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You are not gonna like what I am gonna say, but, since you asked, here goes: Basically, your Groundspeak user handle gives it all away: Your handle "linuxxpert", indicates that you are likely either a professional or a very dedicated/obsessed hobbyist in the world of computers, and as such, it is understandable that much of your world centers around PCs and digital telecomunications, and particularly, the Internet. So, you tend to wear computer-centric and Internet-centric glasses, and you seem to assume that everyone else in the world should too, that is, that everyone else in the world should be just as PC-focused and Internet-focused as are you. The reality is that this is not at all true, and the reality is that many people in this world are not on the web at all, or maybe get on just once per month or two or three times per year. And, even for those who technically own an email addresses -- such as the email address which they may have used to open an account at Groundspeak or some other sport/hobby website or some special-topic forum or list group -- they may get on the web only rarely and may not attach much importance to uninvited and unsolicited email which arrives in their email box from a stranger such as yourself. Remember, just because you -- a stranger -- send someone an unsolicited and uninvited email does NOT obligate them to answer it, no more so than does sending a person an unsolicited and uninvited piece of postal mail obligate them to reply to you, and no more so than does making an unsolicited and uninvited phone call to a stranger does NOT obligate them to pick up the phone and engage in friendly chit-chat with you! Rather, those "obligations" which you assume are, and have been, in your imagination; they are your expectations and nothing else, and they are largely unreasonable and unrealistic. Now, like you, I happen to be relatively PC-centric and web-centric in my own life, at least for much of each day. I happen to operate numerous websites and over 30 very busy email list groups on various topics, and I also write books and deliver lectures and consulting services around the world. Because of this, my email address (and my phone number) are announced rather prominently on all of my websites and in the sig line of each of my posts sent to my own list groups and also to list groups and forums operated by others. However, because my email address and phone number are so prominently displayed on the web, and have been since 1995, it is also true that I receive a modest volume each day of entirely unsolicited and uninvited email from strangers asking me bizarre and trivial questions (that they assume, for some reason, that I will be obligated to answer) or, weirder yet, asking me detailed consulting-genre questions (see footnote #1) that they assume that I will answer for free. Worse, many of these unsolicited emails bear no introduction and are often unsigned. I usually totally ignore these emails; they are deleted or moved to my "Idiots, Buffoons and Jerks" email folder as soon as I have read them and decided that they do not deserve a reply. So, in my case, yes, I am, like you, rather computer-centric and web-centric, but in my case I feel no obligation to answer unsolicited and uninvited emails sent by strangers! footnote 1: for example, last nite I received an unsolicited email from a guy which read: "I found your websites and I know you are a scientist like me. I have developed after years research a magical new product that does xxxxxxxxx. I need you to tell me how to have it tested and documented. I also need you to teach me how to market it. Then I want you to find me customers. I do not believe in consultants so I will not be paying you anything. Consultants are insulting. Please reply before midnight as I am busy man. Do not ignore this letter. George." Can you guess how long it took me to move that post to my "Idiots, Buffoons and..." folder? Do you really think that I will ever reply to George? The internet may be a big part of my daily life, however I never sent out messages like that George guy, which you are right not to reply to. The messages I was referring to are more like; "Hey I found your cache, however the log is full/destroyed, you want me to replace it since I live 2 minutes away from it?", or "hey I see this shirt on your ebay listing but you don't have a size listed, what size is it?" You cant convince me that people do not read/receive these emails, I never expect an answer right away unless YOU are trying to sell me something. I also feel that when you list a cache, you should accept that people will contact you about the cache and that is just part of cache maintenance responsibility, no different than changing out a wet log, and this contact is solicited as soon as you activate your listing. I think what it all comes down to for me is plain manners, you receive a "personal", not spam email, you should respond, you don't want to talk to these people tell them to "buzz off" and then ignore them. Oh hey Vinny, check out my 5/5 listings, if you are ever in the area these are "must try" caches! Yes, I agree with you about these more reasonable email communications, but I also realize -- despite the fact that I personally am very email savvy -- that the reality is that many folks who have email addresses HATE to answer even legitimate emails, and worse, many of them only check their email folder perhaps once per week or once per month. I too have run into sellers on Ebay and with vendor websites who never answer inquiry emails! Very odd, but very commonplace! One last factor to consider: I suspect that many of the email accounts which many folks have used for opening their GC accounts have gone largely dormant and are largely ignored. BTW, while we are on this topic, here is a related one which will likely make you smile: have you every yet run into any of the 18-to30-somethings who send most of their lives corresponding via text messages (written in "SMS text lingo/slang", of course) on their cell fones? Their writing style and lack of clarity and coherence are amazing when it comes time for them to send an email! Worse, their emails are full of silly cryptic things like ZLOL, ZOMG, ROFLOLZ, hot911, eleventy and !!!0, etc... Bizarre! And lastly, thanks for the invitation on your 5/5 caches! I will indeed to that if and when I am ever in your area. From your profile, it looks like you must be located along the EPA/NJ border, perhaps in the Easton PA or the Bucks County area. I do travel somewhat near that region at times (and at one time years ago, I did a lot of caving in that area) when visiting relatives in NJ.

