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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] dohboy15:
You mean the area code and such? the numbers go xxx-xxx-xxxx, when i send and receive to myself the number stays like that, no country code. and yes i am in canada, i have a rogers captivate and an asus transformer. Captivate is running Miui and Transformer is running complete stock. Also while i'm here, i'd be happy to text out the new version with the ui changes! maybe it'll help! lol
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
I'm just using the SMS that comes with Sense... considering that HTC phones make up a large percentage of devices in the Android world, I figured the sense-based text would be a given... BUT... what you seem to have missed in my previous post is that the replies from my friends DID NOT reach my Tab from my Aria (phone), even though messages sent from my Tab TO my phone did successfully make it out. In other words, communication from the Tablet while using your app is in one direction only.

As far as my statement about release, you have to be prepared for feedback, even if it's negative, and *especially* if it's reasonable and *civil* like I'm being. It's not a question of trying out the Lite version to evaluate it's design. This program still has some serious kinks judging from both my own experience with it and the recent experiences of others (post-release). Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and mine is that this is a great idea, but should not be in final release status -- and certainly not at a cost to us to remove useage limits. Everyone criticizes Microsoft for this same practice of releasing products that are unstable, and then forcing their customers to endure the flaws until updates fix things. They get away with it because of who they are, and what their products mean to the global market. It still doesn't make it right.

In my opinion, you should pull this app from the market and continue here on XDA as a beta until more of the issues I've been reading (and experiencing) are sorted out. But you will of course do as you see fit, much like Microsoft does.

I'll step down off my soap box now, and leave the discussion back to development of what I still hope will eventually be a great app. Sincere regards.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Many of the issues posted here have been the result of complications arising from different combinations of hardware and software. Many of these problems have been resolved through one-on-one troubleshooting. The vast majority of users have had no issues with functionality and are happily enjoying the app even as we speak.

Other problems have arisen from bugs in the software and have either been fixed, or are in the process of being fixed. This is the nature of any software product.

You are definitely entitled to your opinion (whether it be positive or negative) and in fact I welcome any comments regarding problems with or praise for the software itself. However, I make the decision if and when to release my product, and you are free to decide if and when to download or purchase it.

Your first post made it seem like you had more interest in attempting to sully my reputation and that of my work than you did with finding a solution. If that's the case then so be it. If not, I invite you to send me an email at TexTabApp@gmail.com so we can attempt to find a solution to the problem.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
New update posted today, including UI improvements for Honeycomb devices. From the changelog:

v1.1.0:

- Enabled hardware acceleration for supported devices

- Improved UI for Honeycomb devices

- Added widget preview image for Honeycomb devices

- Fixed problem where some users were unable to send messages out

- Fixed various force close problems

- Removed option to disable notification of version differences; this has become important enough that it is necessary for it to be enabled
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] hardt2788:
Awesome. Been waiting for this,keep up the great work
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] sgioskos:
g'day lee

after updating to the latest release and changing number format on both phone and tablet i'm now able to recieve AND send to contacts. happy with the app once again. only one remai ning issue, long press on a contact deletes sms history 'temporarily' and does not remove the contact from the screen. i say temporarily because if i tap on the contact which remains on the screen all the sms history reappears. is this the way its meant to work, or is this an issue youre working to resolve?

keep up the great work, one of the few really creative and useful apps around!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
That's not the expected behavior. The contact should be removed completely after you select yes on the dialog box. I'll keep working on it!

Thanks for sticking with it after the trouble you've had.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] doublen1:
Awesome. Just downloaded the full version for my Inspire 4G and Asus Transformer and it works flawlessly so far. Thanks for all the hard work on this app!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] dohboy15:
All problems with sending messages are now fixed, and i bought the full version this morning! thanks for all your hard work! :D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Fantastic.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Those of you having trouble deleting sms history for specific contacts will be happy to know this issue should be fixed in the next update.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] dmoney94:
Does this app stop your wifi once you connected to your phone?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
It shouldn't, is this happening to you?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] dmoney94:
Yes!its stop my wifi,as soon as i turn off textab the wifi came back
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Lodell:
Any chance we will be seeing a CallTab app? I apologize if this is question redundant. If there is an app that will place and receive calls through your phone via Bluetooth, I would like to know the name. PS this app rocks. I noticed the wifi not connected one time when it should have been, but it automatically reconnected as soon as I noticed it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Maybe my next app will be what you described. That won't be for awhile though! I'm not aware of an app that does this but there may be some out there!

