Please help- messages capped at 160 characters

[UCGoody1]

So I have browsed through the settings and havent been able to find a fix but essentially my phone is capping my messages, both incoming and outgoing at 160 characters. Anything I send to someone after the 160th character doesn't get sent as well as any character after 160 in an incoming message doesn't show up either- the message literally stops and doesn't even send the rest in an additional message. I even downloaded handcent to see if that would fix it but it hasn't. Any suggestions?

 

[skinien]

So I have browsed through the settings and havent been able to find a fix but essentially my phone is capping my messages, both incoming and outgoing at 160 characters. Anything I send to someone after the 160th character doesn't get sent as well as any character after 160 in an incoming message doesn't show up either- the message literally stops and doesn't even send the rest in an additional message. I even downloaded handcent to see if that would fix it but it hasn't. Any suggestions?

I think the 160 char limit is NOT a limitation set by the phone. It's a limit that is set by the carrier. If you send a text that's 180 characters, you'll be sending two texts; one of 160 and one of 20.

The reason I assume this is every smartphone I've owned had this limit.

 

[howarmat]

160 chars is the limit for SMS and cdma, if you want more use mms, email a phone call, etc

 

[UCGoody1]

I understand its the limit but that doesn't explain why when I get a text over 160 that the following letters and words aren't sent in a following '2/2' message. That's what I'm trying to figure out

 

[jcnyc]

Really goes to show the amount of money carriers make on you for your texting plan. Each text is 160 bytes max, and if you have 2000 texts a month, that's only 320KB. All for the low price of 20$. And we pay 30$ for like 5+GB of data? Maybe texting and data aren't on the same structure but either way, it's not costing the carriers much if anything for texting.

 

[howarmat]

Really goes to show the amount of money carriers make on you for your texting plan. Each text is 160 bytes max, and if you have 2000 texts a month, that's only 320KB. All for the low price of 20$. And we pay 30$ for like 5+GB of data? Maybe texting and data aren't on the same structure but either way, it's not costing the carriers much if anything for texting.

SMS is part of voice plan, its not considered data

 

[skinien]

I understand its the limit but that doesn't explain why when I get a text over 160 that the following letters and words aren't sent in a following '2/2' message. That's what I'm trying to figure out

It could be the other person's phone. If the phone isn't smart enough to generate a new message for the chars above 160, you'll never get it. Check with the sender to see if the have two "sent" messages on their phone.

 

[Romikemi]

There's a setting in Handcent to auto-split to separate messages or convert to MMS. The stock app might have the same.

 

[Papadroid]

Use Handcent and go to settings > Send message settings > Split 160 and change it to the option that best suits you.