No texting on wifi only?

[Bigleftyinaz]

Learned of another quirk for me. My HTC one , I could send and receive texts while i was on wifi only(data turned off) I couldnt send pics,only standard texts. I normally come home and connect to wifi and turn data off,but with Nexus phone, i cant do this. Is there a setting that i dont know about?

 

[Rukbat]

SMS goes by 2G, not mobile data or wifi. If the text is longer than 160 characters, the app can be set to either send multiple SMS messages (which your Nexus probably was) or to send th long text as an MMS (which requires some kind of data connection). Go to the settings in the texting app and set it to not send long texts by MMS or to break long texts or send multiple texts (they all mean the same thing).