Help, I can receive, but can't send MMS. - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

ever since gingerbread I haven't been able to send out MMS messages; however, I recieve them just fine.
Im unlocked, rooted, alien v4 with fauxs 1.3 kernel.
Im using stock apn settings, and I've even gone into message center(*#*#4636#*#*) to try fixing it but it doesn't do anything.
I've had this problem since I upgraded to gingerbread when I was still stock.
I use GoSMS, but the stock sms has this problem as well.
Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to fix this? I've done full wipes at least 10 times since gb.
Update:
Found out the source of the problem.
It was the GoSMS app I use which I've used since I installed gingerbread.
The problem was I had preserve image resolution checked on, and had the max size set to 1.2mb for any MMS. So I assume my MMS was timing out because it was trying to send 1.2mb.
I changed the max size to 300kb, and now everything is sending.
Never thought that would've been the source of the issue. I guess poking around helped a lot.

Milenko2121 said:
ever since gingerbread I haven't been able to send out MMS messages; however, I recieve them just fine.
Im unlocked, rooted, alien v4 with fauxs 1.3 kernel.
Im using stock apn settings, and I've even gone into message center(*#*#4636#*#*) to try fixing it but it doesn't do anything.
I've had this problem since I upgraded to gingerbread when I was still stock.
I use GoSMS, but the stock sms has this problem as well.
Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to fix this? I've done full wipes at least 10 times since gb.
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have you tried installing the froyo fruit cake from samcripp? if it's a gingerbread problem, that might fix it.

How would that help at all after I've already flashed multiple times?

Milenko2121 said:
How would that help at all after I've already flashed multiple times?
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you stated the problem started with gingerbread, if it's a problem with gingerbread the froyo framework might fix it.
other than that, you could try to flash a different radio. which one are you using right now?

Im currently using 1.77.30p.
And I did that fruitcake when I did my unlock a few months back.

Milenko2121 said:
Im currently using 1.77.30p.
And I did that fruitcake when I did my unlock a few months back.
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have you tried the 1.97.00R leaked radio here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=112896
it has the one bar issue, but you can find the fix here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222426

Whats good about that radio?
also, that link is gone.
Also, i noticed that my bar turns from Blue to White in the middle of sending an mms

Have you tried sending mms without the faux kernal installed on the phone?
Just thinking of ideas here.
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I haven't been able to find a 1.97 radio yet.
Is it cwm installable?

Do u have juice defender installed?
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Update:
Found out the source of the problem.
It was the GoSMS app I use which I've used since I installed gingerbread.
The problem was I had preserve image resolution checked on, and had the max size set to 1.2mb for any MMS. So I assume my MMS was timing out because it was trying to send 1.2mb.
I changed the max size to 300kb, and now everything is sending.
Never thought that would've been the source of the issue. I guess poking around helped a lot.

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Recieving No Text Messages...

