Thread: Eris Not Receiving Texts
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Old January 8th, 2010, 01:49 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by erisuser1 View Post
Perchance are they sending MMS messages (multimedia)... are you sure they are sending text-only SMS messages? Plain text messages less than 160 characters seems to be pretty robust between carriers, but all bets are off when it comes to MMS.

I experience issues going the other direction to AT&T customers (1) texts over 160 chars get split, and only the first text is delivered; (2) iPhone (AT&T) customers seem to not receive picture attachments; (3) other AT&T customers not using iPhones sometimes receive pictures, and sometimes receive "message corrupted" notices.

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As far as I know, they are sending SMS texts. One friend is sending messages from a regular cell phone and one from an iPhone.
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