Just got Inspire, stock rom, not rooted. When people from my phonebook text me, it shows their phone number, not their name, and not their contact icon. However I know I have them saved correctly because if I click on them and go to "view" (from the text) it brings up their full profile with their name and icon that I set up.
If I text them first and then they reply to it, their name/icon shows up and there is no issue.
I haven't added any new contacts, I imported everyone from my gmail contacts that I was using on my old phone, HTC Desire (where they were all working perfectly).
Does anyone know why this is happening?
rpimps said:
Just got Inspire, stock rom, not rooted. When people from my phonebook text me, it shows their phone number, not their name, and not their contact icon. However I know I have them saved correctly because if I click on them and go to "view" (from the text) it brings up their full profile with their name and icon that I set up.
If I text them first and then they reply to it, their name/icon shows up and there is no issue.
I haven't added any new contacts, I imported everyone from my gmail contacts that I was using on my old phone, HTC Desire (where they were all working perfectly).
Does anyone know why this is happening?
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There are competing theories on this. Many people blame Facebook while others claim to have traced it to the messaging app. I know I have not seen the issue with any Virtuous Unity or ClearDroid ROM. I would suggest rooting and installing a custom ROM. Any custom ROM will be far better than anything AT&T would ever release.
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biglittlegato said:
There are competing theories on this. Many people blame Facebook while others claim to have traced it to the messaging app. I know I have not seen the issue with any Virtuous Unity or ClearDroid ROM. I would suggest rooting and installing a custom ROM. Any custom ROM will be far better than anything AT&T would ever release.
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I haven't set up the Facebook link though. So everyone with this phone is having this problem? Is there a simpler fix where I can avoid flashing a new rom?
rpimps said:
I haven't set up the Facebook link though. So everyone with this phone is having this problem? Is there a simpler fix where I can avoid flashing a new rom?
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Umm.... Not that I know of. It's a bug with the latest ROM from HTC/AT&T so you will have it as long as you are on that ROM. Rooting is not hard and so worth it.
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The easiest fix would be to install a 3rd party sms application like Handcent or GoSMS. Both are free from the Market. Both have more features than the stock messaging application and perform as well or better than the stock app.
Agoattamer said:
The easiest fix would be to install a 3rd party sms application like Handcent or GoSMS. Both are free from the Market. Both have more features than the stock messaging application and perform as well or better than the stock app.
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Good point. I didn't even think about that.
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The phone itself regconized only the numbers with +1 before area code and such, no dash and space, (and no parenthesis) you noticed how you recieved the text with +1? After you edit all the contacts by adding +1, restart the phone. It take times for the phone to get used to the numbers. Hope this helps.
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Oh make sure you unch
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Sorry about the previous post, I hit send by accident lol, anyways make sure you unchecked the Facebook sync contacts (I think that was not nessecary) try to see if that works after editting contacts. Let me know.
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mlbrowning1988 said:
The phone itself regconized only the numbers with +1 before area code and such, no dash and space, (and no parenthesis) you noticed how you recieved the text with +1? After you edit all the contacts by adding +1, restart the phone. It take times for the phone to get used to the numbers. Hope this helps.
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Some of them already had the +1 but they still don't show up.
What I did was uninstalled Facebook then restart the phone, reinstalled and I have my sync contacts (Facebook setting) unchecked. It works for me :-/
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mlbrowning1988 said:
What I did was uninstalled Facebook then restart the phone, reinstalled and I have my sync contacts (Facebook setting) unchecked. It works for me :-/
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That didn't work for me. I didn't think that was the problem because I had never even used the Facebook app or anything related to Facebook.
I'll look into rooting and flashing a rom when I have some time, can anyone tell me which rom is as close to stock as possible (with the messages fixed)?
and is Handcent the best messaging app to use for now? I read some negative comments saying you still get notifications in your regular Messages app so you have to do it twice.
rpimps said:
That didn't work for me. I didn't think that was the problem because I had never even used the Facebook app or anything related to Facebook.
