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Interesting SMS bug. G2x only or Android common bug?

Just send an SMS to yourself. Messaging app will freeze - 100% repro rate.
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rhinology said:
Just send an SMS to yourself. Messaging app will freeze - 100% repro rate.
Sent from my G2x
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Just tried it and nothing out of the ordinary happened...in fact I've never experienced that with any Android device. Weird

not reproducable
rhinology said:
Just send an SMS to yourself. Messaging app will freeze - 100% repro rate.
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Nope works find here with both stock mms and the one with go launcher no lock up message sent and recieved.
Not rooted yet stock rom. lots of programs and 4 launchers installed.

eagle1967 said:
Nope works find here with both stock mms and the one with go launcher no lock up message sent and recieved.
Not rooted yet stock rom. lots of programs and 4 launchers installed.
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I am rooted and tried it and it worked fine, so I guess the possibility of it being due to rooting is ruled out.

I did both SMS and MMS with stock messaging app. Worked fine for me.

Found the culprit - I had some non-standard characters in the SMS. Still a bug but not many people will hit it.
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Stock ICS Messaging App (.apk download)

Direct Download: http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...pers&txt=APK&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13339786919293
Couldn't post screenshots for some reason :/
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Hi thanks. But I'm running to an issue with this app all the txt that I recive it shows double .. is there a way to fix that?

albmob said:
Hi thanks. But I'm running to an issue with this app all the txt that I recive it shows double .. is there a way to fix that?
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EDIT: Oh I see what you mean...that's a big problem

h_zee13 said:
EDIT: Oh I see what you mean...that's a big problem
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yeah the are 2 ICS message apps on the market but the do the same thing, i do like the UI batter then stock but so far no luck getting it to work

albmob said:
Hi thanks. But I'm running to an issue with this app all the txt that I recive it shows double .. is there a way to fix that?
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You have to disable notifications on the one you don't want to see notifications from. This is not the best explanation, but it's as if your messages get sent to one location where any message app can read them. Essentially, both apps are still looking for notifications, therefore, notifying you twice.

I have look

jspidey said:
You have to disable notifications on the one you don't want to see notifications from. This is not the best explanation, but it's as if your messages get sent to one location where any message app can read them. Essentially, both apps are still looking for notifications, therefore, notifying you twice.
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He's not talking about double notifications. He's talking about incoming messages showing up twice INSIDE of the app.
Here's an example

KitF said:
He's not talking about double notifications. He's talking about incoming messages showing up twice INSIDE of the app.
Here's an example
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Yeah thats what I mean ... I was going to post an attachment but it had my phone number showing

I can confirm this problem as well. It seems I cannot uninstall the default messaging app either.

KitF said:
He's not talking about double notifications. He's talking about incoming messages showing up twice INSIDE of the app.
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Wow, i see what you mean. That does suck. I was responding to this but decided to test for myself.
I've been using Go SMS since I got the phone last tuesday and I never had the issue. I installed Handcent and tested (now I have stock, go SMS and handcent). The very first message I sent to myself from my wife's phone I got double messages as you experienced. I sent myself five more and I did not received any more doubles. Not sure what it is, but this was the first and hopefully last time I'll see this.
Did you uninstall all the third party messaging apps and test to see if the issue goes away?
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jspidey said:
Wow, i see what you mean. That does suck. I was responding to this but decided to test for myself.
I've been using Go SMS since I got the phone last tuesday and I never had the issue. I installed Handcent and tested (now I have stock, go SMS and handcent). The very first message I sent to myself from my wife's phone I got double messages as you experienced. I sent myself five more and I did not received any more doubles. Not sure what it is, but this was the first and hopefully last time I'll see this.
Did you uninstall all the third party messaging apps and test to see if the issue goes away?
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Yeah I have unistalled all the message apps and stock and other message apps work fine just the ics message app its not working for me. Even the one that are in the market do the same thing

You can use Titanium Backup to freeze the default message apk. That seemed to fix the problem for me. Always backup the apk first!

Urbanisms said:
You can use Titanium Backup to freeze the default message apk. That seemed to fix the problem for me. Always backup the apk first!
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This works. thanks!

Which one do we freeze? The app, the widget,both?

ZombieLinux said:
Which one do we freeze? The app, the widget,both?
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I froze both

yeah it works for me as well thanks ///

Every time I send a mms I seem to get a force close. Anyone know how to fix this?
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g_says said:
Every time I send a mms I seem to get a force close. Anyone know how to fix this?
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mms doesn't seem to work with the ICS messaging app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.concentriclivers.mms.com.android.mms
This version has working MMS.

KitF said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.concentriclivers.mms.com.android.mms
This version has working MMS.
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yep, this does work. thanks!

(Q) Am I the only one here wondering about.....messaging??

Sorry if this was discussed but I think I just went through the last hundred threads on here, and when I 'search' for hangouts it gives me zero results
So onto my question; am I the only one mad and annoyed that there is no dedicated text messaging app? The only way to text someone new is to go to people> scroll to prison> click their name> click the text message icon....? Really?
Because when clicking the '+' button in 'hangouts' it only opens a new "hangout", and as I learned yesterday hangout and sms isn't the same, after someone texted me back saying "did you just send me something? "..
Why do they have to make such a simple a decades old thing so complicated and dumb?
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You're doing it wrong...
Press the + in hangouts. Start typing a name, number, etc. Matches will drop down and choose the one that has the SMS icon.
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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/get-back-the-old-sms-interface-in-kitkat-with-8sms/
Moving SMS/MMS app from AOSP 4.3 is the best way, I guess

I don't find it complicated at all in fact it pretty simple.
I don't need to go to people app to text someone new, I can do it straight from hangouts. I just click the "+" and then pick my contact and right from that screen without any extra steps i can select either SMS or hangout as the new conversation type.

