Here we go again.. I always have this issue. First with the Nexus One now with the Galaxy Nexus. In the past I've went into the STOCK messenger app and changed the CUSTOMER USER AGENT to spoof it as a BLACKBERRY. On ICS, I do not have that option and I tried playing around with the APN by copying it from a G2X and still no love.
I'm on TZONES using EPC.TMOBILE.COm if that helps any.
I'm also having this issue. Are we the only ones?
joeyklatzko said:
I'm also having this issue. Are we the only ones?
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A lot of people are. Apparently its tmobiles end.
From the research I've done it seems that the problem is that Tmobile doesn't recognize our devices, and so it defaults to a smaller mms size for us. From what I've read the solution is to modify the mms.apk to spoof the user agent string. I've been trying to do it, but have not been successful in doing so. Does anyone know how to change the user agent string in the mms.apk?
If someone finds a fix.. Please Share. Fn annoying
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Seriously! if a chick post a picture of her face and it's blurry... aww hell naahhh! lol
Ditto. Very annoying. Experiencing the same problem with T-Mobile USA.
Sounds like a passive-aggressive way for TMo to steer you to a branded phone...
im hating this as well i can send pictures but when i receive one it comes out small and blurry.
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Had this issue on windows mobile and now have the same problem on this device. When i get an mms they come through only a 1/5 the size of the screen. On windows there was a reg key that i can change, anyone know how to do it on this device?
Thanks
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Now that the desire has been rooted, anybody know what settings need to be changed in order to correct the tiny mms pictures, o2 still have not got there finger out and sorted this issue out ??
I have found an app on the market place called handcent and isntalled this, looks like the iphone layout. there is an option to spoof user agent but when i do this i cannot send any mms's. Can receive them but still they are not fullsize although bigger than previous. will try another option and choose the iphone 3.0 useragent. Phones on charge at present as battery ran out after only half a days use. I was using it a lot as i was setting it up so cant really say if this is the norm yet.
Still dont think this is as nippy as my HD2 but then I had a custom rom on that so that helped loads from the stock rom. Again early days.
Im getting this issue.
Isthere any work around for it yet? I send/recieve alot of pics and hate that they are tiny.
the only solution i have found is for rooted devices so no good at present.
Ta. Will have to wait then !!!
Ive gone back to messaging + smspopup only losing ability to quick compose using search button.
Ta
It might me because O2 have not yet added the Desire to their approved database yet. Try again when O2 have released the Desire on their network at the end of this month. I'm also on O2 but I hardly ever use MMS.
Good shout. Makes sense. Ta for that.
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It might me because O2 have not yet added the Desire to their approved database yet. Try again when O2 have released the Desire on their network at the end of this month. I'm also on O2 but I hardly ever use MMS.
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Ah, hang on, so how come the native messaging app shows the message in the correct size ?
For the same message, same picture sent or received, in the native app is large, but when i quit and go into Handcent, its small !!!
Handcent has just had an update and its still showing as tiny.
Anyone else got this issue ??
You cannot do anything to sort this, it is solely down to o2 to pull there finger out. Until they do we are stuck with it.
According to there site they will have the desire at the end of this month.
But i get large photos sent and received with the native MMS app, and have worked out that its because it converts it to a slideshow.
Spose i will wait til O2 get this as a phone and try after.
Ta
anyway to stop this slideshow on desire, can't seem to find anything to turn it off so I can just view the picture normally.
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Now that the desire has been rooted, anybody know what settings need to be changed in order to correct the tiny mms pictures, o2 still have not got there finger out and sorted this issue out ??
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In handcent sms in Maximum MMS Size, change from default to 300KB.
Default is 300k.
I've tried all sides and none work. Need to wait tool o2 release the desire for themselves.
I have this problem with mine and i'm on orange. When the image is converted to be able to be sent, it shrinks it to about 16K, which is really pathetic. Anyone figured this out yet?
danprocter said:
I have this problem with mine and i'm on orange. When the image is converted to be able to be sent, it shrinks it to about 16K, which is really pathetic. Anyone figured this out yet?
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Are you using the native app or Handcent/chomp ??
Rooted mine and now using handcent, all working as it should, i used to get the same on o2. Not anymore though. Full size mms now.
Rooted mine and now using handcent, all working as it should, i used to get the same on o2. Not anymore though. Full size mms now.
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So can you post your settings?
I assume you are still on o2?
I can send large mms via the native app, and cant send anything if selecting one from the gallery, but can if using the camera straight from hand cent.
So can you post your settings?
I assume you are still on o2?
I can send large mms via the native app, and cant send anything if selecting one from the gallery, but can if using the camera straight from hand cent.
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I have the standard setup, so 2 accounts, one called "O2 MOBILE WEB" which only has the apn set to mobile.o2.co.uk nothing in proxy/port/server/mmsc etc. Only username and password set.
The other one is called O2 MMS Postpay, this has apn of wap.o2.co.uk, no proxy / no port, username o2wap / password, server not set, mmsc set to http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002, proxy 193.113.200.195, mmsport 8080
The strange thing is that i CANNOT send mms messages with the stock messaging app. I can however receive them and they come in full size. In handcent i can send and receive mms messages fine. Not sure why this is.
