Silly question while I wait for Froyo

[3cutiger]

patiently

When someone else with a stock non smartphone sends me a text with a symbol (smiley, etc) it comes thru on my phone as "Preceeding msg modified, Media objects were removed"

Happens both with my stock SMS and Handcent.

Any clues?

 

[jrsilentbob]

same here

 

[skipster]

Happens on Froyo too, from my experience with the Droid... These phones don't support 'enhanced SMS'.

 

[Droidus]

yeah, pretty annoying

 

[DawnGP143]

It's the Fascinate....not necessarily the "Droid" software. Incredibles don't have this problem...nor does the Eris. Spent some time on the phone with Verizon tech support on this issue last night. She finally dug up somewhere that the Fascinate does not support "enhanced" messaging. Kinda ticked me off that we paid so much money for this phone and it's not on the phone. It's a SMARTPHONE for crying out loud!!!!!

 

[nitsuj17]

yeah ive noticed this on occasion, but it didnt particularly bother me

 

[3cutiger]

yeah ive noticed this on occasion, but it didnt particularly bother me

aside from when someone replies with a symbol only, I have no idea what the response was, feel kinda silly replying back "uh, my nice phone I was bragging about, it don't know what you are saying"

 

[nitsuj17]

aside from when someone replies with a symbol only, I have no idea what the response was, feel kinda silly replying back "uh, my nice phone I was bragging about, it don't know what you are saying"

i was just saying that ive noticed the "enhanced message" thing from texts before, but it doesnt bother me that it does that.

IS THAT A GOOD ENOUGH ANSWER FOR YOU?

 

[3cutiger]

i was just saying that ive noticed the "enhanced message" thing from texts before, but it doesnt bother me that it does that.

IS THAT A GOOD ENOUGH ANSWER FOR YOU?

Wow, was my reply in anyway offensive? Umm, testy aren't we?

 

[nitsuj17]

Wow, was my reply in anyway offensive? Umm, testy aren't we?

im not the one who chose to comment on someone elses fairly innocent post for no reason

 

[3cutiger]

im not the one who chose to comment on someone elses fairly innocent post for no reason

Umm, it's called a dialogue, and I was agreeing with you that it wasn't a big thing.
Wow, sorry if I offended.

 

[nitsuj17]

Umm, it's called a dialogue, and I was agreeing with you that it wasn't a big thing.
Wow, sorry if I offended.

if i misinterpreted what you said, then i apologize

reading back through it properly, i better understand what you were trying to say

 

[davidnmegan6907]

if i misinterpreted what you said, then i apologize

I think they were trying to say that it sucks trying to explain to your friends that your $600 fascinate doesnt do that....

 

[Droidus]

im not the one who chose to comment on someone elses fairly innocent post for no reason

wtf...

 

[davidnmegan6907]

wtf...

lay off everyone has bad days and nit is a really good person..

 

[Droidus]

lay off everyone has bad days and nit is a really good person..

Bad days or not, i'm not sure how you can misread what was said.

 

[nitsuj17]

Bad days or not, i'm not sure how you can misread what was said.

i glanced at it, and read it wrong...i apologized, its over

 

[3cutiger]

i glanced at it, and read it wrong...i apologized, its over

Yep, no worries

except for, no froyo!

 

[nitsuj17]

Yep, no worries

except for, no froyo!

 

[dan409]

I for one would never want to piss off nitsuj17. I know there is going to come a day when I bork my phone beyond my ability to get it going again.
You know who will be the first one there willing to help ? You got it, nitsuj17 ! I for one like nits direct and frank no bullshit kinda reply's !

BTW just reading alot of your posts has gotten me out of more than just one jam ! Thanks Buddy......

 

[nitsuj17]

I for one would never want to piss off nitsuj17. I know there is going to come a day when I bork my phone beyond my ability to get it going again.
You know who will be the first one there willing to help ? You got it, nitsuj17 ! I for one like nits direct and frank no bullshit kinda reply's !

BTW just reading alot of your posts has gotten me out of more than just one jam ! Thanks Buddy......

thanks, but i was in the wrong by not taking my time to read his post correctly.

completely my fault

 

[fegriffith]

Is this the same reason why text messages I receive are always broken into multiples with less text than my carrier breaks the message at? What I'm asking is, if my carrier breaks messages at 160 characters, but someone puts a smiley into an 80 character message, is that why I'm getting "smaller" broken messages than my carrier's 160 limitation?

This really DOES suck.

 

[Murtoc]

I just got my Fascinate a couple weeks ago. But I don't recall ever having an issue with smileys in txt/sms messages. In fact when I am typing a text message I can hit the menu button and there is an "Insert smiley" option when I select that it gives me a list of smiley faces to select from.

Or perhaps I just read the posts wrong and I missed something?

 

[3cutiger]

I just got my Fascinate a couple weeks ago. But I don't recall ever having an issue with smileys in txt/sms messages. In fact when I am typing a text message I can hit the menu button and there is an "Insert smiley" option when I select that it gives me a list of smiley faces to select from.

Or perhaps I just read the posts wrong and I missed something?

Hey!

It was actually an issue with recieving texts with "enhanced SMS" symbols in them, like preloaded smileys on stock non smartphones etc.


I have used the insert smiley, and in fact if you want something pretty cool download the handcent ap and use some of the handcent greetings, some are pretty cool, they send an animated MMS

 

[3cutiger]

Is this the same reason why text messages I receive are always broken into multiples with less text than my carrier breaks the message at? What I'm asking is, if my carrier breaks messages at 160 characters, but someone puts a smiley into an 80 character message, is that why I'm getting "smaller" broken messages than my carrier's 160 limitation?

This really DOES suck.

Same thing happens with mine