App to auto-send text messages?

[Guest Webreaper]

I get really sketchy reception at my house. What I've always wanted is to be able to write an SMS and hit send, but if there's no reception just leave it, knowing that the draft text message will be sent as soon as a signal becomes available. For example, driving in the back of beyond, I'd like to write a text message and not have to keep stopping to see if I've found a patch of reception to send it.

Does such an app exist?

[Guest flipside]

Hey can i add my vote for this, i asked on the xda-developers forum a while back and got a few answers as people thought it did but that was it. Its one of the few functions i miss from my Treo days.

Thanks

Matt

P.S im going to post this over there again

Edited April 6, 2006 by flipside

[Guest Webreaper]

Cool. Can you pm me the xda-dev thread url?

If nothing crops up, I'll write one myself - been looking for something suitable to start off with as a PPC development project, WebReaper is just too big to port to PPC!!!

[Guest XNUK]

I get really sketchy reception at my house. What I've always wanted is to be able to write an SMS and hit send, but if there's no reception just leave it, knowing that the draft text message will be sent as soon as a signal becomes available. For example, driving in the back of beyond, I'd like to write a text message and not have to keep stopping to see if I've found a patch of reception to send it.

Does such an app exist?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah this is deffo a big fault of the software. takes 30 seconds to write a text, then 30 mins messing about wondering if it was sent, then getting charged 4 times as all the delivery reports come through when your handset showed it as still being in drafts! grr

[Guest Webreaper]

Yeah this is deffo a big fault of the software. takes 30 seconds to write a text, then 30 mins messing about wondering if it was sent, then getting charged 4 times as all the delivery reports come through when your handset showed it as still being in drafts! grr

Actually, that's not the problem so much - I tend to get a 'message sent' notification straight away.

The issue of not being able to auto-send the SMS when reception becomes available has been on every phone I've had - I've thought it would be a decent feature for years, but nobody's ever thought of it. Seems daft, considering the phone must have an internal notification when a signal becomes available. But the PPC phone is the first time I've had a platform where I could consider developing an app to solve the issue.

The other issue it would solve would be that currently if I write 10 SMSes, I have to send all of them individually when I get reception (it's a shame there's no 'Send all' function).

[Guest Xavier]

the feature isn't unheard of

My RAZR V3 did this, messages were saved in outbox and sent later when there was coverage...