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[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update!

1.0.37

Added experimental new message body encryption during transfers. This feature when used ensures complete security for the message body, as it requires a user defined encryption key phrase. This feature should be working fine (feel free to test it!) but does require the same encryption phrase set on both devices.

Fixed many crashes and bugs.

Looking for feedback on the new encryption feature. This feature ensures that your message body is encrypted via 128 bit AES during transit through the routing service, and Google's Cloud services. Your phone and tablet encrypt and decrypt your messages with a user defined encryption key phrase.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] philbrewer:
Very nice update. I will give it a go later today (hopefully), as i still owe you some logcats. Work and family have been keeping me fairly busy lately.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
I noticed with the latest update my messages no longer sync on the tablet if I answer them on the phone. I only see the received messages none of my replies. I tried rebooting both devices and that didn't work. It's just a more inconvenience for me. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for all your hard work!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
I'm just waiting on those logs to crush this S3 unread issue!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Thanks for the report. Verified and fixed. Update being released shortly.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
OP Updated!

1.0.38

Fixed syncing messages sent from phone, which had stopped working on the last update (1.0.37). (Thanks csamolot!)

Fixed bug where transmission of incoming and phone authored messages would still occur, even when Cloud SMS was closed on the phone. (Thanks Dustin!)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
Thank you for the quick fix! I love this app!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
Just downloaded the update. It now syncs but now I'm unable to send messages from my tablet. I have tried rebooting and reinstalling. Would a logcat be helpful?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Please send a logcat if you can, I'm certainly not seeing this issue on the same release.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
Here is the link to the logcat

http://db.tt/HDVLfoU5
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Ahh, delete that now to be safe, it has a phone number from a contact in it. I was expecting it via email to protect your privacy.

The problem is that your phone has lost its Cloud ID. Just fully exit and start the app on your phone, or just enter and exit the settings on Cloud SMS to re-establish a Cloud ID on the routing service.

Let me know how that goes!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Hey guys,

Just wanted to let you guys know what I'm working on for Cloud SMS.

1) Sync full SMS history from phone (optional of course).

I'll be working this item this week, as I'm getting a lot of requests for this feature.

2) Send MMS from tablet

Android makes it next to impossible to send out MMS from an app to protect users from evil apps that send MMS to their own services to incur tons of fees for users. I've managed to get about 75% of the way so far, and I may be able to get this working, as I believe I can resolve the last major hurdle. The UI for this feature and transmission of MMS content to phone from tablet is complete, but hidden (for you) while I work on the transmission end. The UI looks and feels just like the stock MMS app on your phone.

3) Bug fixes

The last two issues are almost worked out (from crash reports) and will be fixed this week. The first issue is a crash when the message database on the tablet is being read by the UI when a new message comes in. This is rare, as these things take place in milliseconds but have happened. This issue is now fully resolved on my development build. The second issue is detecting an expired cloud id, and automatically retrieving a new id. This will be fixed this week. Please let me know if I've missed anything else!

Lastly, this community is awesome. I've had a great first month on my first personally written and distributed app (I have another app on the corporate side, for digital signage). This has been a great experience, and I hope everyone gets as lot of use out of Cloud SMS.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update!

1.0.39

Added automatic re-sync and cloud ID registration when a loss of sync is detected. This should help with long term sync between devices, and adds no additional network traffic or app load.

Fixed many reported bugs, including database related issues which were affecting some users.

There are no known bugs in my development database with this update, so please let me know if you find anything, or if I've left something out by emailing me.

A few new features coming up next!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ivans88:
App is now more stable than ever. Using it every day as primary sms app. Is there tablet layout comming soon? Keep the the good work
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
No, sending from a website is not a feature of Cloud SMS.

No, and I have no idea how this is relevant or why anyone would do so.

Hope that helps.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justin860:
Lol... wow
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Wasn't trying to rude, but not even reading the description of the app at all?

I'm not even fully sure what the second request was.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justin860:
I was saying wow to his questions
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
SMS Sync Update

Hey guys,

Looks like I'm about half way done the new SMS Sync History feature. The phone end is now complete (still needs a few UI tweaks), and I'll be working on the Tablet end tonight.

