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This didn't used to happen, but I noticed it about a month and a half ago. Early on with this phone picture messages would come in fine...I could click on them and they'd look normal when they open up in the gallery. Those messages from then still look fine and function normally. But any picture messages I've received in the last month or so don't work right...They download to my phone (when I have mobile data on, which makes sense), but there's a play button over the picture. When I click on it it it opens up the photo but it looks tiny and I can't zoom in or anything or open with the gallery, etc. If I longpress the message without opening it, it only lets me play as slideshow which is still reallllly small. If I "download attached to SD card" it saves in my file system and when I open it up later it looks normal. But I don't want to have to download every picture message I get to my SD card just to look at it...
What's the deal here? I use GoSMS but I got this problem sometime after I started using that. Either way, the problem occurs in my stock app as well. I can't remember if this coincides with when I flashed GingerBlur or not...
FYI, this happens when I get messages from any iPhone AS WELL as friends with android phones. Any thoughts?
EDIT: also, if anyone thinks it IS GoSMS though, let me know! I don't remember this happening when I first started using it, but I dunno I'm willing to try all possibilities. Maybe a rogue setting in GoSMS is screwing it up?
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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PixoNova said:
Not GOSMS. I get the problem with the GingerBlur messaging, as well as stock Atrix messenger.
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Interesting, so that should mean GoSMS, the GingerBlur flash or the stock GingerBread messaging app aren't causing it...hmmm...
This is an android issue. Had the same issue when using my nexus one, Dell streak 5 and now the Atrix. It sucks. Never found a way to fix it. Some messages used to come through fine but I haven't notice any work lately at all. They all come through like a small video file and are much smaller in size unless I copy to the sd card.
I'll try to grab some friends phones ( evo 4g, epic 4g, droid x) and see what it's like on their phones.
I also noticed that with animated gifs as well! They are showing up to people as pics only and are very small in size no matter how big they originally were! It's quite aggravating and I tried gosms, handscent, chompsms, and a crapload of others and none are working right!
This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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lhurtado said:
This is not a problem... This happens when the MMS has several "slides", for example, a picture and some text.
If it only includes a picture, you see it directly.
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I see. That's quite absurd, and even if it isn't a real Android problem, this should be changed...
My upfront apologies if this has been posted already - I'm finding that with stock messaging app (which stinks) when a message is received the whole phone essential locks up. It comes back but it just sits there. Is this the messaging app or something else? Better off doing it thru data via Google voice? Go to different SMS app? If so which one do people reccomend? Thanks!
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Go sms pro
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+1 on go sms pro
been using sms pro for over a yr and got no issues with it...you could even customize and download themes..its the best so far
Funny, I was here looking for something else, but a friend called me 5 minutes ago screaming that she cannot send text. Told her to delete ALL of the old one's she did not need. Just text me and asked me did I receive it?
Pot calling the kettle black, my phone was running like crap with stock everything. I deleted all my old text, dumped some pictures I was playing with camera with that I will never upload, blew away junk e-mails.......Phone is new!
Hey everyone, currently running AOKP's newest rom and I noticed I am again having the issue where multiple pictures in one MMS are viewing as a slideshow and not as individual pictures.
In the past (and based on my searching) it appears some ROMs have fixed this issue, but all the ones I could find were about 6 months to a year old. I am weary of flashing any of these as since the phone is now running ICS instead of GB, I don't want to mess anything up.
So, anyone know of a fix, or if an older version of mms.apk will work on ICS?
I'm hoping this is just something no one knows and I didn't ask a retarded question
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I'm pretty sure that's a "feature" of the stock mms.apk. It was like that on stock GB too, and still is on stock ICS (the leaks and stock I9100 TW-ified ICS). Coming from an iPhone, it annoyed me too at first, but I got used to it eventually.
Uhhhh,
On my device running AOKP, I have multiple pictures received in one MMS conversation and when I tap on it to open, it opens just one, that one I tapped, not a slideshow. Don't know what happen to you.
votinh said:
Uhhhh,
On my device running AOKP, I have multiple pictures received in one MMS conversation and when I tap on it to open, it opens just one, that one I tapped, not a slideshow. Don't know what happen to you.
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When you say mms conversation are you referring to a single mms message with multiple pictures or a thread with multiple pictures? I ask because there's a difference.
With an iPhone you can include multiple pictures in a single mms. That shows as a slide show for me. If someone sends a single picture it shows like normal. 3 pictures in 3 separate mms show as normal too.
