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Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:17 pm
by lawnmowerman
Is it possible to set up receiving text message sent to mofi4500 sim7 (ie message from carrier) when a phone SIM is in it, and have those messages forwarded to a different phone (the one I actually use)?

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:25 pm
by TwoEightZero
So you have TMobile? I remember something called digits that did just that.

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:56 am
by BillA
lawnmowerman wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:17 pm Is it possible to set up receiving text message sent to mofi4500 sim7 (ie message from carrier) when a phone SIM is in it, and have those messages forwarded to a different phone (the one I actually use)?

The GSM system doesn't have an SMS forwarding method (short code), therefore it cannot forward from a router to a phone. It can only be done on an Android phone with an app which basically caches the SMS then resends to a new number of your choice.

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:36 am
by Viper67857
I'm sure an openwrt package could be built to do so (if one doesn't already exist), but Idk if that could be done on mofi software... If it were flashed over to rooter then sure..

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:55 pm
by lawnmowerman
Thanks for the info all!

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:43 pm
by AustenMueller
BillA wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:56 am The GSM system doesn't have an SMS forwarding method (short code), therefore it cannot forward from a router to a phone. It can only be done on an Android phone with an app which basically caches the SMS then resends to a new number of your choice.
What app is that!? :shock:

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:23 pm
by uhelp
I'm running a phone sim card(tmobile) in my mofi sim 4 and I was able to setup to have sms sent to the mofi sim # and forward it to my other phone that I actually use. The setup is in the mofi setup page.

Re: Receive text messages sent to mofi?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2020 3:25 am
by BillA
AustenMueller wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:43 pm What app is that!? :shock:

There are lots of SMS forwarding apps in the PlayStore.
It will allow you to forward SMS/text messages from an Android phone to any other phone including a router.
Keep in mind that the app has to be running on the phone in the background at all times for this to work.
If you're looking to forward SMS from the router to a phone, as far as I know only the MoFi firmware has that feature.
It's possible to extract the SMS forwarding package from the MoFi firmware, and install it into any OpenWRT router.

SMS Forwarder (Android)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... smsforward