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How would you replace a system application such as SMS or Keyboard

With root. You cannot replace system apps in any version of Android without first doing it on the computer and after the phone has been rooted.

iloveandroid said:
How would you replace a system application such as SMS or Keyboard
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You download something like chompSMS from the market. You could probably find swype too, if you searched.

Swype isnt in the market, but you can sign up for the beta (check Android Central for the story)

i've installed chompsms but is there anyway of turning off the vanilla SMS prog so that i don't receive my texts in 2 progs ?
I haven't rooted my N1.
cheers.
I've just turned off notifications in the vanilla app, i'm assuming this may work.

acabbie said:
i've installed chompsms but is there anyway of turning off the vanilla SMS prog so that i don't receive my texts in 2 progs ?
I haven't rooted my N1.
cheers.
I've just turned off notifications in the vanilla app, i'm assuming this may work.
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Just go into the default messaging app and turn of notifications.

acabbie said:
i've installed chompsms but is there anyway of turning off the vanilla SMS prog so that i don't receive my texts in 2 progs ?
I haven't rooted my N1.
cheers.
I've just turned off notifications in the vanilla app, i'm assuming this may work.
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your in the eris forum the nexus one is right below ours on the main page

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Chomp SMS update - 1/23/09 Update

UPDATED....1/23/09
Version 1.7 is out with rotating keyboard...
very cool ... I like the keyboard
I quite like this..however there is no spelling correction. This makes it very frustrating.
Almost there..not quite.
This Is Way Too Frickn Awesome
love the app, is there a way to set this as default sms app? every time i drag down notifaction bar to select the message recieved it send me to default androind sms
blahzay_blah said:
love the app, is there a way to set this as default sms app? every time i drag down notifaction bar to select the message recieved it send me to default androind sms
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go into chomp's settings and turn off notifications.
then go into default android sms and turn off notifications.
go back into chomp and turn on notifications.
this should make it so your g1 only notifies via chomp. however, if you still get multiple alerts for a new sms, one of the envelopes will have a greenish border...this is the notification for chompsms. it looks almost exactly like the default icon, but it has the green color around the envelope thingy.
WOOO
Great! Simple! Easy! Awesome App Finally A Way To Text Without Sliding The Qwerty Out...great Work
mariod1269 said:
go into chomp's settings and turn off notifications.
then go into default android sms and turn off notifications.
go back into chomp and turn on notifications.
this should make it so your g1 only notifies via chomp. however, if you still get multiple alerts for a new sms, one of the envelopes will have a greenish border...this is the notification for chompsms. it looks almost exactly like the default icon, but it has the green color around the envelope thingy.
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thanks alot man
Where can I download Chomp from?
speoples20 said:
Where can I download Chomp from?
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Search for "chompsms" in android market.
bitbybit said:
Search for "chompsms" in android market.
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yeah i found it i typed just chomp and it brought out pac-man
Haha, yah I did the same thing initially. Pacman gets all the lovins!
do u guys know why im still getting notifications from the original sms app? i disabled the notifications but i still get them and get 2 notifications everytime i get a message. you guys kno how to fix this?
thedarkone184 said:
do u guys know why im still getting notifications from the original sms app? i disabled the notifications but i still get them and get 2 notifications everytime i get a message. you guys kno how to fix this?
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i have the same problem...i can't figure it out.
mariod1269 said:
i have the same problem...i can't figure it out.
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i figured it out, i had to uninstall dgalert, the app that u use to customize the notifications for messaging. now i only get one notification for chomp....sweetness
Verry useful program. I like it very much
thedarkone184 said:
i figured it out, i had to uninstall dgalert, the app that u use to customize the notifications for messaging. now i only get one notification for chomp....sweetness
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works like a charm now...thanks darkone!!
thedarkone184 said:
i figured it out, i had to uninstall dgalert, the app that u use to customize the notifications for messaging. now i only get one notification for chomp....sweetness
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I left dgalert installed and turned of notification in chompsms, made sure when asked which to use as a default, set chomp as default. Now i get the benefits of chompsms with one notification, just dont get the green envelope.
I kinda wish it wasn't a direct bite of the iPhone Texting module and it was made custom to the G1...its still cool though.
I kinda wish it supported MMS. Except for the better rates on international texting via Chomp, it's fairly useless to me.

rm htc messanger, what effect does it have?

