Maintaining a healthy text life

Last night I discovered that none of the text messages I'd sent in the last week had actually reached their destination. I'll spare you the details of how I found out but let's just say that I was in the doghouse for a while there.

It turns out that my Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) settings had been wiped. It also turns out that my Amoi Skypephone S2 (aka the Amoi 8512) tends to randomly delete things if I put it in my pocket without locking it. Including really important settings.

If you lose your settings and, like me, don't want to chance a factory reset, here's a list of the SMSC settings for all the UK mobile phone providers. Please note that I found these here and can only vouch for the 3 mobile number.

3 Mobile	+447782000800
O2 contract	+447802000332
O2 PAYG	+447802092035
O2 PAYG	+447802000334
Orange	+447973100973
Orange	+447973100974
Tesco Mobile	+447802092035
T-Mobile	+447958879879
Virgin Mobile	+447958879890
Vodafone	+447785016005

Depending on your phone, you'll find your SMSC settings either in your main phone configuration screens or, more likely, in your text message settings. Incidentally, if your phone's default SMSC number starts with 0 rather than with +44, changing it to the latter prefix is important if you want to send texts while outside the UK.