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Send Picture Message from PC to Mobile

By Shakeel Mumtaz | 4 Jul 2007

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This article will help you to send a picture + text as SMS from PC to mobile.........using C#
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Introduction
Some days ago, I was wondering whether I could send a picture from my PC to mobile? After a lot of thinking, I came to know that I could do so. This article is a sample example for you in order to send a picture to your mobile. Text and picture messages have the same method for sending, but the only difference is the length of the message. You can fit your text into one message like if you just send "hello", but it's difficult to fit a picture in one message because you have a complete format for the picture. I am using OTA format for sending pictures to my mobile phone Sony Ericsson k500i.

Background
To understand this article, you must have knowledge of how to send text SMS.

OTA
Over the Air (OTA) is an image format for mobile phones which has standard size of 72x28, etc. It has only two colors, black and white. Read this article for how to convert an image into OTA format.

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Details
First of all, convert your image into OTA format and copy all its data in any file like *.txt, *.doc, etc. Here is an example for the OTA data of image.
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66 40 80 80 40 5F 88 80 40 66

66 00 00 00 00 FF 10 10 00 66

66 00 00 00 20 FF 24 14 00 66

66 00 40 00 00 FF 80 40 00 66

66 60 04 00 00 FF 00 00 00 66

66 00 11 62 01 FE 40 1A 55 66

66 E0 04 89 42 A5 FF AA 55 66

66 00 44 C4 80 7F 02 AC 55 66

66 02 01 01 02 FA 01 01 02 66

99 40 40 80 80 40 40 80 80

99 00 00 00 01 0A 41 00 00

99 00 00 00 F0 AA 00 00 00

99 0E FF 00 00 00 01 00 00

99 90 FE 00 00 00 00 00 00

99 03 2F 41 00 00 03 35 00

99 10 8B 41 A2 55 AB 55 00

99 00 12 40 80 00 E0 56 00

99 02 02 01 01 02 02 01 01

80 80 40 40 80 82 44 40 99

00 00 00 00 0F 01 00 01 99

00 00 00 00 FE 50 00 00 99

00 31 00 00 00 04 08 00 99

00 08 00 00 00 40 20 80 99

00 0C 53 01 00 01 0D 6A 99

00 F3 8C 42 A5 5D 55 AA 99

00 B8 AA 80 00 08 58 AB 99

01 01 02 02 01 A1 82 02 99

As we know, when we send text SMS, we encode our text into PDU. So the same method will be used for the picture SMS.

PDU for Picture SMS (Encoding Picture)

The following example shows how to encode a picture SMS. The example includes a picture and a text "Test". The length of the Picture message is so long that the message must be sent as a concatenated message (in three SMS). Here is the encoded data: First part: (length =140)
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8C0B0504158A00000003010301300000045465737402010000481C0166666666 6666666666999999999999999999800000000000000001400000006000E00002 400000E900310000280000031080CF3B801800000400411044401400000FFFE2 F8B12024000000000538CAA0280000000006289C401800000000041414001400 00000001428002400020000

Second part: (length =140)

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8C0B0504158A00000003010302014280028001F0000000A28001800FFE000000 A500015FFFFFFFFFFEA57FFA400AAA0000005500028201500440015D08A18810 2800040FF0201404100010003ABE00244000008200D55588280101440001AAAA C0180000000003555560140010000806AAAAB024000000000555555028000000 000000000199999999999999

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Third part: (length =23)

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170B0504158A000000030103039999666666666666666666

A Simple Guide To Mobile Phone File Transferring Converting image files to OTA file format (Mobile Picture Message) Library for Decode/Encode SMS PDU Implementing an SMS Quiz Server Using a GSM Modem Enabled Mobile Phone .NET Phone Communication Library Part IV - Receive SMS Using VB.NET to Decode PDU string Create WAP Push SMS Messages Introduction to AT commands and its uses Mobile Birthday Reminder and Automatic SMS Sender Using VB.NET to Encode SMS and EMS PDU lib under STL for SMS How To Send and Receive SMS using GSM Modem

