Saturday, August 22, 2009

Send SMS via Pidgin

Good news everybody. Now, Pidgin 2.6.0 and above will be able to send SMS messages and it's working in Indonesia also. At first, i thought it will only work in some countries (excluding Indonesia), but in fact, i just tried to send it to my own number (i'm using Telkomsel's Simpati card) and it's working.

I received a text message from 4246002 and i think it's the global carrier. It will have the format nickname: text message.

If you want to send text message via Pidgin, use Buddies > New Instant Message. Enter your buddie's phone number in form of
+<country code><phone number>
For example: +62123456789

Thanks to Sulabh Mahajan who implemented this feature on Pidgin 2.6.

We are looking for more features in Pidgin love struck

PS: i only test it on Telkomsel. You might try to test it on other operators.

Update (8:44 AM): It works on XL and Three (3). Thanks to Regina
Update (8:47 AM): It works on IM3. Thanks to Bobby
Update (8:54 AM): It works on Mobile-8 (Fren). Thanks to my Mom
Update (9:24 AM): It works on Indosat. Thanks to my Feha

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:46 PM

    Sepertinya cuma untuk akun Yahoo! ya Mas, saya coba pakai akun bonjour gak bisa

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  2. saya cuba ke no im3-ku gak berhasil; ke no xl temen juga gak; tapi ke beberapa no telkomsel lancar
    err-nya :
    [kirim ke no XL] :
    Cant send SMS, Unable to obtain mobile carrier

    [kirim ke no im3] :
    Nomor ini telah memilih untuk tidak menerima pesan teks.

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  3. saya cobain bisa tuh
    mungkin nomor tertentu aja yg gak bisa atau emang dia minta untuk tidak diaktifkan sms internasionalnya

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  4. wah pidgin semakin mantabs saja... thanks to the develop.. go opensource..

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  5. permisi mo tanya neh mas saya pake pidgin 2.5. cara updatenya gimana di ubuntu 9.04?

    trims sebelumnya

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  6. pake sudo apt-get upgrade-all

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  7. wah, udah gak bisa ya mas..
    barusan saya coba ke indosat ..tapi ada error nya

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