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is there anyway to make the trackball light up for txt messages

Yes, but it would require the creator of an sms app to make it happen.
About a week ago I found what command needs to be sent to our phone to control the trackball, but the creator of handcent or chomp would need to add that command in to their app.

I was wondering that just the other day - not so much a toggle in the system, but I was hoping someone would make an app that would utilize the trackball light. It would be cool if it would blink with a txt message.

Handcent SMS has a option for this

w01fm4n said:
Handcent SMS has a option for this
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But it doesn't work on the Hero.

posguy99 said:
But it doesn't work on the Hero.
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I see an update for handcent in the market that states it works on the hero now. Will test and report back.
UPDATE: Yeah, its a no go with this version. I thought maybe someone sent the developer the commands that would make it work. The timing seemed perfect for this scenario.

Ive been wondering the same thing. Thanks ill check out that app now. Ive had a nokia 6300 for a while and the LED's oni the side flash when i have a txt or a missed call. Id like an app that does something similar to this

Well, I have that version of Handcent installed, set the tackball to light up every 5 seconds and still no luck it doens't work

flipzmode said:
Yes, but it would require the creator of an sms app to make it happen.
About a week ago I found what command needs to be sent to our phone to control the trackball, but the creator of handcent or chomp would need to add that command in to their app.
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Hey flipz first of all thanks for the AMAZING work you are doing around here, I really apreciate it.
Second of all, would it be possible for you to get in contact with the developer of Handcent and tell him about this commands? Or even if I can be the messenger and let him know one way or the other? I think this would be a nice add to any Message app.
Thanks in advance!

daveli said:
Hey flipz first of all thanks for the AMAZING work you are doing around here, I really apreciate it.
Second of all, would it be possible for you to get in contact with the developer of Handcent and tell him about this commands? Or even if I can be the messenger and let him know one way or the other? I think this would be a nice add to any Message app.
Thanks in advance!
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I just sent an email to the dev with how to do it. I'll let you all know if I hear back from him/her.

Tried out the new version today, still a no go with lighting the trackball on our CDMA heros.

When I was researching the Hero prior to Sprint getting it i saw on a Youtube video that the trackball would blink for some alerts. Guess Sprint thought it was frivolous.

ELIMINATED said:
When I was researching the Hero prior to Sprint getting it i saw on a Youtube video that the trackball would blink for some alerts. Guess Sprint thought it was frivolous.
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Yea. The option is built in and can be trigger manually. We just don't have any apps that currently use it or trigger it properly. The location of the trigger has changed slightly from the GSM Hero which is why apps that currently do support it for that phone don't work on ours.

honestly, just uninstalled handcent. I could not deal with the slowness of the scrolling plus the frequent issues with MMS downloading.
trying out sms popup along with picsay to see if this is a good workaround.
why can't everything just work and work fast!? oy!!

Hey guys,
Flipz sent me some code yesterday to tinker with. I was planning on working on this tonight. I will let you know tommorow if I actually have any luck getting it to come on in a test app.

Has anyone tried the new version of handcent? To see if the developer included the trackball suport? It was release today i think. Version 2.9.22

That sucks! The Eris's track ball pulses when i get messages of any type or phone call. I think it has to do with the carrier. But i don't know alot so don't quote that.

Just to update you guys I was working directly with the developer. He sent me 5 different test builds but couldn't get the trackball working. He seemed a bit distracted while we were talking though because I kept having to tell him stuff that I had already said. heh.
kcarpenter and I are still working on a work-around, but I haven't been able to help him out much between being out of town and now working on the kitchen.

Thanks for the update flipz!! Maybe the Eris configuration for the trackball can help?

@Daveli, maybe you are familiar enough with the phone to pull the LED directory of the Eris. Post it up here with a zip?

[IDEA] Reply button for SMS!

