Is there a way for you to intercept a sms text message by knowing that person phone number
I've seen phantom SMS messages and voicemail notifications come through on a phone without being hooked up with service.
The phone must be made for that specific carrier and programmed with that user's CTN and MSID and PRL updated on that carrier.
I've only seen this on CDMA service.
Otherwise I'm pretty sure there's not a way to receive other people's SMS. Although there could be some software program out there that does it. But it would have to be installed on that specific phone to work.
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I searched this, and was surprised not to find any threads on this topic, as I'm sure it has been answered already, but anyways...
I'm travelling in the US for the next 2 weeks, and I want to avoid roaming charges on my cellphone. I do have wifi where I am, and I want to know if there's any way that I can use this to avoid roaming charges.
I know there are SMS apps that send texts over your data connection, and I just wanted to see if this would help me evade roaming charges.
On a side note, if anyone knows, does rogers charge roaming on incoming and outgoing, or just outgoing?
And, can I get both my incoming and outgoing to come through wifi?
Thanks in advance
Just wanted to bump this one up as I would really prefer to know the answer soon
I have textplus on my phone and that does allow me to send messages through wifi and I can also receive them. When I send a message it uses a really funny number (like 1001-2223202) But you select a name to be shown when the person receives the message. Also if you want to receive a message the sender has to reply to the funny number not your typical cell number, If the sender send you a message and you donèt have wifi on, the message shows up the next time you open the app.
Hope this helps....
I dont know why your are going out of your service area but another option is to pick up a SIM card for a local network when your away. You can get a cheap SIM and get a pay and talk type plan while your in that area, this way you can make local calls and message without worrying.
I guess it all depends on you situation.
Google voice works.
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I don't have an american number to tie Google Voice to, so I can't use it as it is exclusively for the states.
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Thanks, I'll try that. I'm out of my service area because I'm on vacation
Phone: Motorola Atrix 4g
Carrier: AT&T
OS: Android 2.2 (soon to be 2.3!)
Problem: Can't use all Google Voice Features with Cell Number
I recently purchased the Motorola Atrix and so far I am very impressed with this phone. My friend has an Android phone with Sprint and he told me about Google Voice and how great it was for his phone. I short I WANT that with my phone. I understand the basic concept of how GV works and how Sprint has a "special" relationship with this service, but I still would like to try and make it work with my phone in a similar way.
Notes:
I do not have a separate GV Number.
I have installed the GV app and the voicemail functions work but SMS and call forwarding do not work.
My Questions:
1) If I port my cell number over to GV will everything work correctly (like Sprint...including SMS and Call Forwarding features)
2) If I do port my number over...how are my outgoing and incoming calls (that go to my cell phone) billed on ATT. Because calls get routed through Google do they still appear as Mobile to Mobile Calls? Are they all Land line calls from GV? Does the forwarding of the correct "Caller ID" information solve all of these problems?
3) Ideally I would like to avoid porting my number to Google, and work with settings on my phone or with ATT technicians to make my phone work like it would on the Sprint System. Basically I want to use all of the GV benefits without getting a separate GV number and without porting my Cell number to GV. Is this Possible? Has anyone done it?
Thanks to anyone who read this and has any information for me.
Cheers,
BW
The google voice app has never worked on my phone, always giving me some message about it being for US only.
But today i tried it from my phone and it actually allowed me to set up an account. It stopped at the screen where i was setting up my voicemail pin and said "We have a problem. Your phone number could not be verified. Please try again.". So far i havent been able to get past that screen.
I was able to make google voice calls on my laptop today so it seems like they are allowing use in Canada finally. Does anyone know if its possible to use google voice on mobilicity or wind?
I am curious because mobilicity has a new plan with unlimited calls texts and data for 25 a month, but no voicemail. If i can use google voice as my voicemail then obviously that wont be a problem.
don't know if you checked this out already, but read the post below...I think it should explain what you're looking for....
http://community.windmobile.ca/windmobile/topics/using_google_voice_on_your_phone?from_gsfn=true
Thanks, its too bad that the workarounds discussed in that post still dont offer a solution for voicemail, but that will probably be useful information for future reference.
I did find a solution to this problem without using google voice if anyone is interested. I may as well share it.
