I have been the proud owner of a Galaxy Nexus for a few months now. I am using T-mobile with no data plan since I have wi-fi access almost everywhere. The only problem I have is MMS. Because I leave my data off to avoid unwanted charges, I cannot receive the occasional picture that people try to send me. I have talked to T-Mobile several times, and no one wants to help me because I have a device that was not purchased on contract. I have heard of apps like Droidwall, but I would rather not root.
Yesterday, I was experimenting with my APN settings and changed APN type to only MMS. This may be the solution I have been looking for. I was able to receive MMS when I enabled data, but Chrome would not even try to load a page because it could not find a connection. The Data Usage page in Settings showed the only apps using data as Messaging and Android OS. As far as I know, messaging is not going to run up charges since I have unlimited messaging. It is the OS process that concerns me. So far, I have not gotten any charges for data, but I haven't left the connection open for more than a few minutes. Has anyone tried this, and if so, was it a good solution to the classic "no data plan" problem?
Just make a separate APN called "mms" with your MMS information in it, and under "APN Type" you make it "MMS".
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OK, long story short. I've got an Alltel 6900 flashed with nfsfans rom and set up for Verizon. I'm activated on Page Plus Cellular. For some reason, I'm not sure why, the phone will still dial up on the alltel network and I can get data. When I bought the phone from the previous owner, he said that he had the account deactivated, but data still worked. I have to go into the pst and basically put the old phone number @alltel.net, and alltel for the password. I can surf the web for free with this setup. I've checked it against my page plus account, and when I dial up via the alltel settings, I get no data charges. If I set it up with my phone number at vzw3g.com and vzw as the password in the dun settings, I see that I am charged data. So..... my question is "Can I use the alltel dial up network settings, to retrieve and send MMS messages on my verizon flashed phone on Page Plus?" Everything else works, GPS, SMS, phone, etc... I have tried doing the Arcsoft MMS provisioning thread, deleting connection settings, then reprovisioning the file, but I can't seem to get mms to work. I haven't had success doing it via Alltel or Verizon dialup. I plan to use the alltel data as long as it works for me, so if I have to give up MMS, for free data, then so be it. I just wondered if somewhere in the MMS settings, MMS is tied to the phone number and cannot be retrieved through a different dun setting. This is my first post on here, I've been reading for a couple months, and have set up both a 6800 and 6900 from the info on here. You guys are a great asset, and thank you all!
Best place to ask maybe?
A guy at work just bought a 710 and he cant accept a picture message. He is on O2 and only gets the a short message. Nothing happens when he clicks it.
I never really send picture messages myself as, but because he was having trouble I send one to a friend and asked a friend to send one back. Both of us just get links to go somewhere and log in to download the picture. We are all on different UK networks.
SO... how do I ensure a picture message shows up in the thread rather than going off and downloading it elsewhere?
Is is just a case of requesting the APN from each network provider?
I think I remember setting this up back on my Nokia Ngage, but its been a long while.
Any advise would be post helpful.
go to live.com select devices and select your phone, make sure all your sms settings are corect .. right phone number , right service and so on...
This is a network problem, not the phone. Whoever receives a link must contact their carrier for MMS/APN settings. Had this problem before with Nokia 5800, needed to go to carriers website and download APN settings.
I have an HTC Trophy and my friends have either an iPhone or Android, we can see MMS just fine, either on the same or different networks. If you receive a MMS, the picture will show there as part of the thread, otherwise if it doesn't have the right settings it will just show a link to the image.
Thank you </travis> I was sure it pretty simple but its best to ensure I know what I am asking for, before I start calling the networks. I will attempt to requested the information.
P.S: Didnt seen any SMS settings on live.
I have had a similar problem with my HD7. The problem with windows phone is you cannot change the apns for mms without a unlocked phone or at least as far as i know. When you first set up the phone it copies the apn settings of the simcard and sets them into the phone.
For some reason just out of no where mms will stop working for me and will only get the message " get attachmen" or whatever the messsage actualy says. Somtimes if i click it will work somtimes it wont. I tend to find if its someone with a really old phone sending me a mms it does not work but for instance iphone to my phone works fine with out having to download from the link. So when my phone starts acting like this i simply just soft reset it and start again.
@Jakeway: First question: does he have a working data plan and data connection? SMS (and notification of MMS) come over the voice connection (a side-channel of it, actually) but the content of MMS needs a data connection.
Second question: has he tried Nokia's Network Setup app? It's in their Marketplace section ("Nokia Collection" I believe) and should configure all the APN settings, including those for MMS, for whatever carrier you select.
@leftspeaker2000: Second question above also applies to you, except since you're on an HTC phone, you should use HTC's "Connection Setup" app. It does the same thing as Nokia's app, but for HTC.
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@Jakeway: First question: does he have a working data plan and data connection? SMS (and notification of MMS) come over the voice connection (a side-channel of it, actually) but the content of MMS needs a data connection.
Second question: has he tried Nokia's Network Setup app? It's in their Marketplace section ("Nokia Collection" I believe) and should configure all the APN settings, including those for MMS, for whatever carrier you select.
@leftspeaker2000: Second question above also applies to you, except since you're on an HTC phone, you should use HTC's "Connection Setup" app. It does the same thing as Nokia's app, but for HTC.
