Hey everybody, I would like to know who still is using the Verizon texting app and how it compares, beats, loses to the other sms apps out there. I am using Google messenger since it was released and love its stability and mms send and receive through WiFi.
It's not pretty but it can send sms over WiFi and syncs your messages on all of your devices.
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That seems pretty cool and similar to iPhone feature of sync texts on all devices.
wadamean said:
Hey everybody, I would like to know who still is using the Verizon texting app and how it compares, beats, loses to the other sms apps out there. I am using Google messenger since it was released and love its stability and mms send and receive through WiFi.
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It is considerably slower than a traditional SMS app (slower to launch and occasionally stutters) and you have to agree to Verizon holding on to your text messages for 90 days on their servers.
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It's not pretty but it can send sms over WiFi and syncs your messages on all of your devices.
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Recent updates make it look somewhat better. You can choose a grey theme or red one, and you can customize both app and convo background. as well as message bubbles.
It doesn't have animated gif support, though (at least receiving & viewing them)
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It doesn't have animated gif support, though (at least receiving & viewing them)
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Recent updates make it look somewhat better. You can choose a grey theme or red one, and you can customize both app and convo background. as well as message bubbles.
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It is considerably slower than a traditional SMS app (slower to launch and occasionally stutters) and you have to agree to Verizon holding on to your text messages for 90 days on their servers.
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I have tried all apps today and the best third party sms app Google messenger is the lightest at 12-15mb when hello sms is 35mb and textra is 156mb taking up a lot of ram also chomp sms.
Why not try Google's recently released stand-alone messaging app?
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Why not try Google's recently released stand-alone messaging app?
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That's what I stated above your post that its the best and lightest app in terms of ram usage
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I have tried all apps today and the best third party sms app Google messenger is the lightest at 12-15mb when hello sms is 35mb and textra is 156mb taking up a lot of ram also chomp sms.
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Where did you get that number for Textra from? I've been using it and love it.
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Where did you get that number for Textra from? I've been using it and love it.
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Stock system setting
Google messenger was lighter
The ability to receive and send SMS over Wi-Fi is a great plus. I work in a basement that had no mobile signal.
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The ability to receive and send SMS over Wi-Fi is a great plus. I work in a basement that had no mobile signal.
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True true with Google messenger
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True true with Google messenger
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Can Google messenger do that? I thought only Verizon message plus was able to send over Wi-Fi.
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joshm.1219 said:
It's not pretty but it can send sms over WiFi and syncs your messages on all of your devices.
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This I love.. I didn't know this, and started getting texts while on airplane WiFi.. I was pleasantly surprised.
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It is considerably slower than a traditional SMS app (slower to launch and occasionally stutters) and you have to agree to Verizon holding on to your text messages for 90 days on their servers.
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It is finicky for sure.
Google messenger app? Same as the stock AOSP app on Lolipop. It's extremely limited (no size adjustments for MMS, etc.), I don't like the look, etc. I actually quit Lollipop almost solely because of this on my HTC One. I know I can use another app, but I'm into using the stock app.
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It doesn't have animated gif support, though (at least receiving & viewing them)
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VZ Messages plays animated gif files fine. I get these all the time from friends.
I like the app, it's not bad and offers a nice look and the features I need while texting.
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I like the app, it's not bad and offers a nice look and the features I need while texting.
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Same here. It's pretty convenient having a iMessage-like (SMS or Wi-Fi) program that can be synched up across my Android and iOS devices plus my Windows PC.
My bad. I don't know why I thought that.
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Thanks to Product F(RED), I have found my favorite texting app. GoSMS! You might have heard of it, you might have not, but so far it is 5x better than Handcent and 100x better than the Android SMS Default. Let us know if you use this app, and what you think of it here! Have a great weekend!
I love gosms. I've tried to settle for others and even for the stock messaging app but the themes are awesome. And the widget is cute also.
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I love gosms. I've tried to settle for others and even for the stock messaging app but the themes are awesome. And the widget is cute also.
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Very! Its alot more clean and "put-together" than handcent and many others. Have you used any other sms apps before?
