Text Messages send as multimedia messages, and don't go through

HI, you cannot send pictures through text message but through multimedia messages..but before you can do this you need to activate your multimedia messages through your network provider and after activating it, you can only send multimedia messages to people that have also activated there own.
cheers

you must select the option new text message to write and send text message...here u have selected the multimedia message sending option...for sending multimedia messages,u must have the settings from the service provider..u can obtain it from the service provider by contacting their customer care..

contact customer care to send you text message service center number and to fully activate your mms settings.

How can I use the messaging features on my Motorola phone? To send a text message:

• Enter your Message menu
• Scroll to Create Message and Select
• In the To: field, either enter a telephone number**, e-mail address**, or Browse your Phonebook, Received or Dialed Calls list.
  
• Enter your message in the MSG: field
• Select done when you have completed the To: and MSG: fields
• Confirm that you would like to send the message now

Please note that text messaging is a service provided by your cellular service provider and you must subscribe to this service to have the capability to send text messages. Certain carriers may require alternate instructions.
**Please contact your carrier for further information on these services, and to ensure they support sending to both a telephone number and/or e-mail address.
To send a text message - Select Menu, Messages, Create Message, and then New TXT Msg
<a href=""http://motorola.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/motorola.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=Id42qGph&p_lva=4061&p_faqid=4064"" target=""_self"">To send a multimedia message -Select M, Messages, Create Message, and then New PIX Msg
To Insert Objects In Text Message while composing a text message - Select Menu, and then Insert
To use MMS Template open an MMS template with preloaded media - Select M, Messages, Create Message, and then PIX Templates
To read a new text or multimedia message that you have received - Press Read (Right Soft Key).
To Store Message Objects - Go to a multimedia message slide, or highlight an object in a letterand select Menu, and then Store
To send or create a quick note message - Select Menu, Messages, and then Quick Notes
To view sent messages - Select Menu, Messages, and then Outbox
To read received messages - Select Menu, Messages, and then Inbox
Tip: Press Menu to perform various operations on the message.
To view messages saved in drafts folder - Select Menu, Messages, and then Drafts
To delete all messages or only messages from the Outbox or drafts folder: Select Menu,; Messages, and then Cleanup Messages

This may be the problem...
Go to messages,
press menu ( - )
go to message setup,
then MMS message setup,
then go on composing MMS,
change the reply type to short reply

Hope this helps

Mowcius

just reset ur phone from settings in ur mobile

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

I had the exact same problem and it did help when I deleted all my received texts. I started having the problem when I had more than 400 text messages stored in my phone.

when you go "new message" in the messages menu it should give you an option of text message as well as multimedia message and other things. If the problem is when replying to messages it should automatically send in text format and if it doesn't then it should once you have sent some "text" messages from the "new message" option. Hope this helps :-)

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.