Whenever I get a SMS from someone overseas, the time shown on the SMS is in their timezone, rather than mine. This is a bit confusing and also means that new SMSes from other countries are listed below other messages I've already read. Is there a way to get Windows Mobile to show all times in my time zone?
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Am also having this problem with my new HTC Touch Pro, except the times are totally off (the person that's messaging me is way behind my timezone, yet their messages appear two hours ahead of my timezone?)
Anyone know how to fix this? It's pretty annoying
So I'm having a peculiar problem which doesn't appear to be specific to my model phone (which happens to be a Samsung Captivate).
I use Google Voice for my text messaging so I'm not sure when this started. But I'd like to be able to at least receive text messages that people try to send to my main number. But what happens now is that I see the message text appear in the notification part temporarily, but when I go into the stock SMS app all I see is a separate blank message from "5556" and always with a date of March 26 and a time of 12:19AM. The actual message doesn't appear anywhere but temporarily in the notification bar.
I've used APNdroid and QuickSettings in the past to disable 3G but leaving the "allow MMS" option checked. Neither is currently enabled but maybe they mess with settings somewhere?
And like I said, I have Google Voice installed too. Not sure what else could have messed with settings. My message center is set to "+13123149810".
I have been searching and saw these threads so it's not unique:
Nexus One: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8814554
HTC Desire: http://androidforums.com/desire-support-troubleshooting/192806-sms-mms-issue.html
No solution though. Any thoughts?
I am having the same problem with my aria. I thought it was an app that I downloaded. Anyone able to help?
What the heck!?
I am having the same problem on my Samsung Vibrant(T-Mobile). It started about a 10 days ago. At first I got both the message and a blank one from 5556 but now I am only seeing the message in the notification bar and then its gone. This is so aggravating!! Anybody got a cause for this???
Has anyone tried a factory reset? Does that fix it?
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5556 Message not Unique to Android or Google Voice
Hello there,
I'm new around here, but just found xda due to receiving a 5556 message myself. I have an android device, but not phone; my cell is a cricket Kyocera, and I just received this message from "5556",
Want a family plan with the freedom to customize each line of service? Bring in an eligible phone, add a line for just $15 & get the 1st month free."
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What is significant about this to your issue? Well I unsubscribed to Cricket's text messaged ads, so it looks like this is a way to anonymously advertise with some plausible deniability, or something like that. Perhaps it is an advertising service, a third party, or other...in any case it is definitely anonymous, being neither a number nor a name. : ( If any here have a message to present, it would be appreciated, for that the more details we have, the better to figuring out what is going on. (In my case, perhaps even filing a legal complaint with the relevant authorities under the relevant statutes.)
If annoying enough, one could always go to a lawyer to seek a subpoena of a cellular carrier's records to find the source of communications, btw. Note I say going to a lawyer because IANAL and do not intend to give legal advice: I'm just cranky about unwanted spam having sat on waiting to talk to someone by the phone on my desk all day.
Greetings fellow windows phone users,
I have just bought a new windows phone mango device (HTC Titan), and wanted to know if there is any app that uses data for sending and receiving sms.
I am on AT&T and do not have a sms plan, and had to block my incoming and outgoing sms, because my jerk friends couldnt stop increasing my bill by sending me junk sms.
But I do like to have sms chats with my cousins and relatives from time to time.
Does anyone know of an app that uses data plan for sending and RECEIVING free sms? I have tried a couple of apps that uses google voice for doing that, but both were just ONE SIDED i.e. I can send sms to others, but when they REPLY, nothing happens. Has anyone used "GoVoice" before for sending and receiving sms? Am I doing something wrong?
I have heard about jaxtr sms service, but unfortunately they dont have an app for windows mobile
Any suggestions, anyone?
Thanks
Try this: http://www.windowsphone.com/pl-PL/apps/08d825c6-8828-43bb-ba72-6f410c5caaf5
that doesnt work in the US.
Plus I dont understand a word it says
Is there an option to change the language to English?
PO15ON said:
Greetings fellow windows phone users,
I have just bought a new windows phone mango device (HTC Titan), and wanted to know if there is any app that uses data for sending and receiving sms.
I am on AT&T and do not have a sms plan, and had to block my incoming and outgoing sms, because my jerk friends couldnt stop increasing my bill by sending me junk sms.
But I do like to have sms chats with my cousins and relatives from time to time.
