How do I set my cell up for SMS on yahoo messenger?

How do I turn off SMS forwarding from my Yahoo Messenger to my cell phone? Hurry I'm being bombarded!!?

  • Please explain how to turn off SMS message forwarding to my cell phone. It was easy to turn it on and the first day I was bombarded by useless messages. Please hurry, I think Cingular is gonna hammer me with charges. Thanks in advance.....JJG

  • Answer:

    Edit your mobile service. It's in general option. press mesenger, got to preferences or you can sign out of mobile services. its on the same messenger pull down

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Try clicking on the Messenger dropdown menu and selecting My Contact Details and removing your cell phone number.

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It's happening to everyone who uses the SMS service through yahoo on a Cingular phone. Turning off the sms service via yahoo WILL NOT STOP THE MESSAGES! Here's what you need to do. Call 1-866-695-2750(Cingular Wireless customer service) and tell them what happened. They pulled up my account and were able to reverse the charges. They did tell me that any messages left out there will still deliver. In my case, I have a prepaid phone and it ran down the entire balance due to the same problem. The woman I spoke to said she was going to open a support ticket and it would be looked into. I've also emailed yahoo about this problem and still waiting to hear a reply. The problem with prepaid accounts is that once your balance runs out, the messages will stop being delivered. Does this mean they're gone for good? Cingular says no, they will still deliver once the excess charges to the account are corrected. Cingular also says that leaving your phone off/sim out of it's slot will only delay the delivery of messages, but the account is still charged for them at the time they hit the message server. If you have prepaid service, the only thing you can do is see if any more messages hit your phone and if they do, call Cingular and have them credit you back the balance that was lost. TURNING OFF THE TEXT MESSAGING FOR THE PHONE IS ONLY EFFECTIVE FOR NEW MESSAGES! If you're a prepaid customer and the balance ran out and stopped message delivery, once your account is credited back the money it lost, these old messages will still deliver. If this happens, call Cingular and they will reverse the new charges to your account. New information: The problem isn't fixed. It's not a cingular issue, or at least not anymore. The messages I recieve from other cell phones don't duplicate, it's only the ones from yahoo messenger. Note that this also is a problem when someone sends you a text/sms message from their yahoo messenger, even if you aren't mobile. Tell all your friends to avoid using ANY of yahoo's text/sms services for the time being. Still awaiting response from support email sent to yahoo

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