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SMS at 1cent in Mauritius

July 7th, 2006 by Hans

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I’ll guide you down here in setting up your phone so that it can send SMS/messages at only 1cent from an Emtel SIM. The principle behind is very basic. It uses the Email feature that some phone models have and allow you to send a message via Email through GPRS to the person you want. Since it’s through GPRS and not GSM(normal SMS uses this), the message is sent at only 1cent. Follow on for the configurations.

free sms

Check for these requirements first:

Make sure that your mobile meets the following criteria before proceeding :

  • GPRS for your mobile should be activated.
  • Your phone should have the Email function. Note that I’m not talking about SMS Email because that’s completely different. Check it out and you should see something from the menu called Email itself.
  • A POP3 mail account. Most of you must certainly have one, those having their email ending in intnet.mu already have a POP3 account. But if not you may consider giving yourself one from Yahoo! Just get to any subdomains of Yahoo! like Yahoo.co.uk or Yahoo.fr and their emails allow you to do POP3.

the approach

Since I own a Sony Erickson, this How-to will base itself on the options of a Sony Erickson. There are so many phone models and I know the options will differ from one to another but I’m sure if you grasp the concept behind you will be ready in giving it a try for any model you have.

Drum roll, the steps

Switch that phone of yours on, we’re starting.

  • From the main screen, go to Menu > Connect > Data comm > Data accounts > New account
  • Select GPRS data > and set these options as follows:
    • Name : mail
    • APN : WEB
    • User ID : put your mobile number here
    • Password: MMSC
    • finally do Save.

Now after setting the preliminary configuration, we must setup your phone to accept email, just follow on, we are on STEP 2 :

    Get to the front screen and do

  • Menu > Messages > E-mail > Options > Edit account > Add new
  • Now do you remember the mail account I’ve been talking above, we will be using that for the new mail account that we’re creating with the phone.
  • Do connect using > mail protocol and set the following options :
    • POP3 inc.server : place your POP3 incoming server address here which should be something like pop.something.com for example.
    • Incoming Port** : leave all these settings intact, no touch here unless your POP3 mail has other settings as the one by default.
    • Mailbox : include your username in here. If your mail is person@intnet.mu then put only person here. In fact that option is a misnomer that should be username instead since this is what it’s really.
    • Password : enter that password for your POP3 mail account here!
      Then we’ve got to poke some deeper settings, look on :
    • Outgoing server/port : you will obtain that information from the POP3 account you have.
    • E-mail adress : put your POP3 email address here, something like you@intnet.mu
    • Download : here you will specify whether you want to download the entire message(SMS) or just the headers(a small description probably) when receiving the new mail(SMS). I’ll explain this gibberish below, for now just follow on minutely, the explanation follows afterwards.
    • From name : this is your sender name, put something descriptive so that those receiving the mail/SMS may know who sent it.
    • Copy outgoing : do you want to send a copy of your messages to another POP3 mail then put that mail address you want here.
    • Check interval : specifies the lapse of time after which the phone connects and checks the mail automatically. Note that each connection costs 1 cent, pretty costly I think ;-)

Checking your emails on your mobile:

After configuring your phone as above it’s now also possible for you to check your email from that mobile itself. You’ve got nothing to do for that, in fact your POP3 mailbox will be checked during the delay we have set above so it’s automatic. You can also use the same technique to send a normal email to someone on a PC.

free sms

sending a 1 cent SMS/message

To send a message/SMS we won’t send it to the number for example 493 4585 instead we’ll send it using the mail service that EMTEL offers. With every number from EMTEL is associated an email address like number@emtelworld.net so 4934585@emtelworld.net in our example. So just compose a message through EMAIL and send it to the mail address of that number for which you want to send a message/SMS. It’s just simple plain basic.

More to come

This how-to is by no mean a complete and thorough one, some more explanation might be required, but as this new trick has been discovered, it’s still under the phase of further testing to bring it to the ultimate use so that one day we might stop calling it SMS but Mobilemail. Please leave by a comment to tell me what you think of this trick and if you have been successful in setting up your Mobilemail and don’t forget, poke everyone about that so that they can also start enjoying their 1cent SMS.