Does anyone know of an app that uses data plan for sending and receiving free sms? I have tried a couple of apps that uses google voice for doing that, but both were just one sided i.e. I can send sms to others, but when they reply, nothing happens. Has anyone used "GoVoice" before for sending and receiving sms? Am I doing something wrong?
I have heard about jaxtr sms service, but unfortunately they dont have an app for windows mobile
Any suggestions, anyone?
Thanks
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If you are out of contract with AT&T, tried their pre-pay Go Phone program: $50 for unlimited talk & text. If not, here is a work around that I have used which will give you "free" text.
Here is my work around. I use Google Voice. Set Google Voice to send text to your Hotmail account that you associated with your phone. When someone text to your Google Voice number, it INSTANTLY goes to your Hotmail. Your Windows Phone will receive a notification in the email live tile. You tap on the email tile to read the text and then reply by email. When you reply to that mail on your phone, your recipient will receive a TEXT reply. Voila! Free text. The only drawback is your text number is the Google Voice number, not your phone number.
You can try freesme... http://www.freesmee.com/
otnos said:
If you are out of contract with AT&T, tried their pre-pay Go Phone program: $50 for unlimited talk & text. If not, here is a work around that I have used which will give you "free" text.
Here is my work around. I use Google Voice. Set Google Voice to send text to your Hotmail account that you associated with your phone. When someone text to your Google Voice number, it INSTANTLY goes to your Hotmail. Your Windows Phone will receive a notification in the email live tile. You tap on the email tile to read the text and then reply by email. When you reply to that mail on your phone, your recipient will receive a TEXT reply. Voila! Free text. The only drawback is your text number is the Google Voice number, not your phone number.
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Hey, thanks for replying. This is a great idea. I dont mind having a different texting number, and this way its actually easy for me, as I can choose who gets it. Actually, I just bought the Titan, so my contract with AT&T just began. Go-Phone is out of question.
I tried looking into it, but couldnt find the settings for texting in my google voice account. Would you mind telling me the steps involved in setting up the account.
In my google voice settings, I only have the option tabs of Phone, Voicemail, Groups, Voicemail Widgets and Billing. Which of these tabs is supposed to have the texting option?
Do I have to activate google voicemail on my cell for this to work, because I am pretty satisfied with the AT&T voicemail service atm.
Thanks
I find it odd that AT&T doesn't let you block SMS from phone numbers. I can do it with Verizon...
Another way you can try is to use AOL Instant Messenger. If you add a contact with "+18145551234" (814 is the example area code I am using) and then unblock them, you can add any SMS number world wide as far as I know, and it doesn't cost a thing. I use it to text my mom from my Grandmothers "dead zone" all of the time.
You can look here at AT&T's site for more info on simply blocking the SMS numbers in question.
Hey there,
Thanks for replying. I know AT&T can block sms coming from a spam number, but in my case I am talking about my friends. I am a very friendly person (I sometimes regret that) and so I have large friend circles (i mean like really huge numbers). And the thing is that this started just as a joke for them. One person told another that I am being charged for sms, and he after doing one sms to me, told another person, and the process repeats. Almost all of my friends did just 2 or less sms to me, the bill on my side was big. So instead of asking AT&T to stop sms from like hundred different numbers, I blocked all incoming and outgoing sms.
Can you elaborate on using AOL instant messenger. I am sorry for asking this, but am new to this Windows Phone and English isnt my first language, so its a little difficult for me to understand.
Thanks
PO15ON said:
Greetings fellow windows phone users,
I have just bought a new windows phone mango device (HTC Titan), and wanted to know if there is any app that uses data for sending and receiving sms.
I am on AT&T and do not have a sms plan, and had to block my incoming and outgoing sms, because my jerk friends couldnt stop increasing my bill by sending me junk sms.
But I do like to have sms chats with my cousins and relatives from time to time.
Does anyone know of an app that uses data plan for sending and RECEIVING free sms? I have tried a couple of apps that uses google voice for doing that, but both were just ONE SIDED i.e. I can send sms to others, but when they REPLY, nothing happens. Has anyone used "GoVoice" before for sending and receiving sms? Am I doing something wrong?
I have heard about jaxtr sms service, but unfortunately they dont have an app for windows mobile
Any suggestions, anyone?
