Hey guys!
I just discovered an annoying feature on my SGS which I think is a general feature of Android phones...
I usually text long messages (I'm on an unlimited SMS plan) and I get frustrated at the fact that whenever I pass the 3 SMS point, it auto-converts my SMS to MMS. This would be useful for those whose carriers naturally charge less for 1 MMS as compared to long SMS but mine isn't one of them (15 php/mms versus 1 php/sms or free)... and besides I'm on unlimited SMS so this "feature" wastes that plan of mine.
Anyway, I was wondering if there's any way at all to suppress this behavior. A quick Google led me to solutions of just cutting back on texts/sending them in multiple parts or using Handcent SMS app.
The first is too inconvenient for me and the recipients of my texts and cutting back on texting is difficult for me and shouldn't be a solution.
As for the second, I've tried Handcent and it does have a setting to not auto-convert long SMS to MMS but I dislike the layout/theme. I prefer having the look of the original messaging app of the Galaxy S. Nice and clean and blends with the look of the whole system. No matter what tweak I do to the themes and such, it just doesn't look good for me.
So my question is...if Handcent SMS has a setting of suppressing that behavior of Android, is there some way to do that without Handcent SMS? Maybe just a simple app or a tweak somewhere in the software perhaps?
Thanks so much in advance! This is really too annoying a feature and I just want to be rid of it.
I know this is sort of old but I am wondering the same thing. Anybody have any answers?
Foryo is said to keep it as sms http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=74cc9dfbd1669f47&hl=en
EDITED: didn't completely read first post.
I'm not sure if chompSMS has the option too, but it's much closer to the layout/simplicity of the original app.
Yeah from my research on the issue Froyo will in fact fix this issue...here's to hoping it will come out some time soon for SGS!!! I'm tired of copy pasting my long texts into Handcent SMS :/ it caused a disastrous mis-send recently )
I have yet to try ChompSMS..I'll give it a go later and report the results. If it does look better and has that feature then I guess it can help me deal better with this issue until Froyo comes out. :O
Anyone who has tried the Froyo beta for SGS willing to report if this issue really is resolved?
Thanks!!!
Still here
This issue is not resolved and is extremely irritating. Surely with all the Dev powar here this could be easily taken care of? I'd do it myself if I knew how...
Can someone please let us know how to stop SMS converting to MMS.
Handcent SMS works perfect for me when I need to type a long sms. But I hate that app and would love to stick to the standard one.
I am also irritated by this problem and could not find a way to deal with it other than dividing it manually; I am running on Froyo and it's there, very frustrating.
SargeRX8 said:
Handcent SMS works perfect for me when I need to type a long sms. But I hate that app and would love to stick to the standard one.
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I also started using Handcent to deal with this issue and I'm very happy with it.
I find it very much like the stock application.
Its not really an andriod problem but a messaging application problem from samsung
Same here in Slovenia...my recipients also get the “broken message“ text sometimes,folowed by another sms with the txt ive written.
I also hate that if the reception is poor and u cant send an sms or mms, the phone wont retry sending when the reception is back... What gives,dammit?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Did anybody found solution for that?
MindFever, I'm also from Slovenia. Did you have problems with sending mms? It wont sent to Croatia numbers, and sometimes it won't sent to anybody or recieve it from others
Hi I have this very frustrating conversion problem also, handcent is a waste of time. so is orange (my network) they are aware of the problem but say that there is a fix on the way from android but noone knows when!!!!!!! anyone help in the meantime?
Hello!
I too have this very problem on my phone (running Darky's RC4). I don't want to use any 3rd-party application to solve this issue like handcent or chop. Is there a mod or a fix that I could use to fix this problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Same for Galaxy Tab
Hi guys,
I have a galaxy tab and the same problem, checked under froyo and gingerbread. I thinks that in fact it is a Samsung problem and not android. It's just the messaging app that sucks. Waiting for samsung to fix it, I tried handcent and it's ok.
check the modified version here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065452
Hello all,
I am having an issue with mass texting for legitimate reasons (not SMS bombing). When 2.1 came out, it limited recipients of a message to 40, but I regularly send messages out to ~100 contacts. Naturally, I just made do, but I'm looking for an answer now. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? Yes, I have already searched to no avail. Also, with 2.1, when I would send a mass text to a group, it would be sent via email to the address linked to their facebook account. I solved this by wiping my phone and disabling facebook sync from the get-go, but would also like to see if anyone else had experienced this problem. When I would view my contacts in gmail, the primary means of contact was still to their cell, but the messaging app would send the message through email.
Thanks for all of the help ahead of time,
kwg8t7
Big bump. Still not resolved. Any ideas?
I have a weird problem with handcent, when I get a text a pop up shows and I can
use that to reply, but it won't show in my conversations thread. I checked around and saw a solution to check my blacklist box in settings but that still hasn't solved my problem. I tried downloading Chompsms and I won't even get texts there either.
Anyone else experiencing this problem?
Hey,
So recently (about a week ago), I started to have a problem with facebook messenger chathead.
For some reason, notifications/chat bubbles doesn't show up anymore if the messenger app is closed.
I only receive facebook messages when I open messenger app. Does anyone else have this problem? Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks for the help!
1.delete ur account
2. sell ur phone
3. buy one with simple keypad (plastic interface i recomand)
4.be happy
I dont know if im the only one but, id like to use the stock messages app but, i keep running into the same issues. Sometimes a text wont send, MMS is buggy, etc. Anyone having this issue?