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When you say mms conversation are you referring to a single mms message with multiple pictures or a thread with multiple pictures? I ask because there's a difference.
With an iPhone you can include multiple pictures in a single mms. That shows as a slide show for me. If someone sends a single picture it shows like normal. 3 pictures in 3 separate mms show as normal too.
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In bold, I meant the latter.
Anyway, with AOKP, I can't attach multiple "picture" in the same single mms but I can add a slideshow, which allows me to add more than one picture.
Again, it's on my Tx end, I don't know how the Rx end looks.
I've been looking for the same thing to remove the slideshow but no luck. Eventually gave up and went to Go SMS pro and have never looked back. Love every service of it and it doesn't display multiple photos as a slide show
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Hi, This is my first post and i need help, I was texting with my new phone (SGS3) in the stock messaging app, and i wrote an SMS (4 Pages) and suddenly the SMS was automatically converted to MMS, and there is no option to disable this horrible and ridiculous feature, and theres also no option to turn it off! So how can this be possible? Such an expenssive phone, and you cant even write freely an SMS??? Why is there a limit of 3 pages? I was wondering if someone could do a MOD to fix this! I had the same problem with the galaxy note, and there was a little mod that could fix that, so i think im not the only one that want this fixed! (i dont like custom ROMS or anything like that, and i dont like apps like GoSMS, or stuff like that, i just like the stock messaging app, but with the fix) i just want PLEASE a little mod to fix this BIG problem. (Sorry for my english)
Sms are limited to 160 characters. Otherwise it has to be sent as an Mms.
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Sms are limited to 160 characters. Otherwise it has to be sent as an Mms.
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Thats not what i asked for, i mean.. im coming from an iphone 4s and that never happened, in fact it never happened to me in all the phones i have had!! So, i dont see the point of converting an SMS automatically to MMS just because i write more than 3 pages, thats just ridiculous But the thing is, that i would like to know if someone could do a MOD for the stock messaging app to fix that and make it without characters restrictions! To explain it better this is what i want for my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371755
no one texts anymore, use whatsapp or some sort of instant messaging
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Sms are limited to 160 characters. Otherwise it has to be sent as an Mms.
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i'm pretty sure that's not how it works, SMS longer than 160 characters get sent as multiple SMS which then then recombined back into one sms on the recipients phone. I've had the issue before when one part of a multi SMS message was delayed causing me to have the first or second half only and when the other one arrived sometime later the phone still knew to combined them together.
MMS is only when you attach a picture, video or voice clip to the message.
I have just tested what the OP has said and its true, if you type a long SMS, after the 3rd set of 260 characters, (there is a counter just above the send icon) it then gets converted to a MMS
But to the OP, I do wonder why you would want to type such a long SMS on a regular basis? you can also just send the sms at 3 pages then send a new one.
Can't you just send after every two pages. Yeah, it cost more but it will solve your issue.
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electric0ant said:
i'm pretty sure that's not how it works, SMS longer than 160 characters get sent as multiple SMS which then then recombined back into one sms on the recipients phone. I've had the issue before when one part of a multi SMS message was delayed causing me to have the first or second half only and when the other one arrived sometime later the phone still knew to combined them together.
MMS is only when you attach a picture, video or voice clip to the message.
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Sms are limited to 160 characters (Per Page), And when you write more than 3 Pages, it will automatically convert your SMS to MMS without asking or option to disable, it will just convert it to MMS. (it will convert it even if you dont attach ANYTHING, Even if it just based on text)
Use Go sms... But this is stupid...
S3 shouldn't do that...
Lol at the Wattsapp suggestions
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Wow I just realised that there is no option to cancel this 'feature' after I read your thread.
I do hope this is resolved since for those on Payandgo networks, like me, MMS isn't always free whereas practically even mobile plan has free SMS. Defeats the objective here, you can send very long SMS texts (counts as more than 1 but still sends fine) from other phones no problem. On the galaxy nexus it was possible to disable this SMStoMMS converting problem easily, I hope the devs come up with a workaround..
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Who still has data rates for SMS and MMS? I thought this stuff was free now? In Australia SMS for free is pretty much standard and most plans have at least $500 of credit included, an MMS costs max 0.50c, is this seriously an issue? Just use a different messegeing ap or use an instant messenger.
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danben7 said:
Who still has data rates for SMS and MMS? I thought this stuff was free now? In Australia SMS for free is pretty much standard and most plans have at least $500 of credit included, an MMS costs max 0.50c, is this seriously an issue? Just use a different messegeing ap or use an instant messenger.
