I would appreciate some feedback about MMS pictures received by users running a stock-based ROM. When you receive pictures, are they ever larger than 640x480? Specifically, can you answer the following:
Ask a friend to send you a picture through MMS that is definitely larger than 20kb.
1) What carrier did they send the picture from?
2) Is their phone using a stock operating system?
3) What is the size of the message you received (long press the message and tap "View message details")?
This information is being collected to see whether an issue exists in the CyanogenMod ROM. Please only report Sense-based ROM findings here.
I sent a screen shot to myself on my stock Incredible 4G. It came through the same size as the original. 501kb, 480x800.
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I have always had slow picture mail on Sprint, it always took several hours to days before the picture mail was received by friends, yet when they sent stuff to me it only ever took a few minutes. I tried updates, patches, changes, etc.. with no results.
A day or so ago I updated to the newer HTC rom (2.01.651.6), and then installed the Gen.Y Manilla R1.5 VGA Cab along with several other tweaks, etc.. that all went well and then I was testing stuff to make sure everything worked.. This is the odd part, when I first sent a test picture, it went through very quickly (and mind you, this is sprint to at&t, not sprint to sprint).. I figured it was a fluke and then took a quick pic, and sent it.. this time 5 minutes passed and nothing, so I sent the same picture again with different wording and it somehow arrived quickly again.. within 30 seconds of sending it..
Now, backtracking, the first time I sent the picture. I went into the picture mail tab, and did new mail.. entered the name, attached some media, etc and sent it... this resulted in a really quick send..
The second one, I was in the album part, selected an image, and selected the mail / picture mail option.. selected the name and wrote a quick note and sent it.. this resulted in a slow mail...
Figuring it was a fluke, or something else, I went into the picture mail tab and did new message, entered the name, attached the exact same image (but manually), wrote something different, and sent it... it was received in less than 30 seconds, and the previous one arrived over 20 minutes after..
Further tests I have done replicate this each time, I have no idea how this is even possible, or what difference it would make sending it through the albums mail link or the picture mail tab instead.. I have tested this with various carriers, various pictures, etc and have the same results each time.
If anyone else is on Sprint with a touch pro and sees it's slow, out of curiosity.. how are you sending the picture mail? If you've been sending it via the album, perhaps try using the picture mail tab, new message, etc instead.. and see if it's quicker.
I apologize if this has already been posted, or is known, has been tried by everyone, or such.. I only found out about this today and figured I'd post it in the event it may actually help some others out there having the same problem as me. For all I know this is a glitch with how my own phone is setup, soo... *shrug*
I found that if you pull up the menu while viewing a photo and select options, you can change the resolution for sending pics to medium(320x240). It states it's only when sending emails, but it changes when using mms as well. As soon as I changed the setting my messages only take a minute or two to be received. Where as before I had the same problem you described. Hope this helps!
I've tried that as well, but it always bugged me how friends of mine could send larger pictures without an issue while mine would barely manage to send a small picture. Currently, I am able to send 1M (1280x960 with fine quality selected) sizes taken from the camera as long as I attach the media myself via the mail tab.
I'm still tempted to try the next size up just to see if that's quick as well but at this point I don't want to jinx it while it seems to be working great even for 1280x960 images.
on the new rom you need to run the pic mail remover first cause it has the pic mail in it. Then you can install Arcsoft after that with no problems.
i gave up on pic mail
same thing was happening to me. so i just gave up on it. i mean i still recieve pictures but in stead of using my pic to send i use my emails.
and use it to send pics straight to that persons phone
i use their carrier email like for ex for sprint its
(number) @pm.sprint.com
and its worked perfectly for me they get it just like a pic mail so much faster. just click send and move on to another program
makes me happy :0)
When people send me pictures via MMS, my new EVO makes the pictures very small (resolution: 300x400, and size: 19kb). On my wife's phone (the Samsung GSII), it shows that she sent me the MMS in a much larger size. What baffles me even more is that when I take that small MMS picture and re-send it back to her, she gets it in full size. Has anyone else had this issue, and/or does anyone know of a fix?
Also: this is the stock 'Messages' app (on both our phones), and I have checked that the MMS size limit is 1M.
This is my first post, so I hope I'm going about this in the right way. Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance. I haven't been able to find anything related to this issue on these forums or the web, as I think it is a difficult problem to explain and not sure what key words to search by.
At least since Android OS 4.1, and now also with 4.2, I am having issues with the stock SMS app. Many of my contacts are saved in the format 1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx. When I go to the SMS app and click new message, then type in a contact's name, if they have their number formatted as such, the number becomes truncated by removing the parenthesis and what is between them, so it becomes 1 xxx-xxxx. obviously sending the text message fails and does not reach the intended recipient.