Hey everyone.
Does the "feature" where the sms one pressed is selected after all the other sms's are loaded, suddenly interrupting the writing, ever bother you guys?
I wonder if it's possible, as per the image below, "move out" the reply button from the menu list as a shortcut.
My programming skills lack here but I'd gladly make a reply icon if any of you geniuses would be able to do this.

umiss said:
Hey everyone.
Does the "feature" where the sms one pressed is selected after all the other sms's are loaded, suddenly interrupting the writing, ever bother you guys?
I wonder if it's possible, as per the image below, "move out" the reply button from the menu list as a shortcut.
My programming skills lack here but I'd gladly make a reply icon if any of you geniuses would be able to do this.
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Interested. +1

I'm surprised not more people are bothered by this
Do the programmers think this is doable?

Would be good

I would like it too. +1

Hum…but if you click on the message, this automaticaly going on reply's mode, no ?

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Hum…but if you click on the message, this automaticaly going on reply's mode, no ?
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no its going to the message thread and you have to press on that box where you can type text before you can start with ur reply.. wich costs a tremendous ammount of time. *sarcastic mode*

I dont get the idea of fix behidn this?? Isnt that just moving the reply shortcut, it would still open the same messaging window loading all the messages still...?

jamieeeee said:
no its going to the message thread and you have to press on that box where you can type text before you can start with ur reply.. wich costs a tremendous ammount of time. *sarcastic mode*
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Hum, so it's depend on your ROM.
On mine [Artemis], this goes in reply's mode [I'm in conversation's mode].

Straynart said:
Hum, so it's depend on your ROM.
On mine [Artemis], this goes in reply's mode [I'm in conversation's mode].
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ah didnt knew that im using dutty's HG 2.4.
also i dont have the problem the OP seems to have.. maybe he could try installing the new HTC Messaging 2014 version?
btw that can be found here

jamieeeee said:
ah didnt knew that im using dutty's HG 2.4.
also i dont have the problem the OP seems to have.. maybe he could try installing the new HTC Messaging 2014 version?
btw that can be found here
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Remember you have to take the version of your language ROM. [the .dll of that topic is for ENG version].

Very good idea I think I don't want in that hole conversation mode. It is slow and it takes time.

jamieeeee said:
ah didnt knew that im using dutty's HG 2.4.
also i dont have the problem the OP seems to have.. maybe he could try installing the new HTC Messaging 2014 version?
btw that can be found here
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I don't really follow what you're talking about.
I am using the latest Messaging.
Let me try to explain again.
When one presses the actual message, the conversation mode comes up and the sms's start loading. As soon as all the sms's finish loading, the message you had pressed becomes highlighted.
If you are writing meanwhile the messages are loading, as soon as the messages finish loading you won't see what you're writing anymore.
I've tried Artemis v14 and it was the same there.
I don't think there is a ROM that doesn't have this "feature", but if there is, please enlighten me.
If it's still unclear I could try to make a video, but I am sure that the latest HTC Messaging does not solve this, since I am using the latest one.
This is why I want the reply button out there. When pressing the reply button, no sms will be highlighted and you can write your text easily.
It is not a matter of being lazy, as I saw someone else mention earlier, but if you encounter this I don't know, maybe 20-30 times a day I ensure you it will get to your nerves!
Let me repeat myself, the thing bugging me is not that it doesn't go directly to the reply box, but that when the text you just pressed becomes highlighted, you don't see what you write anymore!

I have a similar problem.
When replying to a SMS, the messaging client loades all SMS you have in your contact box [and lagged the client] and when it finished, the keyboard comes over the typing SMS. So you can't see what you were writing.
But I merely remember a ROM |WinMo 6.5] where the messages are in the same mail client, just like on WinMo 6.1 [where mail and SMS where in the same messaging client].

Straynart said:
I have a similar problem.
When replying to a SMS, the messaging client loades all SMS you have in your contact box [and lagged the client] and when it finished, the keyboard comes over the typing SMS. So you can't see what you were writing.
But I merely remember a ROM |WinMo 6.5] where the messages are in the same mail client, just like on WinMo 6.1 [where mail and SMS where in the same messaging client].
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Yes the NRG rom is like that for example. But I don't like the look if it. I'd rather have this solution that I'm trying to make happen!

umiss said:
Yes the NRG rom is like that for example. But I don't like the look if it. I'd rather have this solution that I'm trying to make happen!
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Yeah, I don't like its design, but it works better, quicker and without lags.

