Is there a tweak to increase your limit from the 170 characters on SMS? Been searching but I didn't find anything yet.
I have been led to believe that the size of the SMS is dependent on your carrier. It seems most of them limit the SMS to 160 characters.
Indeed but most carriers now offer multitext. so if you go over the 160, then they are sent as two but "stitched" together at the recipients device if it supports it.
I live in Bahamas so the carrier is Batelco. If I install my sim card on my Nokia phone, I get 370 characters. I don't remember my message being cut.
unwired4 said:
Indeed but most carriers now offer multitext. so if you go over the 160, then they are sent as two but "stitched" together at the recipients device if it supports it.
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But, yea... I think that still equals 2 (or more), right? You aren't really beating the 160 limit as the OP is trying to do.
Hey there,
I have this weird issue since day 0... Every time I try to send out SMS's with some special characters like ~ and ç, the available characters drop to 62, or close (instead of the usual 160). What's even more nerve wrecking is that if you do send the message, the receiver will end up with a bunch of squares or chinese characters. Right now I'm using HTC_IME mod v27 to get around this issue...
Does anyone know why this happen? I read somewhere that it has to do with the encoding used on android's and that most "normal" phones can't decode it. Is there any fix planned?
Thanks
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to change the defaut split pattern used for phone numbers in the Galaxy S (contacts, calls, etc).
Here in Brazil we use phone numbers just like in USA, following the pattern:
AAA XXXX-XXXX , or AA XXXX-XXXX or even only XXXX-XXXX
(AAA = Area code, and XXXX-XXXX = phone number).
But my phone automatically splits the numbers in a terrible way, like:
AAA-XXX-XXXXX, or AA-XXX-XXX-XX
Is that the default pattern for Europe? (I have the Euro I9000 unlocked model)
Does anyone know any means to change or even remove this split pattern?
Thank you sooo much!
Paulo
I would love to know this as well! Here in the Philippines we split cellphone numbers like this: 09XX-XXXX-XXX or 09XX-XXX-XXXX or something to that effect. The first 2 X digits are operator dependent. My friends who play with my phone always find it so odd and the obsessive compulsive in me doesn't like how it's displayed either!
Would love to find some sort of quick fix to this! Oddly enough, this only happens when I add contacts manually by typing in their numbers. The one's I added by just using the add to contacts option when they text me with a new number display as a single block of numbers instead! Not as bad as the odd splitting my phone does by default, but I'd still prefer splitting the numbers appropriately. It looks better that way in my humble opinion.
My Galaxy S is from Singapore.
Sorry for the bump.
But can anyone help us with this?
Is it CSC related?
Or maybe there is a secret code to set the pattern?
Thanks,
Paulo
Hello Everyone! I have the same problem of course, having bought a Brazilian unit GT-I9000B. On the Samsung Omnia, I managed to change that using SKTools. Is there a SKTools equivalent to fidle the SGS?
Thanks
Hello. I installed V20B rom with root and installed first item here. While composing SMS, Turkish characters(çğiöşü) took size of 7 characters. I assume this is same for all input areas.(While saving a sim contact I can enter maximum of 15 characters. If I enter a Turkish character this size decreases by 6 characters). How can I correct this issue? Is there an input character encoding setting somewhere? Thanks four your help.
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Is there any news?
Sent from my LG-P970 using XDA
Can confirm this bug. In Spanish languages (there are 4 official) are used the following letters: çüñ and vowels with accent. In some cases if I use some of these letters in a SMS there are lost of 100 or 90 characters in the count down from 160 chars and split the SMS before it’s necessary. Real strange haven’t note this till now!
Have to say I am now using v20Q (out now in Spain), the newest version of Ginger now.
Realy strange behaviour!
Hi people, i have a problem with my Note.
I just tried to send my first message after my note returned from service. I added my language(Greek) and i noticed a very very annoying issue.
When i write the second character of my sms the 160 character limit reduces to 70.
Does anyone know what the hell is wrong? I have seen this issue before on a different phone, but with my note i never had this issue until now.
