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Darshan Maharana New member Username: Darshan47 Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2007 |
Hi All, I am evaluating Now SMS/MMS Gateway v2007.06.27. I have configured my Nokia 6300 as SMSC and checked "Receive SMS Messages" in properties. I am testing 2-way option and have not yet created any commands in the SMS command table. But I am not able to receive any messages in the gateway. It does not create SMS-IN folder. Does anyone know if Nokia 6300 works for receiving msgs ? regards, -Darshan | |||
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7367 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Darshan, Unfortunately that is a limitation of the software design of most newer Nokia phones. The SMS client on the mobile phone grabs all of the received messages and prevents them from being accessed via the GSM modem interface. This has been a long time limitation of the Nokia Series 60 (a.k.a. S60) user interface. However, Nokia seems to have extended this design limitation to newer Series 40 devices over the past 12 to 18 months (Series 40 3rd Edition). Older Nokia Series 40 phones had no such limitation. -bn | |||
Darshan Maharana New member Username: Darshan47 Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2007 |
Thanks Bryce for the prompt response. This is a major issue for testing mobile apps. I tried with Nokia 6230i but that too didn't work. I found a long running thread on this forum which contains phones which has been known to support SMS receive function. Does now.sms (the company) maintain any authoritative document/link containing such list ? regards, -Darshan | |||
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7379 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Darshan, I don't disagree that this is a major problem. But it is outside of our control. Unfortunately there are hundreds of models of phones out there. And while it is convenient to be able to use a GSM phone as a modem, the best solution is a dedicated GSM modem device. Here are some observations that I posted on another thread ... which I think you will find helpful, especially with regard to Nokia devices.
Nokia has a good chart of which phones are part of which family at: http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_all_1.html You can select a model from the drop down list, and it will display the information. Based upon this information, the 6300 is Series 40 3rd edition (feature pack 2), so our experience is that it definitely would not work. But, I would expect the Nokia 6230i to be ok, as it uses Series 40 2nd edition. (That said, there is some ambiguity in the Nokia charts. The 6230 is clearly listed as a Series 40 2nd edition device. The 6230i says that it supports Series 40 Developer Platform v2.) I've checked through my archives, and I've seen several instances where it looked like people were using the Nokia 6230i as a modem to both send and receive SMS. But it was right around the middle of 2005 that Series 40 3rd edition came out, so perhaps different models of this phone shipped with different versions. (The big question is why did Nokia remove this capability ...) -bn | |||
Darshan Maharana New member Username: Darshan47 Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2007 |
Thanks again. Nokia 6230i wasn't reliable. It allowed receiving few SMSs and then stopped both sending & receiving! I tried all sorts of combination in SMSC properties but to no avail. The 6300 at least worked consistently for sending out (and not receiving). My next try is going to be Nokia 6310. Currently, I am only interested in receiving/sending plain text SMS. At a later stage I would sure get a dedicated GSM modem as advised by you. regards, -Darshan |