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[Android Apps and Games] vlasis_myr:
Latest release breaks the ability to send an instant message when I have a call and I want .to send an sms instead of answer..fix it please...this is the best app.

Apart from this is anybody has the previous version to post it here...?
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

I'm sorry about this.

There was a change in 1.08 which affected this.

In version 1.08, Quick responses (which is what you're talking about, I think) is disabled in non-Stand-alone mode because it was sometimes causing duplicate messages. Since non-Stand-alone is the default, 1.08 disables the quick responses feature.

To fix this, assuming you are using Stand-alone mode, just go to the 8sms settings and turn Stand-alone mode off and then back on.

In other words, toggle Stand-alone mode. This should re-enable the Quick responses feature.

Sorry for the small bug.
[Android Apps and Games] Pikezer1337:
On the Note 3 for ATT and having trouble with Auto retrieve. I have to manually turn on data and hit download.
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
Just wondering what happened to really messages being converted to an MMS?? I actually like that haha. Thanks in advance!

Sent from a Galaxy 4 light years away
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Does your carrier or phone support 'wifi over mms' or 'wifi calling' or something like that? You might have to disable it because 8sms only works with mms over cellular data.

Or always enabling mobile data might work ... It depends on the phone, I think.

See http://8s.ms/cant-send-mms and look at the 'wifi calling' and 'mms over wifi' sections.

I'd like to fix this but mms over wifi is a bit of a black art to me :(

Oh dear. Do you mean the feature whereby long text only messages would be converted from sms to mms?

I disabled it because a number of users didn't want automatic conversion because they couldn't control it.

If you want to convert an sms message to mms, a workaround is to add a subject to it. Would this be satisfactory to you?

Otherwise I'd have to add a setting to switch this on or off ... at the possibility of adding more clutter.
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
OK cool, didn't know that! That should suffice, thanks. Maybe later on in development, you could make a switch on/off for it though!!
[Android Apps and Games] eddylee09:
Will this work on stock 4.1.2 non-rooted S3 devices?
[Android Apps and Games] Sliverpfa:
Nice app

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[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

Should work.

Group messaging doesn't always work on Samsung 4.1.x devices. See ...

http://8s.ms/group-messaging

... but everything else should be okay.

You might need to adjust mms configuration:

http://8s.ms/cant-send-mms

and if you do encounter problems, please email me using the developer email address (so this forum doesn't get cluttered up too much)

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] teamshao:
Easiest way to get quick reply back after going back to stock on my Nexus! This is so cool! Thanks dude!
[Android Apps and Games] andrew378:
Loving this, it's now my default SMS app, and that's after using both the stock CM app and GO SMS. One question: is there a way to add a split counter to long messages like in the CM app? Seen here:

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[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
You're welcome!

I had some users who were dissatisfied with automatic conversion of long sms to mms so I disabled that. This 'split counter' thing is related and I wasn't sure what it did so it got disabled as well.

Can you tell me what it does and how it's used? If it serves a purpose, I'd consider re-enabling it.

The app already shows the number of sms segments for a long sms message once you enter more than 120 ish characters. This is not the same thing?
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi all,

A new version 1.09 of 8sms has been released. It's mostly just bugfixes.

