Hi Christopher,
Sorry, if I didn't explain properly to make you fully understand my last
message.
I wrote few lines only when my husband said that the display still 160, and
number 1 is in bracket which I didn't hear because I shut off the
punctuation.
When I wrote the 192 characters long text, I didn't ask my husband to look
at my screen, but Talks says 102 2 which I assume the 2 is in bracket.
So, I got the count down then, why it was 102 when the text was 192
characters, I'm not bother, as long as my message reaches to my recipient
with no problem.
If I mentioned of most people shortcuts their words when texting, because
that's how I receive as often. In fact, I did the same, thinking that I
only have limited characters to use.
My phone is working fine, so I don't need any updates as yet!
Estelita
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
Are you saying that when you were typing in a message on your phone, your
sighted husband was saying the display was saying 160 and it wasn't
changing? If so, that sounds like a bug in the software on the phone. If
it's important to you, you may want to see if there's an update for your
phone.
Also, did you say that you entered a long message of around 192 characters
and Talks told you you had 102(2) characters left? That sounds like the
character count is getting updated, although I'd expect it to say 128(2).
Finally, are you saying that most people have to worry about sending long
messages? If so, that isn't the case any more. Most carriers and text
messaging programs will just concatinate your messages together to create
a longer message. That's why you're hearing things like 160(1) and 102(2).
The number in parenthesis indicates how many parts there are to your
message.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 11/2/2010 10:13 AM, Estelita wrote:
Hi Christopher,
I have done some expermentation on this dilemma and found an interesting
result!
By the way, I am using N86, with Talks and zooms V premium 5.00.3.
I asked my sighted husband to look at my phone's screen on the message
area, it displays 160. I wrote some lines, the display didn't change and
Talks still reads 160 1.
In my computer, I have a file consists of 33 words and character with
spaces is 192 long.
I wrote this whole file and when I'm done, I checked and it says 102 2!
I texted it to my husband and he got it with no problem.
My conclusion is, I can write long messages on my phone with no worries
of cutting short of the words, like most people usually do.
Cheers,
Estelita
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
<chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
Hmm, I'm stumped. I tried the same message, set my punctuation to none,
and I heard 140 1, with a little pause between the 140 and the 1. Talks
won't warn you when you get to the end of the message because you'll
just
roll over into the next part of the message. For example, if I type a
180
character message then I'd hear 140(2).
I wonder if you're running into a bug. I know you said you were running
Talks 5.0, but was that 5.00.3 or 5.01.1? Also what phone and firmware
are
you running? I assume the number of characters actually appears on the
screen. If you have any sighted help, you could see if the numbers are
counting down or not.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 11/1/2010 4:39 PM, Estelita wrote:
Yes, I set the punctuation to none.
Anyway, I tried it, I wrote:
I reside in Britain.
which consists of 20 characters, but it still says 161.
I wonder if Talks will remind us if we exceed the limit?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
<chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
That's what you'll hear if your punctuation is set to none. If you
change your punctuation to all or some then you'll hear 160(1), that's
"160 left paren 1 right paren". This means you have 160 characters
left
in the first part of of your text message.
In your earlier example, your text message was 10 characters long. I
wonder if it was saying 150(1) (That's with a five.) instead of 160(1)
(with a 6). I'd suggest giving it another try with a slightly longer
text message. See if you hear it roll over from 150 to 149.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 11/1/2010 3:24 PM, Estelita wrote:
Hi,
To test it, I went to message area, without typing anything, I did
the
process, and Talks still says 161.
By the way, there's a pause in between 160 and 1. Not sure what does
it mean!
Perhaps Stephen was right about the cell provider, perhaps my
provider
only allows me 160 characters for messaging.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
<chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
You're probably right, but I do know Talks used to handle this
differently in older versions. For example, I remember when it would
announce the number of remaining characters after every character
you
typed. 5.00.3 and 5.01.1 probably both handle it the same way
though.
What does it say when you press Talks followed by the long press of
soft key 2 before you start typing anything? Maybe your text
messages
start out with 170 characters instead of 160.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 11/1/2010 12:54 PM, Estelita wrote:
Mine is version 5.0, I don't think it's due to Talks version issue.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
<chalt...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
I tried it, and Talks says 150(1). I'm running Talks 5.01.1 on and
E71X.
--
Christopher
chalt...@gmail.com
On 11/1/2010 11:25 AM, Estelita wrote:
Hi,
I tried this process, I only wrote: hi it's me, and Talks says,
"161", is this right? I can't believe it!!!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Keller"
<keller...@gmail.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a
message
While you are in the open message do a talks then long press of
soft key 2
and that should give you what you want.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carin Headrick"
<headrick2...@rogers.com>
To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 7:37 AM
Subject: [Talks] checking how many characters are in a message
Hi. I'm sorry to ask this question again, but since the archive
isn't
searchable, I don't have a hope in hell of finding the answer in
there.
Is there a way of checking how many characters you have written
in
a
text? Say you're writing a tweet and you want to know if you've
reached
140 characters. I thought someone had suggested one, but back
then
I
didn't do twitter.
Thanks if someone can refresh my foggy memory.
Carin
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