@gezimos: Thank you for the question! I just sideloaded Quik, and it surprisingly made visible (a good thing):
- two different group text-message threads that I reported elsewhere – as Bug #1 and Bug #2 here – as invisible on the SMS app;
- five different 1-to-1 text messages that I had marked in the SMS app as spam.
I like these features of Quik that are NOT in the SMS app of MuditaOS K 1.1.1:
- Can initiate a group message
- Can decide whether to send that group message to each person individually (SMS approach) or to all persons collectively (MMS approach)
- Can see all participants in an MMS group message
- Can select any of many font sizes
- Can delay sending
- Can add a signature to the end of messages
- Can strip accents from characters in outgoing SMS messages
- Can get confirmation that messages were sent successfully
- Can silence notifications for messages not from contacts
- Can give a title to a conversation (handy for MMS group messages)
- Can customize notifications for an MMS group message
- Can choose how much to auto-compress MMS image attachments
- Can choose to send long messages as MMS
- Can be set to show only mobile numbers when composing a message
Nice touch: Quik generates a tally disk on the SMS app’s icon on the home screen when there are unread text messages, so that saves me from tapping the Apps icon to see whether I have any unread messages. And, Quik removes that tally disk as soon as I have no unread text messages.
Playing with Quik as a workaround to the many bugs in the SMS app, I found this bug in Quik:
- Tapping a participant in the Details section for a message causes this modal alert to appear at the bottom of the screen:
I still plan to return my Kompakt + case for a refund, if Mudita Support will allow it, given that the latest announced update to MuditaOS K will not occur until July but will not address the many bugs in the SMS app.
MAJOR UPDATE: After further experimentation with the sideloaded Quik app, I have decided that it sufficiently replaces the missing MMS features in Kompakt’s buggy SMS app. And, I have decided to take a chance on Mudita making the SMS app fully functional – both bugs-wise and missing-MMS-features-wise – eventually … and hopefully in the release after the July release! So, I am keeping my Kompakt and have asked Mudita Support to close my refund-request ticket. (Now I must train myself NOT to tap the SMS app’s icon on the home screen.)