Related
is anyone using HANDCENT SMS over the STOCK SMS application that comes with SENSE and ANDROID on the EVO? I am testing it out and its pretty cool! is there any reason not to use it? does it drain battery???
Been using Handcent for months now over the stock messenger & it's a go
Swyped by Gator_don & his Evo
I prefer handscent over stock app any day. Best part for me is that it pops up messages over the lock screen and lets you reply with out unlocking the phone.
I've been using Handcent since the Hero came out and had that massive battery drain issue with the stock message system that kept the cpu at 100% without letting it sleep...the first thing I downloaded when I got my EVO was Handcent! I love it!
I've always used and loved Handcent.
I used for a while with hero then evo, dropped it a month ago and get better battery lifr since, its a great program but in my evo it drains more battery than stock and I guess I just got used to stock again. miui messenger rocks too
Handcent since day one.
I've been using Handcent since the day after I got my Evo. I've tried others, like ChompSMS, but I keep coming back to Handcent.
handcent all day errryyy dayyy
Google Voice
The only draw back on handcent there is no way to use your google voice number with it.
But I love it.
Fusionr300zx said:
handcent all day errryyy dayyy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Well said.
Well, I installed it and used it for a day and then could not figure out which combination of settings would keep the stock messaging app from popping up notifications in addition to the handcent notifications. clearing all the text notifications from not one but TWO apps got on my nerves in a hurry.
Simply disable notifications in Messages and you only have Handcent's popping up.
Is anyone else experiencing any lag with handcent?? Takes forever for the message to pop up on the screen n takes even longer for it to notify me once the message does pop up. The last few updates seem to have messed it up. Ive tried to uninstall n reinstalled but that hasnt worked. N on top of that, the stock messaging app doesnt work at all. I will never get any texts and sent texts will not go thro. So im stuck with handcent i guess for now.
tarheelsmj12001 said:
Is anyone else experiencing any lag with handcent?? Takes forever for the message to pop up on the screen n takes even longer for it to notify me once the message does pop up. The last few updates seem to have messed it up. Ive tried to uninstall n reinstalled but that hasnt worked. N on top of that, the stock messaging app doesnt work at all. I will never get any texts and sent texts will not go thro. So im stuck with handcent i guess for now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have to keep the messaging app, if you delete it/uninstall it, it will cause handcent to have those issues.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Correct but there is not way of using the google voice with any other messaging app. Only the google voice app itself. It would be great if you can integrate it with your messaging app and only need to use one. That would be sweeeeeeeet.
terence74 said:
The only draw back on handcent there is no way to use your google voice number with it.
But I love it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
forrie1 said:
Well, I installed it and used it for a day and then could not figure out which combination of settings would keep the stock messaging app from popping up notifications in addition to the handcent notifications. clearing all the text notifications from not one but TWO apps got on my nerves in a hurry.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You simply open the stock app and go in to settings. From settings turn off all notifications. This stops the stock app from popping up and having 2 different apps telling you about your messages.
l2icky said:
You have to keep the messaging app, if you delete it/uninstall it, it will cause handcent to have those issues.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I never uninstalled the stock messaging app. After they updated handcent is when i got all this lag.
Same problem with handcent here.
Frustrating.
greg.dassing said:
I've been using Handcent since the Hero came out and had that massive battery drain issue with the stock message system that kept the cpu at 100% without letting it sleep...the first thing I downloaded when I got my EVO was Handcent! I love it!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here!
Sent from my EVO (CM6) using XDA App
I just got my Infuse on thursday and installed the Refuse mod on Friday, then over the weekend I installed Handcent SMS to replace the default messaging app.
It works great and all, except it doesn't save it's settings. Sometimes it will keep the last settings it had, but other times it just randomly decides it wants to pretend like I've never ran it and delete all of it's settings and shows me the release notes when I open it.
Is there anyway to get this to stop?
It happend to me too. If its a big deal to you I use infused and it dosnt do it.
Sent with my Infused Infuse using XDA Premium App
Well I guess I'll switch to Infused then. I like how you can theme Handcent and customize it a lot. I tried chompSMS since I heard it was more or less the same, but I don't like how they have ads and would rather donate money to a dev making a new ROM here than someone making an SMS app.
Is it possible to back up all of my apps/data for them and then restore them when I get Infused running? I don't really want to have to go through and download all of my apps again.
