How do I fix this?
I just transitioned from an iPhone 4 to the Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-i9100 and pretty much loving it. I would love it more if I didn't encounter so many damn problems with it. Some problems I will learn to fix my self but this problem with the damn MMS is bugging me so much I'm debating on going back to the damned iPhone.
Here's the deal when I receive an MMS I have the option to download it, when I touch the download button it just sits there, not downloading. Same when sending, I'll hit send and all I see is "sending"...
At first I thought this was because my phone was rooted, so I "unrooted it" putting it back to stock wiping data blah blah blah, and once my phone booted and recognized T-Mobile I tried sending a picture and it worked! I asked my fiancé to send me a picture and I received it no problem. A few hours later I found that I now couldn't download any MMS sent to my phone nor send!
I tried updating the APN settings, looking for fixes, rebooting, and no dice.
I'm not using any data connection since the SGSII is only compatible with Tmobile edge which most of you know is garbage, so I use whatever wifi is available (i have my own)
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Hope someone can help.
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Ok, so i'm new to this whole android thing and came up on a TB. Sorry for the noobness of this...i did a search, but couldn't find anything relating to my problem. hoping someone could give some advice.
I tried to activate it the other day and it took some time to activate(i guess Verizon's network was down), but the 4g LTE was fully functioning. Phone was recognized on my account at verizon and everything checked out.
however, when i tried to make a phone call, i got the message 'welcome to verizon wireless. your phone number is not active or invalid'. one thing i did notice was the roaming triangle above the signal bars. btw, i did try contacting verizon and they didn't know what was going on..they kept blaming the downed network.
i couldn't get it to work so i had to switch back to my whackberry.
Anyone know what the problem is and how to activate it? any advice would be awesome!
thanks for the help in advance!
Might need a new sim card...
Sent from my ThunderBolt using XDA Premium App
i tired two sim cards already...no luck.
I suddenly can't send or receive any text messages. I don't have a clue what caused it. Last night I installed the app wifikill and used it for a few minutes which did cause my phone to reboot and for some reason made it look for a profile update, firmware update and prl update. Everything else seems to be working, so I'm not sure what's going on. I already attempted to delete everything in my phone and restore from a nandroid backup before this happened, and the problem still persist. Any ideas of what could have caused this and how to fix it?
I don't know if it is related or not, but I've been having texting issues with the LTE as well. Sometimes they go through, sometimes they don't and I end up turning airplane mode on, then off after waiting 30 seconds.
I've also been having MAJOR delays in getting sent messages (some are coming in more than 2 hours after they were sent to me according to the time stamps on the incoming messages)
It is really driving me crazy (oh, and along with data crapping out as well with no rhyme or reason as to why and when).
fastamx79 said:
I don't know if it is related or not, but I've been having texting issues with the LTE as well. Sometimes they go through, sometimes they don't and I end up turning airplane mode on, then off after waiting 30 seconds.
I've also been having MAJOR delays in getting sent messages (some are coming in more than 2 hours after they were sent to me according to the time stamps on the incoming messages)
It is really driving me crazy (oh, and along with data crapping out as well with no rhyme or reason as to why and when).
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That's no really the same problem I'm having. I simply can't send or receive text messages at all. It just suddenly started happening with no warning, so I'm not sure what caused it or how to fix it. Please let me know if anyone else is having this problem. If I don't hear anything soon, I'm thinking about unrooting my phone and re-locking the bootloader and taking it to sprint to see if they can do anything with it.
NoClemency said:
That's no really the same problem I'm having. I simply can't send or receive text messages at all. It just suddenly started happening with no warning, so I'm not sure what caused it or how to fix it. Please let me know if anyone else is having this problem. If I don't hear anything soon, I'm thinking about unrooting my phone and re-locking the bootloader and taking it to sprint to see if they can do anything with it.
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I would run the ruu which will put you back to stock and see if the problem remains.
njfoses said:
I would run the ruu which will put you back to stock and see if the problem remains.
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Sadly I already did that, and it still wasn't able to send or receive text messages. But here is the real kicker. Soon as I made a call to one of my friends who also knows a lot about phones to ask him if he had any suggestions, all the text messages that I made that wouldn't send all sent. By simply making a phone call, the phone must of connected with the sprint towers and made it start working. Super bizarre, but it's working again. So now I'm in the process up setting everything back up. Thank you Titanium Back up.
