Printable User Guide

What is SMS Anywhere?
SMS Anywhere can forward incoming and outgoing SMS between mobile phones.

• If you have two or more mobile phone numbers and you hope to handle SMS for all numbers with only one phone - SMS Anywhere gives you the answer.
• When you travel to another country, you perhaps would like to have a local mobile number in that country. However you don't want to miss the messages sent to your original homeland mobile number. - SMS Anywhere is a good solution in this case.
• If you are a detective or a policeman, you can use SMS Anywhere to monitor the incoming and outgoing messages on the suspect's mobile phone. Please be aware such behavior might be illegal in your country. We suggest you to check local laws before using SMS Anywhere for such case.

SMS Anywhere is a service daemon runs on Symbian S60 mobile phone. It starts up automatically when the phone is switched on. It does not have any GUI (Graphics User Interface) or application icon so you can't see it on phone menu.
You may ask "How I can control it?" The answer is SMS again. You control the software by sending commands via SMS to it. No doubt, you can control the software remotely from other phones.

Let us take the following example.
You will travel to another country. So you put your original mobile phone at home and have SMS Anywhere software installed on the phone. When you arrive to destination place and then you get a local mobile number 88888888, you send a short message to your original phone in a pre-defined format with a password (we will mention the format and password in detail latter) to require SMS Anywhere to forward SMS to your new temporary local number 88888888.

From now on, all SMS send to your original cellular phone will be forwarded by SMS Anywhere to your temporary number 88888888 automatically. Of course you can change your temporary number at anytime.

Important Features

• Forward and log all incoming and outgoing text messages.
• Forward and log incoming and outgoing text message which is from/to a specific number.
• Set a "black" number which will NOT be monitored.
• Recording incoming and outgoing SMS which is from/to a specific number to a text file on the phone.
• Upload SMS log file to a pre-defined FTP server via GPRS/WCDMA.
• No GUI or application icon on phone menu.
• No sending indicator (the up arrow icon) displayed on screen when forwarding.
• Message is not displayed in outbox in any case.
• Does not appear in Application Manager or a customized name is displayed.
• Controlled remotely at any time.
• Support all SMS encoding. (UCS2/GSM7Bits/8Bits)
• Starts up automatically upon phone boot.
• Forwarded messages are not displayed in sentbox.
• Delivery report of forwarded messages is removed.
• Information about original message sender/receiver is included in forwarded message.
• Record of forwarded messages is removed from phone database.
• The original incoming and outgoing messages are deleted automatically after they got forwarded. The feature is configurable.

SMS Anywhere Commands
SMS Anywhere starts up automatically when the mobile phone is switched on. It runs as a system service in background. To configure and control SMS Anywhere, you need to send some specific text SMS to it. These specific SMS are defined as SMS Anywhere commands.

SMS Anywhere commands are formatted as the pattern below:
SA[password][white space][action][parameter]

[password] is a text password of 8 characters. Each character can be any letters, digits or symbols. The default password is 12345678. We strong recommend you to change the password immediately after you install SMS Anywhere. Commands with incorrect password will not come into effect.

[white space] is a white space character.

[action] and [parameter] are used to configure and control SMS Anywhere behavior. The following table gives all supported actions and parameters and corresponding behaviors. For more detail please refer to software user guide.

Some command examples (assume the password is 12345678):

• To change the password to "abcdefgh", you should send command:
  SA12345678 Pabcdefgh
• To set the forwarded number to +448888888888, you should send command:
  SA12345678 D+448888888888
• To set SMS Anywhere to forward outgoing messages, you should send command:
  SA12345678 S1
• To turn off the SMS Anywhere service, you should send command:
  SA12345678 OFF

NOTE:
Any short message starts with "SA???????? " (? stands for a character) is considered as a SMS Anywhere command and will not be forwarded.
SMS Anywhere command messages are deleted from inbox automatically. No "New SMS Received" prompt box displays on the phone.

The default configuration for SMS Anywhere is as below:

• Default password is 12345678.
• The service is ON.
• Forwarded number is empty. (You must set a forwarded number by yourself.)
• Forward incoming SMS.
• Do not forward outgoing SMS.
• Do not delete original incoming and outgoing SMS.

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