Hi
I have never used the default HTC messenger program for sending and receiving txt messages. Now that I have root I was thinking about removing it; if I remove it will that cause any problems in my ability to send and receive txt messages?
Was also thinking about removing:
Amazon MP3 Store (or what ever it is called in 2.1)
Stock
Peep
youtube
Hi
I have never used the default HTC messenger program for sending and receiving txt messages. Now that I have root I was thinking about removing it; if I remove it will that cause any problems in my ability to send and receive txt messages?
Was also thinking about removing:
Amazon MP3 Store (or what ever it is called in 2.1)
Stock
Peep
youtube
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Other apps piggy back off stock message app.
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Kcarpenter said:
Other apps piggy back off stock message app.
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So removing the stock message app is prob not a good idea then?
Yeah, don't remove it unless you don't want any texts! All the market apps piggyback the htc app's connection / protocol and just disable the notifications for the original app.
You can remove the others you listed with no problems though
I just want to make sure, if I remove peep, I can still receive twitter updates if I download a third party client from the marketplace?
dsMA said:
I just want to make sure, if I remove peep, I can still receive twitter updates if I download a third party client from the marketplace?
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Yes, you can.
I was curious of the same question as you. It sucks for me though because I use Handcent for my sms/mms needs but even with the notifications disabled in the stock messaging app it still pops up in both
I had handcent, default messages, and google voice on my phone back when I was running stock 1.5 and I only recieved notifications from handcent. I am not sure which rom you are running or which settings in messages you have checked or unchecked. Let me know.

CM6- Visual Voicemail ?

