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Verizon's text limit to non-VZW customers

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rawness

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Verizon has a 160 character text limit when SMS messsages are sent. If the recipient is a VZW customer, multiple text messages are sent, however if the recipient is not a VZW customer then only the first 160 characters are sent-NO MULTIPLE MESSAGES.

How about an app that automatically sends multiple SMS messages if the length is greater than 160 characters?
 
rawness said:
Verizon has a 160 character text limit when SMS messsages are sent. If the recipient is a VZW customer, multiple text messages are sent, however if the recipient is not a VZW customer then only the first 160 characters are sent-NO MULTIPLE MESSAGES.

How about an app that automatically sends multiple SMS messages if the length is greater than 160 characters?
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Google Voice does this.
 
Hmmm...I have GV, how do I send texts with it?

I also don't wanna lose the threaded structure and I want the texts sent from my cell #, not my GV #. Does GV work like this?
 
rawness said:
Hmmm...I have GV, how do I send texts with it?

I also don't wanna lose the threaded structure and I want the texts sent from my cell #, not my GV #. Does GV work like this?
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If you have the GV app, you can send texts from there. And while I don't use it (I use Handcent) IIRC, it does thread. It will send from your GV #, though.
 
karimarie said:
Wait, really? Are you sure? I just tried doing that with HC this morning, and I got the message back about Verizon limits non-Verizon customers to 160 characters.
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If you have the latest update, you can go to your settings and click an option to automatically split up messages longer than 160 characters.
 
superglen99 said:
handcent is the bomb! it splits them up and does customization for everything and its free! Handcent FTW!!
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I've tried Handcent a couple of times since getting my Droid, and the first couple of times I didn't like it as much as the stock messaging app. After the update a few days ago I tried it again, and while it was a little better, it still felt slow and laggy. Anybody else have experience with this?

I do however like the ability to split messages or convert them to MMS if they're larger than 160 characters. In fact, that's why I tried it originally.
 
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