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SMS 'TAP TO COMPOSE YOUR TEXT' Problem

Is anyone else experiencing this when attempting to reply to a sms message.
The message 'Tap to compose your text' appears but it wont let me 'tap'. I have to wait for about 10 seconds before tapping the screen actually allows me to compose a reply.

Yes, I have delays in the text messaging app. It is very laggy. I can be typing and press a key 3 or 4 times before it registers.

Cheers, I've just figured it out, the issue only happens when I have lots of messages to load in a conversation. It doesn't occur when its a short conversation with one or two messages in.

i think its a known bug keep your conversation list down by backing up on myphone is a suggestion i read somewhere, then you can delete on your phone without losing them completely
hope thats helpful

yes its all do do with the amount of messages in the "thread" but even if i've got say 100 messages in a convo ....whys it lag so much ??? its only loading kilobytes of info... and for the spec of the phone i find this poor coding very annoying !!!!!!!!!!!!

if you look bottom right of the screen (just right of the paper clip) you'll see a thin grey line decreasing . When that's finished you can tap and type. And yes the more sms you have the more the delay.

I have the sams problem. I have over 500 texts under some contacts. and It's a big waiting game to answer a text.
I dont understand why HTC have choosen to load ALL texts. the last 20 would have been enough.
In the new ROM 1.48 the problem is the same.

Torben-h said:
I have the sams problem. I have over 500 texts under some contacts. and It's a big waiting game to answer a text.
I dont understand why HTC have choosen to load ALL texts. the last 20 would have been enough.
In the new ROM 1.48 the problem is the same.
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I must say HTC developers are under qualified. END.

Xeon said:
I must say HTC developers are under qualified. END.
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haha ! here here !!!!

erosennin said:
if you look bottom right of the screen (just right of the paper clip) you'll see a thin grey line decreasing . When that's finished you can tap and type. And yes the more sms you have the more the delay.
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Wooo!! Cheers for this info!! Love you!! LOL I've been wondering why it takes so bloody long, but it's cos I have several hundred messages in the main thread!!

goth_boarder said:
Wooo!! Cheers for this info!! Love you!! LOL I've been wondering why it takes so bloody long, but it's cos I have several hundred messages in the main thread!!
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You're most welcome. Hope you're a bombshell, blonde with blue eyes.

Torben-h said:
I have the sams problem. I have over 500 texts under some contacts. and It's a big waiting game to answer a text.
I dont understand why HTC have choosen to load ALL texts. the last 20 would have been enough.
In the new ROM 1.48 the problem is the same.
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Oh man, that sucks was hoping it would be fixed there
I'm actually beginning to get a little dissapointed by the official rom
I love tweaking stuff etc... but having problems with something every other phone handles perfectly like SMS is ridiculous.

Stormenet said:
Oh man, that sucks was hoping it would be fixed there
I'm actually beginning to get a little dissapointed by the official rom
I love tweaking stuff etc... but having problems with something every other phone handles perfectly like SMS is ridiculous.
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you are rigt.100% right mate.i am so pissed off about this.

Has anyone actually fed this into HTC to make them aware of the issue so they know it is everyone who is complaining and not just a select few?

nicelad_uk said:
Has anyone actually fed this into HTC to make them aware of the issue so they know it is everyone who is complaining and not just a select few?
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Well, I've actually reported this today, as I am sick of it
I wonder if HTC uses their own phones they make...

I think they made it for people like me who delete every sms at the end of the day. Don't get mad, just a joke but that's really what I do unless I need to keep it for reference in which case I copy it to an alarmed note.

It's a rather strange issue. I have several lengthy conversations (not 500 messages long, of course, but with dozens of them), and all but one load instantly and the keyboard pops up also instantly. One of them is incredibly laggy, although it's like 10 messages long. The only difference I see is that the other person has a contact picture attached and she is my wife.

Perhaps is there a way (cab, setting, ...) to makes auto-delete messages after a certain limit (for example, delete messages when there's more than 50...) ? Already looked in settings, but didn't found that..

