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by **victor** » 25 Jun 2015, 21:14

when last in UK i was able to text a pic to my son ( never ever used internet on my phone),and he received it.

but from Madeira i can't do the same and the phone shop says i need to be on the internet.

this does not make sense to me,all the says is -unknown subscriber

by **Diflower** » 25 Jun 2015, 22:09

Doesn't make sense to me either Vic, but do you have whatsapp on your phone?
It's a free app and means you can text/send pics for nothing

by **Suff** » 25 Jun 2015, 22:09

Hi Victor,

Texting a picture is a bit of an oxymoron in some ways but you can send a picture as text. What it actually did was to send a MMS.

Is the phone UK or local? I'd say that MMS services were not available locally. The only way of sending pictures on a phone are MMS or via the internet using email or an app like Skype or fb or other such apps. If you just sent it as text then it was certainly mms, which is not cheap.

Better to be on wifi and send a mail with the picture as an attachment. Both my phones offer to "share" the picture via a range of methods, one of which is email. Of course I have so many mail accounts on my phone I have to pick the correct one, but that's my life.

Sorry MMS is Multimedia Message Service.... Not everyone knows.

by **victor** » 25 Jun 2015, 22:19

hi Di ,no i have'nt ,phone not that up to date !

hi Suff,UK & local phones.

tried as multimedia but no good-just says that unknown subscriber message,but as i said worked ok in UK

by **Suff** » 26 Jun 2015, 03:35

Your mms settings are wrong according to this discussion.

I don't use MMS and there have been quite a few issues recently where people have been using smilies in texts which trigger mms instead of being standard texts and then get they huge bills, like over £1k. MMS is normally not in any package.

Sending via email over wifi is free.

by **victor** » 26 Jun 2015, 08:29

that's interesting Suff-not just me then
i will e-mail Vodafone

as i am PAYG i can't see that it would cost me a lot

anyway thanks for your help

by **Workingman** » 26 Jun 2015, 09:51

Vis, just to say, my daughter got caught out with a similar thing on her old Samsung.

With those particular beasts you have to visit Settings and in Text Messages make sure you are using UniCode. You might also find that many apps require you to be on some sort of data plan in order to work. Read the small print on your PAYG plan - some might work, some not.

by **Diflower** » 26 Jun 2015, 10:44

victor wrote:hi Di ,no i have'nt ,phone not that up to date !

hi Suff,UK & local phones.

tried as multimedia but no good-just says that unknown subscriber message,but as i said worked ok in UK

Get one lol, then it's free

by **meriad** » 02 Jul 2015, 12:32

not necessarily Di - my contract with EE charges me extra for pictures I send via SMS... I have to use WhatsApp or Viber for that instead for it to be free

by **Diflower** » 02 Jul 2015, 13:05

Diflower wrote:Doesn't make sense to me either Vic, but do you have whatsapp on your phone?
It's a free app and means you can text/send pics for nothing

Yes meriad, that's what I was telling him

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