You can use TB.
Sent with my Infused Infuse using XDA Premium App
Awesome, thanks for your help!
I was having the same issue with Handcent and I'm using Infused 1.2.1. I got tired of dealing with having to reset all my setting and specifically the notification sound. I moved Handcent and all its plug ins onto the phone and it didn't fix the issue. Now I'm using SMS Go Pro and I haven't had any issues. It's just as customizable as Handcent IMO.
astarling10 said:
I was having the same issue with Handcent and I'm using Infused 1.2.1. I got tired of dealing with having to reset all my setting and specifically the notification sound. I moved Handcent and all its plug ins onto the phone and it didn't fix the issue. Now I'm using SMS Go Pro and I haven't had any issues. It's just as customizable as Handcent IMO.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using Infused 1.2.1 and I have it on the memory card and its working perfectly.
Go sms, handcent and sms pop up all reset after short while. I got fed up changing my fonts and settings and I don't use then anymore. Very frustrating.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
dayton1202 said:
I'm using Infused 1.2.1 and I have it on the memory card and its working perfectly.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmmm, interesting. I don't know how you have yours setup but it seems like you have it much like I had mine. Every time I would reboot, the icon would disappear from the dock. It also would arbitrarily change the notification sound to this weird long ass notification tone that I could not stand. I like Postbox not whatever the one it was selecting. I reflashed the ROM and wiped cache and it still did the same thing. No issues with SMS Go pro (for now) so I'm sticking with it.
I know this is a little old, but I was having issues with Handcent resetting all the time...here's how I fixed it. You have to be rooted...after you uninstall the app, go to the dbdata folder, then database. find the folder that is com.handcent, etc. Delete it, then reinstall the app. My bet would be everyone that's not having issues have only installed it once, and never uninstalled it.
I don't know about the settings on handcent but I use go SMS and it works awesome and is very customizable. Hope it helps.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA
I have the Infused ROM 1.5.3, and every so often I'll go to type something, and no letters will show up in the text box! The keyboard thinks it's typing, and even the predictions show up sometimes. However, no text is ever typed into the text box. Sometimes restarting my launcher fixes it, but lately I've had to resort to restarting the phone. So frustrating. This happened on Infused 1.5.0 too, but it seemed to go away. Now all the sudden after upgrading to 1.5.3 it's happening a lot. Any suggestions? Does anyone else have this problem?
bgree15 said:
I have the Infused ROM 1.5.3, and every so often I'll go to type something, and no letters will show up in the text box! The keyboard thinks it's typing, and even the predictions show up sometimes. However, no text is ever typed into the text box. Sometimes restarting my launcher fixes it, but lately I've had to resort to restarting the phone. So frustrating. This happened on Infused 1.5.0 too, but it seemed to go away. Now all the sudden after upgrading to 1.5.3 it's happening a lot. Any suggestions? Does anyone else have this problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No sounds like a ghost i would download infused full zip then odin back to stock and flash with red cwm and pray
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA Premium App
this might sound weird but i swear the only problems i have with my phone are when im connected to our microcell. texts failing, keyboard not working, widgets not responding, calls not calling until 7 minutes after i hit "call."
Not sure what causes it or what to do to fix it but I have had the same problem on Refuse 1.6 and 1.7 mainly when using Andchat (irc client) have encountered it less in yaaic but have never experienced it in other areas of typing (messaging, browsers and such)
Sorry not of help but its not just u.
I've had the same problem, with no ROM on my phone at all, rooted stock. However when it happens to me i can just hit back until im at the home screen and then open the text message app up again. It always works when i do this. What keyboard are u using? ive got the "Android 2.3 Keyboard."
i have that keyboard, too. and the samsung and swiftkey. none of them work. what's even more bizarre is that it seems as though when i'm connected to wifi AND the microcell, i can't send texts or make calls and that's when my phone freaks out and the keyboards don't work. i turned off my wifi today and my texts finally sent and i haven't had an issue since.
Yeah had the same problem. All I did was just closed my text and reopened it. Kept doing it until it worked again.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
Same problem
I've had the same problem since I got my phone, I've been searching for almost two years on how to fix this problem, usually people don't believe me when I post on this. It seems to get worse the longer I use it and eventually it gets so bad I have to reflash my phone. I'm pretty sure its an app that I use, which would explain why I don't see it at first as I don't backup my apps, just redownload them when I need them. Is there an easy way to get a list of apps from your phone that we could post and cross reference? It doesn't matter which keyboard I'm using. It seems to happen mostly with the default SMS messanger, though it might just be that I use it the most and thats when I notice it, it does happen occasionally with other text fields.
