Himalaya as a pager

[Pharmer]

Can anyone please advise on setting my Himalaya as a pager(through SMS)??? Can't seem to find any posts on this specific topic. Thanks in advance for the help

[hanmin]

Interesting.. how do you suppose to do that? Disable your ability to receive phone call? But still able to receive SMS?

Hmmm.. interesting.. maybe you can do

(1) Make your ring tone silent (e.g. use a silent WAV as ring tone) but put a loud and long WAV for your SMS.

(2) Use the divert call feature, Setting -> Phone -> Services -> Call forwarding. Check "Forward all incoming phone call to", and put in a fake number. So, when anyone tries to call you, they will be diverted into the fake number. (e.g. for girls whom are getting irritating calls, you can use this method). However, you still have your SMS working.

Another option (not every phone has this, but WM5 seems to have) would be Setting -> Phone -> Services -> Call Barring -> Block Incoming calls.

Better test your thing before really using it (e.g. try SMS it). Haven't try these technique yet.

Anyway, pity that this phone is being used as a pager though. It is like buying a refrigerator use it as a cupboard.

[Pharmer]

I probably phrased my question poorly. I wanted to be able to receive a page as an SMS message . I meant to do that in addition to the phone/email connections. Didn't mean to suggest to disable the phone at all. Thanks

[100]

You'll be needing an app on this page http://sharewareconnection.com/titles/alpha-paging.htm

SNPP protocol is available on the GSM band naturally, but you will need special session/application software for compiling data for use on the protocol.

[hanmin]

I doubt you can do that. Firstly, you will need a station/provider to have a paging service, so you will have a page station for people to call to, you also need them (provider) to send you the signal. And, I'm pretty sure that you can't just accept any pager signal easily with a standard consumer devices and some cool software (esp that you still want the phone feature) as there are security features built into the page signal for better data transfer efficiency and privacy.

I think you will be carryign a pager for a while :)