One very prominent slideshow bug was fixed. Please see if slideshows are now working correctly for you. If not, please let me know.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] uodii:
It's a counter that gets appended at the end of each SMS message that spans more than one message. It's similar to what you're describing (I'm assuming the one that appears in the text typing field), but this counter appears at the end of the actual message. So if you were sending a 4 text long SMS, once you see the messages go out and they start getting split you'll see a 'Message 1 text...(1/4)', 'Message 2 text...(2/4), and so on. I dont remember if they appear on incoming messages as well or not.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Sorry, make that version 1.10 (which should be available in a few hours time on Google Play). There was a crash in 1.09 which I emergency-patched.
[Android Apps and Games] andrew378:
This. I like having it because when I send particularly long messages (email, I know), it gets split into 160-character texts, which sometimes send out of order, so it's convenient for the reader to have the texts numbered.
[Android Apps and Games] landale:
Really impressed with this app but is there anyway we can get the vibrate mode to have an option for "only when silent" option? I know this is a legacy behavior from before Android 4.2 but at least for me it's a preferred option to having my phone vibrate across my coffee table as well as play the sound notification.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I see. Okay, I'll have a second look into this feature and reconsider adding it back in. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Currently, no, but a few other users have also asked for the same thing so I should seriously consider putting it in. Please let me get back to you on this. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] landale:
No problem! Thanks so much for looking into this. It never made any sense to me why Google changed this behavior.
[Android Apps and Games] Smaril:
Hey great work on the app I've been looking for a good messaging replacement that has a dark theme since the default messaging app on cyanogenmod 10.2's dark theme doesn't work. If only the messaging widget could also be changed to the dark theme I would be using it instead of my dark theme Google Voice widget.
[Android Apps and Games] noidea24:
awesome

perfect replacement for my l9 p769!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Acknowledged. When I review and redo the themeing layer, I'll probably include the widget in the review. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] harii_8:
excellent app

Thank you for your great effort in giving us this am it working on Sony Xperia Z1 android 4.2 stock if you have any time would love to see the ability to change the backgroun ourselfs and also change the colours of text thank you once again keep up the good work.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] elmanuel:
System-App?

Hey bengtan,

great idea, great approach, great app!!! :good: :good: :good:

I got a technical question, as I'm planing to do sth. similar:

Is this a System-App? In case, did you have any Issues or experience with the system-certificate signing?

I would love to use your approach for replacing / enhancing the telephone-app :) and am really curious about your feedback!!!

Thanx an enormous lot in advance!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Noted. Thanks.

Even though 8sms is a port of a stock app, technically, it is not a system app. It's treated just a normal third-party app. It does not have any special privileges, but that also means it doesn't need to be signed with the same certificate of the ROM it is installed on.

Not much else to comment, really.
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Still using this as my main driver. Just wanted to thank you again!
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
+1 !
[Android Apps and Games] BakaB:
any plan on adding scheduled SMS functionality?
[Android Apps and Games] towelboy:
I have used your app a couple of times but I have always came back to using htc's messaging because it's so beautiful! It lets me change the background and colors. If your app has this feature I think I'll be a permanent user :D
[Android Apps and Games] repulse:
Popup isn't well sized in my device (4.1.2 rom)...

Also, just take that as suggestions, but schedule and password protection for sms can be great and will definitely make me use it as only SMS app :p
[Android Apps and Games] hospitalbed:
Great app. Just installed on LG G2.

I can not get notifications or the popup to show up however. I have disabled notifications on the default messaging app.

New SMS appear in the app but not in the notification bar. Any ideas?

Edit: I'm dumb. Forgot ChompSMS was still installed. Removed that and all working. Duh!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Sorry, but not anytime soon. I'm busy enough with existing issues. Maybe sometime in the not-sure-when future.

Noted, thanks.

There is a fix for the popup in the next version.

See above for my response on scheduling, and I've replied elsewhere on this thread that password protection will just protect the app, it won't protect the messages (which are stored outside the app) so there's not really much point.

Thanks. Yeah, those other sms apps like 'consuming' the system's 'new sms' event so other apps can't see it.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi all,

Version 1.11 of 8sms has been released.

Some follow ups ...

iOS6 emoji has been added.

This has been done as well.

This bug (quick popup window being too wide and cropped on the left for some phones) has been fixed.

This one took a while to isolate, so thank you all for your patience.

'Split counter' functionality has been restored and can be enabled from the settings. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] lotus_flower:
[MENTION=5181263]bengtan[/MENTION] this is the best update so far,thank you! problem with croped popup is solved!
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Awesome update!

Thank you

Why is the right door always locked?
[Android Apps and Games] andrew378:
Thank you for releasing these updates so fast! Loving 88sms even more.
[Android Apps and Games] :
great update!