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  • […] This hack written by Hans is very interesting but not quite new. I have been using the same trick to send SMS to friends and relatives in Mauritius by e-mail after remembering how my mobile phones were automatically assigned e-mail addresses by CellPlus and Emtel. (Yes, this hack does work with CellPlus mobiles as well; one just has to discover one’s e-mail address.) […]

  • 2 BlogoSquare | Christophe’s Sandbox Jul 8, 2006 at 7:10 pm

    […] MobilEmail, How-to […]

  • 3 Kyushiro-kun Jul 8, 2006 at 7:50 pm

    Wow, nice! but you should have put my name in bold though, for our friend eddy thinks its your technique! :) just joking. One detail However Hans. The Password Field in the email configuration HAS to be the password you use to access your mail normally on a PC. That seems ambiguous from your description. Hey, I have all the rights to be Grrr if you just claim my ideas are yours! Lol Hey if Eddy is right, My jutsu will be complete:)

  • 4 Khalil A. Jul 8, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    This really rocks, man! I’m going to buy my Emtel SIM right now!

  • 5 kyushiro-kun Jul 8, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    @ Khalil a. Congratulations, You are the 5th person in mauritius to learn this tech. From me! Lol :) Eventually I will convert all Mauritians to mobilEmailers!
    Hehehe

  • 6 kyushiro-kun Jul 8, 2006 at 11:10 pm

    Hey hans, now that i Think of it, are you crazy? proposing To send Mobilemail With yahoo?
    If everyone does this, Emtels server will probably sink because of the 180 characters Ads Yahoo adds at the bottom of each mail! hey this was a pre-release test which turned out to be unsuccessful, Yahoo is a bad idea. (Although you could use it as a main account and check your mail. But NOT mobilemail.) You could use o2 (check mywap.o2.co.uk on your phone (wap) to register your 02 email account.) The details for o2 mail are

    inc. and outgoing servers: 193.113.160.13

    And the ports are the defaults set.

  • 7 Hans Jul 9, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    @ kyushiro-kun: hey dude no fighting now, check the right of our articles, now you can see who posted the article, hey no fighting dude, I clearly mentionned that the trick was yours, hope you enjoyed how I rewrite it using some of the guidelines of a how-to……….

    hey kyushiro, I’ve researched a bit on my part about Cellplus but no dude there’s nothing on their side about email only some stuff called PushMail that allow you to check your POP3 on your mobile and that’s also only for those with line subscription dude, I think your MobilEmail does that better ;-)

    you know for the o2 stuff thanks for mentionning should make the link between those 2 posts now

  • 8 Hans Jul 9, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    @ khalil: you know EMTEL is playing really well between the Mauritian network bringing out a wave of new changes and services which I think Cellplus is a bit lagging up behind…….now EMTEL even got TV with it!!!! but the only - I’ve found with Emtel is that it’s coverage is a bit weaken up as it’s not as powerful and widely covering as Cellplus………..but now with MobilEmail go get you an Emtel Sim dude what are you waiting for???? 1 cent is just too near to free SMS just back to those days when that was true…..MobilEmail is trying to bring just that ;-) thanks for dropping by ;-)

  • 9 Neil Jul 9, 2006 at 9:12 pm

    Hans… Show me this mobilemail things at school please.. i want to know more…

  • 10 Christophe, alias Kyushiro-sama Jul 10, 2006 at 4:23 pm

    @ Neil Come see me anytime in my class and ill show you, Hans will not be able to show you cause his phone does not support my jutsu. lol

    More importantly, I told hans the bad news yesterday, O2 officially stopped new international registrations.
    only people in the UK can register now.
    It took me 2 white nights (is it said in english? lol :) ) to find a solution and i got one.

    From your WAP browser
    Go to http://wap.mymail.ro

    From the web browser
    go to http://www.mymail.ro/mail/signup

    (sorry guys, the web page is in italian… But I guess youll be able to do it even so. Furthermore if you are willing to use MobilEmail you probably already have a Wap account. The wap site being in english, everything will be ok.

