DeskDroid - SMS from your Android phone in a web browser

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How does it compare to EasySMS?

EasySMS requires (afaik) USB or Wifi connection, or at least a lot of configuration.. DeskDroid just works out-of-the-box over the internet, anywhere.

But you're essentially giving a third party rights to send SMS messages from your device, right?

Not something I'd be too happy with really.

I just signed up and it emailed me my password in plaintext. Please fix this.

Signed up but won't let me log in, says password is incorrect, and it won't email me a new password. Any chance you can reset mine? Username is the same as my reddit name.

I use Texdro. The free version allows you to send and receive texts on your computer as long as both your phone and computer are on the same network. I think the paid version allows sending and receiving via USB and Bluetooth http://www.appbrain.com/app/texdro-desktop-sms/com.crackedsun.texdro

Cool product, except right now when I click send it is stuck at "sending..."

EDIT Win7 Chrome 12.0.733.0 and Firefox 3.6.13

Just wondering, how do you plan on getting revenue from this?

It's a bit slow (hangs on Sending sometimes) but other than that, good work! First message I sent was sent twice, not too sure why. I may have accidentally clicked it twice? Maybe you should put in some 'spam-protection' so to speak so you can't accidentally do this?

Also, after you send a message the character-count still counts whatever length your just-sent message was, instead of resetting itself (it then resets itself as soon as you start typing).

Good work.

Tried it earlier today out of curiosty - doesn't seem to be working at all though. All the web interface tells me is the no. of messages on my phone, that's it. Running on a Galaxy S with Darky's ROM 9.3 - incompatible or I'm doing something wrong?

Crosstxt does the same thing, but it's in closed beta.

EDIT: Sticking with crosstxt. It alerts you when you get new messages, has a chrome extension to give you desktop alerts when you get new messages, and doesn't force close. It also lets you control your information, you can delete messages/contact information off their servers.

I so want source for this, year ago or so I was looking at prices for website/text integration, I think I've just seen an option for the cheapest unlimited texts plan I can find(probably about £5/month, less than 1/3 of the cheapest plan, and with more control too).

Will this app be continuously running in the background of my phone? And if so, will it be eating a bunch of my battery?

Can I use this without an internet connection? My phone has crappy wifi connections to my router for some reason and I don't have 3G.

How is this better than Google Voice?

This seems like an interesting idea. Would it be possible to also send messages through Google Talk? I use the Talk desktop client a lot, and it would be nice to integrate both systems.

Isn't this a less capable version of Google Voice?

Using Chrome 10.0.648.204 on Windows 7, and I'm getting a \ in front of all my single quotes every time I send a message from the website. E.g. "can't" becomes "can\'t"...kind of frustrating.

Edit: claification

Small suggestions. On the login screen, when typing my username/password, I like to use the hardware keyboard on my phone, when I slide out the keyboard the app stays in portrait mode, making typing a bit annoying. Be nice if it adjusted to landscape mode.

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Found a bug, it adds a "\" before an apostrophe for some reason.

For example, if I type: Hope you're having a good day.

It actually sends: Hope you\'re having a good day.

By the way, this is wicked fast, as soon as I hit the sending button it shows up on my phone (Evo on Sprint). I just wish it would say "message sent" instead of "sending".

Doesn't seem to update the messages i recieve on my phone and it is stuck on sendeing even if the message is alredy sent. But other than that nice app, i think i'll keep using it in the future.

It doesn't seem to work for me at all. I can try to send a message, but it won't show any of my previous messages in the box and it took at least 30 minutes to send a message to someone. Also on every page after it finishes loading chrome still has the little spinny loading thing forever.

Is it iPad compatible? If so, I'm sold. Glad someone is working on this.

can't get this working on Chrome 11.0.696.44 beta. just hangs when trying to Send a message from the web.

Hey all, We have fixed a bug that caused contacts not to be displayed. This is working now - it was a problem with contacts that contains special characters in their phone number (*#+ and so on). It should be working now. Also, if you like this application, I would be very happy if you would go to Android Market and rate it. Thank you :)

Just popping in to say it works great. Would love a chrome extension!

I backup my messages through "SMS Backup" — will messages that I send through DeskDroid be backed up? Essentially, where are the messages stored when sent through DeskDroid?

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Whenever I start this application, I recieve force closes on "google services framework".

Do people still use SMS?

I don't want to, but I have to say it: GTalkSMS does way more than this without the need to make an account.

Been waiting all day for the deskdroid site to load my contacts and msgs but it has not. I'm from australia and was wondering if this is why it is not working? Stuck on "fetching messages" status!!

It's runnin a little slow right now, but this looks like it has potential.

When I click on a persons name their messages never load. Tried on dev build of chrome, and IE8.

Some of my contacts have the number in this format ### ### ### When your app tries to send the sms, instead of sending to ######### it sends to ###+###+### and fails.

I am going to try your app, but I do have to ask:

1 - How are you going to make money out of this? 2 - In what ways will you use the information stored in my phone?

How does it compare to Texty

This is cool. My contacts don't seem to be appearing. They are stored on a gmail account. Any ideas?

Using a Nexus One on Gingerbread here, website hangs on 'Sending...' when I attempt to send an SMS.

Also, please implement SSL on your websites login ASAP :)

8 out of 10 messages it hangs at "Sending" - tried to reopen the app multiple times and my phone has a a steady connection to the internet.

When I send messages to myself - there are no problems.

Great idea though!

It seems to be misinterpreting my phone book entries. I.e., messages to +1 (212) 555-1234 is being sent to +1%28212%29555-1234.

I really like the concept but it the web front does not work well for me at all...None of my contacts were listed, and half of the messages were all sent from "undefined" Also when I received a message when connected the web front end didn't update. When I went to refresh, I no longer got any messages listed. I'll try again in a couple months as this is definitely a problem I'm seeking a solution for and your app if working properly would solve it!

You can already do this via GMail if you have it enabled in Labs. No app required.

This is great! Any chance you'll expose an API? I could see some ideas for cool integration w/ other software if an API was available.

UPDATE: SSL is now implemented at the website, so that all communication goes through HTTPS. This will also be added in the phone-application with the next release.