So I was being a smartass the other day and opened my app list, showed system apps, and cleared the data from many, including Media Storage (lost my ringtones temporarily, had to download FX to rebuild), Contacts Storage (had to resync), Calendar Storage, and a whole bunch of other system apps with no icons that I could clear data from. Not wise I know.
Now, the phone is fine, except two things don't work: when selecting a contact in messages, and when selecting a time to be reminded in Bixby Reminders. Either will lead the app to crash, have tried uninstalling updates to those apps, and force stop, clear data. Anyone know if I can fix both issues without a factory reset ?
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Try rebooting into recovery wipe cache?
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So I was being a smartass the other day and opened my app list, showed system apps, and cleared the data from many, including Media Storage (lost my ringtones temporarily, had to download FX to rebuild), Contacts Storage (had to resync), Calendar Storage, and a whole bunch of other system apps with no icons that I could clear data from. Not wise I know.
Now, the phone is fine, except two things don't work: when selecting a contact in messages, and when selecting a time to be reminded in Bixby Reminders. Either will lead the app to crash, have tried uninstalling updates to those apps, and force stop, clear data. Anyone know if I can fix both issues without a factory reset ?
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Usually it is OK to clear cache, not data, unless your phone is having issues with a specific app. You can clear cache and data for messages app(then just set all the settings in that app's settings, if you need) and maybe you can try to find if you need to clear cache and data for reminder app itself or all of the Bixby apps(that is a tough call). After you have tried all of the above, you can of course try to wipe cache in recovery and mostly it is perfectly fine, but once I did that on my Note 5, I then couldn't receive receive incoming calls, they just never showed on the screen, as if no one was calling. All other phones were fine and didn't exhibit that.
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Usually it is OK to clear cache, not data, unless your phone is having issues with a specific app. You can clear cache and data for messages app(then just set all the settings in that app's settings, if you need) and maybe you can try to find if you need to clear cache and data for reminder app itself or all of the Bixby apps(that is a tough call). After you have tried all of the above, you can of course try to wipe cache in recovery and mostly it is perfectly fine, but once I did that on my Note 5, I then couldn't receive receive incoming calls, they just never showed on the screen, as if no one was calling. All other phones were fine and didn't exhibit that.
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I've tried clearing both cache and data, and uninstalled and reinstalled updates for Messages, Messaging Service, Bixby Reminders, and all other system apps with Bixby in the name. No luck so far.
It really did improve battery life, it's just there's something to lose I guess.
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I call this a new recommendation because I haven't seen before. It comes from an HTC service representative, and aside from factory resetting the phone and looking at app size/cache sizes (not app data) for various apps via Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All (menu, sort by size), I was still "normal." The largest app on my phone was the FiOS app at 14.6MB. After that, everything was smaller. I had 451MB remaining in my application storage, 5+ GB internal free, 11+ (of 16GB) free on my SD card, and ~90MB available in cache space. In essence he told me that the low space error message was generic in nature and could be indicative of an app running out of "space" instead of my phone running low on space.
The recommendation the HTC support person gave me to try today was clearing my browser cookie data, cache, and history. The reason we went to this step was because I had noticed and mentioned to him that, with only one window open, the browser was using ~50MB resident. This was an observation I made after looking at the Internet app resource usage numbers via the System Panel app. The odd thing is that this memory usage didn't show up in in the Settings menu. Clearing the caches is done from the settings menu of the Internet app (from within the browser app, tap the 'menu' button on your phone and then scroll down to "Privacy Settings"). Now my Internet app uses ~14MB with one window open. After doing this step, and without a restart, my issue with the low space error went away (hooray!). It's a basic recommendation I know but in the searching about this error I have not read it before and actually read the HTC was denying the issue existed. I should note that we talked about the mail app, however there was noting too out of whack as System Panel showed it as using 12MB and it had no cache I could clear.
