How to increase number of char in SMS?

[rasadulalam]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S II. Its model no is SHW-M250S.
But currently I can’t send SMS longer than 80 char.

How can I increase it?
Remember that my operator allow more than 80 char SMS.


Thanks
Rashed

 

[Rukbat]

It's not your carrier. SMA is a protocol. It specifies a data length of 140 octets which in the Latin alphabet (the one used in English) is 160 characters. If your app limits you to 80 characters use a different SMS app. (Anything more than 160 characters is sent as multiple SMS messages [which the app reassembles into one "message"] or as an MMS text file. Some apps do one, some do the other and some let you choose whether to break the message up [send it as multiple SMS messages] or not [send it as an MMS]).

There's no way to change SMS to allow a single SMS message with more than 160 characters, that's part of SMS. It's like making water dry. It might be dry but it wouldn't be water any more. (For instance you can send a 2,000 character message, but that's called email, not SMS.)

 

[ironass]

Further to Rukbat's reply, the 80 character limit, half of the 160 character limit on Latin/English character texts, is imposed on languages such as, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, etc; where one character requires the same space as 2 Latin characters. There are, as suggested, a number of apps that can, "join up", 2 or more texts to make one long SMS. For instance, Handcent, free from the Play Store.