Need help with MMS. The app stopped working and I am unable to receive or send MMS. When I try to open the MMS app it opens, but the main body area is black, then it crashes and closes with the "Unfortunately, Messaging has stopped." error.
I'm not sure when this exactly happened. I was on the stock rom, then used the non-flash counter root method and stopped without installing CWM. I thought everything was working properly and I did some data restores of my Titanium back-up. The later might have been the cause of the problems, but I have read that a this issue comes up with not clearing the cache when flashing a new rom (didn't do this, just odin'ed a root injected rom). I'm travelling so I am very hesitant to do a factory reset or new rom flash.
I also had the Unfortunately the Outlook service has stopped problem, but I fixed that by clearing out Cache and Data in the Applications settings menu for the mail client. I tried that with the MMS app and it didn't fix the problem.
I also check the permissions and owner for the secmms.apk and secmms.odex files and the are correct. I tried downloading a secmms.apk, but I am not sure if it is the right file, especially since it didn't have an odex file with it. That didn't fix the problem.
Update: Restoring from TiBack-up didn't help. Also tried restoring mmsprovisioning. I'm overseas so I have mobile data off and using WiFi. Does this impact MMS, e.g. need to have mobile data networks on to get MMS or MMS not working with WiFi?
Can anyone suggest a fix for this, e.g. send me the right secmms files? Does flashing CWM and doing a cache wipe help and will this erase all my files? How about restoring my full MMS back-up from Titanium back-up? Any help is appreciated.
You restored some backups from Titanium? Of /data?
I thought that the no trip root method avoided overwriting /data, meaning there was no need to restore anything? Maybe that's the reason you're seeing your MMS app fail?
gr4p3s said:
You restored some backups from Titanium? Of /data?
I thought that the no trip root method avoided overwriting /data, meaning there was no need to restore anything? Maybe that's the reason you're seeing your MMS app fail?
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I think the problem was with the titanium backup restores. So avoid restoring data on the mms or email.
I could not find a fix and ended up doing a factory data reset from the settings menu. After reboot everything was working fine.
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Has anyone else had an issue with this. I have tried for 3 days to fix it. Please help!
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Please post what steps you have taken to fix your issue. It will help others troubleshoot. First thing I recommend is opening mms in Titanium Backup and wiping the data, then reboot and test. If you would be more descriptive with your questions you have a better chance of getting help.
Here is a nice video.
Dat_Boi_G said:
Has anyone else had an issue with this. I have tried for 3 days to fix it. Please help!
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Did you attempt the procedure that Vanessa posted in the Synergy RLS-1 thread?
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dougjamal said:
Did you attempt the procedure that Vanessa posted in the Synergy RLS-1 thread?
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No, please post it but ONLY if you have it on hand easily. We can search for it. That thread is so popular its long and hard to follow unless you can dedicate some time to it every day.
Thanks for the heads up on it.
Update: Found it - this may help
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Handcent won't work unless the stock messenger app does so lets just deal with stock for now. Like I said earlier, try uninstalling it then reinstalling it.
Switch R/W to R/O, try moving Mms.apk from /system/app to your SD card with Root Explorer. Back out of the Root Explorer and Hot Restart your phone. When your phone boots up the messenger app will be gone.
Move the Mms.apk from your SD card back to /system/app, switch R/W to R/O to first. Long press on the Mms.apk check off all of the permissions but leave "Special Permission" alone. Switch R/O to R/W and back out of the app and Hot restart your phone. The stock messenger app will be back. Try sending or receiving an mms.
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I am also having this problem now
Dat_Boi_G said:
Has anyone else had an issue with this. I have tried for 3 days to fix it. Please help!
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I wus having dat problem.. all u have to do is go to settings. System updates .. update profile and dat should fix ur mms
Sorry I haven't had much time. Been wrkin like crazy. I haven't had a chance to try to fix it. I deleted handcent and that stopped the duplicate txt problem as it was a glitch in the app that has yet to be fixed. My txt and mms only come through when I pwr cycle my phone. This is what's annoying. Will try to solve the issue in the AM. Thanks for all input...
