AFT - Use your free webtexts from your mobile - costs a fraction of a cent per text!

maxitwist · 01-10-2006 6:54pm

where do I get the vodafone version? and do I just transfer it to the application folder in my phone via usb?

Random · 01-10-2006 7:01pm

maxitwist wrote:

where do I get the vodafone version? and do I just transfer it to the application folder in my phone via usb?

When you enter your login details just select Vodafone as your network. It's the same program for all three networks.

What phone do you have?

maxitwist · 01-10-2006 7:12pm

sony v600i

Random · 01-10-2006 7:15pm

I would imange you could just move it into the "other" folder on your phone and then run it from the phone.

maxitwist · 01-10-2006 7:18pm

OK THANKS, I'l go to the first page and the first link and download it now - ya?

Random · 01-10-2006 7:20pm

maxitwist wrote:

OK THANKS, I'l go to the first page and the first link and download it now - ya?

Yeah, they said the link in the first post will always be up to date

maxitwist · 01-10-2006 7:27pm

thought the first page only says mteor & o2

dal · 01-10-2006 8:43pm

maxitwist wrote:

thought the first page only says mteor & o2

The first page does only say o2 and meteor, but this description is not up-to-date (turns out you can't edit your own posts after a certain date).

Anyway, I am gonna bring out a new version of AFT in the next couple of days which is better than the current one whereupon I might start a new thread since a lot has changed since that first post.

Anyway, the current version should work for you on vodafone.

digitaldr · 01-10-2006 10:48pm

Dal I was thinking if you had time you might come up with a way of accessing the directory enquires websites from a mobile - the ones I've tried don't seem to work/load on my K750i?

donutface · 02-10-2006 1:19pm

thats a good idea, the formatting of the results would be a problem.

What directory enquiries sites are you talking about exactly?

dal · 02-10-2006 2:00pm

donutface wrote:

thats a good idea, the formatting of the results would be a problem.

What directory enquiries sites are you talking about exactly?

I like the sound of this; you could basically send a text through AFT (the content of the message being the directory lookup that you needed), have the server do the query work for you and then text you back (using your free webtexts) with the response.
Could work for many other services as well.

Webmonkey · 02-10-2006 2:08pm

Dal you get my email there?

dal · 02-10-2006 2:13pm

Webmonkey wrote:

Dal you get my email there?

Haha, was just in the middle of replying when you posted, I did indeed get it. Thanks for the work on the >160 character feature. Ciaraninfo might also be interested in this for his desktop program (which also uses your server).

yapyap · 02-10-2006 2:28pm

donutface wrote:

thats a good idea, the formatting of the results would be a problem.

What directory enquiries sites are you talking about exactly?

you could try this http://159.134.203.172/search.asp?source=Eircom

or this http://159.134.203.172/dialling_int.asp?source=Eircom

or this http://www.11850.ie/

or this http://www.118.ie/

donutface · 02-10-2006 3:10pm

what if you have like 60 results though, how would the program know which ones to send you?

I suppose I could do it as such that it only sends you names/phone numbers
and if you want to confirm an address you can type in Address <PhoneNumber>

digitaldr · 02-10-2006 4:28pm

yapyap wrote:

you could try this http://159.134.203.172/search.asp?source=Eircom

or this http://159.134.203.172/dialling_int.asp?source=Eircom

or this http://www.11850.ie/

or this http://www.118.ie/

Couldn't get any of these sites to work on my K750i (even if they did the amount of data involved would be costly) and ringing any of the enquiry services from a mobile is very expensive. I was wondering if any one could come up with something along the lines of this http://www.killarneyonline.eu/o2text/

I don't have a clue about programming but I'm guessing that it might be difficult/impossible to return the results to the phone?

Webmonkey · 02-10-2006 4:39pm

digitaldr wrote:

Couldn't get any of these sites to work on my K750i (even if they did the amount of data involved would be costly) and ringing any of the enquiry services from a mobile is very expensive. I was wondering if any one could come up with something along the lines of this http://www.killarneyonline.eu/o2text/

I don't have a clue about programming but I'm guessing that it might be difficult/impossible to return the results to the phone?

Nothing is impossible but i'm wondering why you are referring to http://www.killarneyonline.eu/o2text/

. Thats what AFT uses for o2.

By the way anyone using the o2text thing there, you can now send over 160 chars (multiple texts in one go)

Blackdragon · 02-10-2006 5:11pm

EvilMonkey wrote:

Blackdragon did you email info@meteor.ie or is their an email address for customer services? I am using aft on a SE k750i and am being charged 2c per txt. Do i just ask them to enable isp on my account and send me the settings? Great app by the way :cool:
Also (some people with sonyericsson phones may be interested in this) i sometimes use bluetooth to use my home broadband for WAP\gprs access link more info here i usually use it for using opera mini/eMSN at home. Any chance of getting aft to work with this, i tried it and i get an error.

Yes info@meteor.ie is the only one im aware of.... From there they will pass on your email to there tech department as they wont have a clue what your requesting:)

yapyap · 02-10-2006 6:19pm

yapyap wrote:

Tested again last night on V3 (ROHS) ....can't access the phonebook on handset

Messing with it again and found by accident that when the app menu asks for lookup, instead of pressing right hand soft key, if yu press the centre select of the 4-way navigation hey presto, the phone book pops up.

