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[Q] Send/receive SMS via computer ?

Hey guys,
I have SGS2, and I wonder if there is some application that will show me notification when I receive sms on my computer, and I should be able to reply to it from computer too ? I tried "Remote Notifier for Android" from market, and at first glance it looks really nice, but sms notifications doesnt work, and I cant reply to sms via computer aswell. Is there some other app which can do this ?
NOTE: I dont want web-service based apps, that require me to have service started on my phone and to connect through browser from my computer, I want standalone app that communicates with phone through wireless, just like Remote Notifier.

try MightyText.
not sure if it is out of beta yet but it does works. you just need to log in to your gmail account.

DeskSMS

LuffyPSP said:
try MightyText.
not sure if it is out of beta yet but it does works. you just need to log in to your gmail account.
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Confirming LuffyPSP.
MightyText works!
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cool. glad it working out for ya.

Both of this apps require me to stay logged in browser in order to see notification when I receive sms

reiser said:
Both of this apps require me to stay logged in browser in order to see notification when I receive sms
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True. I guess it is because of the fact you can't 'push' that data to a pc. I believe there's an app needed (like the plugin for the MightyText app) to 'convert' that data to make it 'recognizable' (the data between pc and phone).
Notifications can't be pushed. Only the data itself.
So i believe, what you are looking for, doesn't exist (yet).
Can someone confirm?
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i think yes, it does not exist yet. but many people satisfied with how MightyText works if you follow from the first Beta release. i think many people actually find this type is already convenient so far, instead of how you asked. maybe not yet. you can try PM the dev and state your suggestion/opinion maybe.

Remote Notifier for Android does the exact thing I need, except its stopped developing and some features dont work. I searched yesterday alot to find some similar app, but no success.
@LuffyPSP
I already discussed with one of colleagues, and will start developing it in next few days.

I think MyPhoneExplorer might be able to do what you ask. You might wanna give it a try!

Maybe it can, but MPE requries phone to be connected with USB

Koush busts out sweet Google Voice update but only for CM 10 Nightlies

Not sure if this is the right place for this, or if there is a better place. Mods feel free to move if it fits better elsewhere. But found this when I woke up and wouldn't you know I have JUST left CM nightlies for MOAR Rom not 6 hours ago. But fwiw for CM Nightly Gvoicers...
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/0...ms-app-on-cyanogenmod-available-for-download/
Google Voice, while an amazing concept and at times brilliant product, has been neglected by Google for the last couple of years and is for the most part incredibly frustrating to use these days. It still doesn’t do MMS, but maybe more importantly, users have been forced to use the painfully buggy and slow Google Voice app for texting rather than some of the more popular SMS apps available. Thanks to Koush, that second issue may have been fixed.
In a G+ post two days ago, Koush (of ClockworkMod, Helium, and trolling fame) mentioned that he has found a way to get Google Voice SMS working through not only the stock SMS app on Android, but also any third party app that does text messaging. Yesterday morning, he then released the first build of the concept for users to try out.
This is essentially what it does:
The app will sync your existing Google Voice messages into your messaging store. New Google SMS will be received as if it were a normal SMS.
When you send a message out from your messaging app, it goes out via Google Voice.
As of now, this is a feature that only CyanogenMod ROM is capable of producing, so you have to be running CM in order to test it (July 1 and later build). Obviously, you’ll need Google Voice installed as well. Once you have those two requirements taken care of, hit up the instructions at his G+ to dive in.
How awesome is this?
Update: He already pushed out a beta 2. Instructions here.
Via: +Koush [2]
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beta instructs
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110558071969009568835/posts/AQEqVYt2hdk
Beta 2: Google Voice through any messaging app
Leave bug reports, etc in comments.
0) Google Voice must be installed with notifications enabled (for now).
1) Install a recent +CyanogenMod nightly. July 1st or later. You need the SMS middleware patches I put in for PushSMS. (see Gerrit)
2) Push this apk to /system/app: http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/babel-2-signed.apk adb install will not work. The app requires system/signature permissions.
4) Start Babel, choose your Google Voice account. Authorize it.
Fixed since original release:
* Registers with AccessibilityService automatically.
* SMS sent via GV website, etc now sync to the stock messaging store.
* If you're running a +CyanogenMod build from last night, the duplicate GV notifications will be cleared.
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Damn, I'd love to see this on the S2/ET4G!
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I really must be missing something, when I was on AOKP or CM or stock and had GV about 8 months ago, I used GoSMS and was receiving SMS via both apps. It initially tried to send it over data however if it didn't have a 2/3/4g or WiFi connection it would send it over as a regular SMS over vocie. When I received a MMS it wouldn't come through over GV but it did over my messaging app.
What about this is exactly different?

