How many Characters for picture message?

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Anonymous
 
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 12:06 am:   

I want to know, i have a picture with size 72 * 28. I want to make it as picture message.

I had convert it to hex value, this is my hex below. It was 504 characters.

Can i use it for nowsms picture message?

"aaafe00428043fffff6beff40a540a5fffffc55be89420043fffffaa2ff00a780a5ffc7f5fd7a08 5ac05aff607be204422760a5fef535a102245da55afee3bbd821482fdabd7ef7b5e100241fe55abd f77ac2005a07fafdbcefb5e002a51aa5f6fd5f7af80dfaa402ebfcaebfe0033f5a05d2fc55f1f807 ff8102ebfaabb81c13ff4005dbf4577a8fffff7ffffffffff50401fe00000000000aa2007c000000 00000551000000000000000a8b00300000000001ed55003000000000033aa3003000000000003d55 6dbe3ce781c1983eaa6dbb66ccc1819867467fb37ecfc18198c1ec7fb360cc018198c124333366cc c181b8000033333cc78180f8c"

Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 947
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 07:58 pm:   

Hi,

Unfortunately I can't actually try your example until next week, as I'm currently out of the office and have limited access.

Are you referring to a Nokia picture message, or an MMS picture message?

The format of the data above does not look like a Nokia OTA bitmap ... what format is it?

504 bytes is not necessarily a problem, but for longer Nokia picture messages, you get 128 bytes per message, so a 504 byte message would require 4 SMS messages. And some phones might have a problem receiving a 4 part message.
Anonymous
 
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 12:10 am:   

i`m referring for Nokia picture message.

The format of the data is bmp format with no header. The format only contain the graphics file.

Can you give me the example hex string for nokia picture message with size 72 * 28 ?

Can you attached to me the bmp file for your example.

Thanks
Anonymous
 
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 09:39 am:   

I think i my put the header in front of my data.
This is the header "00481C01" It is true?


Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 957
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 07:32 pm:   

I'm sorry, but I'm confused.

I still don't understand what the format is of the original data.

Is it Nokia OTA Bitmap format without the header, or is it a regular PC BMP file?

The "00481C01" header would be correct for a 72 (0x48) by 28 (0x1C) monochrome bitmap.

So I'm guessing that you have a Nokia OTA Bitmap without the header.

An example OTB string can be found in the following thread:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/481.html
Entah
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Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 09:41 am:   

I have the same question.
How to convert bmp to ota or hexa ?
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 1062
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 08:15 pm:   

Hi Entah,

For simple (non-automated) conversions, you can use the following approach.

The following web site allows you to convert from BMP, JPEG or GIF to OTA bitmap:

http://www.teraflops.com/wbmp/

The resulting output from that site is a binary OTA file. For a quick and dirty way to convert that file to a hex string, you can use the utility at:

http://www.nowsms.com/download/file2hex.zip

For an alternative to the "teraflops" web site, try ImageMagick (see http://www.imagemagick.org and specifically http://www.imagemagick.org/www/convert.html). ImageMagick's convert.exe can easily convert from GIF/BMP/JPEG to OTA bitmap format, just note that ImageMagick expects the file extension of an OTA bitmap file to be ".otb". So you run "convert image.jpg image.otb" for a simple conversion to OTA bitmap format.

-bn