[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] maxh:
Threaded SMS is great. I've been using the Palm threaded SMS app for months and would never dream of going back to non-threaded SMS. However, the other day I installed PocketCM contact manager and have been playing with it. It includes a threaded SMS feature, and I like it. I'm thinking about abandoning the palm app. However, there's positives and negatives of both.

This is a poll, so if you have experience with them both, please pick which SMS option you prefer. I also have a specific question which I'll ask at the end of this post, after talking about each of the threaded options I've mentioned here.

Palm Threaded SMS app:

Here's one of a few good threads on it.

Positives:

1. Works well and does everything you'd want it to do, including MMS

2. Backing up of your SMS messages is simple. Just backup the PalmMsgV001 file under the windows directory; it contains all messages.

Negatives:

1. Text input methods other than a hardware keyboard cover up what you're writing, so you have to write blind if you use the onscreen keyboard, transcriber, etc.

2. Some people claim problems with multiple messages being sent, but it seems that this is fixable by not closing the app just after sending a message (just minimize it.)

3. On one ROM I had a problem with missing messages sometimes, but this was fixed by always keeping the app running.

PocketCM:

This is the maker's website for this app, and here is a thread with a screenshot of the threaded sms using PocketCM (it's the one 3 over and 2 down with the yellow and blue text bubbles.)

This app does not replace the main SMS app. It works separately and functions mainly as a display for the SMS and allows you to compose new ones, also. The actual messages are stored in the same fashion and place as they are before this app is installed, and the original SMS app is still present and useable.

Positives:

1. It's a free bonus if you love the app for the main contact managing feature, and plan on keeping it around regardless of it's sms uses.

2. It works.

3. On-screen text entry methods do not cover up what you're trying to write.

Negatives:

1. I don't think it does MMS

2. It doesn't seem to play well with the Palm threaded app. I have the palm app installed on my hermes and with PocketCM running, if I compose a message in PocketCM and send it, it'll show up under pocketCM, but the palm app doesn't pick up on it. So Palm doesn't show it. Then when I get a response, PocketCM gets the new message notification and does it's thing, bringing that contact to the top of the contact list and displaying a message, but the palm app intercepts the actual message, so there's nothing displayed in PocketCM and it takes a soft reset to make it realize that there's not a new message waiting for you to read it (after you read it with the palm app.)

My question:

If I abandon the palm app and opt for using PocketCM, how can I back up my messages other than with some program like Jeyo mobile extender? In other words, where are the messages actually stored? It irks me to no end to have to use a whole separate program to back up SMS messages, when it's so easy to do with the palm app. I want to be able to simply manually copy a file to my storage card periodically, as I do with PalmMsgV001.