SMS Messaging

I can't figure out how to text message more than one person at the same time. Am I missing something?

You never know what they'll come out with next. Whenever I think of something, I take a tip over to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html and hope whatever is asked about is in the next update.

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Why is my iPhone 4S breaking up SMS messages that are shorter than 160 characters?

With my iPhone 4S running 5.1, I'll tap out a message that reads on the character counter as less than 160 characters. When I press send, I hear the "sent message" swoosh sound happen twice, as it does when the phone splits a long message into multiple parts.
The recipient confirms that the message does get split into two parts even though its contents did not exceed 160 characters. Through some experimenting, I have determined that it happens with messages that exceed 120 characters. In cases of messages with lengths 120-160 characters, it cuts the last word off and sends it as a separate message.
Why is this happening?
(In addition, checking my Google Voice history also confirms that the messages get split up even though they do not exceed the character limit.)

I'm having the same exact issue. I've only noticed it since I upgraded to IOS 5.1. Unless the SMS message is very short, it gets broken into at least two separate messages when I hit send. I think this is happening even if the message I'm sending is less than 120 characters.
It doesn't bother me either, but like AmZam05 mentions, I feel bad for the recipient who is now getting mulitple SMS messages from me when they would get a single SMS message prior to me upgrading to IOS 5.1.
EDIT: Wanted to add that this is with a Sprint iPhone 4S w/ IOS 5.1. I've also found some forum threads elsewhere speaking of the same problem others are having. There seems to be a "workaround" for this by adding a few blank spaces at the end of your SMS text message, then sending it.

Skype sends SMS message to a wrong contact

This is a weird one. When I select one of my relatives which is save as my Skype mobile phone contact and I send her an SMS, the message is not being delivered to her but rather to a different cell phone No which belongs to her husband who is also one of my Skype phone contacts. I checked their numbers as saved under their profiles and they are both correct. They are both on the same cell phone network, but have very different numbers and they are even not together on the same family plan or similar. So I'm having real problem comprehending why this is happening. When I send her an SMS message using my phone, it goes normally to her phone. But when I do it via Skype it goes to a wrong recipient but he sees my correct phone number displayed one his phone after receiving the message. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?

Nevermind...I actually dug deeper and found the same thread. I tried to delete this one but couldn't find a way to do it.

Urgent help required for sms messages

i need help urgently...i havea legal case comming up shortly and need my sms messages from my old lawyer off my phone for the court. as they will be evidence, and i cannot find a way to do this i need them on to a sim. how do i do this please. i do not have BIS service so i cannot send them like that....Help please thanks

I haven't figured out how to get them onto your SIM card yet - but it may be a good idea for you to "back them up" by marking them all "saved." They would then be more secure
Phil

SIM card full please delete SMS messages

I keep getting the message "SIM card full please delete SMS messages". I've gone into options under TEXT messages and there is no option to check or uncheck "save on SIM card. I've had this issue since I bought the 9810. I did not have the same issue with the 9800 that I had before.

Hi and welcome to the forums!
Try the steps listed below.
Let us know how it goes!
Thanks,
Bifocals
KB13465 "SIM card is full please delete SMS messages" appears on the BlackBerry smartphone
For a possible resolution of this issue, complete the following steps:
On the Home screen of the BlackBerry smartphone, go to Options > SMS.
Press the Menu key and click SMS options.
Go to Leave Messages On SIM Card.
Press the Menu key again and click Change Option.
Select No.
Press the Menu key and click Save.
Open Messages on the Home screen of the BlackBerry smartphone and press the Menu key.
Locate the View Folder menu option.
Select SMS SIM Card Inbox.
Delete any unnecessary SMS text messages in order to create space on the SIM card.
For BlackBerry® Device Software 6.0, complete the following steps:
On the Home screen of the BlackBerry smartphone, open the Messages application.
Press the Menu key and click Options.
Click Text Messaging.
In the SMS Text area, clear the Leave Messages On SIM Card check box.
Press the Menu key and click Save.
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Not able to send an SMS message to a specific person because it says theres a v/m???