Just as described, the keyboard won't type when I initially open it. The keyboard seems to be working, predictive text works, but nothing appears in the text field. If I wait, type on the keyboard a lot (maybe thats just part of waiting) back out of the keyboard repeatedly or restart the app it seems to fix it temporarily. It doesn't seem to matter which apps are running when it happens.
Any ideas people?
I was constantly having this issue on the GB ROMs I used. In both revenant and infused it would happen. I could recreate it by letting my phone lock while the keyboard was open. It always happened to me in stock messaging and Google Voice because I would pause trying to think of what to type. It became so annoying having to kill the app responsible or sometimes restart my phone that I decided to switch back to JB. I'm on the unofficial CM 10.1 now and haven't had one issue with the stock keyboard or Google Keyboard.
I never did try another keyboard or messaging app. You could try forcing your phone to stay awake longer if you notice the same thing I did. If it's just happening randomly then I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you besides that the jelly beans are delicious; you should give into peer pressure and try one.
Sent from the shattered digitizer of my SGH-I997
I have had this issue with my Infuse also, running CM 10.1 Cyber sgs-IV style ROM. It isn't as bad as some of y'all though, it seems to just hang for a few seconds while I'm typing, then the words will catch up. Only seems to happen when I have between 200-500 messages in a thread, so I was thinking it was a memory issue.. but I'm no developer.
I've used GoSMS for some time now. I love that i can customize it to my hearts desire and that it has a lot of themes. I ran it on GB with no issues. But I've tried several ICS ROMs and they all seem to cause lag and freezes. Fort some reason the pop up function and the app are not in synch. One is faster or slower than the other causing the app to freeze and force close on occasion. Has anyone had this problem?
Any and all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I use it with superlite 5.0 and have none of the problems you are having. You could try fixing the permissions via CWM or trying a cache/dalvik wipe. I would bet fixing your permissions would solve it.
Haven't had that problem but just had to delete gosms today because NO texts were going through. The second I deleted the app everything started again. Also when pressing on a contacts picture to call, numbers don't show up only what seems like code does.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium
I am using GO SMS with ICS stock leak and all is fine. Messages recieve and send normally. MMS is the same as well, all working correctly. I am also using the GO EX Launcher. Not sure if the two in conjunction with each other makes it more stable and usable or not though.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA
I used it with the stock ICS leak and Cool Ice mod and both had issues with the pop up message feature. I'd reply to a message and all was normal. Hours later I got no responce back and checked my texts to find nothing was ever set.
I suspect it may also have been a system SMS problem on mine as well though, even with GoSMS gone i would have constant missing messages, force closes, send errors etc..
I am running Sense Team Perfection, with Go Launcher and Go SMS. I have no issues with MMS or SMS.
Any chance of getting a logcat of errors for what people are having issues with? It might not even be GoSMS that is having issues...
~PsyCl0ne
I am having the same exact issues with my phone.
my phone is not rooted, its running the stock ICS, AT&T update.
I installed go sms and disabled the notifications in my regular messaging application, and now I receive no notifications in go sms unless I am in the actual program and it is running.
any ideas or advice?
i was running gosms on skyICS 4.2F6-2.0B and it worked fine. the only issue i had was on ocasion i would get double notifications. (stock sms and go sms) but everything else worked great.
I believe that gosms runs in the background all the time so i ended up deleting it. but that might be the reason for not recieving texts. Did you check in the advanced settings to see if there was a run in background option?
dhalker said:
i was running gosms on skyICS 4.2F6-2.0B and it worked fine. the only issue i had was on ocasion i would get double notifications. (stock sms and go sms) but everything else worked great.
I believe that gosms runs in the background all the time so i ended up deleting it. but that might be the reason for not recieving texts. Did you check in the advanced settings to see if there was a run in background option?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just went in and found that feature to "Enable GO SMS run persistently" was checked. Still having the issue.
Im using go sms pro with Apex Launcher on stock ICS 4.0.4, no problems at all & the themes work just fine.
