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Text messaging problem

My problem began about a week ago and I wasn't aware until my friend asked me why I was sending picture messages with no pictures. I wasn't, I was sending regular text. I went in and looked at my outgoing messages and they were all sent as multimedia or slideshow. Problem is I never attacted anything to them and most were replies anyway. My question is: what is happening and how can I fix this so that they're just regular text messages?

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  • elenehan May 09, 2008

    Started sending multimedia messages last week instead of text messages. Friends that cannot receive picture messages cannot read them, this sucks. Went to AT&T store guy played with the phone and could not get the default message changed from multimedia to just regular text message.

  • Anonymous Jun 14, 2008

    all texts are sent as slideshows. arrrrrggghh.

  • veaboyz Oct 27, 2008

    i recieve texts but i cant like text back it says "unable to send".

  • Coach Smitty Dec 17, 2008

    Same problem. I get it after I've responded to a picture messages sent to me by antoher person, or if I have responded to a picture message I've sent someone. It buggs the holy living **** outta me.

    Please help!!!!

  • Anonymous Jan 08, 2009

    For no apparent reason my text messages began appearing as multimedia.

  • cakilian Jan 08, 2009

    This started happening to me in the middle of a "conversation" I was having. One text I sent normally, and 5 minutes later, in reply to the reply of my initial message, my text went out as a multimedia message. All my texts since have gone out as multimedia messages. So frustrating!

  • Anonymous Jan 10, 2009

    The Motorola E815 interprets such messages as "Slideshow", which is apparently its name for a multimedia message. I am currently sitting next to a friend with a Razr.

    Cleaning out all messages without rebooting did not solve the problem.

    Cleaning out all messages AND RESTARTING fixed it. :-)


  • Anonymous Mar 26, 2009

    Bull, i deleted all my important message for nothing....this is effed up..

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

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Clear all messages (incoming and outgoing) and restart the phone. I just tried this and it worked for me.

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Erase all the messages. In and out box. Make sure to restart the phone. Simply shut it off and then turn on, IT WORKS.
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The master reset doesnt work you have to delete all the messages

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Do a master reset of the phone settings this should correct the txt msg.

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