Not sure if you guys want this here...just thought I'd post here...move if needed...
Ok, problem I've had for awhile now..
I was using Tazz 10 and Nonsensikal 7.0. They were both working perfectly then all of a sudden, I started to not receive txt messages. I can send, but not receive. So I wiped, re-flashed each ROM seperately, nothing. Wiped and nandroid to a ROM that was working, nothing.
I am now doing the Flashback 1.5 to get to Stock ROM. If still not working, gotta take to Verizon. But once it works...gonna Root again and put Tazz 12 and Nonsensikal 8.8. and see if the issue returns.
That's all, just wanted to post if any one else experiences this issue.
OK....flashed the Stock ROM...I am now recieving Txt messages...
Next...re-root and flash Nonsensikal, and see if I am still able to recieve Txts.
After flashing a stock ROM, you should back up your APN files. One way to do this is with a free app on the market called APN backup and restore. It will back up to an XML file on your SD card. After flashing another ROM, use that app to restore the APN files.
What are the APN files for? I am stuck at boot screen since updating OTA. Haven't had a chance to root yet. So I can still do it.
BlazinDANDAMAN said:
What are the APN files for? I am stuck at boot screen since updating OTA. Haven't had a chance to root yet. So I can still do it.
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I believe they tell your phone which towers to connect to. So if you don't have the correct APN files, your phone has issues receiving messages. Some of the ROMS that are based on ROMs from other carriers may not have the right APNs.
synesthete said:
I believe they tell your phone which towers to connect to. So if you don't have the correct APN files, your phone has issues receiving messages. Some of the ROMS that are based on ROMs from other carriers may not have the right APNs.
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Shouldnt a *228, option 2, update the PRL to current for Verizon?
Well, I went through everything and now I am NOT receiving messages again. I re-rooted and flashed Tazz 12 and now not receiving Txt messages again. Damn! I have to have an unrooted phone now? This sux. I can't be with out Txt messaging.
FYI...I restored APN's and did *228
Is it with your stock txt app or did you download one? I had problems similar to yours with ChompSMS on NonSensikal. Wiped and reinstalled rom but stuck with Stock messenger and the problem never returned. If you are on stock try a different txt app. Good luck!
It was with both apps...neither were recieving. I have since restarted and it seems to be working at the moment...
Could it be that your not popular?
jk, have you turned the Wi-Fi off, cause that has seemed to work for me
BlazinDANDAMAN said:
It was with both apps...neither were recieving. I have since restarted and it seems to be working at the moment...
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I would have the problem with both apps as well but when I reinstall the rom it would work and then a little while after installing Chomp it would stop again. Finally did a reinstall and didn't install ChompSMS and everything worked and stayed working. Good Luck!
One of my friends was having this issue too and it was due to which radio version she was using. The radio included in Tazz, KaosFroyo, and Nonsensikal were all giving her issues. She switched to xtrSense and the radio with that played nicer with her phone and all was well. Check out which version each rom runs and then you can flash the other radio over whichever rom you'd want. With that being said, I should also point out that there is a small chance, were something to go wrong with the radio flash, of damaging your phone. Now I have flashed two or three different ones, and had another friend purposely try to brick his phone by flashing radios from different phones even as well as pulling the battery while flashing a radio, and did not brick his phone. Just like rooting your phone, there's always a chance something can go wrong, but at that stage it's all about weighing the pros and cons and if you have a back up plan. Hope this helps.
I'm having the same problem. I was running KaosFroyo then Nonsensikal with no issues. I switched to Tazz Froyo today and now I can't receive texts, only send them. I flashed back to Nonsensikal and it didn't remedy the problem. The radio is the same on Tazz and Kaos (didn't check Nonsensikal) so I don't think that's the issue.
I would like to point out that kaosfroyo doesn't include a radio it uses whatever you have
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Problem Solved
I found the solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770879
Hopefully it works for you as well.

