Text Message Limit - Motorola Q Forum

jpxx02 · 02-27-2008, 08:48 PM

Hi...is there any way i can get rid of the text message limit on the Q...for example taking out the 160 limit and if you pass it...it turns into 2 messages...is there anyway i can get rid of that? thank you

mike250rs · 02-27-2008, 08:49 PM

yes, send an email

ChantryChantry · 02-27-2008, 08:55 PM

im pretty sure you cant. It's really just to let you know that if you're sending a text to a regular cell phone, they'll get it in 2 messages instead of one.

rudeboy · 02-27-2008, 09:02 PM

search for EMS, there are some who were successful up to a point because it also depends on the receiver.. but i am with mike, more then 160 charcters is an email...

potQ.

zenkinz · 02-28-2008, 02:05 AM

there's nothing you can do because the bottleneck is the messaging infrastructure. EMS was evolved to resolve this gap but it didn't pick off. Some phones have the ability to 'merge' two SMS together. plus anything longer, email is a preferred choice since people are getting more mobile these days.

LuvrGirl · 02-28-2008, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by jpxx02

Hi...is there any way i can get rid of the text message limit on the Q...for example taking out the 160 limit and if you pass it...it turns into 2 messages...is there anyway i can get rid of that? thank you

Not sure what you mean... when I send text messages it has that little counter at the bottom and I go over the 160, it changes the counter at the bottom to say something like (2 msgs) or something like that... so when it sends it actually does break it up into the 2 separate msgs to my receiver.

~maria

mexiken · 03-01-2008, 05:39 PM

If you have AT&T, it absolutely does not. If you have Verizon however, it will. So anytime a message goes over 160, it will automatically split it into 2 messages. Whether sending or receiving. AT&T does not do this, either sending or receiving.

n99hockey · 03-01-2008, 06:54 PM

so why do so many vzw users claim it doesnt work?

-Sent from my Q

LuvrGirl · 03-02-2008, 09:37 PM

well I don't know... maybe I'm just special like that... but for me it works. i can write out a txt msg (longer than 160) and my phone tells me how many msgs it will be, whether it's 2, or 3 msgs, and it breaks it up when it sends it and my receivers get my full message in however many parts it is.

and yes, i have at&t

ChantryChantry · 03-02-2008, 09:58 PM

yep i think it works like that for all phones. except sometimes i have problems sending a long text, like the reciever wont recieve it.

that's the only problem i have with sending a long text.