QSMS - Press 'Q' to Compose SMS

Just like you can hit ‘C’ to compose an email, you can use the ‘Q’ shortcut to compose an SMS!

To enable shortcut, please disable “Dial from home screen” option through Phone > Options. BlackBerry Pearl does not support shortcut, but you can still use QSMS through its icon or by assigning it to convenience key through Options > Screen/Keyboard.

OTA: http://berrycoder.com/qsms.jad

62 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow this works on my 8320. Thanks

Shawn said...

This is an incredible convenience, thank you! I don't know the first thing about coding in Java but I'd like to believe that once the code has been written for something like this, it might be simple to duplicate it to perform other home key shortcut functions, no? Say, for example, launching the camera? Being that the 8320 only has two convenience keys to work with, it'd be great to free one of them up to do something else.

Anonymous said...

i can't download OTA. can you provide the .jar file (or an .alx & .cod file)?

Anonymous said...

Would you mind sharing the code for this? I'm new to Java and would like to learn how to make a keyboard shortcut like this!

Great job!

John
JohnJRose10@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

I do not have internet access on my phone so I cannot download the program over the air. Can you posst the .alx and .cod file or the .jar file? or can you provide instructions on how to get this onto my phone using the desktop manager..

Anonymous said...

It worked right after installation but stopped after a soft reboot. Now q calls up ICQ. Please help!

BerryCoder said...

If you don't use ICQ, just delete the application to enable QSMS. Probably ICQ is set to use 'Q' as the shortcut like BlackBerryMessenger by pressing 'N'.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, I deleted ICQ & now Q works for QSMS! I wonder if we can reassign keys for either ICQ &/or QSMS. I'm using USA T-Mobile Curve OS4.5 & found 3 keys not mapped: E, J, Z.

Anthony said...

Can't download OTA..getting a "907 Invalid COD HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable" message =(

Anthony said...

Working now =)

Anonymous said...

I just downloaded Qsms and have installed to my BlackBerry Bold then i press Q nothing happen. Can you help me to solve this prob ? Thx before.

Tony

Anonymous said...

Tony,

What BB are you using? The shortcut only works with QWERTY type BB. You also need to disable the DIAL FROM HOME SCREEN feature.

Hope it helps.

Anonymous said...

I'm using the 9000 Blackberry Bold. I could not find the option to disable the "Dial from Home Screen".
>.< Looking for help.

Cheers !

Anonymous said...

Tony,

Go to dial screen (the green phone button) then press menu (the BB logo button), select option, go to general option, you'll see the Dial From Home Screen option, set it to no and save.

good luck.

Anonymous said...

Problem solved. Thank you for your help.

Anonymous said...

this is exactly what i was looking for, but unfortunately it conflicts with the "quicknote" app -- any way to make the shortcut key user-selectable? thanks either way, great app!

Danny said...

Thank you 1000 times. Great app.

Anonymous said...

I have loaded the QSMS app on my Blackberry Curve 8130. I have disabled the DIAL FROM HOME option. However everytime I hold the Q button down, it prompts me to assign a SPEED DIAL number. Suggestions

ben said...

AMAZING APP!! THANK YOU.

Anonymous said...

I am using Bold, Does QSMS support for Bold?

Anonymous said...

installed on my 8830 and got some sort of error:install() null error when I pressed Q or click the icon. Any suggetions?

Anonymous said...

you have made my 8330 complete. THANK YOU!!

Anonymous said...

installed on my 8900 with 'qwertz' keyboard and got the error:install() null error when I pressed Q or click the icon. can you make it working also for 'qwertz' not only for 'qwerty'?

Anonymous said...

I can't find compose sms as an option on my 8100 pearl.

how can I set one of the side buttons to go to this screen?

Anonymous said...

On my 8900, qsms is in my app download folder and doesn't work when I press "q". Please help.

Anonymous said...

Q only launches ICQ on my 8900. Changed setting to Left convenience key instead. I was previously using this key for my alarm clock, so if there is a way to change this setting I would appreciate it.

Thank you for this app!

Lisa said...

i have the 8350i blackberry I have disabled the Dial from Home option however when trying to use the app it gives me the: install() null error when I pressed Q or click the icon. What else should i try?

Anonymous said...

8900 users, you have to move the app out of the downloads folder to the home folder (you can then hide it if you want) in order to override the ICQ shortcut.

Chad said...

downloaded to 8330 and when push q key all i get is assign speed dial #,what to do???

Chad said...

downloaded to 8330 when i push the q key i get asign speed dial Whats up?

Sanjeev said...

Can there be a software that sends an SMS to all phone numbers on your Address book (including multiple numbers for recepients)

A trainee said...

