Hi,
When I send a SMS to my friend who has a Blackeberry, after few letters the message is cut and there is weird symbol instead of the right words. Someone knows why ?
Hi,
a friend of mine hat problems with a SMS of me, too. All spaces where replaced by at-symbols (@). After a closer look I identified an emoji as the problem. And it makes sense for me. This Smiley Symbols are Unicode Keys and I think, that SMS only uses some sort of ASCII Codepage. Or Simple, such a Symbol wonât fit into a SMS.
Maybe your problem is the same. Is it possible to sent a pure Text message to the Blackberry?
regards,
Shiny
Hi,
I just wanna summon @Benjamin here. He had a similar problem, but we never even thought about Emojis causing it! So maybe this helps him, too.
Also I did some basic online research about how SMS messages are encoded in the other topic in case thatâs of interest here
Or maybe itâs because The Big Surveillance System doesnât really like encrypted smartphones and therefore disturbes traffic to/from BlackBerries?
I got a solution from @Benjamin Topic, using a different software, as TextSecure resolves the problem.
Thanks for the pokes !
I havenât tried TextSecure yet, adding that to my to-do list :).
I have noticed in a review that the reviewer had the same problem :
Parfois aussi, jâai des difficultĂ©s Ă envoyer des textos ou des mms, certaines personnes Ă©quipĂ©es avec des tĂ©lĂ©phones de moins bonnes qualitĂ©s ne reçoivent que des carrĂ©s ou ne reçoivent pas le mmsâŠ
Which translate approximately to :
Sometimes I encounter difficulties sending SMS and MMS, some people equipped with lower-end phones only receive squares or donât receive the MMSâŠ
(from http://www.ekitinfo.org/journal/jâai-teste-le-telephone-equitable-fairphone-12 )
As for now, I just try to send short texts to my contacts that I know have the problem :D.
I got a solution from @Benjamin Topic, using a different software, as TextSecure resolves the problem.
Excellent. I have the very same issue, and will install TextSecure. Is it possible to âdesignateâ it as the SMS default app, even when receiving an SMS that wakes the phone?
Coming back very late again here: in the end I didnât install TextSecure, because this would have obliged me to register into a third-party service.
Instead, I installed an open-source app found on F-Droid, named SMSdroid, that just replaces the Google one and works perfectly.
Before coming back I tested it at length, it just works, in perfect relation with e. g. the addressbook etc.
SMSDroid (and potentially other non-stock sms apps) donât know how to handle dual-sim, according to this post: http://code.google.com/p/websmsdroid/issues/detail?id=793&sort=-product&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Product%20Component%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
It only sends from sim1 [edit: it sends from the active sim that you set for messaging, and if you set it to Always Ask, it wonât ask, but instead use the last used messaging sim].
In addition Iâm not able to open threads from senders not in my contacts (mine are located on the phone itself) or with conflicting phone numbers (separate issue that I havenât posted yet, but which prompted me to try alternative apps- will add link when I do). If I try, the app crashes. Even after a reboot. Also crashes when opening threads sent to an email address (as MMS).
Consuela indeed I only âsmsâ from SIM1âŠ
Now, as concerns contacts in the phone on my side it seems I have no issue (I mean, for instance SMSDroid shows me their photo, which is definitely a characteristics from the phone contacts, the ones inside the SIM donât have this).
But when I think about it, even in a weekâs length I didnât exchange SMSs with too many people in fact.
Maybe these ones were somehow duplicated from my âinitial SIM batchâ, or somethingâŠ
(I have a lot of duplicates at this moment between SIM and phone, and even triplicates since Iâm trying to sync some with owncloud -thatâs an issue I donât master at this time)
Hello,
Iâve a problem with sending sms to some contacts. I tried smsdroid but randomly those contacts received message cuts by @@@ within words. Could it be linked to the use of dual sim or any other idea how to solve this⊠?
Thanks, Cedric
For me, SMSDroid was the precise solution to the issue of these @@@ in words
(which, in all honesty, is due to the receiving phone not being able to handle more advanced character sets, not to us : SMSDroid uses only âfossilâ charactersets)
If SMSDroid still creates issues with characters when sending SMS to âoldâ phones, I fear there is little I can do -at least, I know of nothing else⊠But I never heard about this issue until now.