It can be really usefull

[Q] Iphone-like smstoogle for HD 2

Hi! Since I don't like the SMS-function on HD 2, I was wondering if anyone knew if there is some tweek simular to what Iphone uses for SMS-structure? You know; where you can see "bubbles" with eachothers texts downside?

Hylfrid said:
Hi! Since I don't like the SMS-function on HD 2, I was wondering if anyone knew if there is some tweek simular to what Iphone uses for SMS-structure? You know; where you can see "bubbles" with eachothers texts downside?
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I dont remember the name of the program.. omi sagi or something.. im sure someone will come along with the name in a min.. but its stock in Energy roms.

kimi sae ireba
is the name of it.

m0bmentality said:
kimi sae ireba
is the name of it.
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Yes but to make it work you have to uninstall HTC messaging client and in this way you loose the capability to send/receive MMS...IMHO it's not worth it....

the dragonlord said:
Yes but to make it work you have to uninstall HTC messaging client and in this way you loose the capability to send/receive MMS...IMHO it's not worth it....
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I agree. If you don't know what you are doing, it's not worth starting playing with it.

don't know ihone, is this similar to what you're asking for?

Yes, p107r0!! Thank you so much

the dragonlord said:
Yes but to make it work you have to uninstall HTC messaging client and in this way you loose the capability to send/receive MMS...IMHO it's not worth it....
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If you add back in jaatyu mms works fine and full size.. the only issue is when you click to open an incoming mms is (seemlessly) kicks you over to windows messaging before it opens it. THe energy roms have all this done for you and works right out the box.

m0bmentality said:
If you add back in jaatyu mms works fine and full size.. the only issue is when you click to open an incoming mms is (seemlessly) kicks you over to windows messaging before it opens it. THe energy roms have all this done for you and works right out the box.
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mmmmh, sounds interesting...(quickly) searching on google I haven't understood if Jataayu MMS is a free (and downloadable) app or not...is it? In case do you know how to uninstall HTC messaging client?

I havent installled kimi on its own.. i just patched it when mms didnt work .. now energy puts it in all his roms and all the patching is already done..
so im gonna bow out of this and plead ignorance beyond just knowing the name and knowing it has the potential to work flawlessly.

Unacceptable losses of SMS

Wondering whether I am the only one with this issue
I SMS a lot and like keeping the SMS on my device. I had recently an extremely unpleasant surprise: my total list of conversations was back to... ONE conversation with my last SMS and... That's it!!! Thousands of SMS gone
I happen to save everything with mIQ and hopefully it's not lost. However I had the experience already twice in the past 2 weeks so I am wondering:
Is this a feature from Android? Big SMS file --> autoarchive? If then how do I disable it or how do I recover my SMS?
Is it a bug? In which case this is extremely severe and not serious for such an expensive device or for an OS that is expected to be a safe one
Is it from Samsung implementation? Or Android itself?
Please share your experience, I'd like to know if I am the only one and if there is any solution (My "old" Touch Pro 2 with WM 6.5 never lost a single SMS although having more than 30,000 SMS in the box)
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Am I the only one? Several years without any loss os SMS on different WM devices and I wiuld be the only one losing them on my shiny new device with the wonderful android OS?
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Ive never let my SMS get to more than 500, mainly because I don't like scrolling through congressional. Never had this issue though.
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you really shouldnt keep that many sms around anyhow with android, its likely to cause some issues but did you check the settings on the sms app? mine has settings to delete threads after a certain number and is set to 200 by default.

