Nokia 5530 Receives Pictures That Are Too Small

Question

I have a Nokia 5530 and when I get a picture message it comes out really small.  This is really frustrating as I sometimes like to save the pictures on my computer.  My previous phone was a Nokia 5300 and the pictures I received on this phone were a lot bigger.  Is there anything I can do allow my phone to receive bigger pictures?  

Answer 1

I just signed up as I'm having the same problem with my N79.
There very little out there for this problem.
First make sure that in your message options the 'Image Size' is set to 'Large'
I've done that on my N79 but there is another reason that i'm getting such small msg's;
From the research I've done it seems it's down to the mobile operator (In my case o2).
When you recieve a picture message the message centre looks at your handset and looks at the information it has on its database.
As o2 doesn't list my N79 as a supported handset its msgcentre doesn't have information on what the maximum supported resolution is.
As it can't resolve what size msg the phone can receive it sends it on as the smallest possible, good for wide-range handset compatibility but bad for my picture msg size which come down at a weeny 5kb!