Looking to buy a Nexus 5, but I refused to use Hangouts. Anyone been able to just pull stock\aosp mms.apk and sideload it, no root? Or does it require root to run?
In Play store: SMS Messaging (AOSP). That's what I use.
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Alternatively you could use 8sms which is the AOSP MMS with some modifications.
cbus1971 said:
In Play store: SMS Messaging (AOSP). That's what I use.
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I appreciate your answer but I'm don't trust playstore messaging apps like that, really looking to see if anyone had any luck with a pulled virgin apk being side loaded.
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Alternatively you could use 8sms which is the AOSP MMS with some modifications.
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That's a good one too.
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Not really a stock app but I found Textra to be very good. (Partially because you can change the notification icon, and the layout is very minimalist.
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Looking to buy a Nexus 5, but I refused to use Hangouts. Anyone been able to just pull stock\aosp mms.apk and sideload it, no root? Or does it require root to run?
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Open Hangouts, go to settings and log out of all associated Google accounts. Then, Hangouts will not send or receive "Hangouts" messages, only handle sms/mms like a "normal" text messaging app.
As for "stock" MMS, Hangouts is the new "stock." It is what comes out of the box on Nexus devices now.
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I appreciate your answer but I'm don't trust playstore messaging apps like that, really looking to see if anyone had any luck with a pulled virgin apk being side loaded.
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8sms and SMS Messaging (AOSP) are just as trustworthy as anything Google or other manufacturers produce
I've tried both and prefer 8sms :good:
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I appreciate your answer but I'm don't trust playstore messaging apps like that, really looking to see if anyone had any luck with a pulled virgin apk being side loaded.
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So you'd rather take an app, from someone random online, and side load it rather than trust one from the play store?
Hmmm, interesting.
Personally I'd go the other way. But that may just be me.
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It doesn't need root to run but it does need to be a System app to work properly. use 8sms
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So you'd rather take an app, from someone random online, and side load it rather than trust one from the play store?
Hmmm, interesting.
Personally I'd go the other way. But that may just be me.
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I don't recall asking for an apk. Merely asked if anyone had luck in doing so. I intend to either compile one or pull one from a trusted rom. I wasn't about to install any apk handed to me, but then again that's just me...
It's a moot point anyway
I don't get it??? The phone comes with messaging and hangouts. So use messaging, not hangouts.
How'd this get so complicated? Lol
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Also...."don't trust apps" from play store? Just read the comments. Any pitfalls will be talked about in play store comments.
If you have trust issues, android may not be for you. This isn't an insult....just a comment based on your posts....but the iPhone app store is much more strict.....you may have been more suited to it.
Just my 2 cents.
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Looking to buy a Nexus 5, but I refused to use Hangouts. Anyone been able to just pull stock\aosp mms.apk and sideload it, no root? Or does it require root to run?
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Any reason you refuse to use hangouts? I felt the same way, but after giving it a chance, and their latest update, its all I use, once I got used to it. I prefer the clean ui and stock feel.
CM11 ROM has messaging built into it, so I'm sure it can work, but give hangouts at least a week.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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?
One thing that kills me about stock touchwiz is the lack of group texting. I don't want to switch to a 3rd party SMS app, but I am thinking that is what I have to eventually do.
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One thing that kills me about stock touchwiz is the lack of group texting. I don't want to switch to a 3rd party SMS app, but I am thinking that is what I have to eventually do.
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Im sure there is a way to load TW messenger to work on other roms. But how many people actually continue to have group conversations thru text?
Group texting like send one text to multiple people? I do it all the time even with mms's
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I wish stock mms had the capability, but it's not a huge deal to me because Verizon messages works very well. You can even disable stock and Verizon messages will still work.
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Group texting like send one text to multiple people? I do it all the time even with mms's
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Ya Im confused too, touchwiz mms allows you to send to multiple people. I guess they mean keeping it all grouped cause the touchwiz one replies all come in to seperate threads?
If your rooted you can switch out the stock mms app for a aosp one, i.e. themed and stock
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One thing that kills me about stock touchwiz is the lack of group texting. I don't want to switch to a 3rd party SMS app, but I am thinking that is what I have to eventually do.
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it isnt really "coping" when I have never wanted to group text. facebook tells all my friends what i want them to know about...
It drives me nuts when I get those group texts from iPhone users. I love how android does it, separate threads
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It drives me nuts when I get those group texts from iPhone users. I love how android does it, separate threads
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Thank you. One iPhone user sends you a group text and then you gotta get bugged by every other iPhone user replying to the original sender. One of the most annoying things in the world. Sad thing is, they think it's cool.
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I guess it's handy to the sender. I assume they haven't been on the other end though.
Is it even in option on a "stock" android phone. I've had moto, htc and now Samsung, I don't ever remember it being an option.
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I can't stand the stock msg app. GoSMS Pro is so much better imo.
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It separates the threads to each individual who responds. So if the group is 6 people, I get 6 different texts from 6 different people. HTC never had this problem! Coming from the rezound. Lol
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I guess it's handy to the sender. I assume they haven't been on the other end though.