Thanks for the info about losing WiFi. Has anybody else noticed this? I remember way back somebody commented about losing their 3G tethering connection anytime TexTab was enabled, which could be related.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] amora2:
thanks alot !!!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] eagleofdeath13:
Maybe for the phone app you could use BT and transform the table in an a2dp device, that can handle phone calls (like BT handset)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Inferno986return:
This app looks extremely promising for me as I would love to text on a screen bigger than my 4-inch iPhone 3GS!

Is there any way though that you could send messages using the carrier (I.E. Vodafone or AT&T) as well as Bluetooth?!

Also MMS is a must!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Do you mean send messages directly on a 3G tablet rather than going through the phone? I don't think this will happen as it would be a large deviation from the basic app functionality.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Users who are waiting for wifi support: it is now in alpha stage.

There are quite a few bugs to be worked out, but once that is finished I will be looking to pass around a beta version for testing "in the field". If anybody is interested in helping out with the beta, please PM me with your device types and email address, and when the beta is ready I will send it your way. I'm not sure exactly when it will be ready but it should hopefully be within the next week or so.

And a huge thanks to everyone who has rated the app in the market, it now has a 5-star rating with 13 reviews and counting!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] hshah:
I'll do it, and you already know my details :p

How will this WiFi feature actually work?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Right now, you have to enter the ip address of the other device in the settings, and once that is done the app functions exactly like if you were using bluetooth, except that the devices must be on the same wifi network through a router. The connection has longer range and is more reliable.

It would be nice if it could auto detect the ip address of the other device, and this is something I'll look into but I'm not sure if its possible.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] eagleofdeath13:
Maybe something like a broadcasted ping on a certain port, that only your app can respond?

And is it working withe the phone acting as an access point?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Good idea.

Right now it will not work when tethering is enabled, but perhaps if auto detecting the ip can be accomplished that will come with it.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
For wifi: Consider MAC address as they should be static between the two devices, and finding our MAC addresses is easy.

On another note, I received a couple PM's here from two people who apparently had better success with your paid version on their HTC phones. I admit I was reluctant to try it, and I still have some of my original concerns, but in the interest of the community I plunked down my two bucks with the idea that I am donating to a greater cause. Here is how the paid version behaves on my Tab and Aria.

HTC Aria, Froyo: SMS messages now update on the phone's message history, too, while working from the connected tablet. This is for both incoming and outgoing. Not sure why it didn't work before with the lite version, or maybe in the last couple days you updated it. But so far, the phone end is working as it should. The only thing is there is presently no "exit" or "quit" function to shut it down on the phone, and HTC did not include a memory management app to manually do so. I could install a third party app, but I would prefer to see a some menu option (or small widget toggle icon!) For this.

Galaxy Tab 7, Froyo: Paid app connects to phone fine, and messages are able to both send and receive as they are intended; as mentioned above, the SMS history does indeed duplicate onto the phone itself, which means nothing is lost when you switch back to just the phone. However, the app will sometimes cause the tablet to slow waaaaaay down, to the point where I need to hard reset. There isn't a consistent action that results in this as far as I can tell; I have been experimenting with this now for a few hours solid, and have reset my device probably six or seven times. It even happened once when I was choosing a custom notification sound for the app.

ALSO... the widget (on the tablet) shows green (connected?) on boot up of the device, but it isn't. You need to tap the green icon to turn it red (and than it says it's off), then tap it again to turn it green (and then it is truly on this time). Sometimes the act of using this icon causes the crazy slowdown and renders the device useless (yet again requiring manual shutoff and reboot).

One other thing... as I've set up the widget on the Tablet end, can you tell me what the functionality of the space next to the green/red switch is? Nothing seems to come up, and I had expected it to be some kind of message preview.

And finally... another request: an option to toggle off the face image. I'd rather have more messages space across my screen... this is a Tab 7 and most of us with the smaller tablets tend to type when in portrait (more comfortable when holding it).

Hopefully the issues above can be resolved, and the requests can be considered in a future update.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Suleeto: You've raised a lot of points here so I will respond to as many as I can.

Glad to hear the issues you were experience before have been resolved. I did in fact release an update recently which improved the way communication is handled between the devices, this must have been where your problem was occurring. The update was pushed out to both the full and lite versions (they are really running the exact same code).

