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Recommendations for free SMS app (cross platform)

I have been using WhatsApp on my vibrant to chat with friends overseas on iPhone and BlackBerry, however the developer has no plans to support tablets :-(
Any recommendations for good cross platform free SMS?
Thanks.

Yahoo messenger, google voice?

I'm using an App called textPlus, works great on my Transformer.

Yonnor said:
I'm using an App called textPlus, works great on my Transformer.
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This looks interesting but doesn't support BlackBerry which is what most of my contacts in Indonesia use.

Ok...what's the catch? This cannot be this good and save me money at the same time!
TextPlus is awesome!
Before I cancel my texting plan on two phones....can someone tell me something I need to know?
It's just too good to be true.

I tried to install it on my transformer via market and it says its not compatible with my country. I live in Canada so guess its a no go for us canucks

nfusion77 said:
I tried to install it on my transformer via market and it says its not compatible with my country. I live in Canada so guess its a no go for us canucks
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It's a free app so maybe you could try and sideload it? (get the apk.file, install with a file manager)

Yonnor said:
It's a free app so maybe you could try and sideload it? (get the apk.file, install with a file manager)
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I managed to find it from another website, I have tried a couple versions now and did finally get one to work. Textplus does work pretty well, sent a few messages to my g/fs phone and back and no lag at all.

nfusion77 said:
I managed to find it from another website, I have tried a couple versions now and did finally get one to work. Textplus does work pretty well, sent a few messages to my g/fs phone and back and no lag at all.
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Yay I'm glad it worked for ya
Also @ the OP another decent Cross-Platform Messaging App is "PingChat", works on Android, iOS, and Blackberry's

nfusion77 said:
I managed to find it from another website, I have tried a couple versions now and did finally get one to work. Textplus does work pretty well, sent a few messages to my g/fs phone and back and no lag at all.
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Hey, fello Canuck, can you tell me where you found it.
I've been having a heck of a time trying to get it.
Thank you for your time.

Trooperuss said:
Hey, fello Canuck, can you tell me where you found it.
I've been having a heck of a time trying to get it.
Thank you for your time.
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I would try Googling "TextPlus Apk file" if that doesn't work hopefully your fellow Canadian sees ur plight. Lol
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This is really cool, but is there a way that I can have something such as google voice mirror my personal number to my textab number? You know, so if say, my wife texts me to mycellphone, that my phone still recieves the message, but it is forwarded to my text apps' number on my tab?
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I mean textplus, not texttab...
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http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=199610&hilit=textplus
This has been sent from my timeless HD2 WM 6.5 using Swype.
EDIT:Scroll down for the right Link.

martyr2k6 said:
This is really cool, but is there a way that I can have something such as google voice mirror my personal number to my textab number? You know, so if say, my wife texts me to mycellphone, that my phone still recieves the message, but it is forwarded to my text apps' number on my tab?
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This is exactly what I need. I use a flip phone for my beater, so it would be nice if the texts that come to it would also come to the TF so I can reply there when I am near wireless...
Anyone know of a way to do this?

SMS failing to send.. PLZ HELP!

..for no reason at all, my texts are failing to send...
i tried rebooting, i tried resending, i tried a battery pull, nothing works.
im not rooted or ROM'd at all... aside from ADW-ex launcher, i haven't modded the phone yet...
i can still RECEIVE texts, just cant send.
Internet works, on wifi and data, market works, it's sending/receiving data...
i tried turning my data off and back on... i cant figure it out.
someone help me please!

Wrong section this should go in general. But I would do a factory reset.
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Dial 611 off your phone.
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Pay your bill...
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Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
Go to your message/settings/message centre/ +13123149810...make sure u have those number in there, if not then put them in there,it work for me. I had the same issue.
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igotdez said:
Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
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+16363848815
Worked like a charm. Thank you!

Ph0z3 said:
+16363848815
Worked like a charm. Thank you!
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Np.
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worked for me. what changed?

Somehow it's possible for the message center to get corrupted/lost... Happened to me too.

Looks like the OP solved the problem, but I have this issue with my microcell. I can text everywhere but home. I have to try resending some texts 3-4 times. There is an new iphone in the house that has no issues, nor did my old 3gs have any issues on the microcell.

My wife and I have the same issue. Granted when we aren't at home and the signal is still low we will have failed texts but at home its horrible. I think AT&T is full of crap and the Mcell doesn't handle SMS and MMS as it should.

