After doing a restore and wiping my phone data, my contacts disappeared. I'm a little confused, because I thought that since they were stored in Google, they would reappear the first time I synced up. (I may have done something incorrectly here.)
I have Lookout installed, and restored from a contacts backup I had on there. While contacts appear in my dialer when I start typing their name, they don't show up in the People app built into Android.
Does anyone know of a way to get the contacts that are obviously being stored somewhere on my phone (since Dialer can find them) back into the People app?
i know it's been asked and i don't see any solutions, but facebook adds +1 to every number of it.
i just added someone, and i added their number manually, but they also happen to have their # on facebook. since i sync my stuff, it automatically synced, and the FB number with +1 over wrote the regular number, so now when i send them texts, they don't get it. i don't want to unsync it, but there's GOT to be a way to fix this. yet another reason why facebook is utter crap.
You can go into the "dialer" app and clear the cache, I read that that worked for someone.
If not, click on the app at the top of this list to download the Contacts Cleanup for our CDMA carrier. It'll get rid of the plus signs before every number. Be sure not to get rid of the "1" that's in the country code field! Make sure you save that .apk file on the phone somewhere and re-install the app manually if you flash another rom, because the market will just install the regular "Contacts Cleanup" that doesn't really work with our phones too well.
I also use "Contacts Analyzer" to clean up duplicate contacts. They pile up pretty high if you flash roms often.
I recently rooted and am using the Clutch ROM which has been working great for the most part.
My issue is:
When I go to the 'messages' app, which still seems to be stock HTC, and type in the 'to:' field to select a name, no filtered contact list pops up so I have to click on the person icon and select a contact from the whole list
Notes:
I noticed that on my un-rooted phone, there were two message apps (or at least icons). Similarly, I had a Facebook app and a Facebook for HTC app which did completely different things (the facebook for htc app worked entirely on syncing the phone with contacts/calendars/etc...) and I thought that maybe the second message app somehow synced everything properly however I may be mistaken.
Does anyone know anything about this? I appreciate, in advance, any help from you guys.
Thanks,
Jon
I'm editing my original message. I'm keeping it below in case it provides detail but I apologize that it was too complex. Here are three simplified questions:
1) My old phone stopped working. I have a new phone. Where are old Whatsapp messages (are they stored on internal memory and thus unretrievable, available on Whatsapp servers)?
2) I have a copy of all files on my old phone. It's not recent but if I have a Whatsapp database file is there an external viewer to see my old messages? I read about a "key" but I don't have my old phone.
3) It was a month gap before I finally had a working phone. Why are messages that were "waiting" in some Whatsapp groups now visible to me only by sender and thus completely out of chronological order?
Hello,
My unrooted Galaxy Note stopped working. It was replaced by an unrooted Galaxy Note. I've kept the same number but Whatsapp is giving me problems. Thank you for any help.
1) When I installed Whatsapp on the new phone all old conversations were missing in all chat groups. Why?
2) I thought that Whatsapp autosaved databases nightly to the SD card. My SD card only has a few database files from years ago and this was on an older phone (not either of the Galaxy Notes I've owned). Why?
3) If Whatsapp stores database files to the internal memory I can't do much (as my old device did not turn on and is gone). But why then does the new phone not yet have a Whatsapp folder (or any databases) in the internal memory?
4) On the new phone now, only chat groups with new conversations were visible when I installed Whatsapp. I'm assuming that the missing chat groups will appear when they get new conversations?
5) In one chat group chronology was lost. All conversations by one sender were followed by all conversations by another. Why? It's impossible to make sense of what is being said.
6) Because of the above I thought I might remove and reinstall Whatsapp? Would I lose any "unread" messages (so far most of my messages are "unread" as I am trying to sort out why I am having so many problems with Whatsapp)? If I save a backup before removing Whatsapp would it save the "unread" messages?
7) I have a database file on an external drive from a few weeks ago. I read that attempting to merge it with the "unread" messages on Whatsapp on my new phone probably would not work. Is that correct?
8) I assume with encryption there is no way to view my old messages right (that old database file on the external drive is useless and there is no viewer to view the messages and images)? That bothers me a lot as some last communications from family members who passed away were in that important database file.
9) In the future what should I do to preserve my Whatsapp messages, pictures, and groups?
10) At least Whatsapp didn't delete all my messages that were unread. My text (non Whatsapp) messages and phone messages in the gap between sending in the old phone and getting the new one are completely gone so I don't even know who wrote to me or called me. It seems like none of that gets saved to the SD card?
I appreciate your help very much.
To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?
nopgalaxy said:
To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?
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When I changed phones but kept my number, I installed Whatsapp on my new phone and it asked if I wanted to retrieve my old messages and I hit yes and it downloaded them
Thank you for the reply. It didn't ask me for that unfortunately. Do you think it might be worth reinstalling Whatsapp or would I lose the messages I've gotten over the last few days if I "retrieve old messages" now? Thank you very much.
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!
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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.