Hello all...my question is if anyone knows of a mod available to boost the maximum size of MMS or change the amount that photos are compressed? I have many friends who notice my pictures look like garbage when I send it to them via MMS. Especially when zooming in on the photo. I have compared side by side and it's not the 4 MP camera, it's definitely the compression. I checked in my settings and i have the maximum size available selected.
I am running skyfall ROM by iBastid, s-off, rooted with elemental 0.18 sense kernel.
Thanks All for any suggestions on how to get some better MMS quality!
I don't have an answer for you in regards to the stock messaging app but all I can recommend to you is to use Google Hangouts for MMS.
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I tried using the hangouts app is well and I had no success with it as far as changing the compression of pictures.
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Discovered the world of XPOSED today and the Sense 6 toolbox has a mod to increase MMS size up to 1000k, problem solved!
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Discovered the world of XPOSED today and the Sense 6 toolbox has a mod to increase MMS size up to 1000k, problem solved!
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FYI, this doesn't solve your problem. It just raises the max size, but the Messaging app still compresses down to ridiculous amounts. You might have noticed, before you even adjusted your max size, it wasn't even sending 300k, it compresses down to like 70k.
I still get stuff like 90k/1000k in most cases. It is garbage. Only way I can see right now is to use a different messaging app, but I would prefer to use the stock app.
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FYI, this doesn't solve your problem. It just raises the max size, but the Messaging app still compresses down to ridiculous amounts. You might have noticed, before you even adjusted your max size, it wasn't even sending 300k, it compresses down to like 70k.
I still get stuff like 90k/1000k in most cases. It is garbage. Only way I can see right now is to use a different messaging app, but I would prefer to use the stock app.
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Yeah I noticed the same thing, still garbage. I just never posted back. I am able to get some pictures to post with 800k but most are like 80 or 90. Haven't found any good solution at all
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TheEmpyre said:
Yeah I noticed the same thing, still garbage. I just never posted back. I am able to get some pictures to post with 800k but most are like 80 or 90. Haven't found any good solution at all
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I put in a feature request on the sense toolbox page. Maybe they can figure it out.
I am beyond irritated with this same issue. It's not Tmobile that's compressing ititit's the phone. If you attached a pic that is less than 1000K (ex. 900K),it doesn't compress. But if youuuse a pic over 1000K, it compresses the heck out of it to like 150K. HTC needs to provide a fix for this!
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Is this customizable or is this an MMS standard. Every time I send a picture I've taken by MMS to my wife's iphone it's tiny. I'll take a cute picture of my daughter and my wife wants me to send it to her. The phone dumbs it down to some thumbnail size and she ends up with a low res pic. Seems like the pictures she texts me from her iPhone look better.
Video quality is also atrocious. I watched a short video on her phone that I texted her and it was unwatchable. I'm not expecting HD quality but surely it could get better than 160x120 or whatever that pitiful resolution is.
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Is this customizable or is this an MMS standard. Every time I send a picture I've taken by MMS to my wife's iphone it's tiny. I'll take a cute picture of my daughter and my wife wants me to send it to her. The phone dumbs it down to some thumbnail size and she ends up with a low res pic. Seems like the pictures she texts me from her iPhone look better.
Video quality is also atrocious. I watched a short video on her phone that I texted her and it was unwatchable. I'm not expecting HD quality but surely it could get better than 160x120 or whatever that pitiful resolution is.
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MMS images get compressed by default on stock (bugged me too), but developers have overcome this in custom ROMs. I can confirm that Viper4G doesn't do this.
MeanROM increases the limit from 1Mb to 5Mb for MMS as well.
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MeanROM increases the limit from 1Mb to 5Mb for MMS as well.
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so does all the other roms
Thanks. I was hoping there was an adjustable setting somewhere I hadn't found. Really not interested in rooting my phone at this point.
The stock HTC mms app is shrinks the photo res for some reason.
