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SMS Issue

It wont let me select a contact when I click on to
I can go to the contacts and press the smiley face thing and it will let me but if I try to type the name it just types it with no number. ir just randomly creates numbers. ive already done a hard/soft/factory reset
what am I doing wrong?
this is pissing me off

Try using handcent sms and see if that works

is that an SMS app?

The best i bet 80% of the people here use it

this fixed it, but I HATE the way it looks, no way we can get the original SMS app working correctly?

Z51 said:
this fixed it, but I HATE the way it looks, no way we can get the original SMS app working correctly?
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Handcent can be fully customized so the look can be changed dramatically.

Have you tried settings. Privacy. Reset to default? And Forgive me i'm assuming you already restarted the phone To see if that fixed it...

In Handcent go to the settings, you can change almost every single aspect of the app, its pretty damn cool

Weird, I want to report I've had no issue with the original SMS program, I can't seem to reproduce that. Do people really use handcent?

I dont know anyone personally that doesnt use handcent on their android phone, I guess based on that I just kinda figured everyone did

DMaverick50 said:
Have you tried settings. Privacy. Reset to default? And Forgive me i'm assuming you already restarted the phone To see if that fixed it...
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I've already done a hard reset, factory reset, soft reset, etc... lol
still nothing and its starting to tick me off
handcent is ok, but i prefer the android SMS app.
any updates on fixing this?

Are your contacts phones numbers set as 'mobile'? I think the default application only pops-up contacts' mobile numbers.
If you imported them from another contact list then it's possible that they've been defaulted to something different.

JoshHart said:
Try using handcent sms and see if that works
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Thanks it is a great app.

jonc said:
Are your contacts phones numbers set as 'mobile'? I think the default application only pops-up contacts' mobile numbers.
If you imported them from another contact list then it's possible that they've been defaulted to something different.
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this fixed it thanks!
all my contacts were set as "other"

Glad I could help.
Apps like handcent sms optionally allow you to use non-mobile numbers for SMSs, but the default app it quite restricted.

Crisis after firmware update

All my contacts, messages, applications are gone. Is there a way to get them back? i've got my contacts back from samsung kies.. but what about messages? and applications?
help!

If you've made a backup before the flash, yes. Something tells me you didn't..

Root and TitaniumBackup is the way to fly (at least on Galaxy S).

so what about those that dont have root

immyh said:
so what about those that dont have root
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you just use MyBackup from the market
i use ASTRO to backup my apps, and then MyBackup saves all your settings, msgs, calls, call logs, contacts everything you can think of

Ah... Was i even warned..... Zzz oh well. Say hello to clean slate phone
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ngkkv said:
Ah... Was i even warned..... Zzz oh well. Say hello to clean slate phone
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Well they usually hide the warnings and instructions in things call threads.

so there is no way of inserting my saved sms from my
PC samsung kies to my phone, right?

well Kies does allow you to backup your sms but not your apps which is crazy so anything you have used on the phone is deleted all your settings the whole works.

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well Kies does allow you to backup your sms but not your apps which is crazy so anything you have used on the phone is deleted all your settings the whole works.
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so... can i port my sms from kies back to my phone?

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ngkkv said:
so... can i port my sms from kies back to my phone?
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No. Kies is useless, don't expect it to do meaningful things like that. If you could convert the sms .sme format to .xml, then maybe we could do something..but I don't think it can be done. Sorry.

Receiving Multiple text messages

My atrix seems to be receiving every message I am sent multiple times, usually about 4 times. This is really beginning to annoy me.
I run Handcent and yes I have turned notifications off for the default text app.
This problem has only started over the last couple of days and I cannot work out why as I did not change anything to cause this.
Any ideas on how to fix this would be apreciated.

You can try this for a temporary fix: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.baole.antibomber
It's very YMMV.

I guess that might work but would prefer a permanent fix if anyone has a solution

H1dden said:
I guess that might work but would prefer a permanent fix if anyone has a solution
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Probably not exactly what you want to hear, but I think the best thing to do would be to set your Handcent SMS back to its default settings then use the walkthrough on the Handcent site.
When I started using it I had a similar issue, but their information is laid out very well and was able to help me fix my problem.
-Doogs™

did you make sure to freeze the stock text messaging app via titanium backup? That eliminated the issue for me.
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Help!! Daughters phone problems

I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

tkjeeper said:
I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Is there some type of blacklist option in the menu of the SMS/Messaging app?
I recently blacklisted a whole bunch of contacts in CM7. Before this, I had no idea that this was possible. I don't SMS much, so I have no idea if this was blocking SMS. But calls were not going through at all.
Maybe looking into if the same thing exists on the stock Bell ROM is a good place to start?

download handcent or chomp from the market(free), and see if using one of those fixes your issue. I had the same sort of issue, it worked for me and also I prefer handcent over any htc or stock android sms app. good luck
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Thanks for the replies, I'll look into them both.
Sent from the frozen tundra known as Canada.

Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.

