I just wanted to find an old (maybe a month old) text message that I sent to my wife and realized that no search feature was present.
Is there any such functionality?
Is there any such functionality?
Hehehe...Goto your wife's entry in the people hub, navigate to history and look for the older section.
Just realized I couldn't search for a message. Jesus Christ. This is absolutely ridiculous.
It might have to do something with a patent. I remember google taking out universal search out of Android devices. Same thing with IOS.
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Nope you cant search text messages but why would you need to. I have never needed to search text messages short of finding a comment in a conversations maybe an address or something given.
So manually searching is not a way? Yes, there is no automated search, or a quick way to search. And those are features that Windows Phone could use. But saying there is no way is incorrect.
Nope you cant search text messages but why would you need to. I have never needed to search text messages short of finding a comment in a conversations maybe an address or something given. That is simple enough just go to the conversations you are having with the person and scan the thread. You can also go the person in contacts and look through their history.
Windows Phone is different from other OS's that doesn't mean you can't do it its just not done the same way its done on the other OS. If you changed from one of the other OS's I think you did that to experience some thing different didn't you? Instead of getting upset because WP doesn't search text messages the exact same way the OS you just got tired of and witched form how's about figuring out how this is accomplished on WP?
Haha... You shouldn't be telling this. Hm, there is no feature for searching a message in WP.WOW ! just wow...... Is it really that hard for you to admit when there is a very important feature missing in WP8 ? With all due respect your arrogance is quite astonishing to me.
That's an incredibly short-sighted and rather condescending comment. Just because YOU don't find it necessary doesn't mean that someone else won't have a very valid reason for wanting to do just that. The OP, in fact, very much wanted to search his text messages, hence the reason for starting this thread.
There are many valid scenarios in which search within messages would be a 'needed' facility. Some people send/receive lots of texts from lots of different people. If there's important information buried in that lot, browsing conversations would be downright tedious. Similarly if you use your phone for work and get clients texting you with sales queries. You might need to quickly find some info from a client to process an order.
W8 is meant to be a SMARTphone operating system. Why force us to do something really DUMB like browsing through months of SMS history to find something. If the WP8 developers can't figure out how to put a search function in the messaging app, then this platform is doomed.
EDIT: And as to this assertion that WP is different and that you just do it "differently" in WP, well no, you can't search messages period. There is no 'different' way of searching, there is just NO way.
Haha... You shouldn't be telling this. Hm, there is no feature for searching a message in WP.
well if you remember the content of the particular message, why do you even need to do search that. (if you don't remember it, how are you gonna search it mate!!!)
now, if you really desperate to retrieve it. Log on to the live id you used in your mobile via pc and search it under messaging history folder. (i believe you enabled text back up). I hope it helps. And don't s**t WP for not having this option. It is redundant.
Haha... You shouldn't be telling this. Hm, there is no feature for searching a message in WP.
well if you remember the content of the particular message, why do you even need to do search that. (if you don't remember it, how are you gonna search it mate!!!)
now, if you really desperate to retrieve it. Log on to the live id you used in your mobile via pc and search it under messaging history folder. (i believe you enabled text back up). I hope it helps. And don't s**t WP for not having this option. It is redundant.
WOW ! just wow...... Is it really that hard for you to admit when there is a very important feature missing in WP8 ? With all due respect your arrogance is quite astonishing to me.