I'm using it too as my sms app.
It's great and it has a lot of customization options!
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I'm using it too as my sms app.
It's great and it has a lot of customization options!
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I love the different themes that are available!
I liked it, but saw no reason for me to switch from my default which is smooth, clean, good-looking and straight-forward. But, yeah definitely a lot better than the alternative ones (handcent etc...).
Yep! For the Android Texting app, its a great example of "Too Simple." We love flexibility nowadays
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but it doesnt have emoji..
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but it doesnt have emoji..
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Hopefully we get Emjoi sometime soon! Keep us in the loop.
sounds like this app is just what i've been looking for
does it have any ads?
Could you tell us Handcent-users what Go-SMS actually does better than Handcent? I don't see a big difference.
I use GoSMS to and i like the app.
I tried some other before like handcent sms but GoSMS is my favorite.
Handcent SMS causes some big lags for me. Furthermore there were some errors in displaying some MMS. When i tried GoSMS this bugs did not appear.
Great APP but there is a problem with it. if an SMS comes in and the popup windows comes on and you are not near the phone and the screen turns off, the popup goes away (as it should) BUT so does the SMS notification and the SMS is marked as READ. this means the reminder function of the program does not work.
How do I resolve this? Im on the EVO4G
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Could you tell us Handcent-users what Go-SMS actually does better than Handcent? I don't see a big difference.
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For starters; GO SMS, unlike Handcent, doesn't look like a giant pile of sh*t being rendered onto your Android screen.
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i just download it yesterday, accidentally
and suddenly, i love it
I use gosms to and i especially love the drwaing feature... it's funny as hell to draw stupid bull**** and send it to your friends
I have a rooted/rommed wifi-only S1 and my GF has a Blackberry 9780. She is currently overseas for X amount of time and the only way we can talk is by calling each other which is extremely expensive, or using skype which means she has to borrow a friend's laptop or android device. She has service on her phone over there, unsure of what type of plan.
I came up with the idea of using my old BB 8330 and figuring out how to use BBM or something similar on wifi-only, but it turns out that 'ol phone doesn't have wifi on it. It's too bad I sold my last BB some time ago which was an 8530 and had wifi. Oh well.
Anyways, I'm now wondering if there's an app I can use on my S1 that she can also use on her 9780 that would allow us to text and or talk. Something like BBM that doesn't require me to have service or a data plan. I imagine there's at least one app out there that would do this and also be available to BB users.
Thanks.
What about the WhatsApp Messenger by WhatsApp Inc. In the Play Store ? :thumbup:
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What about the WhatsApp Messenger by WhatsApp Inc. In the Play Store ? :thumbup:
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I read somewhere that it uses your phone number but can't seem to confirm that.
I'm pretty sure we can use KIK but it's text only. I may be getting greedy with wanting text and talk, but having both would be awesome.
Does her phone have a browser? If so, you could use any site like ebuddy to talk. Or even get on something like palringo (dunno if there's a bb version?) but there must be something alike.
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Does her phone have a browser? If so, you could use any site like ebuddy to talk. Or even get on something like palringo (dunno if there's a bb version?) but there must be something alike.
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She has service and we *think* her data is unlimited. She also has a wireless router at her flat so wifi helps if the data is limited/costly.
We're trying to use apps over our current methods or using something browser based mainly for convenience. Something like whatsapp or KIK would work perfectly from what I understand, but they're text-only. Not a huge problem, but if I can find text+voice that would be great. Skype is normally the answer to that question but her phone, or more specifically her service provider, isn't compatible with skype from what I'm seeing.
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She has service and we *think* her data is unlimited. She also has a wireless router at her flat so wifi helps if the data is limited/costly.
We're trying to use apps over our current methods or using something browser based mainly for convenience. Something like whatsapp or KIK would work perfectly from what I understand, but they're text-only. Not a huge problem, but if I can find text+voice that would be great. Skype is normally the answer to that question but her phone, or more specifically her service provider, isn't compatible with skype from what I'm seeing.