This is amazing!!! The one thing really missing from Blackberry! The best application for BB!! Many thanks.

Diane said...

Awesome, thank you!

dq said...

The simplicity to usefulness ratio for this app is 1:1.

Thank You!

Suggestion to BerryCoder:

Could you PLEASE develop a shortcut that activates standby mode. It can be a bit cumbersome to hold down mute for 2 seconds (of course, BB users have a very low cumbersomeness threshold). Also, there are some skins / cases that block access to the button.

Standby apps currently exist (e.g. Easy Standby & Auto Standby) but they activate standby after a specified period of time. And both of these apps are reportedly quite buggy. A simple shortcut (x perhaps) is really all that's needed.

Thanks again for Q SMS

eli hermes said...

need help.
I'm getting "907 invalid COD"

10x

Anonymous said...

Please be consistent with JAD and installed icon name, e.g. rename everything to QSMS (vs. qsms, or Qsms).

Anonymous said...

You can compose with a hotkey using this product, but can you send as well?

Anonymous said...

Please answer about the "activate error (): null" problem. I have used qsms for a year with no problems and it just stopped working. I changed my theme yesterday and I think that might be the problem, except when I changed back to the theme I had before, I still had the same error message. Please help!

Anonymous said...

This is a complete pile of crap. Good luck getting it installed, better luck getting it to work. Nice try.

Anonymous said...

To the users that are getting a prompt for a speed dial number.... Don't hold the key down, just tap it. When "dial from gome screen" is turned off the keys have 2 functions. Tap a key to perform a function (like "Q" for QSMS or "N" for BB Messenger) and hold down a key to call a speed dial number.

Anonymous said...

Great app. Would be great if there was a similar app to send a (free) SMS using Google Voice.

Anonymous said...

For those who don't use their phone this is grt. HOWEVER, I use my phone, and this app sucks. Under the impression this app would work in the message app by pushin Q like you can push C, I downloaded it, but it literally only works from home screen - not a good app.

James said...

PLEASE BRING THIS TO THE 9800 Torch! I can't function without it!!! It's an amazing application that makes texting such a convenience. I'd be more then happy to donate when this is brought to the Torch! Keep up the great work!!

Param said...

to download the .cod file go here
http://www.scaevola.net/blackberry/qsms/

download it to ur phone or jus put it on your memory card and save the .jar file and the .cod file in the same folder, then press the .jar file and download it, it wont show any error in downloading, n then u will be able to use qsms perfectly !

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed the simplicity of the earlier version, but after updating to OS5, the new version or qsms has automatically allows you to add a second recipient, which takes an extra step to click through to the message content window.

My thought is that, if you're sending to multiple recipients, it's not going to be "quick", so for that to be the default process in qsms, seems a bit of a waste. It would be great to go straight from entering recipient, to entering message content. The old version was super fast and I loved it.

Mike said...

Does this work for the torch yet?

Shane said...

I also would like to know if OS6 compatibility is coming...

Anonymous said...

Please update this for the 9800/OS6! I cant live without Qsms!

Danny said...

OS6 Support is seriously needed!

Anonymous said...

When I realized QSMS no longer worked after I upgraded to OS6, I was a sad panda.

Anonymous said...

Make another mark for OS6 user that really misses this app! Please please make support for OS6 on the 9700 soon.

Steve Walker said...

Just installed the leaked version of OS 6 for the 9700...it appears that QSMS won't work with this update. :-(

If someone can make it work that would be great! As far as I can tell the OS 6 still doesn't include a shortcut for SMS.

Richard said...

This is a very useful application and very, very great! I love it.
Can run smoothly on the bold 9700 with OS5.
But it is unfortunate, this application can not run on bold 9700 with OS6.

Can or will you to modify a little so that it can run on OS6?

Thank you and GBU.

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Anonymous said...

i have a bold 9780 with os6, the q key now changes the profile. for those of you with this problem, i dl one touch sms and assigned it to convience key. this will probably work until qsms is updated to fix this.

Anonymous said...

need update for os 6

thx

Anonymous said...

I never would have upgraded to OS6 if i knew I would lose qsms. Please update asap. Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Does anybody from BerryCoder read these comments? OS6 update in the works? Thank you. Great app!!!!

Anonymous said...

An upgrade for OS 6.0 is needed. This is the only app I miss using after moving to 6.0.

Anonymous said...

I just got the BB Style 9670 and I have to home screen option. Is there anything that could be done?

Anonymous said...

Have Bold 9930. This app creates new text message but does not open the application. Can anyone address?

Anonymous said...

New Curve 9350 WITH OS7 - QSMS doesn't work. I REALLY MISS THIS, SO PLEASE SOMEONE FIX THIS :)

THANK YOU