2. Tap ‘Edit’ if you want to remove a profile or ‘+’ if you want to add a new one. If you just need to change your password, you are advised to tap ‘Edit’ then delete the profile, and re-add it again using the ‘+’ button.

If you don’t have an account with any provider listed, just press the ‘Register Now’ button to sign up for free.

“We are aware that a small number of users are currently experiencing difficulties logging into their mymeteor service. We are working to rectify this. Should you wish to update your account, remember that you can always do so through our normal customer care service. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Meteor”

Get in touch if you decide to use this in your app and I will feature your app here on the blog.

It’s simple to use. See below for a code example:

It’s a big release, including the following (all features work on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch):

1. Re-designed user interface for the iPad

Jelly SMS is now compatible with the iPad, using all that extra screen size to give you a better view of your sent messages, delivery reports, and when composing new texts. It’s also now more intuitive to send ‘fast replies’ to your friends.

2. Support for multiple profiles

Have you got more than one phone or voip account that you want to send from? Well now you can add as many profiles as you like. All within Jelly SMS on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

- This lets users define loads of separate accounts, and easily switch between them inside the app.

- For example, you could use this if your partner or friend wanted to borrow your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and send some webtexts, they could simply switch to their O2.ie account, and send texts as if it came from their phone.

- Another reason would be that you might want to use your My-Cool-SMS.com account for sending international texts (very low cost), and then switch back to your Three.ie account for sending free national texts.

3. New ‘Settings’ popover

Now, right within the app, you can define the font, font size, default message signature and various other things.

PLUS:

• Copy sent messages just by tapping and holding them
• Forwarding SMS by Mail now happens within the app itself without exiting.
• Added support for KwtSMS.com including Arabic support
• Better error handling for certain providers
• Fixes and support for iOS 4

First thing to check is if you can access and log into the Vodafone.ie website from your phone (in the web browser). If not, then it is impossible for Jelly SMS to work as it relies on this!

One reason for this could be if you recently changed from PrePay to Bill Pay or vice versa. The Vodafone website can take a few days to catch up while their systems update your account info.

In other cases they have incorrectly configured a customers APN on the server side and you will need to contact Vodafone directly and tell them you cannot access Vodafone.ie from your handset.

You can contact them on their forum here, by email or by Twitter.

Three.ie give users a separate password for “My 3″ and another for the webtext section of their website. You will need to use your webtext login with Jelly SMS, not your ‘My 3″ one.

Q. Using Jelly SMS Desktop, but the program doesn’t launch!

You may need to delete your database files. Simple to do.

Q. I’m with Vodafone Ireland, when I try to send I get a message saying the Vodafone.ie webtext service is currently unavailable.

See here.

Q. How do I use Jelly SMS?

To use Jelly SMS, you first need an account with any one of our supported providers. You can register for new account with My-Cool-SMS.com and purchase credits which you can then use to send low cost SMS from our iPhone, Android or Desktop version of Jelly SMS.

After registering, simply enter your My-Cool-SMS.com username and password when prompted upon login.

Q. I have configured JellySMS with the Caller ID set (my phone number registered with my provider). But when I text people, they are getting a different number on the sender and thus when they reply I am not getting the message. Are there any other reports on this issue and if any, is there any fix for this?

Many customers have report the same issue in his app too. In short, this seems to be an issue with certain voip providers (Betamax) servers and our experience is that their support staff don’t even answer emails about it.

Because of this we’ve decided to advise people who see this problem to change to using a different provider. Note that a lot of the operators supported by JellySMS e.g. voipcheap, voipstunt, voipbuster are all actually the same company operating the same system with different website names (the company behind them is called Betamax), so there is no point in switching to any of those.

Q. There is a problem with sending messages in my language. Do you support Chinese, Arabic, accents and other special characters? Can you help?

Yes. This has been fixed and you can use it in the next version which is currently in review with Apple. However, it only will work with my-cool-sms.com as the other VOIP providers do not have an API for this.

Q. How do people reply to my messages? E.g. if I send someone a message using Jelly SMS, how do they reply to that message?