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Then ebuddy would most likely be your answer. It has chat + voice/video and is browser based.
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Then ebuddy would most likely be your answer. It has chat + voice/video and is browser based.
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I went with Kik for now. It's actually a pretty cool messenger app. Clean and fast.
I haven't yet found anything that covers both messages and voice in app form other than skype which I confirmed is not compatible with her model of phone.
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I went with Kik for now. It's actually a pretty cool messenger app. Clean and fast.
I haven't yet found anything that covers both messages and voice in app form other than skype which I confirmed is not compatible with her model of phone.
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Oh I though she had access to browser?
App wise, I'll have to keep looking.
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Oh I though she had access to browser?
App wise, I'll have to keep looking.
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Preferring to stay away from browser since apps are far more convenient and because browsers always run very sluggish on my cappy for some reason.
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Preferring to stay away from browser since apps are far more convenient and because browsers always run very sluggish on my cappy for some reason.
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Should hassle Ebuddy to make a app then lol
But if you wanna try it, there's a bare naked browser (ugly but fasssst) on here. Called naked browser I believe.
Try viber
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Try viber
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Looks like the exact app I need and it's compatible with blackberry. Will give it a try. Thanks!
ETA: Looks like Blackberry devices can not use the VoIP feature yet but they say it will be available eventually.
Turns out you need a number for viber and my device is wifi-only. After some research I found that you can use any phone number that can receive SMS because it's for them to send you a registration PIN. I tried both my GV and Heywire numbers and haven't received that text on either one. :\
Was just curious as to what messaging app most people was using and recommended. I like to find one that has pop up and possibly lock screen preview like the stock app. Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.
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Was just curious as to what messaging app most people was using and recommended. I like to find one that has pop up and possibly lock screen preview like the stock app. Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.
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I love the stock messenger app, it has everything I need.
Go sms has pop up too if you prefer that.
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For now, stock app until I find something I like better.
I was using Textra on my S3 but it didn't want to work well with kitkat so I went to hangouts. I think hangouts could be a really good app, but right now its terrible in the way its organized. Contacts are a mess to sort through, and every google account you have has the ability to send messages which makes things very difficult to manage if you end up sending messages from more than one.
I'm not a huge fan of the stock app...kind of ugly, but it works well.
I use Textra and I love it.
Thanks for the info. I will try out those. I liked the stock app but was getting lag using it. It want bad but bad enough to drive me nuts. Lol
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I really liked the stock app until I imported all of my old texts from my I7777 and then the lag was unbearable. Nearly a 2 minute wait. Now I'm using Hangouts. Not as many features, but no lag.
Textra
EvovleSMS (this is the one I use)
HelloSMS
I tried all the popular ones...Go SMS, Textra, hello SMS, Hangouts, Evolve, etc. Hated all of them. I ended up sticking with chomp SMS. It's from the same developer that made biteSMS for the jailbroken iPhone, so I'm familiar with it. Plus, you can customize the theme to your liking. It has all the popular features: popups, quick reply/compose, delay sending, scheduled sending, privacy, etc.
Ever since my SGS 2, I always end up back with Textra. Black theme. Light, fast, actively developed and has all the necessary features. It's not overblown and just does it's job well.
I've been using Chomp for a long time and have been very happy with it. I've been trying out the stock messaging app for a few days, compared to past Samsung messaging apps, I'm impressed, but I'll probably be installing Chomp again soon...
Are there any messaging apps or themes for a messaging app that would make it flat? No matter how much I edit Chomp or Textra it just still doesn't look flat.
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I use hangouts as my stock mainly because I can directly chat with my Google contacts. I have little reception where I live but still have WiFi so I can message my friends with android over a hangout instead of an SMS. I also very much like the layout and Android Emojis. I never liked textra, chomp, or handcent.
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using stock messaging app here , rooted with twrp recovery , I have popup enabled when I get a msg and phone is locked (swipe to unlock set) I click the msg but then the phone lags at the lock screen ,and hangs. anyone else having problems with this ? or know a way to correct it ?
to get out of it I have to swipe to unlock then open up the messaging app it wont let me click the msg I got from the lock screen .