I'll look into rooting and flashing a rom when I have some time, can anyone tell me which rom is as close to stock as possible (with the messages fixed)?
and is Handcent the best messaging app to use for now? I read some negative comments saying you still get notifications in your regular Messages app so you have to do it twice.
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ClearDroid is very much like stock. It has the bloated removed, currently uses the Sensor 3.0 messaging app and a 3rd party tethering app.
I have no suggestions for which messaging app might be best as I have always used whatever was included with whatever rom I am using.
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Both Handcent and GoSMS are very good apps. Up to the user to decide which works best for them. And if someone says you get double notifications, is because they do not know what they are doing. Start up the HTC messaging app and go into its settings. Turn off all notifications. Now you won't be bothered by it again. Also in the Handcent settings, it too has a setting to turn off all the HTC SMS notifications and make Handcent the default.
Tried both the stock HTC app and the Gmail app and can't really decide between the two. I'm having a lot of difficulty having email instantly push like what I had in iOS in either of these apps.
You just have to get used to it unless you find a better app on the market. Email seems to be one of the main hurtles former ios users have trouble getting over. Just look over those permissions before installing any apps.
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I am getting a replacement phone today and I was just wondering if there was a good app that will back up all of my sms messages to my SD card? That way when the new phone comes I can just pop the card in and be on my way.
Doesn't TiBu do this?
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Im not sure. I should also note that I am not by any means rooted at all
I've used mybackup pro for years when switching between roms and devices. Between that, titanium backup pro and backing up settings in apex it makes it pretty painless to switch.
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Use SMS backup and restore
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I use TiBu and I know when I first started using it a couple years ago it didn't back up SMS. It indeed might now, but it's not part of my routine. I only use it for user installed apps and nothing system related as I've screwed up a install with bringing over system data from Eclair to Froyo one time...
Anyway, in the past I used the backup provided in Go Sms, but now they want you to backup and restore to their cloud servers, so I switched to SMS Backup and Restore from the Play store. One button backup...one button restore. Worked like a charm....
Hey guys I have a very irritating problem with whatsapp ... Whenever I get messages that are very long the app crashes and I'm unable to open that thread till I receive some more messages. Does anyone else have this problem with their phone... I've got the S3 version
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nope i dont have such problem but try clearing ur app's cache and see if it works !!
All that does is delete all the chats and I have to relogin and if I get a long message again It's the same story
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Uninstall WhatsApp and reinstall from the Play Store. You'll get all your messages back don't worry, it backs up daily at 4am and will offer to restore them when you reinstall the app.
MattDN93 said:
Uninstall WhatsApp and reinstall from the Play Store. You'll get all your messages back don't worry, it backs up daily at 4am and will offer to restore them when you reinstall the app.
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Try to move app to phone...I have similar problem and I keep app at phone storage...now its fine.
Almost every app except whatsapp has the option of moving to phone storage... Another thing I have to add Is that it mostly happens when there are a lot of emoticons or the message is not in English (hindi,marathi)
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I think for now issue has been resolved after update to 4.0.4 .... Hope this continues ...
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go to settings-whatsapp app info from there clear data...(don't worry msgs won't b deleted)
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i had similiar problem.
try reinstall it with the latest version from play store.
No matter what room I have used contacts works for a day, then when ever I look at someone's contract it'll force close. I can add new ones but when I save it closes. Anyone have a fix
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No matter what room I have used contacts works for a day, then when ever I look at someone's contract it'll force close. I can add new ones but when I save it closes. Anyone have a fix
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Similar behavior happened on another Android when I disabled or uninstalled stuff related to Yahoo. I think Yahoo Contacts. I'd go over Yahoo & Google & others related to contacts, email, authenticators etc.
I Defrosted all my frosten apps, cleared Data for the Contacts App then Restarted. No cahnge :/
Biom4st3r said:
No matter what room I have used contacts works for a day, then when ever I look at someone's contract it'll force close. I can add new ones but when I save it closes. Anyone have a fix
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Which ROM are u on this happened to me when i tried to restore my old contacts app data on a different ROM
Just try reflashing your ROM or clearing cache etc on BMM......