How to delay receiving MMS?

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hjh
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Username: Hppyhjh

Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Saturday, October 14, 2006 - 05:16 pm:   

because during the GPRS connection, no mms notification can be received by now.sms software, so there is poor performace, about 50% MMS can be received the first time.

is there a way, to collect the mms notifications( lead to MMSINQ/*.Q files) , don't let now.sms.. software to trigger the GPRS connection for mms retrive. and later when i want, i trigger the GPRS connection , and i think the performace is good, for creating connection once, and receive all mms on this persistent connection with good network environment.

can "Process Received SMS Messages" option do this task?

thank u.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 6682
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 06:53 pm:   

Hi,

That's why I like PC cards like the ones from Sierra Wireless. You can have the GPRS channel open while still being able to send/receive SMS at the same time.

(I've also noticed that the SonyEricsson W800i has drivers that install two separate modem drivers for the device ... one of these drivers has "Data Modem" in the name, whereas the other just says "Modem". You can use the "Data Modem" driver to have a GPRS connection active, while still sending/receiving SMS over the other driver. Alas, the MMS client on the phone intercepts MMS notifications, so you can't use this device as a modem for receiving MMS with NowSMS ... but I am wondering if there might be other USB modem devices that have a similar driver setup that exposes 2 modem interfaces that can be used simultaneously like this.)

That said, we did make some tweaks awhile back to better address the issue that you mention. For some reason, the change never made it into the readme file, so I'm not sure exactly when this feature was added. We just uploaded a new patch update for NowSMS 2006 today at http://www.nowsms.com/download/2006patch.zip, and I updated the documentation to reference this feature.

How it works is that, by default, NowSMS will wait for 15 seconds during which no new SMS messages are received before it tries to process any received MMS notifications for that modem.

You can adjust this timeout to higher values if you want. To modify this timeout, edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [Modem - Driver Name] section header, add MMSModeSwitchTimeout=###, where ### is a value in seconds.

Unfortunately, I don't know exactly when this feature was added, but it is definitely in the 2006.10.16 version, which is a patch for NowSMS 2006 that can be downloaded at http://www.nowsms.com/download/2006patch.zip.

-bn