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[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I am not sure about Stock android, but CyanogenMod has both "Use sent date" and "GMT correction" features built into it.

It is possible, but... how do you recognize it was a lost message? :)

Yes, it should be possible and, based on some benchmarks on list loading and Android docs, shouldn't compromise the speed of the app and the recovery of the message.

I know. I tried doing it, but I am not sure it can be done.

What big full screen notification? I have no big full screen notification on Stock or CyanogenMod (and I don't remember it with Sense).

And remove the fun of my app? My cool "red eyes" icon? It's near Halloween, you can't ask me to remove the red eyes!
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
Thanks again! I don't think people need to know that they "lost" an SMS.. hence a "stock" looking notification icon would be nice :)

Re "Full screen".. maybe it's a HTC Sense thing.. but when i get an sms, my lock screen changes to hav a big box that shows the SMS.
[Android Apps and Games] qriozum:
I have a query, I use the free version still in your program, and hence the question:

- I do not know what I did, but it seems to me that when you install your application on the main screen of the program, was the date and time of receipt of the SMS.

Now that date is not, is the only number the sender and the content of SMS.

Changing the settings in the preferences does not work.

Does this limit the free version?

And one more question:

- Tiles "with the robot android" in some cases are smaller, while others are larger - what does it depend?

I am using the v1.14 version of the Android Market.

Regards

q.
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I did not understand your question.

The main screen (list of messages) shows only the name (or number if the name is not known) and the text of the message. This has always been (at least I remember it like this).

If you touch one item, a popup is shown, with date, name (or number), and text.

This is how it works for me. Donations have no effect on this behaviour. Do you see something different?

I'm wondering it myself. :(

On my phone, all the pictures are small EXCEPT FOR JUST ONE sender (my mobile operator) which is bigger. I'm really clueless, I'm trying to find out what's wrong with it. Does it happen to more than one sender for you, or only for one sender (maybe your own operator)?
[Android Apps and Games] qriozum:
I did not do a screenshot, but it seems to me that just after the name of the sender, was the text of the SMS, and finally the date and time. But if you say that it never was - it had to have some sort of delusion:)

Could be. I'll be watching now, and how I manage to "catch" the bigger picture is a screenshot and will throw in the forum.

Thank you for your feedback, and przeproaszam for the confusion.

Regards

q.
[Android Apps and Games] qriozum:
Then again me :)

She explained to me the first situation of these dates and times :)

Now, the date and time comes from ... SMS content. The system operator is information that I received no phone call.

So one "issue" we head ;)

Again, sorry for the confusion.

But now I will "hunt" on the bigger picture in place of the sender.

regards

q.
[Android Apps and Games] qriozum:
I already have the smaller and larger "tiles":

Regards

q.
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Ok, 1.15 is available in the Market!

2011-10-20 - 1.15

- Replaced contact name to contact number in notification.

- Fixed bug where some contacts would show a bigger icon in the list.

- Fixed bug of "View contact details" when contact has no details.

Now, for the technically inclined, the "big icon" issue comes from contacts which report to have a picture, but then don't. (My comment here is: "WTF?!"). They will get a "Unknown" contact icon, with the android looking on the other side.

... and this will break with Ice Cream Sandwitch where they put a new default icon, but no new "alternate" icons. I'm less and less attracted by ICS. :(
[Android Apps and Games] qriozum:
Now the "tiles" are the same:)

But the program does not photograph substituted for a contact if they are on the phone?

The only difference is that the contact which has a photograph on the phone - robot icon is inclined to the right?

A robot leaning to the left side is a contact without photography?

regards

q.
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
Love the 'delayed notification'. One issue i noticed today - received an SMS that was 2 msgs long - and only ghostly picked itup - however it only picked up the SECOND half. I lost the first half - it didnt appear in stock SMS or ghostly. Ghostly only auto-moved the 2nd half.

Can you check please?

Also, if you can change the icon to look "stock-ish" that would be nicer i think!
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
The emulator dies on me on long messages, so it's difficult to debug. You claim you received only the second one, I'll use this information trying to guess what's wrong.

