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Sending SMS to an email address on 8125--is there a crack?

Does anyone know if there's a way to enable sending emails via the SMS app on the 8125 (without using 36245 as the email address)? If you try to send an SMS to an email (not a phone number), the app tells you it's not allowed. Several of us would like to be able to "chat" via sms with people on BlackBerries (for example) or 2-way pagers that aren't addressable as cell phones. Most other phones allow this, but Cingular has disabled it on the 8125. It certainly works on Cing treos. Doesnt work on 8125 with orig ROM or Summiter's excellent ROM upgrade.
Anyone know if this is a registry edit, or would it require a seperate program? Anyone able and willing to post a solution?

omg i just realized it's not letting me send sms to email addresses either >< I used to use send sms to emails all the time on my treo too >< ahhhh ~ any fixes please

Re: Sending SMS to an email address on 8125--is there a crac
aoldal said:
Does anyone know if there's a way to enable sending emails via the SMS app on the 8125 (without using 36245 as the email address)? If you try to send an SMS to an email (not a phone number), the app tells you it's not allowed. Several of us would like to be able to "chat" via sms with people on BlackBerries (for example) or 2-way pagers that aren't addressable as cell phones. Most other phones allow this, but Cingular has disabled it on the 8125. It certainly works on Cing treos. Doesnt work on 8125 with orig ROM or Summiter's excellent ROM upgrade.
Anyone know if this is a registry edit, or would it require a seperate program? Anyone able and willing to post a solution?
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You can always send MMS to email addresses with just text.
I'm curious in today's age why you need to send SMS to email addresses, probably same reason MSFT didn't include it. Can you elaborate more??
There is cross operability with all carriers for text messages so you can just put in the phone number of any mobile device and it'll work.
All Blackberries that are less than 3 years old support SMS over the phone # assigned.
I understand the issue for 2-way pagers but why can't you just send a quick email?

There's a need for SMS to 2-way pagers because sending an SMS is faster to create and send...since email requires a logon and data connection. SMS is the easier way to go if you want to "chat"

Send an SMS to 121
The first thing in the body of the message should be the e-mail address with the subject immediately after, in parentheses. Then a space, then your message. Example: to send an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject of 'billing question' and the body 'Please contact me via phone to discuss my recent bill' you would send the following to 121
[email protected](billing question) Please contact me via phone to discuss my recent bill
Voila!

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mobilehavoc said:
I'm curious in today's age why you need to send SMS to email addresses, probably same reason MSFT didn't include it. Can you elaborate more??
There is cross operability with all carriers for text messages so you can just put in the phone number of any mobile device and it'll work.
All Blackberries that are less than 3 years old support SMS over the phone # assigned.
I understand the issue for 2-way pagers but why can't you just send a quick email?
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I won't speak for the original poster, but I'll elaborate with my reason: I'm not an email/internet/IM junkie, and I don't need all that for work, so I don't have a data plan for my 8125 in order to use the real email capability. But, I do have the 100 SMS msg pack on my plan, and I occasionally need to send a quick email to someone when I'm away from the computer and only have my phone. I used this capability on my Nokia6800 all the time, and apparently the Nokia software took care of the special formatting, since all I had to do on it was type in (or select from Contacts) the email address, the subject, and the message. When I started searching today on this issue, I hoped there was a more elegant solution, but I'm perfectly happy with the instructions for a specially formatted SMS message (as long as I can remember them when I need to send an email). I just figured out that I can copy/paste an email address from Contacts, which I suppose will be better than trying to rember one and having to type it, so that's not too bad.
If I really needed to use email a lot from my phone, I guess I'd give in and pay for a data plan, but for now, this SMS trick works just fine.
Edit: almost forgot to say thanks to Hosehead for the tip. Much obliged.

Hosehead said:
Send an SMS to 121
The first thing in the body of the message should be the e-mail address with the subject immediately after, in parentheses. Then a space, then your message. Example: to send an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject of 'billing question' and the body 'Please contact me via phone to discuss my recent bill' you would send the following to 121
[email protected](billing question) Please contact me via phone to discuss my recent bill
Voila!
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Using Cingular this did not work...

Worked just fine through Cingular for me when I tried it this afternoon. The email I received looked just like the ones I used to send with my Nokia.

Has worked fine for me since I got my 8125. I recommend making sure you have a new "3G" sim, I know some of the older ones restricted SMS e-mail.

It works for me!
I sent the first test to my work e-mail. Apparently the SPAM filters didn't like it.
Second test to personal e-mail worked like a charm. This is nice to know.

well holy shi** i didn't even know you could do that. it had never even crossed my mind that SMS connected to e-mail
brilliant, johnson. brilliant!

I've sent email with mine through text before...
I was messing around with it when I setup my gmail account to forward me emails through text...

not working for me..
Hmm.. this is not working for me on Tmobile with an MDA.. Has anyone had any success with tmobile?

Send text using data plan, send text using internet.

