diff --git a/app/src/test/kotlin/com/bitchat/android/model/BitchatFilePacketContentTest.kt b/app/src/test/kotlin/com/bitchat/android/model/BitchatFilePacketContentTest.kt
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+package com.bitchat.android.model
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
+
+/**
+ * A FILE_TRANSFER payload arrives from any verified peer, and the sender chooses how many CONTENT
+ * TLVs it is split into. Reassembly therefore has to be linear in the payload, not in the chunk
+ * count times the payload.
+ */
+class BitchatFilePacketContentTest {
+
+    private fun shortTlv(tag: Int, value: ByteArray): ByteArray =
+        byteArrayOf(
+            tag.toByte(),
+            ((value.size ushr 8) and 0xFF).toByte(),
+            (value.size and 0xFF).toByte()
+        ) + value
+
+    /** CONTENT carries a 4-byte length, unlike the other tags. */
+    private fun contentTlv(value: ByteArray): ByteArray =
+        byteArrayOf(
+            0x04,
+            ((value.size ushr 24) and 0xFF).toByte(),
+            ((value.size ushr 16) and 0xFF).toByte(),
+            ((value.size ushr 8) and 0xFF).toByte(),
+            (value.size and 0xFF).toByte()
+        ) + value
+
+    private fun payload(contentChunks: List<ByteArray>): ByteArray {
+        val out = ByteArrayOutputStream()
+        out.write(shortTlv(0x01, "photo.jpg".toByteArray()))
+        out.write(shortTlv(0x03, "image/jpeg".toByteArray()))
+        contentChunks.forEach { out.write(contentTlv(it)) }
+        return out.toByteArray()
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a split content tlv is reassembled in order`() {
+        val chunks = listOf("abc".toByteArray(), "de".toByteArray(), "fgh".toByteArray())
+
+        val decoded = BitchatFilePacket.decode(payload(chunks))
+
+        assertNotNull(decoded)
+        assertArrayEquals("abcdefgh".toByteArray(), decoded!!.content)
+        assertEquals("photo.jpg", decoded.fileName)
+        assertEquals("image/jpeg", decoded.mimeType)
+        // No FILE_SIZE TLV, so the size falls back to the reassembled length.
+        assertEquals(8L, decoded.fileSize)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a single content tlv round trips through encode`() {
+        val original = BitchatFilePacket(
+            fileName = "note.txt",
+            fileSize = 5L,
+            mimeType = "text/plain",
+            content = "hello".toByteArray()
+        )
+
+        val decoded = BitchatFilePacket.decode(original.encode()!!)
+
+        assertNotNull(decoded)
+        assertArrayEquals(original.content, decoded!!.content)
+        assertEquals(original.fileName, decoded.fileName)
+        assertEquals(original.fileSize, decoded.fileSize)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an empty content tlv still decodes to an empty file`() {
+        val decoded = BitchatFilePacket.decode(payload(listOf(ByteArray(0))))
+
+        assertNotNull(decoded)
+        assertEquals(0, decoded!!.content.size)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a payload with no content tlv is rejected`() {
+        assertNull(BitchatFilePacket.decode(payload(emptyList())))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `heavily split content reassembles correctly at scale`() {
+        // A CONTENT TLV costs 5 header bytes, so one content byte per chunk is the sender's
+        // cheapest way to maximise the chunk count. 200k chunks is ~1.2 MB on the wire, the
+        // scale BLE reassembly already lets through.
+        //
+        // No timing assertion here on purpose: a wall-clock threshold wide enough to stay stable
+        // on slow CI is too wide to fail on the quadratic path, so it would only add flake. The
+        // cost was measured directly instead and is recorded in the pull request.
+        val chunkCount = 200_000
+        val data = payload(List(chunkCount) { byteArrayOf(it.toByte()) })
+
+        val decoded = BitchatFilePacket.decode(data)
+
+        assertNotNull(decoded)
+        assertEquals(chunkCount, decoded!!.content.size)
+        assertTrue(
+            "every chunk must land at its own offset",
+            decoded.content.withIndex().all { (i, b) -> b == i.toByte() }
+        )
+    }
+}