Android Question PhoneS does not support Large SMS!

[wy328]

the phonesms lib with deliver notification is really usefull, but it does not supprt large sms.
could anyone find any solution for this: large sms sending & deliver statu notification.
thanks a lot!

 

[DonManfred]

if the text is >160 chars. Split text and send multiple sms. That´s what any other phoneapp does...

 

[Troberg]

But how to split it in such a way that the receiver puts it together to one message?

 

[JordiCP]

If SMSs are from app to app and you control how it is splitted, you can also reconstruct them adding a small header (for instance, [1/3]...) and then parsing the received messages if they include this header.

 

[DonManfred]

the receiver puts it together to one message?

if the reciever is showing large SMSs in one sms then it is a feature of the recieving SMS-App.

 

[Erel]

You can use the code I posted here to send a multipart SMS: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/max-length-of-sms-message.20006/#post-115689

 

[Troberg]

if the reciever is showing large SMSs in one sms then it is a feature of the recieving SMS-App.

Yes, but as it works pretty much universally (I can send a multipart SMS from my Android and it will show up as one message on an iPhone, Windows Phone, another Android or even older phones with some other OS), I assume there is some standardized way of doing it which makes it work.

I've tried simply splitting and sending multiple messages, and that didn't help, they just got recieved as multiple messages.

If SMSs are from app to app and you control how it is splitted, you can also reconstruct them adding a small header (for instance, [1/3]...) and then parsing the received messages if they include this header.

Nope, since it's not my app recieving it.

You can use the code I posted here to send a multipart SMS: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/max-length-of-sms-message.20006/#post-115689

Not in my case. I need to send to several people in one batch, which means that I need to have an event to send them off at a good pace.

Edit: I've done some reading, and found that there is a standard way of doing this. It was a little bit more complicated than I had hoped, so it'll be a while before I have time to dig into it. Some links I found instructive:

https://hiteshagja.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/send-long-sms/
http://mobiletidings.com/2009/02/18/combining-sms-messages/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
http://www.clockworksms.com/blog/concatenated-sms/
http://www.activexperts.com/activsms/sms/multipart/
http://www.activexperts.com/activsms/sms/multipart/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12298558/how-to-build-concatenated-sms-pdu-getting-junk-chars

Basically, all the links say the same things, but in different way. Just use the one that appeals to your brain.

 

[Sorin Pohontu]

Hello.

Please see my thread here: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/phonelibrary-updated-phonesms-send.52501/

Have a nice day,
/Sorin