Hi Mark, you know how to get an automatic SMS text notification ? No sorry, I've not tried to do that. I believe the SMS notification available on Geocachinc.com is only available in the USA. If you have an Email provider who does SMS notifications you could set that up to trigger on receipt of a notification Email.

I created an email alias I use for gc.com, and that forwards emails to my personal email account and my phone's email service. So while I don't get full email content in SMS messages, I at least get a new email notification from Rogers, including the sender address (so I know if it's from geocaching.com, Groundspeak.com, etc). If you're a good programmer, you could set up a script that could send you a txt msg after checking and parsing any incoming emails automatically but that's a bit of work... at least with this notification method, I know to open my email app and check for new email. Now, different providers may send different email notification content, so I'd say just play around with it, see if you can get email to your phone - that should happen immediately.

(got this info from Jors many moons ago) I have a number with MTN. and one can register an email account with them which is: <cell phone numbner>@mtnloaded.co.za When that email account gets an email, you are sent the notification via SMS that a new email has arrived. So with this solution there is no need to poll the server. The problem though is that the SMS notifications do not always come through. But I would say they do 70 to 80% of the time.

also some phone carriers (like boostmobile and others) in the USA have and email address that send to the phone as a text message (non SMS) for boost i know it is -phone number-@myboostmobile.com and i know it also works the same for virgin mobile though i forget the part after the @ usually you can send a text message (non-sms) to your email address and it will give you your phones email in the sender part.. this works well for me as sending SMS from my cellphone costs $0.30 even if on the unlimited plan where on the other hand even on the pay-as-you-go plan a text message only costs $0.10 in and out for me.. still have to request coords for cache or look them up but its a step forward for you