I was playing with emoji, my iphone friend could see some of them I sent but some shows as two question marks, same when he would send some to me some showed but some were question marks.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
AFAIK, 8sms now contains all the iOS6 emoji and it understands both softbank and unicode encoding. If there are some emoji which aren't being correctly displayed by 8sms, I'd like to know what it is. Can you copy-paste it here or through email please?

If there are emojis which aren't being displayed by your friend's iphone, they may have an old iphone, perhaps?
[Android Apps and Games] :
he has the new iPhone5s with iOS7, i sent him the pig and he got question marks, he sent me the pig and I got question marks, same with the smiling pile of poop lol bu the coffee cup went through just fine

I will pm you what I am seeing
[Android Apps and Games] Pikezer1337:
Any idea on when you may theme the app?
[Android Apps and Games] tu3218:
Great app but unfortuately there is no way to use the LED. On my S3, I get the standard 5 second blue flash but I prefer the LED to always be on when I get a message. GoSMS gives me the ability to do that. I'm not rooted so Light Manager doesn't help me. Once this kind of option is added I will definitely switch over from GoSMS.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Not sure. Possibly one month or two. It really depends on how other issues, fixes, and new features go.

Do you mean the LED notification is not working, or you can't configure it? If it's not working, apparently a reboot or two fixes it. If you want to configure it ... it's on my to-do list but I haven't got around to it yet.

So, on the S3 ... the standard LED notification disappears after 5 seconds, is that right? You want it to stay on until you acknowledge it?
[Android Apps and Games] jerrah:
When I disable the notifications in he touchwiz messaging app I get all the text messages twice. If I freeze it I don't get MMS to Download any help ?
[Android Apps and Games] enskje:
I have suggestion, add ability to launch pop up when you click anywhere in notification. I think it could be nice feature for lot of users.
[Android Apps and Games] tu3218:
No it definitely works, just no way to configure it. Yeah it lights up the blue color every 5 seconds or so. Go SMS has some basic led controls that overrides the basic blue every 5 second notification. I have it set to always on and cyan when I get a text. That'd be awesome if you got that feature in there!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Have a look at the following links for possible solutions:

http://8s.ms/duplicate-notifications-or-messages

http://8s.ms/missing-notifications-or-messages

http://8s.ms/stand-alone-mode

Thanks, but this will be a low-priority item for me to work on (for now).

Okay, noted. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Announcement: Bitcoin donations

Hi all,

Just a short announcement ...

I just wanted to say that I can accept bitcoin donations to support the continued development and maintenance of 8sms if anyone wants to donate some or part of some.

The necessary information is available on the 8sms website:

http://8s.ms

For now, donations are accepted via bitcoin only.

I did try PayPal at one point, but they won't allow me to accept PayPal donations.

Thank you to all.
[Android Apps and Games] lexluthor:
I'm just testing this out and it's nice.

But, is there any way for custom contact notifications? Sometimes I get texts from business with coupons and I don't want my phone to ring or vibrate when messages come from them. Is there any support for that in 8sms? I do not have these businessed as phone contacts (nor do I want to add them), so setting a different message alert for them in my phone contacts isn't really an option I'd want to use.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

8sms already supports custom alert (or notification) tones for saved Contacts on most Samsung phones. I think you want something else.

This is how I'm interpreting your description ...

You want 8sms to skip notifying you of new messages when you receive messages from 'businesses with coupons', but these businesses are not saved in your phone.

... Unfortunately, I don't see how this could be possible.

If a phone number is not saved into your phone as a 'blacklist' number, 8sms wouldn't know that you want to skip notifications for it.