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Im Living in Nicaragua, Managua (Central America) There are no MMS plans here.. Just SMS! So this is a BIG issue for a lot of people! I dont like those ugly apps like Go sms... and stuff like that.they are horrible! Plus... i guess a developer can easily fix that issue! it has already been made in other phones! Heres what im talking about : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371755
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lol, i think he meant "use email"
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Im Living in Nicaragua, Managua (Central America) There are no MMS plans here.. Just SMS! So this is a BIG issue for a lot of people! I dont like those ugly apps like Go sms... and stuff like that.they are horrible! Plus... i guess a developer can easily fix that issue! it has already been made in other phones! Heres what im talking about : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1371755
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Guys, am I right in saying that this was always a problem with stock messaging app? Hence most custom ROMs have a modded 'No MMS convert' message app? I remember this limitation on my stock SGS2 back in the day - dont remember this ever happening to me after custom roms.... or maybe I never sent over 3 pages.......
I just tried Texting over 311 characters from my SGS2 to my SGS3 and them back..........No MMS converting.... One whole page too....
Therefore this is not a problem with custom ROMs...
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Guys, am I right in saying that this was always a problem with stock messaging app? Hence most custom ROMs have a modded 'No MMS convert' message app? I remember this limitation on my stock SGS2 back in the day - dont remember this ever happening to me after custom roms.... or maybe I never sent over 3 pages.......
I just tried Texting over 311 characters from my SGS2 to my SGS3 and them back..........No MMS converting.... One whole page too....
Therefore this is not a problem with custom ROMs...
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The issue is just with the stock messaging app in Stock firmwares (with no custom ROMS) i dont like custom roms, thats why i need a mod to fix this! ***custom roms doesnt have this problems because they fix it***
SMS is for short messages.
If you are writing a book use email
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You can install gosms which have more options to configure or install the mod to deactivate that problem...
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Try using Handcent SMS app. It has that specific option to prevent auto converting to MMS.
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3pgs of sms....
THREE PAGES.
OF SMS.
Thank you for the amusement, OP. I'll be taking my +1 now.
So I always thought other peoples phones just sent a picture at a smaller resolution but last night my buddy and I recieved the same picture at the same time from someone and his was at a much higher resolution. He was using the stock SMS program and I was using Handcent. I uninstalled Handcent and had the person resend the picture so I would get it via the stock program and the picture came at a higher resolution, but not as great as the other persons. I was using my T-Mobile HTC One and he was using a Verizon HTC One X.
I was thinking it was maybe a T-Mobile thing limiting the MMS size, but today I sent a picture to both my wife and myself to compare. Hers is the Nexus 4 and I have the HTC One.
The original size of the picture being sent (after being compressed by the texting app is 235KB and 1909x1080.
My wife received that picture at 235KB @ 1909x1080 and I received the picture at 405KB 1023x579.
Does anyone have an explanation for why it's coming in like that and a fix for it? This was on the stock texting program on the phones.
Also FWIW, when Handcent is installed and I send from the stock app to myself and Handcent recieves the picture, it comes in at 188KB @ 639x362. I'm no longer a Handcent user. None of the other SMS apps did this.
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So I always thought other peoples phones just sent a picture at a smaller resolution but last night my buddy and I recieved the same picture at the same time from someone and his was at a much higher resolution. He was using the stock SMS program and I was using Handcent. I uninstalled Handcent and had the person resend the picture so I would get it via the stock program and the picture came at a higher resolution, but not as great as the other persons. I was using my T-Mobile HTC One and he was using a Verizon HTC One X.
I was thinking it was maybe a T-Mobile thing limiting the MMS size, but today I sent a picture to both my wife and myself to compare. Hers is the Nexus 4 and I have the HTC One.
The original size of the picture being sent (after being compressed by the texting app is 235KB and 1909x1080.
My wife received that picture at 235KB @ 1909x1080 and I received the picture at 405KB 1023x579.
Does anyone have an explanation for why it's coming in like that and a fix for it? This was on the stock texting program on the phones.
Also FWIW, when Handcent is installed and I send from the stock app to myself and Handcent recieves the picture, it comes in at 188KB @ 639x362. I'm no longer a Handcent user. None of the other SMS apps did this.
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I can only think of it being a setting that is limiting the size of the file. Maybe try another SMS app and see if you can change the size of the file you get. Most of the time there is settings that let you limit sizes for data reasons.
