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[Android Apps and Games] zalaros:
Weird... I just tried it and now it's working fine. I'm sure that before the last update i had always the same problem. Now it seems that it's solved. I'll let you know if i face the same problem again.

Another thing, can you make the textbox to grow bigger as we write a new message? Now it fits only 3 lines and i think it would be better if it fitted more lines. Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] biggggant:
Yes the message was sent as mms
[Android Apps and Games] c00ller:
Ohhh I misunderstood your post. I thought you wanted to change the look of the notification icon, which is what I wanted to do.

Right now, the notification icon kind of looks like there are 88 unread messages... :eek: could this icon technically be made customizable (after all important bugs are taken care of, of course)?
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
To the Dev..... Once this app is 100% fully functional and good to go according to your standards, you should include a Floating Notifications Extension in your app. Good work though, keep it up!! :)

See here for more details.
[Android Apps and Games] comstyle:
that would also solve the problems i posted :D
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
When you say 'pop up', you mean a dialog which pop ups when a new message is received? Not the quick reply dialog that appears when you click on 'Reply' from the notifications area?

I'm not sure what the behaviour is supposed to be ... I'll have to look into the code and see ...

Do those original timestamps of 1/1/1970 appear only on old messages, or also appears on new ones? Maybe the original timestamp wasn't saved for the old messages?

At the moment, 88sms is designed to be an add-on to the stock app. It's just a separate gui to the sms/mms database. The stock app is still needed for actually storing received messages into the database.

I thought this would be the best way to ensure maximum compatibility ... and you can always fall-back to the stock app as a backup if something goes wrong.

Does this sort of answer your question?

Okay.

Noted. Will do.

Hmmm ... and did the message have multiple receipients? The 'View details' should tell you?

As an aside ... from what I've seen in the code so far, group messaging is going to require a bit of time to sort out. The functionality is in the source code, but I need to understand the conditions under when it is functional ... and there are some nuances to investigate.

I'll come back to this.
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Any time to sort out the mms compression setting?
[Android Apps and Games] leris2:
Works great on LG P880 4.1.2

Nice work!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Sort of.

By default, 88sms has a limit of 300 kB for mms message size and maximum image size of 640x480. I think one of these is the limitation you are running into.

The 300 kB limit is apparently very common for mms.

These settings are specified in mms_config.xml in the 88sms apk. However, 88sms is also supposed to inherit settings from the mms_config.xml of the stock app (com.android.mms), if present.

I can suggest two possible solutions ...

1. Change the mms_config.xml file in the 88sms apk. You might need root and an apk tool to do this.

2. Change 88sms to inherit the mms_config.xml settings from your phone, if possible.

I would prefer solution 2 as it is cleaner and more flexible.

After some research into the software of the Note 2, it looks like it (or specifically, your phone) may not always have a com.android.mms stock app with a mms_config.xml file. Perhaps this is why it is not using the larger mms message size settings of your phone.

I have seen mentions of a secmms.apk messaging app for the Note 2.

Can you please check for me what is the package name of the stock messaging app on your phone? It should look something like com.android.mms or *.*.secmms?
[Android Apps and Games] Oscar96:
Thank you for the exhaustive explanation :) you're right :) but for the timestamp,it happens also with new messages...

Inviato dal mio LT26i
[Android Apps and Games] thophan:
finally it work

finally it work on my phone. Smoother than original one. thanks
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Looks like the Mms package name on my note 2 is called "SecMms.apk"
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Can you extract it out of your phone and send/email/pm it to me? I need to check that it actually does use an mms_config.xml file (amongst other things). Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Sure thing, and thank you
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
All Samsung (TouchWiz) phones' messengers are named "SecMMS.apk". Just an FYI :)
[Android Apps and Games] ScratMan38:
It happened again, two times. The first one, I cleared data from the contact storage app, and had to sync again (Google + Haxsync) to correct the issue. The second time was yesterday, and I did not fix it. I'm fed up with this issue. It does not happen on the stock SMS app, but it lacks many features from 8SMS.