Ok guys, I've been using Garmin 750 for a month now and I think I can share some thoughts in a short review. I switched from Oregon 650 lured with the live geocaching and online features. Enough said those were a bit disappointing but I'm not that sorry about the purchase (as long as I don't look at the my credit card histiry). Online features I'll start from the key new feature. The overall execution of the concept is rather rubbish. It would be OK for a very casueal geocacher who just focuses on traditional caches and refreshes them on the go. The problem is such a person wouldn't be buing a dedicated device for caching (especially with Oregon 7xx price tag). You'd see such a cacher with a smartphone and an app which gives much more features than Garmin in that scenario. What about a more advanced user? We still have the non-existent waypoint support for the multicaches. You have them if you upload a full pocket query, but as in 6xx series you have to look for them using their codes in one combined list (that is why I'm calling it non-existent). If you have a solved puzzle it will be downloaded with the original coordinates. The same goes for caches with custom coordinates included in PQs and lists downloaded directly to the device (using the lists feature). You get the starting coordinates. Besides that, the PQ/List download itself is extremely slow. The unit first downloads an index of caches and then the rest of the details. Even if you don't have a PC nearby, downloading the PQ files to a mobile phone and then transfering them to the unit via USB Host will be much faster and you'll have the custom coordinates for your puzzles, letterboxex or multis you have collected all the data but didn't have the opportunity to pick up. And the last but not least: you can send the logs (e.g. found it) directly to the server but there is no setting to send them as field notes (drafts). This made me turn off this feature completely. The only real life scenarios I used the online feature were: - I loaded a PQ with all the caches in the area excluding puzzles and another PQ with solved mysteries. I do it to be sure that every question mark I can see on the map is a cache I have the right coordinates for. The strategy is great untill you go for a series with a bonus cache (which is a mystery of course). In such a situation I can download such a cache to have all visits in one place/file. - I made a PQ which excluded disabled caches. While caching in that area I learned that there were some caches which were either enabled or the disabled ones were actually available. Refreshing the map let me look for said caches. - I wen't to an event. I had a PQ of the area prepared the day before, but when I arrived I learned that new caches have been published (what a surprise ). Few clicks and there are on my device. I think that the 3 above examples show what the online feature can be used for: EMERGENCIES. Wireless features. When I bought the unit I stille had a Windows Mobile 10 phone. The only thing that really worhed was WiFi tethering. I was able to connect the unit via BT but that didn't do anything apart showing that the unit is connected. I switched to an Android phone last week, and now it works nicely. The notifications show on the device, you can read SMS and email (havent tested all the scenarios with the later). It's a shame there is no possibility to reply to text messages from the init but it's a very low prio wish. The coolest thing is tethering via bluetooth without setting the phone in BT hotspot mode (so the unit is just connected via BT and is able to use the Internet connection from the phone). I'm sure it saves alot of battery on both devices. Precision Haven't done any real comparison tests as this almost can't be done by a non-expert. What I noticed though is they seem to have minimized that annoying effect known from Oregon 650 where if you are walking towards the cache, the unit somehow compensates for your movement. The effect almost always was that near the cache I had to stop, wait for few seconds for my position to update, and then go few steps back to allign with my new position and the cache location. For now I can't see this effect on the 750. What I did notice is that in some areas the electronic compass tends to go crazy and I'm not able to calibrate it. In one place in Prague it was almost spinning like a fan. I'll observe this a little more and compare with my friends' garmin when we go caching together. If their's will be fine and mine not (in the same spot), I can see a warranty claim coming. It came out a little longer than I planned but I hope it helps at least one person who was able to not get pored and read till the end .

Thanks for this new feature. We discussed the new message center in our local community. This is what we would suggest to be added /changed. 1. Links from the MC to user profiles. While being within the message center it would be nice to click on a user's photo/avatar and get to their profile. It's common that I wish to know a bit more about who I'm communicating with. 2. Links from user profiles to the MC. I would like to have a hyperlink in a user profile to take me to the MC and send a message to this person. 3. MC settings available from the MC webpage. Currently I see only one setting for the MC (switching email notifications on/off) and it's hidden in the general settings section. It would be great if there is more straightforward/simple way to get to settings from the MC. 4. To delete messages/conversations. Currently there's an option to hide conversations. This may be useful sometimes but I believe it's not good at whole because once a conversation is hidden it's too easy to just forget about it. For privacy reasons (and also to save resources) I think it's necessary to have an option to delete conversations completely. It could be implemented somehow similar they used to do this in Facebook. 5. To limit the number of potential message senders. There are "friends" feature on this website already. I've never had any profit of this feature. Perhaps this could be the case: to have an option to select people to get messages from ("All", "Friends only"). 6. To block any user at once. Currently I can block someone but to do this I actually need to communicate with them first. It may easily happen that I wish to block someone whom I don't want to communicate at all (for example, someone who has already proved to be rude with my friends). 7. More space to enter text. With the limit of 1000 characters per message it's not comfortable to have only two strings to enter text. Normally, you even have more space in feedback forms at websites. In the MC I have to scroll again and again and again to compose a message which is bigger then a general SMS message. Four or at least three strings would be much better. 8. Different types for attachments. I suggest that .GPX, .LOC, .ZIP and .TXT files are also allowed. Perhaps it would be OK to limit size of an attachment. 9. Number of new messages shown on the frontpage of geocaching.com / in user account. There are currently two ways of knowing that I've got a message: following an email notification and manually checking the MC. It would be great if the number of new (unread) messages are somehow displayed along with the envelope icon in the header of the website. If this is not done, it often happens that there's no conversation at all, I have to wait until my friend opens his email inbox - in this case I better send him the same message by email. Geocachers here also asked if the new feature appears in your mobile app.

