how come sometimes when long text messages are sent to you they come in all broken up and you have to put them together and other times they come in all in one?
so i have verizon what type would that be CDMA?
so i have verizon what type would that be CDMA?
If they are more than 160 characters, they are broken up. Sometimes iPhones can communicate to each other without breaking up messages. It's random. Sorry.
SMS/Text messages are limited to 160 characters. On many phones, if a message exceeds 160 characters, the OS will be able to put it back together and still show it as a single message to both the sender and receiver.
On CDMA networks this doesn?t always seem to work as well as on GSM and once an SMS hits 160 characters, any additional text is split off into a second message, after 320, a third message, etc. The same content is still delivered, it?s just not presented as nicely. (In some cases the message parts might even appear out of order which is even more annoying.)
Again, some users claim to seldom if ever experience this problem in the real world, others say it happens often enough to annoy them.
http://www.tipb.com/2011/10/09/verizon-sprint-iphone-4s-limitations-cdma/
this is semi incorrect also...
the carrier can support larger text messages which is why when sending from at&t to at&t phones the message isnt split.. if a verizon phone sends to a at&t phone with a longer message it will be split up same with sprint phones sending to at&t
its not the phone that fixes it. Its the capability of the network..
Theres a special name for the feature on the network that supports longer messages but I can't remember what its called.