    Now the settings:
    outgoing and Inc server: mymail.ro

  • 11 Hans Jul 10, 2006 at 5:55 pm

    I’m just converting christophe words into plain simple English, what he is talking about is on another POP3 account, you see if you use Yahoo! POP3 then with your messages you’ll get many ads alongside so Christophe went to hack down some POP3 provider that would do so ads-free that’s when he came to met his lovely o2(yeah so lovely that you spent the whole night on it hein) but since O2 went down he found another ads-free POP3 for using with MobilEmail………….the Italian(hecky one since they won the World Cup, we might expect many free stuffs fro m Italy now) one………these words are for those that aren’t getting what Christophe just spit out…..thanks very much Christophe for bringing your body in here

  • 12 k7 Jul 12, 2006 at 7:38 pm

    nice hack. Thumbs up.
    Can you by the way update the article with eddy’s info.

  • 13 Hans Jul 12, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    @ k7: hello k7 nice you made it here, I’m happy you just came out to place that great nice comment of yours.

    hey dude did I miss something? You know according to Eddy you can do this “hack” to Cell+ also but after digging much, I and Christophe got nothing on that subject. You know Cell+ got only PushMail concerning things with email unlike Emtel which got it right with their numbers………….

    again I’m not too sure whether you wanted me to talk about that, could you please point me to that piece of info ;-) sure I’m gonna update it with that then ;-)

    thanks very much for the visit dude, hope to see you back in here more often ;-)

  • 14 k7 Jul 13, 2006 at 9:39 am

    eh d00d , me too :-) got nuthin concerning cell+.

    will buy an emtel sim though ;-)

  • 15 Hans Jul 15, 2006 at 1:12 am

    @ k7: yeah dude I think that’s the best option in here, this sure will be value for your money dude 1cent, just set the counter on and that mini card is not over yet…..;-)

    hope you will get to setup MobilEmail in no matter of time when you will get your hands on that Emtel sim……if there’s any piece you didn’t grasp from the article above just let me know for clarification, there’s also Kyushiro/Christophe in here who would clear anything that’s picking you….

    thanks dude for the visit

  • 16 kyushiro-kun Jul 16, 2006 at 4:07 pm

    kuso, I dont know if myInternet connection is crappy, or if everybody decided to connect on the first sunday of our holidays, but I just went through hell to get here! :)

    Hey, now that I think of it, Mobilemail might not work from emtel to cell+ but it MIGHT work the other way round. I have no Sim to test it but you might want to try that if youve got a cell+ sim. Just follow the instructions above, but when entering the username and password for the new data account, try to input the username and password you normally use for wap and mms. It might work because if you look at the settings, we never pointed to any emtel server to configure the account, so maybe all you need is a WEB apn access, which is part of GPRS access anyway. But note that it might also not work, as i havent even tried it yet so You Blogostars will be the alpha testers. Please send us the results once you have tried it!

  • […] Let’s put the questions about whether Cellplus offers e-mail services on its mobile phone to rest. Indeed, Hans and company will be pleased by the news that one can send e-mail to Cellplus subscribers who have MMS-enabled mobile phones. The format of the e-mail address in this case is 230number@cellplusmms.mu. […]

  • 18 Eddy Young Jul 24, 2006 at 7:54 pm

    Try sending an e-mail to 230number@cellplusmms.mu, replacing “number” with the actual mobile number.

    Hope this helps.

  • 19 Hans Aug 10, 2006 at 11:39 am

    @ eddy: yo dude, thanks for bringing this trick down, everything that gets to enlighten things here helps dude, so sure this does.

  • 20 dada Aug 12, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    great! but someone know how to register to mms for emtel? I am looking for the settongs. Plz!!!!!!

  • 21 Hans Aug 12, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    @ dada: sure dude, I’ve got the manual/guide at home, if you wanna, I can lend it to you.

    thanks for the visit, hope the mobilemail guide helps.

    spread the word dude, gotta tell those whom you want to spend less about this.

  • 22 dada Aug 13, 2006 at 10:03 am

    But how do i get the guide?

