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  • 7 May
  • Joined Oct 19, 2023
  • So, for future readers, this is what I learned.

    The short answer is that:

    • sent time and receive time SMS data are available, within both the default GOS/AOSP14 app and QKSMS (but not Fossify-Messages, as far as I could determine).
    • Open a message thread > long press the message > choose the (i) icon > sent & receive date/time data is shown.

    The long answer:

    • The GOS/AOSP14 default Messaging App does do this, I was just too dim to find it. My problem was that I had tried long pressing on the message to see if that did anything, but I was doing this at the top level and not within the message's own thread, where a long press does offer an (i) option.
    • QKSMS has a nice interface and the same message>long-press>(i) shows the message data.
    • If you choose not to make QKSMS the default SMS, then it still opens showing the messages it had access to when it was last the default app.
    • This is nice because you can use QKSMS to backup/restore your SMS: I always prefer to just use the default apps, but QKSMS is still useful because it has backup & restore SMS options in the menu.
    • Fossify Messages (= SimpleSMS, I believe) does not seem to show the sent time of an SMS, it shows only the time the phone received the message.
    • Fossify Messages will not open/work unless it is set as the default SMS app.

    Thanks to @bookreader for pointing me in the right direction.

  • Psymos I didn’t make the initial Selfhosted recommendation in the thread. Maybe you meant to ask @bookreader ?

    However, I use Snikket.

  • @Viewpoint0232 @bookreader No, that's completely inaccurate. The apps are still using the proprietary Google Play libraries and it still uses many of the services. The whole point of sandboxed Google Play is reusing the same app sandbox for the rest of the code beyond the libraries built into the apps.