I would prefer the stock application to do both but just cant work out why it doesnt send. tried so many different settings now but nothing works
For some reason I cannot send a MMS (picture) to my wifes iPhone. I told her to get a different freakin phone because my phone hates hers but she won't listen. So I am left with trying to figure out if I can talk my phone into doing what I ask anyways. Anyone else have this problem? I have the 2.15.00.07.28 radion, should I upgrade to the newer one? Need a fix...
I am able to send mms to BlackBerrys
*228 doesn't work either
Running redemption Rom 2.0.3
Try putting a written message in there as well.
Handcent has a problem with iPhones, the stock app will work but like mentioned, there has to be some txt. Even ... or something and it will go through.
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This explains why my girlfriend was ticked... My 6 page long text/mms didn't go through...
pjd2011 said:
This explains why my girlfriend was ticked... My 6 page long text/mms didn't go through...
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I know the Iphone 3g did not allow pic texts. Not sure about the 4g
its not the iphone... i believe it is a problem between att and verizon. the mms from verizon has a tough time getting through to att...
the iphone users seem to be frustrated by this as well...
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=794375
in my experience, best way around this (besides making your girl switch to android) is to just text your girlfriends iPhone from your gmail, to [email protected] or whatever the att email address is... that or just comminicate via email only. email will be killing mms eventually anyways... why anyone still uses mms is beyond me. "you have a damn smart phone, switch to email already !"
who knows how many dirty pics from dirty girlfriends have been missed!?!? :/
Am I missing something? I can't figure out how to get my G2 to send a regular picture message, It sends and recieves pictures as a slide show for me. Sending a picture from the G2 to a G1, the G1 gets it as a picture message even though it shows up on my phone as a slide show.
Try sending one from yourself. A bunch of the guys I work worth like to forward nsfw pics around all day and if someone who didn't have a smart phone sent it to me it was a slide show, if someone had a smart phone, etc, I got it the right way.
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Try sending one from yourself. A bunch of the guys I work worth like to forward nsfw pics around all day and if someone who didn't have a smart phone sent it to me it was a slide show, if someone had a smart phone, etc, I got it the right way.
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Tried it, sent and recieved as slide show...
I had this problem on my Vibrant as well. I never found a way to solve it so I just dealt with it.
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It's a bug. Tmobile is very aware of it. There are some 3rd party free apps in the marketplace that will fix the issue.
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It's a bug. Tmobile is very aware of it. There are some 3rd party free apps in the marketplace that will fix the issue.
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Name of those apps, please?
chompsms, I think. I don't have android right now but I read up on the topic. Here's a link.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/T-Mobile-G2/pictures-in-text-messages/td-p/486978
Yeah. i use handcent. its lightyears better than stock app and has quick reply and quick compose features. ALso no stupid slideshow mode.
thats what i use
Sorry to bring up a dead topic but just wondering if a fix was ever found? I've flashed a new ROM & its having this problem.
I really don't know of any 'fix' for this. Not to mention the fact that the best OS out the can't seem to send a proper mms and not compress it to less than 10kb. No amount of UA spoofing or alternate messaging apps will fix any of this until google addresses the issue. Maybe some one smarter than I can sort through the phones code and find the culprit, then remove it.
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Ever since setting my UA to Nexusone I have had zero problems with large MMS.
They download at full size, I just received a 665k MMS today.
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Ever since setting my UA to Nexusone I have had zero problems with large MMS.
They download at full size, I just received a 665k MMS today.
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What do you mean by "UA"?
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Ever since setting my UA to Nexusone I have had zero problems with large MMS.
They download at full size, I just received a 665k MMS today.
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Yes, but how about sending? The custom UA doesn't fix that issue, any mms you send will compress to a wicked small file. I've even resized the image to 600Kb and even 300Kb, both were reduced to a measly 6Kb and 8Kb (same with my MT Slide when I used it).
Btw, UA = User Agent.
It's the ID of each model of phone that the network servers use to determine certain features, like mms. When you send an mms it sends messages to the server stating 'message incoming/phone UA' the server then sends back an ok - the message is sent, server sends a receipt.
When a message is sent to you the server sends an invisible text stating 'message waiting/message address/what's your UA ID' the phone then confirms the UA ID. The server then reads the UA and adjusts the message accordingly and says the message is ready, phone then downloads it and sends receipt.
Very long (but quick) process. So yes, changing the UA will help with receiving an mms but the phone, at least in Androids case, is the reason why we can't send a large mms. Since all messaging apps like handcent still rely on the core process used by Android to send messages - there's no way to bypass it completely. You can trick it into sending a 300Kb picture as long as the original size isn't much larger but good luck on 600Kb - 1MB or more, they get downsized to nothing.
I'm on a stock CDMA Galaxy Nexus with Telus (Canada).
I can't receive MMS (specificially pictures) from any of my friends with iPhones. I can receive them from my friend that has a Galaxy Nexus as well, but not iPhones.
Doesn't make a difference if it's an image and text or if it's just the image.