I cant find vvm anywhere on cm6. or abbreviated dialing.
anyonw know where they are????
I'm pretty sure sprint's VVM won't work on the AOSP Rom's. To change your voicemail number, just go into menu>settings>call settings>voicemail settings, and change that number to your phone number. Then, when you hold the "1" in the dialer, or use a shortcut to voicemail, it should automatically dial your voicemail
tatonka_hero said:
I'm pretty sure sprint's VVM won't work on the AOSP Rom's. To change your voicemail number, just go into menu>settings>call settings>voicemail settings, and change that number to your phone number. Then, when you hold the "1" in the dialer, or use a shortcut to voicemail, it should automatically dial your voicemail
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Sprint VVM does work with CM 6 RC1 and Nightlies. Just do either the followings:
1) adb install sprintcore.apk
2) adb push sprintcore.apk to /system/app
Use the latest sprintcore.apk from the Sprint Sense 2.1 ROM then change your number per above instruction under setting menu.
To avoid the annoying text message every time you receive the voicemail:
-Install handcent sms and set it to retrieve sms automatically under its setting menu (use this as your default sms application)
-delete the aosp mms.apk from the system/app on your phone
that's how it work for me.
ok one more issue-
since i installed cm6-
everytime i get an email I get 2 task bar icons. One from google and one from the cm6 version of email.
With handcent installed, I get 2 txt notifications. One from handcent, and one from the android messaging.
this is highly annoying......
Htc_Woman said:
ok one more issue-
since i installed cm6-
everytime i get an email I get 2 task bar icons. One from google and one from the cm6 version of email.
With handcent installed, I get 2 txt notifications. One from handcent, and one from the android messaging.
this is highly annoying......
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I did explained in my post how to get rid of the annoying message. Just delete the CM6's mms.apk on your phone under /system/app.
Or go to Android Messaging app and go to Settings > uncheck Notifications
roadster92 said:
Sprint VVM does work with CM 6 RC1 and Nightlies. Just do either the followings:
1) adb install sprintcore.apk
2) adb push sprintcore.apk to /system/app
Use the latest sprintcore.apk from the Sprint Sense 2.1 ROM then change your number per above instruction under setting menu.
To avoid the annoying text message every time you receive the voicemail:
-Install handcent sms and set it to retrieve sms automatically under its setting menu (use this as your default sms application)
-delete the aosp mms.apk from the system/app on your phone
that's how it work for me.
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are you receiving sms & mms... with your handcent app.?.?.?
Big-O-Devil said:
are you receiving sms & mms... with your handcent app.?.?.?
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Yes, I am receiving my sms without problem. But mms won't work if you remove the mms.apk (I just cheked)
Yeah...I am having the same mms problem
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roadster92 said:
Yes, I am receiving my sms without problem. But mms won't work if you remove the mms.apk (I just cheked)
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Yeah.. I think the problem is with handcent... really haven't found a fix.. maybe you can...good luck with it.. let me know how that road goes...really let me know...
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I just extracted mms.apk and pasted it in /system/app and installed it and my mms worked again...
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Vandelay007 said:
I just extracted mms.apk and pasted it in /system/app and installed it and my mms worked again...
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You got mms working with handcent...
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Stop Google Voice txt msgs on CM6
dial *38 send, follow the prompts, if you hear a couple beeps and a click or two, you are finished, it was done automatically, i think it takes until the next day to stop completely
Big O, that's exactly what I am saying ... all I had to do was reinstall the mms apk that came with the rom
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Vandelay007 said:
I just extracted mms.apk and pasted it in /system/app and installed it and my mms worked again...
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Yes I know that, but you will receive the annoying vvm text notification every time you got voicemail
I hope that Handcent can fix the problem. As of right now handcent can not send mms without the aosp mms.apk resided in system/app
What if you add that short code to your blocklist? I just tried it...
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Keithgordon said:
dial *38 send, follow the prompts, if you hear a couple beeps and a click or two, you are finished, it was done automatically, i think it takes until the next day to stop completely
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OK so does this stop that ^%$#!&* text... lol
roadster92 said:
Yes I know that, but you will receive the annoying vvm text notification every time you got voicemail
I hope that Handcent can fix the problem. As of right now handcent can not send mms without the aosp mms.apk resided in system/app
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you think if we adb install handcent that maybe it would work...
What I tried worked....if you blacklist that short code you wont get that text ...
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so i wanted to check my voice mail and when i hold down one from the dialer, it says voice mail on the screen but then i hear a recording saying the feature code is not valid...any thoughts?

[Q] Help: SMS messages being sent on itw own?

Help please.. I was told that my phone has been sending sms messages to my friends on my contacts list. Without me knowing it, of course. What causes this? Any help would be appreciated.
You have obviously installed some app that has permissions to do this. Go though the most recent installs, and uninstall any that have the rights to send messages and see contact information.
Look at the sms's sent and see if there is any clue there, too.
ok thanks for the quick reply.. But how about some apps, that came already installed on the phone, I cant remove them.. Also some social apps, like the facebook and yahoo messenger.. They have this permissions, is there any way to unable the said permission? thanks!
Preinstalled apps won't do this.. Neither will facebook or Yahoo Messenger.
ok.. because those pre-installed one's also has reminders like those. So its safe for mo to re-install fb and ym?
its safe to install fb yahoo .
What are the contents of these SMS? Is it like a butt dial SMS or are your friends getting strange advertisements and links?
Sounds like malware.
uhm, they were receiving txt messages that I have already previously sent them. I mean older ones..
anyone? who has the same problem?
joshnichols189 said:
Preinstalled apps won't do this.. Neither will facebook or Yahoo Messenger.
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the re-installed apps are like the voice talk, voice search, torch light.. and the likes.. anyone?
Would it be easier to do a factory wipe?
gokenong said:
anyone? who has the same problem?
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Yes, I had this. For some reason the texts were marked as unsent, probably because I have bad cell coverage at home. On a reboot they were all resent, regardless of if they had been sent.
I started using GO SMS and I have not had the problem. I also updated my kernel, but I cannot imagine that was the issue.
I also rooted the phone and killed off the bloatware. Perhaps it was the social hub, which I have now disabled.
could it be the "sms popup" that i installed? I installed it for me to be able to reply much easier to person texting em. Its like a pop up where you can already see the message and reply at once..
I looked at the GO SMS, I saw that it also has a reminder that it allows the phone to send text messages on its own.
Whats the best messga widget do you guys use? Thanks!
gokenong said:
could it be the "sms popup" that i installed? I installed it for me to be able to reply much easier to person texting em. Its like a pop up where you can already see the message and reply at once..
I looked at the GO SMS, I saw that it also has a reminder that it allows the phone to send text messages on its own.
Whats the best messga widget do you guys use? Thanks!
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Not impossible. I think I did use that to, but the GO SMS has a popup of its own which seems better.
There is also a GO SMS widget that works quite well, I find. I prefer the popup and an unread message count shortcut.
jeromepearce said:
Not impossible. I think I did use that to, but the GO SMS has a popup of its own which seems better.
There is also a GO SMS widget that works quite well, I find. I prefer the popup and an unread message count shortcut.
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Ok, thanks!

