Does anyone know of a way to back up just the settings in Handcent SMS? This way I won't have to re-set all of the numerous settings in this app after a hard reset. I'm not interested in backing up anything else except just the settings for just this program. Any ideas? Help is much appreciated!
HI!
I'm interested too in a solution for that. If anyone can help we are much appreciated
Backing Up Handcent Settings, etc.
You can do that through Handcent now along with backing up your SMS and MMS messages.
In Handcent go to Menu>Settings>Account
You need to set up an online Handcent account and there is a very small annual charge - like $5 or so.
Once your account is set up you can backup and restore Settings, Themes, and all your messages.
It is so worth a couple bucks a year. For how often I'm always trying different ROMs and things I never have to reconfigure it or lose messages since I just backup before flashing and then restore.
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I hard reset my phone as I was having problems. So, I did a Sprite backup and restore my settings after my phone was rebooted. I have two email accounts that was set up prior to that, Yahoo and Gmail. But, after I did a Sprite restore, I can see two envelopes for those two accounts in TF3D but I can't access them. Is there a way to delete these two accounts and start over again with the email setup? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
thanks for any help
you have a gmail account?
Consider running something like SMS Backup + by Jan Berkel
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&feature=search_result
it will back up your SMS messages to labels in your gmail account... You can also restore to phone after wipe if needed.
It has worked pretty well for me. i.e. I haven't noticed any issues with it, and I can view my backed up SMS messages up in my Gmail account on my PC if/when needed.
While it says it can backup (but not restore) MMS messages, I don't get enough Pix messages to know how that works. Nor do I have it backup call log entries.
Hey thanks for this. Now I'll just back up my SMS before flashing and then restore them after flashing.
I am running the Hyperdrive RLS7 ROM with Lean kernel. I have decided that I like Chomp for messaging better than the AOSP style messaging app I installed using AROMA with this ROM. I used App Manager to disable the baked in messaging app and, after that, I could send SMS, but couldn't receive any SMS/MMS or send MMS. So I re-enabled messaging and could send both, but only receive SMS. I went back to a nandroid, but this didn't fix the problem. I ended up doing a clean install of Hyperdrive.
My question is whether this is a ROM issue, related to my use of the App manager or a problem with the messaging choice in AROMA or something else altogether? Should Chomp have still worked with the messaging app disabled and should it have worked correctly after enabling it again? Was there any way to fix it without a full clean install? TIA.
I think the problem is with Chomp. I've always had MMS issues with Chomp and Handcent fc'ing. Also, you should not disable your stock messaging app (as you found out), otherwise it will give you issues with the third party apps.
Honestly, I've tried a lot of different sms/mms apps, since I'm not a huge fan of the stock S3 one, and I keep going back to GoSMS. I do really dislike the push notifications they force on you, but it handles group messaging the best of anything I've tried, along with mms. I have tried the AOSP messenger tweak for TW, too. No bueno. Just my two cents.
Have you tried contacting your sim provider and asking them to send the default usage setting for your phone? It will come as a text and will install when you open it!
I've been having an issue since the 4.4.1 update. I primarily use Textra for SMS/MMS and it's set as the default. However, I'm on a limited texting plan and use Google Voice for a few of the people I text with most frequently.
I have direct message shortcuts on my homepage for my main contacts. I used to (before the 4.4.1 update) be able to click them and get prompted for what program to use, Textra, Google Voice, anything else. Now, it always defaults to Textra.
I can go clear the defaults in Settings-Apps-Textra-Clear Defaults and it works normally for a few minutes. However, it always seems to set Textra back as the default SMS client eventually.
I'm trying to figure out a way to let my direct message shortcuts work again. I've factory reset and set up just enough to let me test again (Textra, Google Voice and a direct message shortcut), but it still does the same thing. I've tried with other SMS clients (8SMS, Hangouts) and the behavior is the same.
Can anyone think of a way to fix this? Is there a way to automate the Textra-Clear Defaults? Is there a way to create a Google Voice direct message shortcut? A way to fix Kit Kat so that I can use whatever texting app I want?
I'm running rooted stock so root solutions are fine. Would I have better luck with CM or something based off of it?
Thanks for any feedback!
If any of you have not tried Mightytext, you should give it a look. It allows you to send text messages via your computer through your phone.
I use Contacts+ for texting and dialing on my phone. For some reason ever since I got my One, I've been receiving duplicate messages for most texts coming in. I never had this problem on my Galaxy S4. I tried deleting Contacts and that solved the duplication problem but I wasn't happy with that solution, I'd rather have Contacts+ that the stock messaging app.
I went into Titanium Backup and tried freezing the messaging app but that didn't work. I also saw something called "Message Provider 1.0.660928" I froze that and the duplication problem stopped. Does anyone know what that app is and do I need it?
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