SwiftSMS - Simply sending Beautiful Webtexts

Fluffy88 · 08-03-2014 3:25pm

deiseliving wrote: »

Tried logging on to 3 website and works. But same thing yesterday evening and SwiftSMS wasn't working until your update went through

Forgive me but I'm a bit confused by your last message.
Is Three working for you again?

If not we will have to look into it.
Sorry for the delayed reply!

CollyFowler · 08-03-2014 5:22pm

Very nice application. Vodafone works nice and captcha is very quick compared to Cabbage. Will there be a Pro version that can make it the default messaging app e.g. incoming messages will go in there automatically?

EDIT : Just read through rest of thread and to make it a fully fledged SMS app is quite a job.
Eitherway it's a very nice SMS app guys, I'll certainly be keeping it on my phone.

Fluffy88 · 08-03-2014 7:48pm

Thanks for the positive feedback CollyFowler :-)

We have one or two little features we want to add to the app before we start thinking about premium features.

Fluffy88 · 25-03-2014 11:59am

People may have noticed some issues with Vodafone recently, where after the first message some/most messages were failing to send.

We pushed out an update today that should fix the issue.

madmoe · 25-03-2014 3:03pm

Hey guys,
I have noticed with Tesco Mobile and when sending if I have a long name attached to the contact name it does not seem to like it!? It will not send the message and says 'The Operator Website Has Changed' or something like that. As soon as I edit the length of the contact name and try to send it works fine!? Not sure if it's an app issue or a Tesco issue?

Cheers,
M

grdaHopeful · 26-03-2014 8:28pm

So do you now have my username and password?

Do you have Vodafone's permission to scrape their site using their customers details?

robtec · 26-03-2014 8:36pm

Hi grdaHopeful,

Thanks for your comment.

Your username and password are stored locally on your device, we do not have backend servers.

Lot's of app's are doing what we do, I can't comment on Vodafone view on this.

Cheers
Rob

jgbyr · 26-03-2014 11:57pm

Hi,
The app doesn't appear to be working at present with Vodafone.
I keep getting 'message failed to send' error messages.

Fluffy88 · 27-03-2014 12:14am

Thanks for the heads up jgbyr!
Looks like Vodafone just changed their Captcha system :-(

I'll get on it straight away and keep you updated!

PeteFalk78 · 27-03-2014 12:47pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up jgbyr!
Looks like Vodafone just changed their Captcha system :-(

I'll get on it straight away and keep you updated!

Yep they've changed to recaptcha

Longer to type in
Impossible to automate

:mad:

Fluffy88 · 27-03-2014 12:52pm

I have some work done on the change over.
It's a different system, harder images and such but I see no reason that will stop us from displaying the captcha as we have been thus far. In-fact I can display the image already, just need to finish things off ;-)

PeteFalk78 · 27-03-2014 1:01pm

Thanks Fluffy. Sounds promising.

Fluffy88 · 27-03-2014 9:54pm

Literally just pushed an update. Should show up in the play store within the next hour

Thanks to everyone for letting us know about the new captcha.

Also thanks to jgbyr madmoe for reporting the bug with parsing funny contact names, it should also be fixed in this release.

EDIT: It's version 1.3.5

jgbyr · 27-03-2014 10:01pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Literally just pushed an update. Should show up in the play store within the next hour
Thanks to everyone for letting us know about the new captcha.

Also thanks to jgbyr for reporting the bug with parsing funny contact names, it should also be fixed in this release.

EDIT: It's version 1.3.5

Thanks for the update. By the way it was madmoe who mentioned the contact names not me :-)

Fluffy88 · 27-03-2014 10:03pm

Haha, whoops, serves me right for being too lazy to go back one page to make sure.

Big thanks to madmoe for the extra testing :-)

jgbyr · 27-03-2014 11:41pm

Just got the update & unfortunately still not working for me on Vodafone. Getting "message failed to send".
I uninstalled & reinstalled the app but same result.

Fluffy88 · 27-03-2014 11:54pm

Hmm interesting, it still works for me when I compile it...but not from the play store.
That's weird, I'll look into it :-(

Thanks for the heads up!