Was using ChompSMS but was getting a bit slow, switched to EvolveSMS but it's still really buggy, using Textra now. Slim, fast, quick reply / compose and not bogged down with tons of settings. Simple theme & emoji setup too. Be sure to download Textra emojis from app store.
since we are discussing the messaging apps, has anyone been getting random message alerts on old messages in the stock app? Phone was sitting on the counter last night charging and I heard it go off. Came out to find an alert for a message from tuesday that had already been read. Had this happen once before as well...alert on a previous read message. Never seen anything like it
From the sound of your needs, it seems like the stock app would suit your needs best. Why not use it? I don't really understand why some people seem to force themselves to use third party apps if the native ones work fine. :what:
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I alternate between stock and 8sms! 8sms is basically the cm messaging app with quick reply, quick call etc
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using stock messaging app here , rooted with twrp recovery , I have popup enabled when I get a msg and phone is locked (swipe to unlock set) I click the msg but then the phone lags at the lock screen ,and hangs. anyone else having problems with this ? or know a way to correct it ?
to get out of it I have to swipe to unlock then open up the messaging app it wont let me click the msg I got from the lock screen .
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You have root on the 900A?
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Was using ChompSMS but was getting a bit slow, switched to EvolveSMS but it's still really buggy, using Textra now. Slim, fast, quick reply / compose and not bogged down with tons of settings. Simple theme & emoji setup too. Be sure to download Textra emojis from app store.
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Wow, thank you sir. Much better than stock!
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You have root on the 900A?
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typo W
I personally really like the new stock TW messaging app... wbu?!
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I personally really like the new stock TW messaging app... wbu?!
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Was using hangouts, but when trying to send audio files or videos its a PITA!!!
Then I went to this new "evolve" messaging app.. while it seemed cool, I texted the WRONG person something I shouldn't have.. To say the least I was pissed. Then the stupid will give me error messages when sending pictures.. Guess what.
Why change something thats NOT BROKE! Stock messaging app is actually AWESOME!
ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ISSUES!
Unlesss someone can tell me a good reason to switch, I'm staying
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Was using hangouts, but when trying to send audio files or videos its a PITA!!!
Then I went to this new "evolve" messaging app.. while it seemed cool, I texted the WRONG person something I shouldn't have.. To say the least I was pissed. Then the stupid will give me error messages when sending pictures.. Guess what.
Why change something thats NOT BROKE! Stock messaging app is actually AWESOME!
ZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ISSUES!
Unlesss someone can tell me a good reason to switch, I'm staying
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I've been on Evolve since it came out (I still had my S4). It would crash constantly and I would never be able to send/receive pics and the Dev is a d!ck. Got my S5 and been on the stock messaging app and haven't looked back! Might try out Hoverchat (previously NinjaSMS).
I'm finding stock to be really sluggish with a lot Of lag. I uSe textra. It's very fast.
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I'm finding stock to be really sluggish with a lot Of lag. I uSe textra. It's very fast.
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How many SMS did you send per minute?
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Actually since you mentioned hover chat. I tried it and loved it!!
Then like every single other app, something is missing.. can't send videos..
so it gets a big F
Only had the phone a weekend, so take this with a grain of salt. . .
Started stock obviously, but I got sick of Touchwiz on day 1 so switched to the Google Launcher.
When I did that, Google tries to take everything, (msg app included) so I started using Hangouts.
It is horrible. Really bad. The basic functionality is OK, but it is the other garbage that they stick in the way that annoys so much.
Sure- I could send this message using G+, but why would I, and now you've made me waste time telling you that.
Back to standard app, which seems better than previous Samsung versions. Open to suggestions though
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Only had the phone a weekend, so take this with a grain of salt. . .
Started stock obviously, but I got sick of Touchwiz on day 1 so switched to the Google Launcher.
When I did that, Google tries to take everything, (msg app included) so I started using Hangouts.
It is horrible. Really bad. The basic functionality is OK, but it is the other garbage that they stick in the way that annoys so much.