SMS app Notifications

I have my P20 pro since Mars and I have problems with my SMS app notifications, they are not reliable, sometimes i receive a sms I get the notification in that moment, other times I open the app to see that I had recibed a sms several hours erlier and din't get any notification like sound, led light, diplyed on the Always on screen or dot over the app.
I'm using the MS launcher (the E.M.U.I 9.1 is just awful) with all permition and app runing on back ground. This apens with de system sms app or any other app for sms that I instaled and just apens with the SMS app everything else works perfect, also tryed other launchers and hard reset the phone.
JP8296 said:
I have my P20 pro since Mars and I have problems with my SMS app notifications....
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Did you try settings>>battery>>app launch? Make sure you select the sms app and set it to manage manually and make sure the options to run in background etc are both set.
Cheers
grantdb said:
Did you try settings>>battery>>app launch? Make sure you select the sms app and set it to manage manually and make sure the options to run in background etc are both set.
Cheers
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Thats what I have done, did not work.
JP8296 said:
I have my P20 pro since Mars and I have problems with my SMS app notifications, they are not reliable, sometimes i receive a sms I get the notification in that moment, other times I open the app to see that I had recibed a sms several hours erlier and din't get any notification like sound, led light, diplyed on the Always on screen or dot over the app.
I'm using the MS launcher (the E.M.U.I 9.1 is just awful) with all permition and app runing on back ground. This apens with de system sms app or any other app for sms that I instaled and just apens with the SMS app everything else works perfect, also tryed other launchers and hard reset the phone.
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If you're using the stock app, have you turned off WiFi messages?? In chat feature??
Doesn't always work and can cause delays as it will assume your recipients also have the same features set up.
dladz said:
If you're using the stock app, have you turned off WiFi messages?? In chat feature??
Doesn't always work and can cause delays as it will assume your recipients also have the same features set up.
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I'm using the stock sms app but that can't be the problem, my phone don't have that feature. Also, I still have the problem with others sms apps.
JP8296 said:
I'm using the stock sms app but that can't be the problem, my phone don't have that feature. Also, I still have the problem with others sms apps.
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You aren't online. There's no connectivity icon at all.
We have the same phone so it should be available.
Unless its region specific, but I doubt that.
Install another messaging application, handcent used to be pretty good, but it's been a while.
dladz said:
You aren't online. There's no connectivity icon at all.
We have the same phone so it should be available.
Unless its region specific, but I doubt that.
Install another messaging application, handcent used to be pretty good, but it's been a while.
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I think that is a regional feature, even with mobile data on still don't have 'chat features'. I also have sms organizer from Microsoft, nice app, but the problem persist.
JP8296 said:
I think that is a regional feature, even with mobile data on still don't have 'chat features'. I also have sms organizer from Microsoft, nice app, but the problem persist.
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Try handcent, it was my go to app. Never had an issue. Also check message center number too.
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