I am sure this is a dumb question, but I am totally stumped. Anyone know what the orange color clock in the stock messaging app means? I have a few messaging threads going but a couple usually have the orange clock next to them. I cant figure out what that is suppose to signify!
Thanks!
it means that contact is linked to gmail/g-talk and they are logged in but have not ben on the phone for a while.
Ah Ha! Thanks, I knew it was going to be something obvious!
dcam1075 said:
I am sure this is a dumb question, but I am totally stumped. Anyone know what the orange color clock in the stock messaging app means? I have a few messaging threads going but a couple usually have the orange clock next to them. I cant figure out what that is suppose to signify!
Thanks!
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Google Talk contact is away (so they have been idle for a while). Green means they're available. An X means they're offline.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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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.
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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
I have the T-Mobile G2 and I'm getting a "You have new unread items" 1.5 Generic Text icon when I get a text message. It'll also show the 2.2 icon when receiving a text. It's odd - I'm not sure what I set that made it do this. But I can't find any option for it anywhere. Also, it plays the default notification sound - not the one that I set for SMS.
Anyone know what the deal is on this? I'm seeing these "similar threads" and I saw one for WinMo, I'm going to look to see if they have a similar option for "Show unread texts" in Android.
I posted this in the G2 forum, but I can't seem to search for that side. So I figured I'd put it here too for more exposure. It's annoying as all hell.
Edit: Thread closed for duplicate posting. Please refer to the original post in the HTC: Vision G2 forum for any other comments.
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Normally messaging app has a setting to show notifications in the status bar. Just go to one of the messaging apps and disable it.
Hope that helps.
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I posted this in the G2 forum, but I can't seem to search for that side. So I figured I'd put it here too for more exposure. It's annoying as all hell.
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No-one has a DZ yet though, they haven't been shipped. So you'd be better off in the G2 forum, I suspect.
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No-one has a DZ yet though, they haven't been shipped. So you'd be better off in the G2 forum, I suspect.
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It sounds like a software issue anyways, and the Desire Z will be running sense not T-Mobile bloatware;P
JD
As others said, no one has Desire Z yet, but your issue looks like if you have the standard messaging app doing his notificatons, while at same time you have some alternative messaging app installed as well, which does it's own notifications too. For example if you install Handcent SMS, then you get notifications from both standard messaging app and Handcent too. You have to disable the notifications from one you don't use.
I'm noticing that the LED flashes only some of the time for things like Twitter and SMS. The notification bar has the update on it but the LED seems to not want to play ball.
Has anyone else experienced this or similar? I know the LED works because it shows when charging and when the battery was low it flashed. Specifically I use Touiteur and had the LED set to blue but even on the standard green it's hit and miss.
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Mine doesn't flash when I get email, but seems to work for SMS or missed calls.
I was hoping someone would make a thread about this, I never got around to making one!
Mine flashes for everything which is annoying!!! I get a lot of emails so is constantly flashing! I've tried going into Settings -> Display -> Notifications and deselecting everything except Missed Calls and SMS/MMS but made no difference!
i'm so used to Magic 8 colors... shame DHD has only orange and green
also it somehow tends to turn it off after a while being on.
I've sent an email to HTC to ask about it since it's a big issue to me. Notification sounds feel similarly hit and miss so I'm suspecting some trigger is being missed, possibly due to the new Sense UI. I'll post any reply I get.
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I've got two led's. One for the battery on the right of the speaker and one on the left behind the speaker. The left one is for notifications only n I must say I'm disappointed as its located being the speakers its not as visible as I would like it to be. Is there anyway to get the battery led to function as a notification led as its not covered so much more visible?
I've got a reply but nothing helpful. So far it seems they're willing to blame app compatibility. I've asked for information regarding any changes that have been made to the LED notification system on the Desire HD and now I wait for another reply.
I told them I had no such issues on two other Android phones and they seem to be implying that the apps are coded for specific phones when we all know apps are coded for an SDK version. To quote the part of the reply...
"All the functions/programs you mean are made for Nexus and G1/Dream most of the times, Desire and some other are similar enough for it to work. Cannot help you with third party software."
Pretty clear the guy doesn't have a clue about this so I'm hoping if I nag long enough he'll pass me on to someone with more knowledge.
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I've got two led's. One for the battery on the right of the speaker and one on the left behind the speaker. The left one is for notifications only n I must say I'm disappointed as its located being the speakers its not as visible as I would like it to be. Is there anyway to get the battery led to function as a notification led as its not covered so much more visible?
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I see two LEDs up top but charging uses the same LED as the notification system. The left one behind the grill. I haven't seen the second one light so it's probably the proximity sensor.
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i only see one led too (with two colors).
Dyonas tel HTC that even GMail (2.2 app) acts like that... and gmail.apk 2.2 aint made for g1!
