hello all, this is my first post on your forum, i'd like to ask if there's a way to prevent delivery reports to SMS's from being sent when i receive SMS's. I use Call SMS blocker but when i set it to block incoming SMS's the delivery report is sent, so the sender actually knows that his SMS reached its destination. I would really like to able to receive SMS's without sending delivery reports, but i don't know if it can be achieved. I have the v1640.
Delivery Reports like this are controlled and sent by your telecoms provider, not your device.
When you send an SMS, your device informs you that it has been sent to the network...if necessary, the SMS is transferred to the end users home network and when the SMS is sent from the network to the end users device a delivery report is then sent back to your device (if delivery report was requested in the SMS)
You cant stop it
yes i am already aware of that, but i was wandering if somehow i managed to intervene with the reception of SMS's and fool the network into believing that the SMS has not been delivered to me, like when the phone is off for example. There must be some kind of talking between the network and the phone regarding the reception of SMS's.
The network sends the delivery notification when it sends the SMS to your phone, and it send the SMS to your phone when your phone is visible.
The only way you can stop these notifications is to turn your phone off - you cant intervene with the network provider, they wont let you and yyou cant change the standards set for SMS
The other thing is, if you managed to somehow stop the network being told you had received the SMS, presumably, it would just keep trying to send it to you.
Ouch!
There is always a way
After receiving an SMS message, the recipient mobile phone will send back a message delivery report to the SMS center to inform whether there are any errors or failures (example causes: unsupported SMS message format, not enough storage space, etc). This process is transparent to the mobile user. If there is no error or failure, the recipient mobile phone sends back a positive delivery report to the SMS center. Otherwise it sends back a negative delivery report to the SMS center.
If the sender requested a status report earlier, the SMS center sends a status report to the sender when it receives the message delivery report from the recipient.
Once your phone receives the SMS, you can decide whether to block it. In case you wanna block it, the application has to simply send a Storage full / Message format not supported Error to the message station instead of normal status.
There's always a way guys
ameypg said:
After receiving an SMS message, the recipient mobile phone will send back a message delivery report to the SMS center to inform whether there are any errors or failures (example causes: unsupported SMS message format, not enough storage space, etc). This process is transparent to the mobile user. If there is no error or failure, the recipient mobile phone sends back a positive delivery report to the SMS center. Otherwise it sends back a negative delivery report to the SMS center.
If the sender requested a status report earlier, the SMS center sends a status report to the sender when it receives the message delivery report from the recipient.
Once your phone receives the SMS, you can decide whether to block it. In case you wanna block it, the application has to simply send a Storage full / Message format not supported Error to the message station instead of normal status.
There's always a way guys
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i tried googling.... but can't find such s/w... can u pls help me wid dat.....
Guys,
To the best of my knowledge you'd need to know the exact SMASI interface being used by the operator and then find a public API to be able to call it.
I've done it on a server level in Perl, but not on a device level.
Has there been any progress here?
Follow-up
Hello guys,
9yrs since the question first appeared. Has anyone had any success on this?
I have removed SMS app by rooting my android mobile. I tried to send SMS to that device and guess what? Of course, I did not received any SMS because I had removed SMS app completely by rooting but at the same time my second phone from which I had sent SMS received "delivered" report !!! How come?
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I have removed SMS app by rooting my android mobile. I tried to send SMS to that device and guess what? Of course, I did not received any SMS because I had removed SMS app completely by rooting but at the same time my second phone from which I had sent SMS received "delivered" report !!! How come?
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Hi, i believe that the messages app isn't responsible for the delivery reports process. It is only responsible for showing the sms and sending. I have a messages service app in my phone so i think it is the one responsible for that, or there is another reason. For now I'm still searching and i will try some tinkering in my phone until i achieve a result and the I'll post it on XDA
Hi,
In some countries, if you send sms to landline phone via cellphone, you will receive delivery report!
ameypg said:
After receiving an SMS message, the recipient mobile phone will send back a message delivery report to the SMS center to inform whether there are any errors or failures (example causes: unsupported SMS message format, not enough storage space, etc). This process is transparent to the mobile user. If there is no error or failure, the recipient mobile phone sends back a positive delivery report to the SMS center. Otherwise it sends back a negative delivery report to the SMS center.
