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10-03-2010, 03:09 AM
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I have been using my BB Bold 9700 for the last few months and I have to say that I am fairly unimpressed with the stock operating system on the phone. Although it is snappy, it seems to make be very "user unfriendly". One of my issues lies with the SMS inbox on the phone. I like keeping my SMS messages separate from my email simply because I receive so many emails and SMS's each day it is just easier to read them with different mailboxes. However, the SMS only inbox functions almost identically to the email inbox. This mainly sucks because...
SMS messages from the same contact are shown as multiple entries, one entry per day
The ideal scenario is to open up your SMS inbox and see of names (preferrably with contact photos as well) and be able to click to see the threaded conversation of every message sent/received from that contact. For some reason Blackberry OS breaks down messages in the inbox by day. This means if I want to message a person I haven't SMS'd in a while, I have to scroll to the date when I last messaged this person or compose a new message and type in the name. This may seem like a minor detail, but this is annoying and shows that the OS isn't designed with efficiency in mind.
CrunchSMS has another fatal flaw.
Each text message should have easy to access timestamps
Timestamps shouldn't be just thrown in every few messages. They need to appear on every single message.
Anyway, these are my current issues. If you know a way around this, please respond because I would love to hear your solutions. Is there any other app that I should look into?
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10-03-2010, 05:54 AM
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1. Timestamps aren't in SMS, except on older phones and some smartphones.
2. Delete the already read sms threads for the ones you're done sms-ing. I do this daily. It should solve most problems.
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10-03-2010, 06:24 AM
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1. To separate email from SMS simply open your main message inbox, go to options, go to inbox settings and make sure that "SMS and MMS" is unchecked.
2. To find a person that you haven't SMS in awhile, use the search option and filter it down to what you are looking for. I use this all the time and it works very efficiently. Once the person comes up it will show each date that person has SMS but once you click on any of the dates you can then scroll the entire SMS history with that individual.
3. Regarding date stamping, I have a 8900 but I would suppose that BBM is the same for all, once you scroll into the message text it will show the time stamp at the top of each SMS exchange between you and that person.
4. To see a photo of that individual, just send them an invite through BBM. Rather they except or not, they will be added to you BBM contact list and their photo will show up.
Hope that helps
Last edited by crossbearer; 10-03-2010 at 06:27 AM.
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10-03-2010, 02:39 PM
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Just so you know, OS6 threads all the messages from a contact. 9700 should get os6 before too much longer.
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10-06-2010, 02:27 AM
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Are you still on 4.6? 5.0 has threaded SMS wtf???
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10-08-2010, 09:56 PM
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Agree with above poster. Are you still on OS 4.6/7?
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10-12-2010, 02:26 PM
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My SMS are threaded on my Bold 9700. OP must have an older version of the OS...
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10-12-2010, 03:16 PM
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Did the 9700 even come out with a 4.xx OS? I thought it was 5.x from the start.
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10-13-2010, 07:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheScionicMan  Did the 9700 even come out with a 4.xx OS? I thought it was 5.x from the start. | It was. the above poster was mistaken.
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11-20-2010, 04:55 PM
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So, I thought I would respond to all this conversaton. It seems like nobody really understood what I was saying. So, I am going to try to spell it out slowly.
Say in the morning I wake up and I want to text message Kyle. It has been several weeks since I have texted Kyle. I go to my Blackberry, click to go to the messages (or the sms inbox, whatever, doesn't matter). At this point I would be forced to do one of many things.
1. Scroll down and find the last time I messaged Kyle
2. Do a search for Kyle and then do a reply to one of his messages
3. Click the blackberry button, click compose, type in his name, click again
Each of these takes either takes too many clicks or takes too long. CrunchSMS is better because all contacts you have ever contacted are listed in one short list (NOT broken down by date). The flaw with CrunchSMS is more that it isn't available in the ALT TAB feature of Blackberry OS.
It's just another one of the annoying features of Blackberry that we all have to live with. Anyway, it's fine, I may try to buy a smartphone this Christmas. I hear those are good.
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11-20-2010, 04:57 PM
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Ok, you apparently also did not understand what we said, so I'll spell it out slowly.
Do a device software upgrade.
If you don't know how, the tutorials section on this forum has a step by step guide.
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11-27-2010, 12:13 AM
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myver: 9700 / 6.0.0.344
The unreleased OS is still 2 years behind the mainstream.
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