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[Q] Eclair MMS app on Froyo?

Hello everyone!
Just recently I got the 2.2 OTA for my Droid (rooted) and I'm absolutely loving it, except for one thing: the new MMS app. I strongly dislike the new look; I don't want to see my own profile icon and I definitely don't want to see several of each icon. I really liked the way the Eclair MMS app looked, and I really liked seeing my friends' facebook statuses next to their contact icon.
I've tried replacing the Froyo Mms.apk with the Eclair Mms.apk, which could display everything and worked perfectly fine except for when I actually went to send a message. It would force close and never show that the message actually sent, even though I got replies back, so I know they sent. Also, in order to get this to work, I had to remove Mms.odex. Once I saw that the Eclair app displayed everything and seemed to work fine, I (foolishly) erased my backup of Mms.odex and now I can't run the standard Froyo Mms.apk. Luckily, I did find a modified app that I can use in the meantime, so I'm not totally out of luck right now.
Is there any way to get the old Eclair MMS app/look back? I would REALLY love it! And please don't just suggest Handcent or Chomp. I've tried them and I just don't like them. I went through all the styling and customization options and I just couldn't get it to look like I want. All I want is the old Eclair app back, not alternatives (unless they look almost identical to Eclair's). If it's impossible, I guess I'll deal with it, but "impossible" and "Android" don't really go together...
Thanks in advance!
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I attached two screenshots taken out of an emulator, just in case anyone isn't familiar (why you'd need to see them, I dunno, but I figure more info is better).

Bump. This is a good question. I hadn't really even though about how much better the 2.1 vs 2.2 SMS/MMS app. I knew there was something different but thank you for laying it out. I'm having a problem where the app isn't posting my icon. It is synced with my Facebook contacts so I don't see why it doesn't show my avatar, and if it isn't supposed to then why even change it? No sir, I don't like it. If there is any way to downgrade to the earlier messaging app I would very much be interested in knowing.

zaiger said:
Bump. This is a good question. I hadn't really even though about how much better the 2.1 vs 2.2 SMS/MMS app. I knew there was something different but thank you for laying it out. I'm having a problem where the app isn't posting my icon. It is synced with my Facebook contacts so I don't see why it doesn't show my avatar, and if it isn't supposed to then why even change it? No sir, I don't like it. If there is any way to downgrade to the earlier messaging app I would very much be interested in knowing.
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if its the problerm im thinking of, you need to make a Me contact, and put your picture there

Shameless bump. Still driving me crazy. Hoping there's an alternative by now?

Who should I blame for this contacts bug?

If I create a contacts group in google.com/contacts it never appears in my phone (even after sync, course). But if I try to add the same group name in the phone it tells me the group exists so I can't create it. Oh Ye?!?! So where is it you stupid SGS? Show it to me. Nada!
If I create a group in my phone it never shows up in google.com/contacts. I can even go there and create a group with the same name.
Is this by design? Who belongs this bug? Android or Samsung? Do you have this problem with SGS or other phones.

Blame Samsung. They replaced the stock Android Contacts app with their own. There are many complaints about it in the forums.

Lol thanks. Is there an easy or not so easy way of reverting that crap samsung contact app?

format said:
Lol thanks. Is there an easy or not so easy way of reverting that crap samsung contact app?
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You cannot uninstall the Samsung Contacts app, which is what syncs with Google. But you can install another third-party app and use that as your interface instead.
(Actually, I think the Samsung app does download the Google groups data element when it syncs, but just fails to display it.)
I have tried a free Market app called Contacts Evolved, which does display the contacts, by Gmail group, in separate tabs. A little buggy, though, with some force-close issues.

