Hello there!
May be somebody knows or can help me with the following issue:
On my G1:
When taking a picture and sending it as MMS, the software resizes the original picture to very small arroung 20Kb size.
Though the receiver gets it very small.
On my Windows Mobile I can choose resize options before compressing the picture and so sending it as MMS with between 200-250kB and it becomes a nice picture at the receiver's side.
I tried everything but I am not able to find out to get the size adjusted bigger when sending out of the camera application within the G1 to MMS.
So I am not using the G1 for MMS sending, but I am want to send pictures from our baby to Grandma.
May be somebody has an idea?
Thank you,
Dieter
Send picture from your Gmail to (PhoneNumber)@tmomail.com.
You can always send pictures from your Gmail account at full size (instead of selecting MMS, of course, select Gmail) and you can also do what senorkabob suggeseted, which is to send it from Gmail to a phone number.
However, you're best off letting it compress because large MMS messages to some providers have problems downloading, and some may not download larger than a certain size in the first place.
In reality, the picture will go through two compression "sequences", one when you send it, and another when the person receives it. It's all up to the receiver to determine how large the picture gets. Different phones will get different sizes. I know the G1 can receive MMS pictures as large as 680x440, depending on what the picture size was originally. Older phones get smaller pictures, newer phones get larger pictures.
I've recently noticed that not many people have been getting my MMSes, and today I did some tests to figure out what was happening.
It seems like pictures sent from the Nexus One using the stock messaging app has the size cap at around 1MB. From some research, T-Mobile USA seems to cap their MMSes at 300KB. Pictures taken with the Nexus One's camera using the highest settings varies from 700KB to a little over 1MB.
When I send a 700KB picture to someone, the messaging app doesn't do any resizing or compression; it'll just send it as it is and the recipient will never get it. When I try sending the larger ones that are more than 1MB, the app will resize and/or compress to about 800KB, and as expected, the recipient won't get that either. I've even tried sending these larger MMS to my email to rule out any device/service incompatibilities on the other end, but those don't go through either.
Sending something tiny, like a 7KB or 100KB picture works just fine, which sort of verifies that there's a cap.
Well, my question is, is there a way to adjust the cap in the messaging app? I don't see any options anywhere, so I kind of doubt it. I don't really want to use a 3rd party app; I think you can set the max size in ChompSMS.
Some providers resize pictures as they're travelling across the network, simply because a lot of phones have small displays/memory and can't handle something that big. You have to tell them you're using a phone that can handle it (eg. N95 or iphone) so they stop doing it.
If Tmobile are dropping the pictures entirely then that's something for them to sort out... I'm surprised they would do that.
I just finished speaking to HTC and T-Mobile. T-Mobile confirmed that MMSes are capped at 300KB, and HTC told there's no way to change the maximum in the messaging app. All they could tell me was to take pictures at a lower resolution, which wasn't the answer I was looking for... Hopefully, when the source comes out, there will be a way to add the option in there.
I'm kind of surprised no one else has run into this issue before.
:/ well, that blows. i was a little whizzed at sprint for capping at 500kb.
your option could be get on wifi, send through email to their phone (e.g. [email protected])
common addresses
I'm using handcent sms on tmobile and handcent always resizes my images when i attach them to a message. i tried the normal messaging app and when i try to attach a picture it says "compressing image". For me handcent sms is great and definitely better than the stock app.
I took your guys' thoughts into consideration, but still ran into problems.
Sending a text using email to a T-Mobile number (##########@tmomail.net) with an attachment larger than 300KB will result in the the picture never reaching the recipient. I can't say that this won't work for any of the other carriers though.
Handcent Sms does indeed resize the picture enough to send, but it converted my 800KB picture down to 14KB. It's a little too aggressive with the conversion for my taste.
I'm just hoping that it will be a relatively easy to implement a way of changing the 1MB max size on the messaging app when the source comes out.
If anyone else has any suggestions, I'd love to hear it.
TaFFeR said:
I took your guys' thoughts into consideration, but still ran into problems.
Sending a text using email to a T-Mobile number (##########@tmomail.net) with an attachment larger than 300KB will result in the the picture never reaching the recipient. I can't say that this won't work for any of the other carriers though.
Handcent Sms does indeed resize the picture enough to send, but it converted my 800KB picture down to 14KB. It's a little too aggressive with the conversion for my taste.
