[Q] Texting on EVO. - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

All,
How do i expand the text i received.. i can only see about 200 characters..
I have sms messages (logs) that are over 1000 characters and cannot read
the entire message..
Joe

A picture is worth a thousand....characters lol.
Are u using the HTC messaging app? Try Handcent from the market and see if that makes a difference....you can always uninstall it.
I don't really understand your problem, to be honest..
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short message service has a limit of 160 characters I think. Anything over that and you get multiple messages, each one starting where the previous one left off.

That's why I'm confused...unless the senders phone chopped them off and they never got sent
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i tried handcent.. it listed my old messages however still no dice on viewing the entire message... so what's with the 160 characters?

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Cm6 fails to send message

Cm6 fails to send text messages longer then 160 characters even though it lets me type past that how do I fix this
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which messaging app are you using? try sending the message with handcent and see if that works
or update to a nightly build. im on the latest nightly and i have no problem sending long messages
kindakrazy said:
Cm6 fails to send text messages longer then 160 characters even though it lets me type past that how do I fix this
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There are more than a few topics of the same question. The SMS on cm6 doesn't autosplit nor is there an option for it. You have to use handcent or smschomp. And change the setting to split.. also with handcent you can customize it to look close to stock... also font packages if you want a different font. I love it. Hate the bubbles so I changed it. Play around with it. I thought I'd hate it and did because of lame bubbles till I messed around and found out I don't have to have the bubbles
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[Q] How does your message app handle group texts?

I use The People's Rom, on FC09, and as far as I can tell it uses a slightly themed version of the stock touchwiz message app.
If I receive a group text, I don't know who else, if anyone, the message was sent to and responses from other people are not threaded with the original message.
I've recently seen on a friend's incognito that even its crude messaging app can report all of the recipients of a message and a reply all option is available. This is also the case for the iphone.
Which messaging apps for the Epic, if any, are able to display and reply to multiple recipients of group text messages?
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I think gosms has it. Im not sure though
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Can someone confirm that the CM7 and cm9 message apps do not display or reply to all text message recipients?
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GoSMS has group MMS now. It shows as a group icon, rather than a single contact's picture in the text list.
Go SMS does have this feature but I've found it busted MMS after the first use. Maybe they fixed it since the initial release of it, I haven't used it since.
If you don't have it, you can long press the message and go into details. Then it will at least show you the numbers the message was sent to, but it won't match to any names even if you have them.
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Honestly I think this is my most wanted feature on CM. I hate the way android handles group texts just as much as I hate go sms
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garyf said:
Can someone confirm that the CM7 and cm9 message apps do not display or reply to all text message recipients?
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Doesn't on cm7 not sure on 9
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I think it's rather annoying that I get responses from other people when someone sends out a group text. It's just Iphone users I've found.
When I send out a group text with Handcent and someone responds, it's just to me, not the whole group. It's not that way with the Iphone. When another Iphone users responds to a group text, everyone that got the original message also gets the response.
This "feature" sucks in my opinion but other people may want this functionality.
blazinazn said:
I think it's rather annoying that I get responses from other people when someone sends out a group text. It's just Iphone users I've found.
When I send out a group text with Handcent and someone responds, it's just to me, not the whole group. It's not that way with the Iphone. When another Iphone users responds to a group text, everyone that got the original message also gets the response.
This "feature" sucks in my opinion but other people may want this functionality.
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Yes I would love to have it. Just makes coordinating group projects at school so much easier. I absolutely understand it could be an annoyance to some though
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You only notice it with iPhone users because it's Apple's 'way' of handling messages to more than one person. It's supposed to be like a chat room I guess. I'm not a big fan of it myself, but it can make it easier when dealing with a few people who have iPhones.
EDIT: And no, nothing on Android (AOSP, CM7/9, TW, etc) either displays or replies to all people the message was sent to. In fact, the way you'll know it's a 'group message' is because it comes through as MMS, so if you're without data, you won't get it. Just FYI.
Go SMS has the feature and it works really well
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lmsomb said:
Go SMS has the feature and it works really well
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Do you use it frequently? The last time I used it (when they first implemented it) it worked for one reply successfully. It then crapped out and borked all MMS until I unchecked the option in the settings. Haven't tried it since. But, if you use it frequently and can still receive picture messages from others, then I might have to re-enable it as it would be nice to have.

[Q] SMS/Text Question

Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
bp328i said:
Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
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exuse me but i can't understand you.
could you be more clear?
When you send or receive a text that is longer than 140 characters it is sent or received in multiple messages instead of just one longer message.
Is there a setting that let's you receive messages longer than 140 characters in one text instead of the message being broken into two or three smaller messages?
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bp328i said:
Ok so is there any setting I'm missing that will change a SMS that goes over 140 characters to a MMS so the person I'm texting does not receive multiple text.
My wife and I both have SGIII's and when she sends me a long text it breaks it into several text instead of just one long text.
Is there any way to change this?
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Try handcent I think that has an option to do that
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I would really like to keep using the stock app if possible. Not a big fan of adding apps if I don't need to.
Here is a screenshot of me sending myself a text. You can see it is received in two parts.
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bp328i said:
When you send or receive a text that is longer than 140 characters it is sent or received in multiple messages instead of just one longer message.
Is there a setting that let's you receive messages longer than 140 characters in one text instead of the message being broken into two or three smaller messages?
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as far as i know, CDMA phones can only go up to 160 characters per text.
so that option in handcent is only for the GSM phones which can send longer texts than 160.
so unfortunately you cant change that. now i do know that there are some roms that after so many messages (like 3 or 4 sms in one) it converts it to an MMS rather than an SMS, i don't know if the stock sms app does it, but i know that the handcent app has an option to disable it to rather then sending 3 or 4 sms as an MMS it sends all 4 SMS's.
but thats my 2 cents worth.
It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
billard412 said:
It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
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Yuuuup it can.... Freeza has a tutorial I believe over in the development thread....
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billard412 said:
It can definitely be done. Are you running stock or do you have a custom ROM?
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I was thinking it could be done because I've had that built into almost every ROM I ever ran on Verizon and their network is also CDMA. I just switched to Sprint a few weeks ago so did not know if it was a Sprint thing.
I'm running FreeSG3-v0.0.9.1, if there was a write up somewhere I can decompile whatever needs to be changed and make the changes myself.
I haven't ran stock since I first rooted my OG Droid...
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Naddict said:
Yuuuup it can.... Freeza has a tutorial I believe over in the development thread....
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I looked through the development thread and did not see anything about it. I even used the search. If you could provide a link I would be forever indebted to you.
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If you're running an AOSP rom, open up the Messaging app and hit the menu button. Go to settings and scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see it!