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Hi people, i have a problem with my Note.
I just tried to send my first message after my note returned from service. I added my language(Greek) and i noticed a very very annoying issue.
When i write the second character of my sms the 160 character limit reduces to 70.
Does anyone know what the hell is wrong? I have seen this issue before on a different phone, but with my note i never had this issue until now.
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You are probablly using some greek character o something like that which is reducing the limit. It is the same when I'm usin polish letters like: "ś" or "ć"
I found the culprit!
My firmware is czech, so i figure it must be some sort of setting.
I read on the internet that encoding of the letters is what occupies more space and this gave me an idea.
i went to sms app, pushed the menu soft button and entered "settings", then i went to "input mode" and checked the setting, it was on automatic.
I tinkered a little bit and i finally changed the setting from automatic to "GSM alphabet".
Problem solved.
Good that it's solved but I had a same problem when I was using BlackBerry Curve 9300. Each message could only contain just 70 characters. It was annoying as 'you know what'!
Sold my curve, got a S2, lost it in 9 days!
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I found the culprit!
My firmware is czech, so i figure it must be some sort of setting.
I read on the internet that encoding of the letters is what occupies more space and this gave me an idea.
i went to sms app, pushed the menu soft button and entered "settings", then i went to "input mode" and checked the setting, it was on automatic.
I tinkered a little bit and i finally changed the setting from automatic to "GSM alphabet".
Problem solved.
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Hey thank you.
Thanks for coming back and writing a reply to your own thread too btw. So many people don't do this, they just go "Oh well found what the problem is" and then just leave it at that. Thread dies.
I put in the search (always search before posting) and you just saved me a lot of time of decompiling and recompiling and app
Another Fix
install GO SMS Pro,
go to GO SMS Pro settings --> Advanced --> Send&Receive Settings --> scroll down --> select Split large messages check box --> scroll down --> Select Enable customized SMSC --> Customized SMSC number --> enter your service providers SMSC number.
you can find SMSC numbers for operators in the following link
http://www.ozeki.hu/index.phtml?ow_page_number=458
thilina01 said:
install GO SMS Pro,
go to GO SMS Pro settings --> Advanced --> Send&Receive Settings --> scroll down --> select Split large messages check box --> scroll down --> Select Enable customized SMSC --> Customized SMSC number --> enter your service providers SMSC number.
you can find SMSC numbers for operators in the following link
http://www.ozeki.hu/index.phtml?ow_page_number=458
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It does split the large SMS in chunks but those chunks again consists of 160 character. There is no way to set to to be split in 80 character chunks
It is not about the characters. Its about Korean phone SMS limit on GSM. It must be done within the ROM. GoSMS or any app will not be able to bypass the system's limit
The best advice I can give is change your language to English-United States, i once had this issue in xxltc rom.. I don;t know which english(country I chose) but language does seem to increase the word count!
Android 4.9 Marshmallow said:
I found the culprit!
My firmware is czech, so i figure it must be some sort of setting.
I read on the internet that encoding of the letters is what occupies more space and this gave me an idea.
i went to sms app, pushed the menu soft button and entered "settings", then i went to "input mode" and checked the setting, it was on automatic.
I tinkered a little bit and i finally changed the setting from automatic to "GSM alphabet".
Problem solved.
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problem solved indeed! except now greek are stuck in CAPS mode and cannot change it no matter what. Grrrrrr samsung xcover 2 and android 4.1.2 JB......any other ideas?
It's an encoding problem
The message size limit for sms is 140 (8-bit) bytes. Normal encoding is a modified 7-bit ASCII ('English'). If you do the math, that gives you the regular 160 character limit. Some less common ASCII characters get encoded as two 7-bit characters.
Outside of that, your ENTIRE message is encoded as 16 bit Unicode.. thus the 70 character limit.
If your phone starts in Unicode, then you are stuck with the 70 character limit.
My phone starts in 7-bit mode and only switches to Unicode If I go outside the 7-bit character set, so I get 160 characters per message unless I use "weird" characters like "ç", "è" or "¤").