Is it even in option on a "stock" android phone. I've had moto, htc and now Samsung, I don't ever remember it being an option.
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It is standard now on aosp 4.2. I used to think it was annoying, but now after using it with friends, I see why it is useful personally.
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It is honestly driving my crazy! I HATE tw does not support this and it is really annoying. A lot of my friends use group messaging and If i were to reply to the messages being sent I would have to reply to each individual person seeing how group messages appear in separate threads for me.
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x714x said:
Ya Im confused too, touchwiz mms allows you to send to multiple people. I guess they mean keeping it all grouped cause the touchwiz one replies all come in to seperate threads?
If your rooted you can switch out the stock mms app for a aosp one, i.e. themed and stock
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I dont think those links really help. From my understanding the framework has to be changed and it is only fixed in android 4.2 anyways so im not sure those links are to helpful sadly =(
Use a different messaging app if you don't like the stock.
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I can't stand the stock msg app. GoSMS Pro is so much better imo.
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This!!
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This!!
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Ok I have a question. I tried using GOSMS and When I tested out the group messaging feature my friends had told me that they had gotten the message as an individual message towards them and that it did not appear to them as a proper group message. Is there a certain feature inside gosms that you have to have checked in order to get this to work properly?
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Ok I have a question. I tried using GOSMS and When I tested out the group messaging feature my friends had told me that they had gotten the message as an individual message towards them and that it did not appear to them as a proper group message. Is there a certain feature inside gosms that you have to have checked in order to get this to work properly?
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Ok I have a question. I tried using GOSMS and When I tested out the group messaging feature my friends had told me that they had gotten the message as an individual message towards them and that it did not appear to them as a proper group message. Is there a certain feature inside gosms that you have to have checked in order to get this to work properly?
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Have you tried looking through all the gosms settings?
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Have you tried looking through all the gosms settings?
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Well yes I have and I honestly could not spot a thing about group messaging. I could of easily missed something seeing how I tend to do that at times but I checked several times and still was un able to find a setting related to it.
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Well yes I have and I honestly could not spot a thing about group messaging. I could of easily missed something seeing how I tend to do that at times but I checked several times and still was un able to find a setting related to it.
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Uncheck send as split conversations maybe? Under send settings
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http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/#more-123662
Wondering if anyone tried any of these on AOSP 4.3.1 roms on the s3 yet? if so are they running right?
I've been using Hangouts for about an hour. Its working fine so far with texts, I haven't sent MMS yet.
I'm fairly certain I installed the newest Google keyboard but I can't tell since everything looks the same as when I last used Google keyboard a couple months back.
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ok so far I have tried and got working:
Google Play Services (Install first for some of the new apps to work)
Hangouts (MMS does work, only with data connection on)
Keep,
Google Search (but it took away my dark slim theme)
Gmail would not install. Kept saying app not installed.
Still wondering if the Camera and Gallery apps are worth trying. I can't afford to have my camera messed up right now. Taking a ton of Halloween pics.
Play Service, Search and Hangouts working on TW 4.1.2.
The cool part about the camera is it doesn't replace your camera. You can try it and uninstall if it doesn't work.
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I would have rushed to install the new Hangouts app if it had supported Google Voice but since it doesn't I'm not in a rush. I'll just wait for the eventual updates through Play. Based on the 'warnings' to app developers who do VOIP etc with Google Voice I suspect that come next Spring we'll finally see Google Voice / Hangouts integration.
The app I really wanted to work was search. The current play store version is garbage. Constantly searching without results. I now use my browser exclusively. The N5 search app force closes when I press any key. Any ideas? I'm on Hyperdrive 16 with faux kernel.
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MMS don't work to well on hangouts v2, I tried last night and it would send sometimes. It did take a long time to deliver when it did send.
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I tried the MMS and it worked quite well. Still won't use hangout unless for video chats. Still curious about the camera and gallery. Any improvements?
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I tried the MMS and it worked quite well. Still won't use hangout unless for video chats. Still curious about the camera and gallery. Any improvements?
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If I may ask, what rom are you on? I know people had issues with Google now/search on Hyperdrive 16, as did I, but I fixed it with TiBu.
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Nevermind. I ended up getting it to work. If anyone else has the issue, read the first couple comments in the OP article. Many people had it. Seems to be a language pack issue.
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I've had a pretty solid day using Hangouts as my primary sms app. I've been moving too much at work to tell, but do you guys feel like Hangouts isn't vibrating or giving the notification ringtone at all? Again, just curious cuz I've heard rumblings before that Hangouts notifications aren't 100% reliable on AOSP.
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On Bone Stock 3.4 hangouts, Gmail, camera, gallery, Google launcher, email, Google search, play store, all work no problem
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Running the new launcher. Looks cool, logo's are bigger.
I followed these.
