Support

Please do not comment this page for getting support - please write me an email (deraills at googlemail.com), or - preferred - use the Issue Tracker on this site, as I don't get a notice that someone commented the page. If the question/the problem seems to be worth of a FAQ entry, I will do so and add a FAQ section.

Some notes:

• !!! If you encounter that your texts stay queued, please check alternative sending in the config app on the phone!!!
• You find the IP address in the notification bar entry if Wifi Service is running
• The phone numbers of the contacts of to be of type "MOBILE" to be shown in the address book. Contacts without a mobile number will not be shown
• Click the contact to add its default number OR click the number of a contact if more than one is shown to add the selected one
• Right click the tray icon to end/stop the bluetooth helper app properly
• French tutorial: http://www.mb-blog.fr/2010/08/18/envoyer-des-sms-depuis-sont-pc-via-son-smartphone-android/
• For Wifi: If possible, assign a name in your router setup to the phone, and assign a static ip address for the phone in the dhcp config of your router

Introduction

Web Client for SMS - Instructions

• Download and install the app from the market
• If you want to use bluetooth, also download the helper app from the download section of this project site
• Extract the archive of the helper app to a directory of your choice

Details

How to get a connection:

By wifi

• Enable Wifi
• After Wifi successfully connected, service will start automatically
• Open a browser on your pc, mac, ...
• Navigate to http://<ip adress of your android device>:2511/index.html
• Example: http://192.168.1.5:2511/index.html
• If your device has a name assigned by your wifi router, try e.g. http://nexus:2511/index.html
• Starting with Version 1.5: you can find the ip address in the notification bar if easy sms service is running
• Please note: if app gets installed while Wifi is already connected, you must once disconnect wifi and reconnect so the app will receive a notification and service will start. Only needed once. OR: start service manual in app.

OR

By usb

• Enable usb debugging on the phone
• You need the Android SDK installed und USB drivers installed (Download http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
• Plug in usb
• Please verify that drivers are installed correctly - see Screenshots in download section (http://androideasysms.googlecode.com/files/USB_Screenshots_Driver.zip) for help
• Open a shell, execute "<path of sdk>\tools\adb -d forward tcp:2511 tcp:2511"
• Please see Screenshots in download section (http://androideasysms.googlecode.com/files/USB_Screenshots_Forward.zip) for help
• Open a browser on your pc, mac, ...
• Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:2511/index.html
• Please note: if app gets installed while USB is already plugged in, you must once plug out usb and plug in again so the app will receive a notification and service will start. Only needed once. OR: start service manual in app.
• The command "adb forward ..." has to be entered every time after you have connected your phone by usb

• Please see this documentation for further help about the usb driver: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html
• For further information about adb: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
• For more details about the android sdk: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

OR

By Bluetooth

• Download the helper application (see Downloads)
• Enable Bluetooth and get your MAC address of the phone (Settings->Phone Info->Status->At the end of the list: Bluetooth Address, something like AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF)
• PAIR your device with the PC/Mac: computer and phone must be successfully paired! Only a paired computer device may access the EasySMS Bluetooth Service on the phone.
• Start the helper application on your PC:
• Needs Java 1.6
• Open a shell/cmd prompt
• Change to directory where application unzipped
• Enter (without ") : "startbt.bat MAC PORT TIMEOUT"
• MAC = the MAC address of your phone, without the :, e.g. AABBCCDDEEFF
• PORT = the local port where the browser will connect to, e.g. 2511
• TIMEOUT = time after which the Bluetooth connection will be stopped, e.g. 60
• Once the application has started, you can connect from your brower to http://localhost:PORT/index.html
• Bluetooth connection will be created automatically as needed and killed after the timeout
• Tested with widcomm bluetooth and Windows winsock stack
• Uses the BlueCove Java Bluetooth for the helper application
• See http://code.google.com/p/bluecove/ Project site for further information and help on which devices/os the BlueCove Java Bluetooth can be used
• You could start the helper application in background by using javaw instead of java and hardcoding mac, port and timeout in the batch file