Blackberry SMS interception, sending an SMS to the emulator

bake_betty

I am currently developing a Blackberry 5.0 application which needs to be able to intercept a SMS message. I am trying to send a SMS to the emulator. I've come accross the suggestion to run two separate instances of the emulator and to send a SMS from the one emulator instance to the other using the SMSDemo sample application on both emulators. I run the two instances of the emulator from two separate working directories as follows:...

Originally asked by Will777 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I have finally found a solution for the problem. Here it is: Using Wireshark to sniff the UDP broadcast from the emulator I noticed that the destination address is incorrect - its "1.0.0.127". This address is not routable so the datagram sent from the one emulator will never reach the other emulator. I might have missed it but I cannot see any command line argument to set when launching the emulator to specify the destination address. I changed my development laptop to use a hard-coded IP address instead of DHCP. I then added 1.0.0.127 as another IP address to my TCP/IP settings. The address is now routable. Restarted both emulators with no changes to the port settings (/sms-source-port and...

Full answer by Will777: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/11052449 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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