hello,
When I write a sms I do not see the number of character use?
a bug? or install a program?
thank you
the hero standard app 'Messages' doesn't show the character count.
for an enhanced texting experience install Hancent SMS or ChompSMS from the market (both are free apps).
THX nuumuun's
It will tell you the number of characters remaining in the current text as you reach the limit, and will continue to show that display from there on. Prior to that, I presume they couldn't see why you'd need a counter taking up space.
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Anyone else have a problem where they send a message to someone and then the person you sent it to, end up receiving 2 instead? It seems to be all the time. Any ideas? Im with O2 in the UK. Also the annoying LED's on the unit. Sometimes when i do the reg fix it works fine, other times after a h/reset and reg fix applied, the light starts again about 10 mins later, and it seems impossible to stop it......
Help guys
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heres a fix
When an sms is compsed there is an option in the sms settings that will allow you to tick “Use Unicode when necessary” if this option is ticked what will happen either your sms will be sent twice
(for the people who really want know what Unicode is, its software that allows software to see foreign charcthers, such as chines Koren. More info at http://www.unicode.org/)
So just untick the option will resolve the problem. When this option is ticked instead of your charcherts size being the 160 it is dropped to 70 charcheres so as soon as you go over the 70 mark its 2 sms.
To fix this you go from the front of your device
Click on start, then down to messaging.
Tap on accounts in the tab below and then select accounts from the list.
Now tap on tex messages
Now just click Unicode off.
AND there we have it.
Actually, Using the option Unicode when necessary uses Unicode formatting ONLY when a Unicode character is found in the message.
I always put this option on, and when my message contains any Unicode character, it converts the whole message into Unicode (hence the message size will be a multiples of 70 chars and not 160). But if your message is pure ANSI characters (all English) then it will be send as it without using Unicode encoding (160 chars).
RZZKT slaam walicum, bud or just plain hello,
i see your point, only thing is here in the UK when we send an sms it goes through spefic sms centre's on the mobile networks then gets routed through various sms gateways etc etc what happens on the Vodafone network and on orange is when you compose a sms say just right TEST if the unicode option is ticked on then the sms when routed will be sent 2ice, on vodafone iv tracked the process for the sms and we can see whats called sms refernce number and if a phone is sending multipull sms the refernce number will be the same, but from my device(spv m2000-unlocked and office qteck9090) the sms refernce number stays the same so the networjk does not belive its a multipull sms but instead it treats it as the device is sending 2 seperate sms's--even when the tracking info time tag shows id time frame i.e sms 1 19:00:16secs sms 2 19:00:16secs.
As i work for Vodafone i can track the sms traffic on our system but its the same situation with the orange network when i have my orange sim in the spv.
Just the way our networks work im afraid. As for the above poor chapy, its going to either be what we are discussing or issue issue with his device(which may be more probable orrrrrrr issue with o2)
never mind wish him all the best!
N2h, wa'alaykom assalam
Ohh i see! thats why its not happening here with me.
We have something called SMS Center, we just put this center's number in the SMS message settings.
Its nice to work in Vodafone... guess you have unlimited phone calls 8)
Lucky you :wink:
I have an Alpine on O2 (UK) running all the default software and ROMs.
My mother has some old Samsung phone - black & white text only style.
When I send her text messages, she'll often receive several, all of which say "Incompatible message format"... I'm just sending ordinary SMS.
I noticed today when I was typing a message to her, that in the place where it shows how many characters there are and how many messages it will take, it said 155/3 SMS - meaning there are 155 characters and it will take 3 SMS to send it... Why could this be?
Does anyone know what's going on?
it's because you use symbols that are not standart english.
and when you use them in sms they are send not as ordinary text, but in unicode - thats' why there's 70 letters for 1 sms. On my 2020i on eng. keyboard there is symbol ' near spacebar which is not standart so using it turns sms to be send in unicode.
Your mother's phone doesn't support unicode as I see... so try to use standard symbols only - maybe on your keyboard layout there are others not like mine, but you can determine which it is by typing them all and watching when sms letter limit moves from 160 to 70.
Ahh thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I think it's when autocomplete inserts a nonstandard apostrophe in certain words that will be doing it then.
Turned off the autocorrect thing which adds the nonstandard apostrophe, sent some test messages and its all sorted now. Thanks again.