SMS and GPS multirom problems

My eris no longer recieves SMS messages (sending works) and no longer works for GPS. I toggle GPS on and off and on however maps or navigation or any other app dont connect to it. I have flashed multiple roms to try to solve this and its the same problem with each rom (is something wrong with the hardware). Ive tried KaosFroyo v39, 38, 35, 32 and KaosGingerbread v6. Same problems with all.
Any ideas? Thanks for help.
carbon111 said:
My eris no longer recieves SMS messages (sending works) and no longer works for GPS. I toggle GPS on and off and on however maps or navigation or any other app dont connect to it. I have flashed multiple roms to try to solve this and its the same problem with each rom (is something wrong with the hardware). Ive tried KaosFroyo v39, 38, 35, 32 and KaosGingerbread v6. Same problems with all.
Any ideas? Thanks for help.
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Two things to try:
First, download and install off the market two apps: "APN OnOff" (exactly like that) and "GPS Status".
Run APN OnOff, choose "Show APN list", press Menu and choose "Reset to default". If this doesn't help, let me know and I'll offer another suggestion.
For GPS Status, press Menu and choose Tools and then "Manage A-GPS state". Then press Reset and then Download.
Note that from Menu you can choose Settings then "GPS & Sensors" and from there you can "Auto-download APGS data", and select how often it will automatically download fresh data. Ever since I used this, I have a lot less trouble with the GPS under any ROM with working GPS.
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate the help. APN OnOff did not seem to do anything, nothing is fixed after trying that. GPS status force closes everytime i try to open it so i cant do anything with that.
Any other suggestions?
carbon111 said:
My eris no longer recieves SMS messages (sending works) and no longer works for GPS. I toggle GPS on and off and on however maps or navigation or any other app dont connect to it. I have flashed multiple roms to try to solve this and its the same problem with each rom (is something wrong with the hardware). Ive tried KaosFroyo v39, 38, 35, 32 and KaosGingerbread v6. Same problems with all.
Any ideas? Thanks for help.
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Try something besides Kaos just to rule out something in KF (I wouldn't base anything on whether things work in KG yet - it's way too early.)
In fact, try xtrSENSE - something close to stock. If that works, it's obviously not the hardware; if you still want to try Froyo, try another Froyo build to see if one of them works better. If it doesn't, you may want to unroot with Flashback21 and bring it to Verizon, to see if they can fix it or will replace the phone.
Are you doing a full data wipe and testing on a clean ROM install when you do all of these installs? Sorry to ask an obvious question, but you didn't mention it.
Yes I am doing a clean wipe before i flash each rom. I didnt just switch to kaosfroyo ive been using it for many months and all of a sudden it stopped working. I will try xtrasense to see if that fixes anything. Unrooting and taking to verizon is my backup choice. Is there a link to a thread on how to unroot and return to stock?
Thanks for the help
To return back to stock, I'd use the ROM Flashback21, here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=792026
You should be able to just flash it and it will remove Amon's Recovery and install stock Eris 2.1.
carbon111 said:
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate the help. APN OnOff did not seem to do anything, nothing is fixed after trying that. GPS status force closes everytime i try to open it so i cant do anything with that.
Any other suggestions?
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So far as I can remember, the GPS Status app has worked correctly on every "stable" ROM that I have used (but it has been a while since I had a KF ROM on my phone).
If it doesn't work on a near-stock ROM, that might suggest that you have a hardware problem. I don't know why SMS/1x would be at all related to the GPS issue, though.
I would take doogald's advice - unroot the phone, perform a factory reset (so the phone gets deactivated), and then re-activate it and see if the problems persist. If they do, then your phone is already set up for a return.
I have been running CELBFroyo 4 since it came out. I also had the same thing happen with messaging. I restored to an earlier nand, still nothing. I have tried tazz and kaos today. I will look for the apn on off. Thanks!
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I used flashback Rom and that fixed my sms problem. Was going to use Xtrasence but couldn'tget my phone to dl it. Had flashback on phone, works great. ReRooted already and going to hang with sence for a wile.
Thanks everyone!
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Kruby said:
I used flashback Rom and that fixed my sms problem.
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ReRooted already and going to hang with sence for a wile.
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That is an interesting observation. Is this the sequence you used:
- Flashback21
- Factory Reset (to deactivate)
- Activate
- ( manual PRL update w/ *228 ?)
- Verify SMS working using Factory ROM
- Flash custom ROM & verify SMS working there also
I'm wondering (out loud) if what you were experiencing was a problem with an outdated PRL.
What about GPS? Did it start working again as well? I suppose that could also be a PRL issue - for instance if an outdated PRL was preventing aGPS initialization from the carrier.
If you have Nandroid backups of the KF ROMs you were having trouble with, you would be doing the Eris community a service by restoring one of those ROMs and then reporting whether your SMS/GPS service was fixed. (Obviously, you would want to make a Nandroid backup of whatever you have on the phone now, so you could reload it if you want.)
bftb0
Kruby said:
I used flashback Rom and that fixed my sms problem. Was going to use Xtrasence but couldn'tget my phone to dl it. Had flashback on phone, works great. ReRooted already and going to hang with sence for a wile.
Thanks everyone!
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Just out of curiosity, in case you check back on this thread, did you install the Flashback ROM with or without the radio? If so, I wonder if updating the radio was part of the fix.
I will nandrestore to Kaos and let you know what it does.
I used flashback without radio, then went through the setup process. Didn't deactivate, just did it like any other flash.
I did not check gps before.
Did not use 778.
Will nand now.
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Kruby said:
I will nandrestore to Kaos and let you know what it does.
I used flashback without radio, then went through the setup process. Didn't deactivate, just did it like any other flash.
I did not check gps before.
Did not use 778.
Will nand now.
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Hmmm, strange. I don't know why that (the procedure you used) would cause a behavior change - unless you were overflashing KF ROMs one over the next (no wipes), and something got messed up along the way.
If that is the case, reloading a (corrupted) KF ROM from a nandroid backup won't prove much - unless you do that and also a fresh (wipe + new install) of the same KF ROM you last used, to prove that the problem had little to do with the ROM itself.
cheers,
bftb0
Ok naned back to a celb4.0 not kf, sorry everything still works.
I had been on celb4.0 for a wile(the day conap released) and haven't changed anything when sms quit. Heard it could be apn and going to stock may fix it.
Let me know if I can get you any other info.
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LOL, brain fart on my part - activation is *228, not *778
(I'll correct the earlier post.)
Glad your phone is working.
(BTW, GPS does not work in KGB V8 - I just re-read your OP)
Doesn't work at all for V8?
guitarokr said:
Doesn't work at all for V8?
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GPS does not work on my phone w/ KGB v8; I suspect it doesn't work on anybody else's Eris either.
KGB @ V8 is still a development ROM - it shows tremendous promise, but I doubt that many folks are using it as their daily ROM.
several of the kf roms have had gps issues fixed by later updates. did the browser fc when you tried to open it? try something like froyoshedyo and see what happens, but nandroid your current setup first. not sure about the sms. the gps fix for kf39 is posted in the kf thread
bftb0 said:
GPS does not work on my phone w/ KGB v8; I suspect it doesn't work on anybody else's Eris either.
KGB @ V8 is still a development ROM - it shows tremendous promise, but I doubt that many folks are using it as their daily ROM.
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I thought GPS was working in kgb v8. well at least not fc. location is still questionable on some phones. not sure though i haven't personally flashed it yet, just been following the thread.
mjb413 said:
I thought GPS was working in kgb v8. well at least not fc. location is still questionable on some phones. not sure though i haven't personally flashed it yet, just been following the thread.
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I tried a fresh install of kgb8+gapps12/28.
GPS Status app FCs, and Google Maps shows my location at the cell tower with a giant 1mi error circle, even though GPS is enabled. That's my definition of "doesn't work"...

