Answering machine

[nm8]

HI
is there a prog that acts as answering machine on your imate jam and records messages on the sd card? something like Smart Answer for symbian OS (it work well with my nokia 6600).

[kuangtian]

HI
is there a prog that acts as answering machine on your imate jam and records messages on the sd card? something like Smart Answer for symbian OS (it work well with my nokia 6600).
no,there isnt any,MS doesn't offer any class on accessing voice stream in its SDKs.But as far as i know,some models have there own way to access the voice--maybe by using new classes maybe by hardware supporting.

[nm8]

am talking about an application that when u reciv a call and u dont answer it, then it will kick in and say that ur not available to answer call then it can record callers msg.

mjnd u im posting using my jam.... kewl

[kuangtian]

...yeah,I'm also using Nokia6680.

I just answered your question in an angle of a programmer.If you can't get your program access the voice,you cannot expect it to record the voice.

The final answer is "No there isnt" unless someone pops up and write an interface to enable the programmer to access the voice or the hardware allows.

[jojo0821]

GIGABYTE G-Smart PPCPhone have a Answering machine Software

http://attach.mobile01.com/attach/200512/mobile01-c6d9b7e43c0562ea840f27c851af7e4e.png

[kdskamal]

[quote="jojo0821"]GIGABYTE G-Smart PPCPhone have a Answering machine Software

Can someone tell me whats written there ??

Sunny

[kuangtian]

The tick means "enable answer machine",and the blow function allows user to choose where to store the voice records.

---this is the case i meant "hardware support",it's not a common function.As far as I know,another PC manufacturer in China "Lenovo联想" also got a model named ET960 with the answer machine and calling recording function.

[zerimar]

the answering machine feature, sometimes called voice box is usually a feature provided by the service provider. so what for you need a software?

[kuangtian]

voice mail and answer machine are quite different concepts.there is answer machine software on some models which enable user to record calls to local memory card.but as i specified that these functions need the hardware supportind.

[zerimar]

i have to disagree with kuangtian. voice mail was developed as a replacement for answering machines. voice mail does exactly the same job as the answering machine, the only difference is that voice mail is "transparent" whereas an answering machine is a physical piece of hardware. in fact almost everyone around the globe have discarded their answering machines because service providers for both land lines and cell phones have included this feature in their services.

my point is why decrease your valuable memory for a piece of software that basically would be redundant?, but that's my personal opinion.

[Doormat]

my point is why decrease your valuable memory for a piece of software that basically would be redundant?, but that's my personal opinion.

To save money.

Each time a call is diverted to my voicemail it costs me money. Each time I call to listen to my voicemail it costs me money.

Granted it's not a LOT of money each time. But the charges can (and do) add up pretty quickly.

[nm8]

the answering machine feature, sometimes called voice box is usually a feature provided by the service provider. so what for you need a software?

yes almost all service providers have voicemail service. but each time someone leaves you a message, u get charged, when u access it, u get charged. some providers only charge u when u access the message. with inbuilt answering machine on your jam, or any other ppc or mobile phone, u dont get charged, plus the file is for you to keep forever (eg. ur girfriend's I Love You's :D )

[zerimar]

not in my case directly. i just checked my bills and 99% is included in my monthly subscribtion, and i do get quite a lot of voice mails because i'm most of the time on the phone.

[nm8]

the answering machine feature, sometimes called voice box is usually a feature provided by the service provider. so what for you need a software?

yes almost all service providers have voicemail service. but each time someone leaves you a message, u get charged, when u access it, u get charged. some providers only charge u when u access the message. with inbuilt answering machine on your jam, or any other ppc or mobile phone, u dont get charged, plus the file is for you to keep forever (eg. ur girfriend's I Love You's :D )

[zerimar]

not in my case directly. i just checked my bills and 99% is included in my monthly subscribtion, and i do get quite a lot of voice mails because i'm most of the time on the phone.

[kuangtian]

agree with Doormat.Voice mail is not alway free!And sometimes the operator charge you both storing and call voice mail number!but receive fone is commonly free.

besides this,a 512SD card is able to store more than one hour voice recording(on Smart Answer on Nokia S60).also,you can also customize your own warm(i wish...) voice for prompt instead of the cold computer sound...

Actually what i mean different concept is that from the view of programmer,it's not a bit same to use a operator voice mail and a software answer machine.Voice mail equals to make a call while answer machine means the software(maybe need hardware assistance) accesses the voice stream.

wow...really a challenge to my poor english...

[kuangtian]

nm8,received PM from me? :D

[zerimar]

i'm very happy with my s100 but i still wished that htc should have strived harder and added a lot more features wether the end user will use it or not.

sorry for you guys, but as i've said the voice mail feature of either sunrise or swisscom works exactly like a regular answering machine. we can activate the standard computer generated greeting or record our own. what's best that it's practically free.

in my case i only save messages that contain important information, the rest i automatically delete it.

[kuangtian]

:D hey man,nothing to be sorry about.

In fact,my o2 charges nothing on the voice-mail too...they even give me free GPRS.....
I really really wish Microsoft could release a class to access the voice-stream........so i can write a program to record the calling and as an answer machine...

[elio]

[/quote]GIGABYTE G-Smart PPCPhone have a Answering machine Software

Can you extract it and post it here? I can assure you people will worship you :)

[kuangtian]

GIGABYTE G-Smart PPCPhone have a Answering machine Software

Can you extract it and post it here? I can assure you people will worship you :)[/quote]

:!: :!: that's not a software.it's a hardware function i think.

[jojo0821]

Sorry I don't get that PDAPhone (GIGABYTE G-Smart)

I just have 818 ,I am looking someone have GIGABYTE G-Smart to extract it .

http://www.higiga.com/HigigaFrontStage/event/download/update/ETT10513.ZIP

This is that phone's ROM update , anybody can extract it ?

[nm8]

heres a call to VJ, kuangtian and the others.... :D

[vijay555]

Guys, as we've discussed before, we believe this is a hardware limitation, not software, but I'm sure we'll all have a play with the roms.

V

[kuangtian]

yeah,but,giga G-smart is a WM2005 PPC...

anyway,there's another tiny possibility--those companies mentioned above developed their own class to access the voice,which they don't wanna share...i'll keep my eyes on it.

[OdeeanRDeathshead]

wm2005 means nothing. ppc 2002 fully supports it, thats not the problem. The hardware can't do it.

[faysalshoaib]

As far as i know, i can record my fone conversations on my jam by pressing the record button found on the side of the phone and then clicking the record button. and that too during phone calls....
so that being said, we need a software that would accept a call then play message and then simply start recording....

[vijay555]

faysalshoaib: I believe you have encountered what might be known as "Ouroboros" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros), in two senses.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:it7s_X5UHk0FOM:www.bluehoney.org/Images/Ouroboros/ouroboros01.gif

Sense 1:
Your phone is recording the sound coming out of the Speaker, because it's over flowing into the Microphone. You're not recording internally. If your participants talk quietly it's unlikely you'll record anything useful.

Sense 2:
So either you have a version of the Jam that no one else has, or you need to read Odeean's post above... and the several hundred thousand elsewhere on the same issue.

If you're certain however, please post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=40100&highlight=record

V