Resize photo to send via MMS - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

On my iPhone I could select a photo taken with the camera and it would resize it to send via MMS.
This does not happen on my SGS II. It will just attach a 3MB+ photo it is will always fail. Any ideas how to get it to auto resize like the iPhone does?
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AaronUK said:
On my iPhone I could select a photo taken with the camera and it would resize it to send via MMS.
This does not happen on my SGS II. It will just attach a 3MB+ photo it is will always fail. Any ideas how to get it to auto resize like the iPhone does?
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Fix (sort off) for those that also have this problem:
After some investigation it turns out that the stock Samsung messaging app does not support photo resize for MMS. In the UK the MMS size limit is ~300kb so anything above this will fail. To solve this I had to install Handcent and replace stock messaging app.

Weird, i didn't do any flashing hacking yet as I wanted to use the stock firmware for a while to see how I liked it.
I send MMS all the time and kinda makes me mad as it seems to shrink them too small, 3MB picture down to 24KB. So with the stock MSG app it does resize photos just fine and sends them, i receive photos as large as 267KB so far too from other people.

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