probably a problem that not many other people have encountered, but I kept having an error message when sending an sms to my wife, using her entry in my contacts, along the lines of "not enough numbers in this phone number".
I thought it strange seeing as the phone number i had is the right one and works for calling etc.
just realised why. it only happens when i click "new message" and then type the first few characters of the name, then select it from the suggested names. no problems if i just select the message thread and add a new message.
the problem is that my wife's name is inordinately long (31 characters not including spaces) and that there is a limit in how many characters the SMS "to" field will allow ... and by the time it had her name in there, there was only room remaining for half her phone number.
so it was just trying to send to half of her phone number cos that's all there was space for!
anyone know a reg hack to increase the maximum allowed characters in sms "to:" field? otherwise i'll just have to chop off half her name
I thought it strange seeing as the phone number i had is the right one and works for calling etc.
just realised why. it only happens when i click "new message" and then type the first few characters of the name, then select it from the suggested names. no problems if i just select the message thread and add a new message.
the problem is that my wife's name is inordinately long (31 characters not including spaces) and that there is a limit in how many characters the SMS "to" field will allow ... and by the time it had her name in there, there was only room remaining for half her phone number.
so it was just trying to send to half of her phone number cos that's all there was space for!
anyone know a reg hack to increase the maximum allowed characters in sms "to:" field? otherwise i'll just have to chop off half her name