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Had to do this for Kingdom 7/23 but it seems there is an apn issue. Download apn backup/restore from market and use the fix from here.
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/318986-fixed-sprint-mms-problem-apn-settings.html
Fix my problem. Credit to Packdog of Androidforums.
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I am having the same issue. I haven't been able to resolve at this time. I tried wiping data, then removing the app with Titanium. I then reflashed the synergy rom and still no luck. I looked at connection under messaging and all fields were blank so I tried manually putting in the info. User= Production, mms protocol =WAP 2.0 and mmsc= htttp://mms.sprintpcs.com. I have went to system and updated my profile. I backed up apn, checked for errors and then restored. At this point I'm stuck. I am going to try another of the methods below. Will keep watching this thread and post if something works.
So I rolled back to rooted stock and tested mms. Works fine. extracted mms from root and saved to sd/ rebooted to saved synergy back up. mms gone again. wiped data/uninstalled mms. installed extracted from stock mms. still no go! Next step wipe phone/reflash synergy/I cannot remember if mms was working with synergy at first or not. Used titanium to restore data and that may be where issue occured. If anyone has success, please post
I'm in the same boat, ladies and gents. APN settings are correct, done the Profile update, reinstalled the ROM numerous times. Stock Rooted ROM relays MMS fine, boot into recovery, wipe Davlik Cache, install Synergy, update Radios, reboot into ROM, and all is well BUT the MMS. Profile update, no luck, APN backup / restore, no luck. Cleared cache and Data from Messages app. Running out of ideas here, and I don't want to revert to my old nandroid of the rooted stock ROM.
Welcome to my world. Got a friend at work who just installed synergy God-mode the other day and his mms is working fine. checked his settings and the only difference I could find was in settings:connection- the name said Sprint instead of Production. Changed mine to that and still a no go. My sister was trying to send me a picture of the oceanfront in Florida and ended up having to email it to me. I love this rom, but this could be a deal breaker. Moved all backups to pc and am about to flash a "virgin" (as apposed to resoring the backup) synergy to my phone and test mms before restoring any data with Titanic. If it works I will only restore totally 'unrelated' apps one at a time and not all system data. Here we go again. Will post results.
Here's the latest....wiped data, wiped cache, wiped Devlik..reinstalled entirely new copy of synergy rom and mms working! Sent pix to husbands phone..he got it..sent another back to me... I got it. No extra apps installed or restored just yet. Very carefully restoring apps but no system data. Will post if still working.
Broke down, reloaded the ROM after doing a factory reset and cache wipe, restored a handful of Apps, and it works. Ti Backup, thanks for the help!
And more Thanks due to Sherry.
When I go into market and select my apps, I get this error:
A server error has occured. Retry,or cancel and return to the previous screen.
I tried clearing data, but still does the same.
Anybody ever have this problem, anybody know a way to fix this?
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Did you also clear cache for the Market app? Have you tried using a different internet connection, i.e., switch from 3G to WiFi or vice versa? Have you rebooted and reestablished your connection? Maybe use CWM to reset permissions? Backup the app, then uninstall/reinstall?
Try those (probably that order is "easiest" to "biggest pain in the butt") and see if one of 'em works.
If none of that works, what system changes have you done since the last time you successfully used Market and My Apps? Did you apply any patches, switch kernels, install a whole new ROM?
Yeah I tried all that. I was taking out the new market and putting back the old. After I did that I cleared data, and problem started. I restored my backup and it still gave me that problem. How I fixed it was backing up my apps with titanium backup, formatting all data in clockwork. And re-signing in to my google account, then batch restore all apps only in titanium backup. Only restoring data on certain apps.
