I've been using **Handcent Next SMS** app for many years. A few moments ago, the Playstore's Play Protect just disabled the app on my phone saying the following: > This app is fake. It tries to take over your device or steal your data. The [webpage](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handcent.app.nextsms&hl=en_US&gl=US) for the app comes up blank now: To my knowledge, 10,000s of people have been using this app for many years. **Did something just change?** Anybody have more information about this sudden change/situation??

All I've been seeing about these apps are the positives. I want to know the negatives of using them, apart from me having to install an additional app to do something that the phone can already do by default. I'm looking to using one of the two because of the built in support for backing up SMS and MMS, something that will come in very handy especially since I text often.

I have Android phone and use Handcent SMS. I have gotten group texts from iPhone users who use iMessage and I can see what everyone is saying, but when I try to respond I only get a loading circle that just keeps spinning and it ends up saving as a draft and doesn't send. Is there a way to fix this?

My Samsung Galaxy S2 on Gingerbread was set to use Handcent as the default ringtone picker, and I accidentally changed this back to the built-in ringtone picker. How do I get it to use Handcent again? I went to Handcent, cleared the checkbox and marked it back again, but it didn't help.

I'm on a Nexus One with Android 2.3.7 (CyanogenMod-7.2.0-passion), and recently I've noticed some sent messages go into the wrong contact's conversation: I send a message to person ABC, the person does receive it correctly, but when I check later the app shows it as sent to a different person XYZ. This really messes up the conversation and gets confusing quickly. This has happened thrice so far, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it except both the contacts involved were people I had been messaging recently at those times. Note that the correct contact does receive the message, it's only on the display of the Sent message that this bug happens. I'm using Handcent app, but the same display issue occurs in the default Messaging app. In both cases, the message details that comes up after a long press on the message shows the correct number. But somehow, it is still shown under the wrong contact. I've also tried restarting the phone, doesn't help. Edit: I checked them all, and there does seem to be a pattern here - in each case, if a message ("msg1") sent to A is wrongly displayed under B, it turns out that B was the person I sent the next SMS after "msg1". That is, I send "msg1" to A, then after some time (varies from a few hours to a few days) I send a different message ("msg2") to B, "msg1" and "msg2" both end up under contact B one after the other

Can you send texts from iMessage to someone who has Android and uses Handcent ? And if yes does the iPhone user need to have Handcent?

I want to use Textra for SMS and Handcent for MMS, because they're both top in each class, respectively. I want to use Textra as if it were the only messaging app. Then when I want to send an MMS, I would open Handcent and sent my picture, video, ect. The problem is when I get any kind of message both apps show a popup and a notification. Textra is set as my default but I'm still getting notifications from Handcent. Can I disable notifications within Handcent and accomplish my goal?

The Handcent app has a feature where with a click of a button I can switch to a larger edit area. This allowed me to preview my messages in whole before sending them off and edit them comfortably. Now I've had to uninstall Handcent due to space issues (old Nexus One, very low memory for apps), and this is the only feature I miss in the stock messaging app. Is there a way I can enable this feature in the stock Messaging, or is there some small app that does this in a natural way without interfering with other functionality?

Is there a way to decrypt backup file of Handcent SMS privacy box? File is by default named like: hcprivacy-loginName-D01M01Y01.z I've lost my phone but have those backup files on my computer, although they are not in readable form. Inside, there is information I need to get. Please advise...

Device: Samsung Galaxy S2 How do I set my contact picture for text messaging, so everyone sees what I have set as my profile pic on Handcent?

I own an HTC desire(android 2.3.5) and suddenly the phone rebooted, and after a minute, it rebooted again (I hadn't typed in the pin)... When I opened my sms app (handcent) I got no messages... I've searced in /data/data/com.handcent.nextsms and found a .db file of 6MB...so it must be my sms... What can I do to restore my sms?

I have been having this issue for a long time on my rooted Droid 3 using the ROM it came with and this happens daily with relevant logs being left or any clear trigger. Basically what happens, and it tends to happen after the phone has been on for a few hours, I will send a message, usually with Handcent SMS (though I've experimented and tried other apps including the stock SMS, still happens) and occassionally a text will get stuck. Now one of two things generally will happen. Either it'll sit "sending" for about 5 minutes before finally failing. This acts like a text bottle neck, because if, say, I have a multi-page text being sent, the other queued messages will send instantly when the initial text fails. The other thing is that the text message will just sit sending indefinitely until I notice it hasn't sent and I delete it manually. If I resend it, sometimes those subsequent attempts will also hang. And once this starts happening, it will continue to happen until I restart my phone, resulting in my restarting my phone several times a day. An interesting observation that could help diagnose is the issue is once when I observed this happening, I open up a SQLite debug app and when I try to open up the mmssms.db file, it cannot read the file, which makes me think, perhaps the file is locked which is why the SMS process cannot commit the change to the database. Just an idea; don't know if that's at all related. **Edit:** This does seem to happen more often after heavy usage, say playing a game. Could it be that' some sort of SMS-handling daemon gets killed, perhaps?

So I've noticed recently that some of my friends contact info has disappeared, at least when using Handcent. If I get a text from them, I only see their numbers, and if I try and send a message they aren't listed in my contacts. If I use the default Text Messaging tool all of my contacts are there, and if I send a message to someone from there, I'll see it in Handcent as well, but without the contact info. I have A Droid RAZR, running Andoird 4.1.2

I'm using the Handcent sms app on my Galaxy Nexus. I set the delay sending feature at settings -> send message settings -> delay sending. The feature worked for the next few messages but then stopped. Any ideas as to what may have caused this and how to fix it?

I have a Google Nexus One with Android 2.2. I didn't like the default SMS-application so I installed Handcent-SMS. Now when I get an SMS, I get notified twice. How can I fix this?

I've a Samsung Galaxy S with 2.2 firmware. I'm using handcent instead of the default messaging application. In the default messaging app settings I have disabled notifications and disabled auto-retrieve. But when I get an SMS now, even after I had read it in handcent, I still get the new message notification overlay on the messaging icon on the homescreen until I click into it. Can i disable this, or better yet replace that icon with handcent?

How do you make sure your selected notification sound (selected by any App) is not overwritten by the default? No matter how I try, and test the sound within the app (Handcent SMS) successfully, the selected sound is overwritten by the Subtle System Ringtone. Thanks!

Is there a way to make Handcent show an SMS only after the screen is unlocked? Right now it shows the whole message in some kind of preview even when the screen is locked. Browsed the options a few times but didn't find a solution.. Is there such an option, or did I just miss it? thank you

I would like to send text messages via Google Voice, as it is the number I give out for voice calls. However, I find sending SMS through the Voice app to be a bit cumbersome. The new widgets improve this somewhat, but it is still awkward. I would prefer something with an interface more like Handcent or ChompSMS. Are there any other apps that support sending SMS via Google Voice?