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Old Nov 11, 2014, 08:03 AM   #26
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It's not virtually extinct... goodness. They have to work with the team they have, and it's going to take time. It'll either get updated, or it won't. They said it's going to take some months, well, I'll wait.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 08:11 AM   #27
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It's not virtually extinct... goodness. They have to work with the team they have, and it's going to take time. It'll either get updated, or it won't. They said it's going to take some months, well, I'll wait.
Having followed the BiteSMS forums for quite a few years, it's always been apparent they only have one dev. All other "team" members are there for support and pushing community ideas to the developer.

Future of Bite does not sound all that great from where I'm sitting. That said, you better believe one of the other talented developers out there will jump on the opportunity to mirror it.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 08:50 AM   #28
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It's not virtually extinct... goodness. They have to work with the team they have, and it's going to take time. It'll either get updated, or it won't. They said it's going to take some months, well, I'll wait.
they will need to rethink their entire app. A lot of features are included in stock iOS messages. Add a few tweaks, like scheduling messages and delayed sending, bitesms as it is, is useless.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 09:18 AM   #29
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Having followed the BiteSMS forums for quite a few years, it's always been apparent they only have one dev. All other "team" members are there for support and pushing community ideas to the developer.

Future of Bite does not sound all that great from where I'm sitting. That said, you better believe one of the other talented developers out there will jump on the opportunity to mirror it.
It doesn't sound great, sure. It doesn't necessary make it extinct either. Maybe it'll be updated, maybe it won't.
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they will need to rethink their entire app. A lot of features are included in stock iOS messages. Add a few tweaks, like scheduling messages and delayed sending, bitesms as it is, is useless.
The stock iOS is years away from being even remotely close to biteSMS.
Let's see... list the features that stock messaging has.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 09:38 AM   #30
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am just not missing it, the default app works great, and added convopics, and am happy...
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 09:54 AM   #31
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they will need to rethink their entire app. A lot of features are included in stock iOS messages. Add a few tweaks, like scheduling messages and delayed sending, bitesms as it is, is useless.
Bzzzzzzt. Here's just one of many examples of how it's far from useless...
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 10:08 AM   #32
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Ya, when I had tried Copic it crashed my phone app, contacts and messages. I just removed it for now until it gets updated. I also tried Cyntacts, but not updated for IOS 8 either I was hoping there was some other tweak to try. I'm missing BiteSms too. I purchased it for my i5 JB and loved it.
There is a beta if you wanna try, but you need to purchase it first. I tried it today but there are few bugs left. Message app crashes very often and some functions don't work either.

http://www.iarrays.com/apt
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 10:26 AM   #33
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There is a beta if you wanna try, but you need to purchase it first. I tried it today but there are few bugs left. Message app crashes very often and some functions don't work either.

http://www.iarrays.com/apt
Thank you, but I did find a tweak for pics in the message app, like the 6+. It's called ConvoPics from BigBoss repo
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 11:01 AM   #34
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they will need to rethink their entire app. A lot of features are included in stock iOS messages. Add a few tweaks, like scheduling messages and delayed sending, bitesms as it is, is useless.
While features were added in the stock app, they aren't as intuitive as BiteSMS offered. I'll take BiteSMS QR over Apple QR.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 11:54 AM   #35
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Indeed, Apple's Quick Reply is a joke compared to the BiteSMS implementation.

Not having BiteSMS = remaining on IOS 7.1.2 for the foreseeable future, despite all the new features if IOS 8.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 01:28 PM   #36
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Thank you, but I did find a tweak for pics in the message app, like the 6+. It's called ConvoPics from BigBoss repo
I am using that until they fix Copic
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 01:35 PM   #37
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Indeed, Apple's Quick Reply is a joke compared to the BiteSMS implementation.

Not having BiteSMS = remaining on IOS 7.1.2 for the foreseeable future, despite all the new features if IOS 8.
Which works for my 5....but is a problem with the 6 arriving on my doorstep this week. I can live with Apple's pathetic implementation of QR if I have to, but having taken my iPad to 8.1 already, I've been shocked at how much I miss Quick Compose. I had no idea how much I used it.