On the Phone, you can click on Sync SMS, which pops up a screen telling you what the feature does and does not do. Right now the feature will sync SMS, not MMS, and will purge tablet SMS history before loading the SMS from the phone. MMS currently on the tablet will be preserved.

Essentially, Tap Sync SMS from the menu, Click Sync SMS button, sit back, relax, and when the data is received by your tablet, it will end up with a full SMS history. My SMS history of a few thousand messages ended up at 55KB when compressed (Cloud SMS just learned how to compress data for this feature), so it is not a ton of data to transmit between devices.

That's it for now!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] srelyt:
Great App!

Missed phone calls and/or phone ringing (without the need to respond to the call) would be a great plus.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
If I get more requests for this feature, I'll consider adding it. Personally I'm not sure it's a good idea to show your phone is ringing if the app isn't able to answer it (it's not).

Is this mostly just to act as an alert for you to find your phone?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] ericot:
Just a notification that you missed a call. That would be great. Since we are assuming most of us are not in the same room as our phones. Then we can decide if the call was worth returning or not :)
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] srelyt:
Yes exactly, only to say "hey your phone is ringing" or "someone has tried to reach you", so I can go grab it! Maybe optionable for those who always have both tablets and phone at the same place.

Also a second concern, I did not find a way to mark messages as read without opening the app. Would it be possible to add a button in the notification or being able to swipe it ? Maybe it's already possible and I missed something.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
If you hit the quick reply from the notification, it gets marked as read. Then you can hit close on the quick reply if you choose not to reply.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Implemented!

If you enable the new setting on your phone "Phone Call Notices", your tablet will immediately show the quick reply pop-up with an "Incoming Call on your Phone!" message, showing the contact name, contact photo, etc. This pop-up will wake your tablet and pop-up automatically. You can also choose to reply with an SMS from the same dialog. Yay! I hadn't thought of this feature before, but added it for myself too!

I did have to add a new permission for this to work (Read Phone State) in order to see when the phone was ringing. This feature does not interfere with the phone at all for calls.

Also!

I've completed the SMS Full Sync feature, just doing more testing and cleanup, plus some UI work on the feature. You simply start it from your phone, and within a few minutes (transfer is fast, writing to your tablet DB from the data package is not fast), your entire SMS history will be on your tablet.

Next release should have both features, plus the new Android 3.x-4.x Encryption, which fully encrypts message contents with just a single setting selection.

Progress!

Thanks for the feedback and support everyone! I'm closing in on 1000 app purchases now after six weeks, with a very amazing 4.8/5 star rating! I'm extremely grateful to everyone who took the time to leave feedback, and find myself very much humbled at the reviews!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ryano89:
You are going to spoil us for every other develop or. Lol. I find myself using the app more and more every day.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justin860:
You to make two suggestions/ideas the first one is that I think you should be able to add a phone number to your contact list phone number 555-555-5555 text messages you then you add them to your contact list if they are not already there.

I would like to suggest maybe a dark and white widget or messages to put on home screens

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] srelyt:
Ah I knew I missed something obvious, thanks.

That was blazing fast! Awesome app and awesome developer :good:.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Big Update

Well folks,

I've been working on some big features for the last couple weeks, and a couple of them are finally here.

2.0.0

Added Full SMS Sync from Phone (Click the Sync Icon on the Phone, Tablet will notify you when completed!)

Added Incoming Phone Call Notification (Enable in Settings on your phone)

Added Full Message Body Encryption for Android 3.0+ (Enable on both devices, but make sure you are on Android 3.0 through 4.2!)

Added Separate Theme Selection for Quick Reply Pop-Up

Fixed Bug With Quick Reply which stopped the lock screen (Thanks for the report Serge!)

Bonus performance increases!

Added New Permission - Read Phone State - Used to detect incoming phone calls

I'll be ironing out a couple rare issues in the next day or so, but let me know if anything comes up! I'll be implementing an automatic fallback for those who do not read the Android 3.0+ requirement for Full Message Encryption.

Thanks everyone, I've amazingly managed to hit 1000+ purchases this morning with a 4.8/5 Play Store rating! I guess listening to requests and bug reports (and fixing them) really does make everyone happier and satisfied with their purchase.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ryano89:
Been through this with a lot of new apps before, nobody has done a more impressive job of responding and working hard to improve their app than you. I hope those downloads keep on rolling in for you sir. Kudos
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update Posted! (Mostly small fixes and tweaks for 2.0.0)

2.0.1

Updated Quick Reply Pop-Up to be slightly more narrow.

