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Can't get SMS Messaging working in iChat or Address Book
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Hello,
Has anybody struggled with getting SMS messaging working in these apps, and eventually found a fix?
In iChat, the error message is "this person is currently not online". In Address Book, it says that I've paired successfully with my Bluetooth Motorola phone, but then the SMS Message option is grayed out in the contextual menu belonging to the mobile phone field.
It would be kind of nice to get this working...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Let's broaden this... what do you guys use for sending SMS messages? I'm open to other options too...
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: sheung wan, hong kong, p.r.c.
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I didn't even know you could send SMS from iChat.
A very basic question: you do have clicked the bluetooth button in Address Book to connect it to your phone before trying to send an SMS?
For me, AB works for sending SMS about half the time. The big trouble is that you get no error message when it fails to send. Receiving always works, though.
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Macbook C2D 2GHz, 2Gb, 160Gb.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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iChat SMS worked first time I tried it. Make sure to include the + and the country code in front of the mobile phone number you're messaging.
The address book didn't work for me initially because Apple didn't include my phone in the configuration files in Address Book even though they had included the drivers in iSync. I found instructions on the web (mobile.feiser.com I think) that showed me how to modify the package contents within the Address Book bundle so that my phone was recognized. Once I made that change - all was working.
I did notice that on one of my computers, that configuration file that I had to edit had gotten corrupted in some way as well - so I fixed that while I was mucking about with it.
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Sending SMS from the Address Book worked fine with my SE K700i but my Motorola V3x broke it. I don't think Motorola's are fully supported since I had to use a plugin to get mine to work with iSync and this may be why sending SMS's doesn't work.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by seanc
Sending SMS from the Address Book worked fine with my SE K700i but my Motorola V3x broke it. I don't think Motorola's are fully supported since I had to use a plugin to get mine to work with iSync and this may be why sending SMS's doesn't work.
What Plugin did you use, and where did you get it from?
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005
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