Use a 3rd party program to send mms. I use Handcent SMS. Mms works better.
This bothers me as well it's just annoying. Like op said doesn't need to be HD quality but a thumbnail is just ridiculous. Anyway to adjust on stock rom without using 3rd party app?
Sim-X said:
This bothers me as well it's just annoying. Like op said doesn't need to be HD quality but a thumbnail is just ridiculous. Anyway to adjust on stock rom without using 3rd party app?
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I don't believe so...I looked everywhere prior to rooting and couldn't find anything.
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I use go sms for sending and receiving mms.
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It wouldn't be as bad if it actually adhered to the 1MB size, but it squashes it down to about 15-50kb instead. Setting it to 5MB I now get a notification that the recipient may not receive it due to the file size. This usually only happens when sending MMS to a carrier other than Sprint.
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It wouldn't be as bad if it actually adhered to the 1MB size, but it squashes it down to about 15-50kb instead. Setting it to 5MB I now get a notification that the recipient may not receive it due to the file size. This usually only happens when sending MMS to a carrier other than Sprint.
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Yeah, that's a good point...no point in sending an hq image if they can't receive it.
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Another option is using Dropbox. You can either have Dropbox upload all of your photos/videos automatically or you can manually upload one photo at time. Then simply send a link from your Dropbox and you get Zero compression! Works great with videos too. :good:
You can always just email them if you don't want to root or use a separate app for texting pictures. That's what I use to do before I rooted my phone.
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I have been scouring the internet and various forums for an answer to this issue. I have been having some serious MMS compression on all of the AOSP ROMs I have used, namely Orca, LiquidSmooth and Carbon. This stands for any SMS app I use as well, even GO SMS where you can disable MMS compression and such. Is this a common issue, or is there perhaps something up with my phone and/or data connection? Any help on the subject would be appreciated, as sending screenshots make them illegible and pictures just look really pixelated and bad, it's quite annoying. Thanks in advance!
In go sms... Did you do into mms settings and check preserve image resolution? My images were horrible as well until I changed that. If it is not checked, go sms will resize it automatically.
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koreankabachy said:
In go sms... Did you do into mms settings and check preserve image resolution? My images were horrible as well until I changed that. If it is not checked, go sms will resize it automatically.
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Yeah, I have that checked, it still makes the images all blurry and grainy. I'm not sure what the issue is here. I may flash it back to stock and see if the problem persists there. I was just thinking maybe there is an issue with the AOSP SMS apps on the Note 2 or something, but no one seems to be having any issues with this as far as I can tell, as I haven't really been getting feedback. It may just be an isolated issue with me.
only other setting i can think of is in MMS setting (go sms)...changing the Maximum MMS size. i have mine set to 1.2M and can send screen shots with no issue.
koreankabachy said:
only other setting i can think of is in MMS setting (go sms)...changing the Maximum MMS size. i have mine set to 1.2M and can send screen shots with no issue.
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Yeah, I've tried that already as well. I even changed it to the largest size possible in the Go SMS settings. Not sure what the problem is.
Edit: I do notice you are using Jelly Beans ROM. Are you using the AOSP SMS app as stock or the TW SMS app? Because as I stated before, I think it may be related to the AOSP SMS app on the Note 2 for some odd reason. I realize you are using GO as your SMS app, but what do you have installed as stock?
VZW will resize the image on the network side. You could send a 10MP image, but it would still arrive tiny on the other end. Don't think there is really anything you can do about it either.
I am on jelly Bean's Rom right now but was on asop prior and worked fine
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VZW will resize the image on the network side. You could send a 10MP image, but it would still arrive tiny on the other end. Don't think there is really anything you can do about it either.
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Well I never had compression issues like this with my GNex at all. I'm at a loss ha ha.
Well, Messaging will compress the image to adhere to VZW's network side restrictions. You could change it so that messaging sends the full image, the AFAIK, the recipient still gets a crappy small image if it is oversized.
