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[Q] better s4 text messaging app?

Is there a better text messaging App for the S4? The stock app with the creepy face icons need to go. Plus the general aesthetics are no good.

lucksp said:
Is there a better text messaging App for the S4? The stock app with the creepy face icons need to go. Plus the general aesthetics are no good.
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GoSMS? BiteSMS? Handcent. Just search on the Play Store.
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Baldilocks said:
GoSMS? BiteSMS? Handcent. Just search on the Play Store.
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i actually use the att messages app, b/c it syncs with all my android devices, including tablets without data, and i can send/receive messages via PC. works like a champ.

johnnobts said:
i actually use the att messages app, b/c it syncs with all my android devices, including tablets without data, and i can send/receive messages via PC. works like a champ.
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AT&T Messages sucks theres other apps than can do that.

i used Handcent before and i think its the best

azz72 said:
i used Handcent before and i think its the best
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Meh. GoSMS impresses me a lot more.
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lucksp said:
Is there a better text messaging App for the S4? The stock app with the creepy face icons need to go. Plus the general aesthetics are no good.
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I use Sliding Messaging, it's the best out guaranteed..
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Intellectua1 said:
I use Sliding Messaging, it's the best out guaranteed..
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agreed! been using it for a while now and the cards ui is awesome!

mcmb03 said:
agreed! been using it for a while now and the cards ui is awesome!
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I tried that. Lasted about 5 minutes.
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Baldilocks said:
I tried that. Lasted about 5 minutes.
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what didn't you like? just curious

mcmb03 said:
what didn't you like? just curious
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I'm just not one for gestures. Old fashioned I guess.
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Baldilocks said:
Meh. GoSMS impresses me a lot more.
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I liked GoSMS but they're so fricking intrusive now that I couldn't stand them any more. Went to Chomp SMS and it's been working really well.

alacrify said:
I liked GoSMS but they're so fricking intrusive now that I couldn't stand them any more. Went to Chomp SMS and it's been working really well.
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Intrusive? How? Run it in Normal Mode. No addons.
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alacrify said:
I liked GoSMS but they're so fricking intrusive now that I couldn't stand them any more. Went to Chomp SMS and it's been working really well.
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agreed, they're always trying to shove their other products down your throat. I got fed up pretty quickly..
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I'm just not one for gestures. Old fashioned I guess.
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I gotta say that I find that pretty funny, since that's how all phone operate now. The gestures literally consist of swiping left or swiping right

mcmb03 said:
agreed, they're always trying to shove their other products down your throat. I got fed up pretty quickly..
I gotta say that I find that pretty funny, since that's how all phone operate now. The gestures literally consist of swiping left or swiping right
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Yes but access menus or setting or selection options, I'd rather just touch an icon or menu button.
As for GoSMS. I never see any pestering ads. Shrug.
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Baldilocks said:
Yes but access menus or setting or selection options, I'd rather just touch an icon or menu button.
As for GoSMS. I never see any pestering ads. Shrug.
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It's not ads per se - it's the notifications "look, we have new premium themes!" "Hey, you can't back up any more but you can use our cloud service!" "please buy into our ecosystem!". If it suits you, it's no big deal - but something that just does SMS/MMS and beats the Samsung/stock product is what I was looking for at this point. Chomp does that.
Not a criticism of their business model, I just didn't like it. I do understand it.

This thread is funny....still love my Handcent over all the rest.
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I have my GoSMS matched to the Contacts, Dialer and stock messaging app.
Don't know why all the lines in between messages aren't showing up. Not showing up in screen capture either. Shrug.
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Baldilocks said:
I have my GoSMS matched to the Contacts, Dialer and stock messaging app.
Don't know why all the lines in between messages aren't showing up. Not showing up in screen capture either. Shrug.
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it's this a theme within go sms? ..or you customize it yourself?

I dont see bitesms in the playstore you sure they have that for andriod?
Thanks
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GoSMS? BiteSMS? Handcent. Just search on the Play Store.
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Can I have a backup of both TW and AOSP?

Can I backup a TW ROM and an AOSP ROM and switch between both whenever I want and it run smoothly no matter which one I'm on?

Joe0113 said:
Can I backup a TW ROM and an AOSP ROM and switch between both whenever I want and it run smoothly no matter which one I'm on?
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I have nandroids of both stock rooted MF9 and CM10.1 and switch between them regularly with no issues.
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maxpower7 said:
I have nandroids of both stock rooted MF9 and CM10.1 and switch between them regularly with no issues.
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Thanks man. Thinking about trying out SlimBean for a lil change of pace! I wanna see all the craze about Halo haha.

