Hello!
I've got a little problem, which is not life threatening but somehow irritating..
I've been using few roms: gingerreal, both CM ports, coderom, flash, and maybe more and everywhere I get the same problem with SMS.
I'm from Poland where we use some weird characters like "ą", "ś" or "ł". As you may know, when you use this kind of chars while composing sms you get your 160 chars sms cut down to 70chars because it's being sent with unicode alphabet (or something alike).
Now I know that once I had a rom (maybe it wasn't even a custom rom) that even when I used those weird chars wasn't sending them. The whole message was "encoded" as a GSM alphabet.
I know that there's a setting in stock sms app to use GSM alphabet but it isn't working when I use GoSMS which doesn't have this setting.
Do you have some way to solve this problem? Maybe some of my countrymen here can enlighten me..
Cheers!
ps.
stupid rules to not allowing me to comment roms in dev section...
You can try another keyboard. Like HTC_IME mod (it can replace characters you want with another set of characters) or hacked Swype 3 that just doesn't input ą, ę etc.
I'm using Swift Key 'cause it works for me better than any other. It's predictions are priceless 'cause it learns my style of writing from all my mails and sms..
I want to use dictionary and write with polish chars but force sms app to convert it to gsm alphabet. I know it can be done 'cause I had it before..
Any other ideas?
Have you tried the Handcent SMS app from Market? I don't know if it can replace Polish characters.
Now I noticed, that all the time since I've got Galaxy Ace the Input Mode in stock Messages app is GSM Alphabet and all messages that I sent and received has Polish characters.
So every time you thought that you were sending one msg you really sent 2 or even 3... That sucks, doesn't it?
I really like GO apps so I would rather stick to less predictions with swift key than change the sms app.
Shame it can't be set to send without our 'precious' polish chars :/
Every nokia I had in past could do that..
I am using gosms for remove czech diacritics in sms. In polish will work probably also.
where and what setting are you using to disable czech chars?
Gosms - setting - advancedsetting - setting for sending - switch on national setting. Then supported language( polish) and choose czech for sms.
I have gosms in czech, so name of setting is translated by me. But i hope you will find it
Daaamn, you were right! Of course I tried this few times already but this time (since you declared that it works for you) I restarted the gosms app and only after THAT it worked!
They should have written somewhere that you need to restart app so the setting would make effect..
Much appreciated, thanks!
Thanks for the tip man, in Brazil we use special caracteres all the time, after install Go SMS i noted this bug with limititation, i put czech national settings and after restart the app works great again, thank you.
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I sent SMS which was something like three SMSs chained together in Finnish language (Scandic letters äö etc.) to my girlfriend, and she said that only the first sentence was clear text, the rest was squares. Her phone is some old Sony Ericsson non-smartphone.
I told her to send the message back to me, and weird enough, first sentence is nearly as I wrote it, the "" smiley at the end of the sentence was two squares. After the squares, there's a few Chinese or Japanese Kanji characters and then again square or two, then again Kanji characters until end of the message chain.
Anybody seen this kind of problem? I think this should be reported to HTC if not already, I just don't know if this problem can be reproduced otherwise than sending similar awfully cute message to someone
sounds like some weird issue with the character sets being used (UTF-8 or Unicode etc.)
Don't know of any way to check what is being used on android....
disssko said:
Her phone is some old Sony Ericsson non-smartphone.
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I would suggest that your first port of call would be to try to send similar messages to friends who are using more up to date devices. It is possible that it is the SE that is failing to interpret the message correctly, rather than an issue with the Hero per se.
Regards,
Dave
Yes I have, and now that you mentioned it I double checked. I'm quite sure the problem is caused by having a letter with the tilde on top in the message instead of the proper åäö. This happens very easily, since the tilde versions are right next to correct ones on the popup lists of the touch keyboard and the difference on the fonts after typing is barely noticeable.
What I don't know is if those a the only problematic symbols and wheather the character encoding is screwed up on android, by the operator (elisa) or at the receiver phone (s40 I think). I just hope the next version of the HTC rom has Finnish language support so that it would be easier to type and avoid this.