It doesn't show up in alphabetical order like when you press contacts normally but is a great help

digitaldr · 02-10-2006 8:37pm

Webmonkey wrote:

Nothing is impossible but i'm wondering why you are referring to http://www.killarneyonline.eu/o2text/ . Thats what AFT uses for o2.

Sorry as I said I don't really have much of a clue about this kinda stuff:) I reckoned that http://www.killarneyonline.eu/o2text/ allows access to the 02 webtext service in a stripped down way and was thinking that a similar page could be written to access one of the directory enquiry sites. Then maybe an app could be developed to make things a bit easier. Hope I explained it ok!

donutface · 02-10-2006 9:10pm

Ok guys I wrote some code to screenscrape www.118.ie but Im still stuck for a way to present the results. At the moment it only gets the first 7 results max from the site, but this is still too much to fit into a 160 character text message.

This is what the results look like

Caulfield Supervalu
Merchants Qy, CORK, CORK
021 4905584

Musgrave Supervalu Centra Ltd
Tramore Road, CORK, CORK
021 4803000

Ryan Liam : Supervalu Supermarket
Togher, CORK, CORK
021 4313268

Supervalu
COBH, CORK
021 4908340

Supervalu
DOUGLAS, CORK
021 4890330

Smarttelecom At Supervalu Cobh
COBH, CORK
021 4811988

L & N SuperValu
Main Street, CHARLEVILLE, CORK
063 81301

Cronins Supervalu
120 Main Street, MALLOW, CORK
022 21159

Anyone have any ideas on how to narrow that down, obviously all the details would be required. (The search I performed was Supervalu, Cork).

Sam Vimes · 03-10-2006 10:12am

you could put as many as will fit into a text and the person can get the next set if they don't find the result in the first one.

they could submit:

supervalue, cork

for the first few results

2, supervalue, cork

for the next few

and so on

most results will be in the top few hopefully so people won't have to receive more than one message most times

or you could just make a GPRS page or java applet that accesses 118.ie and returns the results with a simple text interface. that would get around the 160 char limit but make it a bit more hassle to use

just some ideas. you'll probably think of something better yourself

donutface · 03-10-2006 1:01pm

I like that idea, that could probably work.

The other idea I had is the more details you put in the location, the less itll put in the address
IE say you put Cork, Cork in the location
instead of responding with

Musgrave Supervalu Centra Ltd
Tramore Road, CORK, CORK
021 4803000

It will only respond with

Musgrave Supervalu Centra Ltd
Tramore Road
021 4803000

But implementing that might be difficult. Ill see how it goes

Random · 03-10-2006 2:47pm

donutface wrote:

I like that idea, that could probably work.

The other idea I had is the more details you put in the location, the less itll put in the address
IE say you put Cork, Cork in the location
instead of responding with

Musgrave Supervalu Centra Ltd
Tramore Road, CORK, CORK
021 4803000

It will only respond with

Musgrave Supervalu Centra Ltd
Tramore Road
021 4803000

But implementing that might be difficult. Ill see how it goes

That looks promising, if you can write the smartcode

paulshir · 03-10-2006 10:12pm

Just wondering if aft user is up and running yet

Random · 03-10-2006 10:15pm

Any plans to add an option to NOT save sent msgs too? It seems impossible to even delete them?

donutface · 03-10-2006 11:13pm

The Fort wrote:

Just wondering if aft user is up and running yet

aftuser is up and running but the client has to be fixed in order to use it properly. The new version was meant to come out today, but looks like it will be out tommorow. Thats when I should have the directory enquiries service up too hopefully.

dal · 03-10-2006 11:54pm

donutface wrote:

aftuser is up and running but the client has to be fixed in order to use it properly. The new version was meant to come out today, but looks like it will be out tommorow. Thats when I should have the directory enquiries service up too hopefully.

Yep apols guys, taking a little bit longer than expected. I will put up the new version tomorrow night.

>> CiaranInfo. There will be a new implementation of this in the next version (the one coming out tomorrow).

Random · 04-10-2006 12:03am

dal wrote:

Yep apols guys, taking a little bit longer than expected. I will put up the new version tomorrow night.

>> CiaranInfo. There will be a new implementation of this in the next version (the one coming out tomorrow).

Great work dal

byrnefm · 04-10-2006 9:12am

Commander Vimes wrote:

this should hopefully work:
save this as a bookmark so you don't have to type it each time:

http://texter.awardspace.com/
t.php?u=08xxxxxxxx&p=1234&n=met

As a precursor to trying out the jar version (which I don't know if it will work, I've a Vodafone V1240), I tried out the version above, which worked fine for me! Shame I can't store an address book but it's still pretty neat - and cheap for sending texts abroad

There seems to be a problem on the O2 website (again) so I can't check my Account details (but can log in), so I don't know yet how much my 'free' text cost me!

AFT - Use your free webtexts from your mobile - costs a fraction of a cent per text!

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