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Text Messaging with the New ROM?

Hi,
My corporate Sprint account does not include the ability to send text messages, but I could receive them. I tested it and confirmed it with colleagues that have the Mogul as well.
Now, after upgrading to the new ROM, I can now send text messages. I don't have anyone at work that is willing to try the new ROM yet, so I'm not sure if that's it.
Is there a way that the new ROM could enable text messaging when it's not included in my plan?

you can text without a plan you just get chanrged 0.25 per text...

seeneed4speed said:
you can text without a plan you just get chanrged 0.25 per text...
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I thought that's how it works, but on our company phones, it receives text messages, but says "Unable to send Text message" when sending.
Now I am able to receive, like before, but now it also sends text messages without an error.

Your boss will be having a talk with you.

the software update help your phone send text. people who didnt get the update or waiting to get it, will lose features on they're phone, like me i lost the ab ility to roam and also sent texts, i got the update and everything works well, only thing i dont like is the fact that it wipes your phone out...

Receive >160 char SMS all at once

I'm not sure if this is an EVO issue or a Sprint issue as I've always used AT&T before.
Is there a reason I can only receive about 1 SMS per minute and multi-part sms show up in parts rather than as one long message? The default Messaging app and Handcent seem to operate the same.
Any insight?
Thanks

Sprint has limited the number of characters in their messages for some time now, but I usually get the other parts of messages back-to-back. Well, maybe it took another 20 seconds for the 2nd part to come in, but it hasn't taken a whole minute.

Go to the market and download ChompSMS. It gives you the option to either split up the texts or receive them all at once.

Whoa ChompSMS will do that!? Like it will wait for everything to come in, compile it in order, and spit it to you in one SMS? If thats true thats awesome. Some of my friends write novels from their iPhones like little girls. Ill get all 17 pages at random times in random order. Ugh.

Well you can send texts out that are more than 160 characters. I think that you can receive them all at one too
Better yet...send yourself a text using chomp and go past the 160 character limit. See if it splits it up or not.

Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.

AcIdC0R3 said:
Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.
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Where is this option?

AcIdC0R3 said:
Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.
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Are you sure this effects receiving the message? I thought this only had to do with splitting the messages you are sending.

I hate when i get the second half of the message first.....Reply like ???? and then get the first half after i reply......

The person sending can also send them as a MMS (multi media message) which lets you do much more text.

i cant see the option to receive messages > 160 characters at once in chompSMS... I've looked everywhere

hydralisk said:
i cant see the option to receive messages > 160 characters at once in chompSMS... I've looked everywhere
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Have you received a text message that is more than 160 characters? I sent one to myself that was almost 300 and it all came in at one time. I then had a friend send me one, about the same size and it all came in one text...granted it was super long and took up the whole page.
What you could do is this -
SETTINGS > SMS NETWORK > MOBILE CARRIER SETTINGS > CDMA SPLIT
Make sure this is unchecked.
Reboot the phone and send yourself a >160 character text message and see what happens.

redrazr7791 said:
Have you received a text message that is more than 160 characters? I sent one to myself that was almost 300 and it all came in at one time. I then had a friend send me one, about the same size and it all came in one text...granted it was super long and took up the whole page.
What you could do is this -
SETTINGS > SMS NETWORK > MOBILE CARRIER SETTINGS > CDMA SPLIT
Make sure this is unchecked.
Reboot the phone and send yourself a >160 character text message and see what happens.
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This didn't work for me. Can anybody else confirm this?

Well after updating ChompSMS last night, it seems that I cannot receive texts like I used to. I can still get more than 160 characters, but not like I did before.
Oh well...most people I SMS with don't have the ability to send really long text messages anyways. Hope you guys can find something useful.

[Q]How to prevent tex messages from phone?

Does anyone know how to prevent phone from receiving text messages? Is there any software that can do that. I don't use text messaging and hate to be charge a fee for receiving text messages.
Thank all in advance,
10507

Give cc a call. those filter softwares reject the sms but your service provider still charge you.

you need to have your carrier block them.
you should be able to do it online (if with tmous), as a free addon service.

is there an app that does this for u
then when i swap back to winmo, i receive them?
im trying to centralize my SMS into my winmo ^_^

any other suggestion?

10507 said:
any other suggestion?
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There is no other solution. Anything sitting on your phone is not going to save you from being charged for it, as you get charged when the message hits the network, not when it hits your phone.

10507 said:
any other suggestion?
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The only thing I can think of is by using Airplane Mode. But you won't get calls, bluetooth wouldn't work, wifi wouldn't work, etc.. I don't think there is any way to single out text messages.

What about going into network settings, and erasing the entry for the MMSC server?

ckjy said:
What about going into network settings, and erasing the entry for the MMSC server?
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This would prevent your device from getting them...but because the text is still going through T-Mobiles server side, you would still see a charge on your bill for the message

Xoom, Verizon and Text messaging

Just a heads up for everybody; I'd recommend calling Verizon and adding the text messaging block to your account. I called last week about it since I noticed the per txt service code on my account but was assured that since my device didn't receive text messages I wouldn't ever be charged.
Sure enough I noticed on my account online that somebody tried sending me a message and sure enough verizon was going to charge me. I had to call in and get the block added (this time they actually did it, she mentioned that the first person should've just done it when I asked) and credited me back the 20 cents (!) for the text message I supposedly received.
Just wanted to warn everybody to keep an eye on their bill.

the question is, can i put a text plan on my Xoom , and how to I get txt messages if I did?

eatonjb said:
the question is, can i put a text plan on my Xoom , and how to I get txt messages if I did?
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yes you can add a plan if you want to burn $$ every month.
and no, you can't receive texts via verizon on your Xoom.

Google Voice free texting y pay?
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Also textplus
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App

[Q] Messaging App Warning Dialogue

I've never seen this before but when responding to non-standard phone numbers (like those ones that send you local deals) I started seeing a dialogue box come up warning me that:
Messaging would like to send a message to xXxX
This may cause charges on your mobile account
Remember my choice
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Not too worried but a Google search yielded nothing on the matter. Has anyone else seen this?
Here's a screenshot

Got this too.
It's a security measure to stop malware sending expensive premium rate text messages. Basically if you try and text a number thats not in your address book (i,e, by addressing it by number rather than name), then you get this warning.
What's funny is all the scareware FUD stories like this, fail to even bother talk about these things.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/04/22/android_malware_badnews
Agenda much????

can you still get charges even if you have unlimited texting?

sweetnaivety said:
can you still get charges even if you have unlimited texting?
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Yes, that's why the warning is there.

Please help me
I subscribed on accident and now it told me to unsubscribe i have to send a certain msg but then that pop up came up tell me that it would cost additional charges and i clicked remember my choice and pressed cancel and now im subscribed and i cant unsubscribe because cant send a message plzz help me on how to re enable sending msgs to that person that im subscribed to and when sending msgs to them how much is the cost on average??