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The rate limiter was an intentional introduction in  Jelly Bean (4.1) and the settings can not be altered by users. Device manufacturers have the ability to alter this limit in their firmware, but they have to balance heavy texters against protecting users against malicious premium rate SMS sending applications.

You may wish to contact your device manufacturer to see if they can raise the limit in their firmware.

OK, just as information I'm a Galaxy Nexus user therefore writing this here instead anywhere else.

However the 'protection' mechanism is plain wrong - instead of dealing with malicious software in the market end-users are 'punished' with such limitations ruining the, otherwise great, experience of using Android. Also it won't help with such limitations because any malicious software can be aware of such restrictions thus pacing the rate of sending premium texts to avoid being noticed by the user (until the bill comes or one runs out of credit on pre-paid) and even if Google set this to hilarious 1 text per hour user still could not be aware that anything is wrong because noone is keeping track of their texting timing.

Bottomline - such restriction won't help nor solve the problem but can only be highly annoying to regular users.

Completely agree with wojek.k.  Terrible user-experience.  I have unlimited texts so why would I care if I've been sending a lot of text messages.  Soon we'll have to answer security questions to send a text message...

That is probably the worst "feature" I've ever seen on a phone. Why would a phone EVER limit its usage for anything? I pay for unlimited texting and I pay for my phone, why should I have to deal with this? No other phone, including the iPhone, has such a stupid limit. Clearly this does nothing to prevent spam. Please, AT LEAST let the end-user decide if they want that limit or not. It's just stupid.

I believe that the this feature should be an option allowing users to either limit or not limit their number of texts. In my opinion that would be the best for of action. But if it is not possible to remove/bypass it, can you tell us how to remove it in our custom roms.

I agree with others here. This is a HORRIBLE implementation. I'm not even a heavy texter, but occasionally I WILL send out eg. a party invite to a group of friends, easily passing the limit of "allowed" messages (especially since a long message will count as 2-6 messages all by itself times perhaps 10 invites.

If this was at least user-definabale (like the "allow non-market apps to install" option, that would be one thing. You'd "protect" the non-savvy users, while allowing me and others to keep using our phone as we want to, but making it hard-coded like this is EXTREMELY annoying. And yes - I too have a Galaxy Nexus so I can't "talk to my carrier" - I got it precisely because I wanted the full android experience - not to get friggen told how I can't use my own phone by it.

I called Samsung Canada about this issue and their response is that it's not something they can fix and only google can fix it. Super annoying.

Well I fixed the problem on my device but requires cwm. Basically it overwrites the limit Google has to 500 texts an hour per app

Could you share the solution? Still - it's temporary and doesnt' really solve anything, but it would be nice to don't have to deal with it for the moment...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831289

Here is the forum where I found the solution

Unfortunatelly mentioned fix doesn't seem to work (for me at least)... and this 'feautre' just cause slight problem because message wasn't sent and the dialog appeared and was dismissed because I didn't click 'allow' (and clicking any other place dismiss any dialog in android)...

This "feature" really is absolutely insane. I can't believe it. If you're going to have something like this hard coded then it CAN'T be a flat rate to fit hundreds of thousands of different users! At the very least it should be a learned average, unique to each device, based on THE USER'S personal rate of texting. Even if this was implemented through the service provider based on past billing information (average texts per month, overages,  unlimited data plans), that would be a great improvement.

But of course, like everyone else has said, most importantly.. IT NEEDS AN "OFF" SETTING