So I always thought other peoples phones just sent a picture at a smaller resolution but last night my buddy and I recieved the same picture at the same time from someone and his was at a much higher resolution. He was using the stock SMS program and I was using Handcent. I uninstalled Handcent and had the person resend the picture so I would get it via the stock program and the picture came at a higher resolution, but not as great as the other persons. I was using my T-Mobile HTC One and he was using a Verizon HTC One X.
I was thinking it was maybe a T-Mobile thing limiting the MMS size, but today I sent a picture to both my wife and myself to compare. Hers is the Nexus 4 and I have the HTC One.
The original size of the picture being sent (after being compressed by the texting app is 235KB and 1909x1080.
My wife received that picture at 235KB @ 1909x1080 and I received the picture at 405KB 1023x579.
Does anyone have an explanation for why it's coming in like that and a fix for it? This was on the stock texting program on the phones.
Also FWIW, when Handcent is installed and I send from the stock app to myself and Handcent recieves the picture, it comes in at 188KB @ 639x362. I'm no longer a Handcent user. None of the other SMS apps did this.
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So I always thought other peoples phones just sent a picture at a smaller resolution but last night my buddy and I recieved the same picture at the same time from someone and his was at a much higher resolution. He was using the stock SMS program and I was using Handcent. I uninstalled Handcent and had the person resend the picture so I would get it via the stock program and the picture came at a higher resolution, but not as great as the other persons. I was using my T-Mobile HTC One and he was using a Verizon HTC One X.
I was thinking it was maybe a T-Mobile thing limiting the MMS size, but today I sent a picture to both my wife and myself to compare. Hers is the Nexus 4 and I have the HTC One.
The original size of the picture being sent (after being compressed by the texting app is 235KB and 1909x1080.
My wife received that picture at 235KB @ 1909x1080 and I received the picture at 405KB 1023x579.
Does anyone have an explanation for why it's coming in like that and a fix for it? This was on the stock texting program on the phones.
Also FWIW, when Handcent is installed and I send from the stock app to myself and Handcent recieves the picture, it comes in at 188KB @ 639x362. I'm no longer a Handcent user. None of the other SMS apps did this.
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I can only think of it being a setting that is limiting the size of the file. Maybe try another SMS app and see if you can change the size of the file you get. Most of the time there is settings that let you limit sizes for data reasons.
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I can only think of it being a setting that is limiting the size of the file. Maybe try another SMS app and see if you can change the size of the file you get. Most of the time there is settings that let you limit sizes for data reasons.
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I've tried stock, handcent, go sms, and chomp sms and had similiar results. I see you have the Nexus 4 and HTC One as well. Is it possible to test yourself and see if you get the same results?
urmystlkal said:
I've tried stock, handcent, go sms, and chomp sms and had similiar results. I see you have the Nexus 4 and HTC One as well. Is it possible to test yourself and see if you get the same results?
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I am waiting for HTC to ship me my phone. I did a trade in program with T-Mo as a Rep i was able to trade in my N4 for a full repalcement with a HTC One should be here later this week. If you are unlocked and have a custom recovery maybe try a nanodroid and install a different rom and see how that is. You can always go back with the backup. I don't really use MMS.
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I am waiting for HTC to ship me my phone. I did a trade in program with T-Mo as a Rep i was able to trade in my N4 for a full repalcement with a HTC One should be here later this week. If you are unlocked and have a custom recovery maybe try a nanodroid and install a different rom and see how that is. You can always go back with the backup. I don't really use MMS.
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Oh okay, nice! I haven't rooted yet so I'm still on the stock rom. Wonder what the deal is
HTC is letting current t-mo RSA's as well as sprint, and at&t to trade in there high end phone for free HTC one. It is only for RSA's.
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Maybe this. Happened to me on my One X when getting pics from an iPhone 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x/203150-mms-messages-very-small.html
I called HTC yesterday about it. The guy was able to duplicate and said he play with it and see what he came up w/ and should call me back today. There's no reason that this phone should be getting a picture at 435x767 resolution when other phones are getting it at 1088x1920. That's unacceptable.