If you put the widget on the home screen on your phone as well as the tablet, you will be able to use the icon/button on the widget to disable the app when you're not using it. In light of this, an "exit" function would be redundant. Also regarding the widget, the space next to the on/off icon is meant to display your connection status "TexTab disabled/Not Connected/Connected to: <Device Name>". Am I to understand this isn't present? The widget updates when you open the app.

The fact that the widget icon shows green initially is a bug and is being worked on (an confusingly, only occurs on some devices, I haven't narrowed down the cause yet). Opening the app in this case (by tapping on the words next to the icon) will update the widget to show the proper information.

As for slow downs on the tablet, the latest update introduced hardware acceleration which improved performance on devices which support it... which unfortunately is limited to Honeycomb devices. The pre-Honeycomb version does use different visual elements which I thought would prevent performance issues, but the fact that you say it's not consistent makes me think the cause is rooted somewhere else. In my testing performance slowdowns have only been noticeable as a delay in typing response (and have been consistent). It's something to investigate further.

An option to disable contact image is something that could be added in the future. I have not had access to a 7" tablet in order to properly test this screen size.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
It's not due to the same exact action every time, but it's consistently slowing down.... Tell you what, I'll fiddle around with it more tomorrow and make a note of exactly when it happens and what I was doing at the time, but I can tell you that before this app my Tab 7 was stable, and as long as I don't run the app, it never has that slow-to-a-crawl problem.

Tomorrow I'll report more.

About the widget: I see what you mean now, no it doesn't seem to be giving a status in the side window it does display status on the grey area, but , but I would suggest this: Lose the status line, and leave just one small squarish icon with the talk cloud logo as red or green...maybe even just a floating icon with transparency around it... whatever... but the red or green will make the status obvious. It will also be a more desirable size for those of us with Arias (the smallest Android phones on the market).

But an INTERNAL quit option in the main app view would still be nice, because in my case, I have NO room for another widget or even another icon. Choices, choices... I'm just requesting a couple choices on this, and hope you consider them.

I'll post more tomorrow.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] sgioskos:
If I understand you correctly, I would agree that this would be very useful. Best place to put it would be in the pull down menu top right hand corner; EXIT with a pop up "DISABLE BLUETOOTH" window that follows as well.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
^^^ he gets the idea. He has more particulars about how than I do tho.

Okay so I have a few times it definitely got the slow-down. It's instant when it happens... one moment I'm moving right along, and the next, I'm at a crawl.

- When I turn OFF the tablet screen via the power button, happens regardless if I'm connected to the phone or not. I turn it off, and when I try to turn it back on, it takes a long time, then I can hardly work the security lock because it's so slow. As long as the app is loaded up, it does this.

- When I switch to home screen, or another app, it does this, too. Again, seems to be once it's loaded into memory, regardless if it's connected or not to another device.

- When I plug in the power connector on my tablet, it does this immediately. Repeated this one a few times today to verify.

Let me reinforce the statement previously that when it is UNloaded from memory, the tablet operates perfectly. The difference between the app running and not running is night and day.

When does it work right? As long as I boot up my device, connect it to the phone, and then STAY within it, I can continue with conversations normally. The moment the environment changes, it causes the massive sudden slow-down.

Now here is a thought... a Galaxy Tab 7.0 is technically a "phone" in terms of the version of Android it's running (Froyo), so would it make a difference if it was configured in settings as a "phone" instead of a "tablet"? What exactly does that setting affect?

EDIT: It DOES slow-lock up regardless of what I do.... even tho I said as long as I stay connected and in use it's fine.... it's not. Problem hits after awhile.. usually five minutes of use. Confirmed from use today in extended conversations. Perhaps some other process is again disrupting the environment (a messenger, FB service, who knows?) but it's not due to something I am initiating manually... but the point is, this problem is persistent and ONLY when this app is loaded up.

SECOND EDIT: The phone is sometimes getting slow-down too.... not as often, but then I'm not using it as often, either. And there's less installed on my phone. I have to remove my battery and reboot. Without the app running it works fine.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
I've added an option to the context menu to "Disable TexTab" which will disable the service, and turn off bluetooth if desired. This should be available in the next version. It is also available on the phone version, via the menu button.

Thanks for the detailed comments regarding performance. Is there anybody else out there that is experiencing the same issues? Is there anybody who has the same device type(s) and is NOT experiencing the issues?

The phone/tablet setting in TexTab affects the layout of the interface and the way the app responds to communication from another device. That shouldn't affect performance in any way.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] JGUI:
wifi

what's up with wifi connection? is there any version uses wifi vonnection?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Wifi support is coming in a future update. It should be entering beta testing soon.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
New update - this is not the wifi update.