Nope, I cleared cache from contact storage and 8SMS, but it did not work. I wiped cache and dalvik, and same results : contacts are still corrupted in 8SMS.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Probably not as an option. I'd probably just make this the new default behaviour ... when I get around to doing it.

It's on my to-do list, but it's not high priority because I have other things to do.

Noted, but this requires more changes to the code than I'm willing to try right now. It means more work for me when keeping up to date with Google Android and Cyanogenmod.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Um, I don't know.

If you turn on the "MMS Over Wifi Proxy", it will use the normal mms proxy when sending over wifi. It's a bit of a "try and pray" approach.

If T-mobile uses a different mms proxy when sending over wifi / Wifi Calling, then someone's going to have to tell me what it is, and I'll have to put in an additional setting so it can be configured separately from the normal mms proxy.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I'm sorry you are experiencing this, but I'm just as frustrated as you are. I never get this problem in my testing, so all I have to go with are user's reports.

I don't suppose you'd care to email me with specific details of the issue? The more detailed, the better.
[Android Apps and Games] morfredus:
Ok, many thanks Bentgam :)
[Android Apps and Games] fred77fr:
Bengtan Sorry ^^
[Android Apps and Games] dearde4n:
no worries mate.. take your time.. its just a suggestion.. thanx

Sent from GN2 over PhoeniX Rom
[Android Apps and Games] kmcrane:
I was curious if there was an option to vibrate on incoming notification, but not vibrate if talking on the phone?

That way it can vibrate in my pocket, but not on my ear.
[Android Apps and Games] Eddiemc:
Yes, general phone settings/sound/ untick vibrate during call.
[Android Apps and Games] kmcrane:
Yea That's what I remember from when I had my gnex.. I'm on Verizon G2 and No such setting seems to be available. I was hoping I could get it added to the text app somehow.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

I'll have to think about it, but probably not anytime soon since it seems low priority.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] maestromandan:
Message Truncation

Can someone help me with message truncation? I've searched this thread for my problem, but I have found nothing that seems to relate.

Every time I send a message, 8sms truncates it at a limit of 68 characters (in other words, any given message is broken into a number of 68-character messages). From what I've read, this issue relates to unicode, but I've done all I can to fix the problem including:

Disabled emoji

Enabled "strip all unicode characters"

Disabled smileys

I also tried a hacky workaround someone mentioned earlier in the thread about enabling convert-to-MMS if there is 1 message, which also did nothing.

None of this has done anything. Does anyone have an idea why I cannot kill this infuriating bug? I just restarted my phone a couple days ago and it started to be an issue.
[Android Apps and Games] jadeboy7:
[MENTION=5181263]bengtan[/MENTION] I noticed that in a recent update you include:

I've been trying to add that functionality to my own app, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Am I correct in assuming it has something to do with how I set up a TaskStackBuilder? Any chance you can post just that snippet? Sorry if this is a bit off-topic.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

Firstly, for some background information on segment lengths, please see

http://8s.ms/sms-segment-length

If you have a foreign-language ROM or using a foreign-language or non-standard Android keyboard, or some combination there-of, sometimes bug can occur which makes 8sms thinks it should be using 16-bit characters, resulting in a segment length of 67 (which is suspiciously close to your "68").

You might want to try switching back to the Google standard Android keyboard so that segments are back to 160 character lengths.

Furthermore, splitting of long sms is performed if you have the setting "Sms settings" » "Split Counter" enabled. Please look in the 8sms settings and if this checkbox is ticked, please untick it.

Finally, this might also help:

Clear the 8sms app cache:

http://8s.ms/clearing-8sms-app-cache

and reboot your phone.

Good luck, and please let me know how you go.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I didn't really look too deeply into it. All I did was merge this:

http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/58557/

into 8sms and it magically worked.

