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Group Text messaging

hello, i often have to taxt 15 people the same message, does anyone know if i can group these together instead of inserting their names in one by one. thanks.

as far as I know, SMS can only be sent to one person at a time (hence Simple Messaging Service). I sell cell phones, and have asked my reps this question in the past; all of them gave me a resounding "no".

Group SMS, I'm sure there is something like that....
interestingfellow said:
as far as I know, SMS can only be sent to one person at a time (hence Simple Messaging Service). I sell cell phones, and have asked my reps this question in the past; all of them gave me a resounding "no".
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I believe what he means is multiple SMS receipents for the same message? There's a lot of mobile phones that can do that now.
If you go pocketgear or handago, i think there's quite a few selection you can choose from.
Regards.

thats what i meant,,, any ideas what the programes are called??. peter

If you just put several numbers, spaced out with ";", does that not work?
Cheers

thanks , yes that works but only for that time, i want to keep that group so every week i can just send to one group .. peter

can't you make a contact with that list as mobile phone number ? Not a nice solution, but it might work.

tried that, doesnt work for some reason , thanks anyway. peter

I tried saving a list as one number as described, even though I use semi-colon as seperator it appears as one long number when calling it from contacts, it does however work that one time when entered manually with seperator.

One way is to use Contacts to create a category for the group of numbers, then add the numbers you want as contacts within that category.
Then select that category in Contacts, select all, tap and hold, then select Send SMS. This puts all the numbers in the 'To:' field separated by ';' I haven't tried actually sending an SMS like this so I don't know if it will work.
If it does, then hopefully it will fill in the numbers from the Contacts category correctly each time.

Has anybody tried this yet?

I have tried, it but even if you insert the ";" and a space when you press send SMS it transfers the number without the ";" and space so its just one long number in my case 15 x 11 = 165 :x

dcs said:
One way is to use Contacts to create a category for the group of numbers, then add the numbers you want as contacts within that category.
Then select that category in Contacts, select all, tap and hold, then select Send SMS. This puts all the numbers in the 'To:' field separated by ';' I haven't tried actually sending an SMS like this so I don't know if it will work.
If it does, then hopefully it will fill in the numbers from the Contacts category correctly each time.
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I use this method often and it works. The only bad thing is that I have to tick every single contact in the category.

no matter what trick to use with Contacts it will be limited to 15 names only ... try search for "sendSMS" free s/w ... it does the job nicely with retrying for failed messages ... it supports also flash SMSs

saving all the numbers in contacts with a ";" and a space did work . i tried it yesterday several times but nothing happened, this morning they all came through :roll: they must have got lost in cyber space somewhere.
thanks for every ones help and sugestions . :lol:

Text Messages in Windows Mobile 6

Hi guys,
I have a question about the text messages (SMS). When you receive an SMS, it will show you the date when the SMS was received but it DOES NOT show you what time the SMS was received. Is there ANY way to turn this on?
So besides the date, I also want to know on what time I receive my SMS messages.

denizg said:
Hi guys,
I have a question about the text messages (SMS). When you receive an SMS, it will show you the date when the SMS was received but it DOES NOT show you what time the SMS was received. Is there ANY way to turn this on?
So besides the date, I also want to know on what time I receive my SMS messages.
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It shows me the date AND the time on mine, I don't know why it doesn't on your device.

Where does it show the time then? All I see is:
- Name
- Text itself
- Date
- Size of message in Kb
Perhaps my version on WM6 is a bit messed up. You prolly have to Official WM6?

