My girlfriend has a SCH-r430 from cricket. I am trying to get it so that I can talk to her while I am at work. I am not supposed to text with my phone. Normally that isn't a problem because I know how to make the emails work as texts and I also use MSN to text too. Nothing seems to be working for this phone though. The only alternative I could think of is an IM client. Is there a decent one for this phone that I can purchase and how would I do that? I don't do much with samsungs. Only BB and Motos.
Question is, Does your service provider support and allow it. Call their customer support and talk to a tech, not a regular customer service person for that answer.
Does the IM option appear anywhere in the phones menu? under "messaging", "connections", "options"?
Thanks for the reply. My girlfriend spoke with a rep and they said that they don't support the whole IM thing. The thing that I don't get is she has unlimited data plan so I should be able to install a 3rd party application that will use the data plan to send and recieve the messages. But I do know that this phone is not java compatible so will that be a problem?
I actually found out why it wasn't working before, you have to send it as a picture message to the email address. So it works for the time being but I would rather have an IM on her phone so I can have instant access to her and know when she is online. Thanks.
RavenStar Posts: 54
Phone Model: BlackJack II SGHi617
Service Provider: AT&T
Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:23 pm
Yes non Java phone won't work with 3rd party software that will require it.
No problem. Take it easy.
blzrd Posts: 3
Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:32 pm
Well At this point I am wondering if there are any Instant message applications that don't require JAVA.
RavenStar Posts: 54
Phone Model: BlackJack II SGHi617
Service Provider: AT&T
Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:11 pm
Sadly, I think not. I haven't run across any. I would say if it's that important, you both should switch to a phone that does.
Rob5 Posts: 46
Phone Model: Samsung INstinct
Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:49 pm
SKYPE
Panya7 Posts: 4
Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:49 pm
Sadly, I think not. I haven't run across any. I would say if it's that important, you both should switch to a phone that does.
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