Mobile message type specification - Picture message

Introduction

The picture message format can be used to send small black and white OTA images to mobile phones in SMS. The OTA image format is explained at our OTA bitmap specification page. To send a picture message, you need to select the SMS:BINARY:PICTUREMESSAGE type and you should provide the image data in hexadecimal format.

Message type

SMS:BINARY:PICTUREMESSAGE

The format of the message data is a list of hexadecimal numbers. For example:
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Sending a WAP Push message from an SQL database

If you use the SQL to SMS gateway configuration to send and receive SMS messages from your database, you can use the following SQL statement to send a picture message:

insert into ozekimessageout (receiver,msgtype,msg,status) values ('+36201234567',
         'SMS:BINARY:PICTUREMESSAGE','300000045465737402010000481C01666666666666666666999999999999999999
800000000000000001400000006000E00002400000E900310000280000031080CF
3B801800000400411044401400000FFFE2F8B12024000000000538CAA028000000
0006289C4018000000000414140014000000000142800240002000000142800280
01F0000000A28001800FFE000000A500015FFFFFFFFFFEA57FFA400AAA00000055
00028201500440015D08A188102800040FF0201404100010003ABE002440000082
00D55588280101440001AAAAC0180000000003555560140010000806AAAAB02400
00000005555550280000000000000001999999999999999999666666666666666666','send');

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