Is there a way to tell Inbox to always request de9livery report when sending SMS? I find it annoying to go to options and check it every time I send message...
I wa looking in registry but no luck so far...
Ok, I've looked around and what I'm looking for doesn't seem to exist, I was wondering if it was because it is technically impossible/very hard to do or because nobody try it yet.
This is my understanding of how things work:
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.
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What I'm thinking about is way to do this: Once a phone receives the SMS, it sends a spoofed "Storage full" or "Message format not supported error" to the SMS center instead of a positive delivery report.
That way you could receive and read SMS but to the sender it appears you haven't received it. In short this gives you plausible deniability.
I've had it happened to me recently because my phone memory was full. My phone sent a "Memory full" message to the network and the sender did not receive a message report. If a phone can legitimately refuse to receive a message it means it could also be possible to fake that "memory full" message.
Any thoughts?
I love the idea, but the only time I would see having the need for this kind of plausible deniability (i.e. a court of law), the person questioning the receipient of the text message could simply ask for a record of the phone bill which, in most cases (if requested), could provide the time and date of all text messages sent and received. lol. Just curious, but do you mind if I ask what you would use it for? (sorry for the run-on sentence)
I like this idea..maybe a reverse engineering hack of SMS Counter or another counter type widget/app?
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Just curious, but do you mind if I ask what you would use it for? (sorry for the run-on sentence)
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There would be several uses for that kind of app.
One of the scenarios (the one that got me thinking about it) is someone receiving unwanted messages from a specific individual, for example from someone abusive. Even if the victim trashes the messages without reading them (they are several apps available that allow you to do that), through message reports, the abuser is still able to know that his messages were at least received by his target. If he keeps receiving "undelivered" statues, he'll simply stop sending texts.
I know that in those kind of situations the victim is expected to change her/his phone number, but that's the whole idea, not having to change your phone number just because of unwanted text messages.
Still no way? Any app to do this?
For some time now it has irritated me that Android lacks detailed information for SMS delivery reports, specifically timestamps for sent messages i.e. telling you when you sent a message and when it was received.
If this is something that bugs you to, please vote on this issue.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=29792
Is there a way to completely disable the delivery notification after sending and sms/mms? There was a thread on xda regarding that issue but it doesn't fully solve the problem.
Go in Messages -> settings-> uncheck Delivery reports both in the SMS and MMS section
I'm amazed anyone still used the stock text messaging app when you have excellent apps like GO SMS Pro which is streets better with much more functions
Hi.
I recently switched from WM65 to Android.
I discovered that in sms delivery notification only recipient number is displayed.
Is there any way to show recipient name in delivery report popup?
thank you very much for your reply.
Not by default, no. And I don't think anyone really cared much for this to mod it. I mean, you do have to first go into the conversation thread of a specific person, then tap on your sent message and *then* view the delivery report. What difference does it make seeing the name here when it's already shown at the top of the conversation thread?