I think the "fix" is not to setup a TaskStackBuilder at all.
[Android Apps and Games] jadeboy7:
Ahh, I see. I'll check it out, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] maestromandan:
That solved it. Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] icthulhu:
Any chance to replace iOS emoji to Android 4.4 emoji?
[Android Apps and Games] jadeboy7:
It worked perfectly, by the way. It's not Google's "recommended" way, but I think it's unnatural to not go back to what you were previously doing.

Thanks again.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

Some time in the future when I get time, yes, it's probably something I should do.
[Android Apps and Games] tiduscrying:
Could you add the quicker/easier scroll bars I've seen in other applications? It's quite a pain trying to scroll through 1,000+ messages, so something like that would be greatly appreciated! Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Noted.

Still busy with other things, unfortunately, so it will have to wait.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
KitKat update on Samsung devices (S4 and Note 3) breaks 8sms (and other apps)

It seems there is a nasty bug in Android KitKat for some devices which is preventing 8sms (and probably other messaging apps too) from working properly. This seems to affect mainly Samsung phones (the S4 and Note 3) in the following way:

Galaxy S4: Cannot receive mms if auto-retrieve is enabled

Note 3: Cannot receive mms

Galaxy S4, Note 3: Random crashes when composing or sending mms.*

(*This has also been observed on the Nexus 5 and Moto G, but it is much rarer)

The cause seems to a bug in the Android ROM which is preventing 8sms from writing to the mms messages database. Obviously, if 8sms can't write to the database, then it can't perform it's intended purpose.

At the moment, unfortunately, there is no known good solution for this (On the S4, turning off 8sms auto-retrieve is a work-around, but not a very good one). The proper fix would be for Samsung (or Google) to fix the bug in Android KitKat and issue a new update.

If you are affected by this bug, please direct your feelings at your phone supplier. The problem is not in 8sms, and we are just as annoyed as you are.

Technical Details

When 8sms tries to save a message into the mms messages database, Android throws a SecurityException. Obviously, throwing such an error will break things.

More information here:

http://8s.ms/samsung-kitkat-mms-issues

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Rirruto:
I just updated my Galaxy S4 on Monday and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting group messages until yesterday when my wife asked me why I wasn't responding to a group conversation. I was going crazy trying to figure out what happened with my phone and then discovered the issue on your site. This is so disappointing since I love 8sms and do a lot of group messaging/MMS. I would have seriously thought about not upgrading to KitKat if I had known about this.

Does anyone have any other stock like SMS apps they use? I've tried Textra but stopped using it since it does not play well with Mightytext.
[Android Apps and Games] Andrev01:
[MENTION=5181263]bengtan[/MENTION]: Just wanted to telll, that I'm still using your app - it's the best for me and my phone :) And I'm badly waiting for the scheduled sms feature.. will it be? Soon? ;)
[Android Apps and Games] cas239:
Hello dev,

Love your app. My daily SMS/MMS driver. Any plans on adding theme support or theming options?
[Android Apps and Games] taaviu:
Can we request "secure box" :D :D

We have some sms what we want hide.
[Android Apps and Games] hstubc:
Smiley Visual Quality issue

hi buddy!

Thank you first for the great program you've developed.

There are two issues that i'm facing though:

The quality of smileys is not perfect on my nexus 5 (it's slightly blurred). it could be due to high resolution of the screen , could you please increase the quality so that its sharp on phones with high screen resolution? :)

Also, every time i input a smiley, i need to click OK afterwards but its kind of redundant. I tried holding the smiley and it directly posts them but the delay is kind of annoying :) could you maybe put an option to reduce the long-press?

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Possible workaround for Samsung/KitKat issue

Actually, I think I might have a work-around for this issue, albeit it's an ugly hack. It just needs a bit more testing and/or one or two more people to test.

I'll keep this thread updated.

In the meantime, the current work-around is to turn auto-retrieve OFF (for both S4 and Note 3) until I get this new work-around released.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Various replies ...

Probably not anytime soon. Sorry. I think of this as a "wish-list" add-on, and there always seems to be more important or urgent things getting in the way.

Now that the CM 10.2 merge is done, yes, but not sure when I'll get the free time yet.