Does anyone know an app. or or a tweak, or any other way, to turn off the character limit, if its even possible?
B4ll_Playa said:
Does anyone know an app. or or a tweak, or any other way, to turn off the character limit, if its even possible?
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Isn't this a carrier limitation?
From my use and what I can find on AT&T, 160 characters is the max for one message - when you exceed that, the system just creates a second message to continue what you are writing. Other systems may have a different max, I don't know . . .
there is no 'character limit' as for as i know, I've sent 5-SMS long messages at once..
it doesn't split them up in your screen, but if the other party is not using a smartphone or the like they get your message split up into 3-4-5-6 messages, depending how long it is...
the ###/### just shows you how many messages it will 'count' as for billing purposes really
the whole SMS system (that may be redundant) is old. It uses old technology so the 160 character limit is basically the limit of the old technology. I recommend that if you can, you use email instead of SMS.
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The character limit for SMS is 160. (Short message service - short being the keyword. )
Depending on the device, it can split the message into multiple SMS's if it's over the 160 character limit. Thats a device dependant, however. Not all phones support this, but most of the newer ones do.
If you're looking to write something huge and long, use email.
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Does anyone know of a search option to help me find a way to search the already answered or discussed threads?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e:http://forum.xda-developers.com&btnG=Search
SMS 160 limit
BBM-Lee said:
there is no 'character limit' as for as i know, I've sent 5-SMS long messages at once..
it doesn't split them up in your screen, but if the other party is not using a smartphone or the like they get your message split up into 3-4-5-6 messages, depending how long it is...
the ###/### just shows you how many messages it will 'count' as for billing purposes really
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Yeah, you are correct, "it doesn't split them up in your screen", but it sure does on the recipient's screen, and if # of messages is important to you or to the recipient, that can be an issue.
Is there a way to show the number of typed characters when typing a text message with the latest official ROM? I used to have a counter showing the number of characters typed and the number of messages that had to be sent.
I'm unable to find a few customization options here (and if possible I do not want to use a 3rd party app).
Should be at the top of the page when entering your new text. Its always been there as standard with the threaded SMS app
yeah it's where start normally is
It happens when replying to an sms (then threaded sms start).
When I start a new sms from scrap, then I've got the counter as before.
Any way to disable the threaded mode?
I found the character counter.
I'm using WkTask as a taskmanager, which puts all active programs in the taskbar (just like normal Windows behavior). And in that area of the sms application on the taskbar, it puts its character counter.
It was there already, but I just missed it I guess
I've just updated mine, and I've noticed the same. The character counter is present when I create a new message. It's not there when I reply in conversation mode.
Anyone know how to turn it on?
If the text message I send exceeds 160 characters, it throws "Your text message cannot be sent" and send only the first 160 characters. But I am able to receive text messages more than 160 characters.
I tried hard reset still the same. Please help !!!
An sms is by definition 160 characters or less
That rather abitrary number was decided on when that tech was new. They didn't see anyone needing more. That being said, I can still write a message that is longer, but it gets sent in multiples sms's. I'm with at&t and even when I had the stock rom, this was possible. The problem could be a restriction set in your ROM, or by your carrier.
Is this a new issue, or one that has always been there?
I started using this phone recently so I can't tell. But I understand that this is something to do with EMS changes in the registry.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa919404.aspx
jameybond said:
If the text message I send exceeds 160 characters, it throws "Your text message cannot be sent" and send only the first 160 characters. But I am able to receive text messages more than 160 characters.
I tried hard reset still the same. Please help !!!
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try this:
in Messaging select TOOLS-->OPTIONS-->Tap text Messages.
uncheck the Use unicode when neccesary
thank you. you help me too
crissg said:
That rather abitrary number was decided on when that tech was new. They didn't see anyone needing more.
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That number was not aritrary. It was the amount of unused space that was available in the control channel packets. Someone decided that space could be used to send short messages in the control channel packets and would result in no extra overhead in the amount of data being sent and received. They may or may not have "saw" needing more but it didn't really matter since that's all that's available in each packet.
However, "concatinated SMS" does allow for a larger packet by sending multiple SMS messages, each with a sequence number. The phone receives each SMS message and put them back in the order according to the sequence number. Phones that don't handle concatinated SMS simply display the individual messages as seperate ones.
i still have the same problem, does any one know how to solve that problem ???