Where's my Droid App question

[Rebelvis]

I downloaded this app because it seemed useful if I ever lost my SF. I don't have easy access to another phone so I decided to test it by sending the correct phrase to my phone via e-mail on my computer. My understanding is the correct way to address it is xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com (x's being the phone number). I sent the messages using both my regular e-mail and with Gmail and after 24 hours I still haven't gotten this to work. Meanwhile, I had a friend text the phrase to me and it worked perfectly within a couple of minutes.

Since I've gotten no bounce back e-mails I'm wondering if the snag isn't with Verizon. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Everything I read says phone number@vtext.com is the right format but, I'm stumped.

 

[DroidDev]

When you are doing this are you emailing your phone the attention word only in the email? For the e-mail way to work the subject of the email needs the attention work and the body email blank. Sent from a gmail account.

Also, make sure the settings are correct in the Wheres My Droid App.

I just tried it and it worked so yes xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com is correct. Make sure that it is a 10 digit number.

 

[Rebelvis]

Yes, that's what I did. I put the attention phrase in the subject line and left the body blank. I have attention phrases in the App settings for both GPS and the ringer (wheres my droid). Neither works when sent from my computer. I am positive I used my correct 10 digit number. You'd think the phone would receive the SMS even if I had the phrase wrong, but nada.

 

[DroidDev]

Do you get an error or anything on your phone? Also are you including any - between the number sets?

If you are not including the '-' and you are not getting any errors on your computer or the phone then try sending the email from your phone using the GMAIL app on it.

 

[NickA]

Also, I'm not sure if the phrase is case sensitive or not. I thought the default phrase was "wheres my Droid". I would type it with the correct punctuation, so I'd type "where's" instead of "wheres". I just ended up changing the phrase to something simpler (for me).

 

[Rebelvis]

Still can't get it to work

I get no error or bounce-back e-mail either which seems odd. I don't have any spaces either. I'm not sure what you mean with the '-' . Am I supposed to put quotes around the phrase in the title?

I may have a g-mail issue which may or may not be the problem. For e-mail, I have my comcast account in addition to g-mail. I let the comcast account be the "default" for sending e-mail and it has seemed to work fine. When all this came up, I reset things so the g-mail account was the default. When I did that, test e-mails unrelated to where's my droid just sat in the outbox and would never send. Meanwhile the account settings tested OK and my g-mail inbox and contacts sych up fine. Does anyone else have this issue or have I somehow managed to set this up incorrectly?

Do you get an error or anything on your phone? Also are you including any - between the number sets?

If you are not including the '-' and you are not getting any errors on your computer or the phone then try sending the email from your phone using the GMAIL app on it.

 

[DroidDev]

By dash I mean dash. Like 555-555-5555. Dashes.

As far as the email issue I am not experiencing that.

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