SMS on Android 2.1 - Hero, G2 Touch General

Flashed Android 2.1 (CKDroid 1.6), everything is perfect, except one thing - it is sms. For some reason, SMS app sometimes uses a first word or even a letter of a message as a header, and doesn't show number. If it is a general SMS, from a person on my contact list, everything is normal. But, it always happens with system messages, like from my bank, or operator.
Anybody experienced that, or knows a way to fix?

Do you use android's sms app?

yes, the standard one.

Do you encounter this bug also with external apps (like chompsms)?

Exit93 said:
Do you encounter this bug also with external apps (like chompsms)?
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yes, just tried handcent sms. On 1.5 with Sense, by the way, everything was normal

eujene said:
yes, just tried handcent sms. On 1.5 with Sense, by the way, everything was normal
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Can you try with another 2.1 rom ad let me know?

Exit93 said:
Can you try with another 2.1 rom ad let me know?
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Flashed http://android.modaco.com/content/h...or-htc-hero-gsm-v1-0-now-with-online-kitchen/
all the same, like in your ROM.
I guess, it is not a bug, more like an annoying feature. Can we turn it off?

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New SMS Hotfix no longer on HTC website?

I'm not sure if I'm just looking in the wrong place, but I can't find the latest SMS hotfix on HTC website anymore. Is it because of some issues with the hotfix?
HTC HD2 messages get stuck in the outbox BUG
enyaj said:
I'm not sure if I'm just looking in the wrong place, but I can't find the latest SMS hotfix on HTC website anymore. Is it because of some issues with the hotfix?
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the hotfix is no good and even if it is in the web site i recommend you no to use it , rumors are there will be a new one today lets see , but i am no longer optimist that it would work
Just downloaded fine for me.
Gunzta said:
Just downloaded fine for me.
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We have it still on the Indian website
http://www.htc.com/in/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all
dated 14 Jan..
had the same problem, so did a little googl'ing and here is a mirror
HTC SMS Fix 2
If HTC has removed it? why download from rapidshare? The hotfix isn't working
nadderf said:
If HTC has removed it? why download from rapidshare? The hotfix isn't working
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did you try before the comment because on my device it's working wonderfull.
No waiting time to send an sms, 50% faster and a highlight of the last recieved sms...
So I don't know why it isn't online anymore but it works...
thomas_pieps said:
did you try before the comment because on my device it's working wonderfull.
No waiting time to send an sms, 50% faster and a highlight of the last recieved sms...
So I don't know why it isn't online anymore but it works...
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Something has corrupted my message notifications, so I no longer recieve sounds for messages and emails etc. Enough though the hot fix addressed the SMS loading thread issue, I bet it has caused the issue I currently have, as I havent installed anything else. The SMS loading issue may have been annoying at times, but there were easy work arounds. Not hearing or feeling when a message comes in is damn annoying!
After installing this hotfix on my phone, I downloaded my archived messages (about 2000 of them) and tried the SMS tab. Everything worked great, apart from the known and reported issues about the display going a little odd when it had loaded all messages.
Everything was fine and then my phone suddenly started running slower than my old HD used to. Everything was stuttering and laggy, and I mean the whole phone - not just the SMS tab.
After numerous restarts and turning things off and on again, I finally re-archived all my text messages so that there were none on the phone and guess what.... it's fine again now.
The hot"fix" wasn't so hot if you ask me.
morpheus1982 said:
Something has corrupted my message notifications, so I no longer recieve sounds for messages and emails etc. Enough though the hot fix addressed the SMS loading thread issue, I bet it has caused the issue I currently have, as I havent installed anything else. The SMS loading issue may have been annoying at times, but there were easy work arounds. Not hearing or feeling when a message comes in is damn annoying!
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Just change your ringtone, save, recieve an sms, change it back to the old one and it works again...
johncmolyneux said:
After installing this hotfix on my phone, I downloaded my archived messages (about 2000 of them) and tried the SMS tab. Everything worked great, apart from the known and reported issues about the display going a little odd when it had loaded all messages.
Everything was fine and then my phone suddenly started running slower than my old HD used to. Everything was stuttering and laggy, and I mean the whole phone - not just the SMS tab.
After numerous restarts and turning things off and on again, I finally re-archived all my text messages so that there were none on the phone and guess what.... it's fine again now.
The hot"fix" wasn't so hot if you ask me.
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for the moment over 1700 messages in my phone and no problem of a laggy UI or programs. And I use TomTom for +/- 2hours a day, opera, rss reader & pdf for a few hours and my camera.
Wich rom are you using (I use Miri V2.0)
wth... cant HTC do anything right?? Have they ever heard of quality assurance and testing before releaseing softwareupgrades?
*sigh*...
thomas_pieps said:
for the moment over 1700 messages in my phone and no problem of a laggy UI or programs. And I use TomTom for +/- 2hours a day, opera, rss reader & pdf for a few hours and my camera.
Wich rom are you using (I use Miri V2.0)
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I'm using 1.48 official. I'm gonna leave it till 1.6 comes out before I choose whether or not to go unofficial.
I'm not sure what this thread is about, but I recently got my HD2 and it won't send all my SMS. Is this what the patch is for?
Guybrush_3pw00d said:
I'm not sure what this thread is about, but I recently got my HD2 and it won't send all my SMS. Is this what the patch is for?
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nope there for is the first update.
This update or hotfix is for the slow loading sms page when having a lot of stored messages.
johncmolyneux said:
I'm using 1.48 official. I'm gonna leave it till 1.6 comes out before I choose whether or not to go unofficial.
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I've tried that but the new documents tab was to appealing
thomas_pieps said:
I've tried that but the new documents tab was to appealing
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It does look nice, but I'd probably turn it off straight away as I'd never use it!
Its available in the Middle eastern website
I sent an email on the HTC Website and I got a reply that Hot Fix was pulled out because of compatibility issues.
Edit: by the way, they said a new one will be released soon.

