How Do I Send Sms Longer Than 160 Characters? - Treo Forums

sgarba · 08-14-2005, 03:33 PM

I Do Not Seem To Be Able To Send Sms Longer Than 160 Characters W/out Manually Splitting It To Multiple Pages. Any Ideas?

greeniis · 08-14-2005, 08:14 PM

SMS will only allow brief messages "short message service".

xxpinballxx · 08-15-2005, 07:30 AM

Your phone will automatically break them up.....but when you send them they will go through just fine.....

Is tehre a reason you don't want it being sent as two messages or more?

sgarba · 08-15-2005, 08:36 AM

My phone stops taking any more characters after 160 and therefore have to manually crewate another page.

xxpinballxx · 08-15-2005, 08:54 AM

Let me check something...I have seen this posted somewhere over at MTDN and think someone has figured it out.

Are you on sprint......

sgarba · 08-15-2005, 05:09 PM

I am on a UK GSM network.

Novaldex · 08-30-2005, 09:45 PM

I'm having this same issue, but it only suddenly started for me yesterday. I can now not type any more than 160 characters when I write a text message.

I've tried a whole bunch of things, hard resets and even re-running the firmware update, all to no success.

A question for you though, did you receive a text message recently that came from 'Unknown' and had no actual message? It's since I received one like this that my problems began

chris · 08-31-2005, 08:37 AM

Not sure how to resolve your problem. There is a third party solution called funSMS 5.

It goes without saying that you can also send messages to multiple recipients. Multi-line messages raise the restriction to 160 characters which usually applies to SMS messages.

If I come across an answer using the standard hardware, I'll let you know...

-Chris

Novaldex · 08-31-2005, 11:11 AM

Thanks Chris, I appreciate your suggestion.

It's just that it was working perfectly fine up until 2 days ago and there's no logical reason for it that I can find. I'd hate to have to find a 3rd party solution when it was working as it should.

Despite replacing the ROM again and doing several hard resets, it is still stuck at sending only single messages of 160 chars.

Still hunting..

chris · 08-31-2005, 11:13 AM

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Despite replacing the ROM again and doing several hard resets, it is still stuck at sending only single messages of 160 chars.

Still hunting..

Cool. Let us know if you come across the answer.