If the sender requested a status report earlier, the SMS center sends a status report to the sender when it receives the message delivery report from the recipient.
Once your phone receives the SMS, you can decide whether to block it. In case you wanna block it, the application has to simply send a Storage full / Message format not supported Error to the message station instead of normal status.
There's always a way guys
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So sending a failure delivery report to the SMS center will also send a failure delivery report to the recipient mobile phone? This would not be a complete solution to prevent delivery report but a way to prevent a successful delivery report. The sender could still track if the device is connected to the network.
If I remember correctly, I noticed that when some mobile network operators are overwhelmed with SMS, for example at the time of New Year's Eve in France, SMS can be received (sometimes delayed) but no delivery report is sent.
Also, if someone sends an SMS to a mobile phone that is powered off or in flight mode for several days, the SMS may never be delivered. I had this kind of issue with Lycamobile Germany and sometimes the SMS was delayed for several hours if the mobile phone was just powered off or in flight mode for a few minutes while the SMS was sent.
No there must be some way for real for example u can receive calls while it says your phone is shut down to the caller so if that can be done this can be also.
I am also looking for the same since long.....
Hello,
I like delivery reports because I like to know my SMS has been received, however I don't like constantly having to delete them when a message has been sent.
Does anyone know of a program that can record a copy of each text message as it's sent, then when the appropriate delivery receipt is received, delete the message from the list and delete the delivery report, so the list only contains undelivered messages and I you can turn delivery receipts off and not have to worry about deleting them?
Hope I've explained that well!
Cheers.
I'd like this too... delivery reports are nice, but having to delete every single one manually is a pain in the ass.
this is a great idea
Yeah, I liked reports but got bored of deleting them everytime so i disabled it..
The only phone I know of, where this has been really solved was the SonyEricsson T68i. There you had a "broken letter/mail"-symbol in front of the SMS and if it got delivered, the icon became a complete "letter" or a "letter with an X" if the delivery failed. You could check the delivery status via a contextmenu while reading the SMS.
But I didn't see such implementation in any other phones...
Cheers,
-mARKUS
i'll send a text to someone, then for some reason. they will get the same text like 4 times. why is my phone keep sending the text? even a few hours or days?
thanks
hey bigpat, the issue is with the Cody SMS threaded messaging. Just upgrade your ROM and use the new built-in threaded messaging with WM6.1
I use the built-in text message program in WM6.1 and I get the same issue. Once in a while, I will get the "Message was not sent. Try again?" message. Of course I click it because I want the message to eventually go through, but the receiver will end up getting multiple messages.
The towers also much acknowledge a message is being sent or receive and then respond back with an acknoledgement. Until this is all complete and if you keep clicking resend. It may resend everything over and over.
My phones having the issue with receiving them. The phone receives a message sends back the ok, but never receives it back to the phone. This then causes the original message to continue to be pushed until it gets a response to allow the newer messages to come. Very frustrating.
When I send sms messages, sometimesI get the "your text message cannot be sent" error message popup. This usually occurs when I try send a message at the same time as one is being received. However, it does occur randomly at other times.
There is usually a delay before the error message appears and the notification is not very loud thus I usually don't realize this has happened.
Only when I check my phone do I see the popup. The problem is that when this popup is shown, no incoming messages can be received and any outgoing messages are also prevented from being sent. So I press <ok> on the screen and a flood of messages that had been prevented from delivery suddenly stream in.
Any suggestions on how to either disable the popup, or alternatively let messages through while the popup is displayed.
Hi,
I have a corrupt received text message that I cannot delete in the conventional way (i have tried deleting the message, the thread, the contact etc) but it just stays there. it has no sent or received date associated with it so it just sits as my first text message and right winds me up. any suggestions?
Many Thanks
Murg
Is it from 129 or a similar short number?
No it's just a normal message from my gf that's just gotten corrupted somehow (possibly to do with myphone) where are text messages stored, can I force it to be deleted somehow?
They *might* be in
'\Windows\Messaging'
or
\cemail.vol
It might also be emails instead.