It works fine with numbers formatted as 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx, xxx-xxx-xxxx, and (xxx) xxx-xxxx. I've tested it with all these iterations. This is very frustrating and the only workaround is to search back in the SMS history and find that person and click reply, or to go the People app and search for the contact and then click the send SMS icon next to the number under their contact info, or to copy and paste the number from their contact info into the SMS app.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this even on the Android team's radar as a bug that needs fixing? How do I let them know?
UPDATE!!!
Allow me to illustrate the issue with screen shots:
I created 5 test contacts with differently formatted numbers (the numbers were all randomly chosen and you can see they are labeled as follows in the screen shots)
Test 1: 1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx
Test 2: +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx
Test 3: 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx
Test 4: xxx-xxx-xxxx
Test 5: (xxx) xxx-xxxx
This shows the five contacts when i type in test to the add contact search field
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Selecting contact Test 1 as the recipient of SMS/MMS. Notice that the area code is omitted and therefore the contact is not recognized, so no name is populated.
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Selecting contact Test 2 as the recipient of SMS/MMS. This works and the name and number of the contact are shown appropriately.
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Selecting contact Test 3 as the recipient of SMS/MMS. This works and the name and number of the contact are shown appropriately.
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Selecting contact Test 4 as the recipient of SMS/MMS. This works and the name and number of the contact are shown appropriately.
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Selecting contact Test 5 as the recipient of SMS/MMS. This works and the name and number of the contact are shown appropriately.
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Any one else have this issue? This is clearly a bug, not sure how to bring it to android developers attention.
Thanks.
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus (CDMA Verizon) rooted MMuzzy's Jelly Bean 4.2.1
Could anybody be kind enough to shed some light on this matter? Or direct me to a more appropriate forum / thread / audience?
Many thanks.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
I am also experiencing this issue, I have opened a bug report for this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42325. You may wish to add your extra findings to the bug report.
Ah I had already done likewise, I should have shared the link. Hopefully an android dev can merge the issues.
Since I can't post links yet, my bug report is issue number 41959, which can be found by searching the link paul posted.
Having the same problem also. Any help please...
Hey, folks. I'm new, obviously.
I recently rooted and s-offed my LTEVO. I installed TWRP 2.6.3.0 and CM10.1 Stable (I also installed the exFAT fix). The problem I'm having and that I'm reading a lot of people are having is with MMS. I'm not sure if group messaging falls into MMS or SMS but I can neither send/receive picture or media messages, nor can I SEND group messages (although I can receive them). I'm not sure what's going on behind the scenes, whether there's a fix that I just haven't found (I have done extensive searching/trolling before making a profile to ask this question) or if this is a common issue which may have been resolved in newer builds. Essentially, I was wicked pumped when I found out that I could receive group messages from people because the stock, unrooted LTEVO would receive "multimedia messages" from everyone participating in the conversation individually instead of all within the same thread or whatever you wanna call it. But, as I've come to find out, I can't actually participate in these group sessions, I can only SEE them organized within one text thread (which is still better than stock, but disappointing that it doesn't take one seemingly essential step further). Also, I thought it was just crappy Sprint service, but it seems that I can't send or receive multimedia messages (that aren't in text form). I was excited, again, to see that the preview of the image I was going to send was minimally compressed, if at all. I was sick of sending people screenshots of blurry, illegible caca, but again this feature falls short and now I can't actually send or receive any form of media.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong, or maybe what I'm just NOT doing right. At any rate, if anyone could shed some light on my unfortunate situation that'd be stellar. I'm forced to use Voxer for the time being.
I'm having the same problem. Any assitance is welcome!
I can't say I completely understand your issue but will give an answer with my best guesstimate as to a fix.
You are trying to group messages with others that have iPhones. iPhones natively send texts as mms while android natively sends as sms. Hence your problem (I think).
You need to use a third party messaging app. There are a couple that handle this but I use Go Sms Pro. It allows you to send and receive texts all while staying in the group without splitting the messages.
Once you install go sms pro you need to change a few settings in the app (you can find the correct group settings on Google easily) and disable the notifications from the stock messaging app (so you don't get multiple notifications for one text).
Hope this is what you were asking about as it is an issue for a lot of people.
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Hi all. When running any type of CM Rom, for the life of me I cannot receive an uncompressed picture with any app other than Textra. Sending is fine, only receive is the issue.
Anyone know of a fix?
*if you're not sure what I'm talking about, try taking a screen shot of something with a lot of words (internet page). Then text it to yourself. You'll see that the outgoing image is much sharper than the one received.