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[BUG] SMS Annoyances

Now I believe this is something that has been happening since 1.5 and its a little annoying, I wanted to check with you guys to see if this too is irritating to more people.
now to send a new Text msg, I type the first couple letters of the name and wait for the possible contacts to show and select, now what irritates me is that not only do the mobile numbers show up but also their home numbers, now I know that technology has gotten better and that on some cases home numbers can receive text msgs(verizon fios customers I believe has this feature). but 99.999% of the time you are only texting mobiles.
so the 1 million dollar question, can this be modified so that it only shows mobile numbers ???
I've looked at the settings for messages and didn't find anything there, if you guys have found something please let me know.
im running dc 2.1 rom, but I've seen this on all roms used on my hero.
Im trying to remember if aosp has the same issue, maybe some aosp guys can check for me.
I had the g1 before the hero and I dont remember having this, but well its been a while.
Thanks.

I believe it just pulls up all contact information for the contact you're entering. It WOULD be nice if it had a smart feature to just show the mobile number, I agree. But I don't believe there's a setting for it.

Handsent has this functionality in the settings...

Jason kiDD said:
Handsent has this functionality in the settings...
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Yeah, but I think he's talking about the default messaging app.

I dont know if everyone is aware but Sprint has text to landline. Anytime you send a text message to a landline Sprint leaves a message. Ive been using this feature for the past 6 months. It works in english and spanish. Not perfect but good enough. Im guessing its included on the simply everything plans Because I did not request any service like this. Anyway:
The Default messages app is limited to 10 contacts at a time
There also an issue with spanish characters like ó,é,i,ñ, etc. Well, its not a android issue, is that most other phones do not support these characters and the whole text message gets messed up
If I was you I would switch to Handscent.

energizer1389 said:
If I was you I would switch to Handscent.
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Looks like Im gonna try Handscent...

emenny81 said:
Looks like Im gonna try Handscent...
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You'll like it much better.
Amazing that it's free. I'd pay 5 bucks for it just for the voice input alone.

emenny81 said:
Looks like Im gonna try Handscent...
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Handcent is a little intimidating at the beginning. Play with the options for a while and you'll get the full potential.

emenny81 said:
Now I believe this is something that has been happening since 1.5 and its a little annoying, I wanted to check with you guys to see if this too is irritating to more people.
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This is because Carriers supports Text to landline now, were you can send a text to a home phone.

energizer1389 said:
Handcent is a little intimidating at the beginning. Play with the options for a while and you'll get the full potential.
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But you don't have to. Works great "right out of the box"
Might just want to enable notifications from handcent and disable notifications from the Messages app.

scirio said:
But you don't have to. Works great "right out of the box"
Might just want to enable notifications from handcent and disable notifications from the Messages app.
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I agree. I meant intimidating because the amount of options that are available for modification.

[THINK TANK]POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOUND ~ fix froyo messaging to the wrong person???

From this thread and my experience it seems as if the Vibrant based roms (Cog 2.4) do not have this issue. This lead me to cruise around the vibrant section and I found a couple useful files.
Applying sombionix's modified TW MMS file on clockwork has seemed to have fixed the issue for me. I do need to use/test it for a little longer to be sure. I triedseveral times to reproduce the bug and it is texting the right people If it didn't have that stupid gloss look it would be perfect
I am going to give this a tryCyanogenMod 6 MMS Modified for puzzle lock by untermensch . Since it is part of CM this should 100% not have the issue, and it is nicely modified to make use of the puzzle lock screen.
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From what I understand this is an issue with all froyo roms, I have experienced this with most cognition builds since 2.2b3-2.3b3. When switching between a message conversation and new messages in the stock messaging app, messages are often sent to the wrong person.
I am going to try my best to describe what I believe leads to the problem, these steps may not replicate the issue exactly:
1. I must have just recieved and replied to a message conversation with "individual A"
2. I receive a message from "individual B"
3. Without leaving A's conversation I pull down the notification bar, and access "B's" new message and conversation.
4. while viewing "individual B's" conversation i try to send a reply to B, but it switches me back to "individual A's" conversation and sends them the reply (instead of B).
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This has been very frustrating, embarrassing, and incriminating -- especially when I have accidentally sent messages to my boss, mother, and certain coworkers that don't understand some of the "things" me and my friends txt about.
I have created this thread to hopefully get everyone thinking about a way to fix this. In my opinion this is one of the biggest bugs with the Froyo roms.
If you have something constructive to add please join in the discussion. Suggestions like, do not use the notification bar, or install handcent are not helpful.
Thanks!

