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Defaulting SMS reports on

Hey everybody,
I really miss the SMSreport feature from my old mobile phones!! Even though you can turn it on individually for every SMS you send, this is not really an option if you send a lot of text messages :-(
There must be a registry entry where you can change the default from reports off to reports on. Does somebody know what this is?
If other people would like this problem fixed, please say so in this or some other post, to encourage some programmer to look into this.
Thanks for any help.
Manuel
P.S.: To turn on the SMS report when writing an SMS: Edit --> Options.

Hi There. I am really also looking for a fix to this anoying problem.
Perhaps a little app that does the click. A regedit or something.
Thanks alot
Alex

There are other threads on this and for the moment, at least, it is not supported on the XDA. I have looked and cannot find a registry entry or such. I have added this requirement to my 'possible development ideas' list
The only alternative I know which works is to use a special character string at the start of every text. This string depends on country and operator. For me, on O2 UK, the characters are *0# (thats a zero in there) so I enter it in the subject field (I set it up as one of my pre-defined strings) then enter my text as normal in the usual place. Other special strings I know of are: 111 for Fido and *noti# for T-Mobile US.
See here for more.

Sure... I used the search before. But in none of the topics there`s a final solutin.
So i thought I push this topic up again.
Technically a program or reghack must be possible...
Could somebody please figure that out.
Thanks alot
Alex

Help!!!Chinese writing on English MDA compact?

Does anyone know how I can get a chinese writing software so that I can write chinese on a English(T-mobile) MDA compact.

try Monster Chinese
http://www.mactiontech.com/big5/download_chinese.htm

Send chinese text message
nosplus said:
try Monster Chinese
http://www.mactiontech.com/big5/download_chinese.htm
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Can I use this to write chinese in text messaging and send chinese text?
or would you know any software where I can actually write chinese in the text message.

Yes you could, with Maction Chinese
It can also display Chinese character in Today plugin, etc etc.. Only thing is, don't have too many false hope on these thing. Like me, I was hoping that it could sync my Contact that's in Chinese character with my Outlook that's in English. All those will becomes "??" mark, damn!!

Re: Yes you could, with Maction Chinese
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It can also display Chinese character in Today plugin, etc etc.. Only thing is, don't have too many false hope on these thing. Like me, I was hoping that it could sync my Contact that's in Chinese character with my Outlook that's in English. All those will becomes "??" mark, damn!!
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well, i don't have this problem at all, although i'm uisng Eng WinXP, I input Chinese character for some of the contacts on my phone, and when I sync my mini to my PC, My PC can shows the contacts in Chinese character also.

Try these chinese ROMs
ftp://xda:[email protected]/Magician/Chinese/

Enabling ActiveSync synchronisation in another Language (eg. Chinese)
cyberjaya said:
It can also display Chinese character in Today plugin, etc etc.. Only thing is, don't have too many false hope on these thing. Like me, I was hoping that it could sync my Contact that's in Chinese character with my Outlook that's in English. All those will becomes "??" mark, damn!!
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ActiveSync does not seem to use Unicode as its means of communication. Instead, it uses the default encoding as per Windows' setting. If you have your setting set to English (United States), but have Chinese on your PPC, then it's not going to work.
It is possible to change this setting, but be aware of the consequences before doing so...
1) Open the "Regional & Language Options" dialog: Start->Settings->Control Panel->Regional and Language Options
2) Select the Advanced Tab. Read the details on the screen. Note: Changing this setting can have seriours consequences, as the default encoding of characters is changed. This means that characters other than the first 128 ASCII characters may appear differently in files after this setting is changed. Use with caution Change the setting to the language that you have installed on your Pocket PC. For example, I have "Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.). Click OK.
3) Reboot
4) Resync with ActiveSync.
>>> Update Note: The prior post was made with regard to ActiveSync 4.2, and with a WM2003SE ROM. These details may not be correct with regard to WM5 and the latest version of ActiveSync. It seems Windows Mobile 5 has better support for Unicode synchronisation.

I remember hearing about a chinese software called CE Star. Google for it..

There are two main issues here:
1) A Chinese language system that allows display of text in Chinese, along with Chinese input (for which PenPower/CE Star and Monster Chinese are solutions), and
2) The ability to synchronise data between Outlook and the PPC without losing the characters during synchronisation (eg. when inputting "龘龗蘇" as a name on the PC, avoiding it appearing on the PPC as "???").
To solve problem (1), look at PenPower or Monster Chinese. These products install a Chinese font on your system allowing display of Chinese characters, along with one or more SIP (soft input panel) items to allow input of text.
To solve problem (2), refer to my previous post in this thread (up two posts).

Problem with Dopod 900 (Chinese version)

Anybody is using Dopod 900 (Chinese version)?
I have got several questions and see if anyone can help:
1. Is there a way that I can change the font from MingLiu to Arial when I write emails which only contain English characters?
2. How can I change the preset wording on the subject of an email like "回覆" & "轉寄" and others like "寄件者" when I reply or forward emails? I would like to change them to English "Re:" & "Fw:", etc.
Thanks
:lol:

shu_sum said:
Anybody is using Dopod 900 (Chinese version)?
I have got several questions and see if anyone can help:
1. Is there a way that I can change the font from MingLiu to Arial when I write emails which only contain English characters?
2. How can I change the preset wording on the subject of an email like "回覆" & "轉寄" and others like "寄件者" when I reply or forward emails? I would like to change them to English "Re:" & "Fw:", etc.
Thanks
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1. you can do it ,first you need to find Arial in your computer and copy it to you PPC see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=30094&start=0 in yyl's post you need change key than you can get it.
2.I don't think you can change this.

