When you click on a contact and select the "history" tab it displays all your SMS messages with them.
I do not use the native SMS application, but I use Google Voice for texting.
How can I get the GV texts to show up in history, so I don't have to open up another application to look at my texting history?
Thanks!
I guess this is not possible.
Is there a way to set GV as the default text messaging app?
The K-Zoo Kid said:
Is there a way to set GV as the default text messaging app?
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Yes, when you first install it, it will ask you if you want to make it your default.
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Is "Mobile" the only allowed tag for SMS on the built in messaging app? Whenever I compose a new sms, I can only select a number associated with someone's mobile phone as the recipient address. Since I use google voice, I'd rather have mobile linked to the actual user's number and something like "other" or custom linked to the SMS phone number associated with google voice's SMS service (You need to mess with google voice to know what I'm talking about). If I put that number in as a second mobile number, I want to make sure that it doesn't dial that google voice text messaging number when I call a contact, but I don't want to go through all 4k of my contacts and tag a primary mobile or something.
Any google voice users figure a workaround?
wagz said:
Is "Mobile" the only allowed tag for SMS on the built in messaging app? Whenever I compose a new sms, I can only select a number associated with someone's mobile phone as the recipient address. Since I use google voice, I'd rather have mobile linked to the actual user's number and something like "other" or custom linked to the SMS phone number associated with google voice's SMS service (You need to mess with google voice to know what I'm talking about). If I put that number in as a second mobile number, I want to make sure that it doesn't dial that google voice text messaging number when I call a contact, but I don't want to go through all 4k of my contacts and tag a primary mobile or something.
Any google voice users figure a workaround?
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Answering my own question. I guess when you are in the stock contacts application and press the profile picture button of your contact, and hit the SMS button in that little menu of items that comes up, it defaults to google voice SMS. very nice. that little graphic menu is pretty cool too.
This is good info, thank you. I've had this issue myself as I often have 3-4 mobile numbers + a gvoice number for some of my contacts.
I am forwarding all of my calls to my Google voice account for the visual voicemail and voice to text feature. Here is the thing.... Google voice only has the option to refresh every 5 minutes minimum....
Everytime I get a voicemail, I also get an email which is push...
My question is, am I missing something or does the google voice notification seem like a waste of battery and system resources if I am going to get an email instantly anyways? Am I missing something here?
EDIT : Title should read : Google Voice Voicemail notification necessary?
in the options isn't there a box to check if you want sms and email, or one or the other?
ya i just looked, there is
In the app it doesnt have that option, but im not sure about online. My question is i guess, why would anyone want "Voice" voicemail notifications if you already get them over email. Its just one more running auto refreshing app, right?
brinkley: What does that have to do with it? You use GVoice to email so you don't need to use/pay for SMS.
But yes, it's basically a waste. Every 5 minutes for GVoice means I almost always get the e-mail notification early instead.
One thing that I am hating about GVoice integration is not being able to remove the reply text when you try to reply to an SMS via email. So your SMS reply ends up being like:
Hey! Yes, meet us there at 5:30
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Jackee (SMS) <[email protected]om> wrote:
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So you HAVE to go into the GVoice app to reply to an SMS if you don't want all that junk.
Additionally, I hate how even if you get a gmail or gvoice notification, when you go into gvoice or gmail to check, the notification does not go away? It's retarded. Additionally, why give me a GVoice notification, WHEN I'M IN THE APP!
Ugh. It's super annoying.
system6 said:
In the app it doesnt have that option, but im not sure about online. My question is i guess, why would anyone want "Voice" voicemail notifications if you already get them over email. Its just one more running auto refreshing app, right?
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Well you want the notifications going through the Google voice app because you just click on the notification and listen to the message streamed to you. If you have it go through your email you can see the transcription but not listen to the message. I would go to the website and unclick send email if you have the google app.
ya I had it set up and was getting three notifications, sms, email, and voice notification in the bar.
uncheck the boxes online in settings menu so it looks like you'd get no notifications.
then you just get the voice app notification on the phone.
aldo, I have no idea what you mean. I use gv for voicemail only
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ya I had it set up and was getting three notifications, sms, email, and voice notification in the bar.
uncheck the boxes online in settings menu so it looks like you'd get no notifications.
then you just get the voice app notification on the phone.
aldo, I have no idea what you mean. I use gv for voicemail only
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Glad someone agrees. I don't use google voice for anything except visual voicemail, but it just seemed redundant. I get an email, I manually refresh voice, and there is my message.
When I create an sms message
=> Messaging, New message
I wish to access my address/contact list so I can add my contact, without typing a number or such, is this possible? or am I doing it wrong?
I think it's not possible in the stock messaging app.
You can select your contact first and invoke messaging from there, though.