The more I try to use the really usefull features the more problems. I have the SGS almost a month and now can properly say (since this is stuff from other galaxy):
"Oh my god, it's full of BUGS"
I've created a calendar in Google calendar and it showed up in SGS. Great! This is rocket science.
Then I deleted that calendar. Vanished from the phne. OOooohhhoo!! Great.
Now I create another calendar. Nada. Zero. No way to make the calendar appear. Did I consumed my one calendar limit ?
Oh boy. This is so bad. Consumes a lot of time.
FM radio is mono. GPS is a joke. Contacts and Calendar have more bugs that entries. You get the strange sensation that when you peek under the hood it's a great hardware in the hands of the wrong guys. Just put vanilla FROYO please. It's easier and you can fire a lot of incompetent engineers.
I have 5 calendars in google calendar. Why this crazy phone only shows me 3? And what can I do besides selling it?
Sync and reboot are useless.
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I installed Gemini Calendar just to see if I can overcome the problem and with that app I can see all the calendars. I choose them, but the events I have in the ones missing from the stock SAMSUNG cal app, don't appear also. So one step closer to nothing.

just a question, did you enable viewing google contacts from the display option in the contacts app?

In the JP# Froyo builds, Google contact groups are listed (because this annoyed me too), so expect it in the official Froyo release when released

xfox said:
just a question, did you enable viewing google contacts from the display option in the contacts app?
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Yep! But the problem is with the groups not showing up.
andrewluecke said:
In the JP# Froyo builds, Google contact groups are listed (because this annoyed me too), so expect it in the official Froyo release when released
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Ok, let's hope. But there is already too much stuff sliding to froyo. It's gonna be the SGS mother of all fixes... not good, not good.
And now this calendar bug. This is starting to annoy me.

I actually used groupy a free app to overcome the stupid contacts apps from Samsung...shows all the groups perfectly from my mail contacts

I'll try that one also. Thanks

"Contacts GroupU" also does the trick. Good to group the google contacts on the phone, which did not work for me before.
I create the groups in the Samsung UI, fill them in the GroupU App. Thereafter all the stuff syncronizes correctly with my google account.
What doesn´t work for me, is vice versa.

Will Froyo fix all these problems? The answer is in September...
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Suuuuuuure it will (not). Froyo will be the mother of all fixes... Oh boy. You have to work in some other business to believe Froyo will solve all these bugs.
It will solve some, and bring different ones. That's a fact of life.

format said:
Suuuuuuure it will (not). Froyo will be the mother of all fixes... Oh boy. You have to work in some other business to believe Froyo will solve all these bugs. It will solve some, and bring different ones. That's a fact of life.
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But then again, Samsung are focusing on fixing the major, most common bugs, so it will possibly fix all the major ones.. Also, Froyo is a refined version of Eclair (and a lot of Froyo stuff like highmem is already integrated in eclair builds). Google has probably fixed a lot too.
But nobody knows. That's the reality. We all have different beliefs, but they are simply that. Nobody has proof!

yeah i went form iPhone to SGS and I'm pissed that the really essential stuff doesn't work.
But i have some hope that it will be fixed soon because there is really a lot of these phones around,maybe they will fix the lag to.
Love the open system but then my iPhone was to open (jailbroken).

ylchong said:
Will Froyo fix all these problems? The answer is in September...
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The Samsung Contacts app is part of Samsung's firmware, not Google's Froyo OS. Now, Samsung may bundle a firmware fix along with Froyo, but that is a different matter.

Calendar (3rd Party Apps) Sync broken in Froyo

I really Like Froyo........... (try JPA at the Moment)
But one thing i really miss in any Froyo releases (and i have tried nearly every ROM that was leaked) since the first Froyo releases the Sync of Tasks and Appointments that are created by third Party Apps (Jorte, Quickaddroid....) is broken.
The Tasks are (on Device) stored in my Google Calaendar but not synced. Only if i open and save it in Stock Calendar they ar synced.
Call Logger (e.g. Lo2Calendar) also not working.
This is absolutely essential for me because the Stock Calendar is a very bad Solution and nearly unuseful.
But i am very surprised, that no one misses this Function or tell it as an Bug.
Does anyone Know an Workaround???????
I really appreciate Froyo.
But without this Options it is no Option for me and so i have (once again) to flash back to JM8.
This was, until now, the most stable and reliable ROM for me.