Hello,
I think that Herve5, @Leveau_Paul cedric and @Benjamin have this problems because they write french SMS.
I had quite a few problems with some specifics french characters: ç, Ăą, ĂȘ and Ă»
A SMS is normally 160 characters. But when using one of these specifics french characters, it is decreased to 70 characters. It is probably due to a change in characters code of the SMS.
Another trouble is that some non-android phones, such as Blackberryâs cannot interpret correctly these characters. And so, they cut a great part of the SMS and insert some strange characters that the sender never wrote !
Letâs take an example: I type on the SMS Fairphone keyboard âJe veux le memeâ. Then the internal dictionnary automatically proposes âmĂȘmeâ instead of âmemeâ because âmĂȘmeâ is correct but not âmemeâ which does not means anything in French. If I accept âmĂȘmeâ in my SMS then some users (Blackberryâs in particulars) will not receive the complete SMS.
The solution I found is to create new words in the dictionnary. For this, I type âmemeâ and when it appears in the suggestion bar on top of the keyboard, I click on âmemeâ. Then I click on âmemeâ again to register. âmemeâ is now in the dictionnary.
Each time I will write a SMS, I will prefer the incorrect âmemeâ instead of the correct âmĂȘmeâ and it will solve a lot of SMS problems.
En français pour les francophones !
Bonjour,
Je pense quâHerve, Paul, CĂ©dric et Benjamin ont ce problĂšme car ils Ă©crivent des SMS en français.
Jâai aussi eu beaucoup de problĂšmes avec certains caractĂšres spĂ©cifiquement français et en particulier : ç, Ăą, ĂȘ et Ă»
Un SMS est normalement constituĂ© de 160 caractĂšres. Mais quand on utilise un de ces caractĂšres spĂ©cifiquement français dans un SMS, le nombre de caractĂšres diminue Ă 70. Câest probablement du Ă un changement de jeu de caractĂšres du SMS.
Un autre problĂšme est que certains tĂ©lĂ©phones qui nâutilisent pas Android tels que les Blackberry ne peuvent pas interprĂ©ter correctement ces caractĂšres. Du coup, une grande partie du SMS est supprimĂ©e et des caractĂšres Ă©tranges sont insĂ©rĂ©s.
Prenons un exemple : jâĂ©cris sur le clavier SMS du Fairphone âJe veux le memeâ. Le dictionnaire interne propose automatiquement âmĂȘmeâ au lieu de âmemeâ qui ne veux rien dire. Si jâaccepte âmĂȘmeâ dans mon SMS, alors certains utilisateurs (ceux de Blackberry en particulier) ne recevront pas le SMS complet.
La solution que jâai trouvĂ©e est dâinsĂ©rer de nouveaux mots dans le dictionnaire. Pour cela, je tape âmemeâ et quand il apparait dans les suggestions juste au-dessus du clavier, jâappuye sur âmemeâ. Puis jâappuye Ă nouveau sur âmemeâ, lorsque jâai la suggestion âAppuyer de nouveau pour enregistrerâ. âmemeâ est maintenant dans le dictionnaire.
A partir de ce moment, chaque fois que jâĂ©crirai un SMS, je choisirai âmemeâ au lieu de âmĂȘmeâ et cela rĂ©soudra de nombreux problĂšmes de SMS. MĂȘme systĂšme pour les autres mots : âçaâ, âgĂąteauâ, âtĂącheâ,âŠ
Letâs remind here that switching from the original SMS app to tne alternative, open source SMSDroid solves the issue of accented characters, including when the other phone is a Blackberry. SMSdroid deals with charsets more classically and does send correctly any unusual accent or whatnot.
Je rappelle quâen utilisant lâapplication SMSDroid (open source) Ă la place du âSMSâ initial, on peut envoyer des messages avec toutes accentuations et cĂ©dilles nĂ©cessaires, et ces messages sont correctement reçus mĂȘme par un Blackberry par ex. SMSDroid semble gĂ©rer les caractĂšres accentuĂ©s dâune façon plus classique qui est compatible avec tout le mondeâŠ