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Free SMS notifications using Google Calendar
Have you ever wondered if is possible to receive notifications from your Google Calendar directly on your cell phone? The good news for all of us is yes, is possible.
For all of us who are using Gmail, we know that there is a nice feature called Calendar, where we can write down our schedule, plan our work for the next days, write down the friends birthdays for better remembering, etc. The best part of this Google feature is that besides the computer pop-up messages we can receive as notification, we can setup to be informed about personal events directly on our cell phone by SMS (it doesn’t require to have an internet connection on the phone!) and for most of us it will be for FREE, except the fact when our phone provider is charging us for receiving messages on our mobile.
How to receive SMS notifications from Google Calendar events?
First of all, in order to use this service, you’ll need to register your cell phone number in Google Calendar. Just sign in, click Settings on the top-right of the page, and go to the Mobile Setup tab. After you have been finished with the registration part you can follow the next steps:
1. open up your Gmail account
2. go to Calendar (on the left-middle) and click on the date you want to schedule a notification (e.g. Dentist appointment)
3. right bellow the calendar, click on Add than click on Edit Details
4. in the New Event windows fill in all the details you want, deselect All Day (it won’t send you a SMS notification if you haven’t deselect All day!)
5. click on Options (right bellow of Description field) and set up the types of notifications you want. See the next print screen for more info.
6. click in Save changes
7. close the windows.
Now everything is up and running. At the desired hour and day you should receive a notification via SMS with that event.
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I have registered my phone with Google and I have received the activation code and everything. Then I have set up an event and a SMS reminder. I didn’t receive the reminder. I tried several times and nothing :-(
ketherius I have no idea why you’re not receiving SMS notifications. For me is working like a charm. All the time when I set up a notification I receive it right away. Maybe is taking a few till this process is entirely functional. Wait a few days and try again. My phone company is Koodo, not so well known one, but I still receive this SMS notifications :) Keep me posted :)
Koodoo works on Bell’s network and I am with Rogers. Anyway, I’ll try again tomorrow.
So far I know, Koodo is working with Telus. Did you check on forums about your problem?
It works now. All I had to do was set my correct location – country and timezone :-)
yep, it’s happened :)
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Short Message Service (SMS) is the text communication service component of mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between mobile phone devices