Joe0113 said:
Thanks man. Thinking about trying out SlimBean for a lil change of pace! I wanna see all the craze about Halo haha.
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Halo is interesting, but I'm not a huge fan. I really don't have a use case for it. I also don't really like constantly having the halo on my screen when I'm not using it. Lots of people seem to love it though.
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maxpower7 said:
Halo is interesting, but I'm not a huge fan. I really don't have a use case for it. I also don't really like constantly having the halo on my screen when I'm not using it. Lots of people seem to love it though.
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From what I've read it doesn't have to be on your screen at all times.

Joe0113 said:
From what I've read it doesn't have to be on your screen at all times.
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I guess I'm just not a fan of how multitasking is implemented with Halo. I applaud the developers for making it, but it's just not for me. Honestly, I wish Google would just add an app drawer to Android that can be accessed from within any app. Part of my problem with Halo is that I have to preconfigure which apps I can multitask with (notifications notwithstanding), rather than being able to fire up any app I want regardless of what I happen to be doing at the time.
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I guess I'm just not a fan of how multitasking is implemented with Halo. I applaud the developers for making it, but it's just not for me. Honestly, I wish Google would just add an app drawer to Android that can be accessed from within any app. Part of my problem with Halo is that I have to preconfigure which apps I can multitask with (notifications notwithstanding), rather than being able to fire up any app I want regardless of what I happen to be doing at the time.
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If you want that you should try out Floating notifications then.

Cm/aokp aosp style messaging app

Anyone find one that works on our phones without root? Stock sucks
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GTvert90 said:
Anyone find one that works on our phones without root? Stock sucks
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Plenty of sms app in the market.
Slide, chomp, hancent, etc...

Yeah sliding messaging has been my favorite for a bit now. It's $2 but well worth it.

Yes I know that. But I like the modded aosp best
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8sms....damn close to aosp.

Thank you that's exactly what I was looking for. I knew there was one out there just couldn't find it.
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This will get your picture messaging to work.
Mmsc: http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
Mms port: 80
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As a Google Voice user, I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ianmcdowell.googlevoicemessaging&hl=en Google Voice Messaging and it works great, but it definitely leaves a little to be desired.
I tried the sliding messaging, but for whatever reason it can only do push notifications if you get double notifications. If it fixed that issue I'd definitely want to use it, it looks really nice.

8SMS stand alone messaging app?

Wondering if anyone is using this app as a stand alone for sms/mms and how reliable is it

antawnm26 said:
Wondering if anyone is using this app as a stand alone for sms/mms and how reliable is it
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I've been using it for over a month now and I love it. I couldn't stand the stock messaging app. Even with the various theming available, I hated the way it looked. 8sms has been super reliable for me and I like the look of it so much better. I use the dark theme.

chrisdl824 said:
I've been using it for over a month now and I love it. I couldn't stand the stock messaging app. Even with the various theming available, I hated the way it looked. 8sms has been super reliable for me and I like the look of it so much better. I use the dark theme.
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+1. Awesome app
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It's fantastic. Using it from the first day I got my G2. I send multiple sms as well as mms daily
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8sms is good. I personally use textra because I like the looks of the chat windows more.
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Faster TouchWiz?

So is there any improvement in the latest touchwiz? Any opinion from S5 users? And maybe for those who had the chance to see a Note 4 from close ?
Im in S3 and I dont like the touchwiz laggy and problematic as hell. I have a fear to buy samsung device again. I am thinking of the note 4 just because of the feature to capture images and transform them in editable text.
But im worried about the touchwiz..
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Have you considered trying a different launcher? Touchwiz is very resource-intensive, but many of the third-party launchers are very quick. I'm using Google Now launcher on my Note 2, and it still flies. It will make your S3 much faster, anyway.
You could do the same thing with the Note 4, but you'd likely lose some of the S-Pen functionality.

gtalum said:
Have you considered trying a different launcher? Touchwiz is very resource-intensive, but many of the third-party launchers are very quick. I'm using Google Now launcher on my Note 2, and it still flies. It will make your S3 much faster, anyway.
You could do the same thing with the Note 4, but you'd likely lose some of the S-Pen functionality.
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Im using nova launcher.. but with touchwiz I mean also the samsung pre installed apps like gallery,contacts etc..
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Ahh, gotcha. Unless you're married to them for some reason, you should try replacement apps in the Play store.