  • 23 ed Aug 13, 2006 at 2:24 pm

    How can I register to mms(emtel) without going to a showroom? Is there a special no. we can sms to so that we can have directly the settings and the code for mms?? please help me! I want to have mms in my mobile! thx in advance! :)

  • 24 Hans Aug 14, 2006 at 12:14 pm

    @ dada: yo dada you know I’ve got the guide from an Emtel showroom itself, I told them that I had different phones to configure so I couldn’t come every time for everyone so I asked them if I could get the guide. Just try out something like this. Hope this would work out or just get to a showroom, sure they will have one there, just ask them the settings then.

  • 25 Hans Aug 14, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    @ ed: yo for this I’m ain’t too sure but I think that calling the customer care and then asking them for the settings will do the thing, think that it comes like a message that tells you to save it, you do so and tada your phone is configured for MMS. I ain’t too sure about your question.

    Directly having the settings would be to lay your hands on the guide of configuration. I think that if you go to a showroom and ask them for one, then they ‘might’ probably give you one. In it you’ve got all the settings for popular models, just choose and configure.

    But for the immediate moment I would advise you to call and ask the settings that they will send for you to save.

    Hope this helps, tell me how things go on ;-)

  • 26 ed Aug 14, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    I only wanted to know what is the apn, ip address, username and password if required for emtel coz I no how to install it. But only these data I need, thats all. So i was asking if you could simply tell me the apn ….that’s all
    :p

  • 27 Hans Aug 14, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    @ ed: yo ed, yeah sure, I needed some clarificationon on that question for splashing you the stuffs. Here it comes for the general config for MMS:

    Put the following ;

    APN: WAP
    IP address : 192.168.0.7
    username: your mobile number
    password: mmsc

    get to try it and tell me ya ;-)

  • 28 ed Aug 14, 2006 at 7:15 pm

    but this data is the same for wap, no?

  • 29 ed Aug 14, 2006 at 7:17 pm

    And thx for all! you are great! and this blog too!! :P

  • 30 ed Aug 14, 2006 at 8:21 pm

    Its not working.. are you sure it is for emtel. Do you use this network?

  • 31 Hans Aug 14, 2006 at 10:31 pm

    @ ed: thanks dude for the ‘compliment’ ;-)

    yo dude sure it’s the general settings for MMS but I think that probably varies from model to model but supposedly this should work.

    You know take this one, it’s my settings, gotta try it out and tell me. Yeah I use EMTEL

    My settings for MMS:
    APN: the same
    IP address: the same
    username: 230my number
    password: for me this field is blank

    hope this helps out dude ;-)

    hey have you tried calling them and asking them to let you have the settings automatically?

    thanks again for throwing out your comments ;-)

  • 32 Kyushiro Aug 19, 2006 at 9:59 pm

    Well, Just some clearing up the facts: 2 things are required to use mms (and wap and mobilemail ) You need

    (1) The settings to configure the phone
    (2) A GPRS access account at emtel

    The settings can be obtained from the booklet BUT The GPRS account can only be created at emtel! Its kinda like your internet access, you might have your PC configurated but if you dont have an account with an ISP its useless!

    To know wether you have a gprs account, Check the main screen.

    NOKIAS should have a G near the network indicator,

    SONY ERICSSONS should have a blue triangle on the network indicatro. Only then the booklet would be helpful. else you would have to go to the showroom anyway.

  • 33 ed Aug 27, 2006 at 10:20 am

    Hi again.
    I’ve contacted Emtel and they send me the settings but still, its not working.
    Are the settings correct?
    APN: wap.emtel.com
    IP: 192:168:000:007
    username: mobile no.
    password: mmsc

    And the blue traingle does not appear.

    And I would like to know what the booklet contains? only the settings?
    mrgreen

  • 34 VaLeRY Aug 27, 2006 at 10:26 am

    This is a cool blog!

    I only wanted to know why I cannot access to any wap sites on my mobile except the cellplus wap site. It says communication error but my wap account is good. For e.g the site wap.zedge.net cannot be accessed. Can you access to other wap sites?