So ... no, I don't think your idea is going to work. Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] lexluthor:
Other competing sms apps handle this. Generally, you click on an existing conversation and then you can set custom notifications for that conversation. The sms program itself has something built in to remember which conversations/phone numbers have custom notifications. Many other programs do this without relying on system contact settings or the contact itself even having to be loaded into the system contact apps.
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
This would be my absolute favorite I've ever used! Please fix mms on touchwiz though!!:D:thumbup::thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
I feel the exact same way haha!! +1
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
I guess we'll know more in a week or so, hopefully!
[Android Apps and Games] sabbath88:
Works perfect at n4 cm10.1 :)
[Android Apps and Games] metalmoot:
Perfect app for me, the only minus is that openong the popup doesn't make the SMS as readed

Sent From My Beaned Razr I
[Android Apps and Games] Spacemonkie4207:
Works on Chameleon ROM on LSS/AOKP 4.1.2. Galaxy s2
[Android Apps and Games] zalaros:
A bug that i found is that when you reply to a message from the pop up window, the message is not saved in the existing thread but in a new thread.
[Android Apps and Games] comstyle:
if you receive more than one message only the first is shown inside the status bar.also if you get messages from different contacts there is only one sender shown :/

and there is no possibility to switch through the received messages in quick reply.

these are all features of stock cm mms.apk. maybe its possible to add them.

btw great app :D

edit: i discovered i have to swipe down the small icon at the bottom of the notification inside the notificationbar to see more messages of one contact but 3 messages seem to be the max.

but this swipedown only works randomly.
[Android Apps and Games] ahoslc:
Does this app let you reply from notification bar? That's one thing I really miss from CM.

Nvm tried it works great. If you could maybe fix up the dark theme a little bit this will be amazing along with mms like others have mentioned. I hate TW sms and this is a wonderful start :)
[Android Apps and Games] Spacemonkie4207:
Yes
[Android Apps and Games] enskje:
Doesnt works on my huawei g510 europe edition.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I'm back from travelling. Apologies to everyone for the absence

Hi,

I'm back from travelling. Apologies to everyone for the absence, but thank you all for a great and wonderful response.

Looking through all the posts ... I'd like to address each and every issue that has been mentioned, but that may not be practical in a single-threaded forum ... at least not when so many posts have flown past ... so I'll try to address the major or more pressing issues first, and then revisit the rest later.

If, maybe a week or two later, I still haven't responded to your specific forum post, please feel free to repeat your question ... I may have accidentally missed it.

And so ...

It looks like most of the issues come down to two separate 'bugs':

1. App crash on startup or launching from the home screen.

2. Unable to send mms on Note 2 and perhaps some other phones.

I'd like to address these two issues first.

1. App crash

Can someone(s) please send me a logcat of the app crash? Don't need to post an entire log. Just the crashing exception and perhaps a few lines before and after will do. You can either post it here (if it's not too long) or you can email it to me at the developer email address of 88sms.

Thank you.

2. Unable to send mms

I suppose your phone's stock app is able to send mms. Would anyone be able to please send me a logcat when you are able to send mms (using the stock app) and when you aren't able (using 88sms)?

Again, you can post the logcat here, or email to me.

I hope to make progress on these issues (and others afterwards) soon.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
I emailed you a log of an mms successfully going through in my stock app, then falling to go through on 88sms. Good luck to you! And thank you again.
[Android Apps and Games] foltambo:
I'd like to ask if there is an option to receive a delivery report (a tick under the message in a thread)?
[Android Apps and Games] biggggant:
Looking forward to using this when MMS works on samsungs...Let me know if you still need a logcat.
[Android Apps and Games] ahoslc:
Could you possibly fix up the dark theme a bit it looks a bit off.
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
+1 !!! :D
[Android Apps and Games] comstyle:
could you try to improve the functionality of the notification bar feature?
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
:D
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
No news yet eh? Really looking forward to this sending mms.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
If you express it this way, then, yes, it is saved into the phone.

Upstream Cyanogenmod has recently added something similar like this. When I get around to merging their updates, you'll probably get this more convenient 'blacklist' feature. However, I can't promise when I'll get it done.
[Android Apps and Games] lexluthor:
Ok, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] phalkon30:
I read back a few pages but didn't see it. Sgs3, sent a 300 character text with split messaging enabled. It sent the message in 5 texts!

