My N80:
V 4.0623.0.42
20-09-2006
RM-92
Nokia N80 (02)
Product code: 0529380
I discovered a very strange problem with my N80 while writing sms.
Normally when writing a sms you have 160 characters per sms available.
However when I use any of the following characters the characters available for the sms is decreased by 90.
These characters are:
[SIZE="3"]À Á Â Ã Ç á â ã Ë È Ê Ð ë ê ð Ï Ì Í Î ï í î Ó Ò Ô Õ ó ô õ Ú Ù Û ú û Ý Þ ý þ[/SIZE]
This happens only once, so if I use more than 1 of these characters in a single sms, the available characters for the sms is only decreased by 90.
For example:
If I only write the word "danielle", I am left with 152 available characters for the sms.
If I write the word "daniëlle", I am left with 62 characters available for the sms.
I went to the local nokia shop, where I was told this was a software problem (DUH! Oh really?), but as I had the latest software they couldn't do anything.
I even called Nokia Care Tech Support, where they were flabbergasted and then told me that it's normal that certain characters use more memory than others. I can't accept this answer, as a friends N73 doesn't do this.
Anyone else have this too?
Belgarath
might be coding issue.
> Firstly fast comment on coding of the messages. It is defined in GSM
> spec 03.38. The coding can be 7-bit, 8-bit or 16-bit.
> 7-bit is used for GSM default character set which includes all most
> significant European languages characters. Almost all ASCII control
> characters are dropped out.
> 8-bit format is originally meant for data messages.
> 16-bit is for UCS-2 coding which is a UNICODE format and thus can be
> used with most languages in the world.
>
> One SMS message lenght can be 140 bytes, which allows 160 7-bit
> charactes and only 70 UCS-2 characters. Normally the phones deal with
> this so that 7-bit character set is the default format and is used when
> the string does not include characters outside of the default GSM
> character set. Otherwise 16-bit UCS-2 format is used.
yes, is the encoding.
I had the same problem before on a N93
make sure in messaging/settings txt messages you have this:
character encoding: full support
message sent as: text
try that
also I had a problem and make my service provider (orange in my case) reset (I will call that refresh) my account on their servers.
Apart of the encoding issue (just like yours) I had a problem that my contacts never receive my caller id number, was always hidden.
So I dont know if the full support has nothing to do about it, but try both options.
greetings from the caribbean!
Yeah, non standard ASCII characters. There has been a form post about this before. See my blog here:
http://knuckleskin.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-sms-are-limited-to-160-characters.html
Hope that helps