Another really pointless reply from them.. in the initial contact I mentioned the camera being misaligned so that's what the first part is referring to. Here's the latest reply and below it is how I have just responded.
Dear <me>,
Since receiving your e-mail i have looked for any more known cases and was unsuccessful if you are concerned that this may cause issues i recommend that you take the device back to the retailer.
Regarding the LED,
We do not give developer support so i cannot help you with this.
To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number <not important>.
Sincerely,
Adrian
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Response to it from me..
Hi,
With regards to the LED notifications, I'm not asking for developer support or any support in fact. I'm simply trying to find out if HTC have changed the method for using them with the Desire HD. You said that programs are coded for specific phones and I'm sorry but that's not true. They are made for SDK versions, most going as far back as Android 1.6 for widest compatibility, so any changes in the programs affecting the LED notifications would show in ALL versions, not just the version shipping with the Desire HD.
This again points to either HTC changing something with the Desire HD or a programming bug with the Sense UI in some way. I realise this isn't an easy issue to look into but it is a very important one and while I appreciate you're trying your best, I will not let this issue drop until I get a more satisfactory answer.
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To me this is a very big deal because if you leave the phone for a few minutes and aren't close enough to hear an audio notification the LED is what I rely on. Missing notifications like this I might expect from a custom ROM but I haven't touched the phone in any way like that. I didn't see your reply in time to mention the GMail issue and I only have my experience to go on which is Twitter updates not always firing. You should raise a ticked too, the more we get raising the issue the better the chance they'll look into it.
i stop sending tickets to HTC last year... they never fix anything.
I rather find a perm root and put CM onto it!
Their latest and seemingly final reply seems to have something that may point to an answer. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to check if it is of any use. The guy suggested any changes would be in the Kernel and linked me to the source code area. Is anyone able to look into the source code and see if there are changes to the notification LED system for the DHD? It's pointless not useful to ask app developers to look into it until we have something concrete to point at as a cause.
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Their latest and seemingly final reply seems to have something that may point to an answer. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to check if it is of any use. The guy suggested any changes would be in the Kernel and linked me to the source code area. Is anyone able to look into the source code and see if there are changes to the notification LED system for the DHD? It's pointless not useful to ask app developers to look into it until we have something concrete to point at as a cause.
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can you leave the code sample, please?
thanks
The source code? It's available on http://developer.htc.com to download.
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I asked Cyanogen about this and he thinks the lights driver he wrote for the G2 may work.
Being a basic user I have no idea how to try that out without instructions so... I've done the fact finding, who's going to help with this part?
My email LED notification has not been working properly, sometimes yes but mostly no.
Got email mid morning today, sound and LED worked. Left it in this state for several hours still okay. Just got another sound notification for the same previous email, how does that work
Think this is yet another bug....
I've now had this happen with the GMAIL app so I'm bugging them some more.
Would there be any point in posting in the development section to ask for help using the G2 lights driver from Cyanogen?
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I've also had GMail fail on LED notification and SMS! It seems to be random now. Coming from a WM6.5 defector I quietly smile to myself
I think I figured it out and if im right it's really stupid. I had two notifications earlier, one for Twitter and the other for e-mail (not gmail). The LED wasn't flashing for either. I opened Touiteur to view the updates thete which cleared that notification and straight away the LED began flashing for the e-mail alert.
Why one notification would disable the LED if it's already on I have no idea but the above has happened more than once now. There's an LED test on the phone which HTC had me test. It has other tests too for anyone curious.
Key this into the dialer.
*#*#DIAG#*#*
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Where can i find the test for the LED? Mine doesnt seem to flash for any alerts.
1, When Gmail got new mails, all mails no matter new ones or old ones became BOLD font.
2, In former web browser, if drag vertical, the horizontal dragging is auto locked. But now it's flexible.
How to set or fix?
Mine is not bold.
I'm not sure what you are asking in #2
my gmail is not bold lol ?
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i have had both 2.0.4 and 2.0.5
i dont have any problems with both them.
Does gps "work" with this build?
^gps is perfect
Try not ending a statement with a question mark, everything else just works out
Zylograth said:
Try not ending a statement with a question mark, everything else just works out
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He spaced the question mark away from the sentence to show that he was confused.
OP:
I also am not having the first issue and have no clue what you are trying to say with the second.
The OP is correct, everything in Gmail does stay bold!
I didn't notice this at first, but the OP is correct. Everything in Gmail is bold, including already read emails!
I don't know if this is Axura's problem or Gmail App, but it sure is annoying. It's hard to differentiate which emails you already read and which are new when everything is bold!!!
^ white is unread, gray is read. The emails are not bold... I assume you guys mean the inbox. I thought it was always like this, perhaps it's the font.
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^gps is perfect
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Lies, lies!! Although my gps locks rather quickly...it's about as accurate as Brett Favre this season. Horrendous. One minute I'm on my porch...the next minute I'm 8 blocks away.
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