Fluffy88 · 28-03-2014 12:19am

Looks like my idiot mistake

A little bit embarrassed to say, I forgot to merge my changes so I actually published the exact same version of the app as was already out with a new version number

:o:o:o

Sorry, should all be good now .. update will hit in about half an hour.

PeteFalk78 · 28-03-2014 8:57am

Thanks fluffy, works perfectly.

jgbyr · 28-03-2014 9:23am

Same here, thanks.

murphyme2010 · 28-03-2014 2:08pm

Just tested it fluffy, works perfectly.

Fluffy88 · 28-03-2014 2:11pm

Glad to hear it!!
Thanks all for testing and reporting.

Fluffy88 · 28-03-2014 8:21pm

Looks like Vodafone switched back to their old Captcha system :-(
Talk about nightmares.

I'll have an updated version out ASAP that hopefully will support both captcha systems.
Sorry about the downtime guys.

Fluffy88 · 29-03-2014 10:29am

I pushed another updated last night that should be able to handle both the old style (currently in use) and the recaptcha system that was trialled during the week.

murphyme2010 · 29-03-2014 12:46pm

Tested that update and it works.

Thanks.

PeteFalk78 · 11-04-2014 11:32am

Vodafone moved back to recaptcha. Swiftsms is displaying the recaptcha perfectly but wont send the message. Anybody else having the same problem?

Edit : Nevermind it is not working through the Vodafone website neither.

Fluffy88 · 11-04-2014 11:35am

I am :-(
Thanks for letting us know!
I'll take a look and see what's going on

PeteFalk78 · 11-04-2014 11:43am

Its a Vodafone problem fluffy.

Fluffy88 · 11-04-2014 11:46am

Yes it seems so, I can't send texts from their website atm.
I'll try keep an eye on it and keep ye updated.

Fluffy88 · 11-04-2014 3:07pm

Looks like Vodafone have went back to their old captcha again.
SwiftSMS & all the other webtext apps should be working.

Again, thanks for letting us know PeteFalk78

Fluffy88 · 12-04-2014 5:39pm

Officially supporting storing sent messages on tablets, unofficially

I've been working on a "Recent Contacts" feature in SwiftSMS the last few days and today I noticed something funky.

A little background.
Instead of keeping our own database of recent contacts the app will read your recent contacts from the built-in Android SMS database, makes sense right...? So while testing this out on my Nexus 7 everything worked smoothly. Great I thought and on I went with other things.
Then after a while it hit me, wait a minute, how does the tablet read the recent contacts from the SMS database when it doesn't have one??!?!?

So I went and installed 8sms (a glorified version of the stock SMS app) on the Nexus 7 and sure enough all my sent SMS messages were there in the app.

So anyone looking to have that functionality you can try it out and see, hopefully this will work on all tablets and other non-phone Android devices.
If you try it out let us know it if works for you, thanks!

And for those of you wondering .. any feedback on the layout welcome!

jgbyr · 12-04-2014 9:45pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Officially supporting storing sent messages on tablets, unofficially

Then after a while it hit me, wait a minute, how does the tablet read the recent contacts from the SMS database when it doesn't have one??!?!?

So I went and installed 8sms (a glorified version of the stock SMS app) on the Nexus 7 and sure enough all my sent SMS messages were there in the app.

So anyone looking to have that functionality you can try it out and see, hopefully this will work on all tablets and other non-phone Android devices.
If you try it out let us know it if works for you, thanks!

I've an Asus MeMo ME301T 10 inch tab running 4.2.1. & yep it works for me. Send a message with Swift SMS & it's stored in 8sms.

Fluffy88 · 12-04-2014 10:55pm

That's good to know.
If this works on most/all other devices we might be able to use it in a later release for some stuff.

I like when a plan comes together

murphyme2010 · 13-04-2014 12:07pm

Chanced my arm and sent an SMS to a foreign number.
You even handle the code required.

Great work Fluffy.

Fluffy88 · 14-04-2014 9:51am

Thanks murphyme2010!!
Don't forget robtec

It's great to have happy customers

PeteFalk78 · 15-04-2014 7:43am

Just did an Swiftsms update and it wont start. Just says Swiftsms stopped working. Tried uninstall/install but still the same. If I try to report error it crashes play store too. I'll try make a few screen grabs if it helps.