But it IS stock-ish! :) It's the stock icon w/ a red glare for the eyes and smile. :) A friendly ghost...
[Android Apps and Games] halloman123:
can anyone upload it to a mirror.

It didnt download on my magic
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
Thanks for debugging - hope you can fix it :)
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Ok, I think I got it. I am a bit busy this weekend, but it gets #1 priority.
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
awesome :)
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
Hmm i paid for your app (to get delayed notification) but had to wipe my phone - now it says i have to pay again? how do i get around that?
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Main screen -> MENU -> Donations.

It will automatically download donation information from the Market.
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
Thanks mate!
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I tried sending a long message to the emulator and, except for the notification which shows only the last part of the message (it may be a limit in the notification itself), I see no bug of half-messages. I get the whole text both in the internal database and in the INBOX when I move it.

I'll try with a real long message, but even reviewing the code, long messages should be handled with no issues at all.

Can you try disabling the delayed notification, auto-move, auto-delete and try again with a long message?

In the meanwhile I'll try something else here too.
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
ok will try
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
OK it happened again. i received a very long SMS - received successfully.

ghostly also detected the SECOND half of the sms as 'lost' so transferred it to my inbox

so i had the entire sms, and then again only 2nd half of my SMS

this is with delayed on. will test with off.
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Very weird indeed. Thanks for your tests.
[Android Apps and Games] grosminetiti:
Hello,

I have a problem with Ghostly SMS

I have a HTC Desire Z with virtuous unity 2.39 and Handcent SMS, before I received all message in Ghostly (and Handcent) but now I don't received any messages in Ghostly (and I never received some sms...) ?

Have you an idea to solve my problem ?

(I test to uniinstall and reinstall Ghostly but not solved my problem...).

Thansk to you
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Check the first post to see if you have enabled (either manually or as a default) the option in Handcent SMS to suppress SMS notifications. It kills Ghostly! :(
[Android Apps and Games] grosminetiti:
Thanks I change some parameters in handcent and now it's ok (I think handcent was the default prog.)...

:) Thanks a lot
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Here we go again!

2011-10-30 - 1.16

- Improved handling of long messages (no more double notification).

- Fixed bug reported on Android Market when selecting "Reply" from contextual menu.
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
I updated today and now I am getting force closes. I installed, reinstalled and still force closes on an incoming SMS. Can I provide any other info.

Sent from my PC36100
[Android Apps and Games] 53fireman:
Same here. EVO4G running MikG 2.59. Was working fine til I updated it.
[Android Apps and Games] trphg:
Same here.. full user, fc after updating.. is there any way to revert back? Running mik supreme on evo shift
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
DO NOT UPDATE TO 1.16! IT CONTAINS A BUG WHICH I'LL FIX IN 1.17 WHICH I'LL RELEASE AS SOON AS I CAN (I can't publish to Android Market from here).

It looks like I can't disable 1.16 and enable back 1.15, the Market gives me an error.

Sorry for the inconvenience :(

EDIT: done, 1.17 has been pushed to the Market.
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
I want to thank you for your work on this. I have been running this for a while since I heard about the possibility of missing messages. It has caught a few so I donated today.

After I did so and enabled the Delayed notification I managed to make the problem happen and it ws caught by Ghostly SMS. I sent myself an SMS from Gmail to my phone. As I was expecting it to arrive I started the Dolphin browser and click the link to Facebook. A short time later I received the notification but it was from Ghostly SMS and not the stock messaging app. When I looked I saw that the message was recovered and moved to the proper inbox.

