I'm unable to open any messages using the HTC stock app. Whenever I click on a message thread it just goes into a loop saying that it is loading.
If I restart the phone I am able to open one message thread but after that I have the same problem if I click on any other message threads.
Is there anyway I can fix this issue?
I've tried using alternative message apps but I really don't like them, the stock app works much quicker and I find everything about the stock app better.
I'm using a Desire S running Endymion v3.5
EDIT - 3rd party apps are able to show message threads and send messages. Also I have deleted all the messages and restored them (I did it just 3 days ago) and already having the same problem again, it did, however, work for those 3 days.
Assuming that you mean sms messages
It may be worth using
the free app SMS backup to backup/save your messages
Delete all messages
Import from the backup
Would recommend taking a full backup first
Swyped from my DesireS
Sorry was just about to edit with more details including this, I did this just 3 days ago and it worked fine for those days but now I'm having the same problem again.
Also it took over 12 hours to restore my backup, was a massive pain running it.
Thanks for the tip, though!
Dare I ask how many SMS you have?
How many total messages?
How many conversations?
I've about 2000 and every time I change roms I backup and restore my SMS and it only takes ten minutes
Swyped from my DesireS
Total messages - ~19,000
Total conversations - 150
Why not simply restore half off the messages and keep the other half as a backup
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mzr92 said:
Total messages - ~19,000
Total conversations - 150
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Wow ! Really impressive ! I have 150 messages and 10 conversations
ben_pyett said:
Why not simply restore half off the messages and keep the other half as a backup
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Good idea, I'll try it tonight, with so many texts it gets really slow when I'm trying to delete them so shall let it run overnight
Thanks
chninkel said:
Wow ! Really impressive ! I have 150 messages and 10 conversations
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Haha, I try to make use of my unlimited texts, paying £20 for them so might as well use them as much as possible
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Hey, i have Windows Mobile 6.1 and for any SMS thats over a day old, it doesnt show the time, only the date. Is there any way I can see the details of the message or have it so it shows (day/month hours:minutes:seconds)?
Also, is there a programs that backs up the messages, but keeps the threaded conversations structure? Because Im using PIM Backup and when i restore my SMS from a backup, it groups the sent and then the received.
thanks in advance
hate to double post, but can anybody help me?
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Hi
I can't advise on the day/date stamp of older SMS conversations. However, in terms of the "threaded" structure, this is only a method of displaying the SMS Messages sent and received. Both Threaded and Standard views of SMS messages sent and received use the same database. I think they're in pim.vol, but others may be able to elaborate on that point.
Either way, I think that if you can successfully back up and restore this database you should be able to display the restored messages in standard or threaded mode.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
thank you,
but i did successfully restore the database,
but when it is restored, the sent and received are grouped.
like this:
before the backup:
sent message 1
received message 1
sent message 2
received message 2
and then after restoring the backup:
sent message 1
sent message 2
received message 1
received message 2
theyre in the right order, just not like a conversation
try spb backup
searching for the same thing since I switched to 6.1 . and the only way I found was to disable the threadview with Advanced Config (or any other programm that can toogle this)..
I read something that other roms CAN have this feature that they display date and time.. but never seen that "live" :/
andrew-in-woking said:
Hi
I can't advise on the day/date stamp of older SMS conversations. However, in terms of the "threaded" structure, this is only a method of displaying the SMS Messages sent and received. Both Threaded and Standard views of SMS messages sent and received use the same database. I think they're in pim.vol, but others may be able to elaborate on that point.
Either way, I think that if you can successfully back up and restore this database you should be able to display the restored messages in standard or threaded mode.
Cheers
andrew-in-woking
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I too wonder why cant we have the completedetails about the time stamp on the SMS like any ordinary mobile phone has. many a times one definitely feels the need to know these details..
Regarding the backing up the SMS you can use ppcpimbkup by dotfred..It works just perfect...
PowerSMS is free and packs a few extra features... It's what I use personally.
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I too wonder why cant we have the completedetails about the time stamp on the SMS like any ordinary mobile phone has. many a times one definitely feels the need to know these details..
Regarding the backing up the SMS you can use ppcpimbkup by dotfred..It works just perfect...
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antoniouslj said:
PowerSMS is free and packs a few extra features... It's what I use personally.
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you sure these restore sms (in threaded view) in the right order?
I have recently got the X10i after yrs of a N95 ( sorry ), am doing my best to like the phone and am giving it every chance. I have lurked on this site and last week I rooted the phone and made it more personnal for me, thanks to the developers and those who provide the info for rooting.
I quickly removed the moxier stuff and also the messaging app but I am having issues with handcent sms, I wanted it for group/bulk texting tbh but it seems I have to restart the phone to get it to send a text to a group which has got 18 recipients.