I just installed today so I don't know if it's a new problem, thought I'd report and see if you have any ideas.

Sent from my USCC SCH-R530U
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
That might be normal if you had extended or unicode characters in the text.

A single-segment sms can be 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters.

In a multi-segment sms, some space in each segment is used to store fragmentation information, so each segment can be 153 7-bit characters, 134 8-bit characters, or 67 16-bit characters.

If you had any extended, unicode, foreign, or emoji characters in your message, that would force the use of 16 bit characters, and 300 16-bit characters would require 5 sms segments.
[Android Apps and Games] phalkon30:
Thanks for the detailed response! I don't see any characters outside of punctuation on a standard keyboard, no smileys, no emoji. I guess I'll keep playing with it and see if it happens again.

Stock Samsung messenger fails to send a 2 part text on my rom, maybe this is showing why?

Sent from my USCC SCH-R530U
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
[MENTION=1979346]phalkon30[/MENTION]: The character counter in 8sms should tell you how many segments are needed. You should be able to see this before you send.

Uh, maybe, but I can only speculate.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Android 4.4 (In-)Compatibility

Hi all,

With the new Android 4.4 KitKat, some parts of the messaging (sms and presumably mms) subsystem in Android has changed. Unfortunately, this has broken things.

Currently, 8sms doesn't work fully on Android 4.4.

Please be patient whilst I make it compatible. It may take some time.

I'd also like to ask for some help.

EDIT: A new version of 8sms should be coming in the next few days which will work fully and properly with 4.4. When it becomes available, if you have a device with 4.4, please let me know how it goes. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] knockoutking:
awesome! looking forward to it -- if i can do anything to help, let me know!
[Android Apps and Games] vlasis_myr:
Let me know too...

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[Android Apps and Games] Technojo:
Selecting multiple contacts

Hello there! Thanks for this great application!

Any plans on a more convenient way to select multiple contacts when creating a new SMS ?
[Android Apps and Games] zopostyle:
When I try to send a sms that is automatically splited in 2 messages for 2 contacts at the same time, the first contact receives it as sms but the second as mms I checked and it was really sent as mms..

Can you check that?
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I hear there is a multi-select list of checkboxes in the latest Cyanogenmod app. When I next merge from it into 8sms, you'll probably get it.

Hmmm ... sounds rather weird. Can you email me so I can investigate it using email rather than cluttering up this forum too much? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
8sms now works on Android 4.4 KitKat and Nexus 5!

Version 1.12 of 8sms is out which includes updates to be compatible with Android 4.4 KitKat and Nexus 5.

When running on KitKat, there is no longer a default or 'Stand-alone' mode distinction. Instead, there is KitKat's notion of a default sms app or a non-default sms app. You pretty much want 8sms to be the default sms app, otherwise a lot of its functions are disabled (because sms apps other than the default sms app are heavily restricted by Android).

Please give it a try and let me know how you go.

Also, here's a shameless plug to promote 8sms. Hope it's alright with the moderators and within the forum rules ...
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Don't like Hangouts as your SMS app? 8sms restores the stock messaging experience

With the new Android 4.4 KitKat, Google+ Hangouts becomes the default SMS messaging app. But what if you don't like using Hangouts for SMS?

No problem, there's 8sms which lets you restore the stock messaging experience.

8sms is a port of the Cyanogenmod messaging app with a few tweaks and extras. This means it's the stock Android app — then modified with improvements but keeping the same clean interface and experience. It supports emoji, quick reply pop-ups, an alternative dark theme, and other useful options.

It's the closest thing to stock messaging you're going to get short of compiling Android yourself.

To use 8sms on Android 4.4 KitKat, just install it and make it your default SMS app. Enjoy!
[Android Apps and Games] zopostyle:
Found that, was a check that I left checked at settings page... sorry