Sending multipart SMS from device converting into MMS

Question

After looking on th e website, I was not able to find any solution to this problem. Let me explain a bit more :

I'm trying to send (programmatically) from an App a multipart SMS. It's actually working on my device (Nexus 4) but I tried it on a Galaxy Note, which convert any long-sized SMS to MMS and the app only send short SMS. Any clue about that? Does the Samsung API or something prevent the sendMultipartTextMessage() method from being executed?

In my sending function, I have Log debug, which is shown on screen, so the call to this function is well done..

Thanks for any help!

Here is the code I use :

public static void sendSMS(final Activity a, String phoneNumber, String message)
{        
    try {
        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
        ArrayList<String> parts = sms.divideMessage(message); 

        ArrayList<PendingIntent> sendIntents = new ArrayList<PendingIntent>(parts.size());
        for (int i = 0; i < sendIntents.size(); i++)
        {
            Intent sendInt = new Intent("");
            PendingIntent sendResult = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(a.getApplicationContext(), 0, sendInt, PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
            sendIntents.add(sendResult);
        }

        sms.sendMultipartTextMessage(phoneNumber, null, parts, null, null);
        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();

        values.put("address", phoneNumber);
        values.put("body", message); 

        a.getApplicationContext().getContentResolver().insert(Uri.parse("content://sms/sent"), values);
    } catch(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.out);
    }
}

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '13 at 08:59

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    public void sendSMS(String phoneNumber, String longMessage) {
    try {

        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
        ArrayList<String> parts = sms.divideMessage(longMessage);
        sms.sendMultipartTextMessage(phoneNumber, null, parts, null, null);

    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
   }

add this permission also :

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS"/>

above code works for on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (Android 4.1.1), Micromax HD Canvas (Android 4.1.1) , Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 4.1.1), HTC One X (Android 4.0).

So this function is not block for me on samsung phones.

answered Apr 19 '13 at 08:59

VISHAL VIRADIA

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Thanks for trying, I updated the subject with my code, you can see it's quite the same and not working on Galaxy Note (first one on Android 4.1.2).. I'm still disappointed with that but thanks by the way! – Micky De Caritte Apr 23 '13 at 07:51
Hi, can you tell me -> Number of characters you want to send by SMS ? – VISHAL VIRADIA Apr 25 '13 at 17:16
Hi, I'm trying to send a BigInteger(2048bits) with a header, so around 280 characters :) – Micky De Caritte Apr 26 '13 at 09:09
146 (=1 SMS) and 3 SMS allowed for text sms (means 3 * 146 = 438 characters), after that it will convert sms to multimedia SMS (in my Galaxy Note 2)... – VISHAL VIRADIA Apr 29 '13 at 08:46
Thanks for this piece of information, I'll have a look at any other solution! – Micky De Caritte May 08 '13 at 19:20

Sending multipart SMS from device converting into MMS

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