I wish Google / Android would fix this but until then... thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
You are welcome, I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused by the 1.16 update.
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
No apologies required at all! :)

When I encountered the problem I just rolled back to the previous version. I always keep backups using Titanium when I update apps just for this type of situation. As a firmware developer I know it is impossible to always be bug free!
[Android Apps and Games] tr@p:
Does it work on desire? Because I can't find it in market on phone and can't install from market on pc.
[Android Apps and Games] hAckyD:
Yep it works, installed it a few minutes ago on my desire :)
[Android Apps and Games] Da Big D:
Can't seem to find it in the market. Running sebastiaan's Runnymede (5.0) rom on HTC Desire. Might have to do with the phone being seen as HTC Runnymede by the android market rather than a Desire. I understand it was made for G1, but other phones can also need this app. Can you provide the .apk or if you can, fix this on the following builds?
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I haven't put any filter on the Runnymede (or any other phone, resolution, dpi, or whatever), please don't ask me to break my app, ask your cook to fix his ROM! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Da Big D:
OK, just wanted to make sure. No country/region filters also (cause that's the error android market is giving me when checking at the computer)?
[Android Apps and Games] tr@p:
Maybe it's not available in your country like mine. I've managed to download it with market enabler. Hope that helps. :)
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I just checked the Market page and... it was disabled on some countries like Croatia, Kazakistan, Serbia, United Arab Emirates and so on. I don't remember ever disabling the app for any country, but I removed those limits.

Please, try again now (without market enabler), it should work.

(and let's check if my other apps got changed without my approval...)

EDIT: Camera DCIM had the same limits, No-frills didn't. Cleared them both, just in case.
[Android Apps and Games] tr@p:
Now I can found it on Market. Thanks. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Da Big D:
Yeah, seeing it now, thanks hrk.
[Android Apps and Games] tr@p:
Just found out that I can download it with my HTC "Runnymede" (because of sebastiaan's Runnymede rom), but with HTC Desire it says:

HTC HTC Desire (last used June, 2011)

This item cannot be installed in your device's country.

Strange... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] hAckyD:
ofc thats strange. have u tried to set the phone language to another one? iam running sebastiaans runnymede rom too and havent any probs to install this app
[Android Apps and Games] tr@p:
It's set to English.

Again today it's not available in market (in Croatia). Wait, I have changed to coolexe's runnymade, but it's essentialy same rom as sebastiaan's runnymede.

---------- Post added at 11:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:24 AM ----------

And again I can download it with market enabler. Just like yesterday. Somebody (obviously) messes with your app(s). Google?
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I went and saved (again) all the options. Let's home this time is if final.
[Android Apps and Games] Scudderb:
Hiya...

Just finished reading

alllllll

the pages in this thread to make sure my issue wasn't discussed. Took a long time...thought there might be another update by the time I finished!! :D:D

Anyway, went from free user to (happy!!) paid user to be able to use all the functions but I'm having trouble with receiving double notifications notifications.

I'm using an EVO 4G with MikG ROM v2.56. I use ChompSMS as my 3rd party messaging app.

I'm PRETTY sure that I understand the info with this function in the OP:

HOW DOES IT WORK?

When a SMS is received, Ghostly will save it in the internal DB and then it will wait as may seconds as you set up the "Delay (in seconds)" value. The default is 20 seconds, it should be enough for almost everybody but you can try and increase it as you see fit....

[rest of text in the OP]

Anyway, I've played with the "Delayed Notification Settings" and still get double/copies of texts in my inbox. I've kept the delay at 20 seconds and have screwed around with the "Time accuracy" setting...went down to 200 ms (did NOT think that would work but what hell, give it a try...) and up to 5000 ms....STILL get "two copies" in my ChompSMS inbox!!

Anyone know why I'm having problems?? Here are my "Delayed Notification" section settings:

Used delayed notifications - checked

Delay - 20 sec

Time accuracy - 5000 ms (my most recent "test" value)

Delete received messages - UNchecked

Move lost messages - checked

I looked at my stock Messaging app and ChompSMS and don't see any option "Use Send Date" option (as far as I can see)!

PLEASE help with my issue...LOVE the app when it catches those lost messages but for the 97% of the time that I don't have that issue this this double double copy copy of of text text messages messages is is getting getting to to me me!! :D:D

THANKS!!
[Android Apps and Games] Davieso1:
Pls I need someone who will help meet with ds full details off how to download and install gingerbread latest vasion on my phone
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
@Davieso1: you posted in the wrong thread and in the wrong forum. Go in the homepage and search the page for "Dell Streak", you'll find the right forum where people may help you.