On the list view the time is not displayed, but when you open the individual messages it is.
(Official WM6 ROM)

noticed the side bar? it has extra space going up, when you push the dpad upward it shows the details. maybe they thought it would save some space, because no everybody wants to see the full detail. But I agree with you, its nice to see the date and time, so just scroll upward and you'll see it.

nato said:
noticed the side bar? it has extra space going up, when you push the dpad upward it shows the details. maybe they thought it would save some space, because no everybody wants to see the full detail. But I agree with you, its nice to see the date and time, so just scroll upward and you'll see it.
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Dear God, thank you guys. I feel SO stupid now... how could I not have seen this? Damn noob mistake. Thanks again

Hi there,i'm looking for a solution about an sms bug i have noticed on my P3600(udk 3.0 ITA WM6 FE)
When i receive an sms and i go to my sms list i see that the system orders them according the time/date of the sender and not the time/date of my p3600.
That means that if i receive an sms now from my girlfriend who lives in Australia(8hours time difference from Italy where i live)and then i receive other sms from my contacts from Italy, the list shows first the "australian" sms and then the "italian" ones!
Is there any solution to fix this bug or it's just that my P3600 gives priority to my girlfriend's sms???

Another issue: does somebody knows who to see the photo of the contact when you receive a sms?
In palm os there is a new app called picturesms but I don't know an app with this functionality for wm.

rodalfa said:
Another issue: does somebody knows who to see the photo of the contact when you receive a sms?
In palm os there is a new app called picturesms but I don't know an app with this functionality for wm.
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If the person who sends you a sms is in your contact list and if you have assigned a photo to that contact, when you open that sms, you should see his photo. It works automatically on my device, no more app needed.

rodalfa said:
Another issue: does somebody knows who to see the photo of the contact when you receive a sms?
In palm os there is a new app called picturesms but I don't know an app with this functionality for wm.
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When your using outlook, you assign pictures for every contact, when you sync it to your pocketpc it automatically shows the pictures, no extra software needed, saves a lot of space. of course you need to open the sms in order for you to see the picture, same goes with email etc.
but if you really want a 3rd party software try googling photo contacts.

Windows mobile contact and Outlook!! neeed help badly

To this date I can not understand why Microsoft Overlooked this issue and did not fix it!!
Windows mobile can not accept more than one mobile number. I have to accept the fact that I store one person name in contact twice so I will have his two mobile number contacts.
The problem if it is fixed in the Windows mobile contact with a patch, it is still a dilemma in MS outlook!! It would not sync properly
Any trick or solution that can help to store two mobile numbers under one contact name? Is there is any solution to fix this in outlook too?
Best Regards

Another Workaround
Hi hm1b,
I faced the same issue, but used a "better" (in my opinion) workaround: I managed the 2nd mobile number as "Other", "Car" or "Home2".
This allows me to have only 1 contact, and I didn't find any issue (I can still use the number for SMS for example).
Hope it helps.
PS: this question has nothing to do with Blackstone and should have been posted in a general thread

Dear Oumpahpah,
thank you for replying. Will I have a HD phone and did not know where to ask this question. It is a genral question that hope some day to find a fixed answer.
I did use the field of home and work but it did not let me send SMS from there!! when you click on contact it will show only the mobile to send SMS.
another thing some of my friend have Iphoe and keep on upsetting me in regards to this issue. So i thought I might have final soultion with a patch for both [windos mobile and MS outlook]

it might as well be a matter of which field you use for a second mobile number, like, you actually cannot send a sms to a home phone..

crashDebug said:
it might as well be a matter of which field you use for a second mobile number, like, you actually cannot send a sms to a home phone..
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In fact you can send an SMS to any number (including home phone):
When typing the SMS if you choose to add a recipient you can choose from all the selected contact numbers.
But in the contact detail if you choose "send SMS" it selects the mobile phone by default.

Let face it, the WM contact app. is really out dated have one mobile phone field and you cannot change the field label. Even a simple Nokia S40 phone can do it.

Messaging Contacts List In Official Sense 2.5 Rom

I recently upgraded to the new official European wm6.5 sense 2.5 rom. While trying to get my head around the new slow default text messaging app I noticed that when I go to add a recipient, the contact list displays my sim contacts as well as a separate entry for different numbers of the same person. For instance, if I have someone called Alex with both a home number and a mobile number entered, the contact list will display it as two separate contacts. I should also add that I have disabled showing sim contacts using advanced config, and they don't show in the "normal" contact list, just in the messaging one.
As you can imagine, this makes navigating through the contacts much more untidy and time consuming.
Any help will be appreciated

is there no one else with this problem? I was hoping there would be a reg fix or something to sort this out like we've had before

fade2black101 said:
is there no one else with this problem? I was hoping there would be a reg fix or something to sort this out like we've had before
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Nope, as I don't use the sim for contacts. I would suggest that you do the same too, no more problemo.

