I’ve been having fits trying to send a Text attachment. It’s a 1 page PDF, 385kb
Sets there for 15 mins “sending”
Then comes back, press to try again
Same BS for another 15 mins. Finally get pissed off enough to delete the fucking thing.
Can’t find any error messages to troubleshoot
What’s happening?
Is “Text” the name of an app on some OS, or something else? In any case, you might want to include more information.
Could be a limitation with your device, or your service, or the application. Hard to know when you’ve described none of those things.
If by “Text” you mean MMS, that has a size limit of 300KB.
Yes it’s the default Android Text App.
300k attachment limit? Man thats almost useless.
My one page PDF 385kb
Thank you for your help
That’s what email is for.
I’ve been told that young people rarely email.
I’m an old fart and use email. But prefer Text
Young people aren’t texting each other PDF files.
I checked. Android calls their App Messages
But it sends Texts
Also known as text messages. They are a specific type of message.
The Messages App needs a lot of work.
It should have rejected the attachment because it’s too big. A simple error message similar too email.
Wasting 15 mins “sending” and then instructing me to try again is not acceptable.
It’s a problem with your carrier, not the app. Your carrier didn’t send back a message saying “hey this is too big.”
Pretty sure the app could be programmed to check stuff like “size of attachments”
There is no fixed limit for MMS attachment size. Internally it is an email message, and can handle pretty much anything any other email message can. (My carrier limited at 600KB last I looked).
It may be that the phone is set for a larger message than the carrier will accept: it may be that it takes that long for the carrier to reject the message. It may even be deliberate: because of a spam problem, the carrier may have decided to delay responding to messages it’s going to reject.
RCS may be your solution.
Android Messages now has RCS.
Consumer Cellular may not support RCS.
I get unlimited texts. I’m not sure if they support the newest tech.
The recipient also needs RCS–and it’s a clunky way to send a .pdf anyway. I would suggest texting a link to the document in cloud storage.
The size limit is based on the carrier. Android allows users to set the MMS attachment limit to whatever their carrier’s limit is, but otherwise it wouldn’t know unless you tell it.
MMS requires mobile data or wifi. Perhaps you reached your data limit?
“Unlimited Texts” likely only applies to SMS. A file attachment is sent via MMS and uses your data plan.
You may want to try sending a test message with a smaller attachment. Have you sent a file attachment before? If not, try sending a small 50-100kb file attachment and see if it even works. You might not even be set up for it; may need to edit the APN, etc.