[Q] MMS Picture quality - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey I just wanted to know if anyone else is having a drop in quality of pictures you take / screenshot when you send them from messaging using MMS? My friends will tell me that the picture looks really broken/pixelated and when I first take it, it looks crystal clear. Is there a fix for this?

Tyler.Boston1 said:
Hey I just wanted to know if anyone else is having a drop in quality of pictures you take / screenshot when you send them from messaging using MMS? My friends will tell me that the picture looks really broken/pixelated and when I first take it, it looks crystal clear. Is there a fix for this?
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I believe this is due to the Picture being "too big". Not sure why other phones (the unmentionable one on this forum) sends MMS photos just fine (I assume because most of it is done over "Data" now VS "cell phone service". On my phone I have i747 even if im connected to wifi, it sends the pic over 4G....retarded why android does this but oh well. I use GOSMSPRO because you can have it retain the "original resolution" of the pictures VS the OS down scaling it so you can send it over the air. I think google should fix this and have it send of WIFI or DATA when available...but it hasn't yet so I don't think it ever will be.

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T-Mobile users, problem with HTC Messaging...

Do any of you fellow T-Mobile service users notice a problem with HTC Messaging? No matter what registry setting I have changed or what cab I've installed, I can NEVER view an MMS/pic the same way as the original MMS/pic. The file size is exactly the same but lets say I send myself a picture that is suppose to be viewable in full screen on my TP2. Well, when I receive that image, it's never the same size as the original. What gives?? Anyone know how to fix this issue?
DADDYDC650 said:
Do any of you fellow T-Mobile service users notice a problem with HTC Messaging? No matter what registry setting I have changed or what cab I've installed, I can NEVER view an MMS/pic the same way as the original MMS/pic. The file size is exactly the same but lets say I send myself a picture that is suppose to be viewable in full screen on my TP2. Well, when I receive that image, it's never the same size as the original. What gives?? Anyone know how to fix this issue?
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I'd really love to tell you if mine do the same....but unfortunately, I never get MMS messages that are sent to me, until several days after the sent date, and the system won't let me download them then. It doesn't matter what model of phone or what carrier the messages come from.
The point? I have serious doubts about T-mo's MMS routing/handling overall, and I suspect our issues may have a common cause
all My MMS messages work great, I gave you the fix for your problem in the last thread you started about the same issue. with HTC messaging it uses Jataayu and so you need to change the profile in that reg line in order to get the pics to arrive correctly sized. Please stop creating new threads about the same issue when the answer has already been provided to you.
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all My MMS messages work great, I gave you the fix for your problem in the last thread you started about the same issue. with HTC messaging it uses Jataayu and so you need to change the profile in that reg line in order to get the pics to arrive correctly sized. Please stop creating new threads about the same issue when the answer has already been provided to you.
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The "fix" doesn't fully work. The files come in at the right size (a 100kb file comes in at 100kb) but if I send myself a picture that can be viewed full screen, it doesn't come in that way. It comes in at a smaller viewable size.
If you can send yourself a picture that's suppose to be viewable in full screen and it comes in at the exact same viewable size, I'd love to know what you did exactly because it's not working on my end and your fix was pretty simple to apply so I know I did it correctly.

