Stock message app bugs?

jonathan3579

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Is anyone else having issues with the stock messaging app? Mine seems to trip out a lot and will need to be force stopped so I can read or write texts.
 

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I had it happen a few times when I used a theme that was mostly black. Messaging app would just have the person's name I was sending to at the top, but the box for the text and the keyboard would be just black space. Changed from that theme and haven't had it since...
 
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jonathan3579

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I had it happen a few times when I used a theme that was mostly black. Messaging app would just have the person's name I was sending to at the top, but the box for the text and the keyboard would be just black space. Changed from that theme and haven't had it since...
I am using a dark material theme so I'm wondering about that now. I did reboot into recovery and clear cache which seems to have resolved it for now. I guess I'll keep an eye out and if it shows back up then I'll change themes.
 

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I am using a dark material theme so I'm wondering about that now. I did reboot into recovery and clear cache which seems to have resolved it for now. I guess I'll keep an eye out and if it shows back up then I'll change themes.
I was using Material Black when I was having the problems. Now I'm on "Vanilla"...slightly lighter, but still less bright theme. Haven't had it happen since.
 
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I also experienced that using the Material Black theme. A reboot fixed it for me. If it happens again, I am gonna to switch to the Inverted M theme.:good:
 

Th3Bill

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I'm with you on the vanilla theme. Not too dark and not too bright. I love it
Funny thing about it. Vanilla is free. I installed it first, then saw the Black one and said "oohhhh..", so I bought that one. Now I'm on the the freebie Vanilla again haha

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I also experienced that using the Material Black theme. A reboot fixed it for me. If it happens again, I am gonna to switch to the Inverted M theme.:good:
I wish you good luck. I rebooted once, and it came back. Hopefully it doesn't for you.

I almost wonder if it's got too much black on black perhaps and causes the system to pull up an incorrect resource...? I did some theming on the M7 and M8 HTC One models, and I know that got me a few times...

I may try my hand at doing some theme work on this once we get root, as this device definitely seems really solid for me so far....has everything I like and really doesn't have any unliveable bad spots...
 

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Not here

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I disabled most all Samsung and tmobile bloat too except Samsung push service
 

KCRic

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No issues here. Had a couple FCs on first boot but that cleared up after the phone settled and got another rebbot in. Currently using "Black Edition" and my god is it black lol. I'll test a few others as well and report back if there are any issues.

On a side note, Sammy did a great thing with the theme option. Glad to see a manufacturer taking hints from its buyers and executing it so fluidly.
 

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Is anyone else having issues with the stock messaging app? Mine seems to trip out a lot and will need to be force stopped so I can read or write texts.

The stock messaging app doesn't do a good job at all with switching from wifi to mobile data when sending mms. Tmobile will not allow wifi only mms or sms. Its a tmobile bug that will not get fixed any time soon.

Best advice is to use Textra app from the app store. It does a WONDERFUL job switching between radios to send mms and sms. I would not use any other messaging app. There is no way to fix the stock app.
 

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UPDATE: Since installing the new black theme update there are no issues to report. Tested for a few days, multiple reboots, multiple messages and no problems.