  • 35 Kyushiro Aug 27, 2006 at 10:35 pm

    @ ed :

    there are only 2 possible solutions.

    :arrow: 1)
    gprs is not set as data comm preferred service, or

    :arrow: 2)
    emtel sent you only the gprs data, and did not register you as a gprs user. For the 1st case, assuming u have a S.Ericson, u can fix this by doing menu :arrow: conect :arrow: data comm :arrow: pref service :arrow: automatic.

    try it hope that solves your problem

  • 36 Hans Aug 28, 2006 at 11:26 am

    @ valery:

    thanks for the compliment, sure it’s so nice :o

    hey sorry you know we(I and kyushiro) use EMTEL and for cell+, I don’t know much about this problem(even kyushiro doesn’t :!: ), yeah I think it’s a problem because I’ve checked that on a friend’s mob and there also it was the same, think they let you only to visit the wap site that they throw you and don’t allow you to insert and mobilesurf your own wap sites. Should have phoned them to ask them, think you should try that.

    8O really I think cell+ is just $#@#@#@#@#@#@ think gotta do like most of us : hop onto EMTEL until a better one comes

    thanks Valery for the visit, hope you loved it, take a look at the graveyard if you want for things that might interest ya ;-)

    see ya soon on BlogoSquare.

  • 37 comradejv Aug 28, 2006 at 9:43 pm

    hey guy you got that news on free sms on emtel service??? be carful with this because some of my friend’s mobile have been block…

  • 38 Hans Aug 29, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    @ comradejv: yo Emtel pushed it out man :roll: they debugged their network I think :dizzy: or more probably shut that backdoor, for a moment we had the key to enter freely as we could, 8) too great back to the days of free SMS but now back to reality

  • 39 Kyushiro Aug 30, 2006 at 12:17 am

    @ Hans

    that’s more an open window than a backdoor lol :dizzy: btw Hans you were speaking about a relay sms technique, so what about it :?: :?: :!: (6)

  • 40 Gavin Jan 2, 2007 at 6:35 pm

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    BYE

  • 41 jean Jan 4, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    =O hi

  • 42 Gavin Jan 10, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    hi just add me on yr MSN that`s gavin-intnet@hotmail.com see ya bye :grinnod: =P

  • 43 Kyu Jan 13, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Bad news guys, O2, Mymail, Bluebottle and Gala have all stopped providing pop3. :no: :no: :no:
    personally i stick to yahoo.fr, but if anyone has another pop3 msp please share!

  • 44 Anonymous Feb 5, 2007 at 2:07 am

    Google…

    Google is the best search engine…

  • 45 Leo Feb 14, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    hi hans :) wow, that one really seems cool!
    i own a t610, i think it should be okay, but one precision please,
    When you create the data account, do you need an IP adress or something? and yeah, are the tarifications the same if i send attachments with the mail?
    or is it on a price/kb basis?
    Thanks

  • 46 kyu Feb 14, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    erm…. leo-kun…..
    how to say this….
    you could have asked me :) by the looks of this great jutsu you should have known this actually comes from me :) (i was bloggin in here with hans before :p

    anyway, nope, no need for ip, and yes, its price/kb. actually, if 1 character=1 byte cause formatting doesnt count. so each sms written on your phone would be about 500 Bytes, so put it 1 cent per 500b, 2cent/kb. but thats a rapid rounded off calculation. you should experiment this (with dummy sound recordings of custom size)

  • 47 Hans Feb 16, 2007 at 10:51 pm

    @ leo

    Hope kyu helped in answering your questions….yeah it’s actually he who came with this….

  • 48 leo Feb 19, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Thanks guys, but, HOW WAS I SUPOSED to know that was from kyu me??? :) (Hans, you better put a notice or something cause i know this guy, if you try to steal one of his babies hell just flame ya over and over until you wish you were in a barbecue instead :) :grin: :grin:

  • 49 Hans Feb 20, 2007 at 12:26 am

    @ Leo

    haha :P yeah I shall put a notice but you know we were a team and we still are and now we can peacefully share ideas. Infact there are lots or Kyu’s article in here like the Recover your CD and lots spread around. I kinda due Kyu for these but sure I’m repaying him somehow I’ll. :D

  • 50 Gavin Feb 25, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    hy sori mo pa p kone kouma fer pou fer PTT push to talk la bon…si to ti kav fer mw kone ti bon~!!!!!