Here are work-arounds for the SMS lag problem...
Option 1:
when the SMS conversation is building (the gray bar is shrinking), just click the SEND button. It will prompt "This message is blank...", then click No, and it will go back to the SMS conversation -- but this time, there is no lag and you can start typing after pressing the "Tap here to compose text"
Option 2:
if there is one or two persons that you exchange lots of SMS with, put them as a Quick Link (to SMS) on the front page. That way, when you press the Quick Link, it starts a direct SMS composition without dialogue, and thus no lag.
Can't wait till HTC properly fix this!
Enjoy!
Meow

MeowMeowMan said:
Option 1:
when the SMS conversation is building (the gray bar is shrinking), just click the SEND button. It will prompt "This message is blank...", then click No, and it will go back to the SMS conversation -- but this time, there is no lag and you can start typing after pressing the "Tap here to compose text"
Option 2:
if there is one or two persons that you exchange lots of SMS with, put them as a Quick Link (to SMS) on the front page. That way, when you press the Quick Link, it starts a direct SMS composition without dialogue, and thus no lag.
Can't wait till HTC properly fix this!
Enjoy!
Meow
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Option 1 doesn't works here, the second does

[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.

swype issue

hey so i have the stock rom..when i click on a text message can click the area it says to tap to type. the phone freezes and wont let me text then like 10 seconds or so sometimes if i start using the swype it works but doesnt show what i wrote until i re click the screen. anyone have problems with swype and texting with it freezing and not showing what you type? any fixes for this? i have tried to uninstall/reinstall swype and still same problem.

i have the same issue..... :-(

its not swype, its the long pause a lot of people get when they have a lot of txt messages, The screen can take a few seconds to load them, and nothing happens on screen while it does it, and then it selects the last message.

lol .... with all that memory hd2 comes with u think it should have that problem? pathetic... have same problem.. want to know how i fix it? i turned off the phone and went back to iphone 3gs .. thats the way u fix it...

ajftl said:
lol .... with all that memory hd2 comes with u think it should have that problem? pathetic... have same problem.. want to know how i fix it? i turned off the phone and went back to iphone 3gs .. thats the way u fix it...
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hehe, thats one answer, my own workaround is to not store loads of messages, , blimey, most of mine get deleted as soon as ive read them. Never understood anyone that wants thousands of messages like some people do.

samsamuel said:
hehe, thats one answer, my own workaround is to not store loads of messages, , blimey, most of mine get deleted as soon as ive read them. Never understood anyone that wants thousands of messages like some people do.
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Same here.

I flash my phone so much that I never have that many text lol. But I tell all my customers who come in with slow phones to delete all their text at least once a week. There is no reason to keep them longer than that. They just sit there and take up space and slow your phone down. If you really cant part with them back them up to your computer then delete them off your phone.

Yes, just delete previous text messages and problem fixed! It usually starts doing that when you have like 60 previous messages on 1 contact

Qik for HTC EVO 4G apk????

anybody have the Qik for HTC EVO 4G apk for the evo, the one with the blue icon and it has video chat??? its not in the market anymore...

I was able to download it when it was first posted, how can I get the all file from the phone so I can upload it?

copy it from your data/app folder using root explorer

I was able to download it when they had it published, but they unpublished it because their systems were overloaded with the overwhelming demand for using their service when the Evo first came out. I'd personally wait for them to publish it back to the market. Your performance is going to be spotty otherwise.

View attachment com.qikffc.android.apk
Here is the apk for the Qik for HTC EVO 4G make sure that after you install you reboot the phone either by turning it off and on or removing the battery. Once you reboot the phone the icon will be blue.
Edit: Newfile uploaded, previous file just let you record.

Installed the apk, powered down, removed battery, powered up, but I still have the orange icon.

davidboyd said:
Installed the apk, powered down, removed battery, powered up, but I still have the orange icon.
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The problem is that after the blue icon update qik released another update with a Orange icon. This update only allows you to go live but people must go to their website to see you it doesnt allow video chat. The other apk that I uploaded is the version with video chat and blue icon.

hchavarria said:
The problem is that after the blue icon update qik released another update with a Orange icon. This update only allows you to go live but people must go to their website to see you it doesnt allow video chat. The other apk that I uploaded is the version with video chat and blue icon.
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thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

Here ya go guys! I uploaded it to 2 places
RapidShare: http://bit.ly/cBkxgf
Google Docs: http://bit.ly/9fdKIZ

I'm having trouble verifying my phone number. Whats wrong. I never seem to get the Text Message.
Btw if any of you guys want to follow me on Qik, I do random videos of Puerto Rico. Like rate restaurants and local points of interest.
Heres the link: http://qik.com/gsoulpr

Just email support and they will help you activate it...that's what I did.

yeah, it looks like Qik servers must still be turned off, because even though the app appears to be the proper one, nothing happens when you try to have a video chat..you cant even send a video email at this point..
plus, I never get the text message "verification" either..
Its like they just turned the whole app off or something..

If you haven't verified it's why you can't use the app. Send support small email with your username and phone number and they will help you activate the phone. I have held several video chats so I can confirm it works.

how long does it take them to respond?
did you use [email protected]?
thanks!

That's where I emailed the and the response was real fast.

ok, I sent them emails for both my wife and myself; lets see if they respond..
thanks!

[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.