I seem to remember my Note 2 being able to manually change to MMS on demand so you get a 1000 character limit instead of the standard 160.
This comes in handy if you are sending a lengthy text due to a long link, or "sensitive" text that you don't want broken up incase message 2 of 3 gets received before 1 of 3.
This was a very handy feature. Anyone seen such a modification for 5.1.1?
Stock has it automatically. I just noticed this the other week.
rile1564 said:
Stock has it automatically. I just noticed this the other week.
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Hmm, I can't find the option. How do you do it?
I know it will automatically convert after 3 messages (or maybe 4) but sometimes I text a long link that takes 2 messages and it breaks it up. I know I could use a shortening URL but that's one extra step.
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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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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 an app. or or a tweak, or any other way, to turn off the character limit, if its even possible?
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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
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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.
How come when the sms message gets too long, it will be converted to MMS? How do I solve this problem?
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How come when the sms message gets too long, it will be converted to MMS? How do I solve this problem?
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I think your confused.. Im going to assume your trying to send a picture and it says its too large so its converting it to an mms right?
Actually, he's right. On my G1 when I hit so many characters (usually by the end of the 3rd set of 160) it changes to MMS. The reason it does this is so the network can better handle the message. Sending as 3 seperate texts would take more time for the network to submit, store, and resend, than 1 MMS message would.
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How come when the sms message gets too long, it will be converted to MMS? How do I solve this problem?
I think your confused.. Im going to assume your trying to send a picture and it says its too large so its converting it to an mms right?
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No he isnt confused, when you sent a text that goes over a certain amount of characters it converts it into a mms, i dont think you can stop it from converting it but what you can do is send multiple text massages under the conversion limit
Oh okay, so there is nothing I can do about it?
Not really no. Just when you get to a certain limit and the counter appears showing how many characters you have left, just send it, and start on the next one
Send shorter messages, send an email or IM...
SMS converts to MMS when it gets 3 messages long..it has a character count so stop right before it converts and send it and continue in a new text
ok you want to rid this problem but i would like my tilt to do this aoutmaticly, any way?
Yeah, download HandCent SMS application. It will solve this application.
I apologize if this has been asked/resolved before, but I searched the forums and google quite a bit to no avail. I have found other instances of people with this issue but have not found a resolution yet.
Every time I receive a single text message, I get a notification on the unlock screen that says I have 2 texts. When I unlock the phone and pull down the notification area, it lists the 2 texts. One of the texts is the actual text i just received and I can access it just fine. The other text listed is a text from weeks ago that has long been deleted, including the entire thread it was in. This ghost text will not go away.
I can clear the notifications and it goes away, but as soon as I receive another text from anyone, it pops up there again. I have tried some other solutions that popped up on google. These were to download the SMS Cleaner app and search by keyword. Upon doing this, the app does not find any texts with the keywords from the ghost text.
I have also tried replying to the text to create a new thread and maybe try to delete it again, but even when the new thread is created/deleted the ghost text comes back.
I also turned off/on text notifications several times also combined with power cycling the phone, which did not solve this either.
Note: This text was from a room alert system in our server room at work. It sends email alerts that we then have converted to text message and sent to our phones.
Not sure if it being an email has anything to do with it, but I have received these alerts several times before without any of them getting stuck.
My phone is still on 2.1 and was rooted using Unleash the Beast.
Anyone have the same problem, or any ideas? Is there a folder that holds texts somewhere in the root file system that I can clean out?
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to give as much detail about the problem as possible, this has been annoying me for weeks.
Try deleting the email alert? Just spitballing...
This happened to me last night!
I keep getting the same Ghost Txt message
The only way i can think to get rid of it would be a Data Reset.
But i dont wanna erase my whole phone cuz of a software issue that may happen again!
Have u fixed it?
No, still no luck on this. Anyone have any ideas?