[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.

Disable LED Nofitication timeout

I know the LED notification on the Sprint CDMA Hero times out after about 5 minutes. I was wondering if there is a to make it keep blinking forever as long as their is a notification.
I think Handcent and maybe some other 3rd party messaging software can have a setting to make it blink however long you want, but I would like to be able to control this without installed a different messaging program and have to worry about it draining battery and stuff. Also, I like the stock messaging app.
Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks!
I second this.
Anyone?
vvtc said:
Anyone?
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No simple setting to change it to work with stock software(excluding market apps that have functionality)... needs to be edited within the rom files.
vvtc said:
I know the LED notification on the Sprint CDMA Hero times out after about 5 minutes. I was wondering if there is a to make it keep blinking forever as long as their is a notification.
I think Handcent and maybe some other 3rd party messaging software can have a setting to make it blink however long you want, but I would like to be able to control this without installed a different messaging program and have to worry about it draining battery and stuff. Also, I like the stock messaging app.
Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks!
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Possibly missed call reminder app
bob2300nx said:
Possibly missed call reminder app
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this is your best bet. handcent has a reminder function, try and find something similiar
Visionikz03 said:
No simple setting to change it to work with stock software(excluding market apps that have functionality)... needs to be edited within the rom files.
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Yea, this is what I was thinking maybe someone could do. It was possible in Windows Mobile (Touch Diamond for example), so Im guessing it could be possibility on Android? But of course I wouldn't know where to start. Maybe a dev could look into this?
Thanks for the input

