Galaxy S3 Can't send/receive pictures from other iPhones - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone,
I just bought a Galaxy S3 this morning (first Android phone ever!) and for some reason, I haven't been able to send/receive any pictures to/from any one of my friends who has an iPhone. I went into At&t earlier tonight and several people without iPhones sent me pictures and received pictures from me with no problems, but everyone with an iPhone couldn't receive my pictures. The techs there told me to try and use the lowest camera resolution and I was able to get one picture to send but still wasn't able to receive any pictures. I'd appreciate all the help I can get :good:

ag91 said:
Hi everyone,
I just bought a Galaxy S3 this morning (first Android phone ever!) and for some reason, I haven't been able to send/receive any pictures to/from any one of my friends who has an iPhone. I went into At&t earlier tonight and several people without iPhones sent me pictures and received pictures from me with no problems, but everyone with an iPhone couldn't receive my pictures. The techs there told me to try and use the lowest camera resolution and I was able to get one picture to send but still wasn't able to receive any pictures. I'd appreciate all the help I can get :good:
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About resolution, your phone should convert a image to MMS standard when sending it.
you could check to see if AT&T have a manual MMS setup guide

krankdroid said:
About resolution, your phone should convert a image to MMS standard when sending it.
you could check to see if AT&T have a manual MMS setup guide
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I figured the phone should be able to convert the image to the right size if needed but every setting I've tried including the lowest one, I get a little note that say "image too large, compressing". I'll have to look into the manual MMS setup guide. Thank you!

My sister was receives about 50% of the pics I sent her. She's on a windows phone though. Turns out the pics I was sending were too big but after I switched to go SMS pro, she recieved every picture.
My advice is to try other SMS apps
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ag91 said:
Hi everyone,
I just bought a Galaxy S3 this morning (first Android phone ever!) and for some reason, I haven't been able to send/receive any pictures to/from any one of my friends who has an iPhone. I went into At&t earlier tonight and several people without iPhones sent me pictures and received pictures from me with no problems, but everyone with an iPhone couldn't receive my pictures. The techs there told me to try and use the lowest camera resolution and I was able to get one picture to send but still wasn't able to receive any pictures. I'd appreciate all the help I can get :good:
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I have had my Galaxy for about 5 months & always been able to send without setting anything. However, this week, it doesn't want to send to any phone or to email addresses either! I'm with ATT as well...
I am hoping someone can come up with a solution for us.

I can't send pics either this week, started 2 days ago, I'm on sprint.
Rooted GS3 rockin' the Wicked

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somone help. i really want to send picturemail and ive tried everything.

ok. im pissed at sprint for setting up this amazing camera phone abilities but not setting up the mms plan. im paying for the vision pack yet im not getting what im paying for. I've tried every hack possible and it still doesn't work. I have the arco program and I did the regit thing perfectly. the little mms pix thing pops up I send my picture to people and even my own fone but I got a message back saying ur mms has failed to send or something. SOME ONE PLEASE HELP. I'VE LITERALLY LOOKEK EVERYWHERE. does anyone know if sprint is coming out with any software that will let the mogul send pictures.
Check out this thread http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=5129 to get picture mail to your phone

Getting one MMS for every sms that I receive, please help!!

I'm not sure of what I've done but since this morning I'm receiving an empty MMS from "unknown" sender for every sms that I get. Haven't changed any of the settings prior to that starting, notifications are disabled in the stock app (am using chomp sms). Please help, it's driving me mad..
Phone is rooted & running latest gladiatrix version.
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Could be the person sending to you is sending texts as a MMS. My wife used to do this with her BB and I would get 2 on my iPhone from her. Just a thought. May be the same issue.
Does it do this from everyone, or just one person?
CaelanT said:
Could be the person sending to you is sending texts as a MMS. My wife used to do this with her BB and I would get 2 on my iPhone from her. Just a thought. May be the same issue.
Does it do this from everyone, or just one person?
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Thanks for the reply!
No, it's from everyone, everywhere. I'm trying to back-track what I changed since last night on the phone but I haven't changed anything that could indicate causing an issue like this. The sender shows as "anonymous", when I try to dial that number it came up as 266-696-687 which isn't a valid number.
I was getting that last night and than it stopped after an hour
Andrew149 said:
I was getting that last night and than it stopped after an hour
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Getting the same, an mms before each sms?
Sorry to be a pain; the bug is very annoying.. I have now flashed everything back from 1.2.6 to 1.8.3, the bug is still there.
I used the SIM in another android phone, all works ok. Obviously something went bust on the settings of my phone.
Anyone heard of this issue or seen it?
So, issue took care of itself this morning. After spending 14hrs trying to fix it yesterday & almost throwing the damn thing out the window..
AT&T? o2 here in Germany? Some dodgy update of some sort? F**k knows..

