SGS-3 bug related to SMS conversations list?

Question

This issue was reported several times, but still not resolved yet. I read all messages/thread which somehow related to this topic either in Samsung's developers site or in StackOverflow Let me again describe whole problem just in few words: Developers used to get list of SMS conversations through simple query like: `Uri.parse("content://mms-sms/conversations/"); Cursor cursor = context.getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);` or something like this. Key point here's URI address: `content://mms-sms/conversations` Everyone knows that it's unofficial and one's doing it on his own risk - see proof link here But, critical point here's a simple fact this code doesn't work properly only in Samsung Galaxy S3 and some models of Galaxy Tab 2. It produces `NullPointerException` with stacktrace: `java.lang.NullPointerException at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1431) at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:1…

Accepted Answer

In the end I've figured how to overcome aforementioned issue (I am not sure that it's bug, but anyway it looks like a bug).

List of conversations can be retrieved through this query:

```
Uri.parse("content://mms-sms/conversations?simple=true"); 
Cursor cursor = context.getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null);
```

Keypoint here's URI `content://mms-sms/conversations?simple=true`.

SGS-3 bug related to SMS conversations list?

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