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Asked: 2026-05-15T22:35:41+00:00

I have an application that sends messages to a specified contact. Right now I

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I have an application that sends messages to a specified contact. Right now I use

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("smsto:" + phoneNumber));

to send messages, and it works great on the emulator and on my N1. I got complaints from users with HTC incredible that they get force close from android.mms application when they use it. I did more digging and I see there are many ways for sending messages. For example

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("smsto:" + phoneNumber));

And also

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.putExtra("address", phoneNumber);
intent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");

They all seem to work exactly the same on the emulator and on my device, and I could not find anything official about the correct, generally supported way. Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I will try to see how they did it on the Contacts apps.

    In the past I had lot’s of compatibility issues with the HTC Hero. I always ended up writing the code that worked on phones with the Sense UI. I found out that if the code works there, it would work on every android device :).

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