All About Smartphones

Day in day out, people use Apple's iMessage service to get in touch and sending of messages. It becomes very easy to totally rely on this means of communication if all friends are iPhone users. consequently it can become very frustrating and alarming if one can't get messages sent through iMessage as its the case lately after iOS 7 upgrade. This problem is due to Apple servers having a hard time activation the iMessage service on troubled devices. To fix this, the following workaround have been offered. 1. Go to Settings/Messages and then check if the phone number and Apple ID mail address displayed is actually the right one. 2. Sign out of the Apple ID and then sign in back or sign in with a totally different Apple ID if you have another one. 3. Now, once you are signed in, toggle iMessage OFF and then a few seconds and then toggle ON again. 4. If this still fails to solve the iMessage issue, go to Settings/General/Reset  and tap on "Reset Network...

Apple's iMessage messaging service just got spotted on Google Play Store and its available for download for Android devices. Like the name suggest, it allows you to send iMessages to not only Apple devices but also to other Android users that have the app installed. This is actually surprising seeing that the app had been in the store since September 12th according to the information on Google Play Store. Not only that, there are reviews being written which suggests that the app is performing as intended. Jay Freeman, creator of Cydia, a popular Hacker and Developer on the iOS platform has this to say "as far as I can tell the way it works is that the client does directly connect to Apple, but the data is all processed on the developer's server in China. This not only means that Apple can't just block them by IP address, but also that they get to keep the "secret sauce" on their servers (and potentially just run Apple code: there...

Finally, I fixed this issue of not being able to send and receive SMS, including the blank unknown SMS. Few days after I updated iPhone 4 to iOS 6.1 I noticed some sets of Problems with the device. The problems are: 1. I couldn't send SMS and iMessages. 2. Receiving blank SMS from unknown sender . 3. An SMS is being sent constantly to a UK number +447786205094 and being charged for it.  Whether it is an issue with the jailbreak or with iOS 6.1 or even 6.x i don't know.  However, these simple steps outlined below did the trick and solved the problems Step 1 Launch Cydia and let it download its packages. Step 2 Click on search and type in Handcent SMS Step 3 When Handcent SMS shows up, click on it and download to your device. After download, respring springboard. Step 4 Navigate to the Handcent SMS icon on your screen and click on it. All your messages would be displayed. Step 5 Finally, try sending a message and you will notice that it...