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© Copyright 1997-2000 Smartcode Software, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this documentation may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording on any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from Smartcode Software, Inc. HandPHONE SMS was designed and engineered by Jerome Tredez, Ludovic Ferrandis, Ronald Tessier, and Régis Nicolas. QA and testing by Christophe Sureau. Documentation by M
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&RQWHQWV 1 Overview .......................................................................... 4 What is SMS? .................................................................. 4 Required equipment......................................................... 5 Installation........................................................................ 5 2 Getting started ................................................................ 6 Starting HandPHONE SMS ............................................. 6
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4444 2Y 2Y 2Y 2YHU HU HU HUYLHZ YLHZ YLHZ YLHZ :KDW#LV#606" SMS stands for Short Messaging Service - a standardized protocol for exchanging electronic text messages using GSM cellular telephones. These messages may be up to 160 characters in length. ™ HandPHONE SMS sends messages from the Palm handheld via your mobile phone to an SMS message center, which dispatches them to their destination. Recipients are usually other mobile phones, but some service providers also allow you to send e-mail a
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5HTXLUHG#HTXLSPHQW To run HandPHONE SMS you will need: ™ A Palm III or more recent handheld, or compatible machine running Palm ® OS 3.0 or higher, with around 105 KB of free storage space ® A Windows or Macintosh computer with a HotSync connection, HotSync software, and application installer software. ,QVWDOODWLRQ This section describes “manual” installation of the HandPHONE SMS application file. You may skip directly to if the Chapter 2 – Getting Started software is already installed on y
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5555 *HWWLQJ *HWWLQJ *HWWLQJ *HWWLQJ####VWDU VWDU VWDU VWDUWHG WHG WHG WHG 6WDUWLQJ#+DQG3+21(#606 Start HandPHONE SMS by tapping on the application ™ handheld’s icon (shown here on the left) in your Palm Applications screen. %DVLF#VHWWLQJV The first time you start HandPHONE SMS, you will be prompted to validate basic SMS settings as shown here: Default values will work fine in most cases, though you may choose enter the Service Center Number at this time. You can always come back to this scre
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the default SMS, unless your service provider explicitly supports e-mail and fax services. Status report... Indicates to the service center that you should receive notification on the status of your message. Status reports are sent from the message center to your mobile phone. Some phones permit the Palm handheld to check Status report Service center... Enter the service center (SMS-C) number given to by your network carrier. Get button retrieves the current SMS-C from your phone. allows Set yo
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Tap on OK to confirm your choice. At this point, you may test your connection by performing any of the operations that exchange data with your phone, as described in the next sections. 8 HandPHONE SMS
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6666 8VLQJ 8VLQJ 8VLQJ 8VLQJ####606 606 606 606 5HWULHYLQJ#PHVVDJHV As mentioned earlier, your mobile phone automatically receives messages when it is activated. You may read those messages either read directly on your phone (using its own integrated software) or using HandPHONE SMS, which offers an interface that is much easier to manipulate. Follow these steps to retrieve messages: ® 1. Tap on the Menu icon ( ), select Message Ö Retrieve (or the Graffiti stroke R). 2. HandPHONE SMS will con
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3. Tap on a message to view it, or perform other actions: 4. An opened message looks like this: Note HandPHONE SMS only downloads incoming messages, not outgoing messages that you may have typed manually on your phone. 10 HandPHONE SMS
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Leaving originals on the phone By default, messages are removed from the mobile phone after they are downloaded to your handheld, but you may choose to leave them intact on the mobile phone: 1. Tap on the Menu icon ( ), select Options Ö Phone Options, (Graffiti stroke O) to open the screen shown here: 2. Use this check-box to specify whether or not to leave original SMS messages on your phone as you download them to your handheld. 6HQGLQJ#PHVVDJHV Configuration As mentioned in Chapter 1 – Gettin
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2. Assign message options accordingly: Validity period Specifies the maximum length of time for which your message will be allowed to sit at your carrier’s message center before being deleted (in case the recipient’s mobile phone never picks it up). Message type Here you may choose between SMS, Fax, or E- mail. In most cases, you should leave this on the default SMS, unless your service provider explicitly supports e-mail and fax services. Status report... Indicates to the service center that yo
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Writing and sending messages Follow these steps to write and send messages: 1. Select Message Ö New Message, (Graffiti N) to create a message: 2. Enter a phone number directly on the To field, or tap on To to lookup the recipient’s phone number in your Address Book: 3. Select a number and tap on Add to return to your message. Note: Remember that international phone calls require a “+” (plus) sign in front of the recipient’s phone number. 4. The Name field is for your own convenience and is no
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5. Enter your message in the space below Name. SMS messages may be up to 160 characters, and the Message length counter keeps track of how many characters you have written. 6. When you are done, tap on the appropriate button to place the message in either the Outbox (it is ready to send), the Draft folder (to send at a later time). You may delete this message by tapping Cancel, or re-set configuration options for this message only by tapping on Details… as described in the preceding section. 7.
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0DQLSXODWLQJ#PHVVDJHV This section describes how to handle messages in HandPHONE SMS and how to use the various folders available to you – Inbox, Outbox, Draft, and Sent. Context sensitive pop-up menus present available options whenever you tap on a message in any list view. Incoming messages When looking at the Inbox list of received messages, you can tap on any message to open the pop-up window as shown below: View Opens the message so you can read it. Reply Creates a new message using the sen
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Outgoing/sent messages When you write SMS messages, you may store them into either the Outbox or the Draft folder. Outbox All messages in the Outbox will be sent the next time you select Message, Send All (or Send & Retrieve). By tapping on a message in the Outbox you may edit, move your message to the draft box, or delete it. Draft Folder Messages in the Draft folder will not be sent, and may be re-edited at any time. When you are ready to send a message from the draft folder, you should move i
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7777 7 7 7 7UUUURXEOHVKRRWLQJ RXEOHVKRRWLQJ RXEOHVKRRWLQJ RXEOHVKRRWLQJ (UURU#PHVVDJHV An error occurred while encoding the message. Indicates that non-authorized characters were found in your message - usually in the message center phone number or the recipient’s phone number. All invalid characters are replaced with “?”. An error occurred while saving this message to the database. ™ Your Palm handheld might be out of memory, or the database has been corrupted. If this message occurs frequent
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Cannot set the Message Center phone number on your phone. This command is not supported by all phones, and is not always necessary. Either your mobile phone is off or HandPHONE SMS cannot access its storage. Check the connection. Sorry, there is not enough free memory to perform this operation. There is not enough memory left in your Palm handheld for HandPHONE SMS to function. Try deleting unused applications or cleaning out HandPHONE SMS message folders. The text contained in this message cann
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You must fill the recipient's phone number before saving this message to the Outbox. You will receive this message if you try to transfer a message from the Draft box to the Outbox without specifying the recipient's phone number. Your account does not allow you to send messages. Check with your mobile phone carrier. Your mobile phone is busy. Exit SMS management before using HandPHONE SMS. This message indicates that your mobile phone is currently performing SMS-related tasks. HandPHONE SMS cann
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8888 ,QGH ,QGH ,QGH ,QGH[[[[ A H Address Book · 12 HotSync · 5 Application installer · 5 I C Infrared · 7 Configuration · 10 L D Lookup · 12 Draft · 13 M E Message length · 13 Error messages · 16 Message type · 6, 11 Moving messages · 15 F O Folder Draft · 15 Outbox · 13 Incoming · 14 Outbox · 15 Sent · 15 P phonesms.prc · 5 G Profile Setup · 7 Get · 7, 11 GSM · 4 R Retrieve · 8 20 HandPHONE SMS
