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Captivate SMS Tones

I have a Capitvate running Stock Gingerbread 2.3.5. I am on a volunteer fire department and to go along with our pagers, we have a thing called "2nd Signal." What it basically does is sends a sms message to your phone when the pager goes off. On my 4s, I could assign a sms tone that is distinct to the 2nd Signal. The issue is that the sms message comes from an email address ([email protected]). The problem on the Captivate, is the programs I have tried only allow a custom sms message tone from a number. Any ideas of a program to use that will allow a custom sms tone from an email address? I have tried Ringo Lite and SMS Popup to no avail.

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I see only one solution - you may install GoSMS Pro. It could hide messages from some contacts to private mailbox, which have separate notification settings.

How to set up Google Voice?

I've tried googling the problem to no avail. In the options of Google Voice I set it to receive text messages, but no matter how many I receive it won't show them--they keep going to my generic touch wiz app. How did you guys set it up?
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Kelton Rivas said:
I've tried googling the problem to no avail. In the options of Google Voice I set it to receive text messages, but no matter how many I receive it won't show them--they keep going to my generic touch wiz app. How did you guys set it up?
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It really depends on how you want to receive them. I use Google Voice exclusively and I have it configured to use the Google Voice app and not the stock SMS app. How do you want to receive them?
One thing to look at:
- Log into voice.google.com from a (desktop) browser. Look for the text on the left that says "Your number" and click on your phone number.
- You should see at least two items, the first being "Google Chat" and the second being your mobile number.
- Check the "Receive text messages on this phone" box if you want to receive your Google Voice text messages via the stock messaging app on the phone. I leave this un-checked though because I prefer to use the Google Voice app.
You should also be aware that Google Voice can only receive SMS messages. It does not work with MMS messages which are typically used for sending pictures and some group messages.
And finally make sure you have notifications turned on for your Google Voice app. Maybe you are receiving them but it just isn't letting you know.

This was very helpful, thanks! When I went to that page I saw the "Google chat" thing, along with my number (it was under registered phones). However, I couldn't check "receive text messages on this phone" because that option wasn't present. It also wanted $20 to port my number; is that something you paid? I have an access number that's different from my phone number, but I guess that doesn't help. What's next? Thanks in advance!
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[Q] Custom notification for emails received via SMS

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I receive SMS alerts from an email server for work. I would like to differentiate those from my other SMS messages but I cannot get the custom notifications to work when the sender is an email address. I did test and it works as expected when the sender is a mobile number.
I found another person having the same issue and they were able to enter the email address in the mobile number field to get custom notifications to work properly but that does not work for me. The other post was over a year ago so things may have changed.
Anyone have any ideas?

Custom notification help

Hey XDA,
I get paged out for my job via a text message sent to my cell phone (a GS3). My company sends it as an email from [email protected] to [email protected] or whatever the thing is. Anyway, because I'm receiving these messages as a sms from an email I cant set a custom notification sound for them, which I would really like to do. I've tried different roms and pretty much every sms app on the market. nothing I tried has worked, they always come in w/ just the stock ringtone, even though I've saved the email as it's own contact an set custom notifications thru the contacts app.

Ability to change default apps

Is there anyway possible to change the default messaging and email apps to whatever one I want? (Speficially Gmail and Textra)

Gmail works fine (for receiving at least). I turned it off because my watch was vibrating too much. I use Google's messenger just fine too - voice response and all.

Sorry for taking so long to reply, and is there a way to compose new messages from Textra?

I recall being able to send messages through the messages app on the watch.
Just ignore the "please set messages to default app on phone" message that pops up every time you make a new message on the watch.
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lennyjew said:
I recall being able to send messages through the messages app on the watch.
Just ignore the "please set messages to default app on phone" message that pops up every time you make a new message on the watch.
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Oh, but I can't see my participant's messages on the gear (only I see my messages) also, group messages isn't functional.

I would like to know this too. I use Aquamail on my phone for email and Next SMS (Handscent) for messaging. I don't really want to use the default email app or default messaging. Is there not a way to change it?