MMS Limits??

[waterise]

On my G3, for multiple texting apps, including the stock one, anytime I choose "No Limit" or "2 MB" my MMS messaging suddenly doesn't want to work. On my iPhone 4s, I could always record lengthy videos and send them without any file size BS. Now, when I receive videos from my girlfriend's iPhone, it's always really low quality, but on my iPhone it's high quality. Can I bypass the limit? Also, why does the app Textra allow me to choose "No Limit," but then I can't send MMS texts?...

Very frustrating. I don't want 1MB file size limit....I mean, really? I'm on AT&T. Also, when my friends send me videos, they can't even send things longer than even a minute or it won't work or something they said. Never had that issue until I got this phone. Help?

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[SpookDroid]

Welcome to the reality of iMessage. When you send messages from iPhone to iPhone, you're NOT using SMS or MMS, you're using iMessage. That doesn't run through your carrier's usual data channel, it runs through Apple's servers and can work both through mobile data or WiFi. It also has the ability to send bigger files since it's a messaging service similar to Hangouts, BBM, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and the lot.

SMS/MMS, on the other hand, has limitations and it runs ONLY through your carrier's data channel. You cannot receive an MMS unless you have mobile data and it cannot run through WiFi. Not all carriers support the higher file size limit or it might need activation from your carrier as well.

If you were both on Android, for instance, you could send stuff without the MMS compression if you both used Hangouts. But since your girlfriend uses an iPhone and you are on Android, her message gets converted to MMS.

It's not that the iPhone can magically make MMS work with large, uncompressed files. It's that iMessage is NOT MMS.

 

[Ry]

On my G3, for multiple texting apps, including the stock one, anytime I choose "No Limit" or "2 MB" my MMS messaging suddenly doesn't want to work. On my iPhone 4s, I could always record lengthy videos and send them without any file size BS. Now, when I receive videos from my girlfriend's iPhone, it's always really low quality, but on my iPhone it's high quality. Can I bypass the limit? Also, why does the app Textra allow me to choose "No Limit," but then I can't send MMS texts?...

Very frustrating. I don't want 1MB file size limit....I mean, really? I'm on AT&T. Also, when my friends send me videos, they can't even send things longer than even a minute or it won't work or something they said. Never had that issue until I got this phone. Help?

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When you were sending videos between you on your girlfriend using iPhones, it was likely doing the sending via iMessage. iMessage is not MMS.

 

[SpookDroid]

BTW, you can tell when you're using iMessage vs SMS/MMS on an iPhone. If the bubbles are blue, it's iMessage. If the bubbles are green, that's a standard SMS/MMS.

You can also set your preference for a certain contact to use SMS/MMS instead of iMessage, even if you're both on iPhones to avoid data charges for unlimited texting plans.

 

[illdini]

Hangouts is available for iPhone, if he wants to try that option.

 

[JudH]

One more point, MMS max file sizes are set by the carrier so can be (are) different on each end. At last check ATT's limit is currently 600kb not 1mb.

 

[waterise]

One more point, MMS max file sizes are set by the carrier so can be (are) different on each end. At last check ATT's limit is currently 600kb not 1mb.

Lets me send at 1MB, but not 2MB :/