I use chompsms and have never had that problem, even with the quick reply feature.

I use the default sms, and have no such problem.

Get rid of the ( and ) in your contact numbers.

I don't know what to tell you man, I just tried this on Cog 2.3b3 and couldn't replicate your problem.
Perhaps you haven't found all required pieces to replicate the issue.
And shouldn't this be in the general Q&A forum?

I too have had this problem. Has gotten me in a lot of trouble also I just don't use the notification bar anymore. Your not the only one
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I have had the issue with some of the ROMs. With 2.4, everything seems ok.

wow! I have not had this problem yet, but thanks for the heads up. this could really get me in trouble with the wifey.

This *almost* got my ass on fire. Thankfully it was vague and didnt cause any alarms. We gotta figure it out, and also. When i open up the messaging app from the icon on the home screen, instead of going to the person i was talking to last, it goes to someone in the middle of the convo list.
Now i made it a habit of looking at who im texting before clicking on the send button.
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I started using handcent when I first got my phone and haven't looked back.
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cog 2.4 doesn't have this issue

I have the same problem!
It is extremely frustrating and embarrassing sometimes! (especially if you are talking about a girl and you mistexted.... to the girl!)
Im running cog 2.2 and gonna upgrade to 2.4 to see if that fixes the problem.

I just switched to cog 2.3b4 from 2.4.1 and the issue is back. I am gonna try using the Mms.apk from the vibrant build to sweet if that fixes the problem.
It is annoying that my first couple hours on 2.3.b4 I already noticed the bug. I didn't have any issues with 2.4.1 in the few days I used it.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is are those having these issues (I have never had this issue) restoring old texts after flashing? Use handcent myself
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zelendel said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is are those having these issues (I have never had this issue) restoring old texts after flashing? Use handcent myself
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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I don't restore texts and I get this issue a lot. It seems to happen most when I'm already in one persons text, I get a notification for a new text from another person, so I go to the text using notification pulldown. Once i type and hit reply, it moves the text to the person who's text I was in before I recieved the new one.
I hope that wording makes sense lol.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841011 I just flashed that in cwm and I wasn't able to reproduce the issue.
I will see if it fixes the problem completely. It is really easy to apply if anyone else wants to try it.

zelendel said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is are those having these issues (I have never had this issue) restoring old texts after flashing? Use handcent myself
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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Because you use hand cent is exactly why you don't get it.

I just about got into this very trouble the other day. I am running cog 2.4.1, and if I reply to a message from the drop down menu from the top, it sends it to the last person I was talking to in the messaging folder. Regardless of who it says you are texting! This really needs to be fixed. The person I'm talking about isn't always the last one I talked to!

klloyd said:
I just about got into this very trouble the other day. I am running cog 2.4.1, and if I reply to a message from the drop down menu from the top, it sends it to the last person I was talking to in the messaging folder. Regardless of who it says you are texting! This really needs to be fixed. The person I'm talking about isn't always the last one I talked to!
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Whoa, you got the issue on 2.4? I usually have the bug effect me once every couple days, but while on 2.4 I haven't noticed. I have been trying to make it happen with the vibrant mms.apk, but I haven't been effected yet.
I really hope designgears notices this problem and helps fix outif it exists in the vibrant based roms too.

