Issues with transmitting photos and 4G - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

First of all, the setup:
Myns Warm Two Point Two RLS 3 with netarchy toastmod 4.2.1 bfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass kernel.
I was in Orlando this past weekend for a family vacation and decided to test out a few things. I wanted to see how well 4G worked and how bad the battery drain was because I'm taking a business trip to Vegas in a few weeks. I turned it on, and it sat there "scanning" forever. That's all it ever said, until I turned it off a few hours later. Maps show that I should have had 4G coverage. I'm not sure if it's a ROM issue, a kernel issue, a Sprint issue, or something else entirely.
My second issue - I use Handcent SMS exclusively. I would snap a picture with the phone camera and share it via SMS. It would automatically resize and then try to send, but never would send. I kept getting "generic network failure" on any image that I tried to send. I finally got irritated enough to try and just email the pic, but it wouldn't even go through my Exchange email (at this point I didn't try Gmail, because I was ready to toss the phone in a pond...) I can receive MMS, but seems like I can't send any pictures. Anyone have any ideas what may have been going on?

I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.

postwick said:
I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.
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Fair enough - but once I determined that 4G wasn't going to connect, I turned it off. The MMS was being sent with only 3G enabled.

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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.

Help! HTC Evo can't recieve picture messages

Hey guys, my friends evo won't recieve picture messages. She can send them, but never recieves them. She is currently using Go SMS Pro, but even on the stock app/handcent, etc. she still has no luck recieving them. Her phone is non-rooted btw. Any input to help her recieve pictures is greatly appreciated.
This may sound silly, but is she always on WiFi when she is trying to receive them? When I am rooted or was when I wasn't rooted, I could only receive picture messages on 3G for some odd reason. My WiFi would always be a very strong signal and three times faster than my 3G, but it would continually try and never get a thing and then I switched to 3G and boom, there it was.
totalanonymity said:
This may sound silly, but is she always on WiFi when she is trying to receive them? When I am rooted or was when I wasn't rooted, I could only receive picture messages on 3G for some odd reason. My WiFi would always be a very strong signal and three times faster than my 3G, but it would continually try and never get a thing and then I switched to 3G and boom, there it was.
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when she gets a mms it should auto switch the 3G radio on to download the pic then go back to wifi atleast that's how it is on my phone.

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.

A few questions about the GNex - Network, Mail etc.,

Hi Guys,
So, I've been using the GNex for about a month. I moved to this phone from a Moto Atrix and here is what I have noticed and have looked around but didn't see any good answers to these questions I am having. Hopefully I get some answers here.
Device info:
GNex GSM version on ATT.
Running JB 4.1.1 Stock with Trinity Kernel (rooted and bootloader unlocked).
Issue #1: I get really bad reception at work. But, when I leave the building, my phone doesn't automaticaly connect back to the network. Sometimes, if I don't check my phone, it's been like that all night long until the next day when I have tried to make a call and it said "No Network Available" and I have to either reboot or toggle airplane mode to get back on the network. Am I missing something? In my past experience with other devices, they try to automatically connect back to the network when they loose connectivity. Also, if I get in an elevator during a call and the call gets dropped due to network unavailability, it doesn't connect back to the network and I have to toggle airplane mode. Has anyone else had this issue?
Issue#2: This is with the stock mail app. Specifically the search in this mail app. No matter what, it always returns zero results. Has anyone had this issue with the Mail App? If I use the Gmail app, it works fine. That's what I am using now, but am curious as to what I may be missing that make it not return any search results in the stock mail app.
Q3: Speed Dial: How do you set speed dial on the dialer? Is it even supported?
thanks in advance,
vG
verruckterGeck said:
Issue #1: I get really bad reception at work. But, when I leave the building, my phone doesn't automaticaly connect back to the network. Sometimes, if I don't check my phone, it's been like that all night long until the next day when I have tried to make a call and it said "No Network Available" and I have to either reboot or toggle airplane mode to get back on the network. Am I missing something? In my past experience with other devices, they try to automatically connect back to the network when they loose connectivity. Also, if I get in an elevator during a call and the call gets dropped due to network unavailability, it doesn't connect back to the network and I have to toggle airplane mode. Has anyone else had this issue?
it could be to do with your radio, what version is it? baseband version in about phone. im no expert but when i flashed a jellybean rom i had to update my radio afterwards cause my signal was dropping alot. i also had the same problem later on but that was down to my network operator. before i realised it was them i googled my problem and a few forums suggested that my sim card was goosed. so maybe check those three possibilities? i cant help with the other two issues unfortunately but good luck sorting it out!
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Question about radio connection and data connectivity

I have a SGH-I747, baseband I747UCDMG2, using CM 10.2 Snapshot M1, and have issues with remaining connected to Google's servers. If I put the phone in standby (pushing power button), when I wake the phone back up, the data arrows go back and forth, and then the connection type goes grey. It will cycle between 3G, H, and H+. It will finally connect, and I can resume my Google services. I'm in a location that gets good signal (current signal strength is -89, and is pretty much constant). Since my number has been ported to Google Voice, it effects receiving text messages in a timely fashion. I know it's not Google Voice doing something weird, as when I'm at home, and on WiFi, I have no issues with text message delays.
It seems to be all of the CM roms I've tried do this same thing. Although, I remember before I rooted and flashed CM, I had similar behavior on Touchwiz roms (I would see G, 3G, 4G, 4G LTE).
I don't mind flashing the newest radio that came with the 4.3 update, but it's a pain to not get notified about a message I received 20-30 minutes ago.
Is this normal behavior for the radio to step down the connection, to save battery, and then upon waking, needs to reconnect to the google servers? I do not have any type of battery saver app installed, shutting down the data connection.
With a * next to this statement, I'm going to say I have this fixed. I had the Voice+ enabled, so my GV texts would be forwarded to my messaging app. I disabled that, and now I seem to be better off. It still does the whole 3G/H/H+, greys out, etc, but longest delay on a text lately has been just 6 minutes, dealing directly with the GV app.

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