Peculiar: if I soft reset the machine, I can view my Text messages fine. However, if I then view another message folder (outlook, http:// or smtp folders) the SMS folder populates with these messages: if I look at the tree structure there is a - (Minus) sign next to the text message branch, and if I select the stub I get a blank screen with IPM.Root at the top.
If I soft-reset, I can then view my SMS again, but only until I view another messagefolder.
As you can imagine, this is a MONSTROUS pain in teh arse, and I would really appreciate any help in solving this.
(apologies if the solution is listed elsewhere, searched for 5 days and couldn't find it).
Thanks,
Jolyon
I wonder if anyone managed to solve the problem.
It happened to me and I am unsuccesfully searching the web for a definite answer. There is no direct solution, just a few indirect ones such as "hard reset and restore except mailboxes" which sometimes work, sometimes not. The problem seems pretty popular. Would you hackers please assist us mere users...?
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All
is it possible to lock the SMS inbox to prevent unauthorised access at all?
Thoughts and solutions as always welcome.
Thanks
Pete
suppose it could be possible with 3th party software
but why not just put a password on the whole pda ?
it's already supported and would protect your data much more
should anybody steal the pda
hear hear
password protecting the Inbox would be very useful - and other folders for that matter.
The scenario in my case is not resolved by password protecting the whole PDA since you may wish to give someone access to the PDA - to play a game for instance. If there is no way of protecting your data beyond that then there's nothing stopping them having a nose around or doing damage (accidental or mallicous) whilst 'playing'.
I'd be interested to hear more on this. I'll have a look for 3rd party stuff in the meantime.
SMS Security
I've been looking for this kind of topic for a long time. I share similar sentiments and problem with you guys. any updates on this? I'm still searching for answers....
SMS Security
I've been looking for this kind of topic for a long time. I share similar sentiments and problem with you guys. any updates on this? I'm still searching for answers....
SMS Security
I've been looking for this kind of topic for a long time. I share similar sentiments and problem with you guys. any updates on this? I'm still searching for answers....
go here
http://www.pdafresh.net/Communications/SMS/app_SMSHide.htm
This is a must have 3rd party tools but still have some bug and errors
getting it to work
this is brilliant!! ...but it doesn't work.
Has anyone been able to get this program working?
I've installed the two files into: \Windows on my phone
I then run the .exe file and the program starts. I've been able to set up a password.
I've set up a new Category for contacts: Hide
and set the contact's category (whose messages are to be hidden) to: Hide
I then go to SMSHide 1.0 and select "Hide Messages" from the Messages menu and a msgbox reports that "0 messages hided succussfully".
For what it's worth, a test to see if any of my messages have been protected goes to show that they haven't. No password is required, the messages can just be accessed as normal.
Also when I turn Autohide ON, the program interface becomes inaccesible - it just shows "SMSHide v.10 " in the title bar.
You kind of worry that, being this buggy, it'll go and lock all your messages and they'll be locked out for good!!
Pity cos we really need something like this.
anyway I've posted these comments to the developer and wait on them or anyone else here who's had success getting back to me.
me either.. its not working.
Hope somebody out there who can help our predicament. this is a very important utility and I know most of PDA users are needing this. In this way we can share our PDA to our friends without fear of letting them snoop in our small secrets...
possible solution
hi there:
have you seen the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=23057
somebody else started it up and I found at least one answer to the problems I mentioned. have a look
You guys must be doing some serious adultry!!! I just have another fone for the ladies! Seriously, finding sms messages from other women seems to be no 1 reason for relationship breakdown these days!
I'd like a whole seperate hidden area of files and sms on my xda, away from prying eyes?
that site was already posted. I tried it and it seems to work. The problem is, if you happen not to hear the message tone, you will not know that you have a message so you have to hide and unhide all the time for checking. You also have to set all your contacts to private and hide category.
Maybe in the future, there will be a new software that will just hide the whole things easily.
Forumers,
I can't delete or move to archieve the sms at Inbox. I tried soft reset but it wont disappear. Tried to send it so it will go to Sent Items but still wont budge. The receipient of the undeleted sms receives nothing!
Please, help. It is annoying.
If you post to the forum, maybe you should articulate a bit more on what the problem truly is. What you wrote makes absolutely no sense (at least to me anyway).
Please describe the problem in a bit more detail.
This has almost no information:
"I can't delete or move to archieve the sms at Inbox."
If you post to the forum, maybe you should articulate a bit more on what the problem truly is. What you wrote makes absolutely no sense (at least to me anyway).
Please describe the problem in a bit more detail.
This has almost no information:
"I can't delete or move to archieve the sms at Inbox."
ppc4 said:
If you post to the forum, maybe you should articulate a bit more on what the problem truly is. What you wrote makes absolutely no sense (at least to me anyway).
Please describe the problem in a bit more detail.
This has almost no information:
"I can't delete or move to archieve the sms at Inbox."
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Sorry for that ppc4,
I forgot to tell you that our country (Philippines) is a "Text Messaging Country" where most people communicate by Text instead of a call (Speak by phone). Text Messaging is technically called the "Short Messages" or SMS for brevity. While "Multimedia Messages" are called MMS for brevity.