@Scudderb: 5000 ms is WAY TOO MUCH for accuracy. I did not understand if you have enabled the "Use sent time" or not. You must enable it only if you can enable the same setting in your SMS receiving app (which should be the stock messaging one, I don't think ChompSMS saves the message in the inbox).
[Android Apps and Games] Scudderb:
Hey, sorry thanks for the reply...and sorry for the confusion :( I was just trying to provide as much information as possible and perhaps gave you too much.

So, I just did a BUNCH of tests...I went back to the "default" setting of your app, except I changed the delay to 10 seconds instead of the default 20. My settings for testing were:

Used delayed notifications - checked

Delay - 10 sec

Time accuracy - 5000 ms

Delete received messages - UNchecked

Move lost messages - checked

In addition, the "Use Sent Date" setting was

UNchecked

I sent a test message from my wife's phone and I received a DUPLICATE in my inbox from Ghostly.

I then changed

just ONE THING

: I

checked

the "Use Sent Date" setting and tried again and...

NO DUPLICATE MESSAGES

!! Tried a couple times...seems all fixed!!

QUESTION, however...

You said that I should enable the "Use Sent Date" option "...only if you can enable the same setting in your SMS receiving app (which should be the stock messaging one, I don't think ChompSMS saves the message in the inbox)." I checked the settings in my stock messaging app (and ChompSMS) and could not find that setting. But,

THAT

was the option in your app that fixed my duplicate inbox message problem!!...???

Any explanation for this?? Following your instructions in the OP and other posts, since I did NOT see the "Use Sent Date" option in my stock messaging app, I left the Ghostly setting unchecked. Only in my tests for the hell of it did I play with that checkbox and fix my problem!

Could it be with

my

phone's stock messaging app (EVO 4G with MikG v2.56 ROM) that the option to "Use Sent Date" is on by default and can't be changed?? It seems with my testing of my phone and ROM just now that even though I CANNOT enable or confirm that "sent date" setting is "on" with my stock messaging app, I

DO NEED TO CHECK

that option with your Ghostly app to stop the duplicate messages.

Weird/interesting, no??? I hope you follow what I am explaining... :(

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!! NOW that the duplicate inbox messages seems to be fixed, I just need to see if it continues to recover messages affected by the bug!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Glad to know it worked. :)

It looks like your SMS app is using the sent date, in place of the received date...

Anyway...

2011-11-12 - 1.18

- Updated Google AdMob framework.

Yeah, just a minor update...
[Android Apps and Games] zappoo:
New bug i've noticed since a recent release.. SOMETIMES, successful SMS are still stored in ghostly even though i have ticked 'delete received SMS' and the other option to move & then delete lost SMS

it's random though - i've received 30 SMS over the last 2 days.. 1 was 'failed' and caught by ghostly - yet 2 OTHER Sms are shown in ghostly's UI - which i did receive.
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
I have noticed this as well. The other thing that I have seen is that when a multipart SMS comes in only the first part will be deleted from the ghostly SMS database. The other parts remain.

Sent from my PC36100
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Hmm... so you have BOTH options enabled: delete received messages (which means messages you got a real notification for) and move&delete (which means you'll get a ghostly notification and then the message will not be shown anymore in ghostly list).

If I got it right, it's strange. I'll investigate it.

And that's even stranger! Multipart messages should appear as a single message, can you at least confirm this?

Are you (both) running the latest build?
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
I am using the latest build (1.18). The problem with large SMS messages does not always happen but it seems to depend on the sender of the message (the way the large message is sent?). It seems to happen anytime I get a large SMS from my sister (iphone). I can make it happen every time I send a large sms to myself from my laptop using the gmail web interface.

I said before that the first part would be moved/deleted and the others would remain. I think I must have misremembered that. I just tested it again and it is the last part that gets moved/deleted from Ghostly SMS. The first two parts stay in Ghostly SMS.

