alternative texting program?

[marklyn]

Originally Posted by Hafrust

I could be wrong, but I don't think there is anything that will replace your existing text message program. I've gotta ask...why would you want to get do this? What went wrong?

Well, it's difficult to re-create but it does happen regularly. Sometimes when I'm starting a new line of texting and I'm inputting the first word, the word I've typed in just disappears when I hit the space to continue with another word and I don't see this right away so I have to re-type everything again.
Lots of times I send short 2-4 word messages and before I realize it, I've sent a message with the first word missing, so I have to re-create/re-send.
In addition, I've tried to turn off the black bar at the top to save real-estate space but it's back on again and nothing I uncheck seems to fix that.
I've gone through the settings time and time again and turned things off/on and followed advice of other folks having a similar problem but I'm just really tired of dealing with it.