Now here we go with the problem:
Text Messages (SMS for brevity) are automatically saved at the folder called Inbox of a Program called Messaging (with an envelpe logo). You can delete these SMS or saved them in the archieve folder. The problem is that i can not delete those SMS. I can't even move them to another folder which is, normally, not a problem.
We usually delete the SMS when it takes too much space in the memory or folder. In my case, i don't delete but move the SMS in the archieve folder for future reference.
Now, how can i delete them? Resgistry Tweak or something?
Please help.
PS. I hope these clears the doubts. If it does not, then i can't help it anymore.
hey emil:
I've experienced this before I think it happens when the messaging database is corrupted or something to that effect. Only happened once and I haven't been able to replicate it.
Try smsbackup v1.2 it's freeware and can backup messages to your storage card. then do the hard reset and fresh install. I know it's kinda brute force but I'm sure this will clear it up.
Thanks for the clarification on the problem.
I agree that the mail db's have become corrupt. Follow the suggestion of backing up all the sms messages but before you do a hard reset, try this little attached program first to clean up the mail databases. Sprite software originally wrote it to clean up a problem where the deleted items folder showed a count of messages but there was nothing there to even delete. It should take care of your problem without having to do a hard reset and reinstall. Just make sure you save all those messages first.
ppc4,
Thank you for this reply.
I will try tommorow and post the result for everyone to know.
More power man.
I've used it before. Be forewarned that any accounts that you have created on your ppc will be deleted. After the program is run, only the default email accounts will remain intact (ie. sms, mms, outlook). Any pop or exchange accounts that you created will go away and will have to be recreated.
It's a whole lot easier than doing a hard reset though!
ppc4 said:
I've used it before. Be forewarned that any accounts that you have created on your ppc will be deleted. After the program is run, only the default email accounts will remain intact (ie. sms, mms, outlook). Any pop or exchange accounts that you created will go away and will have to be recreated.
It's a whole lot easier than doing a hard reset though!
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Your warning was noted when cleaning. Thanks.
But the problem is when i tried to "restore" the Text Messages from "backup" through Sprite Backup, all Text Messages that were restored are corrupted (they can't be read anymore). Have you encounterred the same problem?
Your prompt reply is highly appreciated.
Haven't seen that problem but I don't keep sms messages. I know the mail db's on the ppc get messed up from time to time and I've learned to not really trust them when it comes to saving actual messgaes.
Did you try that smsbackup instead of Sprite to try and get the messages saved off somewhere? You may also want to try looking for a program that can read the databases on the ppc to see if they can parse the messages out again.
This might be a bit long winded so my apologies in advance.
My XDA11 dumped itself and did a hard reset a couple of days back.
Luckily I had an oldish backup.stg file and was able to restore virtually everything to it's prior, if a bit old, state by restore via active sync.
However I discovered that my SMS and e-mail inboxes were full of messages which were niether readable or deletable.
Interestingly none of them have the envelope icon beside them.
Tapping a message produces a screen activity as if opening the message but nothing appears.
Similarly, tapping and attempting to delete a message results in nothing happening.
However any new SMS messages and e-mails react as usual.
I was able to remove all the 'ghost' messages for my e-mails by deleting all the accounts and then reinstating them however it appears this can't be done for the SMS account.
Through file explorer I deleted all the .mpb files in the /windows/messaging folder. This did not remove the ghosts either.
I have spoken unsuccesfully with O2 who merely think I should hard reset again and then reinstall everything from the ground up. This seems a bit screwy as there has to be folder/file in which these headers are held. They were also apparently unaware that activesync to a hard reset XDA requires I establish a new partnership which wont allow access to the old data (OK I can get round that but that's not the point....)
So has anyone else had this problem and sorted it I wonder?
I can live with these headers but it would be nice to lose them.
Thanks
Slim
There's a lot of topics about this, and a lot of conflicting information. A lot of arguing, and it's quite difficult to get the info you need.
I suggest that a topic, maybe even this one, be stickied with the current status of the problem as it seems to be the most common problem around.
After a period of successful use, SMSs will suddenly get stuck in the outbox and not send (to check, turn your messaging to traditional mode which will give you access to a folder drop-down) - no amount of resetting and retrying will send them.
HTC have apparently been made aware of the problem and may have a fix on the way.
Current solutions being put forward are:
a) Keep your message amount trimmed down - delete as many old messages as you can
or
b) install this cab http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Tweaks/Zenyee-Disable-HTC-Messaging-82632.shtml (or follow the directions here - a bit more hands-on but the same result http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=556614 ) to revert back to the default WinMo messaging service - a little less shiny, and doesn't have the benefit of pulling the contact name from your contacts when you get a delivery receipt, but is still perfectly functional and actually removes the slowdown from the messaging tab too.
If this is sticky'd, or if another one is made and sticky'd, can I also request that conversation be kept to a minimum and any info that crops up be immediately put into the first post?
Just to add to this with my personal points of experience:
* Normally you can tell if the message has sent if you watch it for a few seconds after you press send and it briefly flashes, though I still always check the Outbox folder to make sure.
