ejoya & ray661, sorry, can you please remind me of these issues?

@martin if password is disabled, when on qr/qc and you choose to open it in the main app, all the composed messages will be transferred. With password enabled, it will not transfer the message.
Thanks

Martin:
The beta2 release list looks awesome!

It’s nearly impossible to rig it to do it, but it happened a few times in the exact same way. When you call the music controls by double tapping the home button, and recieve a text message, thus calling the quick reply window, your springboard will crash. I have an app that changes the way the music controls pop up, iPodpop, which makes the quick pop up show up even if no music is playing, instead of opening the iPod app.

I couldn’t test it out, but how I got it to happen every time the same way. Doesn’t bother me, just thought I’d point it out and I’m curious as to what causes this problem lol. It’s really hard to get a text at the same time as when you call the pop up

Edit by Martin, OK we’ll leave this then, as it’s the only time I have heard about it, and for sure it’ll be time consuming to fix.

Is it possible that bitesms set the latest sent sms as read that caused the badge bug?
I haven’t tried disabling other MS extensions but when that badge bug appears
I saw my newly sent sms as unread in lockinfo
not sure if it is lockinfo, status notifier or bitesms that caused it

For the Call Button on Quick Reply, I was wondering if you guys would consider double tap to call to be the default because I can’t tell you how many times me, my dad, mom, and girlfriend have tapped it on our iphones by accident and it’s quite frustrating, thank you again for bitesms!

Edit by Martin, it’s not the default, but you can easily set-it to do this in biteSMS->Settings->Quick Compose (or Quick Reply)->Buttons

@ Jackal - I’ve tested disabling all my substrates for a week and just using Bite and I still got the badge bug.

@ Martin - Have you guys had a chance to talk or look at what might be causing the badge notification problem? It’s been around for over 3 main releases now :(

Edit by Martin, logically we can’t see how it could happen, and we have never seen it occur. However in the latest Beta2, then is a command line option which we have added to get more techie users to work with us when they get the badge appear. Essentially the following command shows us each unread message in the SMS database. This will narrow down the issue to either user error / misunderstanding or genuine badge issue.

as mobile user /Applications/biteSMS.app/biteSMS -showunread

forgot to mention my bug happened while i was inside an app.

I too see some of my sent messages as unread oddly enough when I enter the main app sometimes. But I also do see the problem when I don’t respond and clear the QR. So essentially both sending and receiving in QR as far as badging goes is very quirky.

I can confirm that my demo of iReal went smooth as it pertained to marking things as read/unread. I’ve also seen the problem after disabling ALL other substrates.

For the first time in a long time I experienced the Unread badge bug twice today. In both cases the message I had just sent was marked as unread. Seems to be a pattern?

When you say the messages you send “were marked as unread”, what visual indicator are you using to denote this fact?

@Martin
Hope you’ve seen the password bug I posted in my last post. Not in a hurry to fix in beta2 but I hope it can be fixed on the final release.
Great idea! A log will definitely track down the unread badge problem. Excited for beta 2!

Thanks

ejoya, looking at getting this fixed now, before we put out the Beta2 release.

Martin: in both cases I had no unread messages until I had actually sent one using QC – After sending, I noticed a ‘1 message available’ badge and when I opened Bite it took me to the last thread I had sent a message to.

You mean the “1” badge shown on the biteSMS icon – right?

Can you reproduce this?

ejoya not for this beta I am afraid, as proving tricky to fix, it will however be fixed for Beta3.

Beta2 out now!!!!

New features are listed here: http://forums.bitesms.com/forums/6/topics/1864#...

Np. Can wait for another beta

Anyone like to comment on the new template stuff…..?

Awesome!!! Thank you so much!

@Martin
on beta 3 after the trial we can have the app for free but with ads?

Yes, that’s the intent, what’s your view on this?

I like the templates. Though when I hit the camera icon a second time I feel it should close the pop up. In case I accidently hit it? I had the phone in land scape and I hit it, just to look, and only could close it by tapping the text field, and I was tappin the pink camera icon that opened it to close it. I hope you know what I mean.

Edit by Martin, not sure why that behavior would seem right, as it does not work that way for example in the native Messaging app.

Also, i think there should be an on/off toggle for the (!) badge and my friend had to dig into his history to find the failed message, so I think you should be able to set how far back it looks for a failed message, as well as have a method of finding it in case it’s a while back (which, in my opinion, would help solve any confusion by users who just update without knowing what the update does).

Edit by Martin, it’s only for the last 7-days of messages.

Also, while I love the camera icon, as it matches my theme, I feel the icon doesn’t match the default theme of the phone, however, if you do change it, I want the modded icon and a method of changing it, as i love the icon myself. Matches perfectly with my theme.

Edit by Martin, It’s an image, so can be modded as required.

Thanks for the release though. I really enjoy it :)

p.s. Is it just me or is the reply area on these forums always in a weird spot after you write in it using your iPhone?

my friends review and suggestion: (awaiting reply to my text asking for it lol)

The reply comes up weird on my iPhone too lol.

My thoughts – the templates are great! Very well implemented and goes with the flow wothout adding much to the UI.

Camera icon—definitely not digging the pink icon. I have been using nims_native icon set to make all icons and all the pink bitesms stuff appear more “native” just like the stock messages app. So, I have installed iRealSMS and jacked their camera icon which is much more attractive IMO. It looks like the native camera icon but has a smiley on the bottom part. The bitesms camera icon just looks terrible.

Edit by Martin, no worries, although in my view the smiley superimposed is more overt, and from the irealsms submenu you cannot access smileys or add contacts, so kinda does not make sense for biteSMS.

As for the functionality, as mentioned above, I think hitting the camera icon should be an open/close type. Once should open the smilies, and then hitting the camera icon again should close it.

Other than that, awesome! Thanks for the update!!

Yeah templates are great, though I’m not diggin the pink either. Poison care to share? lol Give me a day with it to come up with some constructive observations