Once the phone has started up I can send a group text no probs but the second group text will send to 1 or 2 of my contacts but the rest then fail, so I then restart the phone and resend the text and they get delivered, I have tried chompsms, grouptext and groupui, but each one gives me the same problem.
Has anybody got any ideas or another app I could try to resolve this issue ?
maybe it could be that the sms apps you use need (or work thanks) the main messaging app which were installed on the phone, the one you uninstalled.
Baldolo said:
maybe it could be that the sms apps you use need (or work thanks) the main messaging app which were installed on the phone, the one you uninstalled.
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I dont think it is that to be honest, I think it is more to do with the amount of contacts in the list, so I am hopeful that somebody confirms this and also gives me a better option.
carlccfc said:
I dont think it is that to be honest, I think it is more to do with the amount of contacts in the list, so I am hopeful that somebody confirms this and also gives me a better option.
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Actually this could be true, as you should not remove core system applications, such as messaging.
so, you can try resetting your phone using Update Service software on your pc. I tried searching for an SMS app in my mobile folder to share with you, but there are several files that may be connected togheter, about messaging, and I am not able to choose the right one (or ones) to share.
Hi all, I'm using an unrooted HTC Wildfire and yesterday all of my texts just disappeared - about 8000 in total. I think it was after I recieved a text from someone. I reasoned that the messages have to still be on the phone somewhere due to the fact that data is just marked as overwritable, or am I wrong about that? Either way, I hunted through the SD card with some file recovery software (PC Inspector File Recovery, to be precise) and found a few files that may be useful - "com.gb.gosms-1.asec" in "android_secure" that's 4.09MB (about the right size for the data my messaging app was reading in the "Settings>Applications", and "40123", found in "LOST.DIR" that is 14.0MB, probably too large but the closest I could find as the other two in that directory were only a few hundred kilobytes.
I can't open any of them - I tried "40123" as .db and .xml files and the .ASEC file seems to be an encrypted Android file.
I'm looking for a few things, I guess - Where should I look to use the file recovery software to find the old SMS files? How do I open a .ASEC file, and might it be the right one? And does anyone know of any way to recover my texts? I just would quite like to recover my texts as there are some important ones on there!
Many thanks in advance, and sorry if I am repeating anything, I ran a search but couldn't find anything.
P.S., I am using GoSMS, but my stock messaging app is just as empty!
Why do you have 8,000 texts on your phone? Typically any SMS app you download will automagicly delete any texts once you collect a certain amount.
I like to keep all my messages so I can know what has been said and because there are some important texts in there, and I just double checked and couldn't find any settings like that in there, but I know it's disabled on my stock app and I had conversations ranging from about 5000 to 2 or 3 texts, but thanks for the suggestion!
I did, however, find a thing saying that I had sent 1900 messages in total, or thereabouts, which is a lot more than I sent since the messages went missing, a lot less than I have sent since I got the phone. Perhaps it is from when I started using Go SMS, but is it indicative of the messages still being on the phone somewhere?
Yes it is since you got Go sms because the stock messanging app doesn't count how many was sent. And no that doesn't mean that they are on your phone. It is simply a built in counter allowing you to keep track of your messages in case you don't have an unlimited messaging plan. Try downloading a file explorer and searching for your texts, that should all be backlogged onto your phone somewhere. Chances are though that the messages where deleted. Linux will overwrite information in order to better utilize your memory space. I recommend to back up any messages, or lock the ones you want kept to avoid this in the future.
Thanks very much, I'll do that
As per my original message, does anyone know how to open a .ASEC file?
UPDATED TO 2.1.0!! Themes now supported.
** Multi Texter has no limit to send messages **
There is no limit to send to 20 contacts or anything like that. It is totally unlimited from the app. Just that the total number should not reach 100 messages in an hour for the app thats an android limit. If you have removed the limit then you can send unlimited messages from my app.
Hey guys. I have made an app that lets you send multiple messages to multiple contacts. For example. you can select 15 messages from a unified inbox and send them to 20 contacts. It's got tons of more features, and it's free. Do try it and review it.
Description: "It's different!"
What makes it different is that in this app you can choose multiple SMS from a unified Inbox to send to multiple Contacts. In other apps you choose a single message to send to many people. But here you can choose multiple SMS. This is a must have app if you like to forward a lot of messages. Works in multiple threads so you get TRUE Multi Texting.
Features:
*Groups
*Custom Messages
*Multiple SMS
*Multiple Recipients
*Drafts
*Retry Failed Attempts
*Search through Messages and Contacts by Message Content or Contact Name
*Delete multiple messages-Press menu in "Create"
Screenshots:
Here is the market link: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.xntax.multitexter
Direct download(For use unless you don't have Market):
((Updated))
MultiTexter-2.1.0.apk
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Does this allow me to have a chat with 3 or more people?
shabihsherjeel said:
Hey guys. I have made an app that lets you send multiple messages to multiple contacts. That means you can select 15 messages from a unified inbox and send them to 20 contacts. It's got tons of more features, and it's free. Do try it and review it.