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Not sure about the Nokia app, but the HTC's connection setup does not configure APNs for all the UK networks accurately. It's generally an issue with APN-less SIMs like that of giffgaff, Tesco and Talktalk. Only 3g or data connection APN gets set up, but no MMS is set up. It's been nearly 6 months and I can't receive a single MMS on giffgaff. Tried all the settings I could possibly find on Google or Bing.
I just wanted to share some info in case there were others who could be negatively impacted by an issue I found.
First, this only applies to people who are using Google Hangouts.
Here it is. I am running a Lollipop on my GS3 (t999l), and I have the latest Hangouts installed. I was aware that Hangouts/GV had missing sms issues here and there over the years. After various troubleshooting in the past, I was under the impression that it was not missing sms anymore. Well, I was wrong. My friend sent me a text, but it wasn't received by my hangouts. This apparently happens only once in a while because I'm usually able to text him back and forth just fine. Anyhow, I began yet another troubleshooting/exploration, and I found what I suspect to be the cause.
I went to Hangouts > Settings > SMS > Access point names
Then, I saw a MetroPCS apn "listed and selected" on the top of the list! Below the MetroPCS apn were T-Mobile US (epc.tomobile.com) and T-Mobile GPRS (fast.t-mobile.com) x 2 (there are two T-Mobile GPRS listed with the identical settings).I have no idea why MetroPCS apn was there, and why it was selected, but apparently that's what it gets selected by default (I used Hangouts' restore default setting feature, and it chose it). I have never ever used MetroPCS, so this is puzzling. In any case, I deleted the MetroPCS apn from the list as well as one of the duplicate T-Mobile GPRS just in case. I then selected the remaining T-Mobile GPRS (fast.t-mobile.com) as the access point.
I think this has resolved the issue (fingers crossed). So, if you use Hangouts too, I highly recommend that you check the above setting to see if there's a weird setting like the one I found. I hope this may be helpful to some people here. If you do find the same/similar issue, please do report back in this thread to share your result.
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My text messaging started acting weird lately; all of a sudden I was getting late messages, or multiples of one message. And then I wasn't getting any texts at all. This was while I was on Definitive rom, and had not changed any settings or my messaging app (chomp) for a good month beforehand. So I decided to flash FireKat for the DE, and it seems to have worked, but I wanted to set the settings for MMS as suggested in chomp, and I find that the Access Point for Verizon is un-editable. I tried editing the build.prop as suggested for the Note 2--obviously, it didn't work, I lost my Access Points entirely, and my network went to hell--and after a reflash, I'm back to where I started. Does anyone have any idea how to edit access points on the DE?
OK Nexus 5x users. I have searched the web, I've searched the forum, I've searched everywhere I possibly can think of and still can't find a solution. I am on AT&T. I had an iPhone 6s before I bought my Nexus 5x, But from day one I'm not able to receive MMS messages consistently. Everything over 160 characters I don't get. I've tried everything I possibly can find, to no avail. I've messed with APN's, I don't have push bullet installed, I don't have any other text messaging app installed. I still have my iPhone 6s, and I've gone in and disabled face time as well as iMessage and iCloud, so on and so on and so on. I've even tried multiple text messaging apps just to see if that would help. I've installed two different operating systems, however both of them are based on 6.0 .1. For what ever reason no matter what I try no matter what I mess with I can't get any text message that are 161 characters or more to come through. When I reset phone to stock, I can get them to come through for about one minute and then I no longer can get them. I don't install any other apps and they just stop coming through. If I put my Sim card back in the iPhone 6s and make a few texts and then disable iMessage and FaceTime and iCloud again, I can get MMS messages for about one minute and then they stop coming through again. I can send MMS messages just fine I just can't receive them. I see multiple posts on the Internet about this issue with marshmallow. It seems like everybody is able to solve it, "but me". Does anybody on this forum have any idea what I can do to solve this issue?
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sorry, are you on custom rom or stock now?
I was having mms issues in verizon. Incoming Mms were delayed for days. None of the recommended apn settings helped, switching between messenger and hangouts saw no change, turning wifi on and off, etc.
I set the apn to restore defaults and now it seems to work, when mobile data is on. Doesnt work when just wifi is on.
Question, is mms over wifi even a feature on Verizon? My Galaxy S4 did not send or receive mms if mobile data was off, one annoying feature because I usually just leave wifi on when home.
But then through some verizon update i could send and receive mms with mobile data disabled, I think it would switch mobile data on momentarily when an mms was incoming or outgoing.
So is there a way to get mms to work with mobile data off on the 5X on verizon?
joelbnyc said:
I was having mms issues in verizon. Incoming Mms were delayed for days. None of the recommended apn settings helped, switching between messenger and hangouts saw no change, turning wifi on and off, etc.
I set the apn to restore defaults and now it seems to work, when mobile data is on. Doesnt work when just wifi is on.
Question, is mms over wifi even a feature on Verizon? My Galaxy S4 did not send or receive mms if mobile data was off, one annoying feature because I usually just leave wifi on when home.
But then through some verizon update i could send and receive mms with mobile data disabled, I think it would switch mobile data on momentarily when an mms was incoming or outgoing.
So is there a way to get mms to work with mobile data off on the 5X on verizon?
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My 5X does not send mms with mobile data turned off. My S3 was exactly the save before this phone. I'm on Verizon, stock rooted with Ex kernel installed. This didn't work on stock OOTB either. I get notifications if I receive mms and I just turn on my data at that point to download them, if it isn't enabled.
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Since you are coming from the iPhone...I wonder if you have to de-register your number from imessages server?
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage