Software which will calculate how mamy minutes left in my calling plan

I haven't tried this,but you can 😃 Minutes Manager and DashFly Minute Manager

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Try www.my-symbian.com. I've come across such a prog there. I'll look it up for you.

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I've got it,it's Minutes Manager 1.1. It may help you, I haven't tried it yet.

teepee,sometimes its ok to read other people posts 😉

I actually work for one of the wireless providers in the US. To save myself some ridicule with providing a name, I will just say that I'm a customer care representative. 😊 I do know though, some information in reguards to your question. You probably won't find any program made to calculate the minutes properly. Here's why.

With EVERY provider, the billing system is unique... All phone manufacturer's make their phones with a built in minute counter because it's a defaulted feature. Way back when, prior to society's outburst of "I Want" and "I Need", all cell phone plans were basic plans. They had a Monthly Service Price and a set amount of minutes. There wasn't anything at the time known as "Nights and Weekends". So each phone was built to count just a total of minutes. As with the provider I work for, even the plans today are Basic Plans with a MRC and a set # of minutes. Only with a contract can you take advantage of the promotions, such as "Nights and Weekends". The phones will always be built with the timers for just total minutes as apposed to seperating Peak and Off Peak minutes because with every provider, it will forever remain a feature or promotion and never a defaulted part of the service.

Another reason is because of Seconds VS. Minutes. As I said in the beginning with each company having different billing systems, because a provider charges by Minute (FCC regulation that requires billing by Minutes instead of Seconds rounded up to the nearest full minute) and the wireless phone counters count by Seconds. Even if the phones were built to distinguish between the two or even if you can build a program that would work simultaneously with the devices different components, it's near programming impossible to make the phone think like a human. There isn't a programming thread that will over ride the Seconds VS. Minutes because in Safe Programs, the string must be consistent in order for it to work flawlessly. If you were to intergrate a part into the string to try and tell the string to "choose" wether it should round up or down (any call placed but not answered within 30 seconds and released by the caller will not be charged for the minute of air time) would cause the string to become unstable, thus causing the program to fail and not provide 100% accurate information.

As a customer service representative for a wireless carrier, I do understand your concern because I try to help people every day with this issue. However, from the information that I know of in reguards to this situation, the solution you seek isn't 100% attainable. If it is, then that man/woman who is able to build the program will be the richest man on the earth! Because I know about every provider has programmers at work all the time trying to break that riddle and this riddle started ages past. Hopefully soon it will be solved. Either that, or hopefully the providers will come to a mutual agreement to all have N/W as default features for their plans, though that would take a unanimous vote, which is not very likely to happen.

Hope this information helps!

😊

EyesOfApollo wrote:I actually work for one of the wireless providers in the US. To save myself some ridicule with providing a name, I will just say that I'm a customer care representative. 😊 I do know though, some information in reguards to your question. You probably won't find any program made to calculate the minutes properly. Here's why.

With EVERY provider, the billing system is unique... All phone manufacturer's make their phones with a built in minute counter because it's a defaulted feature. Way back when, prior to society's outburst of "I Want" and "I Need", all cell phone plans were basic plans. They had a Monthly Service Price and a set amount of minutes. There wasn't anything at the time known as "Nights and Weekends". So each phone was built to count just a total of minutes. As with the provider I work for, even the plans today are Basic Plans with a MRC and a set # of minutes. Only with a contract can you take advantage of the promotions, such as "Nights and Weekends". The phones will always be built with the timers for just total minutes as apposed to seperating Peak and Off Peak minutes because with every provider, it will forever remain a feature or promotion and never a defaulted part of the service.

Another reason is because of Seconds VS. Minutes. As I said in the beginning with each company having different billing systems, because a provider charges by Minute (FCC regulation that requires billing by Minutes instead of Seconds rounded up to the nearest full minute) and the wireless phone counters count by Seconds. Even if the phones were built to distinguish between the two or even if you can build a program that would work simultaneously with the devices different components, it's near programming impossible to make the phone think like a human. There isn't a programming thread that will over ride the Seconds VS. Minutes because in Safe Programs, the string must be consistent in order for it to work flawlessly. If you were to intergrate a part into the string to try and tell the string to "choose" wether it should round up or down (any call placed but not answered within 30 seconds and released by the caller will not be charged for the minute of air time) would cause the string to become unstable, thus causing the program to fail and not provide 100% accurate information.

As a customer service representative for a wireless carrier, I do understand your concern because I try to help people every day with this issue. However, from the information that I know of in reguards to this situation, the solution you seek isn't 100% attainable. If it is, then that man/woman who is able to build the program will be the richest man on the earth! Because I know about every provider has programmers at work all the time trying to break that riddle and this riddle started ages past. Hopefully soon it will be solved. Either that, or hopefully the providers will come to a mutual agreement to all have N/W as default features for their plans, though that would take a unanimous vote, which is not very likely to happen.

Hope this information helps!

😊

Minutes Manager 1.3 from Moov Software takes into account all of the above issues and others to give you immediate and accurate data on how many mintues, text messages, and how much data you have used in the current billing cycle. You can download a free trial here, http://www.moovsoftware.com/mm_home.htm by following the link on the right.