I had a problem similar to this with the dumb phone that i had before my Captivate. I called AT&T customer support because I didn't want to reset my phone and they got it resolved. Apparently there was a message stuck in their server marked as unread, but since it had been read on my phone it said 0 new messages. This might work for you, too?
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Open the spot where notifications are read the phone number and send a text to it, it will open the message thread and you can delete it there
Hey all! I recently got my new Xperia tl from att. One thing I have yet to find is a message limit to convert SMS messages to mms messages. All of my other phones I've owned would either automatically change SMS messages to mms messages after say like 5 pages were written, or you could select the type of message. The reason why I ask is when a message is like 5 pages long the person in talking to usually gets 5 messages but they almost never come in the right order so its like trying To put a puzzle of messages together! Haha. So is there any way to set a limit to.change the message type after the text gets to certain length? Thanks all!
I think that a five message long could be divided with a few Full Stops. Or send a email, better I think for such a long message.
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Hey all! I recently got my new Xperia tl from att. One thing I have yet to find is a message limit to convert SMS messages to mms messages. All of my other phones I've owned would either automatically change SMS messages to mms messages after say like 5 pages were written, or you could select the type of message. The reason why I ask is when a message is like 5 pages long the person in talking to usually gets 5 messages but they almost never come in the right order so its like trying To put a puzzle of messages together! Haha. So is there any way to set a limit to.change the message type after the text gets to certain length? Thanks all!
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You could use a third party mms message app.
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I recently was sent a text message that was over 160 characters from an iPhone to my HTC One, and I noticed that the iPhone doesn't separate the messages into 160 character msgs, or the HTC one - for one reason or another - didn't get the rest of the message as a second text.
Is there some setting within the phone to accept text messages greater than 160 (which would be an MMS, no?) or is it the iPhone that sucks balls here and isn't breaking them apart?
I only ask because texts from Mom are greater than 160 characters...
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I recently was sent a text message that was over 160 characters from an iPhone to my HTC One, and I noticed that the iPhone doesn't separate the messages into 160 character msgs, or the HTC one - for one reason or another - didn't get the rest of the message as a second text.
Is there some setting within the phone to accept text messages greater than 160 (which would be an MMS, no?) or is it the iPhone that sucks balls here and isn't breaking them apart?
I only ask because texts from Mom are greater than 160 characters...
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Anytime the HTC ONE receives an SMS message that is multi part it holds the message back until it receives all parts then in case of receiving out of order it reassembles them in the correct order and gives it to you as ONE text message. This is true for SMS which goes up to 4 or 6 160 length messages before it can't do SMS and sends it as an MMS. I say 4 or 6 because I have seen phone models and carrier vary on this.
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Anytime the HTC ONE receives an SMS message that is multi part it holds the message back until it receives all parts then in case of receiving out of order it reassembles them in the correct order and gives it to you as ONE text message. This is true for SMS which goes up to 4 or 6 160 length messages before it can't do SMS and sends it as an MMS. I say 4 or 6 because I have seen phone models and carrier vary on this.
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How sure are you on this? I just had a coworker send me a full text from an iPhone (when you send via iPhone it looks like one giant text > 160 characters) and I only received the first 160 characters. Couple minutes later and still no more of the text. Also, could this be dependent on your carrier?
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How sure are you on this? I just had a coworker send me a full text from an iPhone (when you send via iPhone it looks like one giant text > 160 characters) and I only received the first 160 characters. Couple minutes later and still no more of the text. Also, could this be dependent on your carrier?
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I can't be 100% certain with regard to the carrier question. I am on Sprint
However I am relatively sure the phone is receiving the SMS not giving a notification waiting for the muti part SMS to all be delivered and then giving ONE notification for the entire thing. (Not one per part)
The reason I don't think this has anything to do with the carrier is the fact that this is the only Sprint Network phone I have ever used that did this. All others (phones same network) would deliver the SMS one part at a time a notification for each part and sometimes out of order.
I would ask you to retest and see if anything changes.