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    • CommentAuthorjbroach
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2009
     
    Text messages from my wife's AT&T phone now come with the message text as the subject and body. The meaningful subject line is a nice improvement on the Peek end, since I can often get the gist without even opening the message. If I reply, though, the subject (which is the whole text message) gets added to the text message, causing it to go over the character limit and split.

    This issue started with the new "pseudo" Peek phone numbers. Before, text messages always came with Subject: (No subject). Ideally, the subject would include the first part of the sender's text message on my Peek, but when replying the subject should be blank.

    For now, I have to compose a new message each time I want to reply to avoid split messages. Have people noticed this with other carriers, too?
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      CommentAuthortmel
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2009
     
    @jbroach - What kind of phone does your wife have?
    • CommentAuthorjbroach
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2009
     
    @Tom - sony ericsson z525a, just a standard flip phone.
    • CommentAuthorjbroach
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2009
     
    I was a little off in my first post. The entire text message shows up as the subject on my Peek, but only the first 50 characters of the subject go back to the cell phone if I reply. Again, this just started happening when the new 3jam phone number started showing up from my Peek.
    • CommentAuthorjbroach
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2009
     
    It doesn't seem to be an issue with AT&T or the phone. The same thing happens if I text my Google Voice number. Here's an example of the problem to make it clearer:

    SMS sent to my Peek:
    "Here's an example of the new subject line problem. The body of this message has 94 characters."

    Reply from my Peek shows up in 2 parts:
    1/2 "(Re: Here's an example of the new subject line prob) When I reply with my Peek, the subject is added to the body, causing... -- www.getpeek.com"

    2/2 "...this 103 character reply to split. -- www.getpeek.com
    • CommentAuthorjbroach
    • CommentTimeAug 31st 2009
     
    OK, now that I discovered that shift + delete deletes the entire subject line this isn't a very big deal. I'd rather have it the way it is than go back the "(no subject)" text message subjects.

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