Picture Mail (MMS) software - Proof of Concept
 

After about 2 days and of neglecting my family and several red bulls and pots of coffee, I've completed the first portion of a new Picture Mail (MMS) program. The program is still EXTREMELY alpha and is only in "Proof of Concept" so far.

Features i've completed:

* Receive Sprint MMS messages
* Process text message and downloads picture
* Displays Picture
* Saves Picture to MicroSD Card


-- I have successfully sent a picture mail from my wife's Verizon cell phone to my cell phone and had it display correctly.

My intent for this software will be a full fledged send and receive MMS program allowing bidirectional MMS messages, Something we've been lacking on the Mogul/Touch.

I will take some screen shots and post them up here in a few and if anyone would like to beta test my software, send me PM and once i get something functional and a little more exception handling entered into the code I will send out some Alpha software.

http://nakedape.biz/screen02.png

Excuse the look, i'm more worried about the functionality before i work on the aesthetics

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sounds pretty cool

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Exciting news Seigex,
If I were you I'd take a moment out developing to get a few things up and running. Slap together a domain with hosting as well as a paypal donate link off the bat so when this blows up (and I believe it will from your description) you can receive some dough for your hard work. Maybe just torrent it to save some bandwidth. Lastly think about if you're going to Public domain or GPL your code.
Best of luck
-kupo

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Yeah all that is in the works. Just a matter of time to get it up.

As a general concensus ... Is there more need out there for a straight MMS program so people can use the SMS program of their choice or would we all be better served with a Threaded SMS program with integrated MMS?

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I'd vote for a straight mms app.
just my 2 cents.

keep up the good work,
dwizzy130

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wow, i'm not even a sprint user, and this seems pretty sweet... revolutionary almost. doing something sprint themselves can't even seem to get together.....
this should be stickied as the finished product gets closer..

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I know T-Mobile does MMS, are there any other services that don't, so I can integrate them in to the app?


And regarding dwizzy's post, Thanks, thats what I'm lookin for.. I'm working on the program with MMS only which was my original idea, but if people want a program that does both, tell me and i'll do it.

My thought was to have a program that receives the MMS's and lets you maintain them ... sorta like a photo gallery.

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I vote for the straight MMS too. Good work this will revolutionize Pic Mail for the PPC Community no doubt. Patiently waiting for this to jump off.

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If you want your application to stand out, You better put Video Mail in it.

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how does this work? does it parse picmail website like smms or does fake auth info so sprint thinks its another phonr

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need help with a today screen

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sorry just read now that this app doesn't send. its a nice trick to parse the incoming link but if this app doesn't send im sorry to say but it aint worth much.

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Nice job, funny you started in the opposite direction from me with sMMS.

I just started the recieving part of sMMS last week, but had to stop working on it to work on the new release of the Composer. Anyway, are you pulling download Messages, Captions, and Subjects too? or just the Images? I'm having a little issue with that part.

But good job.

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Your two apps put together would be great. Even better would be an integration with WM6.1 threaded SMS.

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Is it just me, or do I smell a collaboration effort beginning? :D

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I'm with hippity. If there's a way to integrate it with the 6.1 Threaded SMS, I think that would be my personal preference, but if it's "just" an MMS app, I really can't think of too many people on this planet that could really complain that much.

Excellent work buddy, make sure to let us know when you can start getting paypal donations. I'm sure almost anyone here would gladly donate.

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I don't know maybe. I'll have to hear more about Seigex's plan. I don't plan on integrating SMS into sMMS. But we might be able to collaborate, since I have most of the framework done, and recieving at about 50%.

BTW I have to support Smartphones, I'm not sure if Seigex has that in the plans. Maybe only Touch/Mogul. And I sort of commited to BlackBerry support also.

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Wow harsh, if you read the first post its going to be bi-directional :) As said its only proof-of-concept at this point, I still have alot of work to do.

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As far as SMS goes that was just an idea I threw out there to see what people wanted more, my original plan is no SMS either. For some reason it seams .net 3.5 has an easier time intercepting all SMS instead of putting conditions on it.

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Definitely, intercepting the message is alot easier. You may want to go back to .NET 2.0, I originally had 3.5 as requirement then found out that with 5 minutes of extra work I was able to convert it. The reason I say that is because 2.0 is standard on the Touch and Mogul. And it has been hell helping folks install the .NET runtime, mostly Treo users though.

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Im looking forward to using it.

"Walk This Way!!"

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sounds good, im looking forward to it, preferably in collaboration sMMS.

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Sounds great. You guys keep up the good work. You never cease to amaze me

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wow sounds great looking forward to it and let us know when u get that paypal link working....

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QooL............

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Wow, that is preetty neeeat! Yeah, I was wondering the same thing? How does it work?

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can't wait! Very Nice!

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I say threaded SMS with MMS function!!! We've got a few stand alone "MMS" programs to play with already. Step it Up and put your program on the map! My $0.02.

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I wouldn't bother with another threaded SMS app that doesn't integrate with the OS. WM6.1 has threaded text already and it works perfectly.

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What are you using for your interface?

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I just hope you guys don't spend a lot of time and effort then everyone abandons your programs when Sprint releases the official MMS solution this summer with the update. (This summer, haha right. A guy can hope though)

Just realize that Sprint's program will probably be bare bones. Make yours do lots of cool stuff so people will still want it over the Sprint one.

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im sure itll have more support than Sprints anyways haha

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I really like this idea. I hate how it is now having to open PIE to get my pics. Esppecially since Sprints picture mail site doesn't work with opera. Since PIE is never set as my default browser its a pain. So I hope you guys can get this working well. especially if the two programs merge.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS!?!? I was all jacked up for it on monday and thread has dropped completely dead...

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I am looking forward to the first person that gets mms to send and receive reliably. It's between this one and sMMs, from what I can see.

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Give him a lil time man. Right now we have sMMS to hold us down until they collaborate the two or until he gets done or w/e

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im really looking forward to this i never liked having to go to the sprint website just to look at my pictures.

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When can we Download this app. ?

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great idea!! i wish i knew how to program lol, i would dedicate my life to this freakin place!!

hope to see a Beta soon :)

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I send and recieve true MMS with my Mogul. I wont take any credit for figuring it out, but I am also on the cricket network.