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How do I stop my galazy ll phone from sending mms messages instead of sms ones. I know texts automatically go to mms ones when long but can I set my phone to send in 2 messages instead of one?
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This is a character limit set by your carrier. I know that sprint uses a 160 character limit for SMS (short message service). So you need to stop at that limit to avoid converting to MMS.

Alternatively you could use instant messaging.
 
Brian706 said:
This is a character limit set by your carrier. I know that sprint uses a 160 character limit for SMS (short message service). So you need to stop at that limit to avoid converting to MMS.

Alternatively you could use instant messaging.
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what is instant messaging? Somewhere I read that by changing the creation mode to "restricted" that it would automatically send in 2 messages. It worked for that person but I tried that and it did not work.
 
You could try a different SMS client. Many 3rd party apps have an option in their settings to control whether long SMS are sent as MMS, though that won't let you get round a limit set by your network so you should do some tests to see how it behaves.

(Here in the UK concatenating up to 5 SMS is I think the norm, so much more flexible than the network Brian names. Since we don't know what carrier you use we can't know what their limit is).
 
FundyGal said:
what is instant messaging? Somewhere I read that by changing the creation mode to "restricted" that it would automatically send in 2 messages. It worked for that person but I tried that and it did not work.
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also it doesn't show my characters adding up while I type..
 
Hadron said:
You could try a different SMS client. Many 3rd party apps have an option in their settings to control whether long SMS are sent as MMS, though that won't let you get round a limit set by your network so you should do some tests to see how it behaves.

(Here in the UK concatenating up to 5 SMS is I think the norm, so much more flexible than the network Brian names. Since we don't know what carrier you use we can't know what their limit is).
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My carrier is Bell and it is 160 I believe. With my other cheap phone I had, my messages automatically went in 2 messages and was called Page 1 and 2
 
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