Request a SMS from TrackMe - A JAVA Midlet for Cell Phones

This JAVA Midlet sends a SMS to a phone that runs the TrackMe code.

And you get this back

ID , Time in UTC GMT , Distance, Coordinates, Altitude , Bearing to launch

TrackMe is located on SourceForge

It sends an SMS to TrackMe, TrackMe then sends a SMS with the location data to the predefined number.

The predefined number gets set by the enduser when TrackMe gets started.

The J2ME jar code to be installed on the phone is located in the Midlet folder of

The complete Sourcecode is available at

Installing the application

Nokia PC Suite required

The code needs a trackmesms.txt file in the Images folder of the cellphone

Use File Manager

And go to the Data/Images directory

where you create or copy the trackmesms.txt file

That file contains the cellphone number of the phone that you want to send the SMS to.

No blanks please.

Install the RTMS.jar on your cell phone

accept to read the default cellphone number info

Then choose SMS to send a request to that phone

If TrackMe runs on the other phone, it will then send a SMS with the location info to whatever number the person defined when TrackMe got started

What means, Ulf at 15.08 GMT, ( that is 17.08 SA time), was 4km away from where he launched, at those coordinates,

1656m above sea level, on a bearing of 36 to launch.

The JAVA Midlet is sending a SMS with the following contents

REQ E3CB2ADA -26.13512678 28.16690833

Which will trigger in TrackMe to send a SMS to the predefined number, that got accepted at startup by the user.

The REQ E3CB2ADA is required

The -26.13512678 28.16690833 is NS and EW coords.

Those are dummy values. They do not get used at the moment. Can be anything.