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For the life of me I can't figure out why I am getting two notifications for every SMS I receive. I have menu->settings->sound and display->notification ringtone set to Silent
I have Handcent SMS instaleld set to "Tweeters". When I get a SMS it plays "Ta Da" and then a second later plays "Tweeters".
When I turn Handcents SMS notification, I only get "Ta Da".
I uninstalled built in messaging with titanium backup hoping that might solve it, I have no other sms app installed that I know of. How can I turn this sound off? Getting two notifications for every SMS is driving me NUTS!
Peter

Not sure if you can undo this now that you uninstalled the built-in messaging. If you still had it you would just open the messaging app and click on the menu->settings and under Notification settings uncheck the Notifications option. Now it would seem that you are in a limbo state since you uninstalled the stock messaging app.
You might have to restore a backup or reflash the stock ROM using Odin3 to get it into a state where you can turn of the stock messaging notifications.

if you go into your messages. go back to the screen where you can see all your messages. Click menu, then settings, then look for notification settings.

Anyone have the messaging apk they don't mind sharing? Titanium backup won't seem to restore it. I'd rather not completely undo everything I've done to date.
Alternatively is there a config file somewhere that would keep this? In winmo there was a registry I could go clean manually if needed.
Peter

Not sure about the config file or the apk, but as for titanium it won't restore if you didn't back it up before you deleted it.
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U dont need to delete messaging app just open messaging app click on settings go to where is says auto retrieve and uncheck it. then go to handcent goto settings and make sure auto retreive is checked now only youll get one notification

zorphnog: I did a complete backup before deleting, titanium still won't restore it.
Anyone want to back theirs up and send me the file?
vinid: I understood exactly what you said, however I had already deleted messaging trying to get rid of the tone.
Now I am stuck with a phone that beeps twice. I can't imagined that there isn't a file somewhere that can be edited to remove this notification.
Peter

[Q] How to set a default SMS application?

I have the Inspire and I used to have Handcent SMS messaging application on my old phone. I would like to know, how could I make Handcent the default application for messages? Right now, I am using both Handcent and the stock Messages. When I receive a message, I receive two copies, one for each inbox. How could I set the messages to come only to Handcent?
Thank you

go into the default messaging app and turn off notifications.
Also in settings/applications find the default mms program and clear defaults.

I would like to completely stop it. Not just disable notifications. I dont know if I am making sense.
When I go to
Settings-Applications-Manage applications-"ALL"- Messages
the "clear defaults" button is grayed out, and I cannot click on it.

the htc messaging app can't be removed and is always listening for a message. turning off notifications is the best you're going to do. If clear defaults is grayed out then handcent is already set as your default.

gunnyman said:
the htc messaging app can't be removed and is always listening for a message. turning off notifications is the best you're going to do. If clear defaults is grayed out then handcent is already set as your default.
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truth. i tried deleting the original mms apk via adb before and using only handcent. the result was i could send messages with handcent, but could no longer receive anything.
the built in messaging app doesn't take up a lot of room or anything.

Both of the app's buttons are grayed out. By disabling all notifications, would i still receive messages in that inbox?

yeah but as you delete them in handcent they'll delete in htc. The program isn't an inbox anyway it's an interface. The messages aren't duplicated in your phone.

Ok, Thank you for your help and time.

no problem that's why we're here

hey
im still rcving the BOTH SMS
with Handcent and default SMS messenger.
theres NO OPTION for DEFAULT SET i cant click on it..
i already DID uncheck the notification at the MESSENGER DEFAULT
and i enabled the NOTIFICATIOn at Handcent SMS
and i still get notification at the Default SMS.. its really anoying

You need to turn off auto-retrieve in the default messaging app settings. It's near the bottom.

