Picture/text messages I want to send regular text messages and my phone will randomly convert them into a picture message. How do I stop the phone from doing this? Can i choose what type of message i want to send?

Sounds like the problem is specifically with MMS messages, messages that use data (your regular text text messages do not). Is your data cutoff? Do they send/receive if you connect to WiFi? Have you gone over your data and does your device have sufficient storage space?

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1.Take a picture with your cell phone. You can do this by finding the photo function on your cell phone, angling the photo in the manner you would like and pressing down on the "Photo Shoot" button.
2. Find the function on your phone that allows you to send an MMS message. Go to the main menu on your cell phone and tap the MMS button. Follow that by tapping "New." You are now ready to send your MMS picture text message.
3. Type in the email address or telephone number of the person that you want to send the picture text message to. Use your phone's keypad just as you would for a regular text message.
4. Tap the "Add Photo" button on your phone's keypad. You'll find this button as an icon on the main screen of your phone. Another way to add a photo to your phone is to navigate your way to the name of the person you want to send an MMS message to and click on "Add Photo."
5. Click on "Send Message." Your message is then sent and you'll see a receipt on your screen that shows your message has been sent.

my htc touch pro2 is not recieving msm pictures

move stuck message to drafts, do master reset(reset settings only) , after reset delete message from drafts

take the phone and have the firmware reflash on the phone

Go to Menu>Settings>Restore factory settings

Are you the account holder? It's possible whoever set up the account blocked picture messages from being sent. If you log in to your account, you can change these features, or if you aren't the account holder, talk to that person. Picture messages cost more than regular text messages.

Delete everything in your inbox and outbox. That solves the problem, I promise. Apparently this is very common with Razrs.

just happened to me. deleted my inbox(400+ messages) and it went back to normal.

The phone allocates a certain amount of storage for messages on a whole. Even though there may still show space available for text messages, you have hit an invisible "limit" and the phone is now defaulting to MMS messages because there is "room" there. Delete a fair amount of messages and you should be able to start sending regular text's again.