AT&T MMS issues

Im having issues receiving MMS from certain people, im coming from galaxy note 3 an i wasn't having any issues on it now some time when someone sends me a MMS its a small box an it doesn't show anything but if i click an save attachment it will show me the picture. I'm using the stock messaging app and i'm completely stock phone. anyone else having this type of issues?
ps2gamer02 said:
Im having issues receiving MMS from certain people, im coming from galaxy note 3 an i wasn't having any issues on it now some time when someone sends me a MMS its a small box an it doesn't show anything but if i click an save attachment it will show me the picture. I'm using the stock messaging app and i'm completely stock phone. anyone else having this type of issues?
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Can you post a screenshot?
I have no problem. everything is ok.
That's what happens when I receive a mms but if I click it an save attachments I can see the picture in my gallery
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Instead of starting a new thread I'll try here. I'm having problems of not receiving just sms messages from time to time. At least two friends now have text me and said they didn't get replies from me when they text me. That being cause I never got them. Anyone else have this? Any ideas? I'm not rooted or unlocked or anything yet.
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tacote said:
Instead of starting a new thread I'll try here. I'm having problems of not receiving just sms messages from time to time. At least two friends now have text me and said they didn't get replies from me when they text me. That being cause I never got them. Anyone else have this? Any ideas? I'm not rooted or unlocked or anything yet.
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Did you have an iphone before this, or have you put your sim card in an iphone? I know that there is a problem where imessage can kick in and cause problems. Also ask your friends if they have iphones and if they do, then have them go into message settings and make sure they have the toggle "use sms when imessage not available" clicked.
I have a spare iphone 4s and I put the sim from my old galaxy s3 in it and it caused a world of hurt on my texts. I had to go in and turn off imessage on the iphone even though I had removed the sim and never put it back. Hope this helps.
One of them has a iphone the other doesn't. AT&T had me turn off my imessage when I got this phone. It just started out if the blue. Pretty much just the last two days. Didn't know if it was because I don't ever delete any old messages or well anything. Lol. Very frustrating though. Lol.
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I am having the same issue receiving txts from iPhone users and this happened on the m7 as well but got the m8 and then i was fine for a bit until it started again. At times it works and other times it doesn't.
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For those having trouble, let me post my experience so that it may help someone. I'm a corporate client, my law firm has about twelve phones under the account. Since this is a family firm, we steal each others upgrades all the time, usually someone is breaking their phone and not due an upgrade, so they take someone else's. So when I upgraded, even though I was eligible, my uncle had nabbed my upgrade back in october. So I, in turn, grabbed my cousin's upgrade. The problem here is that I am the only android user. Somehow att screwed up our account when I upgraded and suddenly I couldn't get texts from the people in my office on iphones. Eventually our I.T. guy called att and straightened it out. I say all that to say that if you haven't modded your apn, sms app, or anything else and are having issues, it is most likely on att.
Have you gone into settings within messages and then mms settings and checked auto-retrieve and set max message size to 1000k?
nunyabiziz said:
Have you gone into settings within messages and then mms settings and checked auto-retrieve and set max message size to 1000k?
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I'm having same issue as OP. Will receive small blank box messages. Clicking on it opens a blank slideshow instead of a picture. Saving the attachment just saves a blank image. From the same sender, sometimes pictures go through, other times they arrive blank. This is from an android user. I didn't have this issue on my previous phone.
MMS set to auto retrieve and 1000K limit.
Having the same issue as well, ever since the M7. It mainly happens from a couple people who both use iPhones.
Hate jumping on the bandwagon, but I'm having this issue too, and mostly from iPhone users, but not all iPhone users. It's really strange. Sometimes saving the image works, other times it doesn't.
I had it too... I called HTC... They walked me through the expected steps and after a few tries, airplane mode, turned off Wi-Fi, removed and reinstalled Sim card... Restarted phone... Finally worked now... I can get the pics from my husband's iPhone now
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Looks like this might be part if not all of the problem. Apple to fix iMessage bug that causes ex-iPhone users to lose their texts http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/apple-imessage-bugs via Engadget Android
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I bet it's mostly an iphone issue. Freaking apple. They're trying to keep people from switching to android ha ha
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I am having the same issue as the OP but the person sending is not an iPhone user, rather another person on a HTC m8. Only difference from me is he is on Sprint and I'm Att. I can send to him with no issues, he can't send to me unless he crops the shots. Also, he has never had an iPhone. He also can send to others with no problems. I'm the only person he knows with the M8.
Ive had this happen with people on verizon,cricket(sprint third party)....not sure why it happens,maybe when switching across networks something screws up, when an mms pic comes through like that and there is indeed a picture, you can click on the little box and will be given an option to save the picture and it will save to your downloads folder.It is only random but only happens from people on cdma carrier networks sending to me,which leads me to believe its partly a network issue as well as a phone issue possibly.
Any fix for this yet?
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(T-Mobile) MMS takes forever to send pictures, other questions.

New gal to this group, y'all seem to know your ****, so I signed up to ask questions as I get issues.
Ever since I got my LG V30 through T-Mobile (october 24 birthday for my phone), MMS (pic with text) has been a pain in the ass to send.
Is there any way to fix this? I've had T-Mobile re-do the APN thing for the phone, I've rebooted endlessly, deleted apps I don't use that MIGHT
have hogged RAM in the background (paranoid from Galaxy S4 years STILL).
I wonder if it's T-Mobile or just the phone? Mom and dad have Galaxy S9 through Military plan, and theirs send pics fast but barely send little 1 minute videos of things like ducks playing in rain puddles, dog chasing the cat, stuff like that. MY PHONE CAN send video faster, but sucks at pictures.
T-Mobile was supposed to have that rumored 5G LTE thing out by now, we just got upgraded from Nougat 7.1.2 to Oreo 8.0 IN JUNE.
There's also a shortage of emojis other Oreo users have that we don't.
So.
1. How to fix the taking forever to send PICS WITH TEXT in one message? Pic will send up to 5 mintues after the text that would be attached on other devices (how to keep picture and text in one message bubble?)
2. How do I get the vomit emoji, middle finger emoji, duck, and more onto my Oreo OS phone?
3. Is the 5G thing REALLY happening?
T-Mobile support can only do so much, apparently. They're not devs, coders, programmers, computer people. My PC repair husband can do things they can't on the phone, which is sad.

Question How do you recover sms messages from Smasung Cloud?

First I need hearing aids, and the ones i got only work with iPhone. So sadly I traded in for iPhone 14. T-Mobile did its best to migrate settings over and one of the BIG missing items was my text messages. All that came over were the ones B4 i got the S22+. They stayed in Samsung Cloud.
Does anyone know of a way for me to get these without buying another Samsung device? :-(

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