  • 51 vinci Mar 20, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    i can’t get access to pops3 server and smtp servers, incorrect password,help please, i founf very amazing but i can’t cum it, waiting for u :oops:

  • 52 kyu Mar 24, 2007 at 2:25 am

    @ Vinci it should be easy to check. what email service provider do you use? if it is yahoo you have some additional stuff te set up first. if it is gmail then i know the server ports are different but it doesnt seem that it is your problem. what phone model do you use?

  • 53 Stephen Mar 24, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Hi

    Thanks fr the information. I have a data connection but have been unable to connect. This is many due to the fact that I deleted the SMS sent me by resetting my phone proir to reading the settings. I have tried the details above with no luck. I have an HP ipaq hx 6915 it would be great if some could post a step by step instruction to getting this phone to work with data. Or send the details to my email address bushstephen@hotmail.com

    Thanks in advance

  • 54 Hans Mar 29, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    @ Stephen

    thanks for getting through the post Stephen. I shall post another article in the future about mobile phones and getting economical with it and I shall then provide a more clear how-to to do the above thing. Sorry for being a bit incomprehensible since that was my debut stage in the blogging arena.

    Do keep in touch buddy

  • 55 Neha Apr 3, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    wow, now this is a hack. Many many thanks and congrats for finding this trick, you are pretty good! :D

    fortunately i am no longer a stagiaire @ emtel, else i might have been tempted to tell them about it…. just pray they do not find this blog :)

    However its a pity that, through the comments, it seems bery few people appreciate the technique for this trick. only 2 or 3 have successfully implemented this. goes to show the evergrowing gap between developers, power users and lambda users i guess….

    Anyway i would like to contribute something to your great work.

    firstly, please let me correct you on one detail. This will NOT work on phones others than sony ericsson. why? simply because only SE allows you to have a separate data account with no wap profile attached. if you left IP address blank on a nokia for example, the account would be invalid.

    Also, as you are connecting using gprs, you might want to boost the connection parameters ( To level 6 i think. you know, when defining the custom data account) Since you will hardly have to transfer > 10MB per session.

    et enfin, the price does not depend only on volume, but also on a per message basis. 2 messages of 10 bits each (That would be one worded messages) would still cost you 2 cents.

    Thanks again! Hope this helps!

    Keep rocking :D :cool: :cool:

  • 56 kyu Apr 4, 2007 at 10:27 am

    @ Neha Hi, Thanks for your feedback :)

    I should be the one to thank you, for while trying to increase the quality of service [parameters I realised how stupid i had been.

    In fact, you might want to test it, a simple web access point is sufficient to connect through the emtel server. The username / pword stuff is 100% irrelevant and unnecessary.

    I guess this makes the hack even more unfriendly to other phones, since it makes up an even more incomplete data account… enfin… am just thankful i happened to stumble upon a sony ericsson then :grin:

    lol @

    goes to show the evergrowing gap between developers, power users and lambda users i guess….

    lol ah… it is so… although me and my editor (Here) hans have tried to translate my technical notes into human readable instructions haha but i guess i am too involved in the project to be objective as to the difficulty some might have to follow the instructions. Also some others generalise and ask out of context questions (I mean heh, The title of this post is not

    HOW TO ACTIVATE YOUR WAP / MMS

    right??)

    Anyway, great thanks, This makes mobilemail go one step forward :grin: i had almost dropped the project and abandon the search for further improvements :)

    By the way, if you are interested, more of my hacks/tricks can be found at my site, here :grin: :grin:

  • 57 faryaz Apr 7, 2007 at 10:38 am

    cool man!

