Long SMS text messages sending as MMS

[evilrob]

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]

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!

 

[kyriacou48]

P.S - I know your phone isn't carrier locked but it might be a setting your SIM card is picking up.

​

 

[nMIK-3]

Go to Messaging Settings and turn off "Group Text".
Some Networks translate this as MMS instead of long SMS.

 

[evilrob]

Go to Messaging Settings and turn off "Group Text".
Some Networks translate this as MMS instead of long SMS.

I've got 'group text' off in my Messaging settings as I read this can cause this to happen.

 

[Laura Knotek]

What carrier do you have?

 

[evilrob]

What carrier do you have?

Three UK

 

[cndspec]

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]

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

 

[cndspec]

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.