Description: "It's different!"
What makes it different is that in this app you can choose multiple SMS from a unified Inbox to send to multiple Contacts. In other apps you choose a single message to send to many people. But here you can choose multiple SMS. This is a must have app if you like to forward a lot of messages. Works in multiple threads so you get TRUE Multi Texting.
Features:
*Groups
*Custom Messages
*Multiple SMS
*Multiple Recipients
*Drafts
*Retry Failed Attempts
*Search through Messages and Contacts by Message Content or Contact Name
*Delete multiple messages-Press menu in "Create"
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Here is the market link: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.xntax.multitexter
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Like the idea downloading now
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I regularly have to write and send sms to 50 different contacts... Will this application make it easier than normal sms applications (like gosms, handcent, etc)?
Can anyone post the APK please? I'm on a Tablet and can't access the download link through market.
chadhoard said:
Does this allow me to have a chat with 3 or more people?
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This doesn't allow you to "chat" but let's you to send bulk SMS in a very modern fashion never done before.
Alcap12 said:
I regularly have to write and send sms to 50 different contacts... Will this application make it easier than normal sms applications (like gosms, handcent, etc)?
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Yes, it will definitely make it easier. It is made for such a use. Go give it a try.
Ostthug2k said:
Can anyone post the APK please? I'm on a Tablet and can't access the download link through market.
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Of course. I will(have now).
Ostthug2k said:
Can anyone post the APK please? I'm on a Tablet and can't access the download link through market.
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yes ...its below the market link in first post !!
this app looks like a good idea, i like it, downloading right now.... the only thing i dont like is the red color scheme, how about a blue or green or just black or white version?
limit?
how do i remove the 100 limit?
acetkbez said:
how do i remove the 100 limit?
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I want to know it too.
Is this better than Groupy?
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FC's over and over again . I had just created 15 messages, then FC, messages weren't saved ! HTC Sensation.
TommyBeretta said:
FC's over and over again . I had just created 15 messages, then FC, messages weren't saved ! HTC Sensation.
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I really want to fix those FC's on the Sensation. I don't have access to one so I can't fix it without your help. Please PM me with what exactly you were doing and how you experienced it. And next time you experience an FC send your forum name in it so I will have a better understanding of the problem while talking to you about it.
I am releasing an update which will fix a few problems I have seen. But not sure about this Sensation problem.
zephiel said:
I want to know it too.
Is this better than Groupy?
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You will have to google that up. You have to remove the limit yourself on your phone. You'll have to root the phone first though.
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
wow.. awesome app. had sooooo much fun with this today.
Glad to hear that you like the app.
Is there any chance of an update for this app? I really wish someone develop an app similar to this one.
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For those of you that use Textra is there a way to set the maximum number of messages before it starts auto deleting in a conversation?
For instance, in GoSMS I think I had the message limit set to ~2k so it would be a maximum of 2,000 messages per conversation but I can't find that option in Textra and it looks like I have messages going back all the way to February of this year (when I got my Nexus pretty much).
This is causing the conversations for each person to get way too big.
I emailed the developer but they said thanks for the suggestion and nothing else. Is there a way to delete text messages older than say 30 days instead of deleting conversations and then restarting? Or what is the current alternative to Textra and GoSMS (got too bloated for my taste).
Thanks.
sahil04 said:
For those of you that use Textra is there a way to set the maximum number of messages before it starts auto deleting in a conversation?
For instance, in GoSMS I think I had the message limit set to ~2k so it would be a maximum of 2,000 messages per conversation but I can't find that option in Textra and it looks like I have messages going back all the way to February of this year (when I got my Nexus pretty much).
This is causing the conversations for each person to get way too big.
I emailed the developer but they said thanks for the suggestion and nothing else. Is there a way to delete text messages older than say 30 days instead of deleting conversations and then restarting? Or what is the current alternative to Textra and GoSMS (got too bloated for my taste).
Thanks.
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Hey I'm having same issue. Easiest way is use a different SMS app that does limit the texts then switch back?
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I'm using handcent sms, it has worked flawlessly for the last few years
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Hey I'm having same issue. Easiest way is use a different SMS app that does limit the texts then switch back?
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That's too much of a hassle for me as this is something that should be built in, sad to say that even after posting this thread this feature still has not been implemented.
I even emailed dev with no response back when I made this post, I've made the switch over to 8SMS and am using that for now until I can find a replacement (8sms works just fine for me at the moment).
I agree however it took me 2 seconds to switch back to hangouts. Sticking with that for now.
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