In the latest version of Jelly SMS, I have added a URL scheme which allows other applications to open Jelly SMS and also open a new SMS compose window to a specified number. So if your app contains phone numbers, you could easily allow users to use Jelly SMS as the SMS client on their iPhone or iPod Touch!
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:
Jelly SMS 3.0.0 has been approved by Apple.
It’s a big release, including the following (all features work on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch):
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.
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.
Now, right within the app, you can define the font, font size, default message signature and various other things.
PLUS:
Q. I’m with Vodafone Ireland, when I try to send I get a message saying the Vodafone.ie webtext service is currently unavailable or Login Failed.
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.
You may need to delete your database files. Simple to do.
See here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, after sending first massage the balance is shown in the ‘New Message’ screen.
In addition to the information on the home page, please note the following:
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!
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.
Use Jelly SMS to send free SMS messages
Now you have tethering!
Today, a community of developers in Ireland, bonded by the tag #xcake, have stepped up and donated some of that App Store success in the direction of the Haiti earthquake victims. I have also chipped in €200.
Led by @padraig , the donations are still coming in fast from the likes of dermdaly, vinnycoyne, ConorWinders & fluter. Check out Padraig ’s blog to keep track of it or here to donate:
http://padraig.tumblr.com/post/356029828/eur200-for-haiti-lots-of-other-xcake-folks-like
We’ve been hard at work getting Jelly SMS working on Google Android devices.
We will very soon be offering a private beta version for free to people who sign up to our mailing list here.
It will have many of the great features of our existing iPhone and Desktop versions, with a few new features to boot!
Check out some screenshots below.
Create separate profiles!
Compose window
Extra! Extra! brings the front pages of all the major newspapers from around the globe to the palm of your hand.
Zoom in and read the articles easily. Save your favorites for easy access each morning.
Our second iPhone application called “Extra! Extra!” has been approved and is now available in the App Store.
Extra! Extra! is an amazing app which brings the front pages of all the major newspapers from around the globe to your iPhone and iPod Touch, every day.
The easy-to-use Search feature lets you find your favorite paper by name or by location. 
Tap the Favorites star while reading a front page to save that paper to your Favorites list for easy access each morning.
Check it out now on the App Store
