Read SMS

[Anonymous]

Hello!
I have some difficulties to read SMS in my application : my application doesn't want to use the fonction SmsOpen in mode RECEIVE. Do you know the parameters to use in this function to read Sms?

Gremlins (and I'm not Gizmo!)

[Cheesy]

funny as Gizmo asked me exact the same question via private mail ...

This was my response:
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I've never used the function to read SMS messages but here is my suggestion:

check the return code of SmsOpen, it is probably SMS_E_RECEIVEHANDLEALREADYOPEN. According the SDK help it means, that another app has already opened and is using the provider. In most cases, that might be Inbox, so shut down the Inbox task befor you are running your code.

If your error code is different, check the meaning in the help file, look for SmsOpen -> SMS specific error codes.

[jvd]

You don't have disable Inbox. The problem is the internal SMS handler - if you look in \Windows\Startup, you'll see a SMSHandler (I don't have a T-Mobile at the moment, so can't confirm the exact name). You need to get your application to start before it. In addition, you need to do a SmsSetMessageNotification() for both SMS_MSGTYPE_RAW as well as SMS_MSGTYPE_TEXT message types. Strangely, the code does not get the notification if you only set it for one of the two.

[t_lex]

I have a T-Mobile MDA. There is a folder called "AutoStart" in the Windows folder, so I guess the file called "SMSReceiver.exe" is the handler you were talking about. I named my application "aaamyapplication" in order to start it up first after a soft reset (There is actually no "startup" registry-entry either for "SMSReceiver" nor for my application... in the end I kicked "SMSReceiver" out).
Unfortunately receiving an SMS through my app does not work (but strangely the system is still able to receive SMS in spite of deleting "SMSReceiver").

Do you have a good guess what I should do? I would be grateful for any advice

t_lex

[nutitija]

Could some body be more specific on what Jvd said ??? i'm running an XDA2 and when i look in windows/startup i only get the followng :

CheckAutoRun
ChgDfLnk
IA_Caller_ID
MMReg
poutlook
stk
wifiIcon