And I've used bite for so long, I know absolutely nothing about its competitors at this point. They've been one of my top two reasons to JB since the beginning. Hope either bite somehow brings out an update quickly, or someone else jumps on this opportunity.
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 03:42 PM   #38
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For those who miss the 'delay' sending messages feature offered with BiteSMS, there's a tweak for that:

http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/co...ding_messages/
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 04:06 PM   #39
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My guess is Martin left and will be releasing a similar app that would kill off bitesms for good. Competition is good
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Old Nov 11, 2014, 04:07 PM   #40
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Indeed, Apple's Quick Reply is a joke compared to the BiteSMS implementation.
Exactly.
The stock quick reply is light years behind bitesms's features and usability.
One thing that drives me nuts is if Im typing a quick reply on the stock ios and another message comes in then what I had typed and was ready to send out is completely gone.
Thanks Apple
It would make sense if i'm typing and responding to a message for you not to completely clear out my inputed text and pop up another box.
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One thing that drives me nuts is if Im typing a quick reply on the stock ios and another message comes in then what I had typed and was ready to send out is completely gone.
Whoa, I had no idea it was THAT bad.

And IOS 8.1 update didn't fix that?
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my fave feature was scheduled texts, any other way to do this? ive onlu ever used bite
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Whoa, I had no idea it was THAT bad.

And IOS 8.1 update didn't fix that?
Nope.
I doubt they even care about fixing it.
Feels like they rushed out a quick reply feature without testing it or caring if it works for something as simple as that to be overlooked.

What I liked about bite there was a number on the status so if I have 2-3 people texting I can go from 1 conversation to replying to one by one without turning off the app I'm in now.
Also the silence conversation was great. And the passcode security feature to get into all my private messages without worrying about someone using the phone to be able to browse through my stuff. Quick compose was good too. So I can put together a text without even unlocking the phone or opening the messages app.
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Exactly.
The stock quick reply is light years behind bitesms's features and usability.
One thing that drives me nuts is if Im typing a quick reply on the stock ios and another message comes in then what I had typed and was ready to send out is completely gone.
Thanks Apple
It would make sense if i'm typing and responding to a message for you not to completely clear out my inputed text and pop up another box.
Are you using banners or alerts? When I'm replying from LS and another text comes in it doesn't delete my current text and my next message is waiting on LS to reply behind my current message. I've never tried alerts even with bite...

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Nope.
I doubt they even care about fixing it.
Feels like they rushed out a quick reply feature without testing it or caring if it works for something as simple as that to be overlooked.

What I liked about bite there was a number on the status so if I have 2-3 people texting I can go from 1 conversation to replying to one by one without turning off the app I'm in now.
Also the silence conversation was great. And the passcode security feature to get into all my private messages without worrying about someone using the phone to be able to browse through my stuff. Quick compose was good too. So I can put together a text without even unlocking the phone or opening the messages app.
for me the best feature of Bite was being able to schedule a text. Used this all the time.
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Exactly.
One thing that drives me nuts is if Im typing a quick reply on the stock ios and another message comes in then what I had typed and was ready to send out is completely gone.
I am constantly annoyed as heck by the way it handles this. I'm always 3 sentences into a response then the person types something else and it pops up and completely erases my typing. Annoying at the least.
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Are you using banners or alerts? When I'm replying from LS and another text comes in it doesn't delete my current text and my next message is waiting on LS to reply behind my current message. I've never tried alerts even with bite...
I have it setup as alert boxes.
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This person on reddit claims BiteSMS is working for him..

http://www.reddit.com/r/iOSthemes/co...s_in_comments/
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This person on reddit claims BiteSMS is working for him..

http://www.reddit.com/r/iOSthemes/co...s_in_comments/
Yeah, that person doesn't even say which iOS version they are using. It isn't working on iOS 8.x.
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Damn, this stinks.

I only updated to ios8 in hopes this was going to work with it. I wish I could go back to 7.1 now
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