Everything is back to normal, I believe it had something to do with getting messed up on googles end. Everything is good now.
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I had a stock 4.3 P601 which I upgraded to stock 4.4.2.then rooted with CF-Autoroot The upgrade was over OTA after removing root and the new firmware is ND6.
Everything works fine except for one weird problem. I cannot send texts through the stock message app. It opens fine, but the compose box is grayed out.
If I go to the settings to set it as the default messaging app, it does not appear in the list at all! The tablet can send and recieve texts just fine through third party apps like Go SMS, but just does not seem to recognise the stock app.
What could be causing this?
Did you try wiping the cache? If that doesn't help you could uninstall and reinstall the SMS app, apk should be located in system folder. Last resort would be wipe data and reflash through Odin.
Tried wiping cache and dalvik. No luck. Will probably just stay with a 3rd party app as re flashing seems too much of a pain.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Hey guys,
I've done a factory reset this afternoon, and after reinstalling my messaging app (Smitten) and restoring my SMS via Nandroid Manager and SMS backup and restpre (tried the both), my messaging app is blocked on Loading threads .. I've tried with Smitten and stock, i've deleted and restored sms again but still the same issue ..
Can anyone help me ?
Maybe your backup file is damaged? Can you try this backup, for test of course, on another device?
That didn't came from the backups, I had 2 different ones and it did the same thing twice. After several reboots, it works now ... That's was so unusual :3
Been having a bit of a headache trying to sort this out on my Verizon G3. Here's what I've done:
1. Full backup of my 4.4.2 using TWRP to external SD card
2. Clean wipe internal storage
3. Flash Fulmics 6.0
4. Flash vs98535b bootstack (to get Verizon 4G)
5. Restore data from backup (not system or boot) - **The whole point of this vs. just starting from a fresh install is I'm trying to get back some important text messages. If there's a way to start with a fresh install and only restore old SMS and MMS text messages from a backup, I'm all ears. The app is Google's Messenger.
Problems faced when doing that:
1. Repeated "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." every second after hitting OK. I can navigate around the phone, I just have to be quick to hit things before getting interrupted by the notification.
2. Still no 4G, or any cell service for that matter. Wifi still works.
Notes:
1. If I flash Fulmics 6.0 and the 35b bootstack, I get a perfectly working G3, but with none of the text messages I'm looking to restore from my last backup. Without the bootstack I don't have any cell service, similar to what was reported on XDA.
tl;dr - Repeated process com.android.phone has stopped after restore of data (no boot or system) from 4.4.2 install. Just trying to get back text messages onto Fulmics 6.0 install.
Any help is appreciated. If anyone needs any more info or logs, let me know and I could probably get them.
EDIT: Solved! Took a bit of time but I got it sorted out. Here were the steps I took if anyone searching on Reddit/Google is in need of a solution as well.
1. Restored the old 4.4.2 version and using Titanium Backup Pro, backed up both the messenger app as well as the SMS and MMS text messages using their export to XML feature under preferences. Exported both to my external SD card.
2. Once that process was done running, I did yet another clean wipe and installed Fulmics again. Once that was up and running, I installed Titanium Backup and Messenger and imported the backup of the app and the XML file.
3. This is where things got a bit buggy. After importing the XML file, it had only restored MMS (picture/video) messages for chats. There were no texts.
4. LG backup to the rescure! Upon installing Fulmics and importing the backup, I was asked by my phone if I wanted to restore from a previous backup. After seeing Titanium Backup only pulled in MMS, I figured why not. Let it run for a bit and boom...all MMS and SMS messages are restored.
5. Installed SMS Backup & Restore so I'll hopefully never have to deal with this again.
madbeetzyo said:
Been having a bit of a headache trying to sort this out on my Verizon G3. Here's what I've done:
1. Full backup of my 4.4.2 using TWRP to external SD card
2. Clean wipe internal storage
3. Flash Fulmics 6.0
4. Flash vs98535b bootstack (to get Verizon 4G)
5. Restore data from backup (not system or boot) - **The whole point of this vs. just starting from a fresh install is I'm trying to get back some important text messages. If there's a way to start with a fresh install and only restore old SMS and MMS text messages from a backup, I'm all ears. The app is Google's Messenger.
