[Maemo 5] Is there an app that will hide text messages from a person?
 

I want to be able to hide incoming text messages or reroute certain text messages from people to another inbox is this possible? No I'm not cheating or anything but I want to know if this is possible. If I lock it, it'll just look suspicious.

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i also want something like this seriously :p
i want some of the messages (from selected individuals) to go somewhere else. My N900 has become such a *personal* (bcuz of the unified conversation view, which i love also) kind of handheld!!! I have to delete some chat everytime my friends want to play with it :p ...

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Other than cheating - is there any real need for this?

I'm looking forward to the excuses!

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I do not need this, but, I have some friends that sometimes read my messages (even though they say they don't (have seen them), I would like this to at least hide the messages of my girlfriend from them.

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Not cheating people rummage through my phone like my little sister and stuff and I don't want a text message to pop up out of no where while friends or family have my phone

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just use device autolock when you are near your "friends"

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What if I was planning a surprise party for someone that has access to my phone?

What if you are having a private conversation with a friend about one of their personal friend/family problems and they don't want you just letting anyone read it?

What if you are regularly texting at work and you are not supposed to and your boss sees you with your phone out?

What if you are talking about work related material that is confidential?

Need more examples?

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You could text yourself "ARRRrrr, this here be me buried treasure!! It all be MINE!!!!" and then hide it where nobody will find it.

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automatical device lock.

need more solutions?

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Maybe he's a LARPer.
That's embarassing enough to hide from other ppl you respect :)

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you're thinking that you could flag a specific contact and have all conversations messages go to a hidden folder.


OR

you're thinking you could mark each txt message as "hidden" and then view them by clicking an unmarked set of keys, like shift-ctrl-h in the conversations window to unhide all "hidden" sms.


maybe the first one has a work around, set up an SIP account with txt, and have the hidden person or persons txt you there. You could receive at your convenience by connecting to SIP, or head to the web interface.

The other solution may be interesting in brainstorm.

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That just makes you look like you are hiding something. What if your wife/girlfriend asks "Well why can't I just use your phone, I just need to make a call" Then you let her call and she is on there for a little while. You go to the bathroom only to find her tapping around on your phone screen while you were gone. Sure, angry birds was open, but since she didn't know about multitasking she didn't know to close the conversations app. Your heart beats wildly as you can clearly read the last text you got was something you didn't want her to read. She pretends she didn't read it, but you can't help but wonder. Then she dumps you the next day and you say "Why didn't I hide that text! I couldn't delete it because it had information stored in it that I needed! Why?!!!!"

Weeks go by, you slowly get over her, or at least you thought you did. Then you find out she is now dating one of your friends that you see all of the time. Everything gets awkward. Like that night at bowling when him and her were on the other lane and she gave you that look you knew all too well. The look that said "you did this and now you are going to pay." You sit at the end bench. It's your turn, but you don't care because all you can think about is what you had. All of the moments. The pictures still neatly organized on your N900 with tags like "best day ever" and "Forever love". All of your old conversations with her still there because you don't want to forget her, but looking at them makes you cry. If only you could just hide them for now, but no, there is not app for that. Hiding that one text could have prevented all of this. There is no app for that..........

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Told you it has something to do with fantasy role playing :D

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actually I googled larper after I wrote that(if that tells you anything). I just wanted to make him feel bad for always using device lock. lol

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Damn weirdbeard that example is totally right! My heart always pounds when my gf sees my phone just in case there's something that pops up or something she finds offensive or something

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This would be way useful, my girlfriend used to read my texts until I told her very sternly that everybody should be entitled to their privacy.

She openly lets me read hers, I don't though.

This would be a good way to say I have nothing to hide and not get caught ;)

Recently I've just been deleting the threads but something like this would be ideal.

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well i want this app

http://www.killermobile.com/applicat...r-pro-s60.html

had it on my n95. when i got an sms from someone on the list it used to hide them for later viewing.

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no it doesn't. it only tells that you have something confidential at your phone. and my answer to that question is: buy your own phone...

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well i'm bonking my secretary but she keeps texting her gratitude...and i don't want my wife to find out!
;-)

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device lock is not a solution in my case. As i said before, its almost regular that people want to see what are the functionalities of n900 so i give them the device and they use it for few minutes. Some ppl are good and you know that if they say they are not going to read your conversation they wont (you dont even to mention this to them), but there are people in your friend's circle who you know if they get a chance to read your conversations they definitely will (and its seems so rude to not let them view the device). Its not a big problem for me right now, because I regularly delete certain gtalk conversations. Specially before friends get togethers I have to clear just few of my conversations, cuz i know almost all of them will be checking out my 900.

