Database Info

HD2: Cannot send sms longer than 160 characters

I've tried with "search" but I cannot match the keyword ....
So, there was a time when restoring your contacts from pimbackup was harmful to the sms app, I cannot send text message longer than 160 chars (I can send them, no errors, but they are not received)
Anyone knows how to solve this issue? I've this bug on my HD2 from various roms, so, I think that it's related with the stored contacts
Maybe there's something with the tags that HTC Sense stores in the "notes" tab of each contact, in this case, there is a way to wipe all the notes of each contact automatically?

Oh yes you can!!!
As far as I know, it's nothing to do with you having imported contacts etc. from PIMbackup......it's just the way it goes....
By default, the messaging application is set to "use Unicode when necessary" which results in long messages being broken into several chunks of 160 characters or less. The messages are delivered (eventually) to the recipient, but their order is not guaranteed.
To "fix" the problem, go to the Messaging tab, tap All Messages, then Menu, then Settings, then Options and un-tick the "Use Unicode when necessary" option, tap Done.....and that's it - problem "fixed"!!
Now, when you send a long message, it is sent as a whole message to your network where it is broken up into 160 char chunks before being sent. The recipient, assuming their network supports long SMS messages, receives your message just as you sent it.
Hope that helps,
Mark.
PS. There is some sort of history to this "feature"; back in days of the HTC Hermes (and others), having Unicode switched on meant that you could only send 70 characters even though the messaging app thought you'd used 160 characters. People were sending a 150 char message and getting charged for three messages - two of 70 chars and one of 10 chars....

Thanks man;
My network supports long sms, but I can't seem to be able to send them anyway :/
I'll make another test
Edit: Nope, no luck, they are not received, and the target can receive sms longer than 160chars, for sure
I am SURE that there was a bug with restoring contacts with some sense/manila bug, I've read about it right here, on XDA

Sorry for the double post, but I've foud out that it's an issue with stored contacts;
I've tried to send an sms to myself, and I received it with no problems...

I too am facing the this issue (HTC HD2 TMOUS) with sending sms more than 160 characters. this is not related to stored contacts in my case.
I did a hard reset and tried to send a sms more than 160 characters still facing same issue. I tried with 3 different Network Operators, still the same persists. However I have no problem with sending sms lesser than 160 characters. Anyone found a fix for this ?
P.S.: I know its a old thread, but... no fix yet.

[Q] Best way to send a text message of ~3,300 characters in length?

Hello,
I am looking to send a rather long text message of about 3,300 characters to a person who I can only reliably reach via text message at this time. I realize that SMS stands for Short Message Service, and 3,300 characters is by no means short, but please understand that if there was a better way to send this message to this person, I would choose that method instead. I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile, and the standard Messaging application allows me to type up to 2,000 characters for an SMS message. So, my first thought was to just break the message up into two segments of about 1,650 characters each and send them as two separate messages consecutively. This would be fine, however I realized something else. Messages over about 160 characters are broken up into multiple messages on some carriers, meaning that even if I broke my message up into two large segments of 1,650 characters each, it may still be broken up further into multiple smaller segments when sent to the recipient. As you could imagine, I would rather not have the recipient be inundated with 20 or so separate text messages at once, unless they would only receive one notification instead of 20 separate ones.
To give some background, my intended recipient has an iPhone, though I don't know what carrier they use (if that matters in how messages get broken up). One other possibility was to send two MMS messages of 1,650 characters each instead, but would that be split up into multiple 160-character fragments, as well? Also, even if MMS messages do not get split up like this, would my recipient be able to receive such a large MMS message (containing just text)?
Please feel free to suggest any solutions to this problem or any alternatives. I would e-mail this person, instead, but I have no idea how frequently they check their e-mails and I feel as though sending this over text message is the best way to quickly communicate this to them and ensure that they actually receive it. Thanks in advance for any help!

