Issues with sending video's using handcent?

MrGreen13 · January 27th, 2010, 10:47 AM

Is anybody having issues sending or receiving video's as attachments while using handcent? My wife and I cannot attach video's to our text's? It always say's "file size exceeded" or something like that. I have tested this with 3 second long videos...so if a 3 second video is too big then what is the point of sending video's using handcent?

Caddyman · January 27th, 2010, 10:53 AM

check to see what resolution you are shooting

what phone does your wife have? i suppose you have an eris?

i can send vids from my eris to my wifes bb storm1 fine....give us some more details.

MrGreen13 · January 27th, 2010, 11:02 AM

sorry about that...we both have eris's and I was using medium resolution. Is that the issue?

Caddyman · January 27th, 2010, 11:07 AM

although ti sucks, try the least res and see what happens.

MrGreen13 · January 27th, 2010, 11:24 AM

I did this and it allowed me to attach and send but it wont allow her to download it??

Caddyman · January 27th, 2010, 11:26 AM

is she using the stock "messages" app for the eris? or handcent as well?

make sure she has a 3g connection on her phone, just wifi will not work.

MrGreen13 · January 27th, 2010, 11:34 AM

that's probably it...at home we use the wifi connection. I will try and let you know.

Caddyman · January 27th, 2010, 11:39 AM

yup, that is probably it....let us know

MrGreen13 · January 27th, 2010, 01:58 PM

Thanks Caddyman! that worked! I appreciate your help....again.

Solitary · January 28th, 2010, 01:48 PM

so only low resolution works?

Solitary · January 29th, 2010, 06:25 PM

anyone?

mj_b90 · January 29th, 2010, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solitary

so only low resolution works?

Yes, that appears to be the case

Solitary · January 29th, 2010, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mj_b90

Yes, that appears to be the case

is that just a guess or something you tried?

mj_b90 · January 29th, 2010, 06:47 PM

Well he was having the file size error on medium res, switching to low allowed him to send. Although I haven't tried it myself, I'll take Mr. Green and Caddyman's word on it.

moxiemoney · February 11th, 2010, 10:19 AM

Yeah, handcent isn't very good for sending video messages. I have the HTC Hero, pretty much the same as the Eris, and for sending video in high resolution, I use the default messaging application. I take my video, go view the video and click the icon for sharing, and select 'messaging' application and it works perfectly.

Plus, with handcent, if someone texts you and the handcent popup comes up to reply, I have not found a way to add smileys or attachments. So, the lack of good video attachment support and lack of options on the popup are the only 2 downfalls I see right now. Other than that, it's a much better app than the default app.

gimpydingo · February 11th, 2010, 04:56 PM

Go to settings and change the maximum message size, sadly it is only 1 meg.

moxiemoney · February 11th, 2010, 11:21 PM

Ah, great tip. 1 mb is enough to send short video clips around, so that works. Thanks!

gimpydingo · February 12th, 2010, 12:39 PM

Glad to help. On my env I would make my own ringtones and send them to people, max size was some random number like 443 kb.

Norouzi · February 13th, 2010, 01:15 PM

Actually just went through this with my wife's Eris. It looks like if you want to send a vid at Med quality you're gonna be limited to about 10 sec (that should produce a video that is right around 1mb). At Small quality I was able to do a 20 sec vid that was less than half a megabyte.
I haven't had a problem sending these videos using Handcent but I haven't tried sending to anyone not using an Eris or off Verizon yet.

idonthaveaclue · February 20th, 2010, 01:53 PM

I have the Eris and I can only send about a 4 second clip to my wifes phone (voyager) That was with default messaging app. Havent tried with handcent yet.

Question about recieving smiley faces.. I cant recieve smiley faces, a message comes up saying "Preceeding msg modified, Media objects were removed"

Is this normal?

idonthaveaclue · February 20th, 2010, 02:06 PM

Just tried to send video using handcent, couldnt do it. I recorded about 20 seconds and then hit the share icon, and the only options that came up was Gmail, Mail, Messages, Yuotube.
If I go to albums and find the video I just recorded and the hit share handcent will come up but when I click on handcent it goes to JUST pics NO videos.
HELP, Please.

MrGreen13 · February 23rd, 2010, 09:47 AM

Recording it in a lower resolution worked for me, but the quality was hit pretty hard. I will try changing the max file size for sending and see it that will help....can you actually set that yourself?