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Purdy_1
Purdy_1 Posts: 756 Forumite
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How many characters will your phone allow in 1 single text?

My phone will only allow me to send 63 characters in 1 text before I get charged for 2 texts. I am just wondering :confused:

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  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
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    What phone? 160 chars is the norm.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Purdy_1
    Purdy_1 Posts: 756 Forumite
    espresso wrote: »
    What phone? 160 chars is the norm.

    I have a Samsung D600. I am sure my old Sagem MY-X7 was almost 200!
  • Purdy_1
    Purdy_1 Posts: 756 Forumite
    Hmmmm.... I am intruiged now. My husband has the same phone (bought at same time) and his phone shows he can send 160 characters. Mine now shows 70. Is it a simple setting that can be adjusted?
  • espresso
    espresso Posts: 16,448 Forumite
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    Purdy_1 wrote: »
    Hmmmm.... I am intruiged now. My husband has the same phone (bought at same time) and his phone shows he can send 160 characters. Mine now shows 70. Is it a simple setting that can be adjusted?

    Go to the SMS settings menu 5.5 and then Character support.
    Character support: select a character encoding type. If you select Auto, the phone switches the encoding type from GSM-alphabet to Unicode if you enter an unicode character. Use of Unicode encoding will reduce the maximum number of characters in a message to about half. If this menu is not shown, your phone provides the Auto character encoding by default.
    :doh: Blue text on this forum usually signifies hyperlinks, so click on them!..:wall:
  • Purdy_1
    Purdy_1 Posts: 756 Forumite
    espresso wrote: »
    Go to the SMS settings menu 5.5 and then Character support.

    I have no idea what it means but my phone was set to Unicode, my husbands was set to GSM Alphabet. I have set it to the same as my husbands and I now have 160 characters!
    Whoohoo! Thank you:j
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