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I can only think of it being a setting that is limiting the size of the file. Maybe try another SMS app and see if you can change the size of the file you get. Most of the time there is settings that let you limit sizes for data reasons.
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I've tried stock, handcent, go sms, and chomp sms and had similiar results. I see you have the Nexus 4 and HTC One as well. Is it possible to test yourself and see if you get the same results?
urmystlkal said:
I've tried stock, handcent, go sms, and chomp sms and had similiar results. I see you have the Nexus 4 and HTC One as well. Is it possible to test yourself and see if you get the same results?
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I am waiting for HTC to ship me my phone. I did a trade in program with T-Mo as a Rep i was able to trade in my N4 for a full repalcement with a HTC One should be here later this week. If you are unlocked and have a custom recovery maybe try a nanodroid and install a different rom and see how that is. You can always go back with the backup. I don't really use MMS.
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I am waiting for HTC to ship me my phone. I did a trade in program with T-Mo as a Rep i was able to trade in my N4 for a full repalcement with a HTC One should be here later this week. If you are unlocked and have a custom recovery maybe try a nanodroid and install a different rom and see how that is. You can always go back with the backup. I don't really use MMS.
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Oh okay, nice! I haven't rooted yet so I'm still on the stock rom. Wonder what the deal is
HTC is letting current t-mo RSA's as well as sprint, and at&t to trade in there high end phone for free HTC one. It is only for RSA's.
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Maybe this. Happened to me on my One X when getting pics from an iPhone 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x/203150-mms-messages-very-small.html
I called HTC yesterday about it. The guy was able to duplicate and said he play with it and see what he came up w/ and should call me back today. There's no reason that this phone should be getting a picture at 435x767 resolution when other phones are getting it at 1088x1920. That's unacceptable.
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Maybe this. Happened to me on my One X when getting pics from an iPhone 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x/203150-mms-messages-very-small.html
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Hey I'm trying to install the apk and it asks if I would like to replace the system app, I say okay and hit install, then it says app not installed, an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed.
So then with a file manager with root access, i tried copy and pasting the MMS.apk into the system/app folder and it will not paste. Any advice?
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Hey I'm trying to install the apk and it asks if I would like to replace the system app, I say okay and hit install, then it says app not installed, an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed.
So then with a file manager with root access, i tried copy and pasting the MMS.apk into the system/app folder and it will not paste. Any advice?
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Stock /system is not r/w you need to flash a kernel that allows r/w to system. I wouldn't recommend trying to replace the stock messaging app with MMS.apk, might cause undesired results.
Possible to extract default.xml from SYSTEM/CUSTOMIZE/MNS and upload so I can take a look at it?
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PM'd it to you.
So it seems on a vertical picture,the One will receive is 434x767 resolution and on a horizontal picture it's 1023x579. Keep in mind the compressed picture that the messaging app sent out was 1520x2688 and 2688x1520 respectably. I've seen these numbers multiple times.
It boggles my mind how this is their high end phone and other phones are able to recieve the high resolution pictures via text and this one can not and HTC's answer to me was "basically going to have to deal with it or get another phone". That was an unacceptable answer for me.
My 2688x1520 gets recieved at 1909x1080 and I received a verticle one at it's original size. Only thing I noticed was that the verticle image size was under 1mb originally, therefor requiring no compression. T-mobile sets it's mms limit a 1000k so Im assuming size recieved depends on amount of compression required.
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My 2688x1520 gets recieved at 1909x1080 and I received a verticle one at it's original size. Only thing I noticed was that the verticle image size was under 1mb originally, therefor requiring no compression. T-mobile sets it's mms limit a 1000k so Im assuming size recieved depends on amount of compression required.
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I'm glad to hear that, at least it shows it's possible. I can't get anywhere close to that obviously. All the pictures are under 1000k, I'm not sure what the problem is. Was this with the stock messaging app or a different one?
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I'm glad to hear that, at least it shows it's possible. I can't get anywhere close to that obviously. All the pictures are under 1000k, I'm not sure what the problem is. Was this with the stock messaging app or a different one?
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Stock, by the way I'm running the ARHD 7.1 ROM using a default.XML file inside SYSTEM\CUSTOMIZE\MNS from Energy's T-Mobile One S ROM.
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I've had the same problem day one with this phone. I don't get it. Pictures come in way smaller than they should it's so annoying. This is is especially true when receiving screenshots. I'll attach some examples.
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Aaand this is why I use gmail. I've had several phones with that problem
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