I was playing around with trying to get notifications SMSed to my phone. Somewhere on the forums I was directed to this site, but I have had no joy when entering the info into the notifications set up page. I did a test and emailed the number (from my personal email account) and low and behold I did get an SMS of the test email. I just can't get GC.com emails to be turned into SMS's. I do get emailed notifications on my phone, but would like to share the SMS method with others (who don't get email on their phones) if I can get it right. Anyone else had any joy? Please share how if you have.

I have a iPhone with AT&T and I set up 2 notifications 1 for my SMS to get the instant notification, and another for my email so when I get the notification via SMS I just click on the email option on the phone and the notification comes through there and I just click on the 2nd link and the whole cache page comes up. SMS XXX-XXX-XXXX@text.att.net ScubaSonic

Interesting - that is great to know and I am sure that using this method and the MNT method will be useful for all those who do not have a smart phone and who wish to have that competitive advantage of knowing when a new cache comes in! If any one has other tips on leveraging notifications on non-smart phones keep the tips coming. Sharing is caring! Nice one - I have just registered at vodacom and sent my self a test email and it took about a minute to arrive as an sms on my phone. So there you go vodacom subscribers now all you need to do is set your Groundspeak notifications to be sent to you cellnumber@voda.co.za address and you will be notified by sms - you will not dout not see much detail but at least then you can get to a pc and check your email. So I woudl recommend you use gmail or other webmail account that has filters so you can get the message on your phone and on your email. Just remember the forwarding will not work well with offline clients such as thunderbird and outlook as this will be dependent on your pc being on with the client running and actively polling for new mail. If you have a desktop pc you alwasy leave on no problem. Trev

All the notifications are emails. None of the notifications are SMS. http://www.geocaching.com/notify/default.aspx You need to use the SMS Gateway for your phone carrier. If you don't know what the correct gateway is here are some lists. http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-...s/gateway-list/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carri...ing_SMS_transit Note that depending upon your phone carrier, the length of the allowable SMS may be limited to a certain number of characters. You might use the MMS address if you have that on your plan. Typically, MMS allows 1000 characters.

Those people are actually having emails sent to their phones, not SMS text messages. Or some of them may have come up with an elaborate scheme to have their email application send out a text message. ...................... Oh, a comment on this one too. "Most" cell companies give you an e-mail address that you can send an e-mail to which gets converted to a SMS message and sent to your phone. Verizon, for example, is phonenumber@vtext.com. So, sending mail to 5175551212@vtext.com will send a text message to the person with the cell number of (517) 555-1212. Also a good way to send your friends text messages without burning your allowed messages in your monthly plan...assuming you don't have an unlimited plan. I figured this sort of technology existed, although I personally have no use for it. Although now that I think of it, the 2 or 3 Twitter.com personal messages I have received in my entire Twitter career have in fact been converted to text messages, and sent to my phone. And one of them was even over 140 characters, and the text messages were labeled 1 of 2 and 2 of 2. But still, in the message I was replying to, you're not going to get cache coordinates of a newly published cache sent to your phone via either SMS or email. I have heard tales of FTF hounds getting a new cache alert on their phones, and either calling someone on the phone for the actual coordinates, or going on the internet on their phones to the newly published cache page.