TomCatullo said:
Hello,
I am looking to send a rather long text message of about 3,300 characters to a person who I can only reliably reach via text message at this time. I realize that SMS stands for Short Message Service, and 3,300 characters is by no means short, but please understand that if there was a better way to send this message to this person, I would choose that method instead. I have the Samsung Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile, and the standard Messaging application allows me to type up to 2,000 characters for an SMS message. So, my first thought was to just break the message up into two segments of about 1,650 characters each and send them as two separate messages consecutively. This would be fine, however I realized something else. Messages over about 160 characters are broken up into multiple messages on some carriers, meaning that even if I broke my message up into two large segments of 1,650 characters each, it may still be broken up further into multiple smaller segments when sent to the recipient. As you could imagine, I would rather not have the recipient be inundated with 20 or so separate text messages at once, unless they would only receive one notification instead of 20 separate ones.
To give some background, my intended recipient has an iPhone, though I don't know what carrier they use (if that matters in how messages get broken up). One other possibility was to send two MMS messages of 1,650 characters each instead, but would that be split up into multiple 160-character fragments, as well? Also, even if MMS messages do not get split up like this, would my recipient be able to receive such a large MMS message (containing just text)?
Please feel free to suggest any solutions to this problem or any alternatives. I would e-mail this person, instead, but I have no idea how frequently they check their e-mails and I feel as though sending this over text message is the best way to quickly communicate this to them and ensure that they actually receive it. Thanks in advance for any help!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This may sound obvious but why not email the long message and then text them and tell them to check their email?
Otherwise a long message is usually converted to an mms if it is very long.
Dave
( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
Sent from my LG P920 using Tapatalk

mistermentality said:
This may sound obvious but why not email the long message and then text them and tell them to check their email?
Otherwise a long message is usually converted to an mms if it is very long.
Dave
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm thinking that this may just be my best option, although I'd prefer to send it directly to their phone. However, this is not a complete necessity.
I am curious, though, about MMS. Would just sending my message broken up into a few text-only MMS messages run into any potential problems? I don't know much about the iPhone and the reliability of sending and receiving MMS messages from Android to iPhone or from T-Mobile to another network, but is sending multiple MMS messages rather unreliable? I suppose I could always request a delivery report on each MMS message to see if they were received successfully, but I also wonder how reliable delivery reports are. What do you think about this? Thanks.

What are you composing from? Why not make a pdf and mms it? Or a jpg?

[Q] large ammounts of sms being sent error

recently i purchased a nexus 5 directly from Google, soon afterwards i rooted it, installed the latest version of cyanogenmod 11. shortly after that i had my service, consumer cellular (at&t based) hooked up and now have access to calling and texting. the annoying part is when i send even one text to anybody, i get the error message "hangouts is sending a large number of SMS messages. do you want to allow this app to continue sending messages?" i understand that this is built into the os in order to prevent overuse of texting, however i find it very annoying as it comes up with the message after every text even if i haven't texted in hours, is there any way to change this so this does not happen? it would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

socialPankakeMix12 said:
recently i purchased a nexus 5 directly from Google, soon afterwards i rooted it, installed the latest version of cyanogenmod 11. shortly after that i had my service, consumer cellular (at&t based) hooked up and now have access to calling and texting. the annoying part is when i send even one text to anybody, i get the error message "hangouts is sending a large number of SMS messages. do you want to allow this app to continue sending messages?" i understand that this is built into the os in order to prevent overuse of texting, however i find it very annoying as it comes up with the message after every text even if i haven't texted in hours, is there any way to change this so this does not happen? it would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go to settings then go to security and scroll all the way to the bottom. Change the max to 30 or 200, the highest you prefer, and you shouldn't get the notification anymore. I doubt you send 200 msgs in any 30 min period. Haha