Changelog:

v1.1.2:

- Added disable option to context menu

- Added more consistent appearance to dialogs on Honeycomb devices

- Phone number formatting fixed for Polish phone numbers

- Device type prediction improved

- Fixed delete sms history for contact not working with certain phone number formats

- Fixed contact duplicating when they're chosen in Send To... if they are already in the contact list

- Fixed various FC
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
OK I'm giving it a shot... it's loaded up right now while I'm typing this on the same device...

BTW... I realized just now that until a few minutes ago, I'd never seen it in landscape before because typing on a 7inch tablet is easiest in portrait if you want to hold it... only end up typing in landscape when it's sitting on a table top. This is common for ALL 7" formats (Dell, TOSHIBA, HTC, Viewsonic, converted Nook Color, and any other 7-incher).

I can see now that the best way to bring you up to speed on the so-so layout for us smaller tablet owners is to snapshot a screen image for you and post it... so that is what I'm gonna do. While TexTab is running, to see if anything slows down. Here goes!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
I left bits of text and numbers in place here and there so you can get a reasonable perspective. As you can see, the face icon is HUGE on smaller tablets, and in portrait mode it renders the number and name information unviewable. Honestly, if the face thumbnail could be disabled entirely, that would probably fix the problem for those of us with less real estate than a Tab 10.1 or Xoom.

Another thought... the "Send To" and "Settings" buttons... what are the chances you can move those to the Menu softkey? It would give us more viewing space for the conversation, and most people who use Android know to check out the Menu softkey to see what they can do with it.

Edit: While I was typing this, the tablet's screen went off (because it wasnt plugged into the charger). And guess what? Slow-down, big time. So the usual problems are unfortunately still there. Seems to do this when you connect the power charger cable, too. Didn't seem to do it when swapping between the browser and TexTab, at least not for the first few minutes... I switched to the PC because of the need to edit my images, and when it put the tablet's screen to sleep, that's when it fell apart.

I really hope you get that particular thing sorted out, because all the visual improvements won't make a difference if it keeps freezing (or nearly so) up Galaxy Tabs... remember, this is stock Froyo on this device, it's only rooted... and it works fine as long as TexTab isn't loaded (hadn't had a problem all day or night since the last time it was loaded a couple days ago).

Really, really hope you sort out the glitch.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Thanks for the images. I see what you're saying about the contact photos being much too large. The layout can definitely use some changes. I have some ideas that I'll fiddle around with and see what I can come up with.

I need more data regarding the slow downs. I need to know if anybody else is having the same problems and I need to know a concrete list of exactly when it is triggered and the consistency.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] sgioskos:
Updated version

G'day Lee

Got an updated version today (1.1.2). Brilliant! like like like. Delete SMS history works as you said it should. And love the option to disable Textab in the drop down window with option to shut off usb.

Keep up the great work.

EDIT PS I'm using a stock Acer Iconia A500 and HTC sensation, no rooting no nada, no noticeable slow dows whatsoever when using textab.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] howettl:
Glad to hear delete is working for you now.

And you can credit yourself and Suleeto for the menu disable option idea!
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
I'm trying to rally more interest with the Galaxy Tab 7 peeps on here... but I know that there are a LOT of G-Tab 7 owners.... if this sorts out, it would be good for both vendor and owners alike.

As I've been saying...it's consistent when the screen turns off, and when the power cable is plugged in. .. 100% consistent with those situations.

I look forward to seeing the Tab glitch resolved, and the visual improvements... personally I don't even need the photo thumbnails, and I would really like to see the send to and settings integrated into menu softkey... but we'll see what you can sort out.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] Suleeto:
Update: I was having an extended text conversation while in TexTab, so no change of activity by me... no plugging in or unplugging the charge cable, no turning the screen on or off... constant conversation, from 11:17:56 AM to 11:53:15 AM. In mid-word while typing, it just hit... BAM! The sudden slow-down. It takes like five to ten seconds sometimes to register a keypress (be it typing a letter, using a softkey, or even pushing the power button on the side, which is why getting back through the dot security screen is nearly impossible when it gets like this).

Force reboot, no reconnect to phone, and everything is fine again.

Can't you implement some kind of error logging?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Themes and Apps] eagleofdeath13:
Maybe a kind of benchmark, a log that, at any action, write the time taken, to see what is too long?