Sure- I could send this message using G+, but why would I, and now you've made me waste time telling you that.
Back to standard app, which seems better than previous Samsung versions. Open to suggestions though
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Hover chat was good.. Nice features.. but can't send videos, audio, calendar event, your LOCATION (huge feature) and so on
Textra. clean fast simple and can tweak colors etc..
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Textra. clean fast simple and can tweak colors etc..
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Can you send videos, location, calendar events?
I'm using Go sms pro. Found the stock app to be really laggy especially with large conversations. I think it was trying to load all the convos or something, as go sms only loads a handful at a time. Also has nice themes etc
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I'm using Hover Chat since I used my S3. And now, I'm still using it on my S5.
I don't know, but I love the interface and all.
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I personally really like the new stock TW messaging app... wbu?!
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Default app.
EvolveSMS: it's well designed, fast and has a clean and sharp ui.
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I'm using Handcent as I like the level of customisation, the missed text reminder, different missed text tone options, plus able to give different contacts different LED colors, flash rates and vibration patterns. I've been using it for years and haven't come across anything better...
Hello. It's great, it works, it's light and clean. It fires up way faster than the stock app.
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Hoverchat because I love the chat heads clone on it.
I used to use hangouts, but not being able to stack pictures into a single MMS (hoverchat doesn't either but whatever) led me to trying others.
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Textra. I have years of sms
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Textra. I have years of sms
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I also use Textra. It's simple, light, and I love the quick reply window that pops up whenever I get a text.
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I'm using Handcent as I like the level of customisation, the missed text reminder, different missed text tone options, plus able to give different contacts different LED colors, flash rates and vibration patterns. I've been using it for years and haven't come across anything better...
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Galaxy S does that by defaut (excepted led color + flash rates) since S3 i think (i was using Light Flow for that back then).
Yes, i'm using defaut app, best to keep things simple imo.
I only install google keyboard to get better recognition while swyping.
I wonder how some people could crash it as i had some history of several years of messages imported and never seen any messaging app crash on any of my Galaxy S.
Just wanted to see what app people are using... I don't like how we can't customize the stock app like years past...
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Just wanted to see what app people are using... I don't like how we can't customize the stock app like years past...
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I us googles messenger.
I'm using the Verizon messenger. I like the fact that I can send MMS over wifi while on the phone, especially since you can't have data while on the phone.
I am using the Google Messenger app for sms and mms. It's the best out there and so simple. Beast part is that you can send or receive mms or group messages through wifi too
I am currently using Textra. in between SMS apps though.
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I am currently using Textra. in between SMS apps though.
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Textra is what I'm using right now as well... love it!
I'm using Evolve SMS. Looks great.
Textra
Textra
Anyone having an issue copy and pasting phone numbers into a new text on Google Messages? I have to paste it into the text body unfortunately it doesn't let me paste into the recipient box.
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Anyone having an issue copy and pasting phone numbers into a new text on Google Messages? I have to paste it into the text body unfortunately it doesn't let me paste into the recipient box.
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That's weird. I am not having those issues.
I'm using 8sms, you can go dark or light, and it works flawlessly. Also gives you that aosp holo blue dark look.
Currently using Hello SMS. I love the simplicity of it. Having it in tabs is also a plus. I don't have any MMS issues with this app either. Textra is a good one too, but I would have occasional MMS issues.
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Textra all the way
Google messenger all the way
Google Messenger for SMS/MMS
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Google Messenger for SMS/MMS
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Another vote for the new Google Messenger. Substantially improved and I really like the Material Designyness of it
I use Hangouts, not the best but as I do as much or more instant messaging as texting and often with the same recipients the merged threads are an overriding benefit that keeps me coming back to it.
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Textra all the way
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I agree, Textra all the way.. I did like the material design aspects of google's messenger, but the overall customization of Textra is hard to beat.. I really liked Textra when I had a notification led.. but sadly that isn't available on the Turbo
I had major MMS issues while using Textra. I like the app, but not being able to send pics was a bummer.
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