Importing contacts to textra

[rutkowskikm]

Is it even possible?

 

[Dannydet]

No.
Your contacts are in your contacts app, which all messengers pull your people from

 

[rutkowskikm]

No.
Your contacts are in your contacts app, which all messengers pull your people from

Gotcha
It seems like I can't customize my contact notifications until I have a conversation started. Is this true? Or is there a way to go into textra and customize contacts without starting a conversation? Thank you for helping me

 

[Hadron]

I don't think there is.

You could set it without sending a message: start to compose a new message to the person, then return to the conversation list without sending. You now have a new conversation with a "draft" message. If you return to the conversation you can now customise the notification for it the same as any other. However, what I don't know, because I've not tested, is whether it will remember the custom notification if you delete the draft message. I suspect that when the final (only) message is cleared it will forget everything related to that conversation, because there will no longer be a conversation. If so you could do it, but only by cluttering your conversations list with junk texts until you have a real exchange with that person (at which point you can lose the drafts). For me that wouldn't be worth it, but that's just me.

 

[svim]

If you go into your phone's Settings >> Apps menu, open the 'Textra' app listing, and in the 'Permissions' section is 'Contacts' enabled?

 

[rutkowskikm]

I don't think there is.

You could set it without sending a message: start to compose a new message to the person, then return to the conversation list without sending. You now have a new conversation with a 'draft' message. If you return to the conversation you can now customise the notification for it the same as any other. However, what I don't know, because I've not tested, is whether it will remember the custom notification if you delete the draft message. I suspect that when the final (only) message is cleared it will forget everything related to that conversation, because there will no longer be a conversation. If so you could do it, but only by cluttering your conversations list with junk texts until you have a real exchange with that person (at which point you can lose the drafts). For me that wouldn't be worth it, but that's just me.

Thank you! I will try it so pissed at samsung

 

[Barbara S]

Hi,
I'm also having problems accessing contacts from Textra. I have contacts enable in settings for Textra and SMS enabled in settings for contacts, but Textra is not picking up my contacts, When I text a new contact I have to enter the number manually in Textra, then add it to my contacts. Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks.