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Currently using the stock HTC messaging app on my Desire but have been debating Handcent and have seen a few mention Chomp SMS.
What do you guys all prefer??
If i did decide too go with Handcent how can i stop my messages coming through as standard notifications through the stock messaging app??
Come on guys tell me why i should change
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i like both apps, but i had to choose one, and when i made my decision chomp had a popup that handsent didn't. now they both do, and i don't even use the popup, because i use pure messenger in tandem. lol life with evo rulz!
I have used both Handcent and Chomp. I currently use Handcent because of the fonts you can download for it. Not sure if Chomp has specialized fonts. Both have great customability.
I have used both Handcent and Chomp. I currently use Handcent because of the fonts you can download for it. Not sure if Chomp has specialized fonts. Both have great customability.
Chomp will happily make use of the Handsent fonts once you have downloaded them
I started using Handcent before Chomp had the lock screen popup. Now in my opinion there is very little difference between the two, but I'm comfortable with Handcent at this point.
Have used both of the other two but neither let me send or receive picture messages. Also, found Handcent quite laggy at times. I do quite miss the bubbles though!!
decided too change too handcent;
Love the little fact that you can change the colour of the led when a message is recieved.
Not overly impressed by the medium widget though although it does take up less space i would have liked something a little different.
on a different note i have recently downloaded around 30 or so apps.
Do you think this will massively slow my phone down or anything - i know some people have hundreds im just probably paranoid.
Also will downloading and then deleting an app have any ill effect?
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Have used both of the other two but neither let me send or receive picture messages. Also, found Handcent quite laggy at times. I do quite miss the bubbles though!!
what are you talking about? BOTH support MMS.... thumbnails appear in the message bubbles. they download automatically when viewed.
Also on Handcent is there a way that when i go too write a new SMS and click the + to enter a contact in i can see only the phone contacts rather than sim and phone contacts as this does get rather frustrating sifting through 2 of everything??
And do you guys save your numbers in general too the sim or to the phone
i have gone back and forth between all 3, stock, chomp, and handcent. and while i can't find anything that really stands out between handcent and chomp, both have a leg up on the stock simply because of the pop ups. but other than the pop ups none of the three really stands out in my mind as far as functionality.
Also on Handcent is there a way that when i go too write a new SMS and click the + to enter a contact in i can see only the phone contacts rather than sim and phone contacts as this does get rather frustrating sifting through 2 of everything??
And do you guys save your numbers in general too the sim or to the phone
I save to both and have not had that problem what so ever. I haven't looked at the customization of Handcent for a while until today and I notice there are a lot more customizations than before, like the fact you can can fully customize the screen color using an RGB slider, as well as as the blinking lightS...So I am happy with it.
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what are you talking about? BOTH support MMS.... thumbnails appear in the message bubbles. they download automatically when viewed.
Your timing is perfect. I just received an MMS from a friend and all I got in Handcent was a download button which never seemed to download the attachment. I grabbed ChompMMS and it automatically downloaded and showed me the attachment.
All that for a 7kb PG-13 picture. No, I will not post it here.
I liked chomp (or was it handcent? well, one of those two) with one exception. When I'd get my 2 or 3 daily photos of my Great Grandson, and try to save them to my phone, it always saved it as the same file name and never gave me anyway to rename it, so it overwrote the old image with the new. I couldn't have that, so back to stock for me.
Well Handcent is totally crapping out since Froyo 2.2..... I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice to no avail... I can't delete threads without it totally crashing and I've noticed the whole phone is faster when its not installed.
Also not sure if I should blame it for my random restarts or not.. but I'm seriously looking for an alternative after being faithful to handcent since the beginning of Droid Moto.
I may have to try Chomp.
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Well Handcent is totally crapping out since Froyo 2.2..... I've uninstalled and reinstalled twice to no avail... I can't delete threads without it totally crashing and I've noticed the whole phone is faster when its not installed.
Also not sure if I should blame it for my random restarts or not.. but I'm seriously looking for an alternative after being faithful to handcent since the beginning of Droid Moto.
I may have to try Chomp.
Is handcent still crashing, or has the problem been fixed?
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Used handcent for a while and I liked it but after I tried Chomp I liked it a little better ( not much but better due to no lag) BUT I then saw and tried GO SMS and it was the winner . I like GO SMS best with Chomp a close second, Had way too many issues and forced closes with Handcent and way laggy with every update. I say give GO SMS a try. its also as far as I can tell a smaller program memory wise and has all the features.
For me SMS GO the winner.
Last edited by vaccdroid; February 9th, 2011 at 10:17 AM.
i'll give go sms a try, but right now i use the stock messenger app with widget locker, which has a custom slider that takes me directly to sms (or whatever else i want it to) so i don't need a pop up.
Handcent gets my vote. Speaking of which...did they get rid of the option to move the incoming and outgoing coversation bubbles to the left or right? After the many updates and having to re-install the app, I can't seem to find that option.
Do either of these apps have the ability to change the time stamp on messages? I keep the clock on my phone a few minutes fast, and it causes messages to display out of the order they are received as incoming messages use the time stamp from the phone they were sent from.
If I write a friend, the response shows as coming before I sent the original message. It's very annoying.
EDIT: I just tried Chomp, Go, and Handcent. Only Handcent was able to fix the issue, and it was automatically done.
Last edited by Ziemas; February 12th, 2011 at 02:23 AM.
Handcent gets my vote. Speaking of which...did they get rid of the option to move the incoming and outgoing coversation bubbles to the left or right? After the many updates and having to re-install the app, I can't seem to find that option.
My preference is Handcent, but my phone disagrees. Using an older model, and it doesn't like having to load up Handcent.
Chomp has ads, and my phone runs it as slow as Handcent.
GO has the potential to be decent. It's still a little laggy on my phone, but not as bad as the other two. The biggest problem is that it's NOT "fully" customizable... the color coding for the bubbles is set up wrong, and the dev has been unresponsive to complaints regarding that.
So for me, it's stock with SMS Popup. I hate that I can't customize it, but at least it doesn't pretend that you can, and it's fast.
I prefer Chomp. In my opinion, Handcent looks amateurish and cheap. I like that you can change all the colors in Chomp and set a custom vibrate pattern. I don't mind the ads because I almost never see the conversation screen.
Handcent vs Chomp SMS vs Stock