I reviewed all the posts and couldn't find information on this for a specific contact.
I can SMS message everyone in my contact list except for 1 person. Everytime I bring his name up it says there is a voicemail and doi want to call voice mail. It never gives me any other option.
Remember, this is specific to 1 contact.
1. I went into the options and set it to none under call logging. No change!
2. I went into voice mail options on Verizon and set it to no texting when voice mail. No change!
3. I even went so far as to delete the contact, created a new contact with his info in it. It still came up with that voice mail text and doesnt allow me to do anything but call him or call voicemail.
Kind of at a loss here.
Any help would be appreciated.
Again...I did look but there wasn't a thread specific to 1 individual contact!!!

Nevermind...I actually dug deeper and found the same thread. I tried to delete this one but couldn't find a way to do it.

Blackberry 8310 Curve randomly deletes text/sms messages and phone logs

Why does this keep happening to me?
There are times that my phone goes over a week without it happening and then there are times like today it has happened three times.
I will have maybe 5 ot 6 text messages in my inbox and maybe 2 or 3 emails and I get a phone call and POOF the text messages and phone logs are gone!
I have repeatedly lost important text messages and numbers from my call log.
The tech support excuse for it is that I have too many messages in my inbox which causes it, but 6 sms messages and 3 emails is too much?
I have tried everything (updating the desktop software, updating all of the settings NOT to delete messages until i delete them, hard booting my phone once a day, etc..) and it still does it.
This also used to happen with my Blackberry Pearl.
If I can't get it resolved, I will just switch to the iPhone. I can deal with the randomly dropped calls, but constantly loosing my call logs and text messages is BEYOND frustrating and Blackberry tech support has been no help!.
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DCmuseum,
Hi,
You have low free memory left on your device.
Do you have a lot of third party applications on your BB weather, icall,bbalerts etc?
I do not know your experience level, so if you know this I'm sorry but please read and let me
know if this applies.
Most people close the applications by pressing the escape or red key. This does not close the applications.
Each application has a CLOSE option. For instance if you are in the calendar hit the menu key (spotted key) and scroll down to the bottom CLOSE is listed. Go through each application and press close. Go into the browser press menu and options select cache operations clear all categories and hit escape it will say cleaning memory.
Go to options - security - memory cleaning - enable it. The BB will now clean memory when idle for 5 minutes.
you will have an icon on you screen for memory cleaning make sure you press it. Make sure you use the CLOSE button each time you are done with an application.
Read the link below and follow each step that Tanzim outlines,
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/rim/board/message?board.id=8300&message.id=9225#M9225
If you follow these steps and keep up with your memory your phone will operate smoothly.
Please let us know if you need help with any of the steps.
Thanks
Message Edited by Bifocals on 09-07-2008 11:58 AM
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Quick reply to SMS message

Hello,
Is there a quick way to reply to an SMS message? Currently i do options -> reply -> via text message...
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Try SMSchat. You need to go to: http://symbianwave.com/product.php?id=smschat_s60. I was a beta tester for them. It works ok.
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Messages folder only shows e-mails not SMS messages.

Hi I have just changed from a pearl to a Curve 8900 and I am having a little trouble in getting the same functuionality.
My messages folder only shows the e-mails I have sent and received and not the SMS or MMS messages that I have sent and received. This means that when I receive a SMS/MMS I have to go into the main Blackberry screen and scroll to the 'SMS And MMS' icon but I feel that I should be able to access sent/received SMS messages from the 'Messages' icon on the home screen. I can create SMS messages from the 'Messages' icon but they don't stay there after they have been sent.
I may have explained this rather poorly but any help would be aprreciated. The only thing I have done to try a fix this is pull the battery but to no avail.
Thanks
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Hi and welcome to the forums!
On the Blackberry go to the main message queue, menu, options, general options.
Scroll to SMS and Email in boxes, select combined. Now SMS will show up in the main queue
(You described it just fine!)
Thanks,
Bifocals
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Different alerts for email and sms messages for a contact with custom ring tone

Hello,
I have a Curve 8530 with OS 5.0.0.395.
I have my default sound profile set up to play one type of alert sound when I receive and email message and another when I receive an SMS message (so I know the difference without looking at my phone). That works fine except for contacts that I also have a custom ring tone set up for. It seems that under the Custom Ring Tones/Alerts section of the contact there is only one entry for Messages and it applies to both email and SMS. If I have the contact's message alerts set to the alert I have for email, then their SMS messages play the same alert and I might think it's an email. Or if I have the messages alerts set to the SMS alert sound then their emails sound like SMS messages. Is there a way to have a custom ring tone set up for a contact but still allow their emails and SMS messgaes to follow the current sound profile's settings?
Thanks.

