Text messages cut off.

tiannachae

So Ive had my Motorola DEVOUR for a few days. it's been working perfectly and i've been texting quite a bit.
But today while texting my friends back, they started asking me why my sentences weren't being finished.
Apparently my texts were getting cut off a few words into a sentence. So i texted my father who's on the same plan as me and all that and the texts were fine. Nothing was getting messed up.
Could someone tell me what might be the problem? Because i'm not sure how to fix it.
Please and thank you.

DefiantBlob

Are your friends on Verizon? Verizon is a CDMA network, and your friends, if they are not with Verizon, are most likley not on CDMA. This means that your text messages are going to have a character limit imposed on them of 160. So if your message is 180 characters long they will only receive the first 160. This also means that if you text a fellow Verizon customer 180 characters they will get them all. most other networks are not like this, hence if your friend texts you, you will get all of the message, even if it is more than the 160 limit.

 

Unfortunately the default texting app doesn't have a way of fixing this problem. Personally, I use an alternative texting app from the android market called "Handcent SMS". The app is free and sends all of the types of messages (text, video, picture,...). Not only does it send them it splits them at the 160 character point and sends them as multiple messages. in the settings menu you can change how it handles this, I have mine set to split on the whole word, rather than 160 exact characters which might put half a word in each of the two plus messages. 

 

Hope I've helped and that this is clear.