Added second Send button to Quick Reply Pop-up on bottom right to prevent accidental pressing of "Open" when send was intended.

Fixed Quick Reply Pop-up Send button on Dark Theme

Fixed various Dark Theme items in Message View

Updated SMS Sync Description to better indicate that only Tablet messages are deleted on Sync.

Added notification on start of SMS Sync on the Tablet.

Improved contact photo loading performance.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jack1984:
Hey, love the app! Just wondering, where does CloudSMS get my contact photo from? I've tried changing my gmail contact photo, as well as my google talk contact photo and I still have the same one.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Hey Jack,

The contact photo comes from the Me profile listed at the top of the People app on your tablet. Just set a contact photo to that profile and you should see if throughout Cloud SMS.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jack1984:
Hmm, my photo had already been changed in the Me profile without it taking effect in CloudSMS. I tried changing it again just not and it's still the one I've always had.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Could you also ensure that the Me profile has your primary gmail address assigned to it? Cloud SMS looks up the contact photo by your primary account address if that helps.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jack1984:
I've just added my e-mail address to both my tablet and phone, and still no go.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] helloterence:
To expand on this question: where does Cloud SMS get the contact photos from?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Jack,

Just to confirm, you are setting a photo to the Me contact, which also has the same gmail address used by your device?

If it still isn't working for you, I may need to add a way to select the default contact to use for your photo.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Contact photos are retrieved from your contacts stored on your device by means of Android's contact APIs.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] jack1984:
Yes, I've done this to both my tablet and phone.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] N1_Fan:
On latest update I am only seeing the latest incoming message in the conversation list. My response doesn't show up.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
This was a change put in place in 2.0.0 as it seemed weird showing my last response next to my contact's face. Should I change it back to the other way, our does that make sense?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] N1_Fan:
Hmmm. Both make sense. I just like seeing that I responded.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] AlanB412:
I personally preferred seeing my responses simply because I could track my whole conversation that way, regardless of which device i was looking on.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
I'll be reverting to the old way on the next release. Thanks for the feedback!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update Posted!

2.0.2

Fixed profile photo detection for Android 4.0+. Added new permission: Read Profile to better detect owner profile.

Fixed several database issues to fully resolve locking issues.

Fixed main view displaying last sent message, rather than only the contact's last message.

Phone and Tablet now try to detect if Message Encryption was accidentally set on only one device, and tries to automatically decrypt received encrypted messages.

Improved Message Thread view performance caching.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Hi Jack,

Can you tell me if your contact photo is properly detected in the latest 2.0.2 release?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] j.a:
App had been running great since the beta on my GS2 and Nexus 7, but the new update 2.0.2 shows as " this device is not compatible with your device" in the app store for my Nexus 7. I'm running Paranoid ROM and M23 kernel on the N7.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
J.A.,

Must be something with your ROM or Kernel, as nothing has changed with requirements. All Nexus devices are compatible according to the Play Store, and supported Android versions have not been changed in months.

Here are the official requirements:

Android 2.2 through 4.2 (API 17)

Wifi capable

That's it for filtering. Can you try from the Play Store website?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] j.a:
Thanks for the quick response. I just checked the store and it shows incompatible also. I'll update the rom and kernel and see which is causing the issue.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Any luck? The stats on play store show me that lots of devices have updated to this latest release already.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] j.a:
Just updated the rom and all is well again. It shows as compatible, updated and is running smooth. Thanks again.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
That was weird, I have no idea what a rom developer could do to cause that situation. Happy to have you back with us though!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update (Bug Fixes)

2.0.3

Added confirmation prompt to exit to prevent accidental stop of Cloud SMS when users used exit to hide it.

Added create/edit contact for View Contact from an unknown contact.

Fixed displayed name on Delete Conversation from an unknown contact.

Fixed View Contact opening incorrect contact.

Fixed bug which caused phone to show a message from contact "0" with a message about encryption (nothing had every been sent out, it was just wrongly showing on the phone in isolated cases).
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] Ryano89:
I was having the contact 0 thing, glad it wasn't just me. I thought it might have been related to the recent jelly bean update to my s3.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Nope, wasn't just you!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Anyone still having trouble receiving mms photos?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
I know I still am... not sure why
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Would you mind trying something?