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
Go SMS working fine on my SR with 4.0.4, although I don't recommend the Go Launcher - seems like a waste of system resources to just get some neat home screen transitions that result in lag and hang-ups elsewhere. Love the customization of Go SMS, and it just feels more robust overall than stock SMS/MMS and other replacement apps. Got to be careful though, if you freeze or disable the stock app, MMS can start acting wonky and it may effect other functions also. Best solution is to set Go SMS as the default app and turn off the stock app's notifications so you don't get duplicates.
Would also recommend MightyText, which works fine with Go SMS (and better in my opinion than the Go SMS Web SMS feature), so you can text from a remote web browser.
shaggyskunk said:
Im using go sms pro with Apex Launcher on stock ICS 4.0.4, no problems at all & the themes work just fine.
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you just running stock ICS?
TLuna3 said:
Are you just running stock ICS?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, stock rooted. I uninstalled Go Launcher & the only Go products that I am using now, are Go Sms & Go Locker (Go locker is not letting me change anything without reinstalling the launcher).
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
aycockonxion said:
Go SMS working fine on my SR with 4.0.4, although I don't recommend the Go Launcher - seems like a waste of system resources to just get some neat home screen transitions that result in lag and hang-ups elsewhere. Love the customization of Go SMS, and it just feels more robust overall than stock SMS/MMS and other replacement apps. Got to be careful though, if you freeze or disable the stock app, MMS can start acting wonky and it may effect other functions also. Best solution is to set Go SMS as the default app and turn off the stock app's notifications so you don't get duplicates.
Would also recommend MightyText, which works fine with Go SMS (and better in my opinion than the Go SMS Web SMS feature), so you can text from a remote web browser.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go Launcher kept crashing and making my phone lag so I am only running Go SMS. I have GO SMS set as the default, the stock SMS app notifications are all turned off as well. Still no clue.
I find that I am able to receive messages with notifications while I am in GO SMS, but if I happen to force quit, its like ICS stops it from running in the background. Which was never the case on GB.
shaggyskunk said:
Yes, stock rooted. I uninstalled Go Launcher & the only Go products that I am using now, are Go Sms & Go Locker (Go locker is not letting me change anything without reinstalling the launcher).
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ahh I see. Man I can figure this thing out, I have changed every setting, reinstalled GO SMS multiple times and still no solution. I mean I have literally changed everything. Ever since this ICS update I have had nothing but issues.
I noticed that it was very slow after I did the 4.0.4 update. Hope someone figures it out, I sent a message to Go...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Blue1173 said:
I noticed that it was very slow after I did the 4.0.4 update. Hope someone figures it out, I sent a message to Go...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just Go was slow, or the phone in general?
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
Phone seams fine, Go SMS can't keep up with keyboard typing like 2.3.6 could.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Blue1173 said:
Phone seams fine, Go SMS can't keep up with keyboard typing like 2.3.6 could.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go is just as fast for me, what I do DEFINITELY notice, is Google Search is WAY slower than before..... Both on keyboard input & display...? IDKW?
Sent from, The Eclectic Chair.
I tried looking online and on here for my problem but I couldn't find anything. I have a stock Droid Charge and I'm having the most terrible time with the keyboard. I'm using Swype and randomly when I try to type nothing shows up in the field. Doesn't matter if I'm googling or texting. I tried clearing the data for Swype and this does nothing. I have to either restart my phone or keep going into the messaging and backing out all the way to the home screen 2-4 times until it works. I have no idea what the issue is, but it's becoming such a problem that I want to get a new phone or possible do a factory reset. (or maybe root eventually?)
I don't know if anyone else has had this problem and know what the solution in, or have any insights of what it could be. I couldn't live without swype and swiftkey is terrible in comparison.
kvswim said:
RAM issue...had it happen very frequently with SwiftKey when I had more strict OOM values. Also, try clearing some texts if you have lots of threads, that alleviated some of my RAM issues, including some missed texts.
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is my post from the Tweaked thread...I've had it happen too. Actually, I much prefer SwiftKey over Swype - plus the new update allows you to swype just like Swype.
10char weird post thing just ignore this line
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium
Clearing the threads does nothing for me. Swiftkey makes my phone too laggy. Like I can still type and suggestions pop up from swype or swiftkey, but nothing shows up at all in the field.
What happens if I clear data from the messaging app? Will it just delete all the threads?