[Q] ICS Messaging app sometimes doesn't notify

I've noticed that sometimes when I get a message, the messaging app doesn't show any notification of it. Notifications are on of course, I'm just using the stock messaging app. The only way I realize I receive these messages is that I have my vibration for new messages done by Tasker, which still vibrates when the messaging app fails to notify me. It seems to just miss messages randomly, maybe the messaging app is being killed due to low memory? I don't have a task killer running.
Is there any way to fix this?

dvdy said:
I've noticed that sometimes when I get a message, the messaging app doesn't show any notification of it. Notifications are on of course, I'm just using the stock messaging app. The only way I realize I receive these messages is that I have my vibration for new messages done by Tasker, which still vibrates when the messaging app fails to notify me. It seems to just miss messages randomly, maybe the messaging app is being killed due to low memory? I don't have a task killer running.
Is there any way to fix this?
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What are you running? What rom, what mods have you done?

I'm running NexusBeam 4.1, with eugene's kernel, no other mods

I have the same problem. I'm running stock ics 4.0.3
I'll get text messages but it wont notify me even though i have notifications turned on in the messaging app settings.

[Q] Text Messaging icon

Most of the time my text messaging icon has a number 4 indicating I have 4 unread messages, however there's nothing there.
Looking through my app drawer the text icon also has the 4. However it sometime goes away by itself, only to return again.
Not a big deal, but it constantly looks like I have 4 unread text messages. Anyone else having this happen?

Settings > apps > text messaging > force stop > clear cache > clear data
Should fix your problems
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Yea, mine got stuck once. Careful though wiping data will delete messages.
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Anyone else having this issue. I've cleared text app cache, data. I've also wiped cache partition via recovery menu.
Would wipe data / factory reset fix this issue?
I have the Canadian version through Rogers.

Before you resort to a full wipe, try rebooting or waiting a while. Mine cleared itself up out of the blue after opening and closing the text messenger app a few times and a reboot.

Here is simple solution
I got same issue. SMS/MMS counter shows new unread message. But I can't see it and this annoy.
Any solutions like - go to apps and clear data/cache does not work.
I thought, if it's really new message and I just can't see it then I need tool to see it.
Open Play store and search for "clear sms" and found Smart SMS Free app.
Installed it and ran.
It create data base of messages and shows one new and unread, I opened thread and it was empty mms message. I just deleted it and now stock SMS/MMS counter shows no news messages!

I've had similar issues with other apps after restoring from a backup image, usually with apps that also backup settings to some online service (for me it's usually Amazon or Google, but I could see it happening if you allow VZW to backup your settings). What I found works for me is to go into settings, apps, then find the app that's giving you problems (i.e. messaging, Gmail, etc.). Clear data, then immediately reboot (before the phone has a chance to sync again). If it's Gmail or something, you'll have to reconfigure the app on first launch, but it should be OK then.

Listen to me!!!
The message count problem is not with the actual text messaging app. It is with the app called "Quickview" which displays the message counts for each app in the Blur OS (phone, email, text, etc.) Go to Settings>Apps>All and force stop the app called "Quickview" this should remove the "ghost" message number notification which stays on your text messaging app icon even though you have no new texts.

SMS notifications and popup no longer working

Hey guys,
So my phone ran a bunch of app updates last night (including one to ChompSMS, my default text app) and now I'm not getting the little popup window or notification icons (on the status bar). I've tried uninstalling Chomp and clearing its data (and the stock SMS app's data) and using the default messaging app with the same result. I tried using another text app (Textra) and that didn't work either. Gmail notifications still work (that's the only email app I use).
One thing I'll note is that sometimes when I have a couple text messages the notification icons will appear only after I go into Chomp and open one of the new messages. It only seems to work when I have multiple unread messages.
I'm running MOAR 5.0. Any suggestions? no problems with this (or anything) until now. I'd prefer not to do a reset or restore since I spent a lot of time customizing things.

Update: seems Verizon Messaging had an update that messed with the notifications for other text apps. Notifications for Verizon Messaging still worked when enabled. I had been using it for group messages, but now that ChompSMS has it I've just frozen Verizon Messaging. Everything is back to normal now.