QCell - Instant Messaging

Do you want to connect with your friends on your favourite Social Network sites?  QIM is the service for you and it works on all mobile phones that can send and receive text messages.

QIM enables you to enjoy live chats with your friends on Facebook, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk and more via SMS with your QCell line. That’s not all, can post on your or your friends’ Facebook Timeline, see Friends’ Profile Information, you get regular updates of your Friends’ Wall Posts – make comments or like posts; All via SMS on any phone with your QCell line.

You need a Facebook account to use the service. Once you have an account, visit http://apps.facebook.com/qcellchat and subscribe to the service.

Here are some commands on the QIM Service:

Adding/Configuring chat Accounts
You can add or configure chat accounts online when you visit http://apps.facebook.com/qcellchat or do it on your phone. Use the following syntax and send via SMS to 444 to add a chat account:
Account Add <chat system> <username> <chat system password>
Example: Account Add Facebook qcelluser *******
Or Aa Fb qcelluser *******
Where Aa stands for Account Add and Fb stands for Facebook.

Repeat the same procedure to add yahoo, Gtalk, MSN or other chat accounts.

Other useful commands for Account Configuration: Send all commands via SMS to 444.

AL – Account List:  lists the accounts you’ve added. Each account is given a number starting from 0. Example
1. Qcelluser Facebook ON
2. QCelluser Yahoo ON
3. QCelluser Gmail ON
AF <Account Number>: Will turn OFF the account number stated, this is especially useful when you do not want any interaction in that particular account for at the moment. The next time you login, the account will be turned on automatically.
Example: AF 1 will turn off the Yahoo Account in the previous Account List example.

AO <Account Number>: Will turn on an account that is already off.
Example: AO 1 will switch back ON the Yahoo Account in the example above

AD <Account Number) – Account Delete: Enables you to delete an account.
Example: AD 0 will delete Account number 0, in the previous example; the Facebook Account will be deleted.

Once you’ve created a password online, you can use it to login or even change to a different password using the Set Password Command.
Example: SET PASSWORD MyNewPass

Accessing Your Account

To Login on your phone, send SMS:

Login <password> to 444
Example: Login quser

If you only want to login to chat but not receive friends’ updates, use LOGON instead of LOGIN- example:
Logon quser and send via SMS to 444

If you only want to login to see friends’ status updates but not chat, use the STATUS command.
Example: Status quser and send via SMS to 444

Useful Account Access Commands

Logout: Ends your session and logs you out of the service
Logoff:  Logs you out of Facebook Chat only
FbOff: Logs you out of Facebook Status Updates

Interacting with Friends

*Remember: Send all message commands via SMS to 444

Now that you have logged in already, here are some useful commands:

Names: Shows you the names of friends that are online now
The names of your contacts will be written without spaces between the First and Last, First and Middle, or Middle and Last Name.
Example: MuhammedJack AmieSise MomodouSanuJallow

#: The hash tag is used in front of your contact name followed by the text when you want to send an instant message.
Example: MomodouSanuJallow# Hello! Shall we go jogging on the beach tomorrow?
When your contact replies, you see the hash tag in front of their name followed by their message.
Example: MomodouSanuJallow# Sure that is great idea, tomorrow morning will be good time for me.

If you are chatting with only one person, you can choose to use only the hash tag ‘#’ without their name to send a message.

Is your contact’s name too long and you would want to type less? You can change the way a contact’s name appears by renaming it using the RENAME Command.
Example: RENAME MomodouSanuJallow MSJ
The above command will rename your contact’s name to MSJ so the next time you type NAMES, you see MSJ instead of MomodouSanuJallow.

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