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[Q] MMS and 4G?

Sorry if this has been asked/answered. I couldn't find a thread about it in my search.
My question is how to get MMS working over 4G?
If my 4G radio is on, MMS won't send or receive. I have to drop down to 3G to get either to go. Has anyone else experienced this, or know of a fix? Right now I'm running Myn's Warm 2.2 RLS2 rom, but I also had the same problem on Ava Froyo v9 so I'm thinking it's not a rom issue.
Thanks

That could be because 4G is more like Wifi than it is 3G, and you can't send MMS over Wifi. So whenever you want to send an mms, you gotta turn on your 3g, send, then turn it off. Or you can leave 3g, and go to your wireless and network settings and disable "3g always on." 3g should be inactive when you're using only 4g and then go active as soon as you begin sending an mms.

ms79723 said:
That could be because 4G is more like Wifi than it is 3G, and you can't send MMS over Wifi. So whenever you want to send an mms, you gotta turn on your 3g, send, then turn it off. Or you can leave 3g, and go to your wireless and network settings and disable "3g always on." 3g should be inactive when you're using only 4g and then go active as soon as you begin sending an mms.
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That would be awfully annoying, and a really large flaw in 4G if I have to turn off 4G every time I want to send or receive an MMS message.
I couldn't find that option you said, the only thing I could find that even sounded similar was under Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks and it was called Enable always-on mobile data.
I turned that off and still couldn't send with my 4G radio on. Not sure if I have to reboot for the change to take effect or something, because I didn't do that.

bump. Still curious if this is by design or if there's something I can fix.

crackerstyle said:
That would be awfully annoying, and a really large flaw in 4G if I have to turn off 4G every time I want to send or receive an MMS message.
I couldn't find that option you said, the only thing I could find that even sounded similar was under Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> Mobile Networks and it was called Enable always-on mobile data.
I turned that off and still couldn't send with my 4G radio on. Not sure if I have to reboot for the change to take effect or something, because I didn't do that.
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ah, thats what i meant "enable always-on mobile data." leave that enabled, then while you're on 4g and you send something through MMS, it will keep you connected on 4g, and activate your 3g at the same time, sending the MMS.
Edit: Sorry about my first post in this thread, i meant to say enable that option, not enable.

ms79723 said:
That could be because 4G is more like Wifi than it is 3G, and you can't send MMS over Wifi. So whenever you want to send an mms, you gotta turn on your 3g, send, then turn it off. Or you can leave 3g, and go to your wireless and network settings and disable "3g always on." 3g should be inactive when you're using only 4g and then go active as soon as you begin sending an mms.
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I can send and receive MMS with WiFi just fine.

ms79723 said:
ah, thats what i meant "enable always-on mobile data." leave that enabled, then while you're on 4g and you send something through MMS, it will keep you connected on 4g, and activate your 3g at the same time, sending the MMS.
Edit: Sorry about my first post in this thread, i meant to say enable that option, not enable.
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It was enabled by default, so it was already enabled when I had this problem.
freeza said:
I can send and receive MMS with WiFi just fine.
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I'm talking about 4G, not wifi.

My only other thought is that 4G isn't official in my area yet, it's in testing I'm guessing since i pull a signal, but Sprint doesn't acknowledge there is $g here on their site.

freeza said:
I can send and receive MMS with WiFi just fine.
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Out of curiosity how?
I tried sending an SMS over wifi while in airplane mode and it wouldn't work.

crackerstyle said:
Out of curiosity how?
I tried sending an SMS over wifi while in airplane mode and it wouldn't work.
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Doesn't airplane mode cancel wifi?

m4rk0358 said:
Doesn't airplane mode cancel wifi?
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Nope, I was using it that way on a plane back on Weds of last week. Tried to send an SMS text and it wouldn't let me. internet browsing was working fine.
I figure that's the only way you should use a cell phone on a plane, as just turning off mobile data doesn't disable the phone signal too.

freeza said:
I can send and receive MMS with WiFi just fine.
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+1 i'm on wifi at home and sent mms all day long on wifi

crackerstyle said:
I'm talking about 4G, not wifi.
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4G is a advanced type of wifi

mms is sent through mobile data only, not 4g not wifi
when you are on wifi your 3g will randomly connect for mms updates/refresh, on 4g your 3g will do it too, it will be a concurrent connection with no visible connection
airplane mode shuts it down completely so if on wifi in airplane mode there are no mms

crackerstyle said:
Out of curiosity how?
I tried sending an SMS over wifi while in airplane mode and it wouldn't work.
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That's because SMS needs a mobile connection as it uses the physical cell network to send.
MMS, on the other hand, does not. MMS can be sent on another data source (wifi, etc..)

snapbox said:
That's because SMS needs a mobile connection as it uses the physical cell network to send.
MMS, on the other hand, does not. MMS can be sent on another data source (wifi, etc..)
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Curious then, as my MMS messages won't send if I have my 4G radio on, but SMS will.
Didn't try MMS when I was on the plane and just on wifi..
Jbcarrera said:
+1 i'm on wifi at home and sent mms all day long on wifi
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With your data off?