* Sometimes when you check the Outbox folder it has messages from other folders (such as your inbox folder) which is wrong, just keep switching from inbox to outbox to get the true view of the outbox folder.
* An indicator for some people is that there is a problem was the volume bar not showing up correctly in the music player when music was playing, also caused stuttering in the song (possibly due to the volume keys actually skipping the playing track forward or backward with each press?) Normally when this was observed it was a tell-tale sign that the SMS bug has struck again.
Solutions (or more accurately, temporary work-arounds: think duct tape around a leaky pipe )
There is NO final guaranteed solution that works 100% of the time for 100% of people, however here are the few attempts that I know:
1.) WORKS FOR ME EVERYTIME SO FAR*::
- Soft reset the phone (turn it on and off).
- Go to your outbox folder (options, view traditional mode) and open the unsent message(s). Select all and copy the message, then delete it. Start a new message, paste the text and send again. This works everytime for me, though it is annoying turning the phone on and off.
- If you have whole bunch of unsent messages in the outbox then open up word/notes program and repeat the previous steps, copying and pasting all messages that were unsent in the outbox. This really really sucks if you have a lot of messages that didn't send, which is why I always make sure to regularly check my outbox.
2.) Another less successful (it seems) is to change your network to GSM only; mixed response, doesnt always work, or if it does the problem comes back again anyway at some point.
3.) Go in to the settings and add +44 (i.e UK area code or whatever your country code) in front of your SMS number (the network number) - again I tried this and did nothing, mixed responses but in my eyes does nothing.
4.) Add +44 to the beginning of every number in address book: did nothing for me I doubt this is a solution.
5.) Send yourself an SMS to clear your outbox: I tried this twice, never worked for me
That's it off the top of my head, to conclude though the best method I have found is to simply turn it off and on and copy and paste then resend freshly composed messages.
The problem may not be there for ages, then suddenly hit your phone, dissapear, then come back. With my old HD2 it happened about 3-5 4 times a day, with me turning it off each time, with moderate texts (maybe 10-20 max a day). I received a replacement HD2 today and after sending about 6 texts I have not had this problem but this means nothing, I'm expecting it to rear its ugly head at any second...
*Note that when I say 'works for me every time so far' I am not saying that this is a solution to fix the SMS bug, merely that it is a workaround (albeit not a good one) that has worked every time for me so far. However there have also been reports of people turning the phone on and off and the message still not sending, though this may be due to them holding their finger on the message in the outbox and pressing 'resend' which in my experience hardly ever works. Deletion and resending the pasted message seems to be the best way forward, apart from disabling the HTC messaging app altogether that is...
Before I factory reset my phone, I thought I'd search this forum to see if my problem is a known issue but didn't get any results from my searches.
My problem:
When I reply to an email in my job's Exchange account using the native email client, I cannot add any additional recipients and the existing recipients disappear when I try. They also disappear even if I don't try to edit the existing recipients when I hit send. The end result is that the message won't go out because there are no recipients. When I start typing in the To: or CC: fields, the letters I type appear in the keyboard's suggested words list, but don't show up in the TO: or CC: fields.
Workaround:
I already recreated the account, tried different keyboards, but the only thing that seems to work is leveraging the drafts folder. After I hit reply or reply all the first thing I must do is save the message as a draft. Then, I can open it from the drafts folder where I can then send the message successfully with or without editing the recipients.
I don't recall this always being a problem. I've had the phone since day one. I first noticed the problem a few weeks before the KitKat update. I had hoped the KitKat update would have fixed it, but it did not.
Is anyone else experiencing this or know what could be causing it?
Thanks for your time
Same Issue!!
Have you figured it out yet? I'm going crazy trying to...
dasher said:
Before I factory reset my phone, I thought I'd search this forum to see if my problem is a known issue but didn't get any results from my searches.
My problem:
When I reply to an email in my job's Exchange account using the native email client, I cannot add any additional recipients and the existing recipients disappear when I try. They also disappear even if I don't try to edit the existing recipients when I hit send. The end result is that the message won't go out because there are no recipients. When I start typing in the To: or CC: fields, the letters I type appear in the keyboard's suggested words list, but don't show up in the TO: or CC: fields.
Workaround:
I already recreated the account, tried different keyboards, but the only thing that seems to work is leveraging the drafts folder. After I hit reply or reply all the first thing I must do is save the message as a draft. Then, I can open it from the drafts folder where I can then send the message successfully with or without editing the recipients.
I don't recall this always being a problem. I've had the phone since day one. I first noticed the problem a few weeks before the KitKat update. I had hoped the KitKat update would have fixed it, but it did not.
Is anyone else experiencing this or know what could be causing it?
Thanks for your time
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maravillasanchez said:
Have you figured it out yet? I'm going crazy trying to...
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It turned out to be our Mobile Device Management solution at work. It was pushing down a security profile to my phone. Although the profile itself never changed, the vendor did updated the software around the time my problem started. We tried recreating the profile from scratch, suspecting it somehow became corrupted. This fixed my problem.
Is the MDM solution Airwatch? Does your email address have apostrophe in it? Thanks for responding!