For now, simply spell check you texting carefully before hitting send. Especially when sending to gf
whyj said:
Yes I have, and now that you mentioned it I double checked. I'm quite sure the problem is caused by having a letter with the tilde on top in the message instead of the proper åäö. This happens very easily, since the tilde versions are right next to correct ones on the popup lists of the touch keyboard and the difference on the fonts after typing is barely noticeable.
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Actually what I didn't mention was that there was one "õ" character in the first sentence just for the reason you mentioned. I'm constantly hitting those still after three weeks using Hero. It may indeed be the reason for this "Chinese" translator" feature!
Thanks for suggesting this, I'm also hoping that if the äö characters are not visible on the main keyboard view, they should at least be more accessible in the future for us Finns
Hello,
Same problem for me. This is a known issue with Android OS, there is many complaisn from all contries in Europe using any special characters like 'ê' in french. More information here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2719
Lucas
Hello!
Sorry this is my first post and i hope that someone can held me.I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 with the Dragon ICS V2.0 .Its a great Rom so far but i dont have a sms signs counter.My English is not so good and i hope you know what i mean.I have no flatrate for my sms and i need a counter where i can see how many signs i have until the second sms start.The Android Version is 4.0.4.I like the Dragon Style and i hope someone can held me to get the counter.If this is not possible i use Handcent.
Do you mean you want to know how many characters you are up to for your message? The default sms app does not show this information all the time. It will give you a warning when you are down to the last 10 characters on the top right of the input box.
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Do you mean you want to know how many characters you are up to for your message? The default sms app does not show this information all the time. It will give you a warning when you are down to the last 10 characters on the top right of the input box.
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Yes that is what i mean and someone in a another forum told me that on Android 4.0.3 the full(0/160) counter still including.Its strange i think.On 2.3.5 i also have the full counter that looks like 0/160.
Maybe the german ics default sms app is different than others?I dont know.....
If I recall from memory it does have the counter on all the time on gingerbread, but definitely not on ICS. No the stock sms app is the same all round, perhaps another app was used?
So... I'm a serial SMS writer, and I often write long, veeeery loooong SMSs. Never had problems with that, but now I find out Android automatically converts an SMS into an MMS when I reach 160*3 characters. Is there any way to avoid this without using an app like Handcent? Any system file I can edit? Any hidden option I'm too blind to see?
I've searched the forum, but I found no answer. Sorry if I missed it.
Same situation for me so i'm pretty interested in a solution.
Sent from my SK17i using XDA
Look, I found this free app, BigSMS, which you can use to write long messages. Since i really HATE Handcent (I find it INDEcent! ) I decided to download and try BigSMS. For simple, it's ugly. But it works. I'll keep using my stock app, but, when the moment arrives for me to send a 1000000 pages sms I'll just switch for a moment to BigSMS to write it.
Anyway, it's really annoying that we can't change this feature.
Hi every one
I'm on galaxy s3 and hate the fact that it auto converts the SMS to mms when character exceeds 480.
And there is no option to disable this perk..
I don't want to use 3rd party apps like gosms and handcent for the simple fact that they don't support motion gestures like dialing the contact when phone is held to face.
I know there are various ROMs with this option...I am looking for a stand alone zip file that could be installed through recovery.
For the record I'm on XXALF2 ODEXED ...please help me find this app I'm sure there are a lot more people looking for this simple but necessary option..
Guess there is no much hack...although there are some cooked ROMs with this functionality..
Anyhow,mods u may close this thread
Muhammad I Alam
Hi Iris,
Sorry to hear about this. I know it probably doesn't help much now, but if you just want to send Long SMS messages (over 3 SMS) you can use BigSMS. It doesn't support any of the gestures and stuff, but that isn't really the point. Most people type their message in the stock app then copy it to BigSMS and send. Not a perfect fix, just a solution.
Thanks man
u wrote the app man..really doin the trick for occusional long sms
Muhammad I Alam
So, on my Streak 5 I have installed clean 407 ROM, which works great. And I need to mod Mms.apk so it do not convert SMS to MMS after certain number of characters.
