- OK people, If you want your BB 8350i to be able to have the "Compose SMS text" option just follow these instructions, and let me know if it works for you guys:
1) Go to "Options">"SMS Text",
2) Where it says "Data Coding", change it to & make sure it says "UCS2",
3)Where it says "Service Center", type: +13348000011 and click "Save",
4) Try to MMS someone and make sure it sends/receives MMS normally from your handset,
5) Do a battery pull and now it should appear the "Compose SMS Text" option when you press the BB menu button.
*Note: I'm a Nextel postpaid customer so I'm not sure if it works for Boostberrys, so just let me know =)03-23-10 01:13 AMLike 0 - So are you creating texts as a contact, then using MMS to send it? Because when I click on Compose MMS, it goes directly to my contact list.03-24-10 04:08 PMLike 0
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When I had my 8350, i was able to text all day long also... and i had a contract with Nextel. If it was not for Nextel, Verzion and ATT would not have PTT!!! Nextel was the pioneer of it...03-25-10 08:11 AMLike 0 - You're totally wrong my friend!... Since I got the "Compose SMS text" option on my BB 8350i, I can now send real SMS. How do I know? Well, I tested it when I was talking on the phone and tried to send a SMS text to a friend I was talking to at that moment, and she said she got it almost instantly. You all perfectly know that we cannot send MMS while we're on a phone call because it uses the Nextel Data and MMS is data, so this one went through!! How could you miss that one, my friend???... You're just right about one thing, SMS is limited to 170 characters =)03-26-10 08:09 PMLike 0
- No Mr. Eddie, I'm on the Nextel iDEN Network and my BB OS is v4.6.313 and Yes, I'm using the Southern Linc SMSC number just for outgoing SMS, not incoming. I still receive SMS as MMS. I'm calling Sprint/Nextel BB support to set up the incoming true SMS tomorrow or Monday . It should be configured as some people got the true SMS both outgoing/incoming working as it should03-26-10 11:10 PMLike 0
- Yeah the South Alabama area code vs New York location is what threw me off (I have friends all over that area). I have my towers number but it still wont take SMS from my phone. I could live without SMS if MMS was grouped (or threaded if you want to call it that) by caller. I've been trying since I got the phone to get SMS to work. Correction been trying to find a grouping/threading app that'll work with the 8350i. They all seem to be SMS based thus my interest.
Last edited by Mr_Eddie; 03-26-10 at 11:30 PM.
03-26-10 11:21 PMLike 0 - Hello everyone ! I really hope that this information is good and I hope to save you time and a bad time, since I went thru this whole bad situation. I want to let Sprint PCS know that in order to have a good phone such as this BB 8350i they need to train their representatives about this phone, nobody seems to know what is going on about their new phones. I spent almost 1 hour in the phone with a Sprint PCS/Nextel representative trying to work my 8350i and he end up telling me that this phone WAS NOT SMS CAPABLE WHEN IT IS !!!
Anyway I had the same problem, I couldn't send SMS here is what I did; I called 611 from another nextel phone to get technical support, once one of them pick up ask them to tranfer you to Blackberry support. I am guessing Sprint has a special BB tech support or they transfer you to the BB Tech support center, which by the way if you call without being transfered from Sprint they will charge you $45 to TRY to fix the problem, solution may not be guarantee. Once I got tranfered to the BB tech support from sprint I has to make a couple of configuration changes such as the Firewall options, then options/advanced options/Browser push and finally somehow my BB was able to send and recieve SMS without no problem. Here are the Sprint tech support numbers :
Dial *2, press Talk
or
888-211-4727 (Sprint phones)
800-639-6111 (Nextel phones)
800-877-4646 (Wireline services)
So basically the 8350i IS CAPABLE OF SMS, if your nextel respresentative says it is not, hang up and call again a lot of the sprint/nextel representative are not good at all, I has so many bad incidents with sprint that I can even remember one time this ladie started yelling at me ! anyway call them and they should be able to fix the problem for you
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I found this post on the blackberry support forum.03-28-10 09:45 PMLike 0 -
OK people, If you want your BB 8350i to be able to have the "Compose SMS text" option just follow these instructions, and let me know if it works for you guys:
1) Go to "Options">"SMS Text",
2) Where it says "Data Coding", change it to & make sure it says "UCS2",
3)Where it says "Service Center", type: +13348000011 and click "Save",
4) Try to MMS someone and make sure it sends/receives MMS normally from your handset,
5) Do a battery pull and now it should appear the "Compose SMS Text" option when you press the BB menu button.
*Note: I'm a Nextel postpaid customer so I'm not sure if it works for Boostberrys, so just let me know =)04-02-10 06:37 PMLike 0 - Part of the problem is that Sprint/Nextel is confused about SMS/MMS...
From the Sprint Site a tutorial...
Send or receive SMS text (Note that says SMS text)
Last Updated:04/02/2009
With Text Messaging, you can send and receive text messages between your wireless phone and another messaging-ready phone.
1.With the Messages icon highlighted, click the Trackball.
2.Press the Menu key.
3.Scroll Down to Compose MMS and click the Trackball. (err wait you were telling us how to SMS not MMS!)
Sad that this has been posted almost a year and hasnt been corrected.04-03-10 05:30 AMLike 0 - I think you're going to find your stuck with it. I did a Reset to Factory/ Wipe/ Downgraded to 204 used it a couple days missed some things from 313 so I RTF/ Wiped/ Reloaded 313 and the Compose SMS was back. But somehow managed to get the SMS and MMS into seperate folders (not sure dont ask cant help lol) by doing that the Compose SMS Text is no longer the default option for me.04-04-10 07:48 PMLike 0
- I don't care whether they are SMS or MMS or whatever, I'd just like to send and receive them. Currently, I can send what I believe are SMS and can receive them on the other end (another cell) but cannot receive them unless they are sent to MYPHONENUMBER at page.nextel.com[/email]. I have tried sending from the other cell and replying to the SMS on the other cell but my 8350i doesn't receive them. And I have tried sending MMS from the other cell and they are not received either.
Can anybody out there help this old fart?
Ray04-06-10 08:04 AMLike 0 - [QUOTE=mfsray01;4949409]I don't care whether they are SMS or MMS or whatever, I'd just like to send and receive them.
I'll answer my own post: Service Books!! Download the service books and load them via Desktop Manager. I also loaded the Vopium app for wifi SMS and phone calls. I can send SMS with Vopium and the response has the sender's name (but I think you have to have it in your Contacts List). I still have only MMS on the BB menu but as I said earlier - who cares what you call it if you can text!!
Ray04-07-10 06:20 AMLike 0 - i found the NEXTEL service center number last night +12819654290 I was up all night searching the interweb and found the service center number, and it works i sent my google voice number a sms, but the reply still comes in mms. Supposedly with the next update NEXTEL is going to incorporate true sms to the 8350i.. I believe that is true, the biggest complaint with the 8350i is no threaded messaging, i dont think they can do it with mms, so we might see sms soon...04-07-10 09:24 AMLike 0
- i found the NEXTEL service center number last night +12819654290 I was up all night searching the interweb and found the service center number, and it works i sent my google voice number a sms, but the reply still comes in mms. Supposedly with the next update NEXTEL is going to incorporate true sms to the 8350i.. I believe that is true, the biggest complaint with the 8350i is no threaded messaging, i dont think they can do it with mms, so we might see sms soon...04-07-10 11:13 AMLike 0
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