Long SMS text messages sending as MMS

evilrob

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Why is this happening? I've got 'group text' off in my Messaging settings as I read this can cause this to happen. Also got reduced character set on.

As soon as I go over 160 characters, the message becomes an MMS and there's seemingly nothing I can do about it. The phone isn't carrier-locked; I bought it SIM-free so I'm pretty sure it's not carrier settings.

It's really annoying having to manually break up messages into separate texts!
 

kyriacou48

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Err this happened to my Telstra Locked 920 when I first got it.

Check for phone updates - Telstra issued a fix for this problem.

Call your carrier if there aren't any updates - this is a fault of the carrier :S

​Hope this helps and good luck!
 

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This has nothing to do with the carrier or the phone it is simply the nature of the service. SMS is short message service which allows a maximum of 160 characters. Once you go beyond that it will automatically become an MMS message thereby allowing up to 1000 characters, exclusive of any multimedia attachment.
 

evilrob

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This has nothing to do with the carrier or the phone it is simply the nature of the service. SMS is short message service which allows a maximum of 160 characters. Once you go beyond that it will automatically become an MMS message thereby allowing up to 1000 characters, exclusive of any multimedia attachment.
I realise that is the case technically, however I've never been billed for plain text messages over 160 characters as MMS messages with any phone I've ever had before.

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
 

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Evilrob, thanks for the link interesting read. Are you on the same carrier with this phone as previously? I don't think it is actually the phone. I do notice on my 920 that when I have gone over the 160 characters there is a notification immediately under it stating 2 messages or 3 messages. However, when sent it shows as one long message on both ends, obviously concatenated as per your information. I assume that this means that our carrier (Wind in Canada) supports same, as does the phone.
 

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