Hi All,
I'm a little new to Android (being a long suffering WinMo users) and love the OS except for one little issue (which I can't find reference for any where!), the issue is:
When I receive meeting requests into my mailbox (via activesync) there's no way of previewing them in my calendar! With the latest versions of WinMo any new meeting requests in my inbox would also exist in my calendar so I could easily see if I can accept or decline the meeting. With my desire, it seems I have to accept, look in my calendar then send a decline if it's not right!
Please, any help would be most appreciated, am I missing something (configuration of app that will help!?)
Also, on the subject of calendar, does anyone know of a way to enter or view appointment timezones?
Unfortunately I'm a big traveler so I arranging/receiving meetings in other timezones is very common!
Cheers
Matt
PS. Can a mod move this to General... I've posted to dev by mistake!!!
I have searched many forums and the market to no avail so I was hoping someone here could help.
Is there any way we, android users, can get a function similar to iOS4 users with their "group mms" option. To those of you not familiar, its basically a chat room like feature that uses your text messages. For example, if I were to create a new text on the iphone, I could add more people to it. Once it's sent out, if anyone replies, that reply will go to all of those in the group and so forth. In essence, a chat room is created where everyone receives a copy of everyone else's text.
At any rate, a few of my friends have iphones and I was hoping to be able to communicate with them in such a manner but neither the stock messaging application or handcent has this function. The few options that might work would involve having all of my friends download some new app along with myself and even that doesn't work all the time.
ANY help would be much appreciated.
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this would be helpful for me also as i communicate with multiple people. As of right now i just email stuff out to them so we can all see the replies. To have this on text would be awsome.
I would also like to setup groups so i can just select 1 group to text. I had this on my treo pro and it disappeared when i went to these new smart phones.
As far as I know, there is no such feature currently available without the use of third-party applications (that use data to do it).
Sorry
Maybe someone will build that feature eventually lol
The iPhone's ability to 'group chat' is just Apple being smart about the fact that MMS message details contain all recipients. They simply made their SMS app able to receive all the recipients and reply to all as a group.
An Android app like Go SMS or HandCent (or Google's stock app) could easily be modified to work just like this, if someone would do it.
dcdttu said:
The iPhone's ability to 'group chat' is just Apple being smart about the fact that MMS message details contain all recipients. They simply made their SMS app able to receive all the recipients and reply to all as a group.
An Android app like Go SMS or HandCent (or Google's stock app) could easily be modified to work just like this, if someone would do it.
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I wish someone would do it already, I felt pretty stupid the other day when I was in a group text with a couple people with iPhones and didn't know it.
App in the market called groupme works perfect even though this thread is super old lol.
dirkyd3rk said:
App in the market called groupme works perfect even though this thread is super old lol.
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lol last reply was may 25th, i swear that was last week! just playing but group me didn't work. It's all good, I'm hoping Android implements a feature like this soon...
stryker707 said:
I have searched many forums and the market to no avail so I was hoping someone here could help.
Is there any way we, android users, can get a function similar to iOS4 users with their "group mms" option. To those of you not familiar, its basically a chat room like feature that uses your text messages. For example, if I were to create a new text on the iphone, I could add more people to it. Once it's sent out, if anyone replies, that reply will go to all of those in the group and so forth. In essence, a chat room is created where everyone receives a copy of everyone else's text.
At any rate, a few of my friends have iphones and I was hoping to be able to communicate with them in such a manner but neither the stock messaging application or handcent has this function. The few options that might work would involve having all of my friends download some new app along with myself and even that doesn't work all the time.
ANY help would be much appreciated.
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Have you tried GO Sms Pro it has what you are looking for built in. Gave that a Try
I've been using GOsms pro for a while and i don't see this feature listed anywhere. Where is it?
I've have also been looking for this feature. The sad part is that it was possible on my old blackjack 2. All of the messaging apps that I have used so far including go sms and handcent only allow you to send texts to more than one person in one conversation, but when they reply, it goes back to being separated. Group chat should be implemented in android like it is on the iPhone.
djuniah said:
I've been using GOsms pro for a while and i don't see this feature listed anywhere. Where is it?
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bump for this.
I woke up this morning to a group chat with 3x iPhone 4S users and I had to reply to each of them individually.
I use go SMS also...
I think you have to be the one to start the group chat, just start a new text message and put in all the numbers/names u wanna text, hit send. it'll automatically group them together in 1 text
bump this i have the same deal , a bunch of friends have iphones...
