FabSwingers.com forum: Sending SMS messages on Samsung Galaxy III

By *kywatcher OP Man
over a year ago

Southwick

I am attempting to send a long text message ie more than 160 characters that will run into multiple messages...possibly 10.

When I send it...it sends as an MMS and as the recipient can't view MMS messages I need to resend it as an SMS. Do I have to break the message down into smaller chunks? Or is there a setting that I am not using?

Anybody any ideas?

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By *awty nannaWoman
over a year ago

sheffield

prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini

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By *kywatcher OP Man
over a year ago

Southwick

"prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini "

Ok thanks....just looking through settings to fathom this out. Seems ridiculous if that's the case.

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By *els_BellsWoman
over a year ago

with the moon n stars somewhere in gtr manc

"prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini "

I had the same thing with mine.

Still haven't a clue what most of the things do on mine

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By *kywatcher OP Man
over a year ago

Southwick

"prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini

I had the same thing with mine.

Still haven't a clue what most of the things do on mine

Seems we're in the same boat. Sent the message in smaller chunks....so that's ok.

There must be a way to send a long message by SMS....but I can't as yet see it in the settings.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini

I had the same thing with mine.

Still haven't a clue what most of the things do on mine

Seems we're in the same boat. Sent the message in smaller chunks....so that's ok.

There must be a way to send a long message by SMS....but I can't as yet see it in the settings.

Can't you send an email instead?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Can't you send an email instead? "

Or use Whatsapp...

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By *kywatcher OP Man
over a year ago

Southwick

"prob have to cut it into smaller chunks. I have the same prob with my s3 mini

I had the same thing with mine.

Still haven't a clue what most of the things do on mine

Seems we're in the same boat. Sent the message in smaller chunks....so that's ok.

There must be a way to send a long message by SMS....but I can't as yet see it in the settings.

Can't you send an email instead? "

Recipient doesn't have email.

Seems this is the feature of Android phones. The limit for SMS is 480 characters....in effect 3 text messages. There doesn't seem to be a way of overriding this. I have now though checked a setting that alerts me when I've reached the limit.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

There's a simple setting. It's set by default to send anything over 160 characters as mms, but that can be changed easily. I'll have a look and see where the setting is now and come back to you.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

With handcent, you can certainly change it. WhatsApp is a Web based messaging service which doesn't suit all, but handcent is just a replacement for the stock messaging service, but is more adaptable.

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By *cottishrichMan
over a year ago

Here and there

Sounds like Android still sucks! I'm due an upgrade now and was contemplating switching from iPhone to maybe the Experia z but I think I'll probably wait for the 5S to come out now.

Incidentally, I'm not an apple fanboy, it's just when I got my first iPhone, androids were so far behind. That and I've spent a lot of time putting my cd collection into iTunes.

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