I too must disable 4g to send mms... I am on frost and flashed to another "senseless sense based Rom" both were using the aosp mms program, I wonder if thats the problem????

MMS over WiFi

searched the whole site and couldn't find an answer, so here's hoping.
I can't seem to get a straight answer whether this is normal or not. But when I'm on 3g or 4g on my White Evo HW 0003 running Myns I receive MMS perfectly fine.
If I'm on WiFi and receive an MMS it'll say downloading and end up failing, if I kill the wifi connection it downloads the photo right away.
My wife has a stock Evo with no root or rom, and the latest build just like me . 3.30.651.3 and the same happens on hers. Only difference is, while on wifi she'll eventually (after about 20 minutes) receive the picture sent.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

there is no mms over wifi, it will turn on the 3g to download it even with wifi running and wont tell you. if you had mobile networking turned off and only ran wifi you wouldnt even get a text

NewZJ said:
there is no mms over wifi, it will turn on the 3g to download it even with wifi running and wont tell you. if you had mobile networking turned off and only ran wifi you wouldnt even get a text
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Really,
So the reason it worked in the past is because it would do it when it wanted? Well that's great

I'd question that one further.
I am only on 1x at home (airave) and WiFi. I've always had a problem getting picture/ MMS while on the airave+WiFi combo until recently. Now I am able to download and receive pictures from WiFi it seems.

[Q]sending mms via WiFi ?

something i have noticed is when sending pic messages from home on wifi is not working. If i have wifi on my phone will just say sending for ever. if i turn off wifi and the 4g pops back up then the pic gets sent. i dont thing i have any toggle set. I do not have llama on the phone. So my question is does this phone send mms over wifi or just over the network?

am i the only one with this issue? i did a phone exchange a week ago and I noticed the new phone had the same thing so two phone same experience...any ideas?

How is your signal at home? U can't send mms over WiFi, only data

Mine will send while connected to wifi.
Using tapatalk on my Galaxy 2 to post this!

Mine sends MMS when wifi is on also. I would only have 2 bars and on edge and it still sends in like 20 secs

Im having the EXACT same problem with you. I have the tmobile version model, SGH-T989. I got online with a rep at tmobile for 2 hours trying to resolve this. After a point she said galaxy s 2 doesnt have voice chat over wifi which I didnt understand what that had to do with not being able to download or send attachments via mms. She basically said you have to have data enabled in order to send and receive pictures. I was pissed because my brother's mytouch g is part of my family plan, and he is able to receive attachments while just being connected on wifi. My issue is that I only have edge, not even 3g connection at my home. I don't know what to do. I searched for apps to fix this. But no luck. Anybody else tried fixing this?

StinkyK said:
Im having the EXACT same problem with you. I have the tmobile version model, SGH-T989. I got online with a rep at tmobile for 2 hours trying to resolve this. After a point she said galaxy s 2 doesnt have voice chat over wifi which I didnt understand what that had to do with not being able to download or send attachments via mms. She basically said you have to have data enabled in order to send and receive pictures. I was pissed because my brother's mytouch g is part of my family plan, and he is able to receive attachments while just being connected on wifi. My issue is that I only have edge, not even 3g connection at my home. I don't know what to do. I searched for apps to fix this. But no luck. Anybody else tried fixing this?
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Your brother can receive them while on wifi, but not "over" wifi. It has to access data to get mms. You'll see data turn on when on wifi when a pic is coming in.

Is it me...

Hey is is me, or did we use to be able to send MMS while connected to WiFi and in a call?
I swear that I use to be able to send pictures while connected to to my home wireless and being on the phone until EL29 came out. I use that function a lot, but I'm starting to question myself. I've flashed multiple ROMs to make sure I was just going crazy, but it seems that every EL29 ROM I flash the MMS just says sending until I get off the phone. Then after that my 3G icon pops up with the WiFi icon still there, then the picture gets sent. I SWEAR it didn't use to be like that.

