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Disabling Messaging app and enabling other app as default

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Aleque

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Hi

I just upgraded to latest version of ICS and I downloaded Pansi SMS.
I also deactivated the default text app (Messaging), but now I can't enable it again. It's completely gone from the list in Menu > Settings > Applications > All

1). Is there a way to re-enable Messaging? How?

2). How do I force Pansi SMS to be my default text-message-app and to show the icon on the lowest main bar (which consists of 4 icons total)?

Thanks in advance.
 
Aleque said:
Hi

I just upgraded to latest version of ICS and I downloaded Pansi SMS.
I also deactivated the default text app (Messaging), but now I can't enable it again. It's completely gone from the list in Menu > Settings > Applications > All

1). Is there a way to re-enable Messaging? How?

2). How do I force Pansi SMS to be my default text-message-app and to show the icon on the lowest main bar (which consists of 4 icons total)?

Thanks in advance.
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For your first question, disabled apps drop to the bottom of the list and are no longer alphabetically sorted. Try looking there.

Second, to make an SMS app "default" it seems to be more about enabling its notification and disabling all others. So if I had Handcent and GoSMS installed, I could "switch" to GoSMS by disabling Handcent's notifications and enabling GoSMS notifications. In reality they are both hanging around, but a new text will cause the "enabled" one to create a notification. Does that make sense?

As for adding it to the screen icons, you can do it in two steps. First from the app drawer, drag Pansi onto your home screen and release it. Then drag it to where you want it to live. If something is already there a folder will be created. To clear an existing icon out of there, long-press on it then drag it to somewhere else on the home screen.

Sounds complicated but really isn't. I'm just not describing it well.
 
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