Problems with GO SMS Pro

I have been using GO SMS Pro for a long time on my Mate 7 (Lollipop 5.1) without any problem
But after i moved to Mate 8 GO SMS Pro has a very strange behaviour, specially when handling with MMS but sometimes also with SMS
Operator configuration is the same, and advanced MMS configuration is the same I used with Mate 7.
On the other hand native sms/mms app from Huawei works smooth and flawlessly.
Could it be some bug or non-compatibility of GO SMS Pro and android MM?
I would apreciate if anyone could share his/her experiencie with this app
many thanks

I have been using Go SMS Pro for 3 years and have had troubles with MMS as well:
1. Image files are dramatically compressed down to 30 KB, destroying image resolution
2. When an incoming MMS message has an attached image file, the conversation with that contact disappears from the SMS list - to make the conversation reappear on my Droid phone, I either have to swipe down on my home screen right after the message alert arrived, entering that conversation directly (rather than through the Go SMS app), or else I have to send a new text message to that contact, which makes the conversation (and the new received MMS image) reappear (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
3. Sometimes MMS messages will simply fail to download. The only way to recover is to shut down the phone and reboot, and then the incoming MMS image file will be retrieved (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
I do like this app, but the MMS image issues are driving me crazy. I just got a new phone and hoped that the problem would be solved, but it is not. Sadly, I'll have to stop using Go SMS Pro so that I can finally see my friends' photos in their intended original size/resolution.

heartelectrician said:
I have been using Go SMS Pro for 3 years and have had troubles with MMS as well:
1. Image files are dramatically compressed down to 30 KB, destroying image resolution
2. When an incoming MMS message has an attached image file, the conversation with that contact disappears from the SMS list - to make the conversation reappear on my Droid phone, I either have to swipe down on my home screen right after the message alert arrived, entering that conversation directly (rather than through the Go SMS app), or else I have to send a new text message to that contact, which makes the conversation (and the new received MMS image) reappear (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
3. Sometimes MMS messages will simply fail to download. The only way to recover is to shut down the phone and reboot, and then the incoming MMS image file will be retrieved (in its compressed form, as per issue #1 above).
I do like this app, but the MMS image issues are driving me crazy. I just got a new phone and hoped that the problem would be solved, but it is not. Sadly, I'll have to stop using Go SMS Pro so that I can finally see my friends' photos in their intended original size/resolution.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have also stopped using it but my problems where actualy sending mms (and sometimes even sending sms). Last update on GO SMS I noticed some changes in configuration options, probably to solve some bugs, but they did not solve my problems and so i moved to huawei messaging

Text message app sending strange text messages

Hello,
I have a Nokia 3.1 phone running Android 8.1.0. My phone uses the default Google Messages app to send and receive text messages. The Messages app was working perfectly until recently. I was a recipient of a text message sent to about 6 people. When I replied to the message that was sent, all of the other recipients received a private text message containing my reply, as well as my reply being in the original mass text message. This has never happened before.* Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how I can fix the problem?
Thank you

Did it show up on your device as individual messages as well? It sounds like your group text option is set to send individual threads. I believe there are only two options with this, one that sends group texts and replies as one MMS and one that sends them out as individual threads. The latter keeps them from going out as MMS which for some counts against their data usage. If you haven't modified your settings or made any other data saving changes I'm not sure why this would have changed for you, unless the message originator changed something in their settings.

VidJunky said:
Did it show up on your device as individual messages as well? It sounds like your group text option is set to send individual threads. I believe there are only two options with this, one that sends group texts and replies as one MMS and one that sends them out as individual threads. The latter keeps them from going out as MMS which for some counts against their data usage. If you haven't modified your settings or made any other data saving changes I'm not sure why this would have changed for you, unless the message originator changed something in their settings.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
VidJunky, thank you very much for your reply.
In the Group Messaging settings, there are 2 options:
1. Send an SMS reply to all recipients and get individual replies (mass text)
2. Send an MMS reply to all recipients (group MMS)
Option 1 was selected on my phone, but I have switched to option 2.
Still not quite sure how that happened (I have had this phone for quite a while and never had this problem), but thank you very much for your reply!

No problem. It may have happened during an update. Thank you for your kind words.