SmiLey497 said:
Maybe this. Happened to me on my One X when getting pics from an iPhone 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-x/203150-mms-messages-very-small.html
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Hey I'm trying to install the apk and it asks if I would like to replace the system app, I say okay and hit install, then it says app not installed, an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed.
So then with a file manager with root access, i tried copy and pasting the MMS.apk into the system/app folder and it will not paste. Any advice?
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Hey I'm trying to install the apk and it asks if I would like to replace the system app, I say okay and hit install, then it says app not installed, an existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed.
So then with a file manager with root access, i tried copy and pasting the MMS.apk into the system/app folder and it will not paste. Any advice?
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Stock /system is not r/w you need to flash a kernel that allows r/w to system. I wouldn't recommend trying to replace the stock messaging app with MMS.apk, might cause undesired results.
Possible to extract default.xml from SYSTEM/CUSTOMIZE/MNS and upload so I can take a look at it?
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PM'd it to you.
So it seems on a vertical picture,the One will receive is 434x767 resolution and on a horizontal picture it's 1023x579. Keep in mind the compressed picture that the messaging app sent out was 1520x2688 and 2688x1520 respectably. I've seen these numbers multiple times.
It boggles my mind how this is their high end phone and other phones are able to recieve the high resolution pictures via text and this one can not and HTC's answer to me was "basically going to have to deal with it or get another phone". That was an unacceptable answer for me.
My 2688x1520 gets recieved at 1909x1080 and I received a verticle one at it's original size. Only thing I noticed was that the verticle image size was under 1mb originally, therefor requiring no compression. T-mobile sets it's mms limit a 1000k so Im assuming size recieved depends on amount of compression required.
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My 2688x1520 gets recieved at 1909x1080 and I received a verticle one at it's original size. Only thing I noticed was that the verticle image size was under 1mb originally, therefor requiring no compression. T-mobile sets it's mms limit a 1000k so Im assuming size recieved depends on amount of compression required.
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I'm glad to hear that, at least it shows it's possible. I can't get anywhere close to that obviously. All the pictures are under 1000k, I'm not sure what the problem is. Was this with the stock messaging app or a different one?
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I'm glad to hear that, at least it shows it's possible. I can't get anywhere close to that obviously. All the pictures are under 1000k, I'm not sure what the problem is. Was this with the stock messaging app or a different one?
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Stock, by the way I'm running the ARHD 7.1 ROM using a default.XML file inside SYSTEM\CUSTOMIZE\MNS from Energy's T-Mobile One S ROM.
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I've had the same problem day one with this phone. I don't get it. Pictures come in way smaller than they should it's so annoying. This is is especially true when receiving screenshots. I'll attach some examples.
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Aaand this is why I use gmail. I've had several phones with that problem
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I am going to ask you to do a test and see what kind of results you're getting.
The issue is that the HTC One is receiving a MMS picture at a much lower resolution then what is being sent. I have been on the phone with T-Mobile and HTC all day yesterday and today and the answer that I got from HTC basically was either deal with getting a compressed picture on this phone or get a different phone.
It is not a T-Mobile issue because I can send the same picture to my wifes phone (Nexus 4) or anyone elses phone and they are getting the same resolution as what is sent out.
The test I'm going to ask you is to simply send a picture message to yourself and take note of the out coming size and the incoming size when viewed in your text app.
For example, in my stock messaging app:
I sent out a picture at size of 783kb @ a resolution of 1520x2688
I recieved the picture back at a size of 166kb @ 434x767.
This was a picture taken vertical and a horizontal one will having varying numbers.
The point is to see whether the HTC one is receiving back a much smaller and compressed picture. Keep in mind, other phones are getting the same size resolution than what is being sent out. I'd appreciate any input so I can hopefully get someone with HTC involved in fixing the issue.
