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[Doc Rumack]

I am using the Blade on the O2 network in UK. O2 don't honour the SMS delivery report request from a phone's menu. The work around is to preface each SMS with *0# which then requests a delivery report.

On older phones there was a facility to paste a template into the SMS message editor, so it was easy to do.

Is there any way to do this on the Blade? I've had a look and I know I can add an attachment, but anyone know of a way to paste something at the start of each text in the editor?

Thanks,

Doc.

[Doc Rumack]

As there are no replies I guess it isn't possible to do what I need. Maybe there aren't any San Fran / Blade owners on O2 or Giffgaff.

Doc.

[Lew247]

There's loads of us - we use giffgaff for the unlimited cheap data - but we all know that delivery reports area a waste, it gets annoying the phone sending one every time you send a text and as you said O2 does not support them

The only way as you said is to type *0# at the start of each message
Most of us just don't bother

Just force a delivery report on important texts you Desperately NEED to know has been delivered (delivered does not mean read!)
The rest don't bother - its quieter and saves having to keep reading them

[Doc Rumack]

Well thanks for taking the time to reply.

Everybody's needs are different. Out of the messages that I send, occasionally I need a delivery receipt. Whether the recipient chooses to read the message or respond is immaterial in this case. So yes, I'll just continue with inputting *0# for the occasional message that I need to.

The only way I can thing of simplifying the procedure is to replace one of the smiley characters in the message editor with the code but I am not sure that can be done.

Doc.

[Lew247]

The only way that I can see that would be "quick" would be to edit one of the keyboard keys that you don't use so it sends *0# instead of what it was originally meant to send - some keyboards let you send so it should be possible to edit the app if you know how.

Other than that I've no idea how it could be done like I said I only use it on the rare occasion I need delivery verified and then do it manually

[Doc Rumack]

Thanks for that. I'll do some research.

Doc.

[The Sorcerer]

Doc Rumack, on Feb 24 2011, 15:06, said:

I am using the Blade on the O2 network in UK. O2 don't honour the SMS delivery report request from a phone's menu. The work around is to preface each SMS with *0# which then requests a delivery report.

Up to now I've been on Asda PAYG (Vodafone) who do honour delivery reports but I'm just about to go over to GiffGaff. I only send about a dozen texts a month (getting old and can't be bothered farting about with reading specs every time) but do find reports useful. So, having never done this manually before, do you insert the *0# at the start of the message body text or at the start of the recipient's phone number, or somewhere else?

Cheers

[Lew247]

The start of the actual message
you can leave a space after the *0# before you type your message or leave no space the network still picks up the *0# and the recipient does not see those characters

[The Sorcerer]

Lew247, on Feb 25 2011, 20:01, said:

The start of the actual message
you can leave a space after the *0# before you type your message or leave no space the network still picks up the *0# and the recipient does not see those characters

That's great, thanks.

[Phoenix Silver]

what i have done
i have replaced the bottom right key, the smiley
with the code *0#
works fine

good tip lew247 thanks

[Lew247]

glad to be of some help

out of curiousity as I'm sure others will want to do it

care to share how you changed the key and which keyboard was it?

[Phoenix Silver]

Lew247, on Feb 26 2011, 11:41, said:

glad to be of some help

out of curiousity as I'm sure others will want to do it

care to share how you changed the key and which keyboard was it?

i'm using smartkeyboard pro
you can change all the keys you want in options

[Phoenix Silver]

this is the turorial for latinIME.apk (gingerbread keyboard)
open latinIME.apk with an archive manager

go in directory res / xml

open popup_smileys.xml with a hex editor

replace :-) with *0#

do the same thing with kbd_qwerty.xml and kbd_qwerty_black.xml

save
that's all

Edited by Phoenix Silver, 26 February 2011 - 12:30 PM.

[Doc Rumack]

Phoenix Silver, on Feb 26 2011, 12:28, said:

this is the turorial for latinIME.apk (gingerbread keyboard)
open latinIME.apk with an archive manager

Thank you very much for this info.

Appreciated.

Doc.