Yep. And I do not restore messages either. When I wipe one, I wipe it!
I think it can be reproduced by going to the messages folder and texting some one. (Person a) then after you have replayed to person a, have person b text u. Answer with the pull down menu from the top. It worls the first time, not after that, and although it says its going to person b, it is really going to person a. Some times it takes several seconds for the names to change. I actually sent 3 txt back to back to the wrong person! Had to hit the back button to get back to the root of the message folder to see they all went to the wrong person. It clearly said it was going to person b!

Neat little "Contact List" Feature.

Hey all i figured I'd just throw this in here incase anyone similar to me didn't notice it on the stock DK28 rom if you go into the contact list you can press on a contact and slide left or right for "Call or Message", and it will immediately take you to a message or start calling them. Found it pretty neat and useful, unfortunately I flashed back to stock in hope Froyo will come very soon and lost that feature so for those on stock will have wait.
Anyway I hope this is news for some people, like I said i used my phone for days without noticing this lol
Enjoy!
-D3luSi0n4L

D3luSi0n4L said:
Hey all i figured I'd just throw this in here incase anyone similar to me didn't notice it on the stock DK28 rom if you go into the contact list you can press on a contact and slide left or right for "Call or Message", and it will immediately take you to a message or start calling them. Found it pretty neat and useful, unfortunately I flashed back to stock in hope Froyo will come very soon and lost that feature so for those on stock will have wait.
Anyway I hope this is news for some people, like I said i used my phone for days without noticing this lol
Enjoy!
-D3luSi0n4L
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yes someone here had mentioned that before. Its pretty neat, but thanks for posting for those who were not aware of it

This is on stock too. Click a display picture and it will bring up a menu of options among which are a phone and a sms bubble. Click on one or the other and you go straight to that.

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This is on stock too. Click a display picture and it will bring up a menu of options among which are a phone and a sms bubble. Click on one or the other and you go straight to that.
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Oh sweet, I'll have to check that out, doesn't sound as eye candy as froyo but accomplishes the same thing!
Thanks!
D3luSi0n4L

[Q] Touchwiz Dialer - Way it works

I been helpign my friend with updates for his phone and such and he was telling that when he was on stock that in the dial pad he was able to type the last names or a part of a name and it would show up as a option from the drop down..
But after i installed him a dk28 build it stopped working that way but with first names only. I have a captivate and when i was on stock, I definitely didnt have that feature.
Does anyone know if this is true? Any way to make it work the way he was telling me?
I would really appreciate it..
Thanks

I can confirm that mine (DK28) only searches first name, weird.

AndrewZorn said:
I can confirm that mine (DK28) only searches first name, weird.
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Do you remember how it worked when you were on stock?

Well, no, just saying it does in fact only search by FIRST name. Which is odd, considering the way I have my contacts set up... first name should not really be relevant...
So I'm thinking it isn't "first name" as much as it is "starts with".
I don't know if this is different than the way stock worked, but knowing that it is "starts with" makes more sense. I mean, every time you typed "a" or "e" you would get so many results if it searched as "contains"...

Contains would make more sense with what my friend wants to do.. Alot of his contacts cause of work have the name of the company before the first name to differ which person it is but also there is a "-" in the company which prevents him from searching exactly how he wants

[Q] SMS Picture.

Hello all. Sorry if this seems dumb! I just got a Nexus S and everything is great apart from when sending a SMS it does not show a picture next to my name it only shows pictures of my contacts. I know there is probably a simple way to change it but for the life of me i can't find it! Thanks for your help.

bump bump bump. Easy question for someone out there.

go to
https://www.google.com/accounts
and change your picture

Ive done that and still nothing.

benrees21 said:
Ive done that and still nothing.
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in that case, your having the same issue im having, on my N1 it kinda just eventually showed up

Bloody phones lol

lucky for me though i know what i look like

yea just annoying when u send a msg.

Could try making sure you have your phone number set on your sim card.

Yeah, I had to make an entry for "me" with my phone number to get it to show my picture. Not really a big deal.
Named it "WHOAMI Phone Identity" so it's more or less out of the way. Inculded y address and additional contact information, since it can serve a second purpose in the event that you leave your phone somewhere and a person who isn't a complete douchebag tries to get in contact to return it.