i just got a fascinate and I love it except for ONE thing. I hate that I cant stop the preview of my text messages when they come in. For this reason alone I want to go to Hancent or ChompSMS. However, I like the style of the stock messaging app on the fascinate. Iplayed with handcent and Chomp for hours and just cant get it customized to look like the stock fascinate messaging app.
Has anyone done this that would be willing to list the settings with me?
thanks so much!
I have Handcent and I can use all kinds of skins with it including the stock style. Confused as to why you can't
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Which do you use? I'm trying to figure out which one to go with. The Handcent or The Stock message app. I've heard of no fix for the awake time when sending a message via stock app. Handcent is pretty cool but to me, it's not needed if the fix has been for stock app.
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Which do you use? I'm trying to figure out which one to go with. The Handcent or The Stock message app. I've heard of no fix for the awake time when sending a message via stock app. Handcent is pretty cool but to me, it's not needed if the fix has been for stock app.
What do you use & Why
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I use handcent. I like how u can use the bubble effect on mags and change theme to black, candidates change background color, text color, and a ton of other must have settings for a text service. I hate hate hate despise the stock message app
+1 for Handcent. lots of configuration, features. looks slick too.
be sure to configure notifications so you don't get double msgs.
I like Handcent because it pops up a window over whatever you are doing so you can send a quick reply without having to really open the full app up. I don't know that I could go back to stock messaging again.
Handcent. I love the customization, including the font packs. I also like the pop-up, but it sometimes gets a little annoying, so i could see someone not liking it.
lineman78 said:
Handcent. I love the customization, including the font packs. I also like the pop-up, but it sometimes gets a little annoying, so i could see someone not liking it.
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yeah i dont like the pop up at all but i just turned that function off so it was no big deal
Aside form the obvious customization to the 2 third party apk's, why does someone choose handcent over chomp and vice versa why choose a third party over the stock?
For me, stock (Sense) is by far the slowest interface of the bunch... it is slow to open, slow to change numbers to names in the conversation list, and after pressing a conversation, slow to load the messages and slow to load the user icons.
I haven't tried chomp, but handcent is very fast. Handcent and Chomp are almost identical. However I believe handcent is slightly more customizable in terms of visual appearance (colors, layout, etc).
You should also consider the AOSP messaging app. It's basically a cleaner, faster version of the Sense messaging app. However, if you want it, it will have to replace the Sense one; you can't have both at the same time.
I was using handcent for quite a while. I do love being able to make all the visual changes in it. I would normally add pics as backgrounds for individual contacts and the make the bubbles near transparent so messages show up over their pics. Lately on 2.2 I've been using the stock message app. No particular reason. It's simple, no frills SMS. Really the nice thing on the 2.2 Roms is that you can automatically clean your messages to a certain number per thread. That setting applies no matter which app. I have never used chomp so have no take on it.
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I have used all 3 recently on cm6. I have stuck with stock because its simple and fast. I'm also the kind of person that turns off all the eye candy on my computers operating systems. Would rather it be put to speed that visuals
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I haven't used chomp, well, at least not on android. But I didn't like it at all on my blackberry. I also am using the stock messaging app on cm6. I have no problems or lags while using the stock app. But when using the sense messaging app, I find it to have unacceptable and unusable lag and freezes. Which is the whole reason I rooted my phone. And I don't regret it at all!
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On AOSP roms I used stock but on sense roms I use handcent.
The stock one on sense is just really slow unless you constantly delete your sms/mms. You don't have that problem using handcent or chomp.
I am not sure why I picked handcent over chomp but I didn't use chomp very long before switching to handcent. It could of been the customization on handcent.
I started using Handcent on my Hero to combat the partial wake issue the stock Messages app had back on 1.5, and have gotten so accustomed to it I see no reason to go back. Plus, I've recently discovered and fallen in love with Handcent's Quick Reply popup feature.
Also, now that I'm using the HTC_IME keyboard on Fresh, all lag when typing messages in Handcent has disappeared.
I should have rooted & ROMed a long time ago. ;P
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I would like to almost completely replace the stock messages app. My dilema is that I really enjoy the stock notifications for the stock messages app, but how handcent is set up better than the stock app. I have the notifications turned off in handcent and the notifications on for the stock app. But this makes it when I read the message with hand cent it doesn't mark the message as read in the stock app thus the notification stays up in the status bar until I clear it manually, which is becoming annoying. So the only way I can think of to fix this since I could not find a setting to mark them as read, would be to take all of handcent files except the notification settings and use them to replace the s app files. Or if someone could tell me how to theme/skin the standard messaging app that would work as well. A third option would be to find a way to make handcent mark the text as read in the stock app. Hopefully someone can help me figure how to do this out provide with an easier way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I would like to almost completely replace the stock messages app. My dilema is that I really enjoy the stock notifications for the stock messages app, but how handcent is set up better than the stock app. I have the notifications turned off in handcent and the notifications on for the stock app. But this makes it when I read the message with hand cent it doesn't mark the message as read in the stock app thus the notification stays up in the status bar until I clear it manually, which is becoming annoying. So the only way I can think of to fix this since I could not find a setting to mark them as read, would be to take all of handcent files except the notification settings and use them to replace the s app files. Or if someone could tell me how to theme/skin the standard messaging app that would work as well. A third option would be to find a way to make handcent mark the text as read in the stock app. Hopefully someone can help me figure how to do this out provide with an easier way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What exactly do u mean by notifications? Do you mean the icons? if that's what you mean you can change the notification icons in handcent.
