quite strange: used to have this problem and had it fixed, for a while, other than a couple people not being able to send anything to me.
USUALLY it goes like this: since i have no data plan, i spent ages trying to figure out how to send/receive MMS. i eventually changed APN's to something else and i could send and receive. I would get the MMS with the "Download" box and i click and nothing happens. later i learned since no data plan, i have to activate "Data Network Mode" (from holding the power button) in order to download. then i shut it off so i dont get excessive charges.
i think recently i played with my phone, cleared my APN and used the default one. I could still send pictures since someone said they got it, but another sent me a picture and i dont even get the TEXT! the only way i get anything is if they have words in addition to the picture MMS: in that case i just get the words and no picture. so i dont even get a download box anymore.
how do i fix this? very annoying POS phone
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Hey everyone...just wondering if anyone has any idea on what going on with my phone...
I have a US T-Mobile HD2...stock rom...not much done to it...with the exception of bsb tweaks and CHT...nothing else...
i noticed every time i receive/send an MMS message my data connection shuts off...it eventually turns back on and everything is back to normal...this is after a hard reset today...
before today...it was worse...after receiving an MMS it would shut the data off...then i'd have to turn it on a few times before downloading the picture from the MMS...
i called T-Mobile and they cant figure it out nor ever heard of this issue before...they're suggesting its a software issue and want to send me another phone
My friend got a TB and can't send or receive pictures via mms. He gets the exact same message as a poster on a different forum:
"I just wanted to throw this out there as I have not found a solution...
I've had my Thunderbolt for like a week and a half now and for the majority its been great. Starting about yesterday, I've been unable to send or receive MMS/picture messages.
If someone sends me one, I get a little note in my conversation that says "so and so" is trying to send a message and lets me choose download or delete. This seems new to me, I don't remember seeing this notification in my text convo. If I choose download, it shows a little icon with a clock in it, as its trying to download the picture. After about 5 minutes, I get a notification that it failed because of a generic network failure.
A similar thing happens if I try to send a message to someone with a picture in it. My regular texting works fine and I can go on the internet perfectly. I've tried sending messages with WiFi and/or Mobile Data on/off... doesn't seem to make a difference.
Called VZW last night and they took me through battery pulls, SIM card pulls, and whatnot... didn't fix the problem. They were checking things on their end but did not see an issue. The last woman I got gave me two options, 1, she could open a network tix for me or 2, I could go to store and do a phone swap as I'm in my converage period. I told her to put in the tix for now, and perhaps I'd swap this weekend.
Anyone have any idea what is going on?"
So far nobody has answered. He's using stock rom, and the stock messaging settings / handcent settings match the way they are set on my Evo. If anybody could help it would be greatly appreciated.
is it on 3G or 4G? MMS will not work unless your in data coverage
Does not work on 3g, 4g, or Wi-fi.
what about sending it through regular messaging? I couldn't tell if he is using Handcent or using regular messaging. How about uninstalling Handcent?
The problem persists with or without handcent.
Make sure the picture being sent is not too big. If this doesn't do it you may have to call Verizon about it. Going back a few years I had an issue with my dumb phone. Couldn't receive picks. They had to reset my account. Also some providers don't always send pic messages so well to verizon. Have your friend have some on on Verizon send him a pic.
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA App
This is without doubt the most hassle I have ever had setting up picture messaging.
Ok here goes..
I'm with T-Mobile UK, I have called them up and asked to have MMS capability turned on to which they said all I needed to do was send an MMS and it would automatically enable it for me. I checked my APN settings to make sure they were good to go and went for it.
Sending.....
I don't have a very good signal so at first I thought that might have been the issue. I hung about for an hour or so though, making some funny shapes etc trying to get a sign of the MMS sending.
Sending.....
I trawled the internet looking for any settings that I may have missed out. Meanwhile I found a window where the signal was OK (3bars). I searched my entire lunchbreak until I found that the Galaxy SII doesn't have any support from T-Mobile regarding MMS settings so you need to go directly to the Samsung support page. I had the MMS settings configuration file sent and installed.
Sending.....
I deleted the file that was apparently "sending" and started from scratch. Watched it for a good 10 mins.
Sending....
I turned on the data on my phone, so that I could check the internet and low and behold it sent.
What is going on? Is this normal behaviour for the Galaxy? Any and all MMS compatible phones I have ever had my hands on automatically enable data in order to send and recieve MMS pictures. I made sure that the auto recieve function was on as I couldn't believe what I had witnessed. The Desire that I had before the Galaxy worked fine on it's own, I only needed to actually enable the data connection properly when I wanted to browse the internet or check my email.
Is this the case or have I missed something? Seems like a massive mistake from Samsung if that is the case.
Any help would be appreciated... if it's needed
Anyone? Really annoying this lol.
So, this morning was the first day of school for my kids. Of course I snap several photos then go to txt the pictures to the grandparents. And the phone goes to send..... and then just sits there.... for ages. Then eventually errors out. Odd, but you know, at&t is kind of crap so I figure I'll try it when I get to work. A few mins later I receive a picture msg from my sister and I cannot open that either.
Anyway, it looks like I cannot send or receive multimedia messages now. After chatting with the at&t support person for what seemed like hours, he says the problem is likely with my phone and i need to do a warranty replacement.
I am thinking that's a ROM bug/issue, right? Would doing a master reset possibly fix this? Has anyone else had this problem? (I'm running the at&t official GB ROM, I did not do the OTA update though. I did the full pudding/root pre-install load.
Mmm, I don't how it is named in English, but you should have something called "data management" in the setting.
In there there a 2 menus : in the first "data stream control" (or something like that, again I have a French rom) you should deactivate it or MMS can not been sent/received.
At least that was the case for me. This also prevent from doanloading app with only 3g, you must have wifi.
This is quite annoying because I can't control the data AND send MMS but wel... maybe there is another workaround.
Edit : I'm in 2.2.2, I don't know if that will be the same in 2.3.4.
You need to have the correct APN settings. Check in your Mobile Network options.
Who is your service provider?
Hot damn rush! I had changed my APN to a custom one a while ago (just apn defined as 'phone' nothing else set.) I changed it back to the default HSDPA and la-da!
I wonder why that custom APN stopped working?
THANK YOU!
Glad you have it working now, enjoy.
Guys, perplexing problem.
I am running a rooted TB with SoaB, SSLauncher, and GoSMS.
My wife is running a stock iPhone 4S.
There are times when she sends me texts that I never recieve, (really, not being a inattentative guy). For example, today. She sends me texts during the day, I get them. then all of a sudden I don't.
I check settings, sms is set to automatically recieve, my GoSMS is set to not delete old messages, everything seems fine. She is getting, but I am not recieving.
so I send me a text from my phone, I get it. I send a text from my work phone, I get it. But not from her. We will talk on the phone and I ask her to send one, and I will manage to get a text from her. But 30 minutes later, nothing. I will play with my phone, check setting, delete messages, ask her to send a text, I get one.
There is no rhyme or reason to this condition. I checked and she isn't blacklisted or anything. I have done reboots, doesn't fix. It really is truly sproadic and unpredictable.
She swears its my phone, since her sister who has an android gets all of her messages. I will post the question as well over at the Go site, and Bamf as well, but not sure it its those or not.
Last week I woke to find my phone had set itself into the bootlauncher or whatever that white screen is where you can reboot, load a recovery, load a rom, or whatever. I choose to reboot and found it odd that that happened. Do you think there is something with that screen that messed up something?
Sorry for the long post, want to get this fixed.