Trapster Troubleshooting: Issue With > 160 chars.

[FoolishOne]

Continued from here:
http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...d-address.html

Two more chopped messages, typed exactly as I see them:

(Live Police) Live Police Trap as location: 0.00 mi from 5565 I-45, Bristol, report time: 2008-09-25 18:31:13, confidence: 1, firs

CBN: 200-809-25

(Live Police) Live Police Trap as location: 0.11 from , Ferris, report time: 2008-09-25 18:21:43, confidence: 1, first reported by ktgtrapster, I

CBN: 200-809-25

[FoolishOne]

(Live Police) Live Police Trap at location: 0.30 mi from 2707 County Road 204, Alvarado, report time: 2008-09-26 14:49:09, confidence: 1, first repor

Call Back Number.: 200-809-26

[FoolishOne]

(Live Police) Live Police Trap at location: 0.05 mi from intersection Highland Ter S and South Fwy, Fort Worth, report time: 2008-09-26 15:06:41, con

Call Back Number: 200-809-26

[o2bad455]

I have not seen this problem when receiving at a real email address. Could this be a limitation on text message size by your cellular service provider?

[FoolishOne]

Yes, Verizon limits it to 160 chars. Rhetorical, but can we set it up so that I get 2 text messages. Right now, I am missing some information that could be useful if the intersection has many characters.

[o2bad455]

Yes, Verizon limits it to 160 chars. Rhetorical, but can we set it up so that I get 2 text messages. Right now, I am missing some information that could be useful if the intersection has many characters.

I don't see a way for Trapster to do this, exactly, right now. There might be 3 options, though:

1) Get Trapster to add this capability;

2) There should be a way to do it with custom email forwarding from a good always-on email client and/or webmail; or

3) Create 2 Trapster accounts. Set one to include the map link in its email, and set the other not to. Thus, you might be able to get the whole message in the one that doesn't have the map link.

[FoolishOne]

I don't have any maps/links enabled, and it is still too long.

The only thing I am asking for is...

if carrier=='Verizon' & length(message)>160
{
for(x=0;x<length(message);x+=160)
{
temp = madeUpTrimFunction(message,x,160);
sendMessage(temp);
}
}
else
{
sendMessage(message);
}