There is a thread here called "text message issues (infused)" I can't post links yet...but it refers to microcell and texting issues. It says there are posts that discuss fixing it, but I can't seem to find anything.
The other day I only had one or two fail, but today had been worse than normal, every single text fails at least twice. Really starting to wear on my nerves.
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I have the same problem with my phone. I just got an Infuse less than 2 weeks ago. Before that I had an HTC Aria, a Palm Pre Plus, and an iPhone 3G. None of those phones had problems with the mCell from AT&T or texts, but my Infuse immediately had trouble sending texts, and only on the mCell. I guess the Infuse and the microcell don't play nice together. Wonder if AT&T will fix it? We'll probably have better luck with a dev figuring it out for us first.

I had the same issue with MicroCell with the phone on WIFI. Once I turned of the wifi, the message usually sends without a hitch. Maybe it has something to do with the cellular connection not staying alive while on wifi with the microcell?

kool2zero said:
I had the same issue with MicroCell with the phone on WIFI. Once I turned of the wifi, the message usually sends without a hitch. Maybe it has something to do with the cellular connection not staying alive while on wifi with the microcell?
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I think I tried this already, with no luck, but I'll try again once I get back home.

Sometimes it took a few seconds after I disabled WiFi, but it solves the problem 90% of the time for me.

kool2zero said:
Sometimes it took a few seconds after I disabled WiFi, but it solves the problem 90% of the time for me.
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It also sometimes happens minus the microcell, which leads me to believe it has something to do with WiFi.... personally

You may be on to something with the wifi. I have tried it for the past two days without wifi on and all of my texts have gone through. Could just be a coincidence, I'm going to do some more testing in the next few days to see what happens turning wifi back on and off.

igotdez said:
Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
Go to your message/settings/message centre/ +13123149810...make sure u have those number in there, if not then put them in there,it work for me. I had the same issue.
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Had the same problem on my phone as well, was worried i messed up my kernal or something like that... worked like a charm. thanks!!!

Is there different messaging center #'s? I reverted back to stock so I could do the ota update to the new firmware, then I installed the community kernel and somehow it erased that #. I input the 1321....# and it works like a charm now. I dont want to get hit with any fees or surprises so just wanted to make sure the messaging center # was the same for all phones.

At&t Messages App

My At&t rep made a store visit today and showed me this app. It's one app that displays your voice mails, texts and call log. I just installed it and got it setup, haven't messed with it that much but it looks cool.
Android Market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.att.android.mobile.attmessages&feature=search_result

i saw that in the market today. but didnt mess with it. ill try it out

I don't think it plays well with wifi. Since installing it my wifi times out even though the sleep policy is set to never. If anyone else can confirm this let me know.
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I like it so far...nothing super exciting, but works well.

My phone says it's not with AT&T, even though it is.
Maybe this is an Infused 2.02 problem.
Note: This only happens when I'm browsing on my laptop to download it from there. It works directly from the phone. VERY strange~

Be careful about this app. I installed it this morning and didn't like it so I took it back off. It took me >2 hours to get AT&T to fix my voicemail box again. Even once it was "fixed" I can't access it through the regular voicemail numbers, but have to dial my own number, so it still isn't really fixed.
It takes over text messaging and voicemails, so if you don't want to use it for texting don't install it. There may be a way to get it to allow texting through another app but I didn't see it.

02ranger said:
Be careful about this app. I installed it this morning and didn't like it so I took it back off. It took me >2 hours to get AT&T to fix my voicemail box again. Even once it was "fixed" I can't access it through the regular voicemail numbers, but have to dial my own number, so it still isn't really fixed.
It takes over text messaging and voicemails, so if you don't want to use it for texting don't install it. There may be a way to get it to allow texting through another app but I didn't see it.
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all i did was freeze the ATT messaging app thru TIBU and my gosms took over the rest.

dddeemann2 said:
all i did was freeze the ATT messaging app thru TIBU and my gosms took over the rest.
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I got my text messaging working fine as soon as I uninstalled the app, it just interfered while installed. That's what I didn't like about it. What I was warning about is it FUBAR's your voicemail. It does warn you that it's removing your voicemail-box but it doesn't tell you that it'll take an act of Congress to get voicemail working again. lol

I uninstalled it to test. I held 1 on dialpad and got into my VM fine?
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Bronk93 said:
I uninstalled it to test. I held 1 on dialpad and got into my VM fine?
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Did you completely set up the messages app? If so, maybe I was just lucky enough to have problems. lol. I don't think it clears vm until after the app setup is complete. It removed the basic voicemail from my account but apparently messed some other stuff up behind the scenes. If it works for everybody else then just ignore me.
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Yea I completely set it up. Your issue could be isolated but that sucks it was a pita.
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I don't really get the point of this app.
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Obviously the point is to thoroughly confuse you....
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The phone app needs some work, definitely. More settings, sure, but the wifi issue is the biggest problem for me. It turns off at least once per hour (or every other hour). It does seem to be a bit sluggish as well in terms of how the app feels.
The website isn't too bad, though. I love that you can capture audio and video. I've been waiting for google to have web-based MMS for a long while now and AT&T did it! The quality could be a bit better on the audio and video, but for a beta, it's tolerable.
And the notifier app is nice, but I wish I could type more text in the reply field.
All in all, given that it's a beta, it's not bad. Needs love in a few areas, but once those are worked out I think it'll be a nice system to use.

