Whats all the excitement around handcent?

[jayochs]

carbine, i had that problem too. it's just aesthetically annoying, no real problem tho. however, i stopped using popups...i realized that in 2.2, typing in the popup is much laggier than in just the app, and since 2.2 completely ruined typing on this phone causing ALL typing to randomly lag, i just turned that popup off.

 

[coco savage]

Supporting the developer is another reason to buy the paid version.

I just ran into an issue with Handcent. I just got a Samsung Fascinate and have WidgetLocker. I have pop ups turned on. Whenever I get a new text, it pops up like it is supposed to. However, when I press the text field and the keyboard pops up, the notification window does not move up like it is supposed to, so the keyboard is covering the text part of the window and I can't see what I am typing. Turning off WidgetLocker does not help.

Anyone else run into this issue? It was working fine on my Incredible with WidgetLocker.

Here is what I am talking about:

edit: switching to stock keyboard does not help, either

ok maybe im confused but you are in google voice?


does this happen when you click on the handcent icon and type a message there?

 

[jayochs]

nah hes not, hes texting FROM his google voice acct,w hich he put in his phonebook as 'google voice'

 

[coco savage]

nah hes not, hes texting FROM his google voice acct,w hich he put in his phonebook as 'google voice'

well there you go....i am confused LOL

 

[beenz]

nah hes not, hes texting FROM his google voice acct,w hich he put in his phonebook as 'google voice'

Correct

does this happen when you click on the handcent icon and type a message there?

Also correct

I have WidgetLocker and LauncherPro Plus installed. When I disable BOTH of these (not just one) the window moves up like it is supposed to. Does anyone else have both these apps and run into this issue?

 

[coco savage]

well i dont have all the other apps you do, but i have never had that problem with handcent at all..... sorry

 

[kboykb]

I use Handcent but I leave the stock app enabled for one reason: Message preview on the lock screen. When I'm at work I love to just hit the power button, check the message under the lock screen then cut my phone off before anyone notices

Is there anyway for Handcent to do this? It seems it only works with the stock app

 

[jbuck1984]

I think earlier in this post I defended handcent. I'm not taking back this statement however I am noting that I have deleted handcent and switched to Chomp for the time being. The last update from handcent has made it very unstable with multiple force closes and is driving lag into the keyboard. Not happy one bit about the change, I hate chat bubbles.

 

[coco savage]

I think earlier in this post I defended handcent. I'm not taking back this statement however I am noting that I have deleted handcent and switched to Chomp for the time being. The last update from handcent has made it very unstable with multiple force closes and is driving lag into the keyboard. Not happy one bit about the change, I hate chat bubbles.

i wont lie, i noticed the lag in handcent upon the recent update as well....somewhat annoying. wonder why this is?

how does chomp compare to handcent?

 

[AndreaSctlnd]

Along with the other opinions here, I use handcent for the notification customizations. My phone is on vibrate most of the time and with the stock app, the notification is only 2 little vibrations. Handcent, however, has the ability to change the vibrate pattern for notifications, ie default, normal, long, mult short, mult long and completely custom. This tips the scales in my opinion.

I too have my phone on vibrate most of the time and would love to figure out how to get the custom feature to work a bit better. Anyone want to help?

 

[beenz]

I too have my phone on vibrate most of the time and would love to figure out how to get the custom feature to work a bit better. Anyone want to help?

What are you having trouble with?

 

[imtoomuch]

With the stock message app when the threads would get filled with a lot of messages the thread would take forever to open with handcent there never is a lag no matter how many messages are in the thread

I found the complete opposite to be true on my Incredible! Handcent slowed the text threads down noticeably!

Handcent is so overrated! I am hoping Chomp gets faster and lighter and I might switch to that. For now I am happy with default texting and SMS Popup.

 

[Deleted User]

The only thing that bugs me about Handcent is that you can't add audio to a picture you are sending. I always have to use the default messaging program when I want to do that.

I could be missing something, though.

 

[Peoples00]

Love those tools in SBF I like the Demarini juggernaut, If you ever need some Evil balls let me know

Those evil balls were flat nasty. We used them for awhile but then the "leauge" decided that we couldn't anymore. I used to have a "buggs" PST that was flat nasty.

 

[ewingr]

I do not have subscriptions to SMS. I use Google Voice.

Will either Handcent or Chopm work for this scernario?

I did notice the posts about issues for the person using both LP and Widget Locker w/Handcent. I use those too, so I supposed I'll lean toward Chomp.

 

[paulmz]

I started out with Handcent as my first SMS replacement app and it was very good. But then I started to change more things on my phone like adding WidgetLocker and LauncherPro.

After doing this, I tried Chomp SMS and kept it for the sole reason that it will allow reply with a landscape keyboard without unlocking the phone (example: instant text alert with pop-up window on lockscreen- rotate phone- hit "reply"- full landscape keyboard). I haven't found another SMS app that would do this without exiting the pop-up, unlocking the phone, then going back to the message to type a reply with the bigger keyboard. All other apps I have tried only have the mini-qwerty in portrait while on the lockscreen.

Other than that, I like it beyond the stock program just for the customization and ability to assign separate tones to each contact for messages.

 

[coco savage]

so yet again handcent deletes all my texts messages.....anyone else experience this?

 

[bnx]

so yet again handcent deletes all my texts messages.....anyone else experience this?

yes, yesterday... and for no reason whatsoever. I was pissed

 

[juanito157]

Because I get to see this every time I read a text message...

SHIT!!! I think she's CRAZY hot !!













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[rezeew]

For me:
- You can set the keyboard's return key to make it send a message

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