Long Text Messages

[matthewobrn]

Quickly I want to say thanks for writing such a useful program. I've been trying it for a day now and I just noticed a few small things.

When the phone is plugged in and I'm receiving texts it works away fine until I get a long text sent to me. It never shows up in the program. I have to read it through my phone. I'm wondering if this is a known issue?

Secondly, it doesn't show me picture messages, same as the long texts, its as if they don't exist. But they show up on the phone.

Thirdly, I updated and added two things to my Google calendar (which my girlfriend receives email notifications for) and when she got up this morning she had 33 emails from the google calendar. One for every birthday reminder in our calendar.

Cheers for reading,
Matthew

[bbstrikesagain]

I think (at least some) Android phones automatically switch from multi-part SMS to MMS if you type enough for more than about three SMS. This can be a bad thing, because most tariffs include loads of SMS, but leave you having to pay for each MMS. One MMS can hold pages and pages of text, multiple pictures, video or audio. In some messaging applications, like on my X10 Mini Pro, you can't see whether you're reading SMS or MMS if there's no media included.

I think the long "texts" are really MMS messages, and as you've found, and as per faqs etc, MPE doesn't handle MMS at all, never has. Some folk have requested MMS support as a new feature, but certainly for the old SE (pre- Android) phones (where MPE was born) MMS transfer was never supported by the phones.

As a user I find the whole google calendar / Android / MPE thing a bit flaky, even if you don't sink to other apps...