Since I bought my Qtek S200 with Windows Mobile 5 I’ve been having a problem in text messages (SMS) sending.
If I write a text message with accents the number of characters per message is reduced from 160 to 70 characters. This is a problem because without noticing you may spend a lot of money in accentuated messages (you send about the double of the messages).
I had never googled about this issue, but today I’ve found a solution while playing around with my pocket PC. It is just a default configuration problem. Sorry about the screenshots in Portuguese, but is the language of my Windows Mobile.
Step 1: Open Text Messages. Menu > Tools > Options
Step 2: Touch Text Messages account.
Step 3: Uncheck Use Unicode when needed (or similar text 
).
This option checked reduces the maximum characters per text message when using accentuated characters, because Windows Mobile automatically uses Unicode encoding which require more space than regular characters.
Tenho esse problema no meu IPAQ HW6515 mas como é Windows Mobile 2003 SE não tenho essa opção. Se souberes de alguma alternativa apita…
Abraço,
Américo
Like you, I didn’t found any option in WM 2003.
I looked for some kind of setting in the registry, and I found it.
You must “hack” the registry to disable that option.
Install a registry editor like this free one called PHM RegEdit.
Find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Settings\SMS Unicode and change it’s value to 0.
In an emulator it solved the problem.
Thanks… I thought in doing that but I’m very busy right now.
Once I used PHM RegEdit to change the working hours on the Calendar. Thanks for the info!