Swype to left and it's Google now. I don't see the point of a lot of screens, really digging the new layout.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/3...om-the-nexus-5-dump-search-launcher-and-more/
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Is anyone able to get the camera app to save the pictures to the sd card instead of internal memory. That is dumb if they don't let you change that.
About everything I can run from kitkat
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I find hangouts kinda annoying for my text stuff are you using it?
I pulled the messaging apk from CM if anyone wants it, it has quick reply and all those features... MMS.apk
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I find hangouts kinda annoying for my text stuff are you using it?
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yeah i ditched it. i mean i tried to use it. i really did, but it needs some work... ok it needs a ton of work and maybe another overhaul.
im using 8sms works nicely
I ditched it right away. Using the AOSP MMS.apk instead.
I'm using it, but mostly because I use hangouts messages over sms most of the time. Plus in getting use to it for once they incorporate Google voice since I have been using that for a few years already.
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In using it.. Seems fine to me
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A little laggy when opening but it's fine. I like it.
Duh lol
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gosms for me always
I'm considering using AOSP MMS application. I do not use hangouts for anything. Although I have no issues replying to SMS, I find composing a new SMS cumbersome
Hangouts sucks to me... Not sure why they removed the stock messaging app and also why they removed the stock browser as well. I've been using Textra for SMS. It's lightweight with a bit more customization options than 8sms or the CM app.
I tried using Hangouts texting for about a week and then switched to ChompSMS which I had been using prior to getting the Nexus 5. The one thing I missed when I ditched my iPhone and got a Galaxy Nexus a few years ago was the jailbreak texting app called BiteSMS. ChompSMS is basically BiteSMS for Android, created by the same developer. Have tried other texting apps but have not found anything that is better for me.
Ditched it. I don't like having SMS and Chat in the same screen. I think that hangouts needs to implement tabs. Hangouts | SMS at the top... this would make managing SMS a bit easier. I went back to Handcent SMS.
ditched it from day one as well haha. using textra
I'm having no issues with hangouts, but then again, before hangouts, I only used the stock messaging app.
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I ditched it. I have a lot of hangouts going for ingress and I was missing text messages in the jumble.
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yeah i ditched it. i mean i tried to use it. i really did, but it needs some work... ok it needs a ton of work and maybe another overhaul.
im using 8sms works nicely
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using 8sms here too
So... I just got the Nexus 5 a couple of days ago. I love the phone.
But... I really do not like Hangouts. I use WhatsApp, and sometimes SMS. But I do not like Hangouts for SMS. Is there a way to install the SMS app from the Nexus 4? Like a AOSP version? If so... where can I find the app?
Thanks.
I use 8sms. It looks like the AOSP SMS app but adds a couple nice features, like the option for a popup when you receive a SMS. I set it as default messaging app and it works perfectly.
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I use 8sms. It looks like the AOSP SMS app but adds a couple nice features, like the option for a popup when you receive a SMS. I set it as default messaging app and it works perfectly.
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I just tried the 8sms app. You will probably call me crazy, but I didn't like it for one reason. The icon. Ughh.
FernandoRocker said:
I just tried the 8sms app. You will probably call me crazy, but I didn't like it for one reason. The icon. Ughh.
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You can change the icon... It has the option. In settings, at the bottom
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You can change the icon... It has the option. In settings, at the bottom
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Thanks!
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Like a AOSP version? If so... where can I find the app?
Thanks.
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I built Mms.apk from aosp 4.4.2 today because I don't want to use Hangouts. I don't have carrier service so I'm not sure it will even work properly. If someone could test it that would be very cool. And maybe you'll get the app you're looking for.
https://mega.co.nz/#!BkcBxAJa!2k4bJ5M-d0uItbCBvl7hFCK_X0kTo9amdJaIPwbbNx0
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koe1974 said:
I built Mms.apk from aosp 4.4.2 today because I don't want to use Hangouts. I don't have carrier service so I'm not sure it will even work properly. If someone could test it that would be very cool. And maybe you'll get the app you're looking for.
https://mega.co.nz/#!BkcBxAJa!2k4bJ5M-d0uItbCBvl7hFCK_X0kTo9amdJaIPwbbNx0
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Cool, just installed and converted to system app with TB. Working great!
koe1974 said:
I built Mms.apk from aosp 4.4.2 today because I don't want to use Hangouts. I don't have carrier service so I'm not sure it will even work properly. If someone could test it that would be very cool. And maybe you'll get the app you're looking for.
https://mega.co.nz/#!BkcBxAJa!2k4bJ5M-d0uItbCBvl7hFCK_X0kTo9amdJaIPwbbNx0
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Perfect!! Thank you very much!!!
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Here's the MMS.apk from Purity Rom, it has more options like full timestamps and quick reply.
I think 8Sms is a better idea than using the messaging app compiled from source, because 8sms is the same thing, but constant bug fixes that are released through Google Play...which I find better.
works in nexus 5 kk 4.4.4
enndub said:
Here's the MMS.apk from Purity Rom, it has more options like full timestamps and quick reply.
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thanks for apk. I hate hangouts.