DumF0rGaming said:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/get-back-the-old-sms-interface-in-kitkat-with-8sms/
Moving SMS/MMS app from AOSP 4.3 is the best way, I guess
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Replace Hangouts with 8sms which looks like the good, old SMS app from AOSP:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkleft.eightyeightsms.mms
Don't forget to define 8sms as "default sms app" in settings and you're done. For me, this is much better than using Hangouts...
Greets,
scuba4436

nkia2sg said:
Sorry if this was discussed but I think I just went through the last hundred threads on here, and when I 'search' for hangouts it gives me zero results
So onto my question; am I the only one mad and annoyed that there is no dedicated text messaging app? The only way to text someone new is to go to people> scroll to prison> click their name> click the text message icon....? Really?
Because when clicking the '+' button in 'hangouts' it only opens a new "hangout", and as I learned yesterday hangout and sms isn't the same, after someone texted me back saying "did you just send me something? "..
Why do they have to make such a simple a decades old thing so complicated and dumb?
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all you need to do is open hangouts, click the + button, then if you want to call Phil, type PHIL.
you'll see phil's mobile number, his work number, his home number, and you'll see his hangout email address.
click on the one you want to send him a message through....... that's it........ that's not too hard.

Thanks guys that's a lot better, I even hate the hangouts icon looks more like a iPhone icon than a text.
On a sidenote.. damn, clean android is very boring and NOT customizable at all. I need aokp asap.
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I personally prefer chomp sms (they're working on updating it for 4.4) but their other texting app, textra has been updated and I'm liking it quite a lot actually.
Give it a try. It doesn't have the most customizations but probably more than 8sms. It's not bloated like go sms or handcent
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zephiK said:
I personally prefer chomp sms (they're working on updating it for 4.4) but their other texting app, textra has been updated and I'm liking it quite a lot actually.
Give it a try. It doesn't have the most customizations but probably more than 8sms. It's not bloated like go sms or handcent
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Thanks, I tried it but I really dislike the icons and especially in the notification bar.
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Yeah I agree with you. I don't like how it defaults to using chat instead of texting. A lot of people at work have iphones, so I need to actually text them, not use hangouts. It isn't too big of a deal, but it takes an extra step to select "SMS" instead of in 4.3, just typing their name.

Priority senders ???

Did they remove priority senders from the messaging app ???
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nexus6R3plicant said:
Did they remove priority senders from the messaging app ???
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Looks like it. You can switch to the contacts tab and it shows your favorites at top...but yeah, I know that's not the same. Not sure why they got rid of it.

This sucks!!! I wonder why they removed it coz I find it very useful
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Looks like it. You can switch to the contacts tab and it shows your favorites at top...but yeah, I know that's not the same. Not sure why they got rid of it.
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Looks like they changed it to PIN TO TOP. Select your person from text app, tap on menu on top right, now look at the bottom for the feature. Think of Twitter pins.
Your pinned texting contacts won't be listed horizontally, just at the top of you list.
I'm on Tmobile note 7, it it makes a difference

Hate that they removed this feature. Pin to top doesn't work for me cause if I get 4 messages I don't even the last message unless I scroll down. I'm now missing that I got a text if I get to many at once. I get allot due to work and PS was a blessing for me. I hate the new app now
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Stock messaging app - internal link handling

Morning everyone. I've found that when someone sends me an SMS and that SMS contains an URL, the URL is handled and opened inside of the messaging app. This is a problem for me as typically there is something that prevents the page from displaying. I can tell the page loaded because when I click the X to close the page, it briefly displays the content then I'm back at the SMS. Anyone else seeing this? Is there a way to force the url to be opened in the stock Samsung browser or Chrome?

I'm wondering the same thing. Very frustrating.

Same here
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autogeek said:
Same here
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Ridiculous... This and the Samsung voice to text in the stock keyboard..

dutchman71 said:
Ridiculous... This and the Samsung voice to text in the stock keyboard..
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Yeah I started using google keyboard because of that
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You can use package disabler pro to disable Samsung voice input and then Google will be default

Hmm....I was hoping that others had the this SMS URL problem and had solved it. It's ironic I guess....Sprint sends me a URL regarding the Note 7 recall....I can't read it because it opens inside of the SMS messaging app. I had to Copy the url into the Samsung Browser (which I really like) to see the recall info.
Well, if anyone should pass through this thread...and had the issue but resolved it, please let me know. Thanks

You can also just hit the 3 dot menu and select open in browser. Its not a solution but its easier then copying the link.
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anahataray said:
You can use package disabler pro to disable Samsung voice input and then Google will be default
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I disabled it but now the Microphone input option is totally gone on the keyboard. What did I miss?

autogeek said:
You can also just hit the 3 dot menu and select open in browser. Its not a solution but its easier then copying the link.
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I also found that if you turn the phone to landscape then back it loads.

dutchman71 said:
I disabled it but now the Microphone input option is totally gone on the keyboard. What did I miss?
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Enable Google voice typing