PLease i just realised that i was still getting charged for sending text messages, even though i have tha total intertnet plan from tmobile.
I was just wondering if anyone knows of a program that would let me send text messages bypassing the cellular network, and using my internet,(be it wifi or edge or gprs) to carry the messages.
Kinda like when you use your computer to send texts to phones, is there a program for windows mobile?
thank you in advance

I believe there are a few websites out there to send messages with, tmobile used to have a public SMS application, however I am unsure of any method of "relaying" an SMS message through the included pocket outlook sms handler to one of those sites transparently.

thank you. I still will be awaiting answers.

moyofalaye said:
thank you. I still will be awaiting answers.
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one approach might be to use an email server to bounce the messages to sms email addresses.
say you use the email side of the messaging app, either through synching to exchange or through a pop, imap or whatever, and point the email at the sms address, I forget what the tmobile address is, but for example it would be like [email protected]
I guess that semi solves the problem without any programming, you would just need each carrier's email address, and specify a return address that would go to your phone for when they SMS back.

CaptDistraction said:
moyofalaye said:
thank you. I still will be awaiting answers
previous:H6315(hell in gadget form), Tmo original xda PPCPE.
CaptDistraction, you need to be creative about the 6315; I gave mine to my wife when I upgraded to to 8125. Got rid of the memory hogs and you can't imagine how our relationship has improved, we now talk about the same techy stuff; she complaing, I fixing by the way she no longer complains about how much time I spend with my phone, cause she's now doing the same. Now we have no time to talk to each other...... :twisted:
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Haha, I tried every rom out there, I kept the device for a while and finally sold it to support the MDA purchase.
Man I messed with that 6315 to no end, had so much stuff going on with it trying different app combos, spent hours in the registry, no matter how simple I kept it, I couldn't ever get it to answer calls in a timely fashion.
My biggest love with the MDA is when you press that green answer button, it immediately picks up the call.

app to send and recieve txt through pc ?

Hi
Is there an app that allows you to send and recieve txtx from the G1 through the PC ?. I have a nokia and use pc suit to send and recieve txt through pc at work. Just wanted to know if you can do something the same on G1/Android ?

Google Voice. Get an invite, setup a new number, and send text messages through "voice.google.com" with that new number.

just use an email address?? I send/recieve texts from the wifey all the time from exchange. although it would be awesome if there was a program to redirect all incoming texts to an email address so if someone were trying to get ahold of me, i'd know now and not 8 to 16 hours later. (prisons don't allow cell phones.)

NViouz said:
Google Voice. Get an invite, setup a new number, and send text messages through "voice.google.com" with that new number.
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I thought about posting this earlier.... there's a huge downfall to it: getting people to actually text that new number.

r3s-rt said:
I thought about posting this earlier.... there's a huge downfall to it: getting people to actually text that new number.
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I could see the difficulty in that lol.
Although, what I did was go to "contacts.google.com" and create a group of all the people I text on a regular basis. Downloaded "Contacts GroupU" from the market, then re-sync'd my contacts. Opened up Contacts GroupU, long pressed the group name and selected "Send SMS." Finally, notified them of the new number.

[Q] exchange email account cant include the quoted text

I receive the email from my client and I tried to reply his email with my SGS with quoted text included.
He can receive my email but not the text that I typed which mean he is receiving the same email without any reply.
I tried not to include the quoted text when I reply and receiver can see my text but this is not point to reply the email when quoted test is not included.
I don't have this problem in 2.1(eclair) but I always encounter this problem after I updated to 2.2(Froyo).
Not sure if anyone encounter this problem also.

I am having the same problem as well with my Captivate and Cognition ROM. I'm about to put on the newest version tonight and hope that helps - this is ridiculous, every email I send through GMail setup on Exchange server settings that worked just fine on Eclair just send quoted text - nothing I type in a replied response!

[Q] How do I send a contact by text message?

My wife got a Moto X a couple of weeks ago, and can't find a way to send a contact by text message. I looked at her phone and it isn't an option under contacts. On a contact, under the share menu, it has several options. None of them are send by text message, and its the easiest way to send a contact. It's kind of weird, but one of the options is send by LAN, click it and it says not supported.
I have a Droid Maxx, and when I open a contact and select share I have a option to send it by text, but the Moto X doesn't.
I've tried searching forums like here, Motorola, google searches etc., and can't find any mention of this anywhere. Only place it is mentioned is as issue # 42174 on code.google.com where it was dropped off the base code after 4.2.1. In her words "Everybody else can, people do this all the time, this is a problem".
The only thing that kind of works is copying part of the contact to the clipboard, and pasting it to a text, some times it takes several texts to send all the contact information though.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I not looking in the right place to do it?

You can't. As of right now there is no vcard support via mms. We can't send or receive. Confirmed by moto rep on official forums. As you stated, it's been removed from android for whatever reason, and moto hasn't added it back in. I noticed it myself the other day, it's pretty annoying considering I send and receive contacts via mms all the time. At least I did.

_MetalHead_ said:
You can't. As of right now there is no vcard support via mms. We can't send or receive. Confirmed by moto rep on official forums. As you stated, it's been removed from android for whatever reason, and moto hasn't added it back in. I noticed it myself the other day, it's pretty annoying considering I send and receive contacts via mms all the time. At least I did.
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Thanks for the reply ( I guess). Now I'm going to have to tell her she can't do it, damn. I was really hoping it was something I was overlooking. It really seems to be a pretty big omission by not being able to send vcards that way. I'm a little surprised not many people are complaining about it though. It was really hard to find any mention of it. That's the second strike against the Moto X for her. She has the damn bug where her phone wouldn't get out driving mode, it kept announcing out loud who was calling after she quit driving. Not a good thing to happen in an operating room. I had to disable that part of moto assist to get it to shut up. Hope there is an update soon for that bug too.