The sidekick 4g has this feature built in. My friend group chats with me and other friends all the time. To tell u the truth it gets annoying having so many texts at the same time lol
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Any one have solutions for this? A lot of my friends use this on iPhone and its annoying not to participate. So I'll get a text and if I respond it only goes back to the originator, while I then get what look like individual texts from others that are clearly responding and going to everyone, and I'm assuming my responses would only just go back to the original writer. Even if I could just see everyone included and then include them manually I'd be ok.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I also have this problem, and its really annoying me. For me group texts are split into each persons single sms thread, when I would like them to be grouped. Do any of the devs think that they could come up with a solution? Honestly, I would be willing to pay to get this solved
I currently have a thunderbolt and it has SOAB rom from BAMF. With this rom I can see the people on the group list. However, when i was on a different rom I would only see the sender. Since now I can see the the group, I can respond in the thread and join the chats and not be left out. the way I did it was to respond to thread in an mms format. If you guys notice, the iphone group comes in as an mms. So my question to you guys, do you see all the people on the list when you receive that message? If so try replying in a mms format. You can do that by putting a dot in the subject line and it'll convert it to mms. The only annoying part about it is yo have to manually be converting a mms message all the time. If you dont, the sms message will go to them in a seperate thread. I tried to find an app that give you the option to chose a message wheither mms or sms without adding a subject line. The only app i found was verzion messages app which auto converts group messages into mms. However, the app doesnt work all the time. I hope it works for you guys cuz I am really happy now since I dont feel left
Mine does that, although to reply to all u have to long press and select reply to all, which I think is better the iPhone does it automatically,
On sense 3.0 messaging, but sense 1 allowed for group Txts to be sent, so I imagine it had a reply all as well
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Can this be ported to WP7 by anyone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298279
Essentially this stores the call start time, end time, duration and name of the other party if they are in the contact list, for both incoming and outgoing calls with an option to select if one wants to copy missed call details too.
As an enhancement we could also copy all incoming and outgoing SMS messages with relevant details to the calendar or in a separate folder in the main email account.
There's no api at this time to get that kind of information. Maybe one day it will be possible but not for now.
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Can this be ported to WP7 by anyone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298279
Essentially this stores the call start time, end time, duration and name of the other party if they are in the contact list, for both incoming and outgoing calls with an option to select if one wants to copy missed call details too.
As an enhancement we could also copy all incoming and outgoing SMS messages with relevant details to the calendar or in a separate folder in the main email account.
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I support this request, would love an app like that.
docraj said:
Can this be ported to WP7 by anyone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298279
Essentially this stores the call start time, end time, duration and name of the other party if they are in the contact list, for both incoming and outgoing calls with an option to select if one wants to copy missed call details too.
As an enhancement we could also copy all incoming and outgoing SMS messages with relevant details to the calendar or in a separate folder in the main email account.
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Me too. I miss CallCalendar already
Big time necromancy, but relevant:
Will Mango provide the APIs needed to get a CallCalendar-like app working?
I was using over 4 months WP7... liked it... but i always had problems keeping track of my phone calls, wich are a lot for my own company...
Since i got noticed about this app i got back from the shelve my HD2 and TP1... this app rules! I even ordered (since i can't miss a full keyboard phone) an SE X2!!! I'm addicted to this app!
If a port would come i'm even willing to pay for it!
Greets,
Michiel
Please post in the Requests/ideas thread. The SW development forum is for software development, not requests. The thread is there specifically for that reason.
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Does anyone know if there's a way to create contact groups for quickly texting or emailing a group of people?
greener88 said:
Does anyone know if there's a way to create contact groups for quickly texting or emailing a group of people?
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i wish they did integrate categories (which outlook desktop offers). but anyways, the best work around i've seen is to create a text message (which is what i'm assuming you want this for) and add all the people you want to that message. then when you send it, and view the sms inbox, you can see the text you sent and it will say "x recipients". you can then reuse the list by clicking on it and writing a new message that way.
not the best approach, but it's works for the time being.
have you checked the marketplace?
I have seen sms apps in there like one called group sms or something to that effect.
Now I'm on 4.0.2 stock. But the same problem was with my new device with 4.0.1.
When I'm getting a new meeting request, I don't see it when I press Calendar in the meeting request. I don't even see in the message a date/time when the meeting will take place.
Here's a meeting request:
As you see - no date/time details. But the meeting should take place at 16:00 (I checked that in the MS Outlook).
When I press Calendar, I don't see a meeting reservation there as well:
In other words: I have no chance to know when is the meeting without accepting it. If I accept - when the meeting appears in the calendar. But I can't accept it before knowing when it will take place.
Could anybody confirm they have the same issue? Thanks!!
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They have a free trail - give it a go.
Stephen
Thanks for advice. But I expect stock app to work correctly.
Is there a place where I could report bugs?
Is somebody from google or android dev team reacting to bug reports?
This looks like a clear bug to me. Post it in googles issue/bug tracker site.
I registered an issue here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25565
Somehow I don't think somebody will read it