There is already a thread somewhere specifically about the Jorte problems (from which I also suffer). I also don't like the Samsung Calendar app, but didn't find a workaround (yet)...

kasper_h said:
There is already a thread somewhere specifically about the Jorte problems (from which I also suffer). I also don't like the Samsung Calendar app, but didn't find a workaround (yet)...
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sync with google, & everything will be there. Hope it helps.

Bad Luck
So there seams to be no Way to get this working under Froyo.
And so i had once again flashed back to JM8.
Ok i playing around a lot with the Phone. But at first it has to work and this as good as it can.
And without the Cal sync in 3rd Party Apps it works, not for me.

ragin said:
sync with google, & everything will be there. Hope it helps.
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ragin, i think you havnt read my post really
I DO AND I WILL sync with Google!!!!
Thats the only Option for me.
But under Froyo the Galaxy does not sync Tasks that are created by 3rd Party Apps.
Please.
Before posting such useless tipps, read and understand the meaning of the post.
Dont want to bother you.
Sorry......
Sounds more bad than i mean it

pbruck,
Well, just to bring your attention to the fact that calendar sync with 3rd party apps is working again in firmware XXJPU (FROYO 2.2.1!)
pbruck said:
I really Like Froyo........... (try JPA at the Moment)
But one thing i really miss in any Froyo releases (and i have tried nearly every ROM that was leaked) since the first Froyo releases the Sync of Tasks and Appointments that are created by third Party Apps (Jorte, Quickaddroid....) is broken.
The Tasks are (on Device) stored in my Google Calaendar but not synced. Only if i open and save it in Stock Calendar they ar synced.
Call Logger (e.g. Lo2Calendar) also not working.
This is absolutely essential for me because the Stock Calendar is a very bad Solution and nearly unuseful.
But i am very surprised, that no one misses this Function or tell it as an Bug.
Does anyone Know an Workaround???????
I really appreciate Froyo.
But without this Options it is no Option for me and so i have (once again) to flash back to JM8.
This was, until now, the most stable and reliable ROM for me.
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My first froyo-version was XWJPA installed through Kies. After that, 3rd party sync didn't work. I later did a full-wipe install of XWJPA through Odin. After that, it started working again. So I think something went wrong with the settings of my Jorte after the update to froyo through Kies.

Wow this is bad
Does anyone have a solution to these problems. This is horrid. I can't believe that I have to choose the calendar that an event is added to EVERY TIME. I didn't even know it was happening until I noticed my CallTrack data was not syncing properly. If I could I would return my phone.

[Q] Rare bug on FR008

I always sync my favorite contacts with Facebook but since sometimes my phone contacts don't have a picture that fits well on the contact avatar of the phone or they're not alone in the picture- I like to use a picture that I added myself on the phone. I've realized that everytime FB syncs with the phone my contacts picture automatically changes to the new picture on FB and I have to go back to the personal picture myself. Has anyone else experienced this same "bug" ? It never happened to me with Liberated Eclair

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I always sync my favorite contacts with Facebook but since sometimes my phone contacts don't have a picture that fits well on the contact avatar of the phone or they're not alone in the picture- I like to use a picture that I added myself on the phone. I've realized that everytime FB syncs with the phone my contacts picture automatically changes to the new picture on FB and I have to go back to the personal picture myself. Has anyone else experienced this same "bug" ? It never happened to me with Liberated Eclair
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Suggestion: Since we have 2 kernel options for FR008, I would make a nandroid backup of your current ROM/kernel and then flash the other kernel and see if you still have the issue. If you didn't experience the issue on Liberated Eclair, then maybe Liberated Froyo with the HTC Hong Kong kernel may not have the issue. Just a thought?

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Suggestion: Since we have 2 kernel options for FR008, I would make a nandroid backup of your current ROM/kernel and then flash the other kernel and see if you still have the issue. If you didn't experience the issue on Liberated Eclair, then maybe Liberated Froyo with the HTC Hong Kong kernel may not have the issue. Just a thought?
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I forgot to mention that I'm running FR008 with the HK kernel. What are you running? Have you had this problem before?

