You can swap back and forth and it will keep messages on both platforms. You still get the SMS, you just don't get notifications from the stock app. There's literally no reason to not try textra.

One thing I like is you can search through texts. I don't think the stock messaging app could do that, but I could be wrong. You can also customize its appearance. It's fast. You get pop up notifications at the top which you can swipe away or tap to quickly reply without having to exit your current app. You can compose a text from your notification drawer (optional)

 

err, I waited too long to post. What the previous two posts said.

The MMS part not being transferred, I dunno if that's right. I saw a warning about that when I was backing up my texts, but they seemed to get backed up and restored just fine. I also enabled MMS for group chats in textra and when I go to the stock app, the group texts show up.

and you guys prefer iPhone emojis?

 

For some reason it's not showing up for me. I never had good experience with the stock SMS app dealing with MMS messages. It's a hit or miss kind of thing and I sometimes have to ask the sender to send it again. With Textra it's been really smooth.

EDIT: Oh! And I love Textra's option to automatically save the pictures in the MMS message to my gallery! I always had to manually save it with the stock SMS app.

 

That's actually another huge benefit. My friends occasionally get delayed texts. I used to get it on the stock app, or it would fail to refresh and send texts. Pissed me off so much. That was why I sought out 3rd party text clients in the first place. So much confusion when my friend replies to a 15 minute-old text that he "just received"

All because of this smug little mother fucker:

 

Most of my friends have iPhones. Some of the emojis look different implying another emotion.

 

OK, thanks guys. I will give it a shot.

I have some SMS backup app pulling from the stock app and saving to my gmail account, so that was the reason for asking if the stock app could still ride alongside textra.

 

Now rooted on 5.0.1 on my N7 2013. It's okay I guess. Did it via Wugfresh's Nexus Root Toolkit

 

Got 5.0.1 on my GPE HTC One today.

 

Found a possible solution to slow N7 with 5.0. I am trying it and will report back:

 

Ordered my N6 yesterday. TMO site said 7 day back order. Hopefully it comes quicker.

 

I talked with him when I we scored a new to us Merc but he's so humble he didnt even metion the Viper. I saw that beast of a Raptor...

 

Hey Brother Doctor!
Hope all is well...so nice to see you still posting here!
whatcha doing now?

 

DarkSith

Long time no see

 

I have been alil crazee busy...

...nice to see you... you been good?

 

Hey there. Its been a while since you've popped your head in here. Everything's good just been really busy with work so I rarely post here now. Career took a different turn but its not too far off from where I was heading so can't complain too much.

 

Less than 2 weeks in, my Note 4's chrome bezel is starting to chip. I don't use a case, and I haven't dropped it either.

AT&T just turned me away. Hopefully Samsung can help. It's a small blemish, but if this has happened in about 10 days and I've been babying the thing, I'd hate to see what it looks like in 6 months or a year.

 

My Note 4 doesn't have any chips on the bezel but it sure is scuffed even with a case.

 

Always

Nice to see you stop through

 

I planned from the outset to go caseless with this phone, as I did with my previous. But I did get a bumper, hopefully reception doesn't go to hell with it on.

Samsung told me there's 12 mos. of standard repair warranty. We'll see...

 

It sucks that AT&T denied you considering Apple would swap that out in 2 seconds. There is the argument of wear and tear vs standard but these phones are super new. Hopefully they don't try to blame you dropping it. My bars are fine with my case so I think you'll be fine with a bumper.

 

does anyone have a oneplus one code? I have been dying to try one of these

 

p.s. i havent been in ramblings in a looooong time. Hi guys! Mostly in Car talk.... :hi:

 

5.0.1 Factory Images for Nexus 5 are up:

https://developers.google.com/androi...s/images?csw=1

OTA Links are on Android Police website:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12...-file-roundup/


You can just do an ADB Sideload using stock recovery if you don't want to wait for the OTA.

