FreeiSMS new Business edition signed

Hi Ian,

Thanks for letting us know about this app.

Can you tell us how much memory (RAM) it uses? Presumably it must run all the time in order to notify you of new sms messages?

Thanks,

Ash

Good question Ash,

I've had it on my phone, in different versions, for so long that I've never bothered to check it's RAM usage. Mainly because I wanted it so much that I didn't give a monkey's how much RAM it used.

So, in answer to your question, I unhid it from the tasklist and Fig1 shows it in idle mode with my RAM at 41MB. I then used Handy Taskman to close it down and Fig2 shows my RAM at 41.1MB.

So the answer to your question is 0.1MB in idle mode.

To be honest, I've never had a problem with RAM on this app.

[email protected] wrote:It costs 9 € or 12$

Might get this. I've been using the free one (v0.2) for some time now.

i'm just curious if this app takes over the built in text function, meaning that when the homescreen shows "1 New Text" and i press "open" will iSMS open up, or will i have to press "ignore", and then manually open iSMS to read the message? and if i do that, will it clear the new text indicator icon once i read the text in free iSMS? thanks.

I have mine set to automatically open the text in Free-iSMS, although you can set it to do it the N97 way (1 new message received) or an iPhone type notification.

After 1sec of opening (or whatever duration you choose) it shows the text as read and the N97 envelope disappears.

i purchased this yesterday evening, came through at some point during the night, so i installed it this morning.

it is AWESOME! really is a great application, chuffed with it. It does precisely what i wanted it to, you can reply to texts just by typing below the conversation, just like on my wifes SE

still playing around with it at the moment, but so far i am very happy, would recommend it

just one question - how does it work with MMS? when it imported my 'sent' messages, it just showed as 'MMS' in the conversation, i was hoping to see a small thumbnail of the pic with any associated text next to it?

i'm a happy bunny though, just a shame i had to pay for something that Apple/SE users get as standard

When you see "MMS" dislayed just touch it once and then go to Options and select Open message.

As for paying for it when something similar is already on Apple/SE phones then I suppose that can be said of most things, like paying extra to have a car with air/con or leather upholstery.

I think that this app is worth paying the developer for as it offers so much. Thinking about it, I only have 3 paid for app's on my phone, out of a total of about 50 (not including themes and ringtones).

So, on the whole, I think I'm winning.

Is this application available for the S60v3 or touch only?

Ammar_Dento wrote:Is this application available for the S60v3 or touch only?

Free-iSMS is for S60v5 (touch) phones.

Nokia already have a free beta app that is similar for S60v3 phones and is called Conversation which I have installed on my N95 8GB. See here:-

http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/conversation

Read installation instructions vcarefully.

Good luck.

Ian

Bought this on your recommendation as i was already using something called thread sms which does just about the same thing. However this is worlds apart from that!!

Intergrates really well and is smooth and as quick as the system sms package.

Quick question -
On the iphone notification pop up can you change the background of this anywhere?

I can change the font colour but not the background (transparent blue)

My theme is basically black with gold text boxes so the blue one really is out of character!

Anyway good spot on the app - i like you have very few paid apps but this is one that i feel was well worth it. Hopefully the fella who wrote it will develop it a bit more to allow a few more user tweaks.

Ian, looks very nice been wondering about getting something like this for a while and heard good things about Free-iSMS

Couple of Q's

Is this the same as the App in Ovi called "iSMS" by err MMMOOO I think they call themselves? I don't reckon it is but would prefer to buy through Ovi as have been religious buying only through there so as not to expose my handset to any unofficial app problems.

Secondly does it install to the E:? as my C: is perilously close to full well actually it is after Quick Office and I really do have absolutley evrything I can possibly control on E: and I still only have 15MB left so you can see it's a bit tight hem hem.

@snoFlake

yes it installs to e:

i have had absolutely no problems with stability or other issues such as crashing etc

TurtlePower wrote:

Quick question -
On the iphone notification pop up can you change the background of this anywhere?

Glad you like it. The original was good... this is GREAT!

I must say that I don't use the iPhone type notification but as far as I can see, there isn't a way to change the background. I suppose because it's iPhone styled.

snoFlake wrote:
Is this the same as the App in Ovi called "iSMS" by err MMMOOO I think they call themselves? I don't reckon it is but would prefer to buy through Ovi as have been religious buying only through there so as not to expose my handset to any unofficial app problems.

Secondly does it install to the E:? as my C: is perilously close to full well actually it is after Quick Office and I really do have absolutley evrything I can possibly control on E: and I still only have 15MB left so you can see it's a bit tight hem hem.

No it's not the same app, "iSMS", as featured in Ovi Store I'm afraid. I actually prefer to buy direct from the author as recently Pizero updated some of his themes which I had purchased direct from him but were also available bthrough the Ovi Store.

Because he had my email address and original payment details, he forwarded the new version to me free.

However, he could not do this with the Ovi Store clients he told me.

As per my original posting, this app will install on C:, E: or F: and works fine on all of them. Free-iSMS = 396kb and Free-iSMS licence = 1kb.

Derrrrr stupid me (RTFM) was so busy clicking on the video didn't read your post properly - clot.

Many Thanks

Good point about the upgrades outside of Ovi hadn't considered that at all but am still paranoid about stability having got the beastie working mostly and am bored rebuilding it

I can only reiterate TurtlePower's comments on stability as I've had no problems at all.

Have it installed on E:. It doesn't use a great deal of RAM either.

I very rarely use the built-in Messaging now.

There's loads of settings to play with as well, if that makes a difference. 😃

Thanks to Ian for pointing us in the direction of this fab app 😃

Just wanted to add that i've had no problems with running this on my N97, and neither has my daughter on her 5800 😊

how much commission do you think ian gets 😉

I finally purchased this app and it truly is worth it. Its very stable but once in a while i cant back out of a thread and have to kill the app. But that happens very rarely. I use the iphone style and it makes things just so much easier when browsing the web and texting at the same time.

The only thing is there are so many settings to chose i dont know what they all do. I wish there was a tutorial or something.

spirit44 wrote:how much commission do you think ian gets 😉

Same as I get from Maps Booster and Ovi Maps...

Sweet F. A; wish I did though. 🙄

[QUOTE=ironass;460321]When you see "MMS" dislayed just touch it once and then go to Options and select Open message.

Alternatively, When you see MMS displayed give it a "long" press until the floating menu drops down, select "open message" 😉

I've got a few thousand messages on my N97 all saved to the mass memory. My phone has crashed a few times & always loses the messages so I find myself backing up daily as a safeguard.

I've just come across this app, which seems like a great solution but my question is how does the backup work for the messages with this app? Are the messages still stored to the E: and can therefore still be backed up and restored? Is it easy enough to restore these? (as I'm pretty sure my N97 will probably crash again at some point)

How does the thread actually distinguish when a new thread is started? I have lots of messages specifically from one person so do these all fall under one thread or are they split into new threads for each day etc?

How do you get such detailed info?

I have downloaded taskman to trial it and cannot see how much free mem etc I have?

Perhaps too many night shifts are clouding my brain. 🙄

dog-man

dog-man wrote:How do you get such detailed info?

I have downloaded taskman to trial it and cannot see how much free mem etc I have?

Perhaps too many night shifts are clouding my brain. 🙄

dog-man

This is a screen shot of my Handy Taskman showing how much free memory I have.

Although, quite what this has to do with Free i-SMS, I don't know.

Go and have a lie down. :burnout:

has anyone tried this with AdvanceSMS?

in the free version previously, when iSMS was running, custom SMS tones were not played. in essence, it canceled out AdvanceSMS' program