Does anyone have the APK for this app? I uninstalled it cause it was turning my WIFI on and off, but now it's no longer in the market so I can't get it again?

thats because the infused rom was made on the rogers network. not at&t. so thats probably why it wont work

bassman198721 said:
thats because the infused rom was made on the rogers network. not at&t. so thats probably why it wont work
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No i was taking about the AT&T Messages app that was out on the market. It's no longer in the market. I was asking if someone had the apk for the AT&T MESSAGES app. I no this app is on other AT&T android phone cause my friend has the Atrix and i was checking it out on his phone. So i no this app is available for other AT&T android phones.

Here it is. I found it in the Atrix forum
Oops. Sorry. I should have read further and seen that it was you looking for it. Sorry for the false alarm.

Probably not the one he is looking for.
doost650 - I replied in your Atrix thread.

It was working fine for me for 6 days and now all of a sudden started messing with my wifi. Kept turning on by itself. So I uninstall it luckly I didn't have that VM problem like some of you guys mention. My VM still works but its still using that new AT&T Messages VM.

[Q] mms issue. People can't receive my pics

I am running the infused 1.5.3 rom and go sms. When I try to send a picture to my friend who has the exact phone I do and also my wife who has the iphone 4. They are both receiving this message
"Your phone is not compatible with this message type or size. Portions of this message will not be displayed."
Yet pics I send to my friend who has verizon go just fine. Is there some setting I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried sending the message through the stock messaging app?

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Have you tried sending the message through the stock messaging app?
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Yes I have, they receive the same message.
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My friend with his infuse can send me pics and I can get pics from my wifes iphone 4 when she sends them as well but they can't get mine.
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does your phone ask you if you would like to resize them when you try and send...if so are you selecting yes
are there any other changes that you have made like:
freezing thesms/mms app
using a different sms app
etc etc
and then the same goes for their end...
have they made any changes, do they receive pics from others and only not yours

00mred00 said:
does your phone ask you if you would like to resize them when you try and send...if so are you selecting yes
are there any other changes that you have made like:
freezing thesms/mms app
using a different sms app
etc etc
and then the same goes for their end...
have they made any changes, do they receive pics from others and only not yours
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I am using go sms and I've tried stock sms. I haven't froze any sms apps. It doesn't ask me to resize, just the usual compressing or resizing message it normally gives without prompting for a user response. My friends infuse is stock and not rooted and my wifes iphone 4 is jailbroken but nothing has changed anytime recently with it. The apps I have frozen is just media hub. Yes they can receive pics from others and send them as well.
Edit: I have media hub, maps, and news & weather frozen.
Actually it just reads "converting to multimedia message" no prompt for anything. Very frustrating as to why mainly verizon people are getting my pics and not others. Thats how it seems anyway.
As far as trying to send pics that I actually took with my phone then forget about it. Longest I've had it sit is about 15 minutes before I get pissed and just delete the send. Those stay stuck on "sending" and never go anywhere.
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Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I'm missing some kind of setting after flashing infused
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Fee454 said:
Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I'm missing some kind of setting after flashing infused
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I use handcent...in the settings there is an option of "max mms message size limit"
I believe you want that to be 2mb...anything over that will not send to some phones.
that has been the only instance where some people did not receive my msgs.
Have you tried on wifi and network? I have not noticed the issue on att, but on sprint you could not send or receive mms while on wifi
those are the only things I can think of

00mred00 said:
I use handcent...in the settings there is an option of "max mms message size limit"
I believe you want that to be 2mb...anything over that will not send to some phones.
that has been the only instance where some people did not receive my msgs.
Have you tried on wifi and network? I have not noticed the issue on att, but on sprint you could not send or receive mms while on wifi
those are the only things I can think of
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I do currently have it set to 4g 5M for the photo size. I could give that a shot. Still odd that it would not send to my friends infuse I have tried wifi and att network and home I have the 3g microcell which is NOT worth the $200. I'm kinda pissed I bought it.
If you want full bars yet calls cut in and out and you want to resend each text about 4 times cause they will instantly fail (happens no where but when I'm connected to microcell) then pick one up lol
But yea the mms issue happens elsewhere as well.
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I do currently have it set to 4g 5M for the photo size. I could give that a shot.
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I bet that is it.... let me know...
it will usually work for sending, but their phone may be blocking

00mred00 said:
I bet that is it.... let me know...
it will usually work for sending, but their phone may be blocking
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I kept the size the same for now but unchecked preserve image size and now it seems the pics send. Yesterday it would be stuck on sending. I can only test with people at work. The ones with issues are asleep right now. Hopefully that or the 2m image size fixes the issue
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wif-fi calling apk

I tried to take my kineto apk off of my G2x and place it onto my moms new Samsung Admire but it kept crashing. Why wont this work? Anyone know of a wifi calling apk for her phone that will?

codecaine21 said:
I tried to take my kineto apk off of my G2x and place it onto my moms new Samsung Admire but it kept crashing. Why wont this work? Anyone know of a wifi calling apk for her phone that will?
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It requires kernel support.

