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text messages and e-mail

this is more of opinion survey versus anything else.
i am looking for a text message widget and email widget.
specifically something for viewing text messages and e-mail from the desktop with the ability to delete, forward and reply at my discretion. as always i am looking for usability and functionality
i have been in the market and tried multiple apps, chomp, ohmymms, and many others- after some looking today i see there are many more. hopefully some of you have found something that you prefer over something else.
i would like to read about it.
thanks in advance

i used to use, fancy widgets messaging widget.
its set up like the HTC Sense widget but smaller i dont know if it has all the functionality your looking for though

Is there an app that you can send and recieve MMS through? I am using Boost on my sprint HTC touch and can't recieve MMS on it because it just sends a link that is broken. If there is an app that can intercept those messages and send the full picture message to my phone, that would be amazing!

Naemion said:
Is there an app that you can send and recieve MMS through? I am using Boost on my sprint HTC touch and can't recieve MMS on it because it just sends a link that is broken. If there is an app that can intercept those messages and send the full picture message to my phone, that would be amazing!
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Thanks.
~fb

as you guys are on sprint/boost there is a patch someplace you can install to assist with picture messaging. google it and you ought to find something.
personally, i have been an owner for over a year and tried everything but to no avail. best thing i have found for images is e-mail.
hope it helps

There are cabs you can install, but those are for WinMo from my understanding.

Naemion said:
There are cabs you can install, but those are for WinMo from my understanding.
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with that note, is there a .cab to .apk translator someplace? i got LOADS of .cab's and some could use to be android apps. just a thought

piperthedj said:
with that note, is there a .cab to .apk translator someplace? i got LOADS of .cab's and some could use to be android apps. just a thought
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The thing is, no one has found a solution out yet, and as we don't have a fully functioning camera just yet, I don't mind waiting til we do.

[Q] Does your phone ever mix up contacts (when receiving sms)?

Something really odd just happened.
I got a text from my buddy Aaron.
Opened up my SMS, and it showed another contact's picture and phone number when looking at the thread. but when I went back to the list of sms threads, it would show Aaron's phone number (not connected to his contact, no picture, no name etc)...
If I clicked on it and went back into the thread, again another contacts name and phone number and picture
wtf ?!?!
So I deleted the sms thread. Went into contacts, and swiped left on Aaron's contact to text him, when in the sms typing area, it only shows his phone number and fails to connect his number to his actual contact.
When I call Aaron from my contacts though, it does show his picture ...
is this sort of thing a common occurance ?
All my contacts are sync'd with exchange (corporate) and most of them are linked to facebook.
I've got no contacts on my sim, or entered into the phone memory itself.
I also noticed that when using a 3rd party sms app, the texts don't get linked up to the contacts, so it would only show the numbers.
pda:I9000UGJG9
phone:I9000UGJG9
csc:I9000BMCJG9
bell phone running on fido

i have not seen the error yet
but now that i know, i might not be surprised if it does happens

wow .. honestly that sort of thing is pretty unacceptable on any phone..

This happened to me yesterday! Any ideas on what causes it?

Ya i ve d same problm. anything can be done abt this?

This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.
this happened when i coded my own SMS app, left it installed on my phone for a few days and open the conversation to my mate and had all the msgs from my girlfriend in it...

Lol.. It actually happened to me a couple of time. Thankfully it solves itself when I hit the back button
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it happens me several times on 2 of 4 galaxys. this is totaly unacceptable offcourse. if this isnt fixed on froyo I have a galaxy for sale.

Which firmwares, and is this firmware you are using a final version?

sensi_ said:
This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.
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It does it for me quite regularly, and I've never installed any other SMS apps. Bog standard JF3, never flashed, nothing.
It was also one of the first things my friend mentioned to me about his new Galaxy S, which hadn't even had a single app of any kind downloaded at the time.
Believe me, it's very weird to have a text apparently from your best male friend telling you how much they love you after the phone gets the name confused with your girlfriend.
Weeeeirdness.

guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?
have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)
that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts

me had this problem before but not anymore when i flash the i9000ZSJP2 firmware..... try it...

SMS problem yes, but Mail too!
I have had this problem with SMS a couple of times, but more serious and more frequent: Exchange mail mixes up, I get maibodies under wrong subject! I am using standard SGS Exchange client. Any other seen this?