Could you pm me the first eight digits of your account hash from help, diagnostics?

Now can you have someone send an mms with just a photo and then a second mms with text and a photo?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
I believe I've found an issue which prevents mms when no text is sent with the photo, still testing.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update!

2.0.4

Added Mark Read notification pull-down button (Jellybean 4.2).

Fixed MMS receiver to wait until MMS files have finished downloading from the carrier.

Fixed error with MMS received with no text message.

Fixed a few other stability issues.

This update should help users who had problems with MMS transmitting to their tablet. Please let me know if you weren't receiving MMS, but now can!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
No MMS for me either. Infact its never worrked for me. I've tried uninstalling on both devices a couple times as well. Still no go. With text attached to an image or without text.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Thanks,

Still working on it. I see mms calls going through for almost 90% of requests. Just need to find out what is happening with you and a few others.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
Thank you and good luck.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justin860:
No mms for me
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
I think I've found the MMS issue!

Could someone try receiving an MMS with Wifi OFF on their phone, and let me know if it works? (For people who MMS wasn't working)

From what I've seen with my testing (and how MMS works) is that incoming MMS temporarily stops Wifi, and connects to your carrier's network to download from their MMS server. The problem seems to be that when I start the upload process, the phone switches back to Wifi, grabbing an IP via DHCP, etc. While this changeover happens, the upload process gets tossed as the connection is pulled away.

TLDR, MMS Upload being killed by switching back to Wifi once MMS has been received. Try without Wifi, report findings.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
I'm in the testing phase for the next release. I believe my changes in the last release for MMS caused more problems, so I've pulled that change back, and have added a network wake up delay for the switch back to Wifi.

Also in this release, the Sending/Sent indicators are finally wired in deeply. In the current release, messages are yellow until the phone has received the message, then the indicator turns green. In this new release, The indicator only turns green once the phone has received and sent out the message. The indicator will then turn green with a check mark to indicate that the message was delivered to the recipient.

For anyone who tried MMS without Wifi, I believe my timing changes and the network issues both need to be handled, so the update with everything together should hopefully get more people receiving MMS, when on or off wifi.

Thanks guys, hopefully I can get this new one pushed out tomorrow.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
Just tried it without wife twice. Once with a picture attached with text as well and nothing came through, not even the text from the sent message. The second was just text alone and that came through fine.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Very very close to finishing off MMS once and for all.

Just testing!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
New Update - MMS Updates!

2.0.5

Added full sent message state tracking. Now sent messages turn green when your phone has sent out the message, and turns green with a check mark when the message has been successfully delivered. Failed messages will turn red, which can indicate that your phone was unable to delivery the message.

Updated MMS Receiving - MMS receiving has been overhauled and should now be working for everyone. Many MMS related issues have been resolved.

Bug Fixes

Please let me know if there seem to be any MMS issues after this update. Also, I'll likely be changing the message sent icons next to make them easier to understand now that delivery status is used.

Thanks everyone!
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
Thank you
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Any feedback on MMS support in the 2.0.5 release? I'm curious to see how this update did.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
I'll give it a whirl tonight after work. Looking forward to it.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
I still can't receive mms.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Can you tell me anything about the messages, were they images only, were they images and text?
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] csamolot:
Sorry they were images with text.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] hasbrobot:
No go with me either, sorry. They were images with text. Text messages work alone but not accompanied with mms
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
Did you update both devices to the latest 2.0.5? And would you mind sending me another log from your phone and tablet when you receive an MMS? The tablet log should be taken about a minute after you get the message.

I have a feeling that the tablet just isn't downloading, as I have seen a few push requests from phones with images, but no download commands after. The good news is that the more difficult problem (uploading from phone) seems to be better.

I'm still puzzled why I had no problem receiving so many in a row from various people.
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] justin860:
I'm pretty disappointed your application has not worked on my tablet for a very long time now even after updates

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] bechard:
What seems to be the problem?

When you go into Help, Diagnostics on both devices, does the hash match, and do they both have a Cloud ID?

Are you running any power management apps or third party SMS apps (GoSMS, Handcent, etc)?

I've always provided my email in the help section, so let me know when you have a problem, otherwise I'll have no idea.