Allen Mead said:
Nope, as I don't use the sim for contacts. I would suggest that you do the same too, no more problemo.
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I dont use sim either.. ive disabled it on the normal contact list. But it seems to show up in the messaging contact list as well as home numbers and email addresses and these are not all grouped under a single contact.

fade2black101 said:
I dont use sim either.. ive disabled it on the normal contact list. But it seems to show up in the messaging contact list as well as home numbers and email addresses and these are not all grouped under a single contact.
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In that case, sounds like you need to go into the sim manager and delete the numbers off the sim, if that doesn't work, get your provider to do you a new sim.

[Q] Contacts Problem

Hello,
I'm using my desire HD for quite some time now, but i've never had this problem before. When i'm opening the contacts app (if i can call it that way) and then press on the picture of someone and press call or send text message it uses the wrong number and it never did this wrong before does anyone know how to change this?
Thanks in advance!
Bob

SSJVegetto said:
Hello,
I'm using my desire HD for quite some time now, but i've never had this problem before. When i'm opening the contacts app (if i can call it that way) and then press on the picture of someone and press call or send text message it uses the wrong number and it never did this wrong before does anyone know how to change this?
Thanks in advance!
Bob
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The number that it puts do you recognize it? Can it be the number of search of the contact? Or is it a random number?
Have you you checked your contacts list in your google account?
Entering from to PC into gmail account
Do click in the paragraph "contacts" above at the left of the mail page

SERGI.3210 said:
The number that it puts do you recognize it? Can it be the number of search of the contact? Or is it a random number?
Have you you checked your contacts list in your google account?
Entering from to PC into gmail account
Do click in the paragraph "contacts" above at the left of the mail page
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Yes it is not some weird number it is just not the number i want to textmessage for instance when i have their mobile and home phone number it will sometimes pick the home phone number to send a text message well that is wrong and i never even changed anything so do you know how to change it?
Thnx for your reply!

SSJVegetto said:
Yes it is not some weird number it is just not the number i want to textmessage for instance when i have their mobile and home phone number it will sometimes pick the home phone number to send a text message well that is wrong and i never even changed anything so do you know how to change it?
Thnx for your reply!
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if you´ve checked your google account &
are you sure about you don´t have various numbers in one contact i don´t know what´s the problem

Check on the gmail website and double check a few of the numbers.....make sure there aren't duplicates from a bad sync (i.e. same numbers appearing under home and mobile for instance)
If it all looks fine, I would wipe and let it re-sync.....
I have worked with contact sync apps in an enterprise environment and always found them to be "a bit dodgy" at best.

SERGI.3210 said:
if you´ve checked your google account &
are you sure about you don´t have various numbers in one contact i don´t know what´s the problem
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Well i've checked it yes. The phone numbers are correct. I'm using HTC Sense btw. And what do you not get about my problem? When i click on someones picture in the contacts app i can choose different stuff to do like call or send text message. I do send text message it goes to the wrong number how do i change that.

SSJVegetto said:
Well i've checked it yes. The phone numbers are correct. I'm using HTC Sense btw. And what do you not get about my problem? When i click on someones picture in the contacts app i can choose different stuff to do like call or send text message. I do send text message it goes to the wrong number how do i change that.
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mmm... you are perfectly understandable (since the first post) AND I´M GETTING THAT YOU ARE SAYING...but i sent to you 3 possible things that can provoke your problem... if anything works THEN I DO NOT KNOW THAT IT CAN GO BADLY...

Have you tried going on the contact details page, holding down on the number you want to text or call, then choose Set as primary number?