Russian Message Problem

[Sahil Reddy]

Hello Guys,,,,

I am trying to send "Russian Message" as follows

String message = "Здравствуйтe, сейчас я не могу ответить на Ваш звонок. Перезвоните через 10 минут, если Вам не ответили. Спасибо";
PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
	            new Intent(this, RussianSmsProblemActivity.class), 0);                
	        SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
	        
	          	sms.sendTextMessage("5556", null, message,sentPI,deliveredPI);    //  get Null Pointer Exception here
	        	

I get "Null Pointer Exception ". However it is not the case with the normal message like

String message = "Java Programmer"

12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347): java.lang.NullPointerException
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1328)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1276)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at com.android.internal.telephony.ISms$Stub$Proxy.sendText(ISms.java:369)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.telephony.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:87)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.telephony.gsm.SmsManager.sendTextMessage(SmsManager.java:79)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at com.test.RussianSmsProblemActivity.sendSms(RussianSmsProblemActivity.java:102)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at com.test.RussianSmsProblemActivity$1.onClick(RussianSmsProblemActivity.java:39)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2485)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:9080)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
12-15 16:48:32.994: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(347):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

[Nicholas Kellner]

Sahil,

I've got exactly the same problem. A russian user reports that sending SMS in russia fails and I've tracked it down to

sms.sendTextMessage(GetPhoneNumber(phoneNumber), null, message, sentPI, deliveredPI);

throws a null exception???

The same SMS in english works fine.

Did you sort it out?

[Sahil Reddy]

Nicholas .... problem is solved !!!

The problem was with the Russian Character..... Russian character takes 2 bytes and the number of bytes that could be sent through sms is only 160 in one time.
So the solution is to divide the message and send it iff it exceeds 160 bytes.

[Nicholas Kellner]

Hi, thanks for your reply

My code is like this:

	     boolean bBigSMS = message.length() > 160;

	        if (bBigSMS){  
	        	msgTexts = sms.divideMessage(message);
	        	
	            listOfIntents = new ArrayList<PendingIntent>();
	            for (int i=0; i < msgTexts.size(); i++){
	            	
	                    Intent sentIntent = new Intent(SENT);
	                    
	                    PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(m_ctx, 0, sentIntent, 0);
	                    listOfIntents.add(pi);
	            }
	     	        	
	        }

	       if (bBigSMS) { 
	    	   sms.sendMultipartTextMessage(GetPhoneNumber(phoneNumber), null, msgTexts, listOfIntents, null); 
	       }
	       else{
	    	   sms.sendTextMessage(GetPhoneNumber(phoneNumber), null, message, sentPI, null);
	       }

Maybe it's wrong to test for > 160?

[Sahil Reddy]

@Nicholas

Best thing is to use

sms.sendMultipartTextMessage(GetPhoneNumber(phoneNumber), null, msgTexts, listOfIntents, null); 

in both the cases and let android system decide whether to send multiple messages or only one. I have not checked with the same so please make sure by using the only above statement for both the cases.

Moreover

boolean bBigSMS = message.length() > 160; 

this line could be problematic as length for russian message could be 70 characters long but it is taking more than 160 bytes as "Russin Character" takes more than 1 byte for 1 character and is not like english character, so better approach would be to getBytes() and then check on it.

Thanks and Regards

[Nicholas Kellner]

Okay, thanks.

I got it working now with sendMultipartTextMessage. One might wonder why there is a sendTextMessage or why sendTextMessage doesn't take care of this.

Krgds,

Nicholas