How-to: SMS BitPim Exception FIX

I noticed all the hits in the several hours since I posted this....please post and let me know if it worked for you since it did for me! Thanks!

a) after selecting SMS-LG, you get another menu. You did not specify which setting to set to "on".
b) if you are referring to the "SMS Access" switch, I am unable to change the setting to "on". How did you do it?

Sorry about that, I guess my brain was going faster than my fingers. I put the full details in my first post!

made this a how-to - thanks for the info!

No prob....glad I could finally contribute instead of being the one asking for assistance!

birdguy -

Not sure what's up, but I cannot enable "SMS Access". I am not certain if you have actually done it, either. This is because I can indeed "check" the button, but if I return to the item again, it still shows as disabled. Maybe you could check this to verify that yours does take?

If so, I am not sure why mine will not...
If not, I wonder how it appears to fix the problem

Mine does the same thing but once I set it to "on", BitPim now downloads my SMS and I no longer get the Exception Error..

Respectfully, for those of us unfamiliar with accessing LG cellphone menus I submit the following....

You access the Service Menu via the following steps:
Open the phone

Fom the qwerty keyboard type:
##lgservicemenu (TWO pound signs, not three!)
The phone will display:
##5473784236368

Use the "send" on the upper right side of the keyboard. Hit "send"

The phone should display :"Service Menu" and six question marks!
at the : "??????" screen type 000000 (The phone should immediately show the "ServicesLG" menu)

Go to option #4 which is the SMS - LG option, press OK

Select #6 SMS Access and select ON

Select #7 SMS MO Enable and select ON

Hit the CLEAR button TWICE to exit the Service Menu.

I have not had a chance to try connecting to Bitpim, but I am hoping that it works.

Originally Posted by birdguy888

I noticed all the hits in the several hours since I posted this....please post and let me know if it worked for you since it did for me! Thanks!

No, the "fix" did NOT work for me. I followed the steps:
Go to option #4 which is the SMS - LG option, press OK [worked no problem]

Select #6 SMS Access and select ON --- THIS DOES NOT WORK! I cannot select "on" at all! Not even temporarily ( as you suggest in one of your posts). I have tried repeatedly to select "ON" for the SMS access. Nothing happens. I am booted out of the selection as soon as I try to select "on!"

I suspect some Verizon gauleider decided that as long as people could manipulate their own SMS that Verizon was missing a couple of dollars a month and consequently got some things turned off....

I definitely appreciate your information. However, since your phone works and others obviously do not I suspect that sometime during your probably numerous attempts to make things work that you probably made a change elsewhere that allows you to manipulate your SMS. You have already been kind in placing this info out on the net. Could I ask you to check your phone to see if you can possibly find what item you changed that has made the difference for you. I realize that I may be asking you to track down "a needle in a haystack," but if it would not be too much trouble .... could you please