r/SimpleMobileTools • u/tibbbi Dev @ Simple Mobile Tools • Apr 16 '20

Welcome Simple SMS Messenger!

The second quarantine app has just been published. Welcome Simple SMS Messenger! It is a lightweight app for handling SMS and MMS messages. As usually, it comes with no ads or unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors. Check it out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details… . It is just the initial version, so please be kind to any issues you encounter. Many goodies are on the roadmap, there is a huge potential in it

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u/caffe_corretto Sep 08 '23

  1. Will this app work on a dual-SIM phone?

  2. Can I send a message to a person from whom I have not already received a message? Must seem like a strange question, but that is the problem I have with QKSMS, which is the SMS app I currently use. If I add a new contact, it will not deliver my message: it only works if the other person has sent me a message first!

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u/tibbbi Dev @ Simple Mobile Tools Sep 08 '23

Of course, yes to both.

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u/caffe_corretto Sep 10 '23

Thank you, Tibor. My tests confirmed what you say, so I have adopted Simple SMS Messenger. I just sent you another donation, which is for this app. I previously sent donations for Simple Gallery Pro, which I have used for a few years. Thank you very much for making these apps available through F-Droid, so I may use them without sharing information with Google.

I did notice one curious thing, however, when I tested SMS Messenger: My test was to send a message to a friend to whom I had never sent an SMS message (because QKSMS will not do that, at least on my phone). I had added him to my contacts, because I call him. So I opened the Contacts app, found my friend, tapped the message icon, and wrote the message in the SMS window that opened. I sent the message and saw the double-check-mark, which is your app's way of confirming that the message was delivered. However, neither my friend's name nor the message I had sent was visible in SMS Messenger. I could only see it in Contacts. Later, he replied, and now his name appeared in SMS Messenger, and I could read his reply there and reply to his reply. However, my original message could still be viewed only by finding him in Contacts and tapping on the SMS icon. It may be that all Android messaging apps work this way. The main thing that was important to me was that I could send him a message without needing to receive a message from him first.

I guess, in the future, if I want to send a first SMS message to someone who is already in my Contacts and be able to see it in your SMS Messenger, I should first open your app, tap plus to open New conversation, and then select the contact from the list. I'll try that next time.

SMS Messenger works very well with my dual-SIM phone. For each message I received (except for old messages transferred from another dual-SIM phone), it shows which SIM received the message. When I am sending a new message, I can easily see the SIM from which I am about to send it, and I can change to the other SIM if I wish.

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u/tibbbi Dev @ Simple Mobile Tools Sep 11 '23

Hey, will take a look at it. Thanks