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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...

Ive gotten it a few times now and it's very irritating. Im part of the text generation and friends and I trigger off text messages like crazy, especially with those that aren't on G+. How am I suppose to text someone I like (wink) only to get cockblocked from Android itself. #fail

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

Really bad user experience. :-(

Wow.Didn't expect such daft compulsory restrictions from Android.

I don't expect this to get sorted. Which upsets me. Mainly because my girlfriend just got the message and I'll get the blame for recommending her the Nexus 4.

I agree with other posters, this is a terrible user experience.  There should at least be an option to INCREASE the limit of SMS messages you can send without getting this warning message.  I have unlimited text messaging and i'm constantly annoyed by this warning message that pops up.  Please fix this!

I found a couple places that deal with this issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35244366
http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/guides-tutorials/mobile-devices/9546-how-remove-android-sms-limit-gingerbread.html

I haven't tested any of these myself, but if I do, it'll be the last one designed for Gingerbread.

I tried to send a number of messages to my friends wishing them a Happy New Year. Mindful of how the Networks crash around midnight, I therefore did this at 7pm, some FIVE hours early.

It was a complete and utter waste of time, as only around lunchtime the NEXT DAY, New Year's Day, did I for some reason only THEN start seeing these Sending Warning pop up acknowledgments.

What a disaster, especially as my messages to the hundreds of friends alluded to why I was sending the message so EARLY. A message they only actually got on New Year's Day afternoon, much LATER than those sent from users of any other device...

That utterly reined what I hoped to achieve, and really put a bug downer on my New Year.

I could say I suppose I see why they have introduced this feature, and then say that the problem is one of getting the balanced and limit correct, and that they are a million miles apart here, but in truth, I can accept it at all an ANY level...

Ive used Android since the original G1... If it's never been a real problem for anyone all this long time, how does it now justify a change that DOES however, negatively impacts so many. And that's putting it mildly...

Disgusting...

CAN'T, not *can* in my previous post.  "I CAN'T accept it at all...."

Agreed. Completely horrible user experience.

I just got this message for the first time after receiving my Nexus 4 yesterday. Unbelievable that this has been added. Really annoying and it's a bit disappointing that the limit can't be tweaked.

I thought android was an open handset alliance project!

This issue has been raised by my girlfriend on her nexus 4 and by myself, it is ridiculous please make it an in-app setting.

I think it's a good idea but further tweaking is needed, such as allowing a silence period of 15 minutes before triggering another prompt

If you install a 3rd party messaging app then you don't have to worry about it

It is an operating system message, so even with 3rd party messenger apps this occurs. The problem is within android not the messenger app

Exactly - only the message will change to "X is sending a large amount of messages" (substitute X with with app name)

Well I use gosmspro and the message warning stops

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Make sure you disable the stock messaging app

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@31 you are right - if you disable stock messaging app the error is gone!