My mms tips thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2192633. Just used this today to send pics to a friend (confirmed on 20130316 nightly of CM10.1 epic 4g on Sprint). Modem FC09 or FC19 works (I use the latter these days - seems faster). No other mods.
CM10.1 native Sprint MMS workarounds and fixes - (I've been able to send and receive pics with this couldn't do with 10.0 or prior CM's)
a) turn off wi-fi while it sending. Would be nice if it could work with wifi as stock GB did but for now it is what it is. Wifi is a MMS killer in this case.
b) if photo stuck in sending, long-press on photo and choose edit and don't do anything but hit send button. Sometimes this alone will get it to send as long as wifi is off and you have 3g connectivity
c) if still stuck forward photo to the same user or yourself (preferable) and then forward again to yourself. On the 2nd forwarded pic, repeat step B above. This by far has done it for me.
Once the pics start to send it will send all and receive all too including those stuck in sending. Sometimes you seem to have to send a pic (even to yourself) in order to receive pics. Sometimes I'll receive pics from days or weeks back. Try reboot as well with wifi off. NOTE : Must have 3g connectivity. can leave auto-download MMS settings enabled it will work still.
This has worked really well on Sprint 10.1 Epic CM build 20130120 and higher including M2 for me (in fact the best build for MMS I've had since cm7, albeit still buggy, as native app on original sprint rom didn't require all this messing around.
This is the last remaining glitch on an otherwise perfect epic 4g for me (i don't use BT). Anyone know - Is this a problem with CM in general or just this phone? For example If I upgrade to Sprint S3 am I likely to face same issue if install CM10.1?
i finally gave up and needed a more reliable solution. Handcent SMS from the play store (free) seems to be it. Glitch-free MMS. Set it as your default messaging device which it does automatically post install, delete your old icon and use it. Make sure to check the "Split 160" option to enabled in application settings to avoid garbled text if sending a long message (this was a problem I had before with GoSMS, which probably has this setting too, just wasn't aware of it then).
I should have done this years ago. Maybe someone can reverse engineer what Handcent is doing that allows for flawless MMS over wifi and 3g/4g. Or will the newly released JB for epic4gTouch reveal any clues.
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My wife has an Unlocked Galaxy Nexus with JB on T-Mobile's Monthly 4G service. For some reason, whenever she sends out a MMS message, the attached image either A: Doesn't arrive (which happens to me on my Skyrocket with CM9) or B: Takes DAYS to arrive (which happens to other people who use Android phones like the original Incredible and some Samsung phone that has a keyboard.) Like a good boy I searched here to see if other people had this issue, and it looks like there may be a JB issue with MMS stuff, but I couldn't find anyone that had the same scenario as she has. She has no problem receiving MMS messages, just sending them out. On my phone it shows that I received an MMS message, but it doesn't show any picture. On her end it looks like everything sent out fine. Anyone have any ideas as to what this may be? I'd prefer an option that doesn't require rooting the phone as she is not a power user and won't have any use for the benefits of rooting, but if it has to be done then so be it (maybe I could just unroot it after it is fixed.) Could this be an APN issue?
Not sure if this helps but I'd been using go sms pro ever since I first got my gnex and it delivers all pic messages perfectly, I just had to fill in the user agent. I know that t-mobiles network is picky about what size picture it lets your phone fetch maybe the downsizing of pictures slows down the whole sending of them?
I had a similar problem which I fixed by restoring the APN to default...
Hello everyone, I would like to start by saying thank you to everyone here, all of your posts, info, etc has been excellent in helping me along my way to learning enough about this stuff to be dangerous to mine & my friends phones...we're all still using them so that's a "Win" in my book
Now, on to my problem. I've tried googling & searching posts here, and I don't know if it's just the terminology I've searched but I've found nothing similar to my problem except where a thread had to do with EMBS messages coming through incorrectly.
First off, I'm on a Sprint Branded Samsung Epic Touch 4g Galaxy S II (whew that's a mouthful already) It is on Verizon Prepaid Service.
When I first set this phone up, everything worked correctly - Talk, Text, Web, MMS, WiFi Hotspot, Etc - all working perfectly. I was able to send & receive picture mail through MMS, etc.
I am currently running CyanogenMod 9-20120416-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-Alpha 3
Android Ver 4.04
Kernel Ver 3.0.15-SPH-D710.FD10-CL377892
This is the updates I installed to this phone originally:
gapps-ics-20120429-signed
StockCWM-EL26.tar.md5
update-cm-9-20120416-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-alpha3-signed
mmsfix.zip (and made the correct changes for Verizon)
As I said, the phone was 100% functioning at this point for several days. The problem that came up happened out of nowhere, no changes were made to the phone whatsoever, not even a random app was installed from the market.
The only apps I have installed are
Wifi Tether (Rooted Users)
ES File Explorer
Facebook
GMail
Craigslist
Facebook Contact Sync
NFL Scoreboard
QR Droid
SuperUser
Rom Toolbox
Rom Manager
Terminal Emulator
Other than that, it's just what ICS & GApps Installed.