I just hit the "GPX" button on a cache and get this: (cut the logs) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <gpx xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1.0" creator="Groundspeak, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.Groundspeak.com" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0/gpx.xsd http://www.Groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1 http://www.Groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1/cache.xsd" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0"> <name>Cache Listing Generated from Geocaching.com</name> <desc>This is an individual cache generated from Geocaching.com</desc> <author>Account "walkingdogs" From Geocaching.com</author> <email>contact@geocaching.com</email> <url>http://www.geocaching.com</url> <urlname>Geocaching - High Tech Treasure Hunting</urlname> <time>2015-12-23T12:39:07.6749972Z</time> <keywords>cache, geocache</keywords> <bounds minlat="51.130767" minlon="4.40585" maxlat="51.130767" maxlon="4.40585" /> <wpt lat="51.130767" lon="4.40585"> <time>2015-05-10T07:00:00Z</time> <name>GC5V8EF</name> <desc>Groeningenhof Plus 6 by walkingdogs, Traditional Cache (1.5/1.5)</desc> <url>http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=fd8c261e-5ed4-4f32-90fe-e5ca80a226bc</url> <urlname>Groeningenhof Plus 6</urlname> <sym>Geocache Found</sym> <type>Geocache|Traditional Cache</type> <Groundspeak:cache id="4989188" available="True" archived="False" xmlns:Groundspeak="http://www.Groundspeak.com/cache/1/0/1"> <Groundspeak:name>Groeningenhof Plus 6</Groundspeak:name> <Groundspeak:placed_by>walkingdogs</Groundspeak:placed_by> <Groundspeak:owner id="11168789">walkingdogs</Groundspeak:owner> <Groundspeak:type>Traditional Cache</Groundspeak:type> <Groundspeak:container>Micro</Groundspeak:container> <Groundspeak:attributes> <Groundspeak:attribute id="1" inc="1">Dogs</Groundspeak:attribute> <Groundspeak:attribute id="15" inc="1">Available during winter</Groundspeak:attribute> <Groundspeak:attribute id="32" inc="1">Bicycles</Groundspeak:attribute> <Groundspeak:attribute id="41" inc="1">Stroller accessible</Groundspeak:attribute> </Groundspeak:attributes> <Groundspeak:difficulty>1.5</Groundspeak:difficulty> <Groundspeak:terrain>1.5</Groundspeak:terrain> <Groundspeak:country>Belgium</Groundspeak:country> <Groundspeak:state>Antwerpen</Groundspeak:state> <Groundspeak:short_description html="True">GROENINGENHOF PLUS: </Groundspeak:short_description> <Groundspeak:long_description html="True"><p>Deze 7 afzonderlijke traditionele caches, in willekeurige orde genummerd (perfect te combineren met onze reeks Groeninghof met Bonus) zullen U door het landschap, rond het domein “Kasteel Groeningenhof, ook Kontichhof of Hof van Helmont” genoemd, leiden.</p> <p>De aangeduide “Private weg” is niet toegankelijk voor motorvoertuigen (behalve voor de bewoners), wel voor fietsers, voetgangers en hun dierbare honden. Bij nat weer kunnen sommige paadjes wel modderig zijn (waterdichte schoenen is een aanrader).</p> <p>Het prachtig kasteel, dat U in de verte zal kunnen zien, is een privaat eigendom, dus niet toegankelijk voor het publiek.</p> <p>Deze caches zijn “hand en home made”. Daar is soms veel tijd aan besteed. Wij hopen dat U deze met liefde behandelt. Leg deze aub ook terug op dezelfde plaats waar U ze vond.</p> <p>Geef aub geen hint in jullie logs, foto’s zijn natuurlijk welkom, maar geen spoiler foto’s op de site!</p> <p>Moest U problemen hebben bij het zoeken van een cache, kan U steeds een sms sturen naar nummer 0477/97.16.74 of 0473/97.69.99. Wij zullen er zo spoedig mogelijk op beantwoorden. <strong>NIET BELLEN AUB.</strong></p> <p><strong>Wij wensen U veel plezier!</strong></p> </Groundspeak:long_description> <Groundspeak:encoded_hints>Een "déjà vu" voor sommigen.Wel hier nu herboren.</Groundspeak:encoded_hints>

some people like this game solo, other like to play it a few or a larger group, just see how many show up at events its a smash hit ! we are now quite a few here, organized with email and heytell for super fast live responce while we are on the road, we team up spontaniously a few times pr week, the ones who want pop up and take a few or many together. it is very easy to add new members to your crew, specially if you got skils or equipment or is just this really nice dude that is plesant to hang out with. so just go for it.. contact a few of the closest via email, see if they like to show up and make a little caching together, you see how fast the group grow. another thing is, all Danish CO and active players can get into one special list of phone numbers for SMS, mostly used for help and hints. It works like this: you join the list to get access to the list, then friendly people start to call you, if you alowed this in the list, or you could have written SMS only or what ever. The list is made in many formats so it can be used on all kinds of GPS units and phones, so you have it with you always and can search in it fast. You could also start something like this too.