Or if my phone is the only doing that, it would be good to know as well...
No test needed. The One compresses pictures when sent over MMS. If you want to send uncompressed you will need to use a 3rd party messaging app.
Well i sent myself an 800kb picture and received a 290kb so I guess yea it's reduced . I think using facebook messenger or Kik whatsapp won't compress your pics so much so yea .
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blackangst said:
No test needed. The One compresses pictures when sent over MMS. If you want to send uncompressed you will need to use a 3rd party messaging app.
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Handcent, Chomp SMS, and Go SMS all provide similar results. The point is, it shouldn't be compressing the resolution like it is and that is something HTC will have to fix. I realize it compresses them when sending them. All phones do that.
It should not be compressing them again when it receives the same picture just for fun when no other phone does that.
Edit: The picture size and resolution that I posted in the original post are the stats of the compressed picture that the sms program sent, not the original size as viewed in the gallery.
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Handcent, Chomp SMS, and Go SMS all provide similar results. The point is, it shouldn't be compressing the resolution like it is and that is something HTC will have to fix. I realize it compresses them when sending them. All phones do that.
It should not be compressing them again when it receives the same picture just for fun when no other phone does that.
Edit: The picture size and resolution that I posted in the original post are the stats of the compressed picture that the sms program sent, not the original size as viewed in the gallery.
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Maximum message size is listed at 1 Mb, could this be the problem?
stevedebi said:
Maximum message size is listed at 1 Mb, could this be the problem?
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no
I don't know what to do about this. I've had the problem since day one.
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I am going to ask you to do a test and see what kind of results you're getting.
The issue is that the HTC One is receiving a MMS picture at a much lower resolution then what is being sent. I have been on the phone with T-Mobile and HTC all day yesterday and today and the answer that I got from HTC basically was either deal with getting a compressed picture on this phone or get a different phone.
It is not a T-Mobile issue because I can send the same picture to my wifes phone (Nexus 4) or anyone elses phone and they are getting the same resolution as what is sent out.
The test I'm going to ask you is to simply send a picture message to yourself and take note of the out coming size and the incoming size when viewed in your text app.
For example, in my stock messaging app:
I sent out a picture at size of 783kb @ a resolution of 1520x2688
I recieved the picture back at a size of 166kb @ 434x767.
This was a picture taken vertical and a horizontal one will having varying numbers.
The point is to see whether the HTC one is receiving back a much smaller and compressed picture. Keep in mind, other phones are getting the same size resolution than what is being sent out. I'd appreciate any input so I can hopefully get someone with HTC involved in fixing the issue.
Or if my phone is the only doing that, it would be good to know as well...
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I send a picture to me with 259KB resolution 1909 x 1080 and receive a 413KB resolution 1023 x 579
Is there a way to raise the MMS size to greater than a meg? Running just a rooted stock rom at the moment using the default kernel...it's annoying because even with third party SMS apps like textra it seems to still cap mms messages off at a 1 mb. Is there any way to raise this? Friends on at&t who have the iphone can send much larger pics than this so I don't see why the One is limited....
Pretty sure that's a network restricted thing at that point
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Pretty sure that's a network restricted thing at that point
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It is. AT&T limit is around 1MB. I tested by setting Textra MMS size to 'no limit'; a .99MB pic send fine, but 1.15MB pic fails to send.
Install 'sense5 Toolbox' if your rooted. Let's you raise the mms size no problems..
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Pretty sure that's a network restricted thing at that point
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I thought so too, but my friend sends larger than 1 mb files with the iphone 5s so I thought maybe it was a phone limitation
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Install 'sense5 Toolbox' if your rooted. Let's you raise the mms size no problems..
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I grabbed that, says I need "Xposed" and that it's available in teh ARHD installer....plus I went in to Messaging Mods and all I saw was "Raise your MMS size to 300K, 600K, or 1000K".