I use a program called Backup to Gmail. Works excellent.
It let's me delete sms'es on the phone while my Gmail account keeps them all even if I delete them on the phone.
It can also restore sms'es.MMS restore is not supported yet but backup works good.

scottprotege said:
you really shouldnt keep that many sms around anyhow with android, its likely to cause some issues but did you check the settings on the sms app? mine has settings to delete threads after a certain number and is set to 200 by default.
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Yes of course... Besides If I had it set at 200 I would expect to keep at leats 200, not 1
I shouldn't let many with Android ? So with WM6.5 it's ok to have 20,000 SMS but Android cannot handle them ? Hum... Somethng is seriously wrong

zeb crs said:
I use a program called Backup to Gmail. Works excellent.
It let's me delete sms'es on the phone while my Gmail account keeps them all even if I delete them on the phone.
It can also restore sms'es.MMS restore is not supported yet but backup works good.
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Thanks, I know a few of these. Without being able to restore --> kind of useless for me... Actually as far as I remember some CAN restore
I am already using mIQ that works ok (though a bit slow to handle too many SMS)

why would you even want that many, its not like you are going to read through 20k sms

It's funny like the answers are more about having less SMS or why wanting that many rather than why the SMS client or the OS Re broken...
Hey man why do u need a car, just take your bicycle!
I have more than a thousand conta ts I converse regularly with. Then add a certain number of sms per conversation and u get there
Anyway I do not even have that many on my Tab... Far less than on my previous device. And this disappointing device/os/client combination cannot even manage them... What do you expe t me to do or say? Go back to my TP2? Honestly this is ridiculous
meanwhile I'd like to know if I am the only one and if someone knows some fises (other than delet my SMS or but an iPad...)
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Alcibiade said:
It's funny like the answers are more about having less SMS or why wanting that many rather than why the SMS client or the OS Re broken...
Hey man why do u need a car, just take your bicycle!
I have more than a thousand conta ts I converse regularly with. Then add a certain number of sms per conversation and u get there
Anyway I do not even have that many on my Tab... Far less than on my previous device. And this disappointing device/os/client combination cannot even manage them... What do you expe t me to do or say? Go back to my TP2? Honestly this is ridiculous
meanwhile I'd like to know if I am the only one and if someone knows some fises (other than delet my SMS or but an iPad...)
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give handcent a try and use their backup service, ive never had a problem with the stock sms app, currently theres around 300txts for 20 contacts, and 50 or so for the rest.

No problem here as I don't keep a lots of sms. But had a problem with new sms going into the wrong contact profile. So, have to be extra careful not to reply to the wrong person.
Anyone faces the same problem?
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Alcibiade said:
(other than delet my SMS or but an iPad...)
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Deleting would help more than the purchase of an iPad, as that uses the 3g chip to get a data connection, while both the texting and voice service are ignored.
That said... I never got this issue, but my brother has a relatively similar one: long messages tend to be split, mixed and (why not, since we are at it) partly deleted. That is on Eclair using an Xperia X10 mini pro.
Never had this kind of issue when i was at my peak of sms usage: store on the MMC, and there you go, thousands of sms on a puny Nokia 3650.
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[Q] SMS/MMS Alert

I don't know if there is a thread out there already asking this specifically or not but, does anyone know of a good SMS/MMS visual alert? I used to have the app NoLED. But they've changed it up so much that it doesn't work as good on my Samsung Infuse 1997. It used to allow me to (assign a photo) so when I would get a text or phone call the contacts photo would pop up (so convenient!) Now they've changed it, and the whole app sucks! :crying: Does anyone know of something similar?
Thanks in advance!

taiowa72 said:
I don't know if there is a thread out there already asking this specifically or not but, does anyone know of a good SMS/MMS visual alert? I used to have the app NoLED. But they've changed it up so much that it doesn't work as good on my Samsung Infuse 1997. It used to allow me to (assign a photo) so when I would get a text or phone call the contacts photo would pop up (so convenient!) Now they've changed it, and the whole app sucks! :crying: Does anyone know of something similar?
Thanks in advance!
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Why just use the old version of the NoLED that was working before? you have a freedom not to update the software to newest version.