So here's the problem - whenever I recieve a text from anyone now, if it comes in multiple texts (ie 1/2, 2/2/ etc) it shows up as all special characters when I recieve it.
Here is the last one I got, I sent it from another phone on the same carrier - I just typed myself a message until I was sure it would be a 2 part message and this is what came through on my Epic
First Msg
ß<xp¿AcGÉ?üööysgOS&Læ;6lX9W/Ü<9rfEØΨ+FøÆ8xp¿A¥ìÅß<xqF<9$fÅz<EEggÜNixw¿
5¥rdåÆΩÖÅΠ'ålÄ3gF
3vø)rlyscW/Ü>ñzsbEKΨ/ÜÆ_gGEìgVLhurd1äñ2AÅZ#ΛC<z¡@@@@@@@
Second Msg
Ü=ävhPfOÉ?N3vlY1cnÖ<yreIΨ/Ü<9rfEØC¥ìÅÆ8xpaCì
Λ(XΔA$éZTGøΔHEwì/ÖrsOà#Ec=P
I put it in a hex/text converter and the text version came up all "?'s" so I'm pretty much at a loss at this point.
I apologize for a long winded message, but I wanted to include as much information about my phone, etc as possible to get the best answer I could.
Again, thank you all and if anyone has any insight to what might be causing this, I would greatly appreciate the info.
Oh, and in case I didn't make it clear - at this moment, text works fine (if its only 1 text at a time incoming) I can send multiple page texts & the recipient gets them no problem, and I can send/recieve pictures, etc as mms with no problems...the problem only exists if it's multiple pages of text coming in at once.
Thanks
What happens if you use a 3rd party messaging app like handcent?
someguyatx said:
What happens if you use a 3rd party messaging app like handcent?
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I just tried a few diff versions of Handcent, with the settings Default, then again with the settings on "Default SMS/MMS App (Disables Stock & Other Messaging Apps) and got the same results...
The wierd character code that comes through is exactly the same, both with the stock app & handcent in case that might be a question...
**Update**
I have Google Voice number sending voicemail converted as text to my phone on a secondary number. I got one today, was 3 pages SMS and it came through perfectly, right after that, I got a reg text from someone elses phone that was 2 pages, and it was the same type characters, and a few more since that were all the same special characters.
I've tested the Google Voice translation a few more times, and it comes through perfectly. I also tested just sending a multi-page text to my google voice number, which just forwarded the texts to my phone via SMS and they also come through perfectly.
So SMS from Google Voice in multiple texts works great, but from another phone do not.
If anyone has seen anything like this, I would love to know I'm not alone.
I'm having this exact same problem too. I noticed multiple texts incoming from certain people are fine, but when I receive multiple texts from a few others or a group sms from an iphone I get this really wonky characters. Any help would be appreciated. I am using this phone through pageplus.
The title pretty much says it all. Long texts (maybe 140-160) appear to send (after a long delay) but the recipient never gets them. This happens on CM9 and Paranoid. I haven't tried to flash stock ICS yet, but the issue is really frustrating. My friend only recently got a phone with unlimited texting, so I don't know if this has been going on before now. I don't know what could be the issue. Any ideas?
Also, no one can send me emoji - they just show up as two diamonds with ? marks in them. I tried all the popular SMS replacements, and installed the corresponding extra support packs for emoji. I did a wipe and installed JB (instead of ICS) and it still doesn't work. Another Sprint phone (original Evo running CM7) was able to receive them just fine. Is it possible something about Google Voice is interfering on the network end?
Thanks.
Maybe the google voice. I use cm9 and use chomp sms with the emoji packs. In setting I change it to cdma instead of the default tmobile setting. Also I tell it to receive the mms. Then tell my regular sms app to not notify me and do not get my mms.
sent from my BAD A$$ Epic touch
Alright, here's my story, after switching from Sense to CM11 when I first got my HTC One a few months ago things were working alright, then at some point I lost the ability to send or receive mms messages. I looked online and found that there were a few people with the same problem, most said the problem had to do with the apn settings, the solution to was either modified apn settings or using an alternate messaging program, such as 8sms.
Anyways, I tried several different apn setups to try and get my mms back, my LTE internet worked, but no mms. Eventually I found a setup that allowed me to send a mms to someone, but not receive one. I figured that was a good as I was going to get it.
After a few OTA nightly updates I decided to tinker with the apn settings again; my hope being that one of the new nightlies would have fixed the problem if I restored my apn settings to default. This didn't help and cost me the ability to even send mms. Needless to say I scoured the web to find usable apn settings again (I prefer to use the stock messaging app), eventually I ended up Frankensteining several together and found a solution that allowed for me to send and receive mms, as well as my LTE internet! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Found APN settings that enable sending and receiving mms, as well as LTE internet (with a lte subscription, it's not a hack or anything).
Android Version - 4.4.2
CM Version - 11-20140430-NIGHTLY-m7vzw
See attached picture for settings...
still having mms issues
Bioid said:
Alright, here's my story, after switching from Sense to CM11 when I first got my HTC One a few months ago things were working alright, then at some point I lost the ability to send or receive mms messages. I looked online and found that there were a few people with the same problem, most said the problem had to do with the apn settings, the solution to was either modified apn settings or using an alternate messaging program, such as 8sms.
