What is the "best" consumer-accessible solution to extract a text message (SMS/MMS) (or series of text messages) from an iPhone?
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posted by QuantumMeruit
on May 14, 2013 -
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I'm looking for way to send SMS alerts to a large group - anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 subscribers. This is for a small town that needs to alert citizens of public works issues like water outages or boil water notices. Can we do this ourselves? What do we need? If not, what is the most cost effective method (provider)? These would not be frequent, regular alerts.
posted by dukes909
on May 8, 2013 -
23 answers
My elderly parents are currently traveling in Europe (Greece, specifically) accompanied by their first smartphones (which are on a T-Mobile family plan that I pay for). Before they left, I repeatedly emphasized that they needed to install new microsims from a Greek telecom before they'd be able to use voice, messaging and data in Greece. I did not go into the concept of international roaming (primarily because it's extremely expensive, they would find it confusing, and I don't want them to use it). They said they'd get new microsims when they arrived. However, my mother's text messages from Greece still look like they're being sent from her U.S. number.
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posted by longdaysjourney
on Mar 25, 2013 -
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What services are available to get a static internet-accessible phone number for SMS only in Canada?
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posted by jpziller
on Mar 7, 2013 -
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My wife's iphone is sending SMS (sometimes) to my ipad's "imessage" app instead of to my phone! Please halp!
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posted by jozxyqk
on Feb 4, 2013 -
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Can you recommend a service that will let me broadcast SMS notifications to all staff in an emergency? I am assuming it would be an SMS marketing service, but if there are other options I'd love to hear them. The main feature I need is that it is easy and fast to send out a notification in an emergency.
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posted by rhapsodie
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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Does anyone know what is going on with the text messages shown in
this image? Mrs. fireoyster's iPhone keeps getting these texts, starting about a month ago, from a number that none of us knows. They started out once every few days and are now up to two or three per day, usually eight to twelve hours apart. The string "DT" always begins each text and the string "-cowb3ll" always ends each text. Searching on the Internet has yielded no results. She does use iMessage and it functions properly. Her current number was ported from my account on Twilio; could this have something to do with it?
posted by fireoyster
on Jan 7, 2013 -
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Android and intrusive permissions - can I find a limited-permission SMS blocker, or should I just root my phone?
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posted by Angharad
on Nov 11, 2012 -
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What are your experiences with using a service to receive donations via SMS/text message at your charity?
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posted by Mo Nickels
on Oct 21, 2012 -
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What's the best way for mulitple users to update an online "conditions report" via cellphone?
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posted by bethnull
on Aug 30, 2012 -
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Moving to Germany next year, how best to stay in touch with everyone back in the US?
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posted by photo guy
on Aug 1, 2012 -
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So, I want to restore my iPhone to a backup that's about 1 month old. However, I don't want to lose all of the SMS/MMS and Contacts data that I've accumulated in the meantime. Is it possible to extract and import this newer data into my older backup? I've searched around previous, similar MeFi questions and various 3rd party software, but no dice. And, sadly, jailbreaking is not an option.
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posted by Sine_Agraphia
on Jul 30, 2012 -
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My wife and I text each other a lot throughout the day - enough that I go over my one zillion text per month limit. An upgrade to the next level (unlimited) would be $30/month. What's the best, most seamless way to get free (or very low cost) texting? I only need it to work between the two of us; I can use regular texting for others.
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posted by SampleSize
on May 24, 2012 -
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Is there a twitter client that will use wifi when its available and sms when its not?
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posted by Rubbstone
on Apr 29, 2012 -
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I want to create a number to send text messages (SMS) which will then post all the messages onto a Twitter feed...
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posted by iamck
on Apr 18, 2012 -
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For some reason, one (and only one) correspondent's emails arrive on my phone as multi-part text messages. I can't find any reason in the settings that this should happen, and starting over with a fresh new correspondence does not change this. Please hope me.
posted by cyndigo
on Jan 9, 2012 -
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I want to set up a mailing list of sorts, but with text messages instead of emails. What's a system like this called, and how do I do it?
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posted by fracas
on Dec 31, 2011 -
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Help me catalog my youthful correspondence so that when I grow old and wither I may smile at a time well-spent but long-gone with those I love -- 21st CENTURY STYLE!!!11!!
