Q10 text limit

[darad]

When texting, its so easy to exceed to 160 character limit for SMS on Sprint.  The error is irrecoverable, as I get the red circle icon at left/top of the text mesage, and a red "General Problems" notation below the message.

Doesn't Sprint offer the capability to automatically break the long text into multiple text messages, and send them sequentially?  Or is there a hidden setting to enable.  If not, why isn't this feature enabled by default?

[SprintCare]

darad,


Thank you for posting, at this time the limit for an SMS text message is 160 characters. Unless you are using a different option such as Imessage or bbm, then you would be restricted to the 160 character limit.


Charles G.

Sprint Social Care Team

[darad]

I read this on crackberry forum:

Motorcycle Mama CrackBerry Genius of Geniuses Posts 10,170 Posts Global Posts 10,172 Global Posts

12-02-2010, 07:59 AMhttp://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-curve-85xx-f143/character-limit-texting-am-i-dreaming-559161...#7      Linkhttp://forums.crackberry.com/report.php?p=5829021 Here's the deal folks.CDMA carriers support extended SMS on other devices. CDMA carriers do NOT support extended SMS on BlackBerry. GSM carriers support extended SMS on BlackBerry and other devices. Does this mean Sprint and other CDMA phone elected to not support extended MS on BlackBerry?   Can Sprint upgrade their service to automatically switch to extended MS or MMS or other feature that allows longer text messages than 160 char?   Seems like the dark ages in the modern world of cell phones, a carry over from 20 years ago. Or is a limitation that Blackberry imposed on its customers?  The least they could do is provide a character count, or characters to go!  Instead you type a short paragraph, and the entire thing gets rejected.

[LCCHICK2001]

ARe you running a leaked OS?  I noticed this issue on leaked 10.2.1.1926 but don't remember having it on stock 10.1.  admittedly, I didn't use 10.1 for too long, but I write some long texts and don't remember having that problem.

[darad]

I'm running 10.2.1.1925.  The only texting feature that changed from stock to *.1925 was the auto-scroll to current line being typed.  Actually, I cannot recall whether I ran into the text limit "General Problems" message on stock phone.  Perhaps, someone with the original phone can check.