PPCGeeks - SMS Lag Fix!

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- - SMS Lag Fix! (http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=73005)

Unlike all of the other fixes that are aimed at the keyboard I did some playing around with "thread_sms.htm" in the windows folder. There's an arguement in there called "count" which calls some function that calculates the characters in the message after every letter. Removing this arguement stops tmail from calculating the character count thus eliminating the keyboard lag.
IF SOMETHING BREAKS JUST DELETE THREAD_SMS.HTM AND WINDOWS WILL RECREATE IT.

I have attached the HTM that I modified in case you don't want to do the editing yourself.

Summary:
Open Total Commander
Browse to the Windows folder
Look for "thread_sms.htm"
Hit file and go to edit
Scroll down (it's pretty short so it shouldn't be that far) and look for "count" then delete it. It's the only one in there so no need to worry about deleting the wrong one.
Save and restart the phone.

Enjoy!

Some of you wanted to see what I actually modified and where count was in the htm file.

Code:

<html XMLNS:Inbox>



 <head>

  <object id="HTMLFormFactory" CLASSID="clsid:29d48cf7-ed6a-4a9d-a17a-ae9115c07a90" />

  <?IMPORT NAMESPACE="Inbox" IMPLEMENTATION="#HTMLFormFactory" />

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="file://\windows\thread_style.css" type="text/css" />

 </head>



 <body>

  <Inbox:ThreadIFrame>

   <Inbox:content id="THREADIFRAME" links threadviewminheight=45 />

  </Inbox:ThreadIFrame>



  <div id="threadbottom">

   <hr class="divider" size="1" />

   <Inbox:ComposeBodyCount>

    <Inbox:content ID="COMPOSEBODYCOUNT" format="%1!d!/%2!d!%4 (%3!d! messages)" title />

   </Inbox:ComposeBodyCount>

   <Inbox:ComposeSubject class="sms">

    <Inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=35 spell focus count links noclearonbackpresshold limit=0 autocap inserttab dynamicresize />

   </Inbox:ComposeSubject>

  </div>



 </body>



</html>

So just delete the part in green!

Update - 17/06/09
I made another change to compose_sms.htm that gets rid of the
_______
0/130

display. It's just a blank window now and doesn't look like a broken counter was just placed there.

Here's my compose_sms.htm

Code:

<html XMLNS:Inbox>



  <head>

    <object id="HTMLFormFactory" CLASSID="clsid:29d48cf7-ed6a-4a9d-a17a-ae9115c07a90"/>

    <?IMPORT NAMESPACE="Inbox" IMPLEMENTATION="#HTMLFormFactory" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="file://\windows\compose_style.css" type="text/css" />

  </head>



  <body>

    <a name="inbox:top"></a>



    <table class="header">

      <tr>

        <td class="header">From:</td>

        <td class="content">

          <Inbox:ComposeFrom>

            <Inbox:content id="COMPOSEFROM" />

          </Inbox:ComposeFrom>

        </td>

      </tr>

      <tr>

        <td class="header"><a class="header" href="Inbox:COMPOSETO 0">To:</a></span>

        <td class="content">

          <Inbox:ComposeTo>

            <Inbox:content id="COMPOSETO" nocr focus phone count />

          </Inbox:ComposeTo>

        </td>

      </tr>

    </table>



    <div class="divider" />



    <Inbox:ComposeSubject class="sms">

      <Inbox:Content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" smartheight=50 limit=0 replyfocus links spell autocap inserttab />

    </Inbox:ComposeSubject>



<!--    <div class="SMSLine" />

        

    <Inbox:ComposeBodyCount>

      <Inbox:Content id="COMPOSEBODYCOUNT" format="%1!d!/%2!d!%4 (%3!d! messages)" />

    </Inbox:ComposeBodyCount>

-->

    <Inbox:Padding>

      <a href="Inbox:ComposeSubject setfocus">

        <Inbox:content id="PADDING" UseComposeSubjectHeight />

      </a>

    </Inbox:Padding>



  </body>

</html>

Just add those two comment tags: 
They are highlighted in green for ease of finding. Alternatively you could just delete everything in between those comment tags for the same effect. I left it in there in case I wanted to add a little signature or logo or something.
Also added the attachment for compose_sms.htm

-Side note: I've done alot of flashing and I found that if you don't hard reset right after replacing or if you have SMS open it doesn't completely overwrite it and corrupts it a little. Make sure to reset right after replacing so windows doesn't have time to try to replace it (which is why I think it breaks).

fr0st was kind enough to make up a cab, I attached it to this post.

Re: SMS Lag Fix!

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradyonly (Post 1000037)

Unlike all of the other fixes that are aimed at the keyboard I did some playing around with "thread_sms.htm" in the windows folder. There's an arguement in there called "count" which calls some function that calculates the characters in the message after every letter. Removing this arguement stops tmail from calculating the character count thus eliminating the keyboard lag.
MAKE SURE YOU BACKUP THREAD_SMS.HTM BEFORE EDITING IN CASE YOU BREAK IT

Summary:
Open Total Commander
Browse to the Windows folder
Look for "thread_sms.htm"
Hit file and go to edit
Scroll down (it's pretty short so it shouldn't be that far) and look for "count" then delete it. It's the only one in there so no need to worry about deleting the wrong one.
Save and restart the phone.

Enjoy!

Nice, now I'll really applaud you if you can modify it so instead of just completely removing it, it counts every say, second, or maybe even 3-5 seconds instead?

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Oh sweet, so it just doesn't update the "X/160" figure while you type, and so doesn't slow you down as much?

Interesting find.

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Yeah it's unfortunate that you lose the character count but my texts are usually short anyways. If I could figure out where count is I might be able to mess around in that function to maybe find some unecessary code. Kind of the same way MS Word publishes to HTML *Shutters*

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bradyonly (Post 1000097)

Unfortunately I have some friends with prepaid phones, and I try to be courteous and keep anything I have to say to one text. I have a bad habit of typing texts that end up in the 180 character range, which is just a few too many. Most of the time I can trim them down...

Regardless, I'd like to try this but I need the count!

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good find.. really the only reason I see for caring about the count is twitter, but we got apps for that anyway.
if I get long winded, what do I care if it gets split into multiple txt's.

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I am very interested in this development. I have noticed a few different things when in the SMS window.

Not only do we have character count, but on some roms you can actually see the box resize after every letter. The scroll bar will adjust and it seems to "scan" the area texted to see if it has to move down. I think if maybe this could be manipulated in a way to only happen after every 5 or ten characters, we might have faster texting.

I need the character count, as I tweet from sms and i hate to send 2 messages to friends that dont have unlimited texts when I could just send them one.

I am definitely interested in this thread. Maybe we should send an email to No2Chem? He's incredibly good at finding little things like this (eg: keyboard backlighting).

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it would be really nice as some of you have said already to have the character count still there but update less frequantly

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anybody tried this? seems really cool...if it actually worked

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I'm on 6.5 and my thread_sms.html doesn't have just a "count" it has a lot, lol...

Could you possibly post an example? I don't want to delete the wrong thing, haha..

Thanks,

-Corey

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yea, I think posting that htm would be helpful. I stayed up wayy too long last night looking into this on msdn and didn't get around to trying. now I gotta work.

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I've attached the htm file that I modified. Just replace the file in \windows\

Of course back it up first in case this is something that's carrier specific. (which I doubt but just in case.)

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So far I like the fix, I do miss the character count but the lag drives me nuts!! I'm willing to sacrifice the count for the decreased lag. Good Find!!! I might look into trying to tweak it a lil where it keeps the count but only counts when you stop typing for say 2 seconds or so, then once you stop and it counts the characters used you won't have lag, and you will have a count, sounds genius!!!

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would be awesome if it would re-count after you stop typing for 1-2 seconds, as previously mentioned. But still, great find!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ott (Post 1001475)

I might look into trying to tweak it a lil where it keeps the count

Please do

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Thanks for the fix!! I never cared about the character count whatsoever and this along with the SPJ cab completely removed lag from my texting!

Re: SMS Lag Fix!

Quote:

Originally Posted by flindil (Post 1001684)

Thanks for the fix!! I never cared about the character count whatsoever and this along with the SPJ cab completely removed lag from my texting!

what's SPJ cab?