 

N6 came today. Ordered on the 8th and shipped on the 10th. The BO wasn't 7-10 days like TMO said.

Little bigger than my note 3, but it's easier to hold with one hand. Transferring the apps from my note3 using NFC is a pretty cool feature.

I'll probably root it tomorrow to use the tap to wake.

 

So I have been having problem with my Nexus 6 on verizon receiving MMS properly. It receieves them but they are all about 25kb or less all the time. I can't find a setting for this in the Google Messenger either. I have installed TextraSMS now too and that does not seem to be helping either.

I don't have my M8 with me but tonight I am going to try putting my SIM back in that and see if it works getting them correctly on that.

Anyone had a problem like this before?

 

Check your APN settings. If you don't know how to set them go to a store or call Verizon. They'll walk you through it. Quick search shows that these are the settings you want:

http://buzzmobile.us/verizon-apn-settings-verizon-mms-settings-android-phones/

You can also cross check with your M8 to see what the settings are there.

 

Well played T-Mo. They're starting everyone off with 10GB of data and allowing data rollover.

 

Thank you. Tried those from within my messaging app but not on the phone itself.

Looking on the phone itself though it appears that I don't have the last menu option. Settings -> More -> Cellular networks -> Access Point Names.

Under Cellular Networks on my Nexus I have no Access Point Names option.

 

So it looks like on CDMA, you can't change the APNs. Its built into the SIM card itself. TIL.

In any case, it looks like you might need to swap your sim card:

MMS issues Nexus 6 on Verizon | Nexus 6 | XDA Forums

Either that or there's an issues with Verizon at the moment.

 

used 20gb last month, already to 10.5 this month. my plan got rolled over from a contract account to their unlimited plan.

 

And not throttled at the same price?

 

Got kind of an odd problem with bluetooth that just started happening.. I'm connected to the SYNC system in our truck. When I do drive the truck, I listen to spotify and nothing else... It has been working flawlessly, but now when I turn off the truck and start it back up once I return to it, spotify shuts down and the music player starts playing. I only have 1 album actually on my phone and I don't EVER use the music player.. So it has to actually start as it is not a program that is running.

I want spotify to pick up when I get in, not the music player..

Any ideas? Short of uninstalling the music player.

 

^Which phone?

IMPORTANT QUESTION: I had installed Skype on my kids' WIFI only phones so that they can message/call me anytime(I am divorced). The fucking app isn't notifying me of their texts and going into the app and refreshing doesn't always work either. My older daughter has Facebook so I can message her there. My younger doesn't and she has an LG phone running KitKat. Is Hangouts the way to go if she has a GMail set up? Her mom is willing to set it up. Are the notifications reliable?

 

AT&T LG G3 (LG-D850).. Rooted. 4.4.2

But to answer your question.. I think hangouts is what you are looking for. I know you can text (to other hangout users) over wifi.. Used it on a plane, worked great.

 

hangouts, whatsapp

 

I think whatsapp requires a phone number?

 

Doom,

Hangouts (old GChat) is exactly what you are looking for.

Free, easy and reliable notifications.

The only times I don't get a phone notification are when I am sitting at my computer with the hangouts app already open. otherwise, I always get a notification. You can set up the notifications within the app.

 

Ok crossing my fingers

 

My best guess would be your current music app has been set as the default music app.

Go to Settings > Apps > Choose music App currently opening

Scroll down to 'Launch By Default'. If the 'Clear Defaults' button is active, this is a good reason why the music app is launching instead of Spotify. Press the 'Clear Defaults' button and try to get in your truck again. This time, it should prompt you on what app you want to launch because of the bluetooth sync. And it should list the music app and spotify as options. Select Spotify and that should do it.

If none of that works, I'm stumped.

 

Music was not set to default... The more I think about it, the issue may be that I also listen to spotify on my computer while at work. So I think what is happening is that spotify doesn't really know where to pick up, so it just shuts down.. Why the music app is opening, I dunno.. Kind of stumped there myself.