I'm on Sprint and GV integrated with my number so not sure if that makes a difference. But in GV there is already an option to receive the GV through the phone's internal text messaging app and it syncs to both. I can even go further and have FB chathead for message with GV and it all syncs.

Works great on moar. Love the integrated Google voice.
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I cant get this to work no matter what i try. I am on the latest nightly CM10 and i push it to system/app. i change the permissions to make sure all S are check marked. i reboot phone and i dont see babel anywhere in my apps drawer. Any ideas?

Android Cowboy said:
But in GV there is already an option to receive the GV through the phone's internal text messaging app and it syncs to both.
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When you check this option, Google Voice servers send the text to your phone number via your phone carrier, so you will be charged for a SMS message. With Koush's mod, the text is received on your phone over data, via the google voice app, and then placed into your sms app, so your carrier is not involved in the transaction at all. This is important if you pay per text with your carrier, or have no cell service in your building and are relying on wifi to deliver the text.

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Not sure if this is the right place for this, or if there is a better place. Mods feel free to move if it fits better elsewhere. But found this when I woke up and wouldn't you know I have JUST left CM nightlies for MOAR Rom not 6 hours ago. But fwiw for CM Nightly Gvoicers...
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This is great news and I am surprised that more people aren't interested... but I have a question. Since Google Voice doesn't support MMS, what happens when you compose an MMS in whatever messaging app you're using (Textra, in my case)? Will it automatically be sent through the carrier data plan, or is it going to fail because every message is sent through GV?

What is needed to get this working on CM11?

}{Alienz}{ said:
What is needed to get this working on CM11?
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If you find out, please share... I've been looking everywhere to find out.

Messaging app lag?

Just wanted to see if anyone else has been experiencing the same thing. I haven't experienced any lag with this phone whatsoever except for the stock messaging app.
1) Sometimes when I open the messaging app, the preview of a text messaging thread may be from many hours ago and then "refresh" itself to the most recent text. Essentially when I open the app, the preview shows a much older text message and then after a couple seconds will show the most recent one.
2) Sometimes when I push send on a message, it will take a second before the text is actually sent so if I continue to text, it will add on to the previous message until sent.
The only way I've found to correct this is to switch to the "SMS/MMS" tab, which seems to correct the lag, but of course any time you push the back button out of the app, it goes back to the deault "all messages" tab when opening. I also tried holding down the tab titles and it brings you to a screen which it almost looks like HTC was going to give the option to remove other tabs but the boxes cannot be unchecked.
Anyone else running into these issues? Find a solution?

Yeah ive noticed the same weirdly enough I don't feel lag when using sliding messaging app or textra
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I don't recall having any of those issues but for me what happens is when I open the message app, in the list of people I've been texting, it shows their phone number for a second, and then it switches to their name. And it only happens once in a while. Like right now, it's not happening. Weird
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josh995 said:
I don't recall having any of those issues but for me what happens is when I open the message app, in the list of people I've been texting, it shows their phone number for a second, and then it switches to their name. And it only happens once in a while. Like right now, it's not happening. Weird
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Same here. Kind of annoying, but I had so many problems with go sms and hand cent on my rezound not sending group messages correctly. I'm scared to change and lose a working "group messaging app".
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Yup, same here. Definitely a little annoying.

Try Verizon messages. It's awesome and group messages is flawless
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force1stiptopped said:
1) Sometimes when I open the messaging app, the preview of a text messaging thread may be from many hours ago and then "refresh" itself to the most recent text. Essentially when I open the app, the preview shows a much older text message and then after a couple seconds will show the most recent one.
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josh995 said:
I don't recall having any of those issues but for me what happens is when I open the message app, in the list of people I've been texting, it shows their phone number for a second, and then it switches to their name. And it only happens once in a while. Like right now, it's not happening. Weird
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I have these two issues.
This stock HTC Messages app automatically closes when you back out of sending a reply message, so it doesn't refresh the preview list like previous HTC phones on a reply. On the same token, it appears that it completely quits the Messages app, requiring you to load the names from the Contacts app when you open the Messages app without replying to a message. If you press Home rather than Back, when you open the Messages app again, it loads the messaging screen with the contact you most recently messaged, the person to whom you just replied. If you open the app and send a message, then press Back, it loads the list again, and everything is all good. It's all very odd.

Well glad to see I'm not the only one. I had tried Handcent, Chomp, etc with nothing but lag and other issues. Thanks to the response from NSRpxndxhou, I tried Textra and actually really like it. Best replacement text app I've tried.

I like how HTC's stock messaging app looks, but it ended up simply being too slow. I switched to Textra, enabled the dark theme and never looked back. Silky smooth performance, even with giant threads.