I'm just hoping that it will be a relatively easy to implement a way of changing the 1MB max size on the messaging app when the source comes out.
If anyone else has any suggestions, I'd love to hear it.
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Did the 14Kb figure come from the MMS when it was received or did you check it on the phone after it was sent? I'm on O2 in the UK and they seriously butcher any MMS being sent to the Android, if I send a picture to myself its immediately obvious looking in the conversation view that what I've sent and what I've received are not the same.
I too have been having this problem. I would like to stick with the stock messaging app as well. I am sure there will be an update for this I just hope it's soon.
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Did the 14Kb figure come from the MMS when it was received or did you check it on the phone after it was sent? I'm on O2 in the UK and they seriously butcher any MMS being sent to the Android, if I send a picture to myself its immediately obvious looking in the conversation view that what I've sent and what I've received are not the same.
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I checked on both ends. This was with Handcent though, remember. When you send, it's added to the thread where you can check the file sized of the picture. I sent it to myself to my email via MMS, and it was 14Kb on that end too.
On the other hand, if I send something < 300Kb, the picture stays intact on the receiving end. I don't think T-Mobile does any processing of the MMSes in any way.
I too, have been having problems with MMS, just as you stated.
FWIW, my observations:
-Android on VZW can receive my MMS, but I get a 1kb file with nothing in it when he sends me an MMS.
-When iPhone on ATT sends me an MMS, it comes through, but when I send him an MMS, he never gets it. Strangely, when my other friend with a G1 sends him an MMS, it doesn't come through.
-Within Tmo, MMS is fine.
I don't know anyone dumb enough to use Sprint, so I can't check on that.
-I sent a photo from my Gmail app to myself, and it came out perfectly fine. 731k on both sides.
Would be nice to have an app that automatically resizes photos to the 300kb Tmo limit.
Hmm... That's weird, I can't send anything larger than 300Kb to myself or my brother who has a G1. I thought I had this figured out, but now I don't know what's going on anymore
I just checked on my phone, sending via tmo to att...one went through, but two others didnt. i may have to switch to handcent or chompsms.
I can not send any pics or vids taken with my phone. I have tried to send them as text, gmail, and yahoo mail. I get the same message every time.
"File is to big to attach".
I have played with the camera settings and set the camera from the out of box setting of 8M resolution to 1M. Is there something I am missing?
I don't know about video, but you can specify resoltion of pictures. Try smaller ones until you succeed. Alternatively, you can download k9 mail and see if you get the same error. Good luck!
I have the same problem with MMS but not in gmail. Ive never tried emailing a video though.
I think I have found that if I stay the message and then attach it works over viewing in gallery then sharing. Might be vice versa but i have noticed a difference
I use handcent mms and it automaticaly resizes the image so it can be sent, but it always gives me an error that mms not sent but it always does get sent, probably just a bug.
whats MMS? The vid I have tried to send is 8M. I have turned the size / resolution down to 1M.
I have a friend that has the same phone and his is out of the box at 8M he sends stuff all the time with no issues. Is there a gmail setting i am missing?
Is there anyway to stop MMS coming in the form of slideshow? I can get one pic at a time right but any time ppl send two it becomes a slideshow.
This is the only anyoing thing for me about Android. The gs4 stock messaging app will display them as two pics not a slideshow.
I have the TMO LG G6. Had the S7 Edge before this. I use Google Messages app as my default messaging app. When I send pictures or videos they end up compressed to the point that the they get very pixelated. Never had this issue before. It's fine when I send images on WhatsApp. Haven't tried other apps. Anyone running into a similar issue or dealt with it in the past?
Thanks!!
Yes, but it's usually the app compressing it, not the phone. I would check the settings in the app. I'm not sure of the Google app is connected with the built in application.
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I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
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I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
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The messaging app Silence does some heavy compression as well.
mustang8918 said:
I have the same problem but with animated gifs. It compresses them way to much and I'm also on Tmobile. I use google messages on all my phones and have never had to change anything. I can send the same gif with my zmax pro and have no problems using google messages and I have done the same thing on an s7e, s7, v20, and iphone7, so I don't know what the problem is with this g6 but it's starting to make me want to return it. Google messages doesn't really have any settings to change for sizes of attachments.
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Yeah, there aren't any settings to change this. Unfortunate. It happens across videos and pictures for me, I can't figure it out. Still happening post update from 4/1. I tried to change the camera to 16:9 to see if that helped, no luck.