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Android still has horrible text messaging bugs

35 points by J3L2404 16y ago

sausagefeet 16y ago
Text messaging app is really dreadful on the N1. Worst bug I experience is hitting the messaging app brings me to the browser and the only way to get back to message is either going to a contact then going to view all threads from their or restarting the phone.
- phuff 16y ago
  That has happened to me all the time, too, though, not after the most recent OTA (I'm not on gingerbread yet, I don't think).
- catch23 16y ago
  I guess you need a publisher like engadget to get the bug noticed by Google! That bug has discussed on HN & Reddit multiple times this year but was never a priority for Google until now.
scrollbar 16y ago
I experienced a text message going to the wrong person just last week, running android 2.2 on my Evo. Completely unacceptable for a communication device, as discussed in the article.
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colanderman 16y ago
This might not be a bug iin their Messaging app per se. I've noticed a similar problem with ListViews in general: often times what you appear to be clicking on and what you're actually clicking on are different. I've deleted the wrong contact and called the wrong person many times because of this. I've noticed that it happens most often during updates to the ListView (e.g. while it is loading); this leads me to believe it to be due to lack of thread synchronization.
- jambo 16y ago
  I'm using CyanogenMod based on Android 1.6, but I have noticed this too. When this (rarely) happens in the call log, a press on one contact at the top of the list visually highlights another several contacts down.
izendejas 16y ago
I've experienced two bugs. 1) a warning that two of my messages failed to send wouldn't go away after "clearing" them in the status bar. Had to go to settings and clear all data and force stop the app. Not critical, just very annoying. 2) when auto-completing a name and selecting such name, it actually adds the next person in your contact list as the adressee.
steveklabnik 16y ago
Yep. This is why I turned of text to Twitter: something bad happened once...
- tdfx 16y ago
  This sounds good. Please share.
nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
One good side effect of using Google Voice for everything is that I've never noticed or been affected by this bug.
ja27 16y ago
I don't think I've ever had this happen, but my outbound texts on Sprint haven't worked for a week ("invalid number of digits") so I gave up and used Google Voice for texts instead, which is pretty nice as a work-around.
res0nat0r 16y ago
I've had this happen on my Evo a good number of times. Mainly clicking on a text message thread to reply to someone clicks on a different person who is 2-3 people below in the thread list. It is very annoying as I've sent text's to the wrong person before.
ry0ohki 16y ago
I guess this is another reason to be very careful of anything you say about anyone in an electronic medium!
cookiecaper 16y ago
Anyone with a link to the bug on Google Code? It seems it was removed from the article. I've never had this happen to me, but I don't text very much. It has happened a couple of times to my wife, though.
- snowwindwaves 16y ago
  http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392&c...
  - cookiecaper 16y ago
    Thanks. I guess I see why they took the link off -- that thread has turned into a tremendous wreck. Only the first 40 comments or so are useful. The remaining 1280 are all "please fix it!!!!!!!". Though I did like the comment that said, "This is like text roulette, please do not fix."
fleitz 16y ago
Its an open platform right? So why not just go in and fix the bug yourself? I'm really surprised a fix for this hasn't appeared on github that I can patch into my android source. /snicker
- codingthewheel 16y ago
  I suggest you actually learn about the platform before performing the argumentative equivalent of throwing bits and pieces of monkey scat into the fray in the vain hopes of upvotes, or just out of sheer orneriness and wrong-headedness. http://source.android.com/ http://source.android.com/

35 points by J3L2404 16y ago

Text messaging app is really dreadful on the N1. Worst bug I experience is hitting the messaging app brings me to the browser and the only way to get back to message is either going to a contact then going to view all threads from their or restarting the phone.

phuff 16y ago
That has happened to me all the time, too, though, not after the most recent OTA (I'm not on gingerbread yet, I don't think).
catch23 16y ago
I guess you need a publisher like engadget to get the bug noticed by Google! That bug has discussed on HN & Reddit multiple times this year but was never a priority for Google until now.

scrollbar 16y ago

I experienced a text message going to the wrong person just last week, running android 2.2 on my Evo. Completely unacceptable for a communication device, as discussed in the article.

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colanderman 16y ago

This might not be a bug iin their Messaging app per se. I've noticed a similar problem with ListViews in general: often times what you appear to be clicking on and what you're actually clicking on are different. I've deleted the wrong contact and called the wrong person many times because of this. I've noticed that it happens most often during updates to the ListView (e.g. while it is loading); this leads me to believe it to be due to lack of thread synchronization.

jambo 16y ago
I'm using CyanogenMod based on Android 1.6, but I have noticed this too. When this (rarely) happens in the call log, a press on one contact at the top of the list visually highlights another several contacts down.

izendejas 16y ago

I've experienced two bugs. 1) a warning that two of my messages failed to send wouldn't go away after "clearing" them in the status bar. Had to go to settings and clear all data and force stop the app. Not critical, just very annoying. 2) when auto-completing a name and selecting such name, it actually adds the next person in your contact list as the adressee.

steveklabnik 16y ago

Yep. This is why I turned of text to Twitter: something bad happened once...

tdfx 16y ago
This sounds good. Please share.

nuclear_eclipse 16y ago

One good side effect of using Google Voice for everything is that I've never noticed or been affected by this bug.

ja27 16y ago

I don't think I've ever had this happen, but my outbound texts on Sprint haven't worked for a week ("invalid number of digits") so I gave up and used Google Voice for texts instead, which is pretty nice as a work-around.

res0nat0r 16y ago

I've had this happen on my Evo a good number of times. Mainly clicking on a text message thread to reply to someone clicks on a different person who is 2-3 people below in the thread list. It is very annoying as I've sent text's to the wrong person before.

ry0ohki 16y ago

I guess this is another reason to be very careful of anything you say about anyone in an electronic medium!

cookiecaper 16y ago

Anyone with a link to the bug on Google Code? It seems it was removed from the article. I've never had this happen to me, but I don't text very much. It has happened a couple of times to my wife, though.

snowwindwaves 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392&c...
- cookiecaper 16y ago
  Thanks. I guess I see why they took the link off -- that thread has turned into a tremendous wreck. Only the first 40 comments or so are useful. The remaining 1280 are all "please fix it!!!!!!!". Though I did like the comment that said, "This is like text roulette, please do not fix."

fleitz 16y ago

Its an open platform right? So why not just go in and fix the bug yourself? I'm really surprised a fix for this hasn't appeared on github that I can patch into my android source. /snicker

codingthewheel 16y ago
I suggest you actually learn about the platform before performing the argumentative equivalent of throwing bits and pieces of monkey scat into the fray in the vain hopes of upvotes, or just out of sheer orneriness and wrong-headedness. http://source.android.com/ http://source.android.com/