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[KushBB]

Hello every one!! Can I send Vcard in SMS? so that the receiver phone recognizes the SMS as VCard and prompt for saving it to contacts(Like it does for usual Vcard SMS) If Yes, Then how??? Thanks in Advance...

[KushBB]

Anyone with any Ideas on it??

Thanks in Advance...

[RexDoug · Accepted solution]

I've done this but with mixed results.

You can convert the contact to a VCARD format using the standard API's.

See toSerialFormat() in the PIM classes.

Here is the tricky part: probably 95% of the time, your serialized VCARD is going to exceed 160 bytes. The BB SMS will chop this into multiple messages (probably two or three messages to get the entire VCARD).

Now, if the receiver is another Blackberry on the same network, this might actually work, and the entire VCARD might be recovered as one message on the other end, suitable for conversion back into a Contact. Most of the time, however, the receiver is a different platform and a different network, and the SMS will show up as multiple messages on the other end, each containing part of the VCARD data. In this case, the data is pretty-much useless.

I'd love to hear from someone who has resolved this issue.

[KushBB]

Thanks for the reply RexDoug...

Actually, I wanted the same behavior as Nokia(Symbian) does it...

Is it true that they do it by Modifying the header/footer(PDU) of the message??

If thats so... can it be done in BlackBerry??

Eagerly waiting for any response... Regards

[Callie]

HI

You can download an app at http://ichannel.myshopify.com that allows you to send and receive vcards via sms. It works on all Blackberry's

Callie

[amrinder_singh_003]

greetings

first ,fetch the value from the contact  ,and pass the value to this code .

String card = "BEGIN:VCARD\r\n"

        + "VERSION:2.1\r\n"

        + "N:Hughes,Graham\r\n"

        + "TEL;PREF:+4412345678\r\n"

        + "END:VCARD\r\n";



MessageConnection con = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://" + destination + ":9204");



BinaryMessage msg = (BinaryMessage) con.newMessage(MessageConnection.BINARY_MESSAGE);

msg.setPayloadData(card.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"));



con.send(msg); 

 Regards

 Amrinder singh

[amrinder_singh_003]

greetings

first ,fetch the value from the contact  ,and pass the value to this code .

String card = "BEGIN:VCARD\r\n"

        + "VERSION:2.1\r\n"

        + "N:Hughes,Graham\r\n"

        + "TEL;PREF:+4412345678\r\n"

        + "END:VCARD\r\n";



MessageConnection con = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://" + destination + ":9204");



BinaryMessage msg = (BinaryMessage) con.newMessage(MessageConnection.BINARY_MESSAGE);

msg.setPayloadData(card.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"));



con.send(msg);

 Regards

 Amrinder singh