I have attached some screen shots from the stock App and from Ghostly SMS. Is there anything that I can provide that would help? I do have a catlog.

This is a screen shot of the stock messaging app after a long sms message is sent to my phone from gmail. It shows all three parts of the message that were properly received by the stock app.

After waiting a while to give Ghostly SMS a change to process the messages move or delete all parts of the messages this is a screen shot of the Ghostly SMS app.

This is a screenshot of the settings just to confirm my configuration of Ghostly SMS.

Let me know of there is any thing that I can do to help. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
In those screenshots it's clearly shown that you are sent three different messages, with (1/3), (2/3) and (3/3) added to them by the original sender. It's not a "regular" long SMS.

Regular "long" messages are messages which the network operator sends you in multiple 160-char-long-sms messages with special flags which report them as being the same message, so the receiving app can glue them together.
[Android Apps and Games] m20120:
You are right that these are clearly individual messages. I guess I was not aware of how a long message is supposed to work. I have never seen messages put back together.

In this case it appears that gmail is splitting the large message into three messages.

I guess my problem is different then. When I get these three messages in quick succession only the last one is moved/deleted.

I have also noticed that this does not always happen. The key seems to be the speed that the multiple messages arrive. When they come in very quickly I see messages left behind. When there is a lag between messages the ghostly database is empty.

I have a logcat for each of these cases.

Sent from my PC36100
[Android Apps and Games] demichel:
I want to enable the delay-option. Therefore I want to make a donation, but I don't have a credit card. Can i donate with PayPal???
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Not yet. Google and Paypal are teaming up, but it hasn't been made official yet.
[Android Apps and Games] demichel:
So there isn't really a way that I can get a full version? Paying you directly through PayPal directly or something? Cause no-one wants to connect their credit card with my Market-account :p
[Android Apps and Games] epsylon2468:
Any chance that ghostly will also be available for android 2.1?

I'm new to android and I just own a cheap smartphone which doesn't have much RAM (the t mobile pulse, running android 2.1).

I've read a lot about lost sms'es on the pulse (although it's android 2.1, not 2.3). In some posts, being low on RAM is mentioned as possible cause. So this seems to be exactly the same problem as with 2.3 and 2.2. Possibly it only shows up on devices that are low on RAM by design. Sadly, your app is not available for android 2.1. When reading through the 16 pages, I found that you made it available for 2.2 froyo on demand. Would it be possible to do the same for android 2.1, or does the app require api features not present on 2.1?

I like the pulse but having read so much about dropped sms, I have a very bad feeling about it since I've only read reports about problems, not about solutions.
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
I've always thought that asking nicely will get you anywhere.

2011-12-05 - 1.19

- Support for Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich.

- Support for Android 2.1 - Eclair, as requested on the forum.

- Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich... time to drop "Gingerbread" from the name!

:-)

Enjoy, and let us know if this app saved some of your messages. I thought it was only Gingerbread having the bug (which I doubt has been fixed in Ice Cream Sandwich, sadly).
[Android Apps and Games] epsylon2468:
Thanks hrk,

I'm impressed! Not even 24h passed....

I've installed Ghostly SMS in the morning. Now I feel quite confident that my phone won't miss any SMS. Once I encounter an SMS that was missed by the stock app and caught by ghostly, I'll let you know.

As for now, I do not really know whether the bug is present on my particular phone with my particular usage, but there are definately versions of android 2.1 out there that suffer from the bug.

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] hrk:
Eclair support didn't require any coding effort, just the time for the emulator to start and me performing some random tests. Luckily yesterday I had the spare time I haven't had in a few weeks.

Just feel lucky I choose to update Ghostly instead of No-frills ;)
[Android Apps and Games] kudlinux:
speech to text converting sms tool

Guys , can you please anyone let me know if we have an app which sends message by reading what we say and send the message to the contact I mention by mouth? Iphone 4 has this feature, but I'm sure android is one step ahead always