Explanation for the First Part

8C length of part 1 (280/2=140(dec) and 8C(hex) because our data is in hex) 0B length of user data header 05 Identifier (IEI; application port addressing scheme, 16-bit port address) 04 Information Element Data Length (IEDL) 158A Information Element Data (destination port) 0000 Information Element Data (originator port) 00 Information Element Identifier (IEI; concatenated short message, 8-bit reference number) 03 Information Element Data Length (IEDL) 01 Information Element Data (concatenated short message reference number) 03 Information Element Data (total number of concatenated messages (0-255)) 01 Information Element Data (sequence number of current short message) 30 Identifier for version, current version is (ASCII) zero "0". If it is not "0", stop processing of the message. 00 "00" <Item-length> 00 Text length 04 Text length 54657374 "Test" 02 "02" = <Item length><OTA bitmap> 0100 <Item-length> value 0100(hex) = 256(dec) = 4 octets for header and the rest for OTA bitmap data 00 The first byte of the bitmap must be 00 (hex); i.e., OTA bitmap header field 'number of animated icons' must hold 0, indicating that there is no animation, just a single static image. 48 Width = 48(hex) = 72(dec) 1C Height = 1C(hex) = 28(dec) 01 The depth of the bitmap (number of grey scales) All the rest is the image data.

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Explanation for the Second Part

8C length of part 2 (280/2=140(dec) and 8C(hex) because our data is in hex) 0B length of user data header 05 Identifier (IEI; application port addressing scheme, 16-bit port address) 04 Information Element Data Length (IEDL) 158A Information Element Data (destination port) 0000 Information Element Data (originator port) 00 Information Element Identifier (IEI; concatenated short message, 8-bit reference number) 03 Information Element Data Length (IEDL)

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01 Information Element Data (concatenated short message reference number) 03 Information Element Data (total number of concatenated messages (0-255)) 02 Information Element Data (sequence number of current short message) All the rest is the image data.

Explanation for the Third Part

17 length of part 3 ((48-2)/2=23(dec) and 17(hex) because our data is in hex) 0B length of user data header 05 Identifier (IEI; application port addressing scheme, 16-bit port address) 04 Information Element Data Length (IEDL) 158A Information Element Data (destination port). 0000 Information Element Data (originator port) 00 Information Element Identifier (IEI; concatenated short message, 8-bit reference number) 03 Information Element Data Length (IEDL) 01 Information Element Data (concatenated short message reference number) 03 Information Element Data (total number of concatenated messages (0-255)) 03 Information Element Data (sequence number of current short message) All the rest is the image data. Now we have divided our image into a number of parts. So add the following data in the front of each part.
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0051000C91xxxxxxxxxxxx00F5A7

Explanation
00 always added 5100 not going to explain here 0C length of phone number 91 phone number format (91=international and 81=national) xxxxxxxxxxxx 12 digit phone number (for example my phone number is 23216427434. write it as 292361244743) 00F5 not going to explain here A7 time limit (24 hours in this case) Complete Example
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SMS # 1:

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0051000C913012467234F400F5A78C0B0504158A000000030103013000000 45465737402010000481C0166666666666666666699999999999999999980 0000000000000001400000006000E00002400000E90031000028000003108 0CF3B801800000400411044401400000FFFE2F8B12024000000000538CAA0 280000000006289C401800000000041414001400000000014280024000200000 SMS # 2: 0051000C913012467234F400F5A78C0B0504158A000000030103020142800 28001F0000000A28001800FFE000000A500015FFFFFFFFFFEA57FFA400AAA 0000005500028201500440015D08A188102800040FF0201404100010003AB E00244000008200D55588280101440001AAAAC01800000000035555601400 10000806AAAAB024000000000555555028000000000000000199999999999999 SMS # 3: 0051000C913012467234F400F5A7170B0504158A0000000301030399996666 66666666666666

Send Picture SMS

The code for how to send a simple text SMS is attached with this article. Just paste your SMS PDU and send your cute picture massage. Remember that I am using a serial port for the communication. Or You can use Windows hyper terminal for sending your message. Start->Programs->Accessories->Communications->HyperTerminal And then use the following commands for sending SMS: AT+CMGF=0 (pdu mode, use the command only first time if you have multiple SMS like in our case, three SMS.) AT+CMGW=(length of pdu, for example 153 in SMS # 1) > write your pdu, in the end press ctrl+z and then press Enter. If it will display Ok, then succeeded. It will also display the message number. AT+CMSS=(message number) And now your message has been sent.

Future Work
I am trying to send MMS as well, using C#.

References
Nokia Smart_Messaging_FAQ_v2_0

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History
5th July, 2007: Initial post

License
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

About the Author

Shakeel Mumtaz
Web Developer Pakistan Member

I did BS in Computer Science from Punjab University,Pakistan. I have developed lot of Softwares and mostly interested in mathematics,image processing,AI,signal processing,mobile technology,database etc. Currently working at Confiz Solutions as Sr.Software Engineer.

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