Talk:Mobile

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Ok, it's been almost a year and still no integration with T-Mobile USA... what gives? There is *nothing* technical preventing you from enabling FB Mobile for the 4th largest US carrier, so why isn't it being done?

--500347728 17:59, 24 October 2007 (PDT) - MMS, anyone? - Global SMS/MMS aggregators are not hard to come by, Facebook should be able to cover most carriers worldwide without much effort.


[edit] Error 270

I have a test application that I'm using to try to experiment with the SMS API, but every time I try to send one to myself I get a code 270 error ("Permissions disallow sms to user"). I have the box checked in the app config to enable the SMS API, and I have gone to the extended-permissions page to allow the app to send SMS messages to the account I am testing with, but I still always get this error. There are some other people who are experiencing the same issue as well.

Adam: You should verify you got the names of the variables right as the documentation for sms.canSend was initially wrong (it used "user_id" instead of "uid"). If you didn't send a "uid" field at all, you got back a 270 as sending "invalid user" was considered "permission denied" ;P. Now, the documentation for sms.send was correct, so maybe this isn't your problem, but it was mine (I happened to only paid half attention as I typed in the names for sms.send and used "user_id" there as well). -- Jay Freeman (saurik)

Here are some references on this issue:

[edit] Mobile Uploads

I've not yet seen a way for developers to utilize the mobile uploads functionality within their applications. For instance, I'm building a scavenger hunt application that allows a user to create a scavenger hunt and for his/her friends to send picture messages via their phone for each item they find on the hunt. It's become difficult as I've come to realize the need for me to handle the photos myself rather than use facebook's systems. This means needing to use a separate email address like [hunt_id]@one_of_my_domains.com to catch the photos rather than using something easy to remember like facebooks mobile@facebook.com or scavengerhunt@facebook.com

Have I just missed this functionality? If not, I feel it would be an awesome addition to the facebook API :)

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