Does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging ?

You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

DilbertZG said:
You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it

let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....

shoey-n said:
But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it
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I'm not being funny...but exactly how many people with the same first AND last name do you have on your phone?
Seems like a pretty rare problem. I've seen people with the same name on the Exchange server at work and they all then have to provide a middle initial. Failing that we all have our departments abbreviation at the end of our name.

dexteral said:
let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....
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Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...

I had problem with Name and Name*, they were merged so i ended up sending nasty message to neighbor instead my girlfriend...

GaelForce said:
Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...
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I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic

dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic
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I got contact pictures for every person, so yes I do know the difference between them, but when they merge I can no longer recognise each person
And you all have your opinion whether you think this is an issue or not, but I'm just simply asking does any of you know how to stop it, I don't care whether you think there's a need to stop it

Just put the company name as Lastname.
So Mr Joe Another from Contoso Corp would be
First Name: Joe
Last Name: Another Contoso
Whilst Joe Another from Kebabs Limited would be
Joe
Another Kebabs
?

I wish I could do that with them all, I'd be happy with that, but my dad has the same annoyance and he has a bit of OCD so it's all got to be perfect
If no one knows, I'll try opening up the APK later and try stopping it myself

dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem.
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Once again you appear to have missed the question...
Anyway I think the point is that most non-android handsets would ask if you wanted to merge the contacts or create them separately instead of assuming they should automatically be merged. This isn't specific to just business contacts, my father and I have the same name (which by no means is an uncommon occurrence) so anyone with an Android handset would have both our numbers in the one contact. This is far from ideal and although there may be workarounds such as nicknames, there should be a better solution.

Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

DilbertZG said:
Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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I'm kind of not stock anymore
I'm running stock android so the contacts doesn't have link
Thanks for the suggestion though

[Q] dial an embedded phone number from an email

If I have an email that has a phone number embedded in it... let's say in a reply from someone that I am cc;d on.. and I want to dial the phone number in the text body or signature block in the embedded email text, how do I do that? I can't click the phone number and have it do anything, and if I select it (get the 2 green pins and expand to the phone number size, then send to clipboard) I cant figure out how to pass it to the dialer....
I'm sure I am doing something wrong on this but I can't figure out what.

I use htc sense rom and the email client that came with it.
I can do this if the number format is standard with parenthesis or dashes.
But if someone uses dots between numbers our some other unconventional format, it will not work.
I can't speak for gmail client, though.

I use exchange but I don't think it should matter which client you use should it? If I have a string of 999-123-4567 in the email text body and want to pass that to the dialer to call it, how do I do that?

[just tested exchange and gmail]
I just tap that phone number.
I use this feature often.
I am using a sense rom. Are you using sense or an aosp rom..

I am using the stock OTA 2.2 rom.
The number i was trying to dial was in the format 999.123.1234 using periods instead of dashes so I think that is why clicking didnt work? Even so, if I copy the number to clipboard as is, then how do I enter the clipboard info into the dialer?

Dude, I, like, so founded it.
Download CopyNDial from the marketz.
Read the built-in Help, checkmark "Hook.." in it's options.
I has to try twice before it worked.
First, sir, I want to thank you for this great opportunity to serve you.
Tonight I ate toast covered in marshmallow cream and washed it down with beer. Btw, I will be leaving CopyNdial installed. You're the best!

Excellent find!
thanks!!! just what I was looking for!
Now if you can only tell me how to attach a file from within an email that isn't a doc/pic/mp3 /location as are the only choices in the attach file menu....

I has these options.. You don't?
Picture
Video
Audio
App recommendation
Location
Document

jismail said:
thanks!!! just what I was looking for!
Now if you can only tell me how to attach a file from within an email that isn't a doc/pic/mp3 /location as are the only choices in the attach file menu....
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gottcha covered... search market for "attach email", you can only attach 1 file at a time but it works for me. I am using RedemptionRevolution 2.0 & gmail.
laters!

luvit said:
Dude, I, like, so founded it.
Download CopyNDial from the marketz.
Read the built-in Help, checkmark "Hook.." in it's options.
I has to try twice before it worked.
First, sir, I want to thank you for this great opportunity to serve you.
Tonight I ate toast covered in marshmallow cream and washed it down with beer. Btw, I will be leaving CopyNdial installed. You're the best!
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Awesome, CopyNDial is just what I've been looking for! Never thought that "There's an app for that."
BTW, I had a tuna sandwich for lunch. And, I've been snacking on a Slim Jim...

[Q] Using CodenameAndroid, Can't get emojis to work

Hello all! I've been lurking for quite a while, but when I tried to post this in the thread for CNA for CDMA PrimoC's, I was told I didn't meet the post count, so here goes.
I'm using CNA. Build claims to have emoji support, but so far I haven't been able to send or receive emojis from other Android users or iPhones. It's not a huge deal, but I was excited to be able to try it out. I've narrowed it down to this:
Wrong GApps package
I'm enabling something that is interfering with something else
On my Nexus 7 there's an option under "Text Correction" labeled "Add-on dictionaries". This selection allows me to download the emoji dictionary. My OneV does not have "Add-on dicitonaries" under "Text Correction".
Am I doing something wrong? Am I just stupid? Can anybody point me in the right direction?

jekyll919 said:
Hello all! I've been lurking for quite a while, but when I tried to post this in the thread for CNA for CDMA PrimoC's, I was told I didn't meet the post count, so here goes.
I'm using CNA. Build claims to have emoji support, but so far I haven't been able to send or receive emojis from other Android users or iPhones. It's not a huge deal, but I was excited to be able to try it out. I've narrowed it down to this:
Wrong GApps package
I'm enabling something that is interfering with something else
On my Nexus 7 there's an option under "Text Correction" labeled "Add-on dictionaries". This selection allows me to download the emoji dictionary. My OneV does not have "Add-on dicitonaries" under "Text Correction".
Am I doing something wrong? Am I just stupid? Can anybody point me in the right direction?
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Enable it in messaging my pressing Menu>Settings>Emoji Support (at bottom)

kalaker said:
Enable it in messaging my pressing Menu>Settings>Emoji Support (at bottom)
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Tried it. This makes messages that I receive that have emojis show up with a space between each letter, a doubled space between each word, and a box instead of an emoji. I think I'm just going to play around with another ROM.