What free 0-advertisement phone/sms-mms/contact integrated app do you use?

When you use Android, you are "signing up" for ads. It is a free (read that as advertising supported) operating system, so "you get what you pay for"

I use a Blackberry Q10, and the native SMS app works flawlessly with no ads.

What's a dialer???

The 10-key keyboard you use to make phone calls. There are a number of them. I use the one that came with the phone (why not?) plus the Hangouts dialer which enables me to make free wifi calls using my google phone number.

I don't mind ads that run along the top or bottom of the screen, but the ones that take over the entire screen are so annoying that even if I were tempted to buy something by one (hey, it could happen, just because I've never bought anything from an unsolicited ad in my entire life doesn't mean it's impossible!) I wouldn't!

That's just dead wrong. Anyone who knows Android knows there are *plenty* of Android apps that are free and which don't have any ads in them.

The only question is just which are the best free add-free apps for phone dialers, sms/mms, and contact management - all integrated together.

Back on topic, I just noticed that the "True Phone" is only ad free for a week, so we still need a good free ad-free phone/contact integration app.

1. Dialer/phone/contact app
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2. MMS/SMS app
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F-droid has only this (150KB) T-9 Dialer2 which crashed a lot in my tests.

The "True Phone" app is (maybe?) free if gotten as a beta:

Here is the APK I am testing out:

I think it's called a "T-9 Dialer" but I don't know why it's called that.

As you know, just running a Google search never works, but I'll post the results from a search for the best free ad-free T9 dialer separately to answer the inevitable objection from people who don't understand freeware.

I would think that with all the resources on this newsgroup, that we could some up with a good free ad-free T-9 phone dialer that is available to everyone on Android.

I deleted the "True Phone" from Google Play (which was version 1.7.1 com.hb.dialer.free) and installed the older version 1.6.5-1 APK which says it doesn't have ads.

The only difference I see, so far, is that the Google Play "True Phone" version "says" it will have ads after 7 days, while this "beta?" version (seems to say?) says it will not.

it isn't. t9 is something separate.

Just to help those who don't yet understand freeware, here are the generally nearly useless results of some searches that were run prior to asking the question on this newsgroup for "free ad-free android dialers".

The Best Free Dialer Apps for Android

Best Free Android Dialer Apps

Softonic What are the best free dialer apps for android?

What is the best Android dialer app?

1. Swipe Dialer - Free

Phonearena 5 best Android dialer apps

Top 10 Contacts and Dialer Apps For Android Devices

1. Simpler Dialler

It's a good question what the 'dialer' is properly called, which I never thought about until The Real Bev answered Clare Snyder's question.

T9 (predictive text) T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a U.S.-patented predictive text technology for mobile phones (specifically those that contain a 3x4 numeric keypad), originally developed by Tegic Communications, now part of Nuance Communications.

T9 was used on phones from Verizon Wireless, NEC, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others.

It was also used by Texas Instruments PDA Avigo during the late 1990s. Its main competitors are iTap created by Motorola, SureType created by RIM, Eatoni's LetterWise and WordWise, and Intelab's Tauto.

T9's objective is to make it easier to type text messages. It allows words to be entered by a single keypress for each letter, as opposed to the multi-tap approach used in conventional mobile phone text entry, in which several letters are associated with each key, and selecting one letter often requires multiple keypresses.

I've had three androids, just used the stock apps for those functions that came with it and never saw any adds.

What is the unique APK name for those three stock phone apps?

(The APK can easily be obtained from any free app backup & restore app.)

Dialer, contacts, messaging, all are part of the Android nougat standard load, AFAIK.

APK Extractor--No AD

Mobi? Seriously? That's one of the major app ad services.

Fair enough. You entirely missed the point on naming the phone/sms-mms/contact APK.

But your objection to mobi is understandable. Hence a fair objection.

However ... look here (at my Windows backup of Android over the Wi-Fi LAN):

Notice this: App Backup & Restore-mobi.infolife.appbackup-53-v3.2.0.apk

We've been through this before, in depth. Your objection is valid, but not the point. Hence a red herring.

I never update an app unless I'm forced to. My mobi is old - still works - and has zero ads. Hence, my version is good.

It has since, I believe, gone to the dark side. I'm not sure - but we discussed this in the past.

Assuming it has gone to the dark side, your objection to mobi is valid. So don't use mobi. Use whatever you need to use to get the APK name.

The point is that for anyone to claim that "their" phone/sms-mms/contacts is the "one" to use is fine ... but without knowing the name of the APK, that claim is not actionable for anyone else.

The whole point is to be actionable here. We're not here to play games.

To wit: What is the full unique name of the phone/sms-mms/contact app that your experience recommends?

Fair enough response but it's only the *means* to the answer. Not the answer.

That specific app (or any backup app) is only the *means* to the answer. And for that, *any* backup app is useful.

So I'll grant you that this suggestion is fair and square, and useful.

But it's only the means to the answer to the question. It's not the answer to the question.

That's likely a great app to *obtain* the answer to the question, but that's not even close to the answer to the question.

It doesn't matter *how* we get the answer to the question, but saying how to get the answer doesn't answer the question.

Trader_4 suggested: On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:48:49 -0800 (PST), trader_4 wrote: > I've had three androids, just used the stock apps for those > functions that came with it and never saw any adds.

That's a fine suggestion - but it's not actionable until this is answered: Q: What is the unique APK name for those three stock phone apps?

And exactly what does all this tripe have to do with "alt hiome repair" - you crossposting troll!

Fair enough. Removed the crosspost.

When you want the answer, just go to the search engine then.

UPDATE:

As always, to strive to add value to Usenet in every thread... o and ... given the high cost of freeware is in finding the best ones...

This is related to the best free SMS/MMS app, which I determined in this thread (see extensive test reports prior) to be, for me anyway: o *Pulse SMS* (Phone/Tablet/Web), by Klinker Apps, Inc

In addition, this week we tested SMS/MMS backup-&-restore apps, which, after reasonably decent (but not extensive) testing, I report success with: o *SMS Backup & Restore*, by SyncTech Pty Ltd

The details are gory, so I simply point you to related recent threads on the topic: a. How to choose the best Android SMS/MMS freeware text app. b. How to back up & restore your Android SMS/MMS messages (including MMS images). c. How to do that backup & restore while connecting Android seamlessly to Windows.

Relevant cites: o NEW PHONE!, by The Real Bev

Plus probably 95% are using the stock msg and dialer aps.