Hello,
Have you had any luck resolving this issue. I had a 8230 and this was possible. But like you I can get the 8530 to work. If you found the solution, please let me know.

Separate Email and SMS messages not found

Hi Guyz,
I'm just wondering, I can't find any options under messages separating email and SMS messages on my 8100. Would this be a platform issue? My current platform is v4.2.0. Is there a way to download and upgrade a new platform? Or can i just download a theme that has that option...
Thanks in advance

Go into messages,
Press Menu button,
Scroll to options,
then general options,
scroll down and you will see SMS and Email inboxes: Theme controlled etc, change it to seperate.
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Verizon iPhone 4S stopped being able to receive SMS messages last night. Any ideas?

My wife and I have had our iPhone 4S's since they first became available in 2011. Up until last night we had not had any issues. All of a sudden a couple of our relvatives called us and said they could not send us text messages, they were getting Not Delivered messages or SMS Failure, depending on their carrier/device (they do not have iPhones). My wife and I were still able to send iMessages to each other, but when I shut off iMessage to debug, we were not able to send SMS messages to each other. Turned iMessage back on and we are able to message back and forth.
Note, our two iPhones share the same Apple ID, but each phone's iMessage is associated with a different phone number and email. Both phones were on iOS 6.0.2
I searched this forum and Verizon for solutions, tried several starting with reboot, delete all existing messages, delete contact and finally did a backup and factory restore via iTunes for my device only. Still no luck, I cannot receive SMS messages.
I had not yet installed iOS 6.1.x after reading of some of the issues. However, since I tried a factory restore to fix this, I was foreced to updated to 6.1.2.
We did not receive the message that we have reached the 75,000 message limit, but just to be sure, we deleted all old messages and still nothing.
So to summarize:
iMessage works fine, send and receive between the two of us and other iPhone users
We are able to send SMS messages, we have confirmed that people can receive our SMS messages
We cannot receive SMS message. We never see the messages and the people who try to text us get undeliverable messages.
All started yesterday evening.
Any help is much appreciated.
Darin

Contact your carrier to confirm that your messaging plan is properly provisioned. They are responsible for routing your sms messages.

How do I stop my iTunes backing up my sms messages?

Someone who uses my laptop keeps finding my sms messages backed up and I want to stop my iTunes backing up my messages completely. Does anyone have any idea how to stop this?

Thanks for your reply
This is going to sound a bit odd but it's my partner that checks my messages as he has trust issues. I can't put any kind of passwords on anything as he will then suspect I am hiding something regardless of if I am or not.
I want to continue to back up my iPhone in case something happens to it. If I delete my txt messages off my phone, does this permanently delete them everywhere so they will not show up when I back up my phone?

HT1495 How do I stop SMS messages being shared between multiple iphones on my itunes account? One is my wife's, one is mine and we do not want each others messages appearing on the other.

How do I stop SMS messages appearing on two devices on my iTunes account?
One phone is mine, one is my wife's and we dont want messages being shared.
We do have contacts and music etc shared.

If your are recieving mixed information on your phone on multiple devices this is going to be related to iMessage.
On your phone navagate to settings > messages > send and receive.
Check the information in that section make sure it relates to your AppleID and your phone. If you share a AppleID with the individual create a new AppleID for their device and insert that information.
If the numbers don't remove turn of iMessage restart your phone and turn it back it.
If all else fails disable iMessage otherwise turning it off is the quickest fix.

My iphone sms messages are also received by another family members iphone also?

Another family members iphone receives any sms messages sent to my iphone, different numbers. Why is this occuring and how do I remedy the situation

Is you other family member using your Apple ID? In Settings > Messages > Recieved At > Uncheck the other family members phone number. I suggest you do this on their device as well.

How can I delete Skype SMS messages from my I-Pad?

How can I delete Skype SMS messages from my I-Pad?

This is a user-to-user forum. Everyone here is a volunteer. Sometimes it takes longer than two minutes to get answer. Additionally, it's a support forum for Apple products, not Skype. You might get lucky and get an answer, you might not. While you're waiting, why don't you try Skype support?
https://support.skype.com/en/

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