[asterisk-users] Controlling cell phone VM / Fax waiting notification icon for asterisk VM

[Matt Watson]

On June 23, 2008 08:08:53 am OCG Technical Support wrote:
> I little more digging and I confirmed that cell phone VM and FAX waiting
> icons are in fact controlled by a proprietary SMS message format.  Here's
> what I found:
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> Message Waiting Indication Group: Store Message
> This Group allows an indication to be provided to the user about the status
> of types of
> message waiting on systems connected to the GSM PLMN. The mobile may
> present this
> indication as an icon on the screen, or other MMI indication. The mobile
> may take note of
> the Origination Address for messages in this group and group 1100. For each
> indication
> supported, the mobile may provide storage for the Origination Address which
> is to control
> the mobile indicator.
> Text included in the user data is coded in the Default Alphabet.
> Where a message is received with bits 7..4 set to 1101, the mobile shall
> store the text of
> the SMS message in addition to setting the indication.
> Bits 3 indicates Indication Sense:
> Bit 3
> 0 Set Indication Inactive
> 1 Set Indication Active
> Bit 2 is reserved, and set to 0
> Bit 1 Bit 0 Indication Type:
> 0 0 Voicemail Message Waiting
> 0 1 Fax Message Waiting
> 1 0 Electronic Mail Message Waiting
> 1 1 Other Message Waiting*
> * Mobile manufacturers may implement the "Other Message Waiting" indication
> as an
> additional indication without specifying the meaning. The meaning of this
> indication is
> intended to be standardized in the future, so Operators should not make use
> of this
> indication until the standard for this indication is finalized.
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> Now the tough part...does anyone want to create an app to send notification
> to a cell phone to set/clear these bits?

could you provide a link to where you got the info from?  I'd be interested in 
seeing if i can get this to do anything useful.

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Matt Watson
http://www.mattgwatson.ca