Thanks mwang! I'll try changing the fonts later today.
By the way, do you know how we can change the default input method from "ㄉ" to "A"?

I have just transferred the simhei.tff to Universal's "Windows/" directory. I then went to "FontLink" / "SystemLink"by using Regedit and changed the value of both Courier New and Tahoma to: "\windows\simhei.ttf,SimHei"
After soft-reset, everything has changed to SimHei, including the Chinese characters shown under Menu, IE, etc. , but.... when I click reply to Email or SMS, it still show the MingLiu fonts.....
How can I change this (i.e. the fonts under Pocket Outlook mail)?

shu_sum said:
I have just transferred the simhei.tff to Universal's "Windows/" directory. I then went to "FontLink" / "SystemLink"by using Regedit and changed the value of both Courier New and Tahoma to: "\windows\simhei.ttf,SimHei"
After soft-reset, everything has changed to SimHei, including the Chinese characters shown under Menu, IE, etc. , but.... when I click reply to Email or SMS, it still show the MingLiu fonts.....
How can I change this (i.e. the fonts under Pocket Outlook mail)?
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Sorry , I don't this ,maybe you can look here http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Registry

SMS only 70 Letters?!

As a few of you know i have only just got my Magician, and i have been using it for the last few days and i have to say that i love it i really do, but i do have one problem, when replying to an sms message the counter starts at 160 but then after writing a line or so it drops to 70! So for a 160 letter sms it sends it in two messages of 70! :shock:
Anyone got any ideas on what that might be?

i had the same problem too.. except after 3 messages it split to 3 messages for 112 charachters... was confused too....

jaso2005 said:
As a few of you know i have only just got my Magician, and i have been using it for the last few days and i have to say that i love it i really do, but i do have one problem, when replying to an sms message the counter starts at 160 but then after writing a line or so it drops to 70! So for a 160 letter sms it sends it in two messages of 70! :shock:
Anyone got any ideas on what that might be?
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Please check to see if you use any dobule byte character in your SMS. This might be the cause.
Michael

Hey guys this is due to the fact that when you write the SMSs you are including UNICODE characters such as ' " etc....
Due to the fact that these characters are encoded differently to standard characters, the SMS application has to reduce the number of characters in the sms and hence only allows 70 characters per sms.......which could mean that you send a short sms or send the sms split up! This can cost you a lot!!!
You have two options........
1/ Turn off Unicode characters
- this is done by; from you SMS inbox -> Tools -> Options -> Accounts Tab -> Click on * Text Messages -> un-tick the 'Use Unicode when necessary' -> then OK.
2/ Make sure that you don’t use Unicode characters
hope this helps!!

you can also turn unicode and double-byte characters off as well.
in messaging app, tap accounts, and then accounts
tap text messages, and then untick use unicode when necessary.
This still allows you to type in the extra characters, but wether it sends them or not, I dont know (being an uneducated englishman, i only speak english so never use those characters!)

this place just never seases to amaze me! Thanks very much guys you all deserve a star! :lol:

if you donate 5 euros then u get a star lol :lol:

Karzi said:
if you donate 5 euros then u get a star lol :lol:
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I have the same problem because i want to write sms in greek, but when i turn off the unicode the message fonts cannot be recognized by greek phones. Is there any other solution to this problem.

jigero said:
I have the same problem because i want to write sms in greek, but when i turn off the unicode the message fonts cannot be recognized by greek phones. Is there any other solution to this problem.
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No, because greek characters are in the extended unicode set, not the default characters.

but how come we can send 160char greek sms with other phones ?
perhaps there is a keyboard mapping that doesn't use unicode...

woh guys!! I wondered why my qtek S110 did wierd stuff.. it's all ok now thanks to you!! CHEEERS!! ;o)

mapas said:
but how come we can send 160char greek sms with other phones ? perhaps there is a keyboard mapping that doesn't use unicode...
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In the default 7-bit SMS alphabet, the greek letters that do not have a latin equivalent (say beta -> B) or omomorph (say rho -> P) letter, that is delta, phi, gamma, lambda, omega, pi, psi, sigma theta and xi are available, but you can't chose between upper and lower case. The official character set only supports UPPER case...
There are a few semistandard for dealing with upper and lower cases, but it's quite likely that the sms application on windows mobile can't deal with either.

but with the greek keyboard it works!!!!!
only with the phone pad not......

How about Chinese characters?

Why only 70 characters SMS?

When I start a new SMS it appears 160 remaining characters. It's when I have to choose the recipient, but when I begin writing the remainig number of characters changes to only 70, so If I write 71 or more, there are at least 2 SMS to send...
Why only 70 characters?
Is there any way to increase the longitude of them?

some special characters can do that, like accents or brackets etc. Try not to use them

Hi
This use to happen on some smartphones that I used to have.
Try unchecking the 'Use unicode when neccesary' box
In Messaging select Tools--->Options--->Tap text Messages.
Let me know the outcome
Regards
S.K.

silent_killa said:
Hi
This use to happen on some smartphones that I used to have.
Try unchecking the 'Use unicode when neccesary' box
In Messaging select Tools--->Options--->Tap text Messages.
Let me know the outcome
Regards
S.K.
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I've just unchecked this option. I'll communicate the result.
Thank you.

PERFECT!!!
Now SMS's become 160 characters again.
Thank you.

I've seen this happen on phones if the auto correct feature is set to try and correct apostrophe characters (for example, changing its to it's )

Mariete said:
PERFECT!!!
Now SMS's become 160 characters again.
Thank you.
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Great, glad to be of help.
S.K.