Another recommendation I received was managing the number of messages in each of my threads in the default messaging app. Essentially the more messages I have the greater the possibility that I run into an issue of a generic message sending failure. I asked a second representative about the thread limiting feature (under settings of the messaging app) and the fact that I had backed up and restored my text messages before, and now they were not being properly managed (i.e. I had 152 messages in a thread when I was telling my phone to keep 130). The second representative was the one who was conducting my customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call. He put me on hold for (at most) two minutes and then came back with an Incredible and told me that the feature is designed to keep the last 100 messages on my phone should a cell provider decide to clear text messages from their server. He also advised me to keep an eye on Dialer Storage, and that if it gets above 15-20 MB I should clear the data. He warned me of the importance of this app as it stores some of my email account info (if I remember correctly) and text message cache, so clearing that app does not come lightly. As I stand right now my Dialer Storage is ~7.14 (with 6.84 in data) when viewed in Settings menu. Though my Messages app says it only has 824kb or data and 2.2MB of total space in the Settings menu, it stands at ~18.5MB in the System Panel app.
I've noticed that after getting one of my threads down to 100 messages (my new limit) it's now staying at that limit at least for the one thread I tried it on. So maybe the thread limiting feature does work. I hope this info helps someone else with this problem and does not have cache issues that show up readily when looking at apps in the Settings menu.
P.S. I also asked the first representative about Push Messages in the messaging app. I was told it has to do with supplemental data that can come along with email accounts that use the POP and IMAP mail types. He also told me that it's possible that some carrier messages can end up there as well.
See here;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853001
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Hey guys. this just started happening to me yesterday. Handcent refuses to download mms messages. I hit the download button, it blinks over to 'downloading' like it's supposed to, but then switches right back to the download button with no results. I've tried fully restarting the phone and still, nothing happens. I've checked for any available updates in the Market and there's nothing available.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any tips/tricks to get this working for me?
I've had that happen before. Try clearing cache or cache and data from the app. If that don't work, uninstall it and download/install from market.
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Okay so, i went into settings > applications > manage applications > Handcent Messenger and the only option i can find that seems like a cache clear is clear data, which i would assume wipes out all my past convo's. Where should i be looking to clear the cache?
This happened to me on Saturday as well. I received an MMS and I couldn't download it. I was on Wi-Fi at the time so I decided to switch over to 3G and it seemed to do the trick.
Mistasal has a point. WiFi will often take precedence over network and mms won't travel over WiFi. I just assumed you could clear cache. I just reinstalled when it happened to me. Plus you can save all sms/mms with apps like sms backup+ they are free and restore your convos.
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The newest version has bugs that's causing the problems. If you could, roll back to version 3.7.9
The phone is supposed to switch to 3g to download mms. You still have the stock messaging app installed? Are you able to download the attachment with that? If not, you could try updating your profile (settings/update/update profile).
Handcent has lots of good issues, but it's downfall is wake lock issues when received messages are not checked. This has been somewhat less of an issue with cm7, but any subsequent messages throw the program into a wakelock state. To clarify, you receive one text, don't look at it. At this point, handcent uses only a few seconds in a wakelock state. Now, repeat test, but also receive a 2nd text (so now 2 unread texts). Wakelock state will be present until you unlock the phone. Not good.
Oddly enough, my phone only d/l's and sends MMS when WiFi is on. If I'm on 3G, I can only sent text messages. Handcent always gave me so much trouble with htis, I only use stock MMS now.
Your phone supposedly isn't supposed to download mms over wifi, only 3g/1x. Also, go to your stock messaging app, settings, and make sure your "auto retrieve" box is checked.
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Your phone supposedly isn't supposed to download mms over wifi, only 3g/1x. Also, go to your stock messaging app, settings, and make sure your "auto retrieve" box is checked.
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I dunno about the data connection. It worked when wifi was on and didn't work while it was off.
I'm also not able to download images in the stock messenger unless i'm on wifi.
Finally, if i turn on the auto-retrieve, i'll have two sets of messages to check.
You can have auto retrieve on, but you need notifications turned off in stock
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You can have auto retrieve on, but you need notifications turned off in stock
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do i have to register with handcent and login to be able to get mms?
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do i have to register with handcent and login to be able to get mms?