Thanks
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Stay tuned with me on :
http://www.jaxtrsms.com
Windows Phone version is coming (according to them, and to the Windows icon)
otnos said:
Here is my work around. I use Google Voice. Set Google Voice to send text to your Hotmail account that you associated with your phone. When someone text to your Google Voice number, it INSTANTLY goes to your Hotmail. Your Windows Phone will receive a notification in the email live tile. You tap on the email tile to read the text and then reply by email. When you reply to that mail on your phone, your recipient will receive a TEXT reply. Voila! Free text. The only drawback is your text number is the Google Voice number, not your phone number.
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Great! It sounds very attractive.
I have no problem making an SMS application, but it will have to be a paid service. aka, you'll have to pay per msg.
PO15ON said:
Greetings fellow windows phone users,
I am on AT&T and do not have a sms plan, and had to block my incoming and outgoing sms, because my jerk friends couldnt stop increasing my bill by sending me junk sms.
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That's weird - I never heard of an operator to charge for incoming SMSs (only outgoing). It's logical that only outgoing calls and SMSs are supposed to be charged, because the incomming ones are already payed by the sender.. (of course, international roaming is a special case..)
About the actual question, in the last 10 years I saw most companies that offered free SMS sending (over Internet) dissapearing - probably it was not effective from a economic point of view, and also for 5 or 6cents a SMS, most people doesn't bother tosearch a free service anymore..
@acidhax
Can you make one application that uses Google voice services to send and receive sms? The app which I am using "GoVoice" is just one sided, that is I can send an sms to someone, but when they reply, I am not getting anything. Can you fix this and make an app that works in two way sms communication?
I do not mind if the whole conversation is in the application instead of the default messaging app. I also dont mind having a different number (my google voice number) for messaging.
Thanks
Solution found
Arghhhhhh,
Just found out, that if you get a new number, the texting option magically appears in your account.
With the options available, GoVoice app works wonders. Finally free sms.
Hurray!!!
If your friends have iPhones/Androids/Blackberries/WP7s you could get Whatsapp, but you'll need a data plan to use it. It's basically a free texting service, though after the first year you have to pay something like $2-3 dollars per year.
I have heard about it, but as far as I know, its more like a messenger. Other need to have it installed on their devices too for the messages to work. And they are not sms.
Anyways I found what I was looking for, free sms app (GoVoice), which uses google voice for two way communication with others via sms.
Thank you everyone for your valuable input.
PO15ON said:
Hey, thanks for replying. This is a great idea. I dont mind having a different texting number, and this way its actually easy for me, as I can choose who gets it. Actually, I just bought the Titan, so my contract with AT&T just began. Go-Phone is out of question.
I tried looking into it, but couldnt find the settings for texting in my google voice account. Would you mind telling me the steps involved in setting up the account.
In my google voice settings, I only have the option tabs of Phone, Voicemail, Groups, Voicemail Widgets and Billing. Which of these tabs is supposed to have the texting option?
Do I have to activate google voicemail on my cell for this to work, because I am pretty satisfied with the AT&T voicemail service atm.
Thanks
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Sorry for the late reply, I have been too busy to check back. I see that you have found a way by using an app. To clarify my work around, all you have to do is set your Google Voice account to forward all messages to your Hotmail account. This means that when someone text your Google Voice number, the text is forwarded to your Hotmail. If you keep wifi on in your phone, you will get a live tile notification saying that you have mail. Go into mail to read and reply. Your reply to the text messages will be received by the other person as a text messages. So there is no need for a third party app.
So I have my account set up to text me when my bill is ready.
Otherwise, I don't have texting as part of my plan.
I keep getting text messages from random numbers - no, I don't give out my number. I don't do phone calls or texts other then T-mo incoming for billing.
How do I block all but carrier texts?
If no easy solution presents itself then i'll just remove texting capabilities from my ROM.
I won't pay T-mo to block texts, i'll either do one of two things:
-eliminate the phones ability to receive them
This is an easy fix, but I lose my billing messages and I have trouble keeping track of my place in time, so they are helpful. This is a defensive mechanism.
-Devise an offensive solution. I have a few ideas, but nothing i'm willing to pursue at this time. Lacking other options I may.
Any help from the community out there?
I'm pretty new to the whole texting/cellular bit and this part is making me want to smash my phone. I just started a new job and it takes a lot out of me, leaves me spent and wasted at the end of my shift.
I almost just threw the damn phone out my car window on the way home, i'm easily frustrated after my shift is over and if my window was down it wouldn't have bounced back into my car this morning.
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An app solution is not the answer, not even being considered. I won't increase the overhead on the device to solve this problem, and if that's the only answer then it's either remove texting capabilities completely or be done with cell phones as a whole.
