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pappy53

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I am coming back to a S3 from iPhone. One problem that I have had with previous Androids (Razr, Razr HD, Razr Maxx, S3) is sending pics and videos as MMS. I have tried the stock app, GoSMS, Handcent SMS, and Chomp SMS, all with the same result. If I take a picture, or shoot a 5-second video, and try to send either, I get a message that says the file is too large. What do I need to do, as I must have something set wrong? I have set video resolution to VGA in the past, but it didn't help.
 
i think theres a limit in size of the file depending on carrier so if youre taking a pic youre gona send as mms, change the resolution in camera settings lower so the file contains less data.
Im not a mms user but maybe theres an app that can condense or lower the resolution of existing pics?

EDIT: if it isnt an issue for iphones, i wonder why it is with Android? Cant be carrier related then surely. Ive never had an iphone so i duno..
 
I am using Go SMS Pro and there is a setting to bump up the size to 5MB Not sure what the carrier limit is. That said I have a video that is 4 seconds long and a file size of 8.66MB. Best option is to use a Cloud service and send a link.
 
funkylogik said:
i think theres a limit in size of the file depending on carrier so if youre taking a pic youre gona send as mms, change the resolution in camera settings lower so the file contains less data.
Im not a mms user but maybe theres an app that can condense or lower the resolution of existing pics?

EDIT: if it isnt an issue for iphones, i wonder why it is with Android? Cant be carrier related then surely. Ive never had an iphone so i duno..
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It is absolutely not an issue for iphones. iOS compresses them with no reduction in quality. Seems like Android could do the same thing.
 
pappy53 said:
It is absolutely not an issue for iphones. iOS compresses them with no reduction in quality. Seems like Android could do the same thing.
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Actually not Android. Any phone other than iPhone would have the carrier limit imposed regardless of the OS. There is always a reduction in quality with any compression, it may just not be noticeable.
 
Maybe thats the problem then.. iOs is only run on apple phones so its in their interest to have a server that compresses mms for their customers (but they [the customer] probably indirectly pay for that service in the price of the phone) whereas android is open source and anyone can use it on their device.
The flip-side to that is (as GT said) multi-platform apps and services can so easily be intigrated into an android phone that its easy to just take,upload,copy url, paste the URL of say a pic on Dropbox to anyone and theyl be able to view it :)
 
I text pictures all the time. Never a single issue. Movies I can see, I made a 420 meg movie with my S3, only like 4 minutes, so yea, that wouldn't work on any phone...
 
I text pics on my phone; not often but once in a while and have never had a problem. haven't done anything special but the phone itself asks me if it's okay to compress, I reply yes and the pic goes out. I haven't done anything to facilitate this so I can't tell how it's done. Works automatically for me
 
what version / build are you running pappy?

the last s3 i had was troubled by the last JB update that got pushed out, a couple battery pulls and nothing finally after a factory reset mms was back up and running.
 
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