Messeging problems

Okay so I've been having a problem sending messeges with full bars. It would tell me message failed to send and then I have to resend and sometimes multiple times, it gets very annoying. I've revert to stock and reflahed and it stop for awhile and then just now it is happing again. This problem hasn't occur untill after I flash boinex v for awhile. Does anyone have any suggestions? Im on boinex v1.2. There's a new one that just cme out, maybe it will help?
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aaronhiep said:
Okay so I've been having a problem sending messeges with full bars. It would tell me message failed to send and then I have to resend and sometimes multiple times, it gets very annoying. I've revert to stock and reflahed and it stop for awhile and then just now it is happing again. This problem hasn't occur untill after I flash boinex v for awhile. Does anyone have any suggestions? Im on boinex v1.2. There's a new one that just cme out, maybe it will help?
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I've consistently had problems getting messages to send after flashing a new rom...can't personally pinpoint the problem, as for me it presents itself in different ways and at different times depending on the rom.
However, I have found that the attached messaging apk always resolves my problems, so my solution is to push this to system/app after I flash a new rom. See if it works for you.
It's just the messaging apk from (I think) one of the earlier Nero roms, but I couldn't tell you for sure. I had just backed it up b/c of messaging issues TW was having at the time, and I find myself constantly using it.
Hope this helps!
It didnt work...ugh..does anyone else have a way to fix this?
Bummer man.
Just to clarify what "didn't work" means, you didnt try to install this, did you? You need to replace the existing mms.apk in your system files with the one I attached.
I just want to make sure you didn't try to install it like a 3rd party app...it doesn't work that way.
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No i did it the right way, pushed it thought root explorer and changed the permission and everything, the mms app look different also. But anyways i got it to work in a werid way.
My network mode was at GSM/WCDMA(auto mode), so i just switched it back to GSM and everything was fine?
That's interesting - I just checked mine and am on auto mode. No problems here.
Nevertheless...glad you got it working again!

