Trouble with input field in 6.1 threaded SMS
 

I used to have the nagging problem after upgrading to earlier builds of 6.1 (nueROM) that occasionally the input field in the threaded SMS would suddenly shrink to half-height and not scroll, either, making the second, third, and so-on lines invisible. I'd have to soft-reset to clear it up. It was uncommon enough not to be a big deal, though.

Since updating to the newest version, though (5049), I've noticed it not only more frequently, but it's surviving soft resets, as well.

Does anyone know what causes this and what can fix it?

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I concur with this problem and would love to find out a fix. I haven't noticed soft-reset fixes it, but will pay closer attention to it.

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Same here, but I've just been dealing with it.

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what I have had to do is just delete some of my replies and then I am able to see what I am entering in the text field, so I keep the conversation and see what the other person has wrote but just remove what I wrote and then it works fine, but I know thats not a fix but something to try until someone has a fix.

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open and close the onscreen keyboard. it fixes it for me

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opening the keyboard and closing it works for me too.

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Unfortunately none of these solutions is much of one. If opening and closing my keyboard were enough to fix it, it wouldn't even be worth complaining about. That doesn't do it for me. And as for deleting my replies, well why do I even have threaded SMS at that point?

Thanks so far, though. Hopefully somebody finds something.

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Woo Hoo! A fix has presented itself! Actually, Ayerthon with help from Popamopps over at XDA has posted this fix. It makes the input area in threaded SMS taller! So that even if you have the height issue, it's still plenty tall enough to see what you're typing. Even without having to toggle the soft input panel!

The part I love best is that you can actually see 2 or more lines worth of text. Not sure if it does anything for the scrolling issue some people have been having.

Go to Windows, find the threaded_sms.htm file. You can either edit it on your phone with notepad, or total commander.

Look down through the file for this line....

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

I changed the height from 35 to 60, which is more than enough when you've gotten used to only being able to see the very top of typed text for so long.

Full credit on this goes over Ayerthon & Popamopps over at XDA.

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thanks, i will add this...

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TurboFool: He didn't mean the slide-out keyboard, but the on-screen keyboard (in between "Send" and "Menu"). When you click on it to pop up the on-screen keyboard, the messaging app resizes the window to the correct height.

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I know. When I said "Soft Input Panel", that is the on screen keyboard. You'll see it referred to as an SIP.

With this change applied, there is no need to toggle the on screen keyboard.

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veedubguru: Sorry, I should have specified that I was addressing TurboFool.... I prefer toggling the onscreen keyboard because I like more room for the chat history ( I have a bad memory D: ), but at least with the information you provided (thanks!), I can change it back to what I'm used to.

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No biggie! I guess I was confused too. Not surprising to find me confused late on a Monday.

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This is an incredibly old thread. I haven't had this problem in months. Turned out to be a bug in the early builds of 6.1. Cleared up with all the later ones.

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I'm running the No2Chem 3.49 5066, 6.1 build 19213 and occasionally still have the issue. No2Chem replied a few posts back about adding it in, I'm guessing on the next build.

What 6.1 build are you running?

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no2chem's latest build. Forget what WM version it is. Still, it's happened to me just once since then, and the same trick I learned back then (never bothered to update the thread over it because it's so old) worked now, which was to end-task the Text Messages app.

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usually i completely exit out of messaging, close the program then open it back up and the problem is fixed. other then that i deont think they have a solution yet.

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Hey everyone :)

I was seeing this earlier too and it always happened if I hit reply to message and slid the KB out before the screen rendered. What I found for myself as a solution was to either open the KB then hit reply, or hit reply, wait for the screen to render then open the KB.

It seems giving it time to setup the window before busting out the keyboard helps.

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For me, whenever it happens, I just click the keyboard icon twice really quick... it takes less than a second, and you don't have to close and reopen (nuerom 2.1b5069k)

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You're a genius. worked perfectly. I didn't know this worked. BIG THANKS MAN!!! EVERYONE NEEDS TO SAY THANKS TO THIS MAN

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I've been using that height change fix I posted earlier that I stubled in to at XDA for a full day now.

So far so good. Haven't had to hit the keyboard icon at all. Even when the problem has occurred I can type 3 rows before the text becomes not visible on the 3rd line.

This fix has worked great so far. Anyone else tried this yet?

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I tried the fix but now I can't open any of my text/SMS messages. In order to make the change to the file I copied it to my PC, opened and corrected it in Note Pad and then copied it back to my XV6800. Not sure what's wrong.

Can you post a link to the XDA Developers site where you found this solution?