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I just purchased a Samsung Infuse last weekend and I am very satisfied so far. It's my first Droid and my first Smartphone period. None of my old phones had a 'Conversations' layout for text messages from the same person, so I quite like the change even if it takes a bit of getting used to. However, there's one minor annoyance I'd like to know if there's a way to fix as a result of this...I never had any sort of data plan before on my old phones, but I have always had unlimited texting, so the way me and some computer-bound friends would often communicate is via Gmail, where an SMS from my phone would come to them as an e-mail and vice-versa. The issue is that each new text I receive is listed as from a new contact that's a fictional phone number like 1-410-000-187 (and subsequent replies will increment like 188, 189 and so on). It was always a bit annoying that I couldn't group my gmail friends under a single contact but it was easy enough to ignore when all my texts came in as individual messages.
However, with a conversation format, this is quite irritating because my inbox is now full of 'conversations' that consist of one message from gmail, and my response...then their response - part of the same ACTUAL conversation - comes in as a new conversation on the phone and just clutters up the inbox. I do have these friends configured with their gmail accounts in my contact list, so I figured that the phone could detect that SMS messages from that account would be listed as that contact...but it doesn't because the messages come in as from the phone number 1-410-etc. Is there any way I can configure my phone to somehow recognize messages from gmail friends as coming from them under their name from my contact list? I realize I could just e-mail them from the e-mail app now that I have a phone with a data plan, but we're so used to this format that it's a pain to have to tell them all to stop e-mailing that number when they want to reach me on my phone.
I hope I explained that well enough...it's a bit difficult to describe without being able to show a picture of the inbox, but my phone isn't rooted and I don't believe I can take screenshots unless it is.
I just purchased a Samsung Infuse last weekend and I am very satisfied so far. It's my first Droid and my first Smartphone period. None of my old phones had a 'Conversations' layout for text messages from the same person, so I quite like the change even if it takes a bit of getting used to. However, there's one minor annoyance I'd like to know if there's a way to fix as a result of this...I never had any sort of data plan before on my old phones, but I have always had unlimited texting, so the way me and some computer-bound friends would often communicate is via Gmail, where an SMS from my phone would come to them as an e-mail and vice-versa. The issue is that each new text I receive is listed as from a new contact that's a fictional phone number like 1-410-000-187 (and subsequent replies will increment like 188, 189 and so on). It was always a bit annoying that I couldn't group my gmail friends under a single contact but it was easy enough to ignore when all my texts came in as individual messages.
However, with a conversation format, this is quite irritating because my inbox is now full of 'conversations' that consist of one message from gmail, and my response...then their response - part of the same ACTUAL conversation - comes in as a new conversation on the phone and just clutters up the inbox. I do have these friends configured with their gmail accounts in my contact list, so I figured that the phone could detect that SMS messages from that account would be listed as that contact...but it doesn't because the messages come in as from the phone number 1-410-etc. Is there any way I can configure my phone to somehow recognize messages from gmail friends as coming from them under their name from my contact list? I realize I could just e-mail them from the e-mail app now that I have a phone with a data plan, but we're so used to this format that it's a pain to have to tell them all to stop e-mailing that number when they want to reach me on my phone.
I hope I explained that well enough...it's a bit difficult to describe without being able to show a picture of the inbox, but my phone isn't rooted and I don't believe I can take screenshots unless it is.
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