As i said, n900 is a very personal device, and its hard to tell ppl that it is :)

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hehehe what a story !!! :) I wasnt thinking on those lines, but yes i need that app.

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like i said. the best app ever i had on my n95 was this

http://www.killermobile.com/applicat...r-pro-s60.html

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well, I'd get new friends if I was you....

but as an workaround:

http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...oaning_device/

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Against a short glance at confidential material there might be filters in Conversations. One could set up a filter with keywords or numbers or names to hide, activate this filter and the Conversation looks clean even without deleting or tagging items.

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yes, its hard being a secret ninja!!


true tho, what about in a business sense??

or personal numbers..

I had an app on my N96 that just locked certain parts of your phone
which you configure

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In the meantime get a Nokia 1100 + PAYG sim put it in a ziplock bag and hide it in the cistern ;)

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Dude you serious? How about nosy friends, family, and the extra jealous girlfriend that threatens to cut you for looking at some tig ol bitties. I agree. A simple 'ding' for incoming texts would be great instead of everyone reading them while I'm playing South Park on the tv out. Privacy is a concern. If he wants to cheat it's his business and not yours to judge or make assumptions about him.

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you are right, and I'm working on it for the last 1 year, although its hard, so will take help from computers.

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I sell drougs I don't want my parents know this ;)
Also I'm cheating my wife... cause she deserves it :D

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Call/sms manager was one of the best softwares i've used on my Nokia E71.

I look forward having similar apps for N900, preferably in the next months not after an year :(

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I used to have an app on N95 called 'Best Private Conversation' . It would hide all messages from a defined list of numbers behind a password. It would be great to have something like that again.

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Maybe you should e addressing the problem of them taking your device without asking permission first or simple keep the device out of their reach?

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Mcleaner was awesome on symbian for this
(loving the funny comments ive read in here, keep it up!)

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... is there a way of disabling SMS notifications?

Something as simple as that would do me ... my friends aren't the type to go looking through personal conversations, but the way texts are currently displayed as pop-ups makes it hard to avoid reading them ... I really need to remember to switch my n900 into tablet mode next time I decide to show anyone just how amazing it is!

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O, here's the real reason I'd like this:

I'm in a long relationship. Sometimes we fight, sometimes it's nice, you know. Like everyone else. Since conversations are all in a list, with last message preview, I can't open conversations with people peering over lest they see the last message received or sent.

People peek over my shoulder when I'm sending a message because they know that I sent a known message to a known person and don't feel the need for privacy. Also, people expect me to push "new message" or "up" or whatever and start afresh. They don't expect to see the list of last conversations.

Example of people that shouldn't mix:

* message exchange with doctor
(your rash is nothing odd, just an irritation from trousers)
* chat with mon/dad
(hey, good news, the rash is going away)
* coworkers (close)
(dude, my medical issue is all better!)
* coworkers (distant)
(I am sorry, I must decline, for medical reasons)
* Spouse/GF
(turns out it wasn't your fault)
* Relatives
(I can't believe she's dead)

I could go on. None of these people need to see other people's messages. Close coworkers have no business knowing about fights of sweet talk with GF, remote coworkers shouldn't know about my rash and frankly I have no intention of advertising family issues to anyone.

At the very least, there should be a Conversations (private) and a Conversations (Public) on desktop. Marked conversations go to a private folder.

You can't keep people from browsing the private folder, but there are two advantages to this:

a) Opening public doesn't insta-expose you

b) You can call bull on people opening folders marked as "Private". Most people stay away and if they don't I have no issue frowning and banning them from ever touching my device, ever, again. Blatant invasion of privacy is grounds for banishment. It's the difference between mistakenly barging over you in the bathroom and creaking the door open so they can peek.

Don't even get me started on emails with order confirmations.

I think it's relatively easy to implement - relative to marking messages as hidden and stuff.

Also, to those who need the info in a SMS: Copy, paste in a note, delete message. Secure storage. Hidden files. If you just need the info, it can be moved.

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would be good if we could lock the sms/conversations with a pin code and disable text notifactions and just have the audible sound instead.
It is good but sometimes it can be annoying if your watching something as it jits the video playback because it tries to show the notication but it doesnt come through when playing video.
Hopefully that issue will be fixed and we will just have to wait for an app or something to hide/lock sms

Re: [Maemo 5] Is there an app that will hide text messages from a person?
 

lock your device with a password. problem solved.
or kick your friends asses.... your choice^^