Philster · 15-04-2014 9:51am

PeteFalk78 wrote: »

Just did an Swiftsms update and it wont start. Just says Swiftsms stopped working. Tried uninstall/install but still the same. If I try to report error it crashes play store too. I'll try make a few screen grabs if it helps.

Am having the same problems too since updating an hour ago.

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 9:54am

Looks like there is an issue with some devices as it's working fine here .. I'm not sure what's causing it.
I'll get out an update ASAP with a fix.

Thanks for letting us know.

Philster · 15-04-2014 10:02am

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Looks like there is an issue with some devices as it's working fine here .. I'm not sure what's causing it.
I'll get out an update ASAP with a fix.

Thanks for letting us know.

Phone is a Galaxy S3 and with 3 if that's any help.

deiseliving · 15-04-2014 1:44pm

Hi. Just updated the Swift app on 3. When I try to use the app it just disappears from d screen saying it is not working. It was working fine last night. Why is this happening? On 3. Galaxy s3 :-)

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 1:57pm

The recent contacts feature seems to be causing problems on some devices.

A new release (1.4.1) has just been pushed to the play store that will hide the recent contacts feature on devices where it's not working.

The app should be functioning correctly in the new version and we will try get hold of a device to test on to find a more robust solution to the problem.

Very sorry for the downtime guys!!

deiseliving · 15-04-2014 3:18pm

Still not working! Disappears when you use the app saying not working! Can't use Swift at all!

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 3:55pm

Hi deiseliving,

Make sure your running version 1.4.1 of SwiftSMS, you can find this by
Settings > Apps > Downloaded > SwiftSMS

If it's not 1.4.1 completely close the Play Store app then try downloading SwiftSMS again.
An easy way to tell if your downloading the latest version is look in the Description section on the play store. The version will be listed at the very end of the description (this goes for all apps).

If you are running the latest version, you will be prompted to submit a bug report when the crash happens, if you submit the report we can then look into what's causing the error.

Thanks!

deiseliving · 15-04-2014 4:03pm

Working with newest 1.4.1 update :-)

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 4:06pm

Good to hear :-)

PeteFalk78 · 15-04-2014 5:31pm

Fluffy I removed swiftsms and downloaded the new version. However I'm unable to verify my Vodafone account and unable to progress.

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 5:52pm

PeteFalk78 wrote: »

Fluffy I removed swiftsms and downloaded the new version. However I'm unable to verify my Vodafone account and unable to progress.

I've just tried the same and the account added successfully.
Have you tried logging into the website to ensure that still works?

PeteFalk78 · 15-04-2014 6:07pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I've just tried the same and the account added successfully.
Have you tried logging into the website to ensure that still works?

Can log into the website perfectly.

The "Verify" refresh icon spins for around 30-40 seconds and eventually comes back Red. I've removed app and reinstalled again but no luck.

Fluffy88 · 15-04-2014 6:37pm

PeteFalk78 wrote: »

Can log into the website perfectly.

The "Verify" refresh icon spins for around 30-40 seconds and eventually comes back Red. I've removed app and reinstalled again but no luck.

That sounds like a connection timing out. Are you using data or WiFi? Do websites take forever to load in Chrome?

We have plans to add better success / failure messages to the login page so the app will give you more detail when it can't connect which would help here.
Make sure your connection to the Internet is stable and try again. If it continues to fail I can give you a version with logging so I can get more details on where it's failing.

PeteFalk78 · 15-04-2014 6:46pm

Fluffy88 wrote: »

That sounds like a connection timing out. Are you using data or WiFi? Do websites take forever to load in Chrome?

We have plans to add better success / failure messages to the login page so the app will give you more detail when it can't connect which would help here.
Make sure your connection to the Internet is stable and try again. If it continues to fail I can give you a version with logging so I can get more details on where it's failing.

I've tried both on data and wifi. 3 separate wireless networks in work and at home. The phone is working perfectly from a connection perspective and I've never had any previous issues with it.

I appreciate your help fluffy.

SwiftSMS - Simply sending Beautiful Webtexts

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