Any one know if you can change the text message character length?
Most new phones have a maximum of 400 characters or something, my atom only allows 160 characters.
Is it not allowing you to write more than 160 characters?
Default is 160 characters per text message, looks like it cannot be altered (well anyway, I didn't see that option in SKTools).
But of course you should be able to send SMS way more than 160 characters.
Yeah I can like as long an SMS as I want but it's broken into 160 character parts to be sent. That's how SMS is done by carriers I think.
yeah if u type more than 160 characters it'll send as 2 messages and so on. But i can receive text messages longer than 160 as one message.
Standard SMS per message for any phone is 160 char.
O2 Atom Exec allows you to type more than 160...which means u are being bill more than 1 sms as long u write more than 160...
if say u type 200... the other party will receive 200...on the back-end of the telecom will take it as 2 sms...
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Hello everyone. I apologize if this question has been asked already.
On my "dumb" phones like LG etc. in Verizon network, I can send text message by 1,000 characters w/ extended text message. I think it sends multiple messages encoded in a special way to get past the 160 character SMS limit.
But, on my Windows Mobile devices, I can only send/receive 160 char messages, and when I receive 161+ char message, I receive a notice saying that the text message has been modified to be compatible with this device.
Why is "dumb phone" so much better to handle extended text messages but Windows Mobile cannot receive? It's a little bit oxymoronic, don't you think? Is there any way to enable extended text messaging functionality to windows mobile devices? Thanks in advance!
odd when i go over 160 it tells me that 2 sms's will be sendt maybe it's a setting
or something in your rom
I can send, but it doesn't compile them all into one single extended text message. So recipient receive many text message all at one time... they say it's annoying.
Then, if they send me extended text message, I receive 160 char, and after that.. it break away and say "extended message has been truncated due to a lack of support for enhanced messaging on this device."
Ive searched and searched but i can find anything. Whenever someone sends me a message that is larger than 160 characters i often receive a message like multimedia message has been modified and i need to have the person resend me the second part of the message. this is very frustrating. i haven't gotten this message lately so i dont no if thats exactly wat it says. i dont think i get this message if i receive the sms from another windows mobile fone, it only seems to happen with non-windows mobile smartphones, which are what most of my friends have. Does anyone have this problem or know how to fix it
SMS 160
Most providers limit Standard SMS to 160 char, EMS can sepearate them which most PDAs have. If you want longer texts your friends have to send you MMS (pix messages) with just text and no pictures.
hi - one thing i find really annoying about WM phones is when i send sms messages, it splits them up into separate txts of 160 charcters.
when other people send me sms msgs (probably from non WM phones), all the text is contained in th one sms regardless of the number of charcters they sent.
is there anyway to do this on wm phones ?
"Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured in the handset, this leads to the maximum individual Short Message sizes of 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters (including spaces)."
You cannot increase size of sms, but I understand what you are talking about. Never had same issue, will test on my HD at home later
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"ShrinkSms is a new windows mobile messaging application which can save you money when sending long SMS messages.
As the maximum length of SMS is 160 characters (English language) , each message longer then that will result in sending
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for sure the recipient must also have this software to decode your message?
Unless they native speak compress language
"Next version will include the following:
New Shrinking option which will not require the application at the recipient side."
Hi, I tried to modify SecMms.apk to disable the conversion to mms after 3 pages and works fine. Bu I noticed that when I get to page 14 leave e messagge: Message size limit reached - Reached the maximum number of characters. Any idea to disable this or make unlimited charactersM
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Hi, I tried to modify SecMms.apk to disable the conversion to mms after 3 pages and works fine. Bu I noticed that when I get to page 14 leave e messagge: Message size limit reached - Reached the maximum number of characters. Any idea to disable this or make unlimited charactersM
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I don't think you can do anything about that, pretty certain that's a limitation of the protocol itself.
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There is no string that you I modify? I want to know if others have the same problem...
No. As said before it is a limitation of the protocol itself. Use drop box public folder or something similar.
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Excerpt taken from
http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/04/20/concatenated-sms-messages-and-character-counts/
Character Count Thresholds
The character limits for individual concatenated SMS messages results in various thresholds for which additional individual concatenated SMS messages will be required to support sending a larger overall message:
GSM encoding:
1 standard SMS message = up to 160 characters
2 concatenated SMS messages = up to 306 characters
3 concatenated SMS messages = up to 459 characters
4 concatenated SMS messages = up to 612 characters
5 concatenated SMS messages = up to 765 characters
etc. (153 x number of individual concatenated SMS messages)
UTF-16 encoding:
1 standard SMS message = up to 70 characters
2 concatenated SMS messages = up to 134 characters
3 concatenated SMS messages = up to 201 characters
4 concatenated SMS messages = up to 268 characters
5 concatenated SMS messages = up to 335 characters
etc. (67 x number of individual concatenated SMS messages)
Implications
These thresholds are an important consideration for a number of reasons including billing, and the programmatic interfacing with SMS gateways.
Generally, telephone companies count individual concatenated SMS messages separately even though they are being recombined at the phone into a single message. This means a GSM encoded message containing 180 characters could potentially invoke a charge for two SMS messages, even if the sender/recipient only sees a single message.
When interfacing with a telephone company’s SMS gateway programmatically, there may be limits on the number of individual concatenated SMS messages which can sent as part of a single message. For example, Clickatell’s documentation states that messages sent through their API should not contain more than 3 concatenated SMS segments. This may require limiting the number of character input in a web application or service which sends SMS messages via an API in such a manner.
While it may seem elementary, it is important to point out that SMS messages are always in one particular encoding; i.e. fully GSM or fully UTF-16. For example, a period character (”.”) takes up 7-bits in a GSM SMS message. The same character may exist in a Unicode SMS message, but takes up 16-bits, even it is representing the same character."
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Mobile companies set their limits, one may allow you to send up to 6 combined messages, others 10 for example.
Either way there is nothing you can do with your phone that will change this.