AllGamer said:
guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?
have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)
that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts
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Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8
iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.
as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T

bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.
using another app solved it

i switch to use Handcent SMS, much better than ChompSMS
i never really noticed if there was a problem with SMS getting mixed up
must have been an older bug on the older firmwares

I Have the same problem as the two people below.
I'll get a new text message, and it will show up on the notifications bar as from some random person, and i'll get another text from the same person and the notification will show another random name. They seem to be names of people that have previously sent me a message, but it is quite strange... It only started happening recently, so maybe it is an app or something conflicting?
The only things that come to mind are the LauncherPro messaging widget that i've been putting on one of my homescreens.
I'm running
Firmware 2.1-upadate1
I9000UGJH2
ECLAIR.UGJH2
rooted and running one click lag fix
also running trillian in the background, as well as beautiful widgets wheather.
can you guys post some info on what you are running so that maybe we can find a cause for this?
karanits said:
bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.
using another app solved it
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mazroui said:
Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8
iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.
as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T
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I experience the same on my desire z with htc's default app.
Is the a solution for this?
I find custom flashing and limiting the number of contacts ridiculously lame - no offence, but these bare not $10 devices

I had this bug on 2.1. I had no other text app installed so put it down to an eclair/rom version bug. Mine would also text the wrong people if it had got the contacts mixed. Best fix for me was a reboot.
I'm on Froyo now and no sign of it so far......fingers crossed

This very same thing is happening to me now. Called my carrier but they couldn't help. Hoping to find a solution here.

Wrong contact number

Hi, yesterday I added a new contact into my Nexus. When I went to text the contact later on, the message failed to send. I noticed that I had entered the contact number incorrectly (had an extra 0 at the front) and corrected my mistake. The thing is now, whenever I receive a message from that contact, and reply, it tries to reply to the incorrect number I originally entered, even though there is no reference to it. I have to keep deleting the thread on Handcent, and starting a new one, but it still always messes up when I have to reply to a text.
Anyone know why this is? I tried to delete the contact from the phone, and I get this message: "This contact contains information from multiple accounts. Information from read only accounts will be hidden in your contacts lists, not deleted"
If it's of any help I have nexus one with cyanogenmod 6.0 installed and use handcent and have whatsapp installed as well (not sure if ths makes any difference)

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Have looked at the contact info via your web Gmail?

When you go to edit your contact, keep scrolling down. Android as an annoying way a merging multiple contacts if they have the same name...
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prettyboy85712 said:
Have looked at the contact info via your web Gmail?
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Ye, it's all normal in there
danger-rat said:
When you go to edit your contact, keep scrolling down. Android as an annoying way a merging multiple contacts if they have the same name...
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Did that but there is nothing out of the ordinary there either.

Try clearing data from your Dailer and Dailer storage?
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danger-rat said:
Try clearing data from your Dailer and Dailer storage?
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Did that too, as well as contact storage and contacts. It has to be being cached somewhere, but I don't know where.

Moto G 2015- Email Address Added As Contacts

Hi, some inconvenients with lollipop
Hello, i was a jellybean user for 2 years, i recently got a moto g 2015 lollipop and have some issues, related to the lollipop so i assume this is the right place even if it is for motog 2014.
theres 3 issues i can't figure out,
1) I have to add a goggle account to the android for it to work with everything right? i mean, the PlayStore app and ****.
For that, i have always used a hotmail address ive had for years which is linked to youtube, facebook etc..
But this lollipop, decided to add a single contact entry for each and all of the emails ive emailed with that account.
Its effin annoying. So i deleted all the contacts I didn't want there, and went to settings-accounts and disabled its SYNC
on that hotmail address. I did that yesterday, and today all the email address contacts were added again today. Wtf
I don't want to create a new clean email account just for the android because I do want my youtube subscriptions alerts.
So what to do?
2) On my previous android device, the jellybean, If i want to delete a whole bunch of contacts. I could check a box next to each of a contact, and select a whole lot, then just hit a DELETE button. In lollipop, the only way is to manually go by one by one of the contacts. select contact, select its details, hit delete. thats a 3click process for ONE contact. I mean. wtf are these guys thinking? Is there a workaround for this?
3) Last but not least. Say i got a missing call on the call registry. And i want to send a message either SMS or whatsapp to that number. In jellybean I could hit the send message button and it would ask me if I wanted to SMS or Whatsapp. AND VOILA. write the message to the number and send it.
In lollipop, theres no message button to numbers that aren't in your contact list. WTF .. I have to add that number to contacts. And then, a send text message button appears next to the name but it only works for SMS, no whatsapp. If i want to whatsapp that number, i'd need open whatsapp and search that newly added entry thru 200 contacts.
i mean seriously. what the **** are these developers thinking.
Sorry for rant. Hope someone has some solutions
Thanks in advance.

