Why does my samsung galaxy a3 converts larger sms in mms? Why? And how can i stop this?

[Oana Tudor]

Hello everyone,

Today i bought a Samsung Galaxy A3 (2015-2016 version). Maybe it is not a 2016 topic, i am sure of it, but today i had to send some important texts and i don't know why they failed in sending. Anything that was bigger then 2 or maybe 3 sms they were automatically converted into mms and failed in sending.

Is there something wrong with my phone? The menu is very plain, I can't find anything in it to look like I could stop this automatism.

Can I do something from the menu, or should I install an app that does this unconverting thing for me?

I am really sorry for these questions now, in 2016, but I've had an old Blackberry before. (I became really attached to it).

Have a great night.
Thank you!

 

[Felim_Doyle]

Apparently, from information on other forums, this should work ...

From Messages choose Settings > More settings > Text messages > Input mode and select GSM alphabet.

However, this was the default setting on my Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop so I would have expected yours to be the same. I haven't tried it myself but it seems to have worked for others with this problem.

I searched for "convert large messages to multimedia" to find the relevant results.