Send SMS thru computer
 

Hello Everyone!

I am a new member to the site and this is my first post.

I recently bought Nokia n900 and loving it so far.

I was looking for an application which will let me send/receive SMSes from PC thru Nokia n900.

I am using Windows 7 (64 bit).

Thank you all for any kind of help in advance.

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

Do you mean that you want to type the message on your PC and then send it as SMS, coming from the phone number of your N900?

Does your cellular provider not offer that possibility through its website?

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

Hello Scaler,

Thank you for the reply.

<< Do you mean that you want to type the message on your PC and then send it as SMS, coming from the phone number of your N900?>>
[Anand] Yes, that is what i would like to do.

I am using t-mobile and i do not believe they have such ability on their website.

I've used Oxygen Software in past to send/receive SMSes for my Nokia e90 from my laptop. But it seems this software does not support N900.

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Tmobile does have a user interface for sending text via their customer portal

believe it shows as coming from 10digitphonenumber@tmo.net

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Xopher,

Yes, but it only lets you send sms to TMo users (says website). Also I wud like to receive sms at the same time without using phone.

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I really miss to be able to send out messages from desktop. Is there really no app out there? Anyone? Any help?

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Nokia PC Suite (version 7.1.51.0) can send SMS from PC (when the mobile is connected by USB/Bluetooth in Suite Mode)

Creating and sending text messages
To create and send an SMS message from your PC, do the following:
Select File > New > Message. A blank message dialog opens.

Select recipients for the message in the following ways:

Write the phone number of the recipient to the To: field.

Click Select recipients to open the contact database, double-click to select the recipients and click OK.

Write your message in the text area.

Click Send message.



Your SMS is sent to the selected recipients.

Tip:
When sending a message to someone whose contact information is in the contact database, you can write the recipient's name directly to the To: field and the recipient's information is retrieved. If the recipient has multiple phone numbers, right-click the contact name to select which phone number to use.

You can also create and send text messages from the Contacts view of Nokia Communication Centre. In the Contacts view, highlight one or more contacts and click Send message. The message editor opens with the recipients' phone numbers filled in, and you can write your message in the text area.

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

Hello Wikiwide,

Thank you for the reply!

As far as I know sending messages from Nokia PC Suite (version 7.1.51.0) is not supported.

When I go to File>>New>>Message option is disabled.

Unless I am missing something.

Please advice.

Thanks again!

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

Quick reply.
Try Ovi Suite, version 2.2
http://europe.nokia.com/support/down...-text-messages
Both Nokia PC Suite and Ovi Suite can work with N900 (in USB PC Suite Mode), just make sure that only one of these two programs is running on the PC (otherwise, the two suites will fight with each other)

However, I'm afraid that neither of them supports sending/receiving messages yet. I don't know. Ask Nokia.

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

Wikiwide,

Yes i have been using both apps to connect to my N900 and none of them have this feature available yet.

I was really hoping that there would be some third party app available to send/receive sms from PC.

:(

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http://forums.internettablettalk.com...954#post732954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicom
I don't know how to use it. You will have to learn it.

In a word, Minicom allows you to send commands (AT commands) through the chosen port (USB port, in your case), PC Suite Mode allows N900 to react to these commands (in Mass Storage Mode N900 will only give you access to files in MyDocs and will not react to any commands), and if you setup the Minicom on Windows correctly, you can send AT command to N900 which will tell it to send SMS (with appropriate number and text).

Something about N900 AT commands:
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Hardware_Phone

Re: Send SMS thru computer
 

This is not exactly what you asked about, but it might be close enough to meet your needs. It will enable you do to the following:

You send sms from your PC, your N900, your Nokia 1100 or whatever. You can do it from an email client or from a webmail if you make the appropriate configuration.

Replies within 7 days come to an inbox that you can access from any computer, including your PC and your N900. The replies (or some replies selected according to criteria of your choice) can be forwarded to your email address at no extra cost, and/or to your mobile phone at the cost of an additional sms.

You can do this through an account with www.ipipi.com . There may be other messaging services that do similar things, although ipipi claims to be the only one that offers such a wide range of features. You can do all your sms messaging on that website, and optionally configure the account to operate from an email client or a webmail.

There is one disadvantage that I found sufficiently serious that I now seldom use this service (unless I am sending to someone outside North America - more on this later). Your sms enters the mobile networks from one of ipipi's gateway numbers. Sometimes a recipient will save this number, thinking that it is your own mobile number, and will use it after the 7-day period has finished. In such a case, the message will not reach you.

Regulations in Canada, USA and Mexico (but apparently nowhere else) prohibit networks from substituting your own number in place of the gateway number. For recipients whose mobile providers are domiciled overseas, you can configure your ipipi account so that messages appear to have originated from your own mobile number. In this case, replies do not come through ipipi but through the mobile networks in the usual way, and there is therefore no 7-day limitation. [Confusingly, ipipi refers to this feature as smsOUT on the Settings page and as iPiPiOUT in the Help Index. It is the same thing. The Help section could use some editing.]

[The Help Index is particularly misleading if you want to send sms from your email client. There are two ways of doing this. One appears in the Help Index, under the heading "ipipi email basics", as a link called "Send text messages from your favorite email client". This links to instructions for a configuration that conflicts with the SMTP requirements of some ISP's and with the "Subject" field requirements of some email clients. I could not make it work on my ISP.
A simpler and reliable alternative is the WebText feature listed under the heading "ipipi enhanced features", one paragraph lower.]

I hope this is some help.

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Thank you guys for your replies! I will go thru it in couple of days. And get back to you all!

Thank you all again for the replies.