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Why does my phone sometimes receive useless fractions of a message?
When I receive updates or messages on my blackberry, why do they sometimes contain almost no useful content?
For example, the last direct message from my wife was only 125 characters, and I can see it on the web, but all I received on my blackberry was: 2/2 ith 'd MKHemens reply'
I receive some messages in their entirety; I haven't noticed a pattern yet. I'm using this in Canada on the Rogers network, I'm SMS'ing over GSM, and I've read the other posts about not receiving messages at all - but that's not my problem. I'm only getting tiny bits.
For example, the last direct message from my wife was only 125 characters, and I can see it on the web, but all I received on my blackberry was: 2/2 ith 'd MKHemens reply'
I receive some messages in their entirety; I haven't noticed a pattern yet. I'm using this in Canada on the Rogers network, I'm SMS'ing over GSM, and I've read the other posts about not receiving messages at all - but that's not my problem. I'm only getting tiny bits.
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Inappropriate?Sounds like you're experiencing something similar to the folks in this related thread.
Since you received a tweet that has 2/2, it seems that particular tweet had gotten chopped up into two sms messages, and it so happens you only received the second part of the entire tweet.
Twitter has an FAQ page explaining why tweets get chopped up.
All this doesn't explain why you didn't receive all of the sms messages, though.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for that, sorry I didn't find those myself.
Here is the last message that got chopped up:
I didn't quite understand the last post! Just having the yard sale now. Moira is CRANKY, so I have to stay inside with her!!
Some folks noted dashes matter, but there aren't any here. Is there any OS or browser setting that might cause the messages to go as unicode (my wife sends me notes from Google Talk and, in this case, her twitter web site).
I can track more occurrences for now, and provide an update. Anything else I could do? -
Inappropriate?See my older post on this problem, and mdy's subsequent posts too.
Certain common non-international characters generate more than 1 byte. Thus
" ' become \" \' ; and
< > are html-coded as & lt; & gt; respectively.
Mdy mentions a few others.
I hope to track down the SMS standard 1-byte character set some day.
This appears to be a general problem arising from the original design specifications for SMS, and nothing that Twitter can fix.
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