How do you fix Galaxy S10 pixelated video?

[Android Central Question]

I have a Galaxy S10 Plus and when i send a video message from gallery via text, it gets pixelated. Is there a way of fixing this?

 

[Mike Dee]

I have a Galaxy S10 Plus and when i send a video message from gallery via text, it gets pixelated. Is there a way of fixing this?

Are you sending it to an iPhone?

 

[Devhux]

Text messages typically use MMS which is very very poor quality. It's not like iMessage.

 

[mck2018]

Carriers impose data limits on texts, so they decrease the quality on videos to meet their limit size.

Allo was a great solution for this, Allo is gone now so I'm using what's app to send and receive higher quality videos.

 

[Narcist1]

Are you sending it to an iPhone?

Nope. It's being sent to another Galaxy S10

 

[Narcist1]

Text messages typically use MMS which is very very poor quality. It's not like iMessage.

I never had this problem when I had my Galaxy S8

 

[Narcist1]

Carriers impose data limits on texts, so they decrease the quality on videos to meet their limit size.

Allo was a great solution for this, Allo is gone now so I'm using what's app to send and receive higher quality videos.

I might have to use What's App, but I hate having app to text when I really should have this problem.

 

[mustang7757]

I might have to use What's App, but I hate having app to text when I really should have this problem.

Double check in message settings imput mode automatic

Edit : also multimedia is set to free

 

[mck2018]

My understanding has always been that it's the carrier, not the phone. I can't ever recall being able to send high quality videos or multiple photos in the same mms.

 

[Devhux]

Honestly, if carriers would start supporting Google's RCS protocol for messaging we wouldn't have this problem.

They're still relying on old-school MMS which we were using since the first camera phones or so. Apple obviously helped sidestep this with iMessage, but if you ever went pics to Android users they would have received the grain/poor quality images.

 

[Narcist1]

Double check in message settings imput mode automatic

Edit : also multimedia is set to free

Nothing in the settings to change it. My previous phone had it, but not this one.

 

[mustang7757]

Nothing in the settings to change it. My previous phone had it, but not this one.

You have unlocked version?, which carrier?

 

[Mike Dee]

Nothing in the settings to change it. My previous phone had it, but not this one.

Did you look in the messaging app?

 

[Narcist1]

You have unlocked version?, which carrier?

I have Verizon.

 

[Narcist1]

Did you look in the messaging app?

Yup. Nothing in there to change it

 

[mustang7757]

I have Verizon.

Verizon have RCS? , TMobile does

 

[Devhux]

Verizon supports it on the Pixel 2 and 3 at least. Also note that i don't believe Apple supports it so you'll he stuck if you're sending things to iPhones (and that one you can blame solely on Apple).

 

[mustang7757]

Verizon supports it on the Pixel 2 and 3 at least. Also note that i don't believe Apple supports it so you'll he stuck if you're sending things to iPhones (and that one you can blame solely on Apple).

Yeah I heard that for the pixels

 

[mustang7757]

I have Verizon.

The only thing I can say is try another texting App like Android messages or Textra.

 

[EricMartinSoCal]

I have a Galaxy S10 Plus and when i send a video message from gallery via text, it gets pixelated. Is there a way of fixing this?

Upload to Google Drive and share. They get the full video. I share everything using Google Photos or Google Drive.