I don't think its a bug. It was also present on the stock A&T 2.1 rom that came with the phone.
I think HTC just made it so if you choose to sync fb contacts it will automatically select the newest pictures available. Sadly, I never found a way to bypass it (so I just switched to CM6).

guido3300 said:
I forgot to mention that I'm running FR008 with the HK kernel. What are you running? Have you had this problem before?
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I running the HK kernel, too, however, I don't allow FB to sync contacts because this is a company phone and I use the company's Exchange Server to store and sync my contacts.

For me it's an intermittent issue. For some contacts the override stays indefinitely, for some a few days, and for one person it reverts to the FB pic with every synch. I have no idea what logic HTC uses to determine which pic to show.

mcquill said:
I don't think its a bug. It was also present on the stock A&T 2.1 rom that came with the phone.
I think HTC just made it so if you choose to sync fb contacts it will automatically select the newest pictures available. Sadly, I never found a way to bypass it (so I just switched to CM6).
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Really? I used 2.1 for like 3 months since I got my phone and I never dealed with this issue. Now on FR008 it's so annoying, some of my contacts switches pictures everyday and I have to constantly revert my phone contacts to the desired picture. Maybe it's not a bug and it's a function causing this, I just wish I knew which one

guido3300 said:
Really? I used 2.1 for like 3 months since I got my phone and I never dealed with this issue. Now on FR008 it's so annoying, some of my contacts switches pictures everyday and I have to constantly revert my phone contacts to the desired picture. Maybe it's not a bug and it's a function causing this, I just wish I knew which one
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I'm sorry...but I seriously have to tell you, that seeing you quote yourself was by far one of the funniest things I've ever seen on a forum. Maybe it's because I'm a little delirious but that was COMICAL.

zervic said:
I'm sorry...but I seriously have to tell you, that seeing you quote yourself was by far one of the funniest things I've ever seen on a forum. Maybe it's because I'm a little delirious but that was COMICAL.
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WTF? hahahahaahahahahahahaha Dude! I was replying through my phone in bed and I must have pressed the wrong quote button. I didn't even notice I was quoting myself hahaha. I'll fix it now
Back on toppic: This **** is annyoing

i don't think its a bug. facebook is syncing properly and pulling the appropriate information. if anything, i'd imagine the bug was with eclair for not pulling the picture.
if you don't like dealing with it, you can always switch back.

mattbollenbach said:
i don't think its a bug. facebook is syncing properly and pulling the appropriate information. if anything, i'd imagine the bug was with eclair for not pulling the picture.
if you don't like dealing with it, you can always switch back.
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Did you even read the thread? I tell my phone specifically to use the picture I asigned to my contacts but it keeps on switching to the picture on FB.

yes, i did read the thread. no one seems to have any other information or solutions, so i'd say switch back or deal with it.

[Q] Facebook Link Contacts

I didn't know a good name for the thread but, whatever.
So, I recently exchanged my HD2 for a new one, and the ROM was upgraded on the new one (I think). It's 3.14.561.1 WWE. I used to be able to sync my Facebook with my contacts on my old phone, but for some reason it doesn't work. When you go to Link the Facebook with a contact, it's supposed to show up their picture, but instead, it show's the grey head. After browsing, I noticed theres nothing in \Windows\FBContacts, but 3 random picture's in \Temp\fbimagecache. I'm between a rock and a hard place. Facebok v1.1.0.26
tl;dr Would having 3.14 ROM and this v of fb make a difference?
Mod please close.

i am also looking for some app that allows me to link my contacts FB friends manually

Hopefully someone can help me with this. It's annoying :/

have a look at this folks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621538
or there is 1 called mobilesync i think it is

Demon_man said:
have a look at this folks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621538
or there is 1 called mobilesync i think it is
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That's been deleted. (The link's because it violates FB TOS.)

ryan1990 said:
Hopefully someone can help me with this. It's annoying :/
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I used this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13581530&postcount=11 to help me do it. Hopefully it helps you.