Sorry, I don't believe in this. Messages are stored in a system database. There is no way to make them "secure" and still be able to inter-operate with other messaging-related apps or features in Android. All you'll get is an illusion of security.

> The quality of smileys is not perfect on my nexus 5 (it's slightly blurred).

I'm not sure if there's much I can do about this.

The KitKat AOSP stock messaging app actually removes the smileys. The only reason they are still in 8sms is because I've got them from the old pre-KitKat stock messaging app ... BUT ... older versions doesn't have XXHDPI images (which is used for the Nexus 5).

In other words, I don't know where to get the higher-resolution smiley images because they are no longer supplied with the stock messaging app.

> Also, every time i input a smiley, i need to click OK afterwards but its kind

Perhaps, but it's there so people can conveniently enter multiple smileys as well.

If you compare it to a smiley or emoji keyboard, you also need one extra click to switch back to the normal keyboard, so this is the same amount of clicks anyway.

The time-out for indicating a long-press is dependent on Android, not 8sms, unfortunately.
[Android Apps and Games] Eddiemc:
In regards to smileys, xposed and the xposed smiley replacer found in this thread works like a charm. You can then choose high res smileys and they will be sharp. You will need to run xposed though..
[Android Apps and Games] naijaboykev28:
Now if this app had Chomp SMS's "Auto activate data when receiving and sending MMS" settting, this app would God-Tier.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Noted. Thanks. I should also have a second closer look when I have time.

Noted. I might re-consider my previous comments about this and may choose to add it in. Still pondering.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
New 8sms version 1.25 has a workaround for Samsung KitKat issue

Hi all,

A new version 1.25 of 8sms has just been released to Google Play and will be available in the next few hours.

This version has a work-around for the recent issue on Samsung KitKat devices preventing receiving of mms. Please update to this version and give it a try. If you still encounter problems, please let me know.

(More technical information available here: http://8s.ms/samsung-kitkat-mms-issues)

Thank you,
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Thank you

posted while using my note 3
[Android Apps and Games] Rirruto:
Thanks for the quick fix! My group messaging on my GS 4 is working well again.

However, my wife, who has a Nexus 5, started getting a weird issue last night. When receiving a group message from someone, the group message updates normally but it also "receives" a message from the individual sending it and brings up a past conversation with that individual to the top of the message list and marks it bold and highlights it, as if there was a new unread message in it even though there is not. And there is no way to mark it read unless starting a draft of a response and then deleting it. It will then mark the message as read and it will go back down the list to whenever the real last individual message from that person came from. Sorry if this is hard to follow, kind of hard to explain.
[Android Apps and Games] Dark_AJ9:
SMS ? what's that ?

Enviado desde mi ZTE Geek mediante Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] Basche:
Short message service, also text messaging. When you send others a message or more
[Android Apps and Games] nyles:
Having the same issue with my gs3
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Weird. It's possible that the work-around I implemented for Samsung is somehow indirectly causing this. I say indirectly, because it sounds like an old Android bug (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.tsoft.resetunreadsms) and I think it's corruption of the Threads table. However, 8sms seems to be doing a good job of triggering it somehow.

I am working on this issue (when time permits). If anyone wants to assist me with debugging (logcat capability desirable :)) or testing this, please email me.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] fnctopx:
sweet

hey there

i really appreciate your work :)

but i have one little request for maybe future updates ...

would it be possible to disable the contact photos (optional) ? i just want the text ;)

thanks in advance and sorry if i ask things again !
[Android Apps and Games] nyles:
Have the debug version installed and will report back in a while. Thanks again for all your hard work
[Android Apps and Games] skyex:
is it possible for the app to show hangouts style emoji?
[Android Apps and Games] lotus_flower:
check this post and the fist page of the thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49986421
[Android Apps and Games] scottjb:
I also see this on my T-Mobile Moto X, stock, unrooted, 4.4.2. When I switch back to Hangouts, the problem is not present.
[Android Apps and Games] darkguy2008:
Hello!