Split messages?

Hey I'm on paranoidandroid and whenever I try to send a big message in which it has to spilt and I hit send it always fails, why is that? I'm using the stock messaging app.
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Darrien13 said:
Hey I'm on paranoidandroid and whenever I try to send a big message in which it has to spilt and I hit send it always fails, why is that? I'm using the stock messaging app.
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Just curious, do you have a Sprint Airave or Airvana in your home?
Do you have Handcent or any custom messaging app? Also does the split messages have more than 160 characters?
TheDudeAbides said:
Just curious, do you have a Sprint Airave or Airvana in your home?
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No I do not
joshlete said:
Do you have Handcent or any custom messaging app? Also does the split messages have more than 160 characters?
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No I'm using stock and yes it does
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Darrien13 said:
No I do not
No I'm using stock and yes it does
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You can only send a maximum of 160 characters in each text. If it has one character more, it will not send. Go to the settings of your messaging app and see if you can make it send a max of 160 characters in each text.
joshlete said:
You can only send a maximum of 160 characters in each text. If it has one character more, it will not send. Go to the settings of your messaging app and see if you can make it send a max of 160 characters in each text.
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I have no option for that, SUCKS
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joshlete said:
You can only send a maximum of 160 characters in each text. If it has one character more, it will not send. Go to the settings of your messaging app and see if you can make it send a max of 160 characters in each text.
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This is so not true. You can send more than 160 characters. The phone will split it up for you in however many pieces it needs to and there's no setting for it, its done automatically. I text more than 160 characters all the time. My phone always sends and its a feature that I've experienced on many phones for years now, way before Android. So to OP something is definitely wrong with your phone.
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Here's an example
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This is something that towers handle. Some towers on the CDMA network handle >160 character SMS messages. Some do not and require the text messaging application to split messages >160 into multiple smaller messages.
It sounds like the messaging app isn't working for you. I would backup /system/app/MMS.apk somewhere and push a new one (Perhaps a CM based one) to /system/app.
Thanks
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RayTrue04 said:
This is so not true. You can send more than 160 characters. The phone will split it up for you in however many pieces it needs to and there's no setting for it, its done automatically. I text more than 160 characters all the time. My phone always sends and its a feature that I've experienced on many phones for years now, way before Android. So to OP something is definitely wrong with your phone.
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Smh, you just contradicted yourself. The towers will not accept a text with more than 160 characters in it. Obviously, it will be separated but the OP said he had more than 160 characters in each text.
For the OP, get handcent or some other messaging app. Go into the settings and there will be an option that tells you how many characters per text before it splits up. Mess with that to make it work.

Why can't I send long message!

Once I reach the character max for the first message I can't go past that! Why! Whyyyyyy!?
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It should split when you send mine does. Try a third party sms like gosms or chomp sms.
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Sprint is CDMA network and has trouble with more than 160 characters. If you're on a custom rom, like AOKP or CM, there generally is an option in sms settings to auto-split.
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I use Sprint's stock messaging app and have no trouble sending messages longer than 160 characters, and they split properly on the other end. Do you get an error message or anything when you hit 160? Mine counts down characters to 0/160 and then continues on with 160/160, 159/160, etc.
JimSmith94 said:
I use Sprint's stock messaging app and have no trouble sending messages longer than 160 characters, and they split properly on the other end. Do you get an error message or anything when you hit 160? Mine counts down characters to 0/160 and then continues on with 160/160, 159/160, etc.
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^^^ This. I also use stock messaging app and never had any issues. I also use the auto-combination feature and when people send me messages longer than 160 characters it combines them back into one message. It says it only work from Galaxy to Galaxy phones but that's a lie. My sister has the EVO LTE and when she sends me long messages they come in one whole text.
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RayTrue04 said:
^^^ This. I also use stock messaging app and never had any issues. I also use the auto-combination feature and when people send me messages longer than 160 characters it combines them back into one message. It says it only work from Galaxy to Galaxy phones but that's a lie. My sister has the EVO LTE and when she sends me long messages they come in one whole text.
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I'm running MC2 4.1.2 stock rooted and have auto-combination checked, but messages still come in split, at least from my son's AT&T iPhone. Is there anything else that should be set to get it working, or is it an iPhone thing?
JimSmith94 said:
I'm running MC2 4.1.2 stock rooted and have auto-combination checked, but messages still come in split, at least from my son's AT&T iPhone. Is there anything else that should be set to get it working, or is it an iPhone thing?
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Maybe it's because she's with a different carrier. Another cool thing is that my sisters EVO is also combining long messages too by default. However you still see the 1/2 - 2/2 on her EVO unlike our Galaxy which does a better job.
Edit: Nope it don't work from ATT iPhones. I just received my cousins text in two..
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