Handcent Image missing on DC2.08

hi guys..
I have updated to DC 2.08 and almost everything is perfect.
my problem is with Handcent. It will not show the images of my friends. I have tried uninstall Handcent.. reload.. rebooting. I have deleted ALL text messages, but new messages do not show images.
I tested with the stock sms app, and it shows the images!!!!!
Anybody have a fix for this???
Also... I heard that this new ROM will remove the annoying .. double menu - pop up- on thing. ie. when you press menu twice to wake up the phone... the menu pops up. But it is still there!!!
Love the ROM, fast and stable. these are my only issues.. so I am hopping someone can point me to the fix.
Thanks all!
I have the same issue. Sometimes it happens randomly. I don't think it has to do with the ROM in particular. It happens nearly every time I swap or upgrade ROMS or restore all my apps via Titanium after a wipe. :/
Would like to know the answer to this.
wonbattlelost said:
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do you use friendstream? and if so, do you have any issues with it at all?
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do you have Auto-Retrieve enabled in the stock mssging app?
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No, I do not use friendstream. Checked it, and there is nothing in it. It says I do not appear to be logged into any sociual networks, which is correct... I currently do not subscribe to any.
yes, I do have Auto-Retrieve enabled on the stock sms app.
Bump for help
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
im not sure, I use handcent and I have no problems with it.
wtphoto said:
im not sure, I use handcent and I have no problems with it.
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yeah.. been using Handcent since i got the phone back in Dec. and have used it with all sorts of ROMs and all of DC's ROMs too. DC2.08 is the only ROM that has caused this to happen.
Maybe it is time to try a different SMS app.???
Looks like I can not find a solution to correct handcent
Downloaded compsms
It is working just fine
Now I can see contact images
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
I had a problem on DC 2.05 I think it was where handcent wouldnt work but I think it had more to do with the update that handcent sent out I would have suggested uninstalling and reinstalling
wonbattlelost said:
+1
make sure to always do the basic troubleshooting before reporting an issue. uninstalling and reinstalling is probably a good place to start. also consider a fresh wipe and reinstall of the ROM.
happy flashing!
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yes.. you are 100% right!!
please reread my original post. Did the reinstallation of handcent x2. did not help.
I did not reinstall the ROM. That was a last resort for me, because I have everything setup as I want it.
It is odd that both stock app and compsms works fine, and shows the contact images. So, I am leaning towards Handcent latest update was the issue. it must be conflicting with something on my phone... maybe DC 2.08.
Anyways, CompSMS is working fine. I like Handcent better, but this OK. The new big comp widget is odd to me, not sure if I like it.

Is there lag for sms function???

So, I have the original leo version of hd2 and the sms lag has been bothering me since the first day i got my phone in march. I text about 1200 text a month and you have no idea how annoying the sms lag is. So I'm just wondering if there is any sms lag in the T mobile version? Lag such as when you are typing your sms, it takes forever for the history to load and then you would have to tap it again to input your text.
Please let me know, if there isn't any lag at all I will flash my hd2 and put in the T mobile version of manila.
THANKS
dicksonjoe said:
So, I have the original leo version of hd2 and the sms lag has been bothering me since the first day i got my phone in march. I text about 1200 text a month and you have no idea how annoying the sms lag is. So I'm just wondering if there is any sms lag in the T mobile version? Lag such as when you are typing your sms, it takes forever for the history to load and then you would have to tap it again to input your text.
Please let me know, if there isn't any lag at all I will flash my hd2 and put in the T mobile version of manila.
THANKS
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Yeah, it exists for a lot of owners of the T-mo version as well. I think the cause in your case (as in many others) is the number of texts you have on the phone. Here's a post I put up about that same thing just last night:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6455539&postcount=2
If you go into menu, options and make the messages standard, not threaded this might help. It worked for me. Also, I custom flashed a rom on my device because the stock was running terribly for me
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If you go into menu, options and make the messages standard, not threaded this might help. It worked for me. Also, I custom flashed a rom on my device because the stock was running terribly for me
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yes, definitely try this too dicksonjoe, it worked for others besides him as well, and may clear it up before going through clearing your sms. Try what he said first, then what I said if that didn't work
I'm interested to hear if it helps you first to turn off the threading, easier solutions are better solutions!

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