Anyways, I tried several different apn setups to try and get my mms back, my LTE internet worked, but no mms. Eventually I found a setup that allowed me to send a mms to someone, but not receive one. I figured that was a good as I was going to get it.
After a few OTA nightly updates I decided to tinker with the apn settings again; my hope being that one of the new nightlies would have fixed the problem if I restored my apn settings to default. This didn't help and cost me the ability to even send mms. Needless to say I scoured the web to find usable apn settings again (I prefer to use the stock messaging app), eventually I ended up Frankensteining several together and found a solution that allowed for me to send and receive mms, as well as my LTE internet! :laugh::laugh::laugh:
[TL/DR]
Found APN settings that enable sending and receiving mms, as well as LTE internet (with a lte subscription, it's not a hack or anything).
Android Version - 4.4.2
CM Version - 11-20140430-NIGHTLY-m7vzw
See attached picture for settings...
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I'm on the cm11 nightlies for m7vzw and did this and still can't send MMS. any ideas?
I'm having a frustrating issue with the stock Android Messages app. My work sends notification texts via email, ie. from a gmail account to "mynumber"@tmomail.net.
The Android Messages app (stock android sms app), will not download these texts. I've been troubleshooting this all week and continue to come up empty, here is a breakdown of symptoms and what I have tried:
-My phone does notify me that a message is received, but requires me to tap to attempt to download the message, but the download always fails.
-Auto-download MMS is enabled, app is up to date
-third party apps WORK (kinda, see textra screenshot. message is delivered along with a weird code)
-if there is a subject in the email, the subject WILL display in the text, but not the body
-Safe Mode does not fix it
-phone is Pixel XL from Play store on T-Mobile
-issue happened on stock unrooted phone with all updates
-after exhausting all options I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and Pure Nexus rom, issue did not go away
-have deleted and edited all APNs countless times changing damn near every option to no avail
-have tried on and off wi-fi, with and without wi-fi calling, no changes
-normal MMS works fine (picture texts, group texts)
-have tried same APNs and apps on two different devices on my plan (V20 and S6 edge), and this issue cannot be duplicated. tmomail messages works fine on those phones with the exact same settings as on my Pixel
That's basically it. Hopefully I'm missing something simple. Please help if you have any suggestions, I'm open to just about anything. I know the easy fix is to just use Textra or another third party app, but I really don't want to. Also I can't stand not knowing what the problem is!!! Thanks in advance!
What do your apn settings look like
Right now they are reset to default.
kyacrash said:
Right now they are reset to default.
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Can you edit? Add MMS to apn type, reboot, make sure it sticks and try again
pcriz said:
Can you edit? Add MMS to apn type, reboot, make sure it sticks and try again
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It stuck upon reboot, but no change. Tried it twice.
kyacrash said:
I'm having a frustrating issue with the stock Android Messages app. My work sends notification texts via email, ie. from a gmail account to "mynumber"@tmomail.net.
The Android Messages app (stock android sms app), will not download these texts. I've been troubleshooting this all week and continue to come up empty, here is a breakdown of symptoms and what I have tried:
-My phone does notify me that a message is received, but requires me to tap to attempt to download the message, but the download always fails.
-Auto-download MMS is enabled, app is up to date
-third party apps WORK (kinda, see textra screenshot. message is delivered along with a weird code)
-if there is a subject in the email, the subject WILL display in the text, but not the body
-Safe Mode does not fix it
-phone is Pixel XL from Play store on T-Mobile
-issue happened on stock unrooted phone with all updates
-after exhausting all options I unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP and Pure Nexus rom, issue did not go away
-have deleted and edited all APNs countless times changing damn near every option to no avail
-have tried on and off wi-fi, with and without wi-fi calling, no changes
-normal MMS works fine (picture texts, group texts)
-have tried same APNs and apps on two different devices on my plan (V20 and S6 edge), and this issue cannot be duplicated. tmomail messages works fine on those phones with the exact same settings as on my Pixel
That's basically it. Hopefully I'm missing something simple. Please help if you have any suggestions, I'm open to just about anything. I know the easy fix is to just use Textra or another third party app, but I really don't want to. Also I can't stand not knowing what the problem is!!! Thanks in advance!
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Hey so I know your post is literally years old but I had been going through the same problem for YEARS before someone at T-Mobile finally figured it out. I figured I would post this to give you a hand and maybe someone else with this problem.
After going back and forth with T-Mobile for, no joke, 2 years on this issue, the fix was finally discovered. It has to do with T-Mobile "Digits". It's a "free" "second line" which is really just an alternate phone number for you to give people on sites like CraigsList if you don't want people to know your real number. You can just use Google Voice for this. Anyway, call T-Mobile and tell them you don't want your Digits number linked to your cell number (at least not for texts) and it will fix the issue.
Drove me crazy for YEARS. Hope this helps you or anyone else out there!