Responding to incoming call with text message?

[wrzt]

I was wondering if any of you knew a way to auto-respond to a refused incoming call with a text message, letting the caller know that you are busy but have recieved their call or something of that nature (a la Treo 650)? Thanks

[strngdze]

1. Press "space" to access call history
2. Scroll to the appropriate call and press right soft key (Menu)
3. Scroll to "Send Text Message"

There you go....

It's not an auto response, but it's the only option I know of.

[kertsman]

Try this app Mobile Secretary it looks like it will do what you need it to do.

Good luck

[qwho]

Originally Posted by kertsman

Try this app Mobile Secretary it looks like it will do what you need it to do.

Good luck

looks like that's for PPC not smartphone edition. Anyone heard of a smartphone edition out there?

[ZATZAi]

The author says it works on the smartphone in the comments, I'm gonna try it out...

EDIT:

It installed and runs without problem, appears to be run fine and is formated well for the Q, I'll borrow a friends cellphone later to see if it's fully funtional.

[inf3st]

This program isn't working for me. Installs and looks fine but doesn't send the text msg.

[rudeboy]

keep us posted testers as this looks like a nifty little program.

[SimpleBinary]

Yeah, any info on whether this works or not would be great!
Thanks for testing it out!!!

[mad3963]

This may be overkill, but Eye On Call Smartphone Version 0.82 should do what you want.

[ZATZAi]

Mobile Secretary

An automated program (Offered freely by a Microsoft Employee) that allows you to respond to missed phone calls from specific contacts with a text message of your choosing.

YES IT DOES WORK ON THE MOTOROLA Q
Instructions below...

• Install it on the Q (I installed it on the device not the storage card)
• Run the program
• Under group name it will say "<UNKNOWN CALLER>"
• Press the "Menu" softkey, choose "New Group"
• Enter a group name, let's say "Q Test" (You can change it later)
• Press the "OK" softkey
• Press the "Menu" softkey, and choose "Add contact"
• Choose someone on your contact list who has a mobile phone number listed and can call you to test and press the "Select" softkey
• Scroll down to the text entry on the bottom and type in a message, press the center "joystick button" on the Q, aka the select button, to pull up a full page text entry field for easier multi-line entry (Not most SMS messages are limited to 160 characters so leep it short).
• IF YOU PULLED UP THE FULL PAGE TEXT ENTRY... press the "Done" softkey
• Scroll up and check the check-box labelled "Send Message"
• Scroll up to where it says "Disabled" and press Right so it says "Enabled"
• Press the "Done" softkey

Now you can have your friend with the mobile phone who's contact you selected earlier call you. Let it ring till it goes to voicemail, you'll see a Pop-Up from the Secretary program saying it will send a text message, and what that message is, along with a 15 second countdown if you did everything right. Then the screen will go away and your friend will get a text message (It will not appear in the sent folder of your text-messages category in Pocket Outlook).

Note, you create groups for each message you want to send out and then attach peoples contact cards to them. The program will not send a message to someone not on an enabled list (And it will tell you this in the missed call Pop-Up too). It would appear you can have more than one group active at once.

I have not experimented with the program beyond this yet, but it sems to function just fine. These intructions shoud be precise enough for most anyone (Don't skim it, miss a step, and come crying ;-p ), and you should b able to experiment with the rest from here.

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I must say, this App is pretty cool, and the source code is available, I can only wonder what sort of programs it could be a spring-board for....wysiwyg { background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: repeat; background-position: 0% 0%; background-color: #ececec; background-image: none; color: #242424; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal } p { margin: 0px; }