Try handcent sms (free from market). It has replaced the stock app on my Nexus (and Hero before) since day one.....
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When I create an sms message
=> Messaging, New message
I wish to access my address/contact list so I can add my contact, without typing a number or such, is this possible? or am I doing it wrong?
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When using the stock messaging I start typing the name of the contact and it shows. I guess I'm not understand your question. Or just access the contact first then select to send the message. Handset is a good replace in the fact of the options to customize far more that the stock.
We're also talking about this in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645616
I noticed I just get facebook contacts listed, but not sim contacts... Why on earth would they not enable that?
It was driving me nuts that in order to get my SMS through my messaging app and use GV for my voicemail to be getting double notifications every time I was receiving a text. I have noticed a few others expressing their frustration with this as well so I thought I'd share what I have done to work for me. Maybe someone else will find it helpful, or less frustrating anyway, too.
First on my phone, I went into the GV > Settings > Sync and notifications and turned off Inbox notifications.
On my PC I went into GV Inbox, then Voice Settings. I clicked on Edit for my phone and made sure there was a check in Receive text messages on this phone and clicked on Save.
Then I click on Voicemail & Text. Under Send a text (SMS) message to I put a check next to my phone. I also put a check next to Transcribe Voicemails and click on Save Changes.
GV must have updated their transcribing software because lately it has been almost spot on.
Anyway, what this does is now I receive my texts through my messaging app and when I get a new voicemail, I receive a text with the transcribed message notifying me that I have a voicemail. The text includes the caller's number so I can return their call directly if the transcription makes sense. I do not receive any notifications directly from GV so no more double notifications.
I keep a shortcut to GV on my default home screen so I can get to the GV inbox directly.
Also, if you use GV extension in chrome, your texts and voicemail notifications still work so you won't have to go to your phone.
I hope someone finds this useful, or if anyone finds a way to only be notified of voicemails, please share, but this really has worked much better for me.
On somewhat of a related note after reflashing my rom and then reinstall of GV I started getting all my texts through GV and all my calls were being screened by Google. Ended up having to remove my phone from GV and then removed GV from my phone. At reinstall I had to make sure not to combine my sprint account and my Google account. Now GV is working again and texts are worked too.
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So I tried your way, Poashll. . . but, I still got the dual notifications (GVM and text). So, I've gone a different route.
1. Check the box for "Synchronize Inbox" in GV > Settings > Sync and notifications.
2. Check the box for "Inbox notifications" in the same menu and uncheck "Text messages."
3. On the PC and in GV settings for phone > edit > uncheck the box for "Receive text messages on this phone" > save.
4. Still on the PC and in GV settings for voicemail and text, I make sure the boxes for "Email the message to:" and "Send a text (SMS) message to:" in the voice mail notifications section are unchecked.
I moved the GV shortcut to my "unused/special" pane for easy access for whatever reason.
With this, the only notifications I get are a missed call and the GVM notification. I left transcribe on as well. . . just in case I can actually read it. All of my SMS/MMS come through the Sprint app. . . which makes sense due to the GV MMS issue.
Just another option. . .
EDIT: I just realized that I misread your post and disabled "Sychronize Inbox" insead of "Inbox notifications". . . I guess it's different flavors to the same-ish end result.
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On somewhat of a related note after reflashing my rom and then reinstall of GV I started getting all my texts through GV and all my calls were being screened by Google. Ended up having to remove my phone from GV and then removed GV from my phone. At reinstall I had to make sure not to combine my sprint account and my Google account. Now GV is working again and texts are worked too.
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I never ported my Sprint number to GV, so it works only as voicemail. I do get emails with the transcription though. I unchecked texts in the app itself. It sends people that didn't have issues did once they were able to port their number.
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Yeah, I was dead-wrong with my approach. I thought incoming text messages had been checked, but GV is still intercepting them. . . which is annoying. So I can "uncheck" my phone in settings through the pc and that should make it a voicemail only app?
I have developed an app which translates local missed call alerts' phone numbers into their names.
I catch the broadcast and then put up my own data to the sms database. And I put up a notification to open that sms thread.
So far, with the default SMS client, this works perfectly. But when the user has enabled hangouts, I cant open the app properly.
Is there a way to check whether hangouts is the default app for SMS?
Thanks.
tharaka said:
I have developed an app which translates local missed call alerts' phone numbers into their names.
I catch the broadcast and then put up my own data to the sms database. And I put up a notification to open that sms thread.
So far, with the default SMS client, this works perfectly. But when the user has enabled hangouts, I cant open the app properly.
Is there a way to check whether hangouts is the default app for SMS?
Thanks.
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According to this link you should be able to determine the default SMS client by calling Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage().
WisdomWolf said:
According to this link you should be able to determine the default SMS client by calling Telephony.Sms.getDefaultSmsPackage().
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Thanks a lot