To those who are interested in this plan but wont sign up without voicemail:
- You can get a free phone number and a customizable answering machine from http://www.freephoneline.ca/ (if you cant get a toronto number you can use thornhill, richmond hill, etc to avoid forwarding to a long distance number)
- Then set your phone to forward your unanswered, busy, and unavailable incoming calls to your freephoneline number.
- Then set your voicemail access number to the corresponding number on this list http://www.freephoneline.ca/vmAccessNumbers
- Also make sure to set your freephoneline to only ring once before going to voicemail, you can do this by logging into your account on their website and going to your settings
- You now have $25 BTS + Voicemail! When people call your regular phone number and you dont answer, it will forward them to your voicemail on your freephoneline number, and you can check your voicemail from your cell phone the same way you always would.
I believe they also provide the option to automatically transcribe your voicemails and email them to you in text form.
EDIT: Apparantly call forwarding is $5 more, if thats true this wouldnt work. Another option would be using Dell Voice on the android market.
Its an app gives you a canadian number with the area code of your choice and can be used to make and receive calls anywhere in canada and US for free, and customizable voicemail. It uses your carrier data to do this, but since this plan has unlimited data that shouldnt be a problem. The only problem is you would have to get used to making and receiving all your calls through an app, and using your dell voice number as your primary number.
Might be worth the extra $5 to get call features and add the freephoneline voicemail via the method above, the $5 call features addon on the mobilicity website includes Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and 3-Way Calling, (plus voicemail via fpl). Thats basically $30 for the $29 plan i currently have with wind except that it doesnt expire in a year and go up to $45 =/
Some that use Google Voice know of this. When you send a text via the browser or GV app, and have the receive text messages on this phone checked, you get a notification from the GV app, as well as the stock android App as well.
Since I text a friend in canada using my GV number, I get the incoming texts in GV and my android stock app. Is the one coming in on the Stock App still considered free, as its coming in via my GV number.
When you receive texts on your android app, it has some randomized number, with the persons name/real number in the message.
Metro PCS dont know anything, nor how to answer it. I know its free to call and text canada with GV. But how i get 2 texts at same time, im not sure if metro will try to charge me for international texting.
Reason i keep it this way, is i have bad data in my area, so when i get a text on my GV number, i dont get it in my GV app but in the stock android one. Its odd how it works but i cant uncheck the box on google voice settings or else i miss many texts due to shotty service in areas without wifi;
Once I had an HTC Touch HD, running Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile had the option of calling anonymous unless the called number is in the contacts. On later smartphones, using Android, I have used the app Prefixer, to achieve the same result. Prefixer can add the prefix *31# to numbers I call from my contacts. That way calls are made anonymous, unless the number called is in my contacts.
Recently I switched to another carrier, and Prefixer is no longer working. Even manually adding the prefix to a number does not work. If I dial for example *31#0123456789 the phone app is only showing 0123456789. I don't know if this is normal, or that the prefix should be shown.
I can't directly contact the provider's customer service, because I now have a contract via my employer. Before I try to do that anyhow, I would like to ask the question here first: is the problem caused by network configuration of my current provider (or the SIM card)? Or is there a setting in Android that I missed, that disables a prefix to be sent when calling a number?
gewe said:
Once I had an HTC Touch HD, running Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile had the option of calling anonymous unless the called number is in the contacts. On later smartphones, using Android, I have used the app Prefixer, to achieve the same result. Prefixer can add the prefix *31# to numbers I call from my contacts. That way calls are made anonymous, unless the number called is in my contacts.
Recently I switched to another carrier, and Prefixer is no longer working. Even manually adding the prefix to a number does not work. If I dial for example *31#0123456789 the phone app is only showing 0123456789. I don't know if this is normal, or that the prefix should be shown.
I can't directly contact the provider's customer service, because I now have a contract via my employer. Before I try to do that anyhow, I would like to ask the question here first: is the problem caused by network configuration of my current provider (or the SIM card)? Or is there a setting in Android that I missed, that disables a prefix to be sent when calling a number?
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Its a carrier feature and needs to be enabled from carrier..
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Its a carrier feature and needs to be enabled from carrier..
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The carrier has enabled it. Problem solved.