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RRLiam
15th March 2005, 11:52 AM
I am having problems with text messages on my XDA IIs.

It happens intermittantly. Sometimes SMS works fine, but most of the time it does not.

It is sending messages that are shorter then 160characters using multiple texts.

Most of the time, when you begin writing the text, it says at the bottom 0/160. But once you hit around 70, it says something like 71/70 (2 Messages), and then so on. A Full 160 character text uses, like 3 or 4 messages.

When I send these, my girlfriend reports never receiving the other parts to the text, and only the first 70 characters, and a friend of mine says he receives them all seperately.

This is very annoying. Occasionally, it comes up 0/70 at the bottom. I'm close to smashing the phone up because of this - good job I have insurance eh?

Any ideas....?

By the way, I'm new around here. Nice site by the way!

RRLiam
15th March 2005, 11:58 AM
Hmm... could a Mod move this to the Blue Angel forum, I appear to have posted by mistake in the General Forum...

Sorry guys...

ozymandias
15th March 2005, 12:14 PM
What language is your blue angel set up in ?

Bonzo
15th March 2005, 12:45 PM
Inbox --> Accounts --> Accounts --> SMS --> "Send SMS messegages using Unicode when necessary"
On or Off?

Unicode messages gives about 70 characters..
It enables you to send funny looking characters, but fewer of them..

ozymandias
15th March 2005, 01:11 PM
Yeah, that's where I was going with the language thing.
I assumed that there must be some charaters being used that could only be encoded using two bytes :D

ozymandias
15th March 2005, 01:14 PM
You are ok woth a lot of international characters but ©, ® and و for instance will put you in unicode territory.

Bonzo
15th March 2005, 01:19 PM
I can type 160x "و" pr SMS...
This is native language for me though..

(NO! I don't go around saying "وووووو" all day..)

My suggestion:
Disable the unicode thingy and try typing و, ّ, ه, ©, ® and stuff..

Anton.Valleyman
15th March 2005, 06:03 PM
Does the 2s have the intellipad text entry system like on the 2i?

I've noticed this when trying to use it on the XDA2 and it had the same issue, only once I'd removed Intellipad from the 2003SE install did the problem go away.

As far as I know it's a bug that MS / O2 are aware of, in the meantime you'll just have to a) not use apostrophe punctuation or b) use the " ' " on the keyboard / use Intellipad WITH the "1" button to put in the punctuation.

Cheers
Ant

pen6uin
15th March 2005, 09:08 PM
sorted ive turned off the unicode and now when the apostrophe puts its self in there it doesnt go to 7 messages like it has been doing wrote a 145 character text the other day and it was showing as 9 messages because of all the punctuation took it out and back to 1 ,no need to do that now punctuation works fine
thanks Bonzo i carnt tell u how much this has been buggin me lol