  • 58 Neha Apr 7, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Hello again.

    lol Hey i did not realise that myself! wow, actually it makes your mobilemail even easier to set up! :D

    Maybe you should update the post above then, maybe it will be understood better :grin: :grin:

    Anyway i already had two of my friends to buy k750s to use this, just promoting it you know, and i preserved the name mobilemail :D

    For cool pop3 service providers, you might want to check HERE

    (Btw, beware of those which require ssl)

    happy to have helped :grin:

  • 59 leo Apr 12, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    OOOh, nice! btw @ neha and kyu, The newest Sony Ericssons do in fact support ssl. (Yup made some research :) )

    Damn, i don’t feel like buying any 3g phone except a sony ericsson now! :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

    i have yet to see a jutsu surpassing this one in mauritius :)

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  • 66 leo Apr 27, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    erm, seems since this morning i cannot get through to the actual server. is it so on your sides too? wap and mms is working just fine for me, its just that the access point soes not seem to work anymore… :(

  • 67 Hans Apr 28, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    @ leo

    sometimes it’s hang-up, I think often Kyu also do have such problems . Have you tried asking him?

  • 68 leo May 2, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    No, this time its more like completely shut off! and when i asked he told me that downtimes occured when gprs is totally unavailable but for me its not the case since i got mms and wap! (well havent tested mms actually but i do have wap!

    …………………

    :s

  • 69 Neha May 16, 2007 at 9:57 pm

    Hello. its been a while ^^
    By the way kyu, for the question you asked me by email, i verified it and yes, it is indeed possible to activate mobilemail on this siemens phone (Sorry, my bad…) Although the wordings for functions are VERY different and the setting up is much more trickier since the phone is not really user friendly and intuitive. (You have to go in the message center to set the data accounts!!) But i think you figured that out already :)

  • 70 Hans May 17, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    @ Neha,

    hi Neha, thanks indeed for your comments. I don’t know whether kyu gonna respond to you quickly since he’s actually on fire with his HSC computing project lol.

    do keep in touch, you can receive email updates when new posts are posted on BlogoSquare :)

    perhaps my blogging tips or sometimes teenagers info might interest you :)

    thanks indeed :)

  • 71 kyu May 17, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    hey thanks :)
    As hans said am working on me proj. right now…

    Yeah i figured out the non user friendliness already. frankly, you need to go to file system rather than settings to change ringtones!

    But after a hard fought nightly battle i managed to install mobilemail plus I also beat some of your would be colleagues (I hate it when tech guys cant do their job…) By setting up the phone for wap while they couldnt overwrite vodafone settings after struggling with the phone ^^:) Lol they even suggested to flash the phone for a sum of money!!!

    fortunately me bro has me to look after those tech matters :)

  • […] SMS at 1cent in Mauritius […]

  • 73 Hi Jun 8, 2007 at 8:40 pm

    :shock: Hw to Active WAP on my mob without going to the showroom of emtel…..N also MMS

  • 74 Anonymous Jun 10, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    hey man i’m a nokia 3250 user.can you help me about how to send msg from cellplus in mail?

  • 75 Hans Jun 12, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    I think you’ll have to make it there since you won’t be allowed access if they don’t activate it from their own servers for your number. You can drop at Port-Louis, Rose-Hill or any showroom’s that might be near to you to get this done.

  • 76 Y@$$ER Jul 2, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    I wanna activate wap on my k310i. I’m an emtel user. Please help!!!

  • 77 Chervine Jul 26, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    :cry: HEY, I’VE TRY TO SEND MYSELF AN SMS FROM YAHOO, BU PUTING MAIL ADDRESS AS : 230number@cellplusmms.mu

    i’M STILL WAITING TO RECEIVE THE SMS….WHY IS HASN’T WORK??

    :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

  • 78 Hans Aug 7, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    @ Chervine

    have you configured your phone as described above. also it’s only from subdomains like co.uk or yahoo.fr that will make this work.

  • 79 :Leo Aug 7, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    @ chervine, most importantly, is mms activated on your cellplus phone? if yes try to send an email from your pc to see if it goes through.

