Is there an app that regularly updates and can block most known sms spam/scam messages, in recent weeks I am up to 5 spam/scam messages a day. These messages have usually come with a "reply STOP to unsubscribe" but the last several have not, obviously I have been ignoring the messages and deleting them but this last one came from [email protected] and I'm getting tired of it. I plan on calling t-mo CC tomorrow but not sure what they are going to do about it since I have an unlimited messaging plan. If there was an app that would "analyze" messages from numbers NOT in my contacts and TRY to determine spam or not and then delete then great. I have seen and tried a few apps and none seem to be able to do what I want, most require you to add the number to your contacts list and then add to block list, or they can block ALL sms from numbers not in my list. If anyone has any ideas please help me out.
PS I do not give out this number when I register for crap online, nor have I ever posted it anywhere on the interwebs so I am pretty certain it's not a crawler picking up numbers online and spamming them.
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I remember seeing an app on here awhile ago that would allow you to send SMS messages to one of your contacts via email by just specifying their carrier. This would help me since I'm somewhat worried about going over my allowed number of SMS messages but have unlimited data.
Does anyone have a link to this app? I can't find it anymore.
Thanks!
So, I was going to post here the other day about merging SMS treads, but never got around to it.
I get all my Facebook notifications sent to me via SMS because it seems faster than the Android Facebook app. Well, Facebook uses that annoying long number for every SMS they send.
It was starting to fill my inbox and it was driving me nuts. I figured out that if you save each number in the same contact under the same type (ie. Mobile, Home, etc.) it will automatically merge the threads into one and save room in the messages folder without looking cluttered.
So, each time Facebook sends a message, just add it to the same contact as the rest. Eventually, you will no longer have to do this because the numbers start to recycle themselves.
I hope this helps someone because I spent hours upon hours upon days searching for a solution and could not for the life of me figure out how to do this. So, hope this adds to the great amount of information that XDA has.
I've been getting alot of advertisment text messages lately, especially at 4 or 5 am which is extremely annoying. I remembered back on winmo, I can access my message options and there's an option to "deny advertisement messages" and I have been ad free for the duration of my phone's use.
Now that I switched over from Winmo to Android, I can't seem to find an option or a way to block those damn texts. I'm doing a test trial of an app called Blacklist, but I dont know if I will still get my text message allowance counted against me. I'm interested in finding a way to block it before it even gets sent to my phone so i will never ever see it.
If anyone has any suggestions I would really really appreciate it!
Thanks!
so no one here has ANY problems with getting advertisment text messages at all? Am I just painfully unlucky or someone just wants to mess with me?
If the text messaging is bothering your then first thing you have to do block the no. which is sending the text messages to you continuously.. If the no. are more then you gotta tell the cce to stop sending any brand text messaging promotion to my no. They will do it and your problem will be solved.
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There is a good way to block the advertising messages
http://androidfunz.com/how-to-block-text-messages-on-android-phones-androidfunz/
I tried searching for this but it's so specific and I'm quite possibly using the wrong terms.
Let both of my LG G3 update to Android 6.0 (D85030p) and the default SMS messenger has stopped working with my text banking and retirement balance texts.
They will send and receive texts from other people but not these 6 digit numbers. No response from either one even trying to re-register the phone with each institution.
Google Messenger works just fine but lacks the only feature I like about the default G3 SMS, the ability to lock/keep a reply from being deleted. Even when deleting an entire conversation, the locked replies within are saved. That is the only feature I am missing.
Can anyone recommend another SMS app that has this feature or maybe there is a setting somewhere with the default SMS that I'm just not seeing ?
There are a million SMS apps in the play store and trying to read each one for details gets old after about 20 minutes. Hopefully there is a fix or another app that has this feature that someone here knows about.
Thank you.
Guess I'll answer my own question.
The Verizon messaging app has the features I'm looking for.
Hy there,
I hope I posted where I should and if I didn't please tell me the correct section where I should do this. Also, I am not a developer, I do not have root on my phone. I do not want solutions that require changing XML files or anything. I am just asking about an app that I could find in the Play Store, or, maybe, and apk to download (this being the second option)
I have a problem with the messaging app since I left my HTC One S for the Nexus 5X in June 2016 and I did not find an app to replace that, not even on my current Oneplus 5T.
So, I have a contact in my phonebook saved with multiple numbers - work / mobile / home etc. and she texts SMS from either of the numbers (doesn't really matter because they are included in the carrier plan as unlimited). But my messaging app is sorting those SMS as different entries by phone number, and not by contact. So if we start a conversation in a chat window based on the home number, the answer may end up in a different chat windows (she has a dual sim phone so it depends on the settings on which is right now, and because the SMSs are "free", she tends to not look at which carrier is using, because, why would you if they are all free?), but this actually disrupts the logical flow of the conversation.
I know that a such app exists because I used it on HTC One S in 2012 and I was able to send SMS to which number I wanted to select (home / mobile / work of the same contact from the phonebook) and I had all the conversation in only one place, but after I changed on Nexus 5X and now on OnePlus 5T I can not find this feature in the installed app messenger (Google's or Oneplus's), neither on Google searches or specialized websites. I have tested some of the SMS apps, looked for settings, but all of them seem to show the SMSs based on the phone number, and not based on the contact entries.
Can someone suggest an app that could do that? Maybe I didn't search good enough.
P.S. The MMS option to send grouped messages is not an option because this means I will send the same SMS to multiple numbers, but those numbers are of the same person so there is no need to do that ...
Thank you very much for Your answer.