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thanks, this works.
I also use the SPJ cab, don't know if that added to this fix, but no more lag! :D

Re: SMS Lag Fix!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruskiyab (Post 1001604)

There's also the file called compose_sms.htm which you can do the same thing to.

Here's a cab that does both files. it should be uninstallable as well

after using your cab.. threaded sms text in wm6.5 don't show up anymore..

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Might have to change SMS back to threaded. Should be under system in settings. Not sure if all ROMs have it. Hopefully someone has more luck than me with tweaking count to only count after you stop typing.

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I'm keeping a close eye on this thread! Great find, OP!

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i will post up the 6.5 one shortly

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thanks gonna try this today.

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Hmm, this didn't do anything for me. I tried editing the file myself, and also replacing the file with the one in the thread, soft resets between each, and nothing. Same lag, and it still counts. Anyone else had this just... not work?

/Kevin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by commonplace (Post 1002070)

Are you using the threaded SMS or old style? Also what ROM are you using?

Quote:

Originally Posted by saumaun (Post 1001982)

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I'm keeping a close eye on this thread! Great find, OP!

Thanks! :D

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Quote:

Originally Posted by commonplace (Post 1002070)

Same here.. I'm using Threaded SMS and my file matches identical, tried editing/replacing and soft reseting, same thing.

Happening on a couple different ROMs, but the one ROM I keep going back to is one I cooked in SSK 2.1.1 kitchen, WinMo 6.5

-Corey

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Quote:

Originally Posted by coreyoli (Post 1002103)

Who's your provider? And you're just using the standard SMS program right?

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for this to work you need to be using the standard sms program (\windows\tmail.exe) in threaded mode

EDIT: also be sure to soft reset

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I have found that if you open your keyboard and let the screen change to landscape mode first then open up your text messages the lag NEVER happens it just happens when you have text messaging open then open your keyboard. Then the lag happens. This littel adjustment works for me er time.

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I know it shows to delete this from the "thread_sms.htm", I also deleted it from "thread_sms.ht", I'm not sure what the difference is but I went ahead and got rid of "count" on both them and it works flawlessly for me.

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Umm any way i can get the originall 6.5 file?

now i cant reply to text messages unless its through the Touch flow Text

not the windows
:(:(:(

Re: SMS Lag Fix!

Quote:

Originally Posted by allamerican2302 (Post 1002393)

Umm any way i can get the originall 6.5 file?

now i cant reply to text messages unless its through the Touch flow Text

not the windows
:(:(:(

I was gonna post up my file for you, but i have 6.5 on my phone and it's identical to the one in the first post. Just with the word "count".

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So is there anything i can do?

besides re-flashing?

EEK!...... :???::???::???:

Or can someone show me were to put the word " Count " at in the file?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by allamerican2302 (Post 1002430)

So is there anything i can do?

besides re-flashing?

EEK!...... :???::???::???:

Or can someone show me were to put the word " Count " at in the file?

the first post shows exactly where the word count goes

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Just go to the \Windows Directory and delete the file. Soft reset and it'll be back to normal

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did you put the file in the first post back in windows and soft reset?

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Yep i did.....

i got it working again

Thnx to deleting the file then soft reseting...

Thnx...

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I backed up my file to SD card.
I edited the file as noted in the OP.
Soft Reset.
Messaging would open, but when I tapped a conversation or started a new one, it would just show me the messaging app with the OK button and the title bar at the top of the screen (but I could not see the top fields and the message area in the bottom).

I reverted back to my backup from SD and soft reset (which didn't work) so I deleted the file and soft reset and I'm back to normal.

Did anyone else have this issue?

EDIT: I did try the files that were uploaded here, but they yielded the same results as when I edited the file myself.

Running MightRom4 Final (6.20.09).

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I wonder if Windows 6.1 has a different count function than 6.5 does... Well I got a new phone today finally so I'll be flashing until I find one I like. Maybe I'll play with that Mighty ROM and see if it breaks for me.

Edit: I just flash mighty 4 that was made on the 20th of June and when I removed count from the htm file it works fine for me. Are you using threaded or classic style SMS? I can't seem to replicate your problem.