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i have this same issue clearing the cache and data did not work
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ob1silvia said:
i have this same issue clearing the cache and data did not work
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still having issuse with this
ob1silvia said:
still having issuse with this
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has anyone came up with a solution to this keep emailing handcent no responce
Same issue with my Galaxy S4 GPE on KitKat 4.4.2. Unable to d/l any MMS. Really frustrating.
I wanted to try it out because I was curious but I dont like it and want the Sprint voice mail back. And because I now downloaded it I am not receiving my texts or mms messages. I tried to remove it through the market and through managing application but it wont let me delete the damn thing how do I get rid of this. I just flashed EVio 3 last night so I am wiping Cache and Dalvik Cache as well as a Factory reset then I am going to re flash it. I hope this works.
When you uninstall it, it will revert to stock settings for your texts and voicemail. If you cant delete it through the market, try going to settings-applications-manage and remove it from there. If that doesnt work, try clearing data and cache from the Market from the Manage Applications menu, then restart and try again.
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When you uninstall it, it will revert to stock settings for your texts and voicemail. If you cant delete it through the market, try going to settings-applications-manage and remove it from there. If that doesnt work, try clearing data and cache from the Market from the Manage Applications menu, then restart and try again.
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I did that and I still can un install it and I am having people text me and I am not getting them.
EDIT: I went to google voice online and disabled the account and I can now get texts and mms but now I dont have any sort of voice mail option now the phone will just keep ringing and ringing and never go to voice mail. I called my voice mail and all i get is a busy dial tone so I cant set up my sprint voice mail anymore. I dont know what going on anymore. I even posted my problem on sprints forum, looks like this isnt only happening to me. I went in again to recovery and wiped both cache to see if will do something.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/341515
Goto menu, settings, call, and see if you have a voicemail service option. Select my carrier if it's there.
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Goto menu, settings, call, and see if you have a voicemail service option. Select my carrier if it's there.
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I tried that and selected my carrier but I still have the same issue when I call my voice mail its a busy dial tone not sure what else will fix this
EDIT: I CALLED SPRINT CUSTOMER SUPPORT AND THEY RESOLVED THE ISSUE FOR ME
You can probably just call sprint. A simple reprovisioning of your voicemail can fix this.
If your voicemail is not picking up after unisntallung just call reckless support. Basically they have to remove voicemail and add it back on and it will start working again. I see this happen all the time.
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I tried to open up an MMS about 5 minutes ago and now messaging locks up entirely every time I try to access any texts. I don't want to switch to an alternate app, but I may have to at this point. Anybody know a fix? I've tried force stopping, clearing cache, and clearing data.
Factory reset?
I rooted my Note 3 using the Kingo method when I got my Note 3 on Wednesday. One thing I have noticed is that my notifications when I get text messags keep going non-stop, until I actually pick up the phone to reply to the text message. That is very distrubing. Is there a way that I can change the settings to where it the sound only beeps once?
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Do you have a third party messaging app or does this do it on stock? Anyhow, you can try force shopping the stock messaging app. Then clear cache/data. You might lose your messages though. You can also try wiping cache/Dalvik cache then reboot. Go to stock messaging app and then turn off Notifications. Reboot. Turn on notifications. Hope you can get it to work properly.
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Thanks for replying. I do have GoSMS for my messaging. I had already disabled the stock messaging app but wasn't aware I had to clear the cache/data for it. I'll try that. Also have RCP Text Tones for my actual notification sounds. Phone is brand new, so I really wouldn't be losing much as far as messages.
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Do you have a third party messaging app or does this do it on stock? Anyhow, you can try force shopping the stock messaging app. Then clear cache/data. You might lose your messages though. You can also try wiping cache/Dalvik cache then reboot. Go to stock messaging app and then turn off Notifications. Reboot. Turn on notifications. Hope you can get it to work properly.
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Oh, I see. You can also try to clear cache/data on Text Tones to see if that helps. Sometimes when you let a third party app take care of things that the system is supposed to take care of, like ringtones and sound/led notifications, things get wonky!
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