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P800 can't do math sometimes with SMS |
Darrensmojo
Joined: Mar 07, 2003
Posts: 25
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Hello
I got a weird bug with the P800. Yesterday and today as well when I type a msg and reach around 70 characters the P800 tells me it would start a second msg now (usually a msg is 160 characters long!). Before I reached 160 the P800 told me it would start the third msg now. I thought it wouldnt matter and sent the msg to my friend anyway (only 160 chars long for real). I got to know that three msgs arrived on my friends phone and they all where not readable. This morning I had the same problem again. After messing around a bit it works again and can count right...weird isn't it? Did someone experience problems like that?
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Darrensmojo
[ This Message was edited by: Darrensmojo on 2003-03-12 08:52 ] |
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watcher
Joined: Feb 18, 2003
Posts: 202
From: SLOVENIA, Europe
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same problem here
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jplacson
Joined: Apr 21, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Philippines
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Happens to me every once in a while... it depends on the characters you're using... sometimes you type the "TAB" button by accident... this is NOT a normal SMS character and eats up a lot, it also corrupts SMS sometimes.
Just double check your characters.... also most accented characters, the the "..." triple period eat up more than the normal number of characters shown. |
Darrensmojo
Joined: Mar 07, 2003
Posts: 25
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Yes I thought so too. If I copy the text of a messed up sms into a new one it stays messed up. If i re-type it, it works. Sucks really, there should be an option to disable not "normal" sms characters. Would make life a lot easier especially if you handwite msgs and you make mistakes.
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prolog
Joined: Aug 27, 2002
Posts: 26
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happened to me as well when I used the P800 for the first few days. magically disappeared when I posted the problem here, so maybe yours would go away like mine did 
anyway, just create a new SMS. |
Darrensmojo
Joined: Mar 07, 2003
Posts: 25
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Hehe I hope so 
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Darrensmojo
[ This Message was edited by: Darrensmojo on 2003-03-12 11:31 ] |
cadcad
Joined: Mar 01, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Lebanon
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Check the character set in messaging accounts in control panel. U have 2 options... Try choosing between them.
This message was posted from a P800 |
Darrensmojo
Joined: Mar 07, 2003
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Oh good tip, thank you Which option would enable "normal" sms?
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JAYV
Joined: Dec 14, 2002
Posts: 83
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P800, or rather Symbian, supports latin and non-latin character sets... non-latin chars occupy at least twice the size of normal latin chars...
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NikNakk
Joined: Feb 26, 2003
Posts: 77
From: UK
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I've noticed this too. It switches modes as soon as you enter a non-standard character (such as an accent) but will revert if you find and delete that character.
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drcharris
Joined: Mar 23, 2003
Posts: 2
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I just experienced this problem. It went away when I removed the apostrophe ' chars from my message - presumably it reverts to a 2-byte char set for these. That's what I get for using punctuation in an sms! |
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Posted: 2003-03-12 09:51
