MobileSMS V3.1


Introduction:

MobileSMS is a SMS (Short Message Service) management tool. With the help of MobileSMS, you can easily edit short messages on the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), and then send them to your friends through GSM mobile phones. The functions of MobileSMS are message management, message downloading, message templates management, dialing and phonebook uploading. The features are listed in detail as follows:


Files:

MobileSMS.prc

Main program (Palm)

SMSEdit.exe

Desktop program for editing message database (Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP)



Installation:

Please refer to the manual of your Palm OS PDA about how to install the MobileSMS.prc file into your PDA.

The desktop program, SMSEdit.exe, can be executed directly without installation.


Usage:

Main screen





Search screen

Description:

: Save to group.

: Select group.

: Categories of phone book.

: [Check box], [Name], [Type of number] and [Phone number].

Type of number: W (Work), H (Home), F (Fax), O (Other), E (Email), P (Pager), M (Mobile)

: Hide/Show phone numbers.

: Edit message.

: Message manager.

: Download messages.

: Select all.

: Unselect all.

: [Number of selected numbers]/[Number of total numbers].

Instruction:

Connection: When the message [Establishing connection...]

appeared, enable infrared on your mobile phone and line it up with PDA's infrared port in a straight line to establish connection.

Dialing: Press and hold the specific  number for 2 seconds and release it then the number will be dialed immediately.

Send single message: Tap specific number and edit message.

Send group message: Select multiple numbers and tap to edit message.

If no number is checked when is tapped, destination number have to be indicated in message-editing window.

Uploading phone book: Check the numbers you want to upload to your mobile phone, select menu [Tools]->[Upload phone book], and establish the connection. Warning: For some mobile phones with enhanced phone book, it is possible to cause damage to the original phone book in the mobile phone. For more information, please refer to the manual or contact to the provider of your mobile phone.

Quick search: Write down the name on the Gaffiti area, the search prompt will appear (e.g. ) and the names will be shown up. Search-prompt will be hidden automatically 2 seconds later.

JogDial operations:

Page-Scroll mode: When there is no highlight in the main screen, it is on the "Page-Scroll mode".

Rolling the wheel: Scrolling page up and down.
Pressing the wheel: Enable Select mode.
BACK button: Exit program.

Select mode: When the highlight is appeared on the main screen, it is on the "Select mode".

Rolling the wheel: Scrolling the highlight up or down. When exceeding the upper-bound or lower-bound of the main screen, it goes back to "Page-Scroll mode".
Pressing the wheel: Enter message-editing window. If the wheel is pressed and held for 2 seconds, the number will be dialed immediately.
BACK button: Back to "Page-Scroll mode".

5-way navigator operations:

Page-Scroll mode: When there is no highlight in the main screen, it is on the "Page-Scroll mode".

Up/Down: Scrolling page up and down.
Right: Enter message-editing window.
Center: Enable Select mode.
Left: Exit program.
Long-press Center: Exit program.

Select mode: When the highlight is appeared on the main screen, it is on the "Select mode".

Up/Down: Scrolling the highlight up or down. When exceeding the upper-bound or lower-bound of the main screen, it goes back to "Page-Scroll mode".
Center: Enter message-editing window.
Right: Dial number.
Left: Back to "Page-Scroll mode".
Long-press Center: Exit program.

Message-editing window

Description:

: History of receiver.

: Save message while sending.

: SMS status report.

: Send Flash SMS. Flash SMS will be displayed on the screen of the receiver's mobile phone immediately after it is received.

: [Current number of characters]/[Capacity of total characters].

: New message.

: Message templates.

: Cut.

: Copy.

: Paste.

: Undo.

: Save current message to message manager.

: Message manager.

: Save message to mobile phone.

: Send message.

: Close message-editing window.

Note:

Destination phone number cannot be modified when group sending mode is used.

JogDial operations:

Pressing the wheel: Message templates.
BACK button: Close message-editing window and back to main screen.

JogDial operations:

Right: Enter Message manager.
Center: Message templates.
Left: Close message-editing window and back to main screen.

Message templates

Description:

: Add a new template.

: Delete template.

: Move up message.

: Move down message.

: Close message templates window.

Message manager

Description:

S: List of sent messages.

R: List of downloaded messages.

: Titles of messages.

Titles of messages: [Year]/[Month]/[Day] [Hour]:[Minute]:[Second] [Type of message] [Sender/Receiver].

Type of message: S (Saved message), R (Downloaded message).

: Copy message to message-editing window.

: Copy message and sender/receiver information to message-editing window.

: Delete message.

: Download messages from mobile phone.

: Go back to the message-editing window.

Note:

When downloading messages, only the messages of "InBox" folder will be downloaded, others will be ignored.

For some mobile phones with particular memory system (Nokia 5210 for example), the function of download message may not work.

Double-tap on the title of message to copy it to message-editing window.

JogDial operations:

Rolling the wheel: Scrolling page up and down.
Pressing the wheel: Copy message to message-editing window.
BACK button: Go back to the message-editing window.

5-way navigator operations:

Up/Down: Scrolling page up and down.
Right: Switch between "Saved message" and "Downloaded message".
Center: Copy message to message-editing window.
Left: Go back to the message-editing window.

Preference screens





Description:

: Methods to connect to mobile phone. Before using Bluetooth connection mode, the trusted devices of Palm PDA have to be set properly.

: Set up the speed of connection  (19200 or 115200bps are recommended). If a particular speed is specified on your mobile phone, please use this speed.

: Set up the format to display phone book. The available options are "F. Name+L. Name", "L. Name+F. Name", "F. Name", "L. Name", "Name+Com.", and "Com.+Name"

: Hide the number of the main screen in order to show longer name.

: Show "Mobile" phone numbers only.

: Only "Mobile" phone numbers can be selected when sending messages, however, dialing operations are not restricted.

: Save current category when exiting MobileSMS.

: Attach the type of number (e.g. M, W, H etc.) to the name when uploading phone book to mobile phone.

: Set up destination storage for uploading phone book.

: Set up the message manager is password-protected or not.

: Set up message signature. It will be attached to the compound sentence.

: Send a copy to message manager when sending or uploading messages.

: Set up SMS status reports. The SMS status reports will inform sender the status of sending messages.

: Delete messages from mobile phone after they are downloaded.

: Set up default international dialing code. Please refer to the International Dialing Codes.txt

: Enter your personal registration code to remove restrictions of trial version. To obtain registration code, please refer to the Registration section below.

Note:

If you have set the password on the PDA, you will be prompted to enter password if "Show private phone book" is checked.

Some mobile phones do not support "SMS status report" function.


FAQ:


Legal:


Registration:

If you like this software, please kindly purchase it. To visit Handango or the Official web site of MobileSMS for more details about registration. (Please make sure the software works properly on your PDA before purchasing it.)
Registered users will be informed for new issue version with free upgrade.


Contact us:

Thanks for your interest in MobileSMS. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to send us an e-mail. Enjoy it! :)