I always suggest this first, factory reset.
Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'

Oh, I see you are also in Canada. When they made the area code mandatory before all numbers I had to edit some of my phone numbers in my contacts to include the area codes, or I would have the same problem.
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Did you already perform a crosscheck by placing your simcard in her phone and vica versa?
Is she has the same issue using your phone but with her simcard, it's not phone/software related.

its on bell thats the problem
joking aside id try handcent or go sms, and double check she has the area codes put in. shouldnt matter if its saved as a mobile number as you can even text landlines now in canada and they convert text to speech on the landline end! unless bells rom has its own unique ability to not let u text a "home" or "work" number.
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gee one said:
Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.
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What he said, +1.

[Q] messages, or google hang out with crashing upon sending or receiving an s_m_s msg

thank you in advance. I have an LG g2 d802 which I purchased through Amazon. The phone was working perfectly in the US with AT&T. I then brought the phone to Venezuela where I tried using SIM cards from two different carriers. With both carriers I have the same problem. When sending or receiving an SMS message, whichever app I have set as the default app crashes with no way to send a report, just a dialog box saying the app crashed. I tried wiping the phone from the phone's settings user interface, as well as installing t w r p and wiping from that. I have tried 2 different firmwares for the 802 which I found on the internet, with different version numbers of the system, and still the same problem. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could still try at this point to get messaging working?
Thanks
Greg

wow! No one has any suggestions? Anything would be appreciated!

Can you logcat it maybe? Try to pull out your simcard, flash the right kk basebands flash the rom and reboot and reinsert the simcard again maybe it works normally then. I will think of some ideas and i will repost it here again.
Maybe you need to do some build.prop modifications to set the region or what. Does your phone says to which cellular network is connected?

thank you so much! The phone has no sim card, and you can't pull the battery. I did install wildcat and I'm seeing a lot of errors relating to the telecommunications database not being available. Now I'm seeing things like 08-22 12:01:32.128 E/DatabaseUtils(1583): ¿at com.android.providers.telephony.MmsSmsProvider.getThreadId(MmsSmsProvider.java:1332)

thanks again for the reply. I believe the phone was originally from Singapore as it had SingTel apps on it. I have tried flashing a few stockroms from other regions but nothing has worked. I'm going to have to read up about the KKbuild and build prop as those are new terms to me.

Update - I tried using build prop editor to change the locale region from u_s to venezuela and it keeps default thing back to u_s. Maybe this is part of the problem? I did use the phone on a_t_&_t network before bring it to venezuela.

wulsic said:
Can you logcat it maybe? Try to pull out your simcard, flash the right kk basebands flash the rom and reboot and reinsert the simcard again maybe it works normally then. I will think of some ideas and i will repost it here again.
Maybe you need to do some build.prop modifications to set the region or what. Does your phone says to which cellular network is connected?
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yes my phone does show the network it is connected to, and I can make calls just fine and I can even use the data connection. there are two carriers here in Venezuela for which I have SIM cards, with one of the carriers I am able to receive the carrier's SMS messages which show my remaining prepaid credit, but other messages from other sources crash the messaging app. With the other SIM card I have, even the messages from the carrier crash the messaging apps. So with one carrier it almost works.
I'm in a part of the country with very poor internet but in early September I will have good access and can download roms etc and can follow the instructions you gave me. Thank you! Greg

takoateli said:
yes my phone does show the network it is connected to, and I can make calls just fine and I can even use the data connection. there are two carriers here in Venezuela for which I have SIM cards, with one of the carriers I am able to receive the carrier's SMS messages which show my remaining prepaid credit, but other messages from other sources crash the messaging app. With the other SIM card I have, even the messages from the carrier crash the messaging apps. So with one carrier it almost works.
I'm in a part of the country with very poor internet but in early September I will have good access and can download roms etc and can follow the instructions you gave me. Thank you! Greg
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Ahh alright, sorry for late reaction. I will try to make some research on it when i have free time again cause school starts again and i still have to finish android projects could you quote me if you have a response? cause then i won't forget this thread and i will get an notification about it.

takoateli said:
Update - I tried using build prop editor to change the locale region from u_s to venezuela and it keeps default thing back to u_s. Maybe this is part of the problem? I did use the phone on a_t_&_t network before bring it to venezuela.
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i'm from venezuela too and had the same problem with the D800, download textra from the play store, make it your default SMS app, it's free, it works well and it will fix the problem

Gemc666 said:
i'm from venezuela too and had the same problem with the D800, download textra from the play store, make it your default SMS app, it's free, it works well and it will fix the problem
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Nice to see other people also coming up with fixes i didnt thought about an 3rd party sms app yet ;D.
@takoateli could you post an full logcat? Then i could look into it maybe. Use for the time the textra app which Gemc has introduced. I hope that your problem is going to get solved soon

wulsic said:
Nice to see other people also coming up with fixes i didnt thought about an 3rd party sms app yet ;D.
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hehe thanks, for some reason that's the only 1 that works btw, not even hangouts or handcent sms work
have 2 weeks trying to figure out why

Gemc666 said:
i'm from venezuela too and had the same problem with the D800, download textra from the play store, make it your default SMS app, it's free, it works well and it will fix the problem
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Thank you so much! That did it! What's interesting is that before installing that app my phone would not automatically get the APN information from the sim cards. I had to enter it manually. After installing the app now the phone gets the APN information from sim cards. So not only does installing that app fix the problem with messaging crashing, but it restore is the proper interaction with the sim cards. Obviously that app contains something that's missing from the stock l_g firmware.