How do I get Sent SMS Confirmation?

[witchshady]

My Siemens SX56 won't give me SMS Sent Message Confirmation even if I tick the box that requests for it.

How do I do it guys???

[Anton.Valleyman]

What you need to do is this...

Start writing a message, and then choose Edit > Edit My Text Messages. Next, choose one of the messages you won't use (I choose the last one for ease of use and the fact I'd never say "I love my Pocket PC!" to anyone) and edit it to show

*0#

exactly as typed. Asterisk number 0 and hash key / pound sign. Save it and then the next time you type a message, put this in the Subject field of your message. The bad news is that it takes up 3 chars in your 160 max per message, but the good news is that once the message is delivered or pending etc, you get a message telling you. The tickbox in the sms options doesn't seem to work whenever I've tried it (why is it there? - does this work on non o2 providers, out of interest?) but the *0# definitely does.

Hope this helps.
Anthony

[NeCrOpHiLiCaT]

the tick box option seems to work fine for me on orange, i know that trying to use delivery reports on nokias with o2 dosent work either! i think its just some o2 thing

[Anton.Valleyman]

Yeah now you say that I remember myself. It was a friend on o2 (who didn't have an XDA type phone) who told me about using the *0# in the first place.

Wonder why they can't set it up as all other networks seem to and it's a very useful feature when it works properly.

Anthony

[lstocky]

just posting to thank you for providing this answer.

I've long wondered why ticking the checkbox did nothing but hadn't realised there was a way round it.

that's cool, xda-developers never lets you down :-)