Desktop SMS alerts & replies

[mattdp]

Hi,

Got a new Galaxy S2 a couple of days ago, upgrading from a Symbian smartphone. Loving it so far but there's one feature I used to have that I'm missing a great deal - desktop integration with SMS text messages.

The symbian desktop suite alerted you to any text messages that came in to your phone while it was connected, and you could type and send a reply using the keyboard. I get a lot of texts at work but I listen to music on my headphones and don't always hear them so this functionality was fairly essential to me.

Samsung Kies doesn't seem to offer this (as well as being fairly unstable). So is there any way I can have my phone deliver alerts to my desktop when I get messages? And preferably reply to them with the keyboard too?

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Dalby]

I've just come over from a Nokia N8 and am trialling MyPhoneExplorer and Kies Air. I'm favouring MPE at this time.

 

[linuxrich]

I've not tried it personally, but you might want to look at AirDroid.

 

[mattdp]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. But right away, there seems to be problems with all of them.

AirDroid seems to be WiFi only - I need it to work via USB.

Kies Air is *supposed* to support WiFi and USB but when I start it, it keeps asking me for a WiFi network and there doesn't seem to be a USB connection option. Since it's browser based I'd also be surprised if it will actually alert me to incoming messages while I'm doing something else.

MyPhoneExplorer requires USB debug to be active. That stops me transferring files too and from the phone with windows explorer and has an odd clash with my desktop music player which keeps trying to read it as a drive.

It'd be nice to see Kies Air working, not sure why it won't. Any other ideas?

 

[DVDKevster]

If you use Chrome Browser, the MightyText app/extension is worth checking out

 

[Andima]

I think "MyPhoneExplorer" has that ability. It can read, send, draft SMS. As well as backup them. Using this application you can control many things in your Android phone.

Download PC client- FJ Software Development

Download android client https://market.android.com/details?id=com.fjsoft.myphoneexplorer.client

MyPhoneExplorer how to guide Manage Android Phone Using Windows Computer [MyPhoneExplorer Review With How To].

 

[mattdp]

After a bit of fiddling, got things set up more as I'd like them. MyPhoneExplorer is pretty brilliant - just a shame it has to be debug mode. However if you turn mass storage mode on for the USB connection I can access my files again.

Now I only have to make it play nicely with winamp

Shame Samsung don't offer this intergrated by default. Seems a fairly important oversight.

Thanks.