Here's how:
1. In the main handcent screen hit menu and go to settings
2. Go to notification settings
3. click on notification settings again
4. Go to notification icon
5. Choose your icon and enjoy!
I believe some of the icons in there look the same as the stock icon. And to keep from getting two notifications disable the notifications in the stock app. Not sure if this is exactly what you were asking about but hope it helps.
I appreciate the response, but what I'm really going for is the wile puzzle piece unlock thing. I have it set up now to where it works so I get the puzzle piece and then launch into handcent but since I have to have the notifications through the stock app to get the puzzle piece to work the status bar icons stay there until I clear them manually because handcent doesn't mark the text messages as read in the native app.
I see. I use the pattern unlock on my phone so i wouldn't know how to change that. I'm sure a dev could probably figure that out for you. Sorry i couldn't be more helpful. Good luck.
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^Agree with OP. Would love the functionality of Handcent but retain the puzzle piece notification, since it's a nice touch and the visual eye candy enhances the overall experience.
The only thing I use Handcent for is the popup notification window when I get a new text so I send a quick reply and put the phone back down. For everything else I just use the stock messaging app.
I tried a few other popup notifications for texts but, like has already been said, Handcent is the best so far.
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The only thing I use Handcent for is the popup notification window when I get a new text so I send a quick reply and put the phone back down. For everything else I just use the stock messaging app.
I tried a few other popup notifications for texts but, like has already been said, Handcent is the best so far.
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Yeah I pretty much want to the exact opposite of that. I like the interface of handcent, but I actually don't like the popups or notifications that handcent uses.
I also just put in a feature request on the handcent forum. Asked them to add and option to automatically mark the text as read in standard app or to have the option to use the puzzle piece as the notification in handcent. So we'll see how that goes
I might have to take back what I said about hancent. Seems as if it managed to delete all of my 3k+ text messages. Not very happy about that.
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I might have to take back what I said about hancent. Seems as if it managed to delete all of my 3k+ text messages. Not very happy about that.
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havent seen that happen
i use SMSBackup+ from the market to backup all my SMS to my gmail
makes things WORLDS easier for all my constant rom flashing
I know it was Handcent cause I looked at the logs and it was the last app to access my texts. I had a clockwork backup from a few days earlier. I got some of my stuff back, but still lost some important ones. I looked at smsbackup but I was a little weary of it having access to my Google account and about how it worked.
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I would love to have this as well. This is exactly what I have been looking for. If you do end up finding this or figuring out how to make it work, could you let me know or lead me in the right direction? Thanks.
I've learned a lot since I posted this. And to my understanding the puzzle piece thing is part of the touchwiz ui. So it only will work with the Samsung messaging app. The only way to achieve this effect would be to have some one create an entire rom based on this request by using handcent as the default and modifying the touchwiz lock screen to use handcent instead of the Samsung messaging app. Which sucks because this seems like it would be quite tedious but that's my understanding now of the problem but hopefully I'm wrong lol. I kinda gave up on this idea but still if anyone figures out a simple fix to this I would love to know.
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I also have a question regarding the puzzle piece screen when receiving an sms... Is there any way for the puzzle piece screen to still show up when using Widget Locker? I don't see an option for something like that, but there are options to block popups.
Oh man would I love this feature!! I think I'm going to have to go back to the stock app because I love the puzzle piece unlock so much. Its just too tedious to unlock the screen and then click on the messaging app (I know that sounds awful hahah) especially if you text ALOT.
Hi,
I upgraded my galaxy s (Canadian version) to gingerbread. I came across the youtube video for Kite UI and loved the IM interface. The default screen for my message from cell contacts looks bland, I'm not talking about those apps that tie in all your online instant messaging programs, I'm talking about incoming txt messages. I'm looking for something to give my txt messages a nice UI with avatars, if it is also tied into an app that would include txt's and IM's, then that would be good as well.
I know kite ui is kinda dead in the water right now, any alternatives to achieve my desired result?
Thanks
Try Go SmS app, very nice and you can customize the whole thing. Handcent and Chomp are also good.
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I'm looking for closest to stock theme for GoSMS or Handcent SMS.If you know any please post the below.
Go With Go ( tons of customizations )
GOSms! Used to use Handcent, but since i changed to GoSms, been using it for over an year on every android device i had