Day: June 19, 2007

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Today’s Technote – Motorola v3xx hidden feature

The Motorola v3xx has a "hidden feature," an easter egg if you will…ok, it’s a bug! At least it seems like a software defect. If the combined number of messages in the inbox and outbox exceed something like 300 messages, then the Motorola v3xx will quit sending SMS text messages and will default to sending MMS messages. This creates a problem for people trying to send to services like Twitter or to people with phones which cannot receive multimedia messages. The solution is simply to clear out your inbox and outbox.

The combined time spent rummaging through menus and comparing settings between the working phone and the bizarre phone, calls to tech support, and surfing the web for an answer well exceeded 3 hours over the course of many days. I’d like that time back please.

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Like quicksand!

So today began with me frantically trying to complete one project so that I could try to finish another critical project and was interrupted with a client emergency which was put on hold until tomorrow. Part of wrapping up project 1 involved getting the data and structure out of a MS SQL 2k database and into a MySQL 5.03 database. Jumped some hoops on that one. The MySQL GUI Tools are fantastic! I still prefer SQLyog for developing queries since it uses the same shortcuts as MS Query Analyzer. Next I had to figure out how to get my CFMX7 server to actually connect a data source to the MySQL server.

Long and short I had to download the mysql-connector-java-5.0.6.zip then put the jar into the web-inf/lib directory. The CFservice had to be restarted of course. Worked like a charm!

Devpapers.com was invaluable although I skipped most of those instructions.

Ended up on a long tech support call trying to figure out why my Motorola v3xx has quit sending SMS text messages and will only send MMS messages. Seems the answer may be to empty everything from the inbox and outbox. That will take some doing!

Time to do more programming. What I’d really like to do is settle in with a scotch and a book or a movie and talk to Cathy.