Simple hack provides unlimited SMS on T-Mobile
By Marc Perton 
posted Feb 3rd 2005 8:30AM
posted Feb 3rd 2005 8:30AM
If you're a T-Mobile customer and SMS junkie, there's apparently an easy way to get unlimited SMS service by switching your default sending options from GSM to GPRS. Of course, given that T-Mobile only charges $6.99 a month for 1,000 messages, you have to be really frugal, really into SMS or really addicted to trying out new hacks to do this (for the record, we fall into the third category, so don't go calling us cheap). We're assuming this violates the terms of your user agreement, and that T-Mobile is working on a way to thwart it, but for now, here's your chance to become an SMS spammer.
[Thanks, Chris]
seems like this is a usa thing only, i have been tring over here in holland but keeps refusing to send message, bugger!
I have no clue how to do this
on my a630.
This is totally old news.. Not news at all actually. This has been talked about on hofo for years.
Frank here, reporting from the good ol' US of A, and I can't find a damn thing about this on my v600.
Did anyone even attempt to qualify this hack?
I'm going to try this when my SMT5600 arrives... I want to use it to sync wirelessly with my Exchange 2003 server, but apparently it uses SMS under the hood - which means that I can definitely go WAY over 1,000 per month!
its very easy to do on a sony erricsson
connectivity-->data comm---> sms access
doesnt work in the uk, however
my t610 doesn't have an sms menu under connectivity->data comm. It only has data accounts.
unfortunately this loophole is only known to exist for US GSM carriers.
Frank there have been a few readers on UES who have confirmed that this loophole does indeed exist. it doesn't work on all accounts. the main things to check are that your GPRS connection is always set on and that the sms preferred carrier is set to GPRS.
I'm hoping this avoids the international SMS charges TMobile has started. Those _really_ bother me... especially how they just turned it on without notification. ..and how they charge them no matter which SMS plan you have with TMobile. Its more economical to NOT have an SMS plan with TMobile if you use international SMS.
I cant get it to work on my v600 either
Great, i hope the exploits of cell TMO users screw us unlimited plan blackberry users again like they did when they got all our ports closed.
Just a wild guess, but I'm betting that T-Mob won't care much if the SMS traffic is routed over their barely used GPRS network rather than through their congested SMPP gateway.
any way to do it on cingular motorola v551?
The carrier must have a GPRS enabled SMSC in order to use this feature (and it's still a SMS). And i wouldn't advise the use of this in roaming cases, considering the high cost of the roaming data
#9, complain to the FCC about T-Mobile's new fee. I did. T-Mobile's marketing is completely misleading, becuase it says "300, 1000, or unlimited text messages for $X" but they charge you extra for international texts (which they didn't do before).
Go to fcc.gov and find the complaint form.
Charging for SMS has always been utterly ridiculous, you all ready pay for the packets in time charges and then some. This is just carriers blatantly ripping off the ignorant public, it's all just data.
Besides, claiming that doing this provides "free unlimited SMS" is not technically true. T-mo (and most GSM carriers) give you X number of messages per month, both sent and received-- they deduct one for sending, and one for receiving-- and then charge something like 5c after you use those up. That's 5c to send and 5c to receive. The SMS-over-GPRS trick ONLY effects SEND, so you still get "charged" for receiving SMS! But then again, those of us using T-Mobile To Go (prepaid) have it made, because they charge prepaid customers 10c to send an SMS, and don't charge to receive.
in australia, we pay 25c to send an SMS, free to recieve.
we don't get any deals like $9 a month for 1000 :<
that would be awesome.
desco.. cingular offers free incoming messages so if a customer happens to get this working on their account then they would get incoming and outoing free.
technically i should have mentioned that users will still be charged for incoming.. unless of course you're on tmo to go.
I tried to set my SMS to GPRS, but got CHARGED TWICE INSTEAD, NOT TRUE!
Haha that was an easy, neat trick.
Does it bypass the internation fee?
Anyone know?
Just a note on T-Mobile unlimited txt messages. It's not an always thing, its a promotion that comes and goes. It ended Jan 31st though it'll probably start up soon again. However, if your a new customer you can normally talk the CS rep into adding it but its showing up in the system as 9.99 instead of the 6.99 it was previously.
Still, considering it takes about 15 days to send 2,000 messages with AIM (not even counting receiving) it pays for itself quickly.
OK, so can someone PLEASE tell me exactly how to set this up on my cell phone. Some info - I am a US customer of T-Mobile, and I own a Motorola V600. Currently I send a LOT of international SMS's and have been paying 70 to 80 bucks a month just for International SMS. That more than my actuall cell bill without the SMS... Have not been able to find any option on the V600 that allows me to change the sending option from GSM to GPRS!!! Help
i have a motorola v600 i need to know how to flash to t0mobile software
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would u help me to do like that.
thank!
hello
i have a t-mobile prepaid account and its 10cents to send free to recive and i use aim a lot so i want to swich from GPS to GPRS so i can have unlimited SMS but i dont know how to do that i have a Mototola V330 same as V300 and is there anyway to explain how to set it on GPRS, PLEASE!!!! SOMEONE HELP!
THX