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how to make sms sent with adb show in messages app

I'm using a Samsung phone with Android 10 I found this adb command online

adb shell service call isms 7 i32 0 s16 "com.android.mms.service" s16 "${phone}" s16 "null" s16 "'${text}'" s16 "null" s16 "null"

This works, it sends the SMS if i respect the character limit. However, the SMS does not show up in the phone's messages app

I can't find documentation about all those flags and what they mean. Please help me and tell me how I can make it show in the messages app. If this is not possible with adb, is there any other way?

Solution

  • I was able to achieve this by providing another argument at the end

    i32 1

    this article helped me

    Based on this documentation it seems i needed to provide the persistMessageForNonDefaultSmsApp boolean

    Not sure if this was the way to go, I'm not an android dev, but it works :/