I've been using 8sms for a while now in my JB device, however, I'm developing ROMs for ICS devices and I've longly wanted to include it as the default replacement for the stock app. Is there any way you can include ICS compatibility in the near future?

Thanks in advance! =)
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
When I re-do themeing, I'll look into this too. Thanks.

In the future, when I have time, I'll look into this. Thanks.

ICS is problematic because I don't have an ICS phone to test on. Sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
Hi,

A new version 1.27 of 8sms has been uploaded to Google Play, and

should be available in a few hours time. Please give it a try and let

me know if it fixes this problem.

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] matATX:
LEDs not working

Anyone else having a problem with led notifications not working? Ever since I've moved to this rom they dont work. I would LOVE for them to work maybe i can hack some files or maybe a setting I'm missing?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2643031
[Android Apps and Games] superjohan:
Damn i was happy when i found this app :D Good work Bengan!

Is there anyway to mod it on your own to make full black background when u are in a conversation?

Instead of greyish / dark blueish like it is now.

Want all black and cyan text like it was in cm10 :D

edit:

decompiled it with quick mod. But now what? haha total noob and looking for needle in a haystack.

2nd edit: Finally did it!!!!!!! Haha took a couple of hours. But now all the colors is the way i like it :D
[Android Apps and Games] darkguy2008:
I understand. However, I have an ICS phone to develop with. Is there any way I can help you to implement that feature? I'm an app developer too, if there's a github or bitbucket or some other kind of CVS you can share, I can work on that so you don't have to, since you don't have an ICS phone to test on and I do :P
[Android Apps and Games] bengtan:
I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that sometimes Android doesn't install apps properly.

Can you try clearing the 8sms app cache:

http://8s.ms/clearing-8sms-app-cache

and rebooting your phone?

If the problem still persists, please see if you have any apps like Light Flow or Light Manager which might be preventing 8sms from turning on the LED.

Good. Nice to know it is mod-dable, but that doesn't mean I don't have to re-do themeing soon.

There isn't a public repository of 8sms (for various reasons), but since you know your way around android development, perhaps we can work together. Can you send me an email please (send it to the registered developer email address or 8sms)?
[Android Apps and Games] superjohan:
When it comes to make som kind of theming for just colors. It should be farely simple. 90 % of the work will be the ui for it i think.

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[Android Apps and Games] Eddiemc:
Any chance of a screenshot or perhaps share the file? I'd really like to have black background (in dark mode) for read messages..
[Android Apps and Games] superjohan:
Sure. Will se what i can do when i get home from work. But if u decompile the app and then search for color. It will be kind of obvious which file it is. Then u just change the color code to ff000000 on the stuff u want black. The dark theme lines have "_alt" in them.

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[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
Hey [MENTION=5181263]bengtan[/MENTION] GRAT and very functional app. The only thing missing is some kind of theming that'd be really great and awesome. Any chance you plan on implementing this soon?!
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Theming has been requested a number of times from others as well. I believe he's focusing on bug fixes before attempting this.

posted while using my note 3
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
I literally have not even noticed not one bug!! Soooooo... onto theming it is hehe jkjk. :p
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
Same here. Everything is working great! I really hope he's able to incorporate theming soon as well.

posted while using my note 3
[Android Apps and Games] fnctopx:
(second little request for my part)

one little thing before focusing on themes and cosmetic stuff ...

can you please enable an option to set a number for max msgs and/or disable the "sending SMS messages" warning ?

thanks in advance you rock man ! :D
[Android Apps and Games] hasbrobot:
(Chanting) theming! Theming! ?

posted while using my note 3
[Android Apps and Games] urinsane:
Just noticed you have a new version with the option "Always (enable mobile data) for MMS." I checked back a few pages and saw a bit of discussion but no details... is this a fix for Nexus owners? If so, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] SinCityAtNight:
Question... When you use the feature 'Add Contact Info' is there anyway to add a check box or by default add the contact name as well as the number. Seems that if you need to put a contacts number in a text you likely need the name too.

Otherwise...been using 8sms for a while and love it.