Anybody have any ideas? I've done a bit of googling but haven't seemed to find any solutions.
obviosly because the sender it's an iphone.....
i never sent (nor received as my memory work) an mms so could you ask your friend to change the type of the image(like type (png->jpg), less heavy in terms of KBs and dimensio)?
Torture12 said:
I'm on a stock CDMA Galaxy Nexus with Telus (Canada).
I can't receive MMS (specificially pictures) from any of my friends with iPhones. I can receive them from my friend that has a Galaxy Nexus as well, but not iPhones.
Doesn't make a difference if it's an image and text or if it's just the image.
Anybody have any ideas? I've done a bit of googling but haven't seemed to find any solutions.
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My GF have a iPhlopne (whatever ), and we have no problems with exchanging pictures through MMS. Can your friend recieve the MMS's from your iPhlopne (whatever) friends?
Did you reset your default APNs?
Settings-More-Mobile Networks-Access Point Names-Restore to default.
Had issues with MMS before and this solved it.
Tried resetting the APN, didn't do the trick
I can send them images but nothing happens when they send them to me no notification or anything
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Tried resetting the APN, didn't do the trick
I can send them images but nothing happens when they send them to me no notification or anything
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Sounds to me that the problem is in their end, not your. Either that or your carrier doesn't like iphones
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Maybe your Nexus is just ridiculously smart and has an opinion about certain phones
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Friend of mine can't send any mms on his iPhone... he said that he needs to change apn settings but can't be bothered
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Hello!
Registered just so I could possibly help you in your situation.
Did you have an iPhone before you got your Nexus?
If you did, I may have a solution to your problem.
I had the same problem after I got my Nexus. iMessage was the culprit. If you didn't deactivate it properly - other people with iPhones - that had you as a contact still thinks your number is associated with an iPhone. Apple must keep this internally within their servers (just a thought).
This will happen if you PORTED your number to your new phone OR kept the same number when you went to the Nexus.
Anyhow, it's a simple fix - at least for me it was.
kapolani said:
Hello!
Registered just so I could possibly help you in your situation.
Did you have an iPhone before you got your Nexus?
If you did, I may have a solution to your problem.
I had the same problem after I got my Nexus. iMessage was the culprit. If you didn't deactivate it properly - other people with iPhones - that had you as a contact still thinks your number is associated with an iPhone. Apple must keep this internally within their servers (just a thought).
This will happen if you PORTED your number to your new phone OR kept the same number when you went to the Nexus.
Anyhow, it's a simple fix - at least for me it was.
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Nope, crappy Blackberry Pearl :/
kapolani said:
Hello!
Registered just so I could possibly help you in your situation.
Did you have an iPhone before you got your Nexus?
If you did, I may have a solution to your problem.
I had the same problem after I got my Nexus. iMessage was the culprit. If you didn't deactivate it properly - other people with iPhones - that had you as a contact still thinks your number is associated with an iPhone. Apple must keep this internally within their servers (just a thought).
This will happen if you PORTED your number to your new phone OR kept the same number when you went to the Nexus.
Anyhow, it's a simple fix - at least for me it was.
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What's the fix? I have the same problem as the original poster and I had an iPhone previous to my Samsung Galaxy S2. I cannot receive MMS from any of my iPhone using friends. How do you deactivate iMessage?
now that you mention this, i have this problem as well!!!
Many of my iphone users claim they send something via MMS and nothing is received. We then use email.
You may be on to something here
Torture12 said:
I'm on a stock CDMA Galaxy Nexus with Telus (Canada).
I can't receive MMS (specificially pictures) from any of my friends with iPhones. I can receive them from my friend that has a Galaxy Nexus as well, but not iPhones.
Doesn't make a difference if it's an image and text or if it's just the image.
Anybody have any ideas? I've done a bit of googling but haven't seemed to find any solutions.
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Download handcent sms from the market and set it as the default MMS app then go to stock messaging app and disable notifications and you should be good to go...
Just to update as I see this has been bumped - I called my carrier and they were able to fix the issue.
No idea what they did but they just had me do a battery pull, sent me a couple images to test it and it worked fine.
Weird issue on m5. When I try to txt someone using handcent or go SMS I type there name in the new message part and nothing happens. I have to type the number of the context I wanna text for their full phone number to pop up. Anyone else seeing this happen or know what I could do??? It's really annoying
Never heard of the issue. Try another SMS app like GoSms
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Hey, I was considering getting gnex for my mom for mothers day, (on sprint) but saw some people saying mms didn't work. Is that just cuz you need a 3rd party app since there's no bloat?
Much thanks to anyone who can answer. Thank you.
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
scottspa74 said:
Hey, I was considering getting gnex for my mom for mothers day, (on sprint) but saw some people saying mms didn't work. Is that just cuz you need a 3rd party app since there's no bloat?
Much thanks to anyone who can answer. Thank you.
sent from 2yr old Evo on ICS
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MMS definitely works lol. Do you seriously think Sprint would sell a $200 smartphone that didn't have working MMS? I don't doubt that some ppl may have issues but they didn't just launch the device without the feature on purpose.
And this has nothing to do with OP's issue.