  • 80 jeet singh Aug 14, 2007 at 12:53 pm

    hi there my name is jeet and i want to know how to send the i cent sms through my mobile phone which is nokia 3220
    please advice me :cool:

  • 81 Anonymous Sep 21, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    I ve a Noki3220,tel me how i can send free sms

  • 82 neha Nov 6, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    hello kyu & co. sorry for being late on this one, but it seems the hack has been killed. the sms-email bridging (1111) we were using as a backdoor has been closed (the AP connection still work though)

    my suggestion to java phone owners would be to download opera mini, set it up using the mobilemail access pt, and using it to go to emtelfun to sent the sms. sure not as friendly, but at least it does work for 3 cents per msg.

  • 83 Faryaz Dec 5, 2007 at 10:27 am

    emtel is good

  • 84 Faryaz Dec 5, 2007 at 10:31 am

    hey i need help about the 1cent sms. i dont understand how to fill my setting in my mobile. AND IF ANYONE NEED SOME SECRET CODE FOR MOBILE, CAN ASK ME

  • 85 Faryaz Dec 5, 2007 at 10:39 am

    HEY DIR MOI COMMENT BIZIN ENVOYE FREE MESSAGE LA SVP. AND IF ANYBODY NEED HELP ON MOBILE CAN ASK ME

  • 86 ryaan Dec 5, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    i hav a nokia 6670 and i dnt understand how to mak the settings..can some1 help me??

  • 87 Kyu Dec 5, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    o_O geez, read the other comments guys…

  • 88 ryaan Dec 6, 2007 at 9:55 am

    i hav set all the setting as descriped for yahoo.co.uk…but i cant get access..can some1 help?

  • 89 LoNeLyFiLLe Dec 10, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    hey hi

    well i really n badly nid help koz am unable to understand this, pls do contact mi on my email add.. i really nid this..

    is it possible that i send free sms dpuis mo mobile phone em?.. i wud b sooooooooooooooo greatful to u, if u can really answer mi.. even if am not in mu? well i read all zez comments but still, come di cozer, mo bien sans compren.. lol

    hope to hear u sooooooonn..!!

  • 90 M.j. Dec 12, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    @ all actually i think kyu meant that the email–>sms bridging by emtel is down. well actually i found out it is still up, but the server’s delay is huge (from 20 minutes to 3 hours…) practically it means that your message may take up to 3 hours to reach its destination and you wouldn’t know.

    My best advice for those earning a java capable phone is, as neha suggested, to use opera-mini to go to emtelfun.emtelworld.com and send messages from there.

    As for those wishing to use the email function only through yahoo mail, please ensure you have activated pop3 in the options page. and oh, @ ryaan, not sure yahoo.co.uk offers that, only tested with yahoo.fr…

    (btw @ webmaster, the title of this post is quite misleading imo… i think it should focus more on the “email” aspect, rather than the “1 cent sms”, which is just a byproduct, but i guess this kind of sensational titles gets you more visitors…)

    Anyway, i guess that the time of 1 cent sms is gone now, too bad, but am still happy to have access to my email on my phone.

  • 91 Ally Dec 20, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    tell me who to send email from my pc that i can received on my cellplus mobile what i have to do?

  • 92 KiNG Jan 9, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Yo. The one for cellplus [230….@cellplusmms.mu] works only if the one who receives has mms registered. It works only from emtel to emtel, emtel to cellplus [gives only the other user a pin to enter on their website to read the mesage].

    Does CELLPLUS has another email address for the one who receives to read it as an sms [without telling to go to their site]?

  • 93 YUTYUYU Jan 25, 2008 at 10:32 am

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  • 94 Jaleel-7177780 Mar 13, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Hey can0t set up zis.can u help.plz.c0ntak me at 2307177780.plz taaaa.reply me

  • 95 Zoubeir Apr 12, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    Hello.

    Thanks for all these great info zat u’ve posted. Thsi blog is fantastic.
    I have a nokia 6600, can u please mail me the steps of hw to configure my phone so as to send sms @ 1 cent. I txt a lot so zis wud really help me. I’ll always be thankful to u buddy. Also, tell me how to Bcom a member here. Thanks in advance and looking fwd to hear from u.

  • 96 Rit May 4, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Hi, thanx a lot for the advice and i wanted to know how to check all my messages and call register from my num through internet, thanx in advance, Rit