Hmmmm I completely understand all the issues and they're all kind of related to the Contacts app on STOCK Lollipop ( stock in caps because its just a truth that skinned versions of Android actually do a better job in their respective dialer and contacts apps or at least that's my experience) and what I've personally done to alleviate some of my contacts issues is to use Contacts+ from the play store. It merges all of your contacts with similar traits etc instead of having 5 different contacts for emails that should be grouped to their respective contact. It also has good organization features. I personally have it set to only show contacts with phone numbers. You can play around with the app and see if you like it. Its also a messaging app and a dialer so an all in one app but I prefer to use it as a contacts app only since I have better alternatives for the others. Check it out. Maybe it'll help and this is not a promo Lol its just that I've personally dealt with this and heard of contacts + and here we are.
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iamcray said:
Hmmmm I completely understand all the issues and they're all kind of related to the Contacts app on STOCK Lollipop ( stock in caps because its just a truth that skinned versions of Android actually do a better job in their respective dialer and contacts apps or at least that's my experience) and what I've personally done to alleviate some of my contacts issues is to use Contacts+ from the play store. It merges all of your contacts with similar traits etc instead of having 5 different contacts for emails that should be grouped to their respective contact. It also has good organization features. I personally have it set to only show contacts with phone numbers. You can play around with the app and see if you like it. Its also a messaging app and a dialer so an all in one app but I prefer to use it as a contacts app only since I have better alternatives for the others. Check it out. Maybe it'll help and this is not a promo Lol its just that I've personally dealt with this and heard of contacts + and here we are.
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yes i wondered right after writing this thread there would be an app and i tried that one.
its good, not the best, but definetly better. ill definetly keep it as my primary dial and contact app . thanks for reply.

Multiple SMS threads?

So I haven't used an android phone since the HTC Hero and I'm not sure what is causing this. It doesn't do it to everyone so far and it doesn't seem to follow any pattern but here's what happens.
This afternoon I started a new text thread with my daughter and sent her 2 SMS messages using the messenger app. She responded a couple of hours later however her response came in an entirely newly created SMS thread within messenger. And she also mentioned she only received 1 of the 2 messages I sent.
This continues to happen randomly with different people. Both starting of a new thread when they reply and having not received all of my messages from the new SMS thread I had created to contact them.
I've only had this phone for a couple of days so I'm really trying to get used to it and stick with android again.
Thanks in advance!

Alright, we are going to have to take this step by step and just use the process of elimination for this.
When you are in your contacts, are there multiple contacts for your daughter? Example, Jainy and Jainy?
If there are multiple ones, one could contain only her email or with another app's contact system (example, Skype), and another instance of her contact could contain her number. So if you sent a SMS with to the wrong one, it could have never been sent.
While you are doing that, check the other contacts that it happens with.

I did check that, that's the first thing I thought it could be and there are no duplicates at all for her, or anyone else that I can see. Within her contact info particularly, it's just her phone number and no other data.

JynxRD said:
I did check that, that's the first thing I thought it could be and there are no duplicates at all for her, or anyone else that I can see. Within her contact info particularly, it's just her phone number and no other data.
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Have you tried another SMS app? Like Textra SMS or similar? Maybe the problem could lie within the app itself because I remember on the Zenfone 2, sometimes messages wouldn't send with one messenger but would be perfectly fine with another.

I haven't yet. And while I can certainly try it, I wouldn't want to use that as a fix you know what I mean? I haven't seen anyone complaining of it with this phone although a Google search reveals similar questions among a barrage of android phones but no solutions that I've seen that would apply to me.

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I haven't yet. And while I can certainly try it, I wouldn't want to use that as a fix you know what I mean? I haven't seen anyone complaining of it with this phone although a Google search reveals similar questions among a barrage of android phones but no solutions that I've seen that would apply to me.
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Sorry, late reply. Didn't see this thread get updated. Use the reply button under my post to quote it so that I'll get a notification when you reply.
Yeah, I see what you mean, you could even try clearing the data and cache of the messaging app too and see that fixes it as well. But when that was an issue, I never found a solution either other than it seems to happen randomly on some phones without the user doing much.
Only solution that fixes it was other SMS messengers, but then that is also a thing to figure out as to what is causing the problem. All messaging apps read from one file that has all the messages so it might be a problem in how it is being handled by the app. I know that sometimes when I restore my SMS messages to a new phone, I have to uninstall and reinstall the messaging app because it is not displaying the messages under the correct thread.

Any reason you don't want to use a different app? Textra, chomp, and Google messenger will all do basically the same thing, slightly different colors and settings, but if one works and the other doesn't, you have a solution. I bounce between those apps on different devices without a problem.