I am in the middle of an email conversation with the guys at Textra. I love the app. But my group messages are not working correctly. Those guys are great. Within one day I got an email with an update to try.... make that two updates. Just got another one while typing this.
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Yeah only thing I don't like is the icon but that's not even a big deal.
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sanders539 said:
I am in the middle of an email conversation with the guys at Textra. I love the app. But my group messages are not working correctly. Those guys are great. Within one day I got an email with an update to try.... make that two updates. Just got another one while typing this.
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Textra does seem nice, but there are a couple things I would miss from the stock messaging app. I like the ability to search ALL your text messages to find a specific text. I also prefer to have the time stamp on each and every text like the stock application does. I also don't like how it shows the contacts phone number below their name.
I would likely use this as a stock replacement if they were able to integrate all those features.

force1stiptopped said:
Just wanted to see if anyone else has been experiencing the same thing. I haven't experienced any lag with this phone whatsoever except for the stock messaging app.
1) Sometimes when I open the messaging app, the preview of a text messaging thread may be from many hours ago and then "refresh" itself to the most recent text. Essentially when I open the app, the preview shows a much older text message and then after a couple seconds will show the most recent one.
2) Sometimes when I push send on a message, it will take a second before the text is actually sent so if I continue to text, it will add on to the previous message until sent.
The only way I've found to correct this is to switch to the "SMS/MMS" tab, which seems to correct the lag, but of course any time you push the back button out of the app, it goes back to the deault "all messages" tab when opening. I also tried holding down the tab titles and it brings you to a screen which it almost looks like HTC was going to give the option to remove other tabs but the boxes cannot be unchecked.
Anyone else running into these issues? Find a solution?
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You may want to consider going into messaging->settings->general and adding a text limit (default at 200). When you do this you will notice your messaging to be a bit more zippy. This is because its not trying to open all of your old previous messages (which can be in the thousands).

sebastianraven said:
You may want to consider going into messaging->settings->general and adding a text limit (default at 200). When you do this you will notice your messaging to be a bit more zippy. This is because its not trying to open all of your old previous messages (which can be in the thousands).
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I had a Messaging app issue when I had too many messages, which was fixed by deleting them, but that whole "reloading" issue seems to be separate.
Even with a few messages, it tends to reload upon reopening the Messaging app. Really weird why it does it...

raichur0xx0rz said:
I had a Messaging app issue when I had too many messages, which was fixed by deleting them, but that whole "reloading" issue seems to be separate.
Even with a few messages, it tends to reload upon reopening the Messaging app. Really weird why it does it...
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I agree. I go through 5-6k texts a month and if I didn't set a limit my stock messaging app would laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag.

sanders539 said:
I am in the middle of an email conversation with the guys at Textra. I love the app. But my group messages are not working correctly. Those guys are great. Within one day I got an email with an update to try.... make that two updates. Just got another one while typing this.
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Had this issue as well, found out that if you go to the stock messaging app settings > MMS > then connection settings, this gives you the APN. Copy that URL and paste it in the Textra MMS settings. Mines worked flawlessly ever since. Not experiencing any lag like the stock messaging app, and have noticed no difference in features.

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Had this issue as well, found out that if you go to the stock messaging app settings > MMS > then connection settings, this gives you the APN. Copy that URL and paste it in the Textra MMS settings. Mines worked flawlessly ever since. Not experiencing any lag like the stock messaging app, and have noticed no difference in features.
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THANK YOU! Man I am so glad to get that fixed. I am about to email the devs so they can add that to troubleshooting steps.
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Can't use voice to reply to SMS or email?

Hi all,
So far everything has been working smoothly but I've run into one issue with the 360 that I can't figure out. When I try to reply to an SMS it seems to do nothing vs. asking for a voice response, and for email, it just opens the app on the phone with a reply message waiting to be typed in.
I had thought that you could use voice to respond? I'm using a Nexus 4 with CM11 M11, and Google Now API 1.4 through Xposed.
Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks,
Ben

Fmstrat said:
Hi all,
So far everything has been working smoothly but I've run into one issue with the 360 that I can't figure out. When I try to reply to an SMS it seems to do nothing vs. asking for a voice response, and for email, it just opens the app on the phone with a reply message waiting to be typed in.
I had thought that you could use voice to respond? I'm using a Nexus 4 with CM11 M11, and Google Now API 1.4 through Xposed.
Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks,
Ben
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I had the same issue when I first got mine. I found that replys are currently only supported using Hangouts for SMS and the actual Gmail app for email. The stock SMS/email apps only support viewing. Once I switched them over everything worked perfectly.

acura650 said:
I had the same issue when I first got mine. I found that replys are currently only supported using Hangouts for SMS and the actual Gmail app for email. The stock SMS/email apps only support viewing. Once I switched them over everything worked perfectly.
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Well that's lame. It's just like how Google leaves out an easy way to get unread counts for non-Gmail accounts in the beginning. Hopefully they adjust this.
Ben

There are several third party apps able to do it, like 8sms.