Blue6IX said:
So I have my account set up to text me when my bill is ready.
Otherwise, I don't have texting as part of my plan.
I keep getting text messages from random numbers - no, I don't give out my number. I don't do phone calls or texts other then T-mo incoming for billing.
How do I block all but carrier texts?
If no easy solution presents itself then i'll just remove texting capabilities from my ROM.
I won't pay T-mo to block texts, i'll either do one of two things:
-eliminate the phones ability to receive them
This is an easy fix, but I lose my billing messages and I have trouble keeping track of my place in time, so they are helpful. This is a defensive mechanism.
-Devise an offensive solution. I have a few ideas, but nothing i'm willing to pursue at this time. Lacking other options I may.
Any help from the community out there?
I'm pretty new to the whole texting/cellular bit and this part is making me want to smash my phone. I just started a new job and it takes a lot out of me, leaves me spent and wasted at the end of my shift.
I almost just threw the damn phone out my car window on the way home, i'm easily frustrated after my shift is over and if my window was down it wouldn't have bounced back into my car this morning.
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An app solution is not the answer, not even being considered. I won't increase the overhead on the device to solve this problem, and if that's the only answer then it's either remove texting capabilities completely or be done with cell phones as a whole.
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That's weird, same thing happened to me a while back when I gave my number to my college, i kept getting random calls all the time, the only way i fixed it was to change my number.
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I'm pretty sure if you call tmobile, they will just block them from your plan entirely. I believe I did the same when I didn't have texting on tmobile. Similarly, I have AT&T block my data so I don't use any mobile data. I lose my picture messaging in the process, but it's much less of a headache than getting extraneous data charges removed every month...
For someone who types so much, I'm suprised you don't have texting blue
Very simple solution - login to your account on tmobile website, goto change services section and you would see a Block all chargeable messages option. It's FREE!
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Interesting - I called CS and they said I would cost some dollar amount per month to block texts.
Wouldn't be the first time wires got crossed there, I'll check into the web portal next time I log in.
chem.manish said:
Very simple solution - login to your account on tmobile website, goto change services section and you would see a Block all chargeable messages option. It's FREE!
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Okay, that was worth crawling out of bed for.
I found it in the website under my plan options.
Hopefully it works.
gtmaster303 said:
For someone who types so much, I'm suprised you don't have texting blue
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Well, posting I can type at my leisure, and this place exists to me when it's convenient for me.
Text messages get sent to my phone at the most inopportune times. I'm either trying to work on something for development, or like now I was trying to get some sleep. Volume turned up because I have to wake up in two hours and get my day started, but i've been trying to sleep for the last 3 unsuccessfully due in part to a barrage of BS text messages from who knows who. Random that has nothing to do with me.
Also, posting here doesn't cost me any extra per post unlike the texting part that does.
I'm just aggravated at the moment, and prone to solve problems with extreme solutions that provide final and irrevocable resolution.
I hate texts too, I think I signed up for the minimal number you can get, just because I have some friends who seem to only communicate via text. But, if you turn off all texts, you can still get a bill reminder sent to you via e-mail.
Am I right that this issue is due to the annoyance factor and not to the charging factor? I don't know how tmo bills SMS, but here in Canada, there are a couple of service providers that charge good money for INCOMING SMS messages (IMO complete fraud since you can't control somebody else sending them).
If it IS due to the money factor, then there is nothing you can do at the handset level to stop the money flowing out of your account, since they are billed at the network level.
If due to the annoyance factor, best option would be to modify the MMS application to add in a screening feature.
ALTERNATIVELY, there is a setting in the MMS application to disable NOTIFICATIONS (however, this would also block notifications for billing messages).
If you can get tmo to send billing info to your EMAIL instead, that should negate the need for SMS/MMS notifications. In this way, SMS messages will accumulate in the SMS application, but it won't pester you with notifications about it.
Thanks for the responses.
Haven't had a problem with it from people since blocking text messages in t-mo 'my account' settings on the website.
Now I have an issue with T-mo sending me a notification text message daily about taking advantage of some thing because of my insurance.
Gonna have to call customer service and see what I can do about that, because I really want to keep the billing notification.
Modifying the sms app on the device has crossed my mind, but with how much work I've got going on right now I just don't have the time to look into even something that small for dev.
Once I get on the road and start travelling for my new job I'll have a lot more time, but leading up to that I need to get as much cash on hand as possible to account for hotels and travel costs until I can get myself into the re-imbursement cycle.
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