As the title states I cannot send videos or gifs through MMS because they exceed my carriers size limit (1mb). Ive had this phone for a while but I rarely have to send videos so It hasnt bothered me much. Every other phone I have had has automatically resized the file but I cant figure out how to get the Oneplus to do it. I tried the default messenger app as well as textra and there is no difference. Any help would be appreciated.
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Is there a way to resize photos before emailing them? I often send several photos at a time via email, and keep getting "image too large". Every photo attachment is 1.5MB! My old iPhone used to ask to resize before sending, however the Captivate does not.
Any ideas?
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Emails are not really suited to send large files. Try binfer.com which specializes in large file transfers. It is as easy as email, but without the size limitation. You can send hundreds of pictures without reducing their size. Alternatively, you can setup a FTP site.
So I came from an Iphone 4 and so far am happy with my captivate, except for one area, pics and vids.
I have two kids and like to take tons of pics and vids of them. With that I always found myself sending what I took via MMS or email to my flickr account. With the iphone this was a breeze. If the size was too large it could compress or allow me to choose a smaller video size. Unfortunately I can't even send simliar pics or vids via MMS or email as i have before.
Yes..I know you can choose the MMS mode for video, but to be honest the quality sucks. Pictures, there is a reason I take the pic at 5MP cause I want to view and send it that way.
I find myself wanting to go back to my iphone for this reason. But I am enjoying everything about my cappy. If anyone in a similar situation has any advice or possibly resolution to allow my cappy to act as before, please let me know.
Appreciate any advice.
I use handscent instead of the defult messenger. It compresses all my 5mp pics and sends them at a good quality.. i dont know about video because i havnt used it
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I use Pixelpipe to upload videos and pics all the time with no issue.
Thanks for the suggestions...
I do see that handcent dose compress so I am actually happy about that. Appreciate it.
The video issue is two fold though. Although I am on the cappy, my wife and mom have iphones. So you can rest-assured I get messages wondering where the latest pics or videos are.
So quick (good resolution) videos is a must via MMS. Hell, even email I can send a full video to my flickr account. I compared the two recently actually. Took a video on my iphone 4 and my cappy. Same length, same subject, lightiing everything. I was able to successfully send it, recorded resolution, to my flickr and normal email on my iphone. The captivate not so much. "FILE TOO LARGE" blaring everytime.
So i guess the search OR wait is on to make this happen.
Thanks
Hello,
here in France some operator won't allow MMS to go up to 600KB, but will restrict it to 300KB. The trick is, using hangout, the app only tries to send it full res, and wont try to compress it.
I can send very little files through Hangouts, so the MMS APN are OK, but if I take a shot with the S7 and try to send it without compressing it manually, it won't send.
Long story short, is there a way to specify a maximum size in hangouts or at phone level ? I really hate the stock app or messenger (and they compress way too much anyway...)
I take a normal 3-4 meg picture and when I send it using Google messenger it compresses it to 30-45kb, yea, KB!
This is horrid and embarrassing when people actually get said picture. Its such terrible quality. My friend on Tmobile with his Iphone looked to have the same issue a week ago when we were testing.
Is there some setting here? OR is this going to be Tmobile's new thing?
It's not tmobile only, mms have some standards and one of them is that they cannot carry big amounts of data (3-4mb). every phone does it whether on tmobile or some other carrier, its built into the phone and therefore into the messaging app. The phone has to compress the image in order to be able to send it. Thats why I use whats app or any other internet based messaging system(imessage, hangouts, etc) when I send any photo
maybe I should rephrase
This isn't my first rodeo, I've done enough with phones over the many years to understand exactly how it works, but this is the first time they have ever compressed a 3-4 meg picture down to 20-40kb, for example on AT&T and Verizon during my testing its at least double that for the same size picture, if not even more , many times compressing it to a 200-350kb size picture. @ 40kb the picture is not even really recognized..
do the test now, take a picture high res. and send it to someone, check the size of the photo you sent.
Is this my phone issue? or is this a tmobile issue? or is there a setting somewhere within the app or phone that is telling it to use low data when sending pictures
It is Google messenger. Use the stock app and the issue goes away. 820KB file size for stock app and 17KB for Google messenger.
if you are sending the pic to a newer phone it will send the full size
the sms app on newer phones has more features you can only use on newer to newer phones
Rich 1 on 1 and group messaging, including near real-time chat
See when others are typing, when your message is delivered and even read
Share high-res photos and videos up to 10 MB just as you would a regular text message
I've heard the opposite about the default messaging app in android. Started with my note 5. I couldn't send pics and text, only pics. So all you have to do is download a messaging app that has better features.
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The issue is specifically with Google messenger. I noticed this right when the G5 was released. Any other SMS client (stock, textra, hangouts) fixes the issue. I haven't tested it with the latest update of Google messenger though. Which version were you using?
google messenger sucks, facebook messenger sucks, I use handcent and that seems to send reasonably sized pictures.
Everytime I send a picture through MMS using the native messenger the image quality gets lowered and the images are grainy is there any way to change that?
There is a transfer limit per mms. With my provider, Vodafone Germany, it is at 300 kb. The sent pictures simply get compressed.
You can try to use a different sms messenger like QKSMS. It allows you to play around with this limit. But in my expierence I was refused to send a message when the limit was above 300 kb.
It is neither the fault of your sms app nor your phone. You can't do anything about it. Don't use mms. Get data plan an start using a messenger like threema or telegram or other alternatives to share your pictures. They usually provide options to control the quality of the sent and received content.
Some operators allow you to change the compression, usually in the client portal. Some don't. It's not a device limitation. Contact your operator and ask them.
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Thanks for the answers I appreciate the help
It definitely is an app limitation on my Mate 9. Default Huawei messaging app always compresses the images horribly. I installed Textra and set MMS limit to 2000KB and images look far better. Shame the default messaging app doesn't have an option to change the limit.
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It definitely is an app limitation on my Mate 9. Default Huawei messaging app always compresses the images horribly. I installed Textra and set MMS limit to 2000KB and images look far better. Shame the default messaging app doesn't have an option to change the limit.
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How does it look at the receiving end?