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12-08-2017 12:37 PM - edited 12-08-2017 12:40 PM
I have also recently been charged for long sms too. It seems to be because my phone (Galaxy S6+, firmware 7.0) automatically converts long sms into 1 MMS, whereas back in the days my more-basic phones would just split the long message into multiple SMS (at 160 texts cut-off).
And because my price plan has inclusive unlimited texts, I was suprised and somewhat angry at Vodafone's billing system. And I wasn't aware there's such silly functionality of converting a long SMS into an MMS.
After diving into the native phone settings, I couldn't find anywhere to swtich off the automatic conversion of MMS. However, I downloaded Vodafone's app, "Message+", and there's a tickbox to remove this silly conversion. So, hopefully from now on my long SMS will just be split into multiple SMS's and will remain inclusive within my price plan.
At first I was inevitably angry at Vodafone. But now I'm afraid I should point the finger at either Samsung or Android.
14-08-2017 12:06 PM - edited 14-08-2017 01:13 PM
AFAIK, that's a Samsung thing, and I thought there was an option in the message app settings to split rather than convert (I'm pretty sure there was on my S2). It's a long time since this has arisen and, tbh, I thought Samsung had fixed it (by defaulting to split). It's not a Vodafone issue as they can only carry what was put into the system.