I read many threads about modding, and I tried everything. But, to be short I did next:
-decompile .apk file
-found .xml file
-change values ( smsToMmsTextThreshold )
-build .apk file
-changed it in /system/app
-rebooted device
...and nothing happend.
First, I thought that value which I entered was to low ( 200 ), then I changed it into 999999, but...again...same result.
Everything works nice ( no errors ), but no effect from modded Mms.apk
So I need help: does anyone knows where I can seek for solution. What to do? What to change!?
Thank you!
Just to check in info: I clear data under Settings\Applications, and cleard Dalvik cache...same output: again converts message to MMS
Dejan990 said:
Just to check in info: I clear data under Settings\Applications, and cleard Dalvik cache...same output: again converts message to MMS
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It is possible that this conversion to MMS is outside of your control. It may be carried out by your mobile network when you are sending the message. In other words the mobile phone network counts the characters in your message and decides if there are too many to be deemed an SMS.
I am not certain of this, but it does correspond to my experience of different networks.
Having said that there is some information in the Olleh 407 thread regarding changes to the build.prop that might help you. But I don't think the outcome of those mods were conclusive.
Finally, results!
So, after an epic search, I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423340
(and after that one, another one on an arab site...don't know which )
Anyway, I needed to change /system/build.prop, next lines:
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=1
into
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=0
<they are separated lines in file, and appears three times in the same>
<firstly, I changed only ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1 into ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0 ,and noticed that converting sms to mms, has moved from ~102 chars to 3 messages>
and one more thing/line needs to be added up (don't know why, because I didn't noticed any changes):
ro.telephony.sms_segment_size=160
...
So, what are results?
Before any changes of build.prop, sms was converted to mms after circa 102 chars. Now, it's 3 sms and than mms. <== and that's happening even if I moddified Mms.apk! ...I'll continue to work. But any help will be appreciated :good:
Dejan990 said:
Finally, results!
So, after an epic search, I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423340
(and after that one, another one on an arab site...don't know which )
Anyway, I needed to change /system/build.prop, next lines:
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=1
into
ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0
...
ro.build.CONFIG_CUSTOMER_KT=0
<they are separated lines in file, and appears three times in the same>
<firstly, I changed only ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=1 into ro.build.CUSTOMER_CONFIG_KT=0 ,and noticed that converting sms to mms, has moved from ~102 chars to 3 messages>
and one more thing/line needs to be added up (don't know why, because I didn't noticed any changes):
ro.telephony.sms_segment_size=160
...
So, what are results?
Before any changes of build.prop, sms was converted to mms after circa 102 chars. Now, it's 3 sms and than mms. <== and that's happening even if I moddified Mms.apk! ...I'll continue to work. But any help will be appreciated :good:
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You can install the mms app from CM7, it's modded, does not convert the sms to mms [at least on cm7 and DSC] i use it as i don't like anymore the 3rd party applications, i used to use Handcent SmS but now is too heavy and laggy...
Try this one, i extracted it for you
Hope this helps
Force close error. But thank you anyway!
Sent from my Dell Streak using xda app-developers app
lol... you guys... you dont need to mod mms.apk or anything.... in the settings for the messaging application... there is one called as SMS split... tick that option and the message would no longer auto convert to mms when it exceeds 160 character limit... it is so simple... wonder nobody realize that..?
erm...is it me, or such option does not exist in mine Mms.apk
Dejan990 said:
erm...is it me, or such option does not exist in mine Mms.apk
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try here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28874888#post28874888
I understand what are you saying, but obviously we have different versions of Messaging application. Your's is ripped from another ROM or something like that? This is clean one, from Olleh 407, and for sure there is no such option like split message.
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I understand what are you saying, but obviously we have different versions of Messaging application. Your's is ripped from another ROM or something like that? This is clean one, from Olleh 407, and for sure there is no such option like split message.
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official optimized app.... messaging v2.3.7 :good:
you could try third party messaging application such as handcent sms, gosms, ics messaging, etc...
please delete.
another alternative stock messaging...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253108