02 Text delivery reports

I have a D800 and have text delivery reports enabled but receive nothing. I
am new to 02 and to the phone.
SO,
1. Does 02 support text delivery reports
or
2. Is my D800 not working correctly

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"KerplunKuK" <[email protected][dot]uk> wrote in message
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>I have a D800 and have text delivery reports enabled but receive nothing.
>I am new to 02 and to the phone.
> SO,
> 1. Does 02 support text delivery reports
> or
> 2. Is my D800 not working correctly
>
> Thanks
> --

Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
report.
Hope that helps

Patchy

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:50:00 +0100, "Patchy The Pirate"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"KerplunKuK" <[email protected][dot]uk> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>I have a D800 and have text delivery reports enabled but receive nothing.
>>I am new to 02 and to the phone.
>> SO,
>> 1. Does 02 support text delivery reports
>> or
>> 2. Is my D800 not working correctly
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>
>Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
>at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>report.
>Hope that helps
>
>Patchy
>

It's not that they're funny, it's that they're not directly supported.
The *0# combination is actually a GSM network code used for tracking
SMS delivery, a bit like a network ping, and nothing to do with O2
themselves. Can be useful if you need an accurate time of delivery,
as it gives more detailed information that the network acknowledgement
of delivery that you're used to.

Note, on Nokias you must have the option for delivery reports set to
Off for the code to work; not sure about other handset brands

I use a nokia 6230i and have delivery reports set to on and the *0# at the
start of the message works perfectly well.


"ƧØÞ" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 22:50:00 +0100, "Patchy The Pirate"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Note, on Nokias you must have the option for delivery reports set to
> Off for the code to work; not sure about other handset brands

Patchy The Pirate wrote:

> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
> report.
> Hope that helps

Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
bugs me about them.

On 10 Jul 2006 06:34:00 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>
>Patchy The Pirate wrote:
>
>> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
>> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>> report.
>> Hope that helps
>
>Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
>way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
>bugs me about them.


Nope there not
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"Leithie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I use a nokia 6230i and have delivery reports set to on and the *0# at the
>start of the message works perfectly well.

Well they never used to. If you think about it, the delivery reports set to
'on' would send the alternative delivery report code at the start of the
message, so it would over-write your *0# that you had entered at the start
of the message.

They've obvioulsy now configured things so the alternative delivery code at
the start is ignored.

"BORG" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 10 Jul 2006 06:34:00 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>>Patchy The Pirate wrote:
>>
>>> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your
>>> phone,
>>> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>>> report.
>>> Hope that helps
>>
>>Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
>>way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
>>bugs me about them.
>
>
> Nope there not

It saves them bandwidth. If you want a delivery report, you really have to
think about it. Most people I know on orange leave the setting on all the
time, think of the extra messages required to inform people of delivered,
etc.

In message <[email protected]>,
[email protected] writes
>Patchy The Pirate wrote:

>> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
>> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>> report.
>> Hope that helps

>Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
>way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
>bugs me about them.

I recall several years ago someone who appeared to be 'in the know' said
they were going to, but it hasn't happened. And I don't really see that
changing.

Dunno about other phones, but the Nokias I use handle standard delivery
reports in a very poor way. I sent some text messages to a friend in
Ghana via T-Mobile. A few days later I had lots of messages back saying
they were undelivered and listing his number. But no indication of
which messages weren't delivered. At least using *0# on O2 I get the
first few words of my original message in the delivery report.
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:27:57 GMT, "Robert"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>think of the extra messages required to inform people

So what? They go down the control channel when it has nothing better
to do.

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"Robert" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Leithie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I use a nokia 6230i and have delivery reports set to on and the *0# at the
>>start of the message works perfectly well.
>
> Well they never used to. If you think about it, the delivery reports set
> to 'on' would send the alternative delivery report code at the start of
> the message, so it would over-write your *0# that you had entered at the
> start of the message.
>

It used to be random back in the day! They may have fixed that now.

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:27:57 GMT, "Robert"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>think of the extra messages required to inform people
>
> So what? They go down the control channel when it has nothing better
> to do.

If it was going to do them any good, they would enable it, wouldn't they.

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:23:18 +0100, Martin Jay
<[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] writes
>>Patchy The Pirate wrote:
>
>>> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your phone,
>>> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>>> report.
>>> Hope that helps
>
>>Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
>>way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
>>bugs me about them.
>
>I recall several years ago someone who appeared to be 'in the know' said
>they were going to, but it hasn't happened. And I don't really see that
>changing.
>
>Dunno about other phones, but the Nokias I use handle standard delivery
>reports in a very poor way. I sent some text messages to a friend in
>Ghana via T-Mobile. A few days later I had lots of messages back saying
>they were undelivered and listing his number. But no indication of
>which messages weren't delivered. At least using *0# on O2 I get the
>first few words of my original message in the delivery report.
It is a pity that the phone manufacturers don't build in a facility to
auto send the code along with the message or, alternatively, to paste
it in automatically, at the beginning of the message text, when set to
do so.
Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.

In message <[email protected]>, Brian A
<[email protected]> writes
>On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:23:18 +0100, Martin Jay
><[email protected]> wrote:
>>Dunno about other phones, but the Nokias I use handle standard delivery
>>reports in a very poor way. I sent some text messages to a friend in
>>Ghana via T-Mobile. A few days later I had lots of messages back saying
>>they were undelivered and listing his number. But no indication of
>>which messages weren't delivered. At least using *0# on O2 I get the
>>first few words of my original message in the delivery report.

>It is a pity that the phone manufacturers don't build in a facility to
>auto send the code along with the message or, alternatively, to paste
>it in automatically, at the beginning of the message text, when set to
>do so.

Well, there is a mechanism built into the GSM specs for delivery
reports, so I suppose manufacturers have built that facility in already.

Some phones have an editable list of pre-set templates. You may be able
to use one of them for sending message beginning with *0#.
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"Martin Jay" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In message <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] writes
>>Patchy The Pirate wrote:
>
>>> Delivery reports on O2 are funny, instead of enabling them via your
>>> phone,
>>> at the start of every message type *0# and that will give you a delivery
>>> report.
>>> Hope that helps
>
>>Does anyone know if they have any plans to support the conventional
>>way? I've been with o2 for 6 months and its the only thing that REALLY
>>bugs me about them.
>
> I recall several years ago someone who appeared to be 'in the know' said
> they were going to, but it hasn't happened. And I don't really see that
> changing.
>
> Dunno about other phones, but the Nokias I use handle standard delivery
> reports in a very poor way. I sent some text messages to a friend in
> Ghana via T-Mobile. A few days later I had lots of messages back saying
> they were undelivered and listing his number. But no indication of which
> messages weren't delivered. At least using *0# on O2 I get the first few
> words of my original message in the delivery report.
> --
> Martin Jay
> Phone/SMS: +44 7740 191877
> Fax: +44 870 915 2124