I'm currently experiencing modified version of your problem. I can't send text messages, but I can receive them. The only messages I can send are picture messages because they are looked upon as data.
NoClemency said:
Sadly I already did that, and it still wasn't able to send or receive text messages. But here is the real kicker. Soon as I made a call to one of my friends who also knows a lot about phones to ask him if he had any suggestions, all the text messages that I made that wouldn't send all sent. By simply making a phone call, the phone must of connected with the sprint towers and made it start working. Super bizarre, but it's working again. So now I'm in the process up setting everything back up. Thank you Titanium Back up.
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Are you new to Sprint? Text messaging on Sprint has done this on several different devices for the past two years (since I joined Sprint). And when I make a phone call several tend to come through.
Oddly enough this doesn't happen in Utah when I go to visit, only Puerto Rico (where I live).
Try making a phone call and updating your prl within Sprint Zone. That fixed it for me.
I tried EVERYTHING to fix my phone. I rooted, unlocked and installed 2 different ROMS. None helped. I had to update my PRL every hour, and sometimes that didn't help either. I wiped everything, unrooted and relocked, ran RUU and went to Sprint. They replaced my phone. They are not allowed to work on these phones currently, so you'll either get a new one or a reconditioned one. Because I signed up for insurance, I got a new one.
I have not had any of the same issues since getting a new one. To me, it seems the issue is the PRL. It's showing that it's been updated, but it's not updating. There's a conflict between what Sprint sees on their side and your phone. But.. I'm not a Sprint tech, so I don't know.
All I know is I have a NEW phone and the problem is FIXED. For now anyways..
shinedown87 said:
Are you new to Sprint? Text messaging on Sprint has done this on several different devices for the past two years (since I joined Sprint). And when I make a phone call several tend to come through.
Oddly enough this doesn't happen in Utah when I go to visit, only Puerto Rico (where I live).
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Actually know, I've been with Sprint close to 20 years now. I've always had a lot of different problems with them, but I've never had this particular problem before. But I'm glad I got it figured out, and everything is working again.
Sometimes after I reset the my phone I get the notification "restricted access change".
At first i thought it might be sim card since it is a new phone. So I switched it with my wifes and she put mine in hers. Her phone worked perfectly but when I turned mine on, It worked for a bit (sometimes does this also) then eventually stops working.
* no Texts can be sent or received and no calls can be received. If I try to call someone it stays on dialing and I can't cancel the call. (stays as if I am calling and have to reset phone)
Sometimes It doesn't show error, Just stops all of the above anyway.
Any suggestions or comments? anything would help.
Did you ever get to solve this issue? I am getting it on my T-mobile S3.
Tmobile could not solve the issue. Now sending the device to Samsung support to see any hardware issues...
cnraghu said:
Did you ever get to solve this issue? I am getting it on my T-mobile S3.
Tmobile could not solve the issue. Now sending the device to Samsung support to see any hardware issues...
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I am getting this error too on my T-Mobile S3. Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT:The reason I was getting this error was due to the guy I got my S3 from closed his t-mobile account without paying the ETF. Therefore my S3 now has been blocked on Tmobile network. The guy gave me a refund on the phone tho.
Hello All,
I have been looking around and seeing if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I have. But I have not had much luck. I have seen similar cases, but for whatever reason, some of the workarounds found that worked for others have not been successful for myself, or are temporary.
For the past three months, I have been experiencing an off and on issue where I am unable to receive texts, but I am able to send out text. And it is something that I would not realize until people actually notify me, or it is awkwardly silent on the "texting front", which makes me second guess myself. Almost every other week or two weeks this has occurred. At the time, I am running Darky's 8.8 [4.1.2] ROM for the i9300. I have tried rebooting, taking out the SIM, re-flashing Darky and re-flashing Stock (full wipe, etc), and replacing my old SIM with a new one. None have been successful thus far. The only success I have found is that inserting my SIM in a different phones allows the text to flow through almost immediately. I would then place the SIM back in the i9300 and any new texts sent I would receive immediately. After a week or two, it randomly just stops receiving text again, and the cycle continues.
I was wondering if whether this may be a bug with the Android OS itself? I have seen a few posts in regards to SMS being handled by Jelly Bean, but I am not 100% sure if my issue would fall in the same boat. Or if it is possibly faulty hardware? Or some kind of network issue. My network is AT&T, but I'm ruling out a network issue since I am able to receive text almost instantaneously on other phones.