I just set up notifications of new caches within 25km of home coordinates to be sent to my mobile phone via SMS. Got 3 Eckington just published as my first testing. Partial content emails, just enough to make me know there is a new cache up for grabs if I wish to get it, and if I do I can go check my email properly or search geocaching.com from where ever I am. My mail account inbox is filtered for new cache notifications and it forwards them to my email>sms account at o2 where it get sent out to phone via sms. Anyone else do/done this ? Any better way of doing it. Would be nice to get sent a full SMS of details when the caches are simple traditional type. Or include the waypoint rather than cache name which forms part of subject line as well as co-ord. Maybe I like the FTF rush to much ?

Elaborating (I didn't think this is necessary when I posted my first response because your join date is 2004 - but then I see you've been away for a long time) : If you set up instant notification, it will send you an email when a cache is published. If your mobile service provider has an email to SMS service, you can redirect that notification to that email, and it will send you a text. You need a notification for every cache type you're interested in.

Fill in the "Send to Another E-Mail Address:" field with the properly formatted email address for your phone Here's a pretty complete list of formats depending on carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateway#C...E-Mail_Gateways Complete edit to better 'splain what I'm talking about here. What we really have here is a new feature request. However, using currently available features, you can have the standard email new cache alert converted to a text message and sent to your phone. Using the waypoint name given in that text, you can send out a text to request the coordinates for the new cache, and receive another text with the cache coordinates. It's a multi-step process, but I think it's pretty cool you can do it. Firstly, have the standard new cache alert emails converted to text messages, per the instructions in the quote above from Stunod. Secondly, per these instructions set up a textmark account. Thirdly, having a text message containing the waypoint name of a newly published cache, text GEOC ?[Waypoint name] to 41411. You will then receive a text message with the name, terrain/difficulty, coordinates, size and type for the newly published cache. The waypoint name being in the format GCXXXXX. OK I have done the above (except step 2) and have received my first 2 SMS messages (and 2 FTFs thank you) I setup new "Notification" for traditional and left the normal email in place. I got the TXT on my phone but the email to my normal email account didn't come through. Is there wa way to get both SMS and normal email? Now that I think of it, "step 2" was more for linking your cell phone number to your geocaching.com account and the field notes feature. I'll bet any Joe Schmuck who doesn't even have a geocaching.com account can text to 41411 for cache coordinates. I'll grab the wife or daughters phone and try that later.

Fill in the "Send to Another E-Mail Address:" field with the properly formatted email address for your phone Here's a pretty complete list of formats depending on carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateway#C...E-Mail_Gateways Complete edit to better 'splain what I'm talking about here. What we really have here is a new feature request. However, using currently available features, you can have the standard email new cache alert converted to a text message and sent to your phone. Using the waypoint name given in that text, you can send out a text to request the coordinates for the new cache, and receive another text with the cache coordinates. It's a multi-step process, but I think it's pretty cool you can do it. Firstly, have the standard new cache alert emails converted to text messages, per the instructions in the quote above from Stunod. Secondly, per these instructions set up a textmark account. Thirdly, having a text message containing the waypoint name of a newly published cache, text GEOC ?[Waypoint name] to 41411. You will then receive a text message with the name, terrain/difficulty, coordinates, size and type for the newly published cache. The waypoint name being in the format GCXXXXX. OK I have done the above (except step 2) and have received my first 2 SMS messages (and 2 FTFs thank you) I setup new "Notification" for traditional and left the normal email in place. I got the TXT on my phone but the email to my normal email account didn't come through. Is there wa way to get both SMS and normal email?

You won't find anywhere to enter a cell number. As described in the instructions above, you need to determine the email-to-SMS address for your phone number. Once you have that, you'd add it as an additional email address in your Account Settings > Email Preferences. If this isn't the problem you're having, you'll need to provide more detail about what you're doing, on which page, and especially which browser you're using (some parts of the website don't work right with some browsers).