Problems faced when doing that:
1. Repeated "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." every second after hitting OK. I can navigate around the phone, I just have to be quick to hit things before getting interrupted by the notification.
2. Still no 4G, or any cell service for that matter. Wifi still works.
Notes:
1. If I flash Fulmics 6.0 and the 35b bootstack, I get a perfectly working G3, but with none of the text messages I'm looking to restore from my last backup. Without the bootstack I don't have any cell service, similar to what was reported on XDA.
tl;dr - Repeated process com.android.phone has stopped after restore of data (no boot or system) from 4.4.2 install. Just trying to get back text messages onto Fulmics 6.0 install.
Any help is appreciated. If anyone needs any more info or logs, let me know and I could probably get them.
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Can't you just restore your 4.4.2 backup, copy/backup the google messaging app & data with titanium, then restore your fulmics ROM, and restore the google messenger app with titanium backup? As long as you copy the data with the app all of your messages should be there when you restore it.
**Titanium also has a feature called "extract from nandroid backup" where you can pull an app from a TWRP backup so you don't have to waste time wiping & restoring a backup; although I'm not sure if that may be a pro(paid) feature or not.
On 4.4.2, can you backup texts with mybackup pro app?
Then restore from Fulmics MM?
Seems like it may work
startswithPendswithOOH said:
Can't you just restore your 4.4.2 backup, copy/backup the google messaging app & data with titanium, then restore your fulmics ROM, and restore the google messenger app with titanium backup? As long as you copy the data with the app all of your messages should be there when you restore it.
**Titanium also has a feature called "extract from nandroid backup" where you can pull an app from a TWRP backup so you don't have to waste time wiping & restoring a backup; although I'm not sure if that may be a pro(paid) feature or not.
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The edit is great to know. I had no idea about that.
Currently doing what you mentioned with Titanium Backup Pro. Backing up the app itself, and exporting SMS and MMS with the XML (so many 3 letter acronyms!) export feature. Will report back when everything is done, but it's looking promising.
madbeetzyo said:
Been having a bit of a headache trying to sort this out on my Verizon G3. Here's what I've done:
1. Full backup of my 4.4.2 using TWRP to external SD card
2. Clean wipe internal storage
3. Flash Fulmics 6.0
4. Flash vs98535b bootstack (to get Verizon 4G)
5. Restore data from backup (not system or boot) - **The whole point of this vs. just starting from a fresh install is I'm trying to get back some important text messages. If there's a way to start with a fresh install and only restore old SMS and MMS text messages from a backup, I'm all ears. The app is Google's Messenger.
Problems faced when doing that:
1. Repeated "Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped." every second after hitting OK. I can navigate around the phone, I just have to be quick to hit things before getting interrupted by the notification.
2. Still no 4G, or any cell service for that matter. Wifi still works.
Notes:
1. If I flash Fulmics 6.0 and the 35b bootstack, I get a perfectly working G3, but with none of the text messages I'm looking to restore from my last backup. Without the bootstack I don't have any cell service, similar to what was reported on XDA.
tl;dr - Repeated process com.android.phone has stopped after restore of data (no boot or system) from 4.4.2 install. Just trying to get back text messages onto Fulmics 6.0 install.
Any help is appreciated. If anyone needs any more info or logs, let me know and I could probably get them.
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So you restored only SMS/MMS conversations?
If you did a full restore, it's obvious that device become unstable.
However... the issue sounds like a compatibility issue with 35B bootstack.
Personally I would suggest to directly flash latest firmware, then proceed with root + TWRP and Fulmics installation.