I still can send mms when on a call

I am pretty sure that I can as well. Ill have to try tomorrow and let you know for sure.

oh man. geeze. please let me know. I wanna find out what's going on

im not sure about the phone call part,
but even if your on wifi the phone still turns on 3g to authenticate thru sprints picmail servers before sending it

I can answer this one. If your on 3g and on a call, no you can't send mms. When you're on a call it knocks off your 3g to make the call. Now if you're on 4g, then you can send mms because you still have your 4g connection running. Another thing I would like to add is back when the first Evo and Epic came out, sending mms wasn't supported over 4g till Sprint made some changes on how sending mms works on their network. However one thing I haven't tried is to see if I can send mms thru just wifi with 4g and 3g off. It has me a lil curious because I know it didn't back then but they might had changed that when they changed it to allow sending thru 4g. But it could also just work on their networks only so idk..
Edit: I just put my E4gT on hotspot mode and disabled network data on a Sprint iPhone and Evo3D, both failed at sending. Soon as I enabled their data back the messages got sent. So you still can't send mms over wifi it relies on falling back to 3g. The way I recall it is the 3g comes on to send the mms then drops once it sends, but since you're on a call it won't do that.. Hope that helps lol
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RayTrue04 said:
I can answer this one. If your on 3g and on a call, no you can't send mms. When you're on a call it knocks off your 3g to make the call. Now if you're on 4g, then you can send mms because you still have your 4g connection running. Another thing I would like to add is back when the first Evo and Epic came out, sending mms wasn't supported over 4g till Sprint made some changes on how sending mms works on their network. However one thing I haven't tried is to see if I can send mms thru just wifi with 4g and 3g off. It has me a lil curious because I know it didn't back then but they might had changed that when they changed it to allow sending thru 4g. But it could also just work on their networks only so idk..
Edit: I just put my E4gT on hotspot mode and disabled network data on a Sprint iPhone and Evo3D, both failed at sending. Soon as I enabled their data back the messages got sent. So you still can't send mms over wifi it relies on falling back to 3g. The way I recall it is the 3g comes on to send the mms then drops once it sends, but since you're on a call it won't do that.. Hope that helps lol
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right, uses 3g/4g to authenticate thru picmail servers, wont do that on wifi itself. no sprint connection=no picturemail.
Connect to wifi and send a picture (while you have a signal) and you will still see the 3g icon come on for a few seconds while it sends.

That's really weird though. I really use to be able to send mms while on the phone on wifi. I swear that changed on EL29. but oh well maybe i'm just tripping out
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wizky911 said:
That's really weird though. I really use to be able to send mms while on the phone on wifi. I swear that changed on EL29. but oh well maybe i'm just tripping out
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I think you're trippin. Hey maybe you should Odin back to a previous software to test it out and let us know! Lol
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OK so I Odin'd back to stock rooted EL29, and guess what?
I CAN send pictures while on the phone and connected to WiFi. the 3G icon doesnt pop up. it just sends. I knew I wasn't trippin. This function seems to have gotten lost among all the modding or something. But yea on a stock ROM, you can hold a conversation and send a picture...you just cant take the picture while in call. but yeah.

mms over wifi

Hi, I know we have a couple threads called mms over wifi, but it's not similar to my question.
I tried sending mms over wifi calling and and I'm able to send the mms, but I can't receive them. I'm currently on Jug 5.0 and they have mms over wifi on this rom.
My bf just got a new s2 also and he is able to send mms over wifi calling with the stock rom and before rooting. So I rooted his phone with Jug 5.0 and he's still able to send and receive on wifi calling.
So I figured something's wrong with my phone, and I switched our sim cards. He's still able to send and receive mms on my phone with his sim, but I can't with my sim on his phone.
I wonder if this is something sim/account related. Anyone having this problem, thoughts or ideas as what's going on here?

My first question would be do you have the new sim card required for IMS to work?

Yea I . I can make calls and everything over wifi besides receiving mms.

Hmm, I have the same issues. Usually for me it takes forever for any mms to send or receive over IMS. Most of the time, they never even download unless I'm connected to the network via edge or 3G. That's interesting that it seems to work just fine for your bf though.

Yea it is weird. He doesn't even have to have data turned on to receive mms without wifi

MMS over WiFi on Juggs 5.0
babexdragon said:
Hi, I know we have a couple threads called mms over wifi, but it's not similar to my question.
I tried sending mms over wifi calling and and I'm able to send the mms, but I can't receive them. I'm currently on Jug 5.0 and they have mms over wifi on this rom.
My bf just got a new s2 also and he is able to send mms over wifi calling with the stock rom and before rooting. So I rooted his phone with Jug 5.0 and he's still able to send and receive on wifi calling.
So I figured something's wrong with my phone, and I switched our sim cards. He's still able to send and receive mms on my phone with his sim, but I can't with my sim on his phone.
I wonder if this is something sim/account related. Anyone having this problem, thoughts or ideas as what's going on here?
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Im having a similar issue. I rooted mine with juggs 4.1 and was unable to send and receive MMS ever since. I knew till 5.0 it was not capable. However they introduced the MMS over wifi fix in 5.0. Which after flashing to that it still doesnt send or receive.
I have tried doing the standard wipe cache, and delvik, No good. I also tried doing a complete wipe, and reinstall clean, still NG.
any one have any ideas how to fix that? everything else works great with the rom.