gtalum said:
Ahh, gotcha. Unless you're married to them for some reason, you should try replacement apps in the Play store.
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Can you change message/phone app?
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patriotaki said:
Can you change message/phone app?
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message yes..phone no

sevomemo said:
message yes..phone no
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Is there any good message app you can recommend? I also hate that I must delete old message to have space for new ones...
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patriotaki said:
Is there any good message app you can recommend? I also hate that I must delete old message to have space for new ones...
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just uninstall it with titanium backup (if you have root)..hangouts is the most used replacement(it's the default messge app on nexus)

sevomemo said:
just uninstall it with titanium backup (if you have root)..hangouts is the most used replacement(it's the default messge app on nexus)
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Yea I have root but I dont like hangouts too much connection with google..I dont want to mix messages with google plus account or maybe they save messages on cloud..
Many connections with google are not so good they keep track of everyone haha
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patriotaki said:
Yea I have root but I dont like hangouts too much connection with google..I dont want to mix messages with google plus account or maybe they save messages on cloud..
Many connections with google are not so good they keep track of everyone haha
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honestly i don't know message replacement apps other than hangouts..but i did a quick search for you and i found those
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...t-sms-text-messaging-apps-for-android-1232990
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-text-messaging-SMS-replacement-apps-for-Android_id59083

sevomemo said:
honestly i don't know message replacement apps other than hangouts..but i did a quick search for you and i found those
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...t-sms-text-messaging-apps-for-android-1232990
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-text-messaging-SMS-replacement-apps-for-Android_id59083
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A big thanks from me to you
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sevomemo said:
message yes..phone no
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True. I was thinking of dialer replacements, but I guess you're still stuck with the same phone app. There are many messaging replacements, though I actually really like hangouts.

patriotaki said:
Is there any good message app you can recommend? I also hate that I must delete old message to have space for new ones...
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8sms from the store,freezing stock message app. About dialer, give a try to exdialer, on the store too, quick ans with nice themes. :good:

Fighting with myself over TouchWiz
I've been using alternate launchers for a long time. Was on Go Launcher for most time, but relatively recently I've moved to Noval Launcher, as it has caught up with Go Launcher features, and it seems that Go was a bit buggy in more recent releases.
All that being said, I am presuming at this point that I may want to actually utilize some of the features that TW offers, and won't be ther on other launchers. On the other hand, I too fear lag/performance issues, and loss of features in Nova that I am so accustomed to.
Of course, I suppose I need to get the phone in my hands first before worrying about TW.

You can replace the dialer by simply installing another one from the store. But when someone calls you, you will be faced with a lag followed by a black screen with status bar at top and then BOOM! The laggy samsung phone app (Don't worry your phone didn't blow up
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About the improved TW on S5, I have a S3 phone rooted with QS ROM installed and Boeffla 6.1 beta4 linaro installed and a S5 transformation pack supported by QS.
I think finally Samsh*t thought about locking the launcher, phone app in memory. That makes TW a bit faster. Opening the phone app now is faster and the lag is gone. Also switching to contacts from the phone app is lagless. But there are still some micro lags in launching an app.
Hope that I helped you with that.
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gtalum said:
Have you considered trying a different launcher? Touchwiz is very resource-intensive, but many of the third-party launchers are very quick. I'm using Google Now launcher on my Note 2, and it still flies. It will make your S3 much faster, anyway.
You could do the same thing with the Note 4, but you'd likely lose some of the S-Pen functionality.
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Problem with Google launcher is that annoying bar at the top of each screen. Cannot remove it. Pain in the butt

@home said:
Problem with Google launcher is that annoying bar at the top of each screen. Cannot remove it. Pain in the butt
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I like the search bar, but it can be removed with the GELS xposed module.

I am new to android- If I use a new launcher on the note 4 (Nova or Google Now) would I lose functionality of the S Pen or the fingerprint scanner? Thanks

Stigga said:
I am new to android- If I use a new launcher on the note 4 (Nova or Google Now) would I lose functionality of the S Pen or the fingerprint scanner? Thanks
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Nope
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DNASTY6997 said:
Nope
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Thanks! Does using a new launcher reduce some of the TW bloat/memory usage or does it go over TW and just mask it?