This FP5 is my first smartphone. Yesterday morning I could send a normal PLAIN SMS, it was shown in a big square taking up a decent space (8,7 cm in height & 6,5 cm large)… exactly as it should. Then I made some mistakes, and had to reload gBoard. But the situation got worse (except for the SEND fu…

(alphabetically) @Incanus , @k3dAR , @Meaghan , @moritzheinz , @peci1 : Thank you all for your contributions. The first 5 days with a first smartphone (the best one, a Fairphone) were very challenging and your help was very valuable. Many, many thanks. Since 2 days I start finding solutions. There is…

Dear @Sono I am glad things are working out. In the messages settings there is an option to keep this input box expandable, I am not sure how it is called though as my interface is in Polish I am not a moderator here but let me risk overstepping here and suggest you refrain from using capital let…

as SMS “template”, you can use some app for text, example stock “Keep”: in top right “hamburger” menu, Create new label named “SMS” add note, in bottom-rigt 3dot menu, select Labels and set SMS all (and only) notes Taged/Labeled as SMS you can see from “hamburger”/Label/SMS and after prepared “te…

THANKS. Any idea where I can find that option (in Messages)? I don’t see nay settings-tab, icon, pop-up or scroll-down menu, which allows me to change (or simply set) settings. Anyway: as I wrote somewhere. The input text field, is indeed expanding by itself. No idea how this came. Maybe it’s defau…

Capitals: its really hard to read your texts, beside the yelling point already made. So I would also advice to dont do this and overall stick to the issue, making posts more comprehensive, which is helping those reading and answering.

THANKS. On my FP, the “hamburger” menu is at the top LEFT and I can indeed create a SMS label… but nothing more. The screen is blanc. No menu at the bottom. Just the keyboard which I did disappear I don’t know how, and then I got only the 3 bottom icons (white left arrow, circle, saure, all 3 in whi…

sorry, hamburger is on left :wink: if screen is black, you don’t have any note created in selected label(/category), so simple create new with big “+” icon on bottom left :wink: “MyIcon” you already know, in another thread you find it and talk about it as icon “D” (?) which is start letter of your…

Thank you, your kind and right. I learned a lot, or better: I wrote down the basics, as my memory is not so enormous. Many things are solved, and one strong item remains: how to transfer text to another app and… where the heck is the app Documents? Documents seem to be accessible in all apps I n…

I don’t know about a standard app called “Documents”, but you can download apps like the free “Open Office Documents” or “Microsoft Word” from the “Play Store” app. You can save your template texts there and with a little practice copying and pasting them into your messages shouldn’t be a problem.

most of the time a longer tap on the text allows you to copy that. with messages what I found to be slightly annoying is that it allows you to copy one message at the time, it is not that easy to copy a piece of it. With keep notes I believe it is easier. After copying, another long tap should allo…

@mgkoeln : let me clarify. Maybe I’m wrong but, in any standard app using text (like “Keep n…” & Messages, I could see many times/sometimes an option called Documents which itself had many options like images, videos, places, links, pictures, audio, links etc. except TEXT and even ARCHIVE (available …

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