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There are several third party apps able to do it, like 8sms.
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Thanks, I'll have to look into that. I've also found WearMail which seems to handle emails better, but given the low review count and the fact that it's a closed source app which asks for login credentials, I'm going to hold off on it for a while.

Unable to use Facebook Messenger as SMS app

Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I literally cannot find anything on this. I've been looking for a better texting app ever since I realized that my favorite SMS app Google Messenger horribly compresses all of my MMS files and there is no way of changing that. At first I though it was my phone (HTC M8) since before I did not have this issue, but I've upgraded it to the HTC 10 and it does the same thing. I've been using Chomp because its somewhat the best overall app I've found. I tried Textra, but every now and then it fails to send/receive messages for around 3 minutes, and when it finally does send my message, it'll just flood me with all the messages I should've been receiving during that time all at once. I tried Yaata as well but I was having issues with the group SMS feature on it. I recently found out that the Facebook Messenger app has re-integrated the SMS feature on it, but for some odd reason, I cannot get the setting to pop up on my phone. I'm fully updated, no root/exposed, I've tried reinstalling the FB Messenger app, I even installed the native Facebook app to see if it was that it needed to sync with my account or something, but nothing has worked. There is still no option for me to use Facebook Messenger as a default SMS app on the settings, or even send texts through. Has anyone ever encountered this issue?

First of all, who is your provider? I'm on AT&T, and their MMS size limit is 1MB. I was having the same issues with Textra and had to tweak a couple of the settings. I changed the size to 1MB and the other setting to 'System". Everything works great. You could always try going into the HTC Messages app and changing the MMS size, and then trying Google Messenger again? As for FB Messenger, this may be stupid, but is your phone number confirmed in the Settings page? I haven't tried that app yet for SMS.

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First of all, who is your provider? I'm on AT&T, and their MMS size limit is 1MB. I was having the same issues with Textra and had to tweak a couple of the settings. I changed the size to 1MB and the other setting to 'System". Everything works great. You could always try going into the HTC Messages app and changing the MMS size, and then trying Google Messenger again? As for FB Messenger, this may be stupid, but is your phone number confirmed in the Settings page? I haven't tried that app yet for SMS.
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Oops, could've sworn I mentioned T-Mobile somewhere, guess it slipped my mind. It's T-Mobile. I believe the stock HTC app actually sends MMS fine as well, just not on Google Messenger.
On the Textra issue, I used to think it was a regular SMS issue, but now that I think back, it might've been an MMS only issue since it happened to me on a group text. I can't really recall if it happened on regular one on one SMS.
And yeah, it's confirmed. I double checked on the settings and when I reinstalled it, it asked me to make sure it was correct. There's apparently (from some screenshots I've seen) a whole section on the tab all the way to the right on FB Messenger that just says SMS, but it's definitely not on my screen.

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Oops, could've sworn I mentioned T-Mobile somewhere, guess it slipped my mind. It's T-Mobile. I believe the stock HTC app actually sends MMS fine as well, just not on Google Messenger.
On the Textra issue, I used to think it was a regular SMS issue, but now that I think back, it might've been an MMS only issue since it happened to me on a group text. I can't really recall if it happened on regular one on one SMS.
And yeah, it's confirmed. I double checked on the settings and when I reinstalled it, it asked me to make sure it was correct. There's apparently (from some screenshots I've seen) a whole section on the tab all the way to the right on FB Messenger that just says SMS, but it's definitely not on my screen.
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Try doing this.... Settings > Apps > Top Right Corner "Configure Apps" > Default Apps > Choose Messenger for Default Messenging. I didn't do it, but FB Messenger is listed under the choices. Maybe that will kick in the SMS Settings?

...it worked. I can't believe I forgot to check that. Thank you so much!

Hi I'm having the same problem, but "Messenger" isn't listed under the choices for Default messaging apps. Is there a way I can force it to be recognised as an SMS app?
EDIT: I figured it out - For some reason I never received the prompt to give Messenger SMS permissions. Once I went into Settings > Apps and enabled the permissions, everything was sorted!

goliathvool said:
Hi I'm having the same problem, but "Messenger" isn't listed under the choices for Default messaging apps. Is there a way I can force it to be recognised as an SMS app?
EDIT: I figured it out - For some reason I never received the prompt to give Messenger SMS permissions. Once I went into Settings > Apps and enabled the permissions, everything was sorted!
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This did it for me. I feel like this is an HTC 10 thing because on my Nexus 6P I was prompted with the permission request and SMS option right off the bat, whereas on the 10 I had to manually set it up.