I'm starting to get wound up with the way WM6 handles texting, unsure if its specific to the Niki, or the Orange customisations.
I'm running the standard Orange customised firmware, and this is a list of the problems -
- it regularly just saves messages into the drafts folder rather than sends them
- takes ages (well maybe 10-20 seconds) to respond when attempting to send
- keeps a message in the outbox until I told it to send
- it will say "sending failed", whilst the recipient has actually received the message
Any when there's no signal, why doesn't the SMS system just keep the messages in the outbox until there is a signal? It just says "message can't be sent" and stick the message in the drafts folder.
Is this just standard windows mobile? If so, its pretty poor - Symbians messaging systems work absolutely perfectly in comparison.
So far my WM6(o2 xda stellar) seems to text just fine
Only issue same as one of yours is the no signal and moving the text to drafts and it does not resent as far as i know
I'm wondering if WM just isn't suited to anyone who does a lot of texting.
I'm on one of Oranges unlimited text plans, and I'm regularly doing 1000+ texts in a month. Not good though .... I'm thinking of starting to just use the Niki for calendar/data storage, its getting to be useless as a phone.
Yes it was badly designed... use PocketCM
wildcard said:
Yes it was badly designed... use PocketCM
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I have got pocketCM on there, but that will use the same messaging subsystem, its just a different interface on the same systems. Which means it'll have exactly the same problems.
Ok, there's a lot that could be fixed in WM but sms seems to work pretty damn well. Especially 6.1's threaded sms is great to use. I've had no problems with it whatsoever.
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Hi there,
is there any solution for postponing SMS sending when the GSM signal is not strong enough?
In other words - on the symbian platform the SMS is taken into the queue like Outbox and the system or app then performs a signal check on regular basis and send out the SMS once the signal is at adequate level. So you no longer have to worry about the SMS once you hit the SEND button. Is there something like that available on WM platform too?
Thanks for any tips or ideas.
My Niki is getting a little, er, awkward at handling MMS at the moment, I'll explain :
It does seem incredibly slow at downloading/opening MMS, and invariably the messages are nothing more than plain text (some friends who have bizarre text plans).
I can be in the middle of writing a text message, and then an incoming (text) MMS is received, and the phone is basically useless whilst the message is coming in.
And earlier it decided that it wasn't going to open any of the MMS that had been received this morning, would only open SMS.
Left it for a few minutes, no change, so decided to do a full power off reboot. Started back up again, and it had deleted all the messages that had been received in the last 10 or so minutes.
Any suggestions on what I could do to improve the general SMS/MMS handling? The phone is running on the stock Orange rom.
ps. please don't suggest using pocketcm instead - it doesn't seem to be able to send SMS at all on my Niki
I work in the basement of a building, and thus, my reception is spotty at best. I tend to use my phone most for text messaging (and not even SMS, though I'm not sure I'm clear on the difference).
If I'm sitting on my desk, I will eventually (through the proper alignment of air particles or whatever) get signal and receive text messages, though sometimes they're delayed. However, when I reply, I usually get "text message cannot be sent" and the message stored in drafts (and often I don't even see this message, and only notice hours later that the message wasn't sent).
Every other (non smart-)phone I've had has automatically retried to send text/SMS until it succeeded, but for some reason Windows Mobile doesn't do this, and relies on me realizing that a message is still in drafts, and makes me resend manually.
I found this thread from 2006 that addresses the same problem, but there was no solution at the time. I was hoping that Mobile 6 or 6.1 would solve the issue, but it appears they still just abandon failed messages.
Are there any third party apps that will retry until successful? I'd like it to be for standard text messages, though I could switch to SMS with my wife to solve the main issue.
I've found a post in the kaiser software forum that says that "Palm Threaded Messaging" does this, but isn't that a Palm app? They also mentioned that it gets rid of the 'text messages' link in messaging, which is unacceptable.
Anybody know of an app or registry fix that would solve this? I've tried searches on google and this forum, and have come up with nothing. Does anybody have the skill to write such an app? I might be willing to pay for a couple hours worth of development.
Thanks.
I am looking for the same solution.
I have a samsung i760 and have a similar work issue where I have little or no reception depending on the alignment of the stars.
Please help us out
This can easily be done with mortscript. Simply move all messages in the drafts folder to the Outbox and they should send. You can also check signal strength before you do it. I am sure somebody is willing to whip something up.
wish they would!!
I am used to Nokia's features and with the bad reception i get in my office at home I am used to just hitting send then once i get a ray of light willing to carry a signal the msg gets sent, but on this diamond i gotta get up off my jacksie and go find a signal before hitting send. This is a major inconvienience as you can imagine.
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try mobile secretary
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try mobile secretary
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a link would be nice.......
wallbank999 said:
a link would be nice.......
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Searching would be nice too
Google is your friend
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/10/23/the-mobile-secretary.aspx
Mobile Secretary is fine for sending Automated responses to missed calls. But is there a way to include the "resending" feature in WM 6 ?
Hi I have a problem with my Magic and Desire, they have trouble receiving SMS's sent trough a SMS gateway.
The issue I got is that I only receive ether a small part of the SMS or none at all(To the naked eye).
I'm supposed to receive a SMS every day from the company I work for.
But they say I do receive the SMS and they get confirmation from my phone.
I'm receiving other SMS fine from family and friends.
I once received half the message but after I tried to open it I was sent back to the overview(The SMS auto closed).
Another time I received the SMS and I opened it, and I was able to read half of what should had been there but after I closed the SMS it was gone.
My Desire running stock 2.1 and my Magic running 1.5, 1.6 or 2.1 are all acting the same way.
So I'm thinking theres a problem with the way android is handling SMS.
Maybe it(Android) considers the SMS for corrupted or malicious.
Is there anyone that is experiencing anything like this or know a way to fix it?
I have a similar problem on my G1 with different ROMs, for instance Cyanogen and COS-DS. Some SMS reach me, some just get dropped silently :-(
Same to me
So I got my replacement galaxy s 3 and for starters I have to admit that its much snappier then my last. I text a lot and one of the things that annoyed me was the fact that my text messages after a while started getting really sluggish in the app as in the keyboard would start freezing up and also the sending animation would slow down. So my question now is if this was due to the vast quantity of text messages I sent? (about a few thousand in some threads) And if that is the case will going under the settings and having my phone have a message limit and delete older messages prevent this from happening again?
Same thing happen to me always like new message take ages to open,keyboard just freeze,so I use sms backup application to backup my old messages and after that clear all inbox,in future if I need old message I just restore it.
I set my phone to auto delete after 2000 sms and 100 mms. Saves space and prolly makes the phone a little faster. Started doing it after I got so many on my last phone that I had to find the database for the texting app and delete that manually because the app itself couldnt hadnle the mass of texts it had to delete. lol
In past phones I had - like Motorola - text messages (SMS and MMS) are actually stored in a system app DB that would continue to endlessly grow as your message database grows. Thus, it eats into system memory. So yeah.. there is a benefit to keep it clean.