Q. Can I forward SMS with Jelly SMS?

As stated in the App Store description, Jelly SMS can forward SMS text messages that you send from Jelly SMS. Due to Apple’s restrictions, Jelly SMS cannot forward SMS messages which are stored inside the iPhone SMS app.

Q. Just bought your app for my iPhone. I signed up with one of the providers. I added money to my account and every time I try and send and SMS it’s says to check user name and credit on my account. What can I do?

Let’s try and get this working for you. Can you please do the following:

1. Go to your providers website and log in.

2. Ensure that your credit has been applied to your account by checking the ‘Remaining Credit’ field on the left of the page.

3. On your iPhone, go into Jelly SMS and re-enter your login details. To reenter your login details, just tap on your user id in the title bar in Jelly SMS. Then you can click ‘Edit’ and delete the existing profile. Press the + button and type in your details again. Ensure your username, password are correct and that your provider is set correctly.

4. Try to send the SMS once again.

Q. When typing a message, if you press the backspace key/button on screen, then cursor proceeds to delete all text.

Yes this is a known issue with some iPhones still running 3.0. There is a simple fix described here. I would recommend updating your iPhone to the latest version of iPhone OS which should also fix the issue.

Q. I thought my remaining balance of my sms provider would be shown. Am I missing something?

Yes, after sending first massage the balance is shown in the ‘New Message’ screen.

Additional Information

In addition to the information on the home page, please note the following:

1. Jelly SMS requires an internet connection in order to send SMS text messages. It will work over Wifi, 3G or EDGE data connections.
2. Irish O2 / Vodafone / Meteor / Three users: If you’re in a low coverage area Jelly SMS will send quicker if you turn off the ‘Show Remaining’ preference in Jelly SMS settings.

After a number of rounds of private beta test by a number of kind volunteers, we are delighted to now make the latest beta build of Jelly SMS for Android available to all.

First of all, the disclaimer: this is still beta software, so bugs are to be expected! That said, after having been through a few rounds of testing already, we should have the most major bugs already addressed.

To make sure that we don’t have to support the beta into the future, we have put a time limit on the app. This particular build cannot be used after March 6, 2010. And don’t worry, before that date arrives, we will either provide a new beta or make a full release of the application.

So how do you start saving money sending SMS texts on your Android phone?

• On your phone, open “Settings->Applications”
• Make sure that the checkbox beside the option “Unknown sources” is checked. This allows you to install apps other than those listed in the Android Market.
• Browse to our homepage http://www.jellysms.com using the Web Browser on your phone.
• Click on the “Android (beta)” link.
• Once the download completes, select the Jelly SMS installer in the download history window.
• Select “Install”.

Then launch the Jelly SMS app, create a login profile for your account, and use that login profile to start sending texts… It’s as simple as that!

And here’s a tip: To create a shortcut to your login profile, press “menu” on the main page of the app (the profile selection page), select “Shortcut” and follow the instructions…

Happy texting!

Keith.

Update Feb 2 2010: Reports say that the latest iPhone 3.1.3 allows this to work again but ONLY on factory unlocked iPhones. Thanks to Éamonn for the heads up!

Three Ireland Contract

Vodafone Ireland Contract

Vodafone Live! Ireland

AT&T USA Contract

O2 UK Contract

O2 UK Pre-Paid

T-Mobile UK Contract

Virgin UK Contract

Three UK Contract

Vodafone UK Contract

Rogers Canada

Fido Canada

Note: Do this at your own risk!! I have only tested this on my own device (3G O2 Bill Pay iPhone) and cannot guarantee it will work with yours.

2. Restart the iPhone.

3. Once it restarts, go to Settings > General > Network and turn on tethering.

Done. Now connect your iPhone to the computer. The computer will automatically detect a network connection on the USB port. It just works.

On your Mac / PC turn off your Wi-Fi or unplug your Ethernet to check how it works.

Note: You will need at least iTunes 8.2 or greater installed on all the computers you want to tether with.

There you have it – Irish users get free text messages (O2, Vodafone, Meteor, Three + many others) on your iPhone and iPod Touch or on your Mac/PC with JSMS, and now you can use free internet tethering on the go.

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Use Jelly SMS to send free SMS messages

Now you have tethering!