Any information, advice, or help would be greatly appreciated.
Its not a bug .
Usual reason is wrong MMS message centre settings or network settings .
jje
JJEgan said:
Its not a bug .
Usual reason is wrong MMS message centre settings or network settings .
jje
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I've verified that the MMS APNs and SMS settings are correctly configured to AT&Ts network. If it were incorrect from the beginning, I would not get text messages (or MMS) at all. But in this case, it is intermittent and only resolved when I get to "unload" the text messages on to another device.
Same thing happens to me (why I had to use my upgrade to buy a phone from them -_-) I'm using a S2 for now... it sucks when you have been on the S3. Their excuse for not being able to help me was "Its an international phone, therefore may not work with our network." That's freaking BS. It worked for 6 months before this issue came up. New micro SIM card is the only temporary solution for now. When I have time. I'm going up there or calling help line. Gonna file a complaint and mention I might be leaving service with them or I can say legal action will be taken since they are denying me a service I'm paying for. They should start helping by them. I don't abuse their services. I don't tether. I don't cheat them in any way. Its retaarded.
b-eock said:
Same thing happens to me (why I had to use my upgrade to buy a phone from them -_-) I'm using a S2 for now... it sucks when you have been on the S3. Their excuse for not being able to help me was "Its an international phone, therefore may not work with our network." That's freaking BS. It worked for 6 months before this issue came up. New micro SIM card is the only temporary solution for now. When I have time. I'm going up there or calling help line. Gonna file a complaint and mention I might be leaving service with them or I can say legal action will be taken since they are denying me a service I'm paying for. They should start helping by them. I don't abuse their services. I don't tether. I don't cheat them in any way. Its retaarded.
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Ahh! Thank you b-eock! I don't mean this in the wrong way, but I'm glad that I'm not the only who has experienced this. When this occurred to you, were you on some version of 4.1.2? From what I can remember, this issue never came up until I upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2. Just trying to find some kind of trend here...
I have had to call up AT&T a number of times regarding this issue. And each time they were of no help. Although they were able to confirm that everything on their end of setup correctly, I got the same BS that you got. And they even gave me the whole baloney that I should upgrade so that they can help assist me better and that since it is not their branded phone, it may not be fully compatible.
I really do not want to give up on this. And I definitely want to find a solution. So I am hoping there is a lucky one out there that has tried different ways of getting fixed. Whether that be trying a new ROM, or downgrading from Jelly Bean to ICS, etc.
Came up a few weeks after I upgraded to 4.1.2 but there isn't really a connection between that. It worked before. Its just random crap. And them telling us everything is good on their end, that's complete BS. They don't know what's going on behind their computer screen.
Same exact thing happens to me. It's ROM dependent i'm thinking. Samsung roms from other countries do it the most for me. Has done it on AT&T and AT&T with StraightTalk. Experiencing it on Purelok HD v3.1 right now. I love this rom but im probably going to go AOSP/AOKP as I don't experience it on those kind of roms.
Camera just isn't the same without the Samsung software to me.
Helped a friend with this problem and it was too weird not to post to see if anyone else knew about it...
He has a note I rooted and loaded SGH-i717-UCLF6-FJMod-B5 on for him.
Yesterday we had an area wide network issue on AT&T, no data or edge only texting was borked. It lasted about an hour. Apparently his wife texts him like every five minutes and even more when he wasn't responding.
When service resumed he could send texts and send/receive MMS, but could not receive texts. He called AT&T support last night and they couldn't help him so next he went to the local store where they gave him a new sim card which didn't help. He said they told him it was a known Samsung device issue and one way to fix it was to put his sim in another phone and let the messages come through and then put it back in the note.
I have an old atrix laying around so we tried that first thing this morning and it worked.
My question is why?! Is this a legit Samsung device issue? I found a few posts around the web mentioning the same issue with no real answers.
Its a network maintenance issue. Some things just take a little time to clear up, including sending a huge backlog of SMS.
Yeah, but why would none of my other 20 at&t phone users experience this...and why would putting his sim in a different phone force it to start working.
rangercaptain said:
Its a network maintenance issue. Some things just take a little time to clear up, including sending a huge backlog of SMS.
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