I am trying to setup my Sprint iPhone 6 to receive instant notifications through geocaching and it does not work. Every time I request a verification email sent to my phone it receives the text but it comes in cut off. It will show the website to click but it stops halfway through the link. So I am never able to get the full link to verify my phone. Has anyone dealt with this or knows how to fix it? I have tried resetting the network settings, turning off iMessages, turning off LTE, powering on and off the phone from other help on other forums. If anyone can assist I would greatly appreciate it. Either fixing the issue or knowing of an alternate means to verify the phone is mine. Thank you!

I wrote this program and I can tell you that it now also works for any mobile phone. I added the option to use google calendar. With google calendar you can setup an event notification through SMS. So, this is what it will do: - it checks your email for new cache notifications. - adds an event to google calendar (default 10 minutes ahead) - sets the event notification of that event to 5 minutes before start of event Now you should receive an SMS in 5 minutes after receiving the geocaching.com email notification. The layout of the SMS can be configured. The download contains an English manual. If you are interested and need any help, please let me know.

OK, so programming in the evenings, shopping on Saturdays, caching on Sundays, and dealing with site crashes at 2am, aka "prime time for the Americans". You do want it to be a worldwide site, don't you? I've figured that out by talking to a large number of cachers in the flesh over five years. "Free apps for a range of handheld devices"... OK, you define the spec. Don't forget that the entire handheld market changes about every six months. Enjoy going to the manufacturers and asking when they're going to fix this or that firmware bug. And don't forget the 24/7 support for when people have the app crash on them when night caching. "Form subgroups of caches with their friends"... that would be a regional geocaching association, then. We already have those. Real cachers sitting around over a pint, having a chat, swapping coins and TBs. Cachers tend to be "real life" people. "Fun widgets"... puh-leeze. I haven't seen my desktop for years. But if you really want one, you can pretty easily build a widget right now to go to Geocaching.com, log in, and get your cache total. Theoretically it's scraping the site, but for one page load per day I think they'd be generous. And SMS notifications are already available if you forward Premium Member "Insta-notify" mails via your phone provider's email-to-SMS service. (If your plans include sending SMS directly from your site, you're going to need one or more extra paying jobs.) Sorry if this seems curmudgeonly, but you have big plans and a pretty limited set of resources, and you're asking for something which has been discussed many, many times before. As a minimum, you're going to need help from other countries. Maybe ask the OpenCaching guys if you can help. But for now I'd bet that the overall UK community would perceive more benefit if you went out and placed another nice, well-stocked cache tomorrow in a "cool" place.

SMS will give you the notification however due to SMS character limitations (160 characters) it cuts it to almost unusable after the header is in there. To get the whole message, it is easier to use the MMS email found here. For instance, in Verizon instead of using xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com you would use the MMS equivalent of xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com. xxxxxxxxxx being your phone number. MMS does not have the character limitations of SMS. MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging System and is what is used to transport pictures and videos. Some services may charge extra or have a addition to your plan, so check first.

"gps averaging" is a better application. it lets you choose the coordinate formatting, and directly exports to either Google maps, Locus, sms, email, your clipboard, or whatever mapping applications you have installed. then you paste that directly into the website if you like. no conversion needed, and reliably gets very good averages in less than a minute.

The problem is you can still see the entry box before it is removed, so you assume that it should be visible. When there was a limit on Pocket Queries, it told you how many you had used, so you could tell when you we getting close to the limit. You are telling me that if you had 4 email addresses and wanted to add two more, it would allow one to be added then not display the entry box any more, without some sort of an explanation? That would make me assume it was broken, not that I had hit a limit. Only 401 people used more than 5 email addresses. How much extra mail was being created that the developers thought they had to impose a limit of 5. I had 6, so the system was ok with 6 until I deleted one. I changed cell provider and I deleted my old email address to send sms messages to my phone. I was trying to add my new service and it wouldn't let me. That appears to be a bug to me since I had 6 at one point. Letting people know they hit the limit seems like a reasonable thing to have. Thanks Terrible Ts