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Old 15-05-2005, 21:11
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Is there anyway on pay and or that to tell if a text has got to the other persons mobile ok. I heard something about this a while ago but I think it was not widely in use on all networks and not sure if it was for pay and go users.

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Old 15-05-2005, 21:12
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It can be done with MMS, not sure about texts...
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Old 15-05-2005, 21:17
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you mean delivary reports?
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Old 15-05-2005, 21:23
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Originally Posted by scouse_j
you mean delivary reports?
Yes thats what I mean. Just so I know text got to the persons mobile im texting or when replying to a text they just sent me.

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Old 15-05-2005, 22:07
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What phone do you have?

I have a Motorola and i can set it when i send the message
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Old 15-05-2005, 22:08
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I have a sharp GX25 and I can, what do you have?
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Old 15-05-2005, 22:31
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Since he has O2 he'll have to put that code in before he sends the text. Which i've forgotton.
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Old 15-05-2005, 22:42
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*0# before a message
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Old 16-05-2005, 07:00
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Sony Ericsson T230 I got and im on 02 pay and go.

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Old 16-05-2005, 07:02
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Anyone with o2 regardless of their phone type has to put *0# infront of their message. There's no need to put a space after it though as the receiver doesn't see the *0#.
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Old 16-05-2005, 07:46
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I have delivery reports set up on Vodafone PAYG but there not 100% I sent 5 on Sunday got 3 delivery reports back but only one texts got to where it was meant to be
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Old 19-05-2005, 20:20
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I been trying out the 02 text delivary reports and its been sending me a message with in 20 and 40 seconds saying my text been delivered. I just wondering how accurate are the reports. Also why do 02 not tell you about the delivary reports so anyone new to 02 can use them.

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Old 19-05-2005, 21:02
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I've never had a problem in all the years with Virgin, T-Mobile and now also easyMobile with delivery reports.

Friends not had problem with Vodafone nor Orange either. It's just O2 network you need to mess about with.
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Old 19-05-2005, 21:04
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I sent a text a min ago and never got any delivary report, back why is this. Its the first time this has happend since I started 2 try the service the other day. The delivary report just came 4 mins after I sent the text usally I get it in 20 or 40 seconds.

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Old 19-05-2005, 21:09
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You get the report to say the message has been delivered when it hits the recipients phone.

If the recipients phone is off, then they won't get the message until they switch it on, so could be minutes, hours or days. Depends on what setting you have for the length of time a message should keep trying before it is classed as failed and deleted by the network.

Also if the recipients phone is out of coverage for a while you have to wait for it to come back in, or if their in box is full you have to wait for them to empty it.

You only get a OK receipt when it actually hits their phone.

If you phone some one and their phone is switched off, send them a message, and as soon as they switch their phone on, you will get a receipt stating 'delivered' - then you know they have switched their phone back on!

Must be noted O2 text receipts are a little dodgy.
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Old 19-05-2005, 21:32
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i send about 3 texts a month
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Old 19-05-2005, 21:35
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Originally Posted by jackslick
i send about 3 texts a month
If that is all you send, you might as well use www.118888.co.uk , was 10 per day, now 50 per month!
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Old 20-05-2005, 20:02
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Originally Posted by BexTech
You get the report to say the message has been delivered when it hits the recipients phone.

If the recipients phone is off, then they won't get the message until they switch it on, so could be minutes, hours or days. Depends on what setting you have for the length of time a message should keep trying before it is classed as failed and deleted by the network.

Also if the recipients phone is out of coverage for a while you have to wait for it to come back in, or if their in box is full you have to wait for them to empty it.

You only get a OK receipt when it actually hits their phone.

If you phone some one and their phone is switched off, send them a message, and as soon as they switch their phone on, you will get a receipt stating 'delivered' - then you know they have switched their phone back on!

Must be noted O2 text receipts are a little dodgy.
I've found o2 delivery repoerts to be very dodgy, it nearly always comes back saying delivered almost immediaetely when sometimes i know for a fact that it hasn't been delivered until hours later.

And on other occasions i have never received one back but have receicved a reply to my message a few minuted later.

The best way to find out if a mesage has got there is to just wait for a reply, if you know they normally text back and they haven't then its a safe bet that you need to send the message again, especially when o2 are still giving me free texts!!
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Old 21-05-2005, 16:54
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Incase anybody is interested, to get a delivery report on Orange, type RCT at the start of the text.
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Old 21-05-2005, 16:56
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Originally Posted by richard771
Incase anybody is interested, to get a delivery report on Orange, type RCT at the start of the text.
Or switch it on in the menu options.
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Old 23-05-2005, 19:28
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I just replyed to a text and got a delivery report with in a min. I got another reply to my text so I replyed but this time I never got a delivery report back is 02 plying up. I just tried a test on mums 02 phone and the delivery report worked but the last 2 textes i replyed to on a Orange number the delivery report has not come back the first text the delivery report worked but not the last 2 to the Orange number but it said text had sent.

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Old 23-05-2005, 20:49
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I just got 2 delivary report messages from the textes I sent just over an hour ago. Maybe 02 is playing up a little. Got a repy just amin ago and I replyed and the delivary report come win in just over a min. Things seem to be ok now but seemed strange earlier.

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Old 23-05-2005, 21:34
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The thing to remember is that text messaging is not an instant message service. The specification says that I can take upto 7 days to arrive. So even delivery reports can take 7 days to arrive.
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Old 24-05-2005, 06:59
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Im I right in saying 98% of text messages are ment to arrive with in a few mins of them being sent.

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Old 24-05-2005, 20:06
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Originally Posted by ney
Im I right in saying 98% of text messages are ment to arrive with in a few mins of them being sent.

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All messages are meant to be received almost immediately.

But if the phone is switched off, or the phone has no signal for a while then the message can't get to it's destination.

If the message can't get to its destination, the network will try a few minutes later, and then later still, each time leaving longer and longer between each retry, until it comes to a point where it will fail.
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