problem recieving texts

running bamf 2.1 remix just flashed the mr2 radio to see if it would fix my issue since i was on the mr2.5 but didnt seem to fix my problem, for some reason my phone will just stop getting text messages and ill have to restart it again n i still never get the ones that were sent out or ill get a pop of a text and it doesnt show up in my messaging app. im using chomp sms but even when i check my stock messaging app the text's aren't in there.. don't have any call blockers anymore since mr.number was messing with me being able to answer a call was thinking maybe i needa reflash or try a different rom? any ideas
Same problem on bamf 3.0
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ya i saw your thread right after i posted this one up... i tried switching to gingertheory and it was working great once i got off the stock messaging app cuz it was set up hella weird, i couldnt handle the sense dock that it had though i like bamf's way to much gonna try 2.1 remix for a few more days i guess and if it happens again ill have to switch and just use adw again..
permafrying said:
running bamf 2.1 remix just flashed the mr2 radio to see if it would fix my issue since i was on the mr2.5 but didnt seem to fix my problem, for some reason my phone will just stop getting text messages and ill have to restart it again n i still never get the ones that were sent out or ill get a pop of a text and it doesnt show up in my messaging app. im using chomp sms but even when i check my stock messaging app the text's aren't in there.. don't have any call blockers anymore since mr.number was messing with me being able to answer a call was thinking maybe i needa reflash or try a different rom? any ideas
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Try re-flashing the radio. I was having the same troubles and just re-flashed the radio and pooof... everything is working fine now. I've seen the same problem with my old Fascinate as well. Give that a go and I bet that'll solve your problems.
I just flashed Mr2.5 because droidth3ory suggests it opposed to Mr2
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well since i've switched to the mr2 radio instead of the mr2.5 and reflashed the rom i havent had any problems hopefully it holds up

SMS wont send on Black StarVI

Anyone have any ideas? The browser works just fine and I can sign in to all my google apps and get my emails. I can also receive phone calls, but I can not send a text message. It just tries and tries then fails. I am assuming I cant receive them either.
Not sure. Worked fine for me, but I've already flashed 7. And it's working. Might just flash the newest one. Look around at the end for the download link.
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Have you inquired in the blackstar thread ??
You may find other users with similar issues, and possible solutions ...g
gregsarg said:
Have you inquired in the blackstar thread ??
You may find other users with similar issues, and possible solutions ...g
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Not yet. I dont think I have enough posts. And I did try flashing to 7 and I have the same problem.
Any ideas? I have tried flashing in both CWM and TWRP and have the same problem. Everything works except for sending and receiving text messages. I have tried all the wipes and can't figure it out.
Now it appears to happen no matter what I flash. I tried to Odin back to stock and still have the same problem. Damn this is frustrating
gsharp63 said:
Now it appears to happen no matter what I flash. I tried to Odin back to stock and still have the same problem. Damn this is frustrating
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Are you having any luck yet?
Am currently using blackstar I haven't tried stock sms app.....Am using handcent...And I have 0 issues...
ALSO check your apn fields? make sure you have your correct apn types in the field...is mms in there?

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