Article:		Use Bluetooth for SMS
Subject:		No SMS with T68i?!
Date:		2002-12-06 12:34:23
From:		seiz
Well, i am lucky and i even had a T68i before Apple used it in it's demos all over. You'd think that is THE phone for the mac. However, i had no luck sending SMS via Bluetoth here with my German GSM provider. Clicking on SEND SMS doesn't even seem to trigger any communication with the Phone. I'm puzled.

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• Send SMS menuitem not active
  2003-08-18 15:39:38  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I am getting the same problem as above.. My t68i and tibook are both paired etc, but the Send Message and Dial items are grey on the menu.
  
  Can anyone help us out?
  Barns
• Send SMS menuitem not active
  2003-09-10 07:03:36  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  In Address Book, you need to tick on the Bluetooth icon, upper left corner, which will enable the (grayed-out) SMS and Dial functions.
  
  Phil

• No SMS with T68i?!
  2002-12-09 02:51:12  seiz [View]
  
  
  Follow UP:
  
  I just found out, that sending SMS DOES work just fine with my T68i - i only thought it didn't.
  
  Another Example of BAD Interface Design from some of the Apple OSX Engineers. if you send an SMS from AddressBook, there is absolutely ZERO feedback from the App to tell the user if sending was sucessfull or not. This is bad since it seems SMS sent vie Bluetooth/AddressBook aren't stored in your Phone's "Sent SMS" Box, so there is NO WAY to tell if a message had successfully been sent. Another Problem is, that sending via Bluetooth doesn't HONOR my phones "Return Receipt" Settings. Here in Germany, we can configure our Phones to request a "Return Receipt" for any sent SMS, so we definitively know if an SMS was received. A handy setting, just not used from within AddressBook...
  
• No SMS with T68i?!
  2002-12-09 07:35:56  davidrm [View]
  
  
  On the Return Receipt point, you have to get your head around the concept that it is the Mac sending the SMS, not the phone. So you would have to set Return Receipt on the Mac. Same goes for stored sent messages. It is exactly the same as if you send from a Palm. You are not transferring an SMS to the phone and asking the phone to send it, but rather using the phone as a relay. I think you have to accept that it this is really early adopter stuff and some features aren't there yet. Try posting it as a suggestion on the Apple support newsgroups. And it wouldn't hurt to be polite...
• No SMS with T68i?!
  2002-12-11 07:25:56  seiz [View]
  
  
  David,
  
  i am sorry if i sounded impolite. Didn't mean to sound so - might be because english is not my native language ;-) I'd be really interrested what specific word or sentence you found impolite?
  
  I think you missed (or i didn't make it clear) the main Point of my POST which was the Lacking User-Feedback from the AddressBook app. No dialog displayed after sending an SMS nothing, nada. That's what i call bad interface design.
  
  I am an Apple Seect Dev. member, so be asured that i'll pass them along my findings.
  
  As for the rest, yes - that's more a feature request, for instance have Address-Book read the Return-receipt Settings of my Phone and use them...
  
  For me, the metapher i think about when Sending SMS from Address Book is a "Remote control". Since i know, the mac doesn't have GSM built in, so it can't send SMS - it's only acting as a Front-End to the Phone, so my expectations are, that most of the Phones Preferences should apply.
• No SMS with T68i?!
  2003-12-19 17:08:35  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  On the Orange Network here in the UK if you start the message with "RCT " (thats RCT followed by SPACE) you get a text message back thats basically gobblegook - but if you ignor the junk it shows the message has been delivered.
  
  Not as elegenet as the "Message Delivered" prompt on my T68i and it's Recepit mode, but useful none the less.
  
  I have just tried using this on Microsoft SMS Sender for Windows XP and it worked via that, where as the messages sent from it normally have no feedback on the handset.
• No SMS with T68i?!
  2003-06-05 05:02:53  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Hello
  
  I am just startin with my new T68i
  
  When I want to use SMS, the options SMS and dial are not highlighted. Can anyone give me a hint??
  
  Thanks Wim van Overeem Holland
• No SMS with T68i?!
  2003-09-10 07:04:53  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  In Address Book, you need to tick on the Bluetooth icon, upper left corner, which will enable the (grayed-out) SMS and Dial functions.
  
  Phil