Possible? I have already rooted her phone.

codecaine21 said:
I tried to take my kineto apk off of my G2x and place it onto my moms new Samsung Admire but it kept crashing. Why wont this work? Anyone know of a wifi calling apk for her phone that will?
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There are special libs that work with Kineto.apk. They are located in /system/lib, they are:
libganril.so
libkineto.so
librilswitch.so
They all must be on the phone to make wifi calling work. Will they work flawlessly on her phone? I honestly don't know, but that's how it is on the G2x. I never even heard of that phone

I'll try pushing
libganril.so
libkineto.so
librilswitch.so
into her system/lib folder and see what happens. Do i need to link these shared obj files or can i just place them?

You're aware that wifi calling only work on tmobile and the admire is not a tmobile phone, it will NOT work.
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cervantesjc said:
You're aware that wifi calling only work on tmobile and the admire is not a tmobile phone, it will NOT work.
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Thats probably why i never heard of it, he's right. You chances of getting it to work are slim if it's not a T-Mo phone.

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You're aware that wifi calling only work on tmobile and the admire is not a tmobile phone, it will NOT work.
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Yes i am aware that the wifi calling apk is for t mobile. I figured i might give it a try though and see what happens. Maybe thats a dead end. So, I have nettalk on her phone at the moment but it only works on out going calls and gives her a different number. I need something similar to t mobile wi-fi calling that allows her to keep her number? I am willing to buy from the market. One time fee though. Nothing like pay per call or credited accounts. Ideas?

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Yes i am aware that the wifi calling apk is for t mobile. I figured i might give it a try though and see what happens. Maybe thats a dead end. So, I have nettalk on her phone at the moment but it only works on out going calls and gives her a different number. Something similar to t mobile wi-fi calling that allows her to keep her number? I am willing to buy from the market. One time fee though. Nothing like pay per call or credited accounts. Ideas?
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Use Google voice, sign up from the web, it'll give you a phone number, that can be linked to her phone.
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codecaine21 said:
Yes i am aware that the wifi calling apk is for t mobile. I figured i might give it a try though and see what happens. Maybe thats a dead end. So, I have nettalk on her phone at the moment but it only works on out going calls and gives her a different number. I need something similar to t mobile wi-fi calling that allows her to keep her number? I am willing to buy from the market. One time fee though. Nothing like pay per call or credited accounts. Ideas?
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There is no way the T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling app will work for you. Regardless of if you can get the app to run on the phone, it requires specific support on the carrier side to work.

cervantesjc said:
Use Google voice, sign up from the web, it'll give you a phone number, that can be linked to her phone.
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Yeah i have thought about doing that but from what I've heard, she gets assigned a GV number and is not able to keep her old one. It's like having a whole new number. then she would have to hand that out. Thats why i have been hesitant and left this as my last resort. But hey, something is better than nothing any day in my book!!
Or am i wrong? Does she get to keep/use her old one?
@andrewNY, yeah i was hoping that wasn't the case, thanks for confirming though!

codecaine21 said:
Yeah i have thought about doing that but from what I've heard, she gets assigned a GV number and is not able to keep her old one. It's like having a whole new number. then she would have to hand that out. Thats why i have been hesitant and left this as my last resort. But hey, something is better than nothing any day in my book!!
Or am i wrong? Does she get to keep/use her old one?
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You can set it up to keep both numbers, that's how I had it set up, only if you set it up to not replace the mumber.
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cervantesjc said:
You can set it up to keep both numbers, that's how I had it set up, only if you set it up to not replace the mumber.
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Thanks @cervantesjc, ill be showing your thanks button some love.

Have you heard of groove ip? It's an amazing thing that let's you use your Google voice number to send AND receive calls as long as you are connected to wifi or if you have data.
Find it in the market.

buru898 said:
Have you heard of groove ip? It's an amazing thing that let's you use your Google voice number to send AND receive calls as long as you are connected to wifi or if you have data.
Find it in the market.
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Its 2am here in Jersey. I'm tired and am going to sleep Buru. Ill give it a try in the morning. BTW, it sounds like its just what I'm looking for! Thanks
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