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2nd part of a text message...?
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because it gets forwarded to me. It finishes with "...ng the weed!! Yea, 4/20!"
Jk, sometimes when I send a long text to another phone that is not an iPhone, it divides it to send as separate messages. Sometimes there is a long delay but it usually gets through. But to have something send only the first line...I've never heard of that happening before. I don't know of anything that can be done to fix that other than to let AT&T know and maybe they can figure it out....unless it only happens solely on iPhones.
Jk, sometimes when I send a long text to another phone that is not an iPhone, it divides it to send as separate messages. Sometimes there is a long delay but it usually gets through. But to have something send only the first line...I've never heard of that happening before. I don't know of anything that can be done to fix that other than to let AT&T know and maybe they can figure it out....unless it only happens solely on iPhones.
I wish crappy phones would just increase the character limit instead.
As to the OP's issue, the same thing happens to me, but only for particular contacts with particularly bad phones. The solution is to have the other person upgrade - or just don't text them.
Before I had at&t and my friends who had at&t would text me book lone messages and I always got them in parts. I found it funny I would get the 2nd half 1st sometimes.
With Verizon the limit was 160, and if you were texting another Verizon user there wasn't a limit.
With Verizon the limit was 160, and if you were texting another Verizon user there wasn't a limit.
See you have no idea what you are talking about. There is no character limit on those phones, if you go over the character limit, its sent as a new message. The iphone is the only phone that I have seen that does not count down the characters. Its just stupid.
If they're on Verizon, there is no second part. Verizon doesn't split texts to non-Verizon phones into parts, they just cut them off at 160 characters even if what the person sent was more than that.
thats weird, ive never had a problem with text messages being cut short... to/from iphones and regular phones
Read my post again. There is an ERROR, wherein the second text (when a single text is broken up) isn't received by the second phone. This only happens with particularly old or crippled phones, from my experience. Any half-decent new phone will simply receive the text as broken into multiple texts (which will all be received, and in the correct order). Reading would really help you out.
Which is why I edited my post. Sorry, but I get really frustrated when someone jumps the gun and attacks someone else without even bothering to read carefully what was said. In the heat of a verbal argument this is understandable - it happens; but there is really no excuse when the communication is done by text, which can be read and re-read at one's leisure.
It does seem to be a restriction imposed by your carrier on your personal plan. Perhaps you can call and verify? Dont think you mentioned that in your posts...
This makes the most sense. I think most people to talk over text with are on VZW. It's just annoying. Like someone else said, the iphone is the only phone that does not count chars. I can type type type, no limit. I am assuming the receiver is getting the whole message. What I do know is, we never get the rest. Here is an image from my wife's phone. I placed an arrow at the message. She how it's cut..