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posted by Chipmazing
on Nov 25, 2011 -
5 answers
Which Twitter users post high-quality daily tweets? (one-liners, inspirational quotes, love/sex tips, that kind of thing)
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posted by harwons
on Nov 23, 2011 -
17 answers
Spanish/Portuguese SMS spam or should I be worried someone is laying in the gutter somewhere?
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posted by 7life
on Nov 7, 2011 -
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I have an HTC phone that keeps sending duplicate text messages because it thinks delivery is failing. Except they're sending out fine. So now I just send out 8 text messages every time I try to send something. How do I fix this?
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posted by Phire
on Nov 3, 2011 -
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I have some questions regarding MMS charges and the Facebook Messenger app. Between it and the upcoming iOS messages in iOS5 I would like to completely eliminate my texting plan (in light of AT&T's total dick move of eliminating the $10/month text plan-which I was going to move to after iOS5). I figure between Facebook and my iphone-owning friends, family, and girlfriend I should be 99.9% covered and I'll eat the per-text charge on the 2-3 a month that may slip by. I just cant seem to find a clear answer on one point, though:
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posted by sourwookie
on Sep 22, 2011 -
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Why doesn't Apple allow me to export my SMS messages to a file on my PC [3GS UK O2 iphone]?
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posted by dash_slot-
on Aug 12, 2011 -
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I've been tasked with holding a '
texting/SMS contest' tomorrow night, in front of a crowd at the county fair. I've got some ideas on how to do it, but I figure y'all might be able to offer more or improve mine...
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posted by unixrat
on Jul 21, 2011 -
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What's the best way for me to send text message updates to visitors to my Wordpress site?
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posted by DMan
on Jul 16, 2011 -
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I want to be able to poll audience members via text message during a live event. What programs/apps/websites should I check out?
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posted by hermitosis
on Jun 6, 2011 -
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For a community health project, I need automated capability to send text messages to participants' phones based on a specified schedule, content and sequence of messages. The volume would be in the range of 100 recipients grouped into 6 or 8 different categories (each category would receive a distinct sequence of messages), with perhaps 2 or 3 messages per day to each recipient. Any suggestions?
posted by pavi
on Apr 14, 2011 -
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How does the SMS feature in Gmail work? I know there's some kind of base of phone numbers used for it, but I assume those numbers send out thousands of texts per day; how does a reply end up at my account, instead of someone else's? If someone replies to one of my SMS messages sent from Gmail in a month, will the reply still be connected to me?
posted by kaibutsu
on Apr 5, 2011 -
4 answers
What services allow people to send information to our organization via text message?
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posted by morninj
on Mar 31, 2011 -
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Recommend a text-message app for my Droid Eris. The key: phonepad-oriented T9 AND intuitive word-completion in one.
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posted by herbplarfegan
on Mar 30, 2011 -
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What is causing the problems I'm having with sending and receiving text messages on my mobile telephone, and how can I stop them?
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posted by paduasoy
on Mar 20, 2011 -
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I need some software that reads SMS messages from a SIM Dongle and pushes the result to a webpage. Any recommendations?
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posted by twine42
on Mar 11, 2011 -
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Need to somehow retrieve SMS text messages from old, low-end Nokia 2610 cellphone. Please, someone save me from hours of mind-numbing thumbery. Details, including things I've tried, follow.
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Feb 17, 2011 -
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TelcoFilter: What are the ins and outs of a short code (sms) texting system with billing?
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posted by schindyguy
on Feb 7, 2011 -
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Looking at my phone bill, I see my daughter, 18, is averaging over 10,000 texts/mo over the past five months.
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 3, 2011 -
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Where does my SMS go on it's way to where I've sent it? Does it hang out at the phone company at all or does it go out like a phone call?
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posted by From Bklyn
on Jan 26, 2011 -
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I used to get SMS notifications whenever certain Facebook friends posted stuff to their walls. The notifications seem to have stopped coming. Did Facebook remove this feature?
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posted by jayder
on Jan 22, 2011 -
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I'm looking to get a virtual international phone number that can send and receive SMS text messages and can be used with my US mobile phone.
I've found
Virtual Phone Line and
VoipVoip, but they support voice calls only, not SMS.
posted by matrushka
on Jan 11, 2011 -
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Need some advice on polling a live audience via text message. Thinking of using Google voice, but have some questions.
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posted by kdern
on Nov 19, 2010 -
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Looking for software or an app that will allow me to track expenses via SMS, but that will also allow me to track how much money is left in my account.
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posted by reenum
on Aug 23, 2010 -
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