Text message character counter for iPhone?

I know exactly what you want and I've never seen an option to turn a character count on anywhere.
 
calm down m8.

we all understand what you want but we are all trying to help you.

im sure that app will help you which anyway you look at it.

that app will let you know how many text's you have left.

im sure you can work out how many you got left and how many to send.
 


I too find this app essential! But I don't think you can turn a counter on :(

waso_dude said:
7.50 and get the unlimited text bolt on,

I found i was txting more on the iphone than ever!

4.5k txts a month i'm sending atm. Best 7.50 i've ever spent :P
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How do you get this? I phoned up and asked and they claimed they do not do it anymore. I've sending sometimes over twice my 500 limit my bills are getting rather big, you are right on the iPhone texting is soo easy one txt message may actually be the length of three.
 
Well I appreciate the pointing towards the app, but as I've stated twice previously in the thread, I don't need to know how many texts I have left in the month, or how many I've used, just needed a counter really...just doesn't seem to exist

sorry, didn't mean to get irrate, just fed up as it seems I'm storming through my 500 text allowance...sorry

does anyone know what the deal is with the unlimited texting now? Have o2 stopped it altogether, or just on the iPhone, or just on the iPhone 3gs
 
Well, 1 text is IIRC around 160 characters, so I guess as a decent estimate you could type a message 160 characters long and see how many lines it took to do so. That way you'd know roughly when you're sending 1 or more by the amount of lines in your message.

Not ideal I know, but it's a start.
 
Vegeta said:


I too find this app essential! But I don't think you can turn a counter on :(



How do you get this? I phoned up and asked and they claimed they do not do it anymore. I've sending sometimes over twice my 500 limit my bills are getting rather big, you are right on the iPhone texting is soo easy one txt message may actually be the length of three.
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I'm doing the same I think, this month I'm going to go double over I think, especially when u are used to having it unlited and changing seems to be a tough switch

I don't know if it helps you at all, but they did tell me about a friend and fmily bolt on you can get that costs 7.50 and I think you get to add 10 numbers and you get unlimited texts to them, however they have to be on o2 which was no good for me as everyone seems to be on othr networks
 
Detroit_Waves said:
I'm doing the same I think, this month I'm going to go double over I think, especially when u are used to having it unlited and changing seems to be a tough switch

I don't know if it helps you at all, but they did tell me about a friend and fmily bolt on you can get that costs 7.50 and I think you get to add 10 numbers and you get unlimited texts to them, however they have to be on o2 which was no good for me as everyone seems to be on othr networks
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This is no good for me - as tbh my numbers change all the time, depending on the girl i'm texting lol.
 
As the SMS app is part of Apple's stuff you will have to wait until apple add it.

Apple are very keen to sandbox all apps - including widgets to enhance their own apps.

I've just been up to my eyeballs in iPhone coding today..
 
There is a way you can get the 'character counts' on SMS but you have to jailbreak the phone. I'm sorry ; I can't talk about it on here. :)

I also read that as long as you text a max of four lines in portrait you'll be within your char limit for one text m8.

Having a look myself I think 5 lines would fit in.
 
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VortexA1 said:
There is a way you can get the 'character counts' on SMS but you have to jailbreak the phone. I'm sorry ; I can't talk about it on here. :)
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Yep the old jailbreak thread was awesome, well until "they" decided to ruin the fun

iRealSMS is the app you need. I bought it months ago and cant really see the iphone being as good without it...
 
Detroit_Waves said:
Sorry guys a lot of you seem to have misunderstood

I know I can find out how many texts I have sent from my monthly allowance, that's not the problem

the problem is, previously having unlimitd texts I had need worry whether the texts I was sending were 1 text long, or 15 minutes long, now however being limited by 500 what I wanted was a counter so that as I was typing a text it told me whether the text I was gonna send had gone over the 160 characters and was gonna cost another text...cause if I was say 2 characters over I'd drop in some slang and save myself the extra text!

Also, I would pay for the unlimited text option with o2 happily, but they don't have that option for this iPhone, which is so annoying!
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I know EXACTLY what you mean and i would LOVE that feature as I frequently text Australia at the cost of 20p per text so i am having to guess half the time how long my messages are !
 
Also you could count up how much character space is on each line.

Then get the amount of chars allowed. I think 160 and divide that by the amount of chars allowed on each line. Then keep the lines within that and you know for certain you're still within the 160.
 
I can't believe there isn't a character counter.. I have submitted it as a feature to Apple.

The link is here for those who wish to also do the same ;)
 
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