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Sprint Treo 700wx SMS snubs other carriers

Posted by j.ello on November 2, 2006 11:59 PM

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I just couldn't figure out why my friends hated me. They'd send me an SMS... I'd reply... apparently I said something to offend them because I wouldn't hear from them for days. How rude!

And then it happened with another friend, and another, until I noticed the pattern, they were all my Verizon buddies.

Yes, as it turns out the Sprint Treo 700wx is not currently able to send text messages to certain other carriers. Technical support explained this to me as a formatting issue, which will be resolved in a software update currently being tested (they could not confirm a release date). Odd that one of those carriers would be Verizon, which has the 700w as a supported model.

Are you a lonely Treo 700wx user? Are your friends just not responding to your SMS rapartee? Maybe you should give your friends a call, or send an email.

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Comments

November 3, 2006 09:30 PM {#}

dhpriester says:

Have you tried SMS Scheduler 1.1.0. I use it on my Treo650.

November 5, 2006 08:14 PM {#}

satansqueen says:

This is the explanation I got and I work in Sprint's Advanced Tech Support

"The issue is that the sms message was not being encoded in a universal format that is recognized by all Carriers. Standard SMS messages are sent using ASCII encoding, not binary. The 700w is sending the message in binary format. Many carriers, such as Sprint, can interpret a message send in either Binary or ASCII, although ASCII is the supported format. Verizon & T-Mobile doesn’t recognize a Binary message as a SMS message.
We don’t have an estimated date of the software release as of yet."

November 8, 2006 07:19 PM {#}

dejudicibus says:

Thank's God in Europe we do not have all those roaming problems... ;-)

June 7, 2007 11:57 AM {#}

daju says:

hi...yall!! are there any programs in the market that would allow 700wx to use caller tone features.i would like to enhance my experience with this phone,since it can do so much......recommendations of programs will be appreciated.

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