MMS size issue - android or network

I have noticed that when I choose to send a photo as an MMS it gets re-sized to within an inch of its life. A typical 900kb photo gets re-sized to 10kb or 15kb. Terrible quality. My old N82 phone used to send the photo at close to 300kb limit so you got a very good quality MMS.
I have had a look around the forums and it seems there are varying explanations but no conclusive judgments on why this is?
1. It is caused by the Network not recognizing the phone. (althought ppl have reported this on T-mobile too)
2. It is android sendnig all MMS as a "slide show" instead of just attaching the image.
Which is correct, or is it something else? Can it be worked around to send good quality 250kb - 300kb pic attachments.
I would also like to know this, I've had it with the last few HTC phones on Android.
I'm on o2, which haven't supported any of the latest phones, so could be the network I presume. I always got told it was the network before when I raised this issue.
one possible explanation from another user on a different forum stated
Basically what happens when you send a MMS is that is goes to your operators MMSCentre and while its there it reads in the User Agent Profile of your phone so it can determine what size of the picture you sent and it will resize it to the recipients phone screen size (as it may be a different size)
Now heres where the problem lies (i think)
If your operator dont have the User Agent profile for your phone loaded into the MMSCentre it will send the picture to the recipients as the default (small size)-->so long story short you have to wait for O2 to update your phone in the database in the MMSC.
I don't think this is right though. My phone resizes/compressed the message before I even hit send, so I don't believe its the network at all. I think its android using this "slide show" crap instead of just resizing the picture to under 300kb and leaving it at 250kb etc. Not compressing it to 10kb.
If this IS an android problem surely all HTC Hero users would have reported it, and all of their MMS (sent or received) would have been under 20kb? Major flaw if thats the case? Anyone know more?
I've just got a hold of a HTC Hero to try the same experiment on.
I go to photo album, choose to share a photo as a message.
The HTC hero resizes to 45kb not 10kb, and it does not insert the photo as an image in a slideshow, it just attaches it as an image. Just like my old Nokia N82 did. No slideshow crap.
I went through all of the settings and cannot see the difference that would cause his to be an attached image and mine to be inserted in this slideshow format. Possibly coming from the network? I'm unsure. Slideshow format is rubbish though. I just want to send the larger image like the Hero does. argh....
Slight thread change but...
Can Anybody who has O2 on simfree let me know the MMS settings I cant seem to send MMS picture messages. Ive seen that link on the O2 website, but I cant seem to get it working. Ive added in an additional APN, and As O2 dont support it yet they cant help me.
I have installed Handcent, but cant send from either handcent or HTC messaging.
Thanks in advance.
Bloke
It's the operator.
Had the exact same problem when I was in the UK and used O2. When I returned to Norway and Telenor (which have Android devices) MMS are sized properly.
The workaround is to use Handcent or chompSMS and change the useragent to The N95 or the iPhone.
Zappza said:
It's the operator.
Had the exact same problem when I was in the UK and used O2. When I returned to Norway and Telenor (which have Android devices) MMS are sized properly.
The workaround is to use Handcent or chompSMS and change the useragent to The N95 or the iPhone.
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Thats great Zappza. Conclusive.
Hopefully all networks that plan to sell the Desire will have support soon. Cheers
Zappza said:
It's the operator. ...The workaround is to use Handcent or chompSMS and change the useragent to The N95 or the iPhone.
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Wow. That's interesting. ... YouTube, of course a Google property, encourages simplified uploading of videos direct to youtube from phone using MMS...
Worked on my Hero -- because of smaller video file sizes. On the Desire, using default highest resolution video, all attempts at uploading any length of video fail immediately "exceeds file size for MMS" or something of that nature...
Have you tried to see if your workaround would also work for VIDEOS -- or is that just pushing beyond the limits -- not to mention the prohibitive costs of MMS messaging unless you have a flat rate plan.
no its not the network,
The max mms size is 300Kb as defined in the sms/mms settings in the default sms handler in android
handcent allows you to change the default mms size setting and you can select 1Mb so that will help you anyway
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Wow. That's interesting. ... YouTube, of course a Google property, encourages simplified uploading of videos direct to youtube from phone using MMS...
Worked on my Hero -- because of smaller video file sizes. On the Desire, using default highest resolution video, all attempts at uploading any length of video fail immediately "exceeds file size for MMS" or something of that nature...
Have you tried to see if your workaround would also work for VIDEOS -- or is that just pushing beyond the limits -- not to mention the prohibitive costs of MMS messaging unless you have a flat rate plan.
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there is an option where you share the video/upload to yt not using MMS. The size and quality remain the same.
JaykaySLO said:
there is an option where you share the video/upload to yt not using MMS. The size and quality remain the same.
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yes, you can share video using mobile internet or wifi. Just make sure your logged into your youtube account on the phone. No MMS required.
TieT said:
handcent allows you to change the default mms size setting and you can select 1Mb so that will help you anyway
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No, I think you missed the point I was making. If the maximum defined limit is 300kb or 3000kb, my pictures still get re-sized to 10kb or 15kb when I choose "share via messaging"
I have the same thing on the HD2 and Desire, both using Vodafone uk.
The HD2 used to work just fine up until a few weeks ago, Vodafone could not answer why it was happening, but I reckon its a network issue, or the Rom upgrade on the HD2 was the culprit.
When my HD2 comes back from HTC tomorrow, ill stick the old 1.43 Rom back on, and see if it solves it...
thanks pastypacker, let us know how you get on, I'll keep an eye on the thread.
mcgon1979 said:
No, I think you missed the point I was making. If the maximum defined limit is 300kb or 3000kb, my pictures still get re-sized to 10kb or 15kb when I choose "share via messaging"
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sorry bro, misunderstood
in that case, yes i think its your provider.
It's all good. hopefully the network will make the appropriate changes when they start selling the phone here shortly.

Blurry pixs when receiving mms.... :S

Wonder if anybody has this problem, when receiving pixs via mms they come blurrry, sending is no problem but receiving is just impossible cause they come up blurry.....
We're using Mobilicity in Canada and the phone is T-Mo unlocked.
...thx for the replies....
what rom are u running? or is it stock?
Thx for replying, is using stock, and it seems like is an issue on the phone, like the app is not properly written, sending mms between the phones (T989) is useless, while sending mms from the t989 to my N8 works no problem cause the pix shows perfect on my phone, but receiving on the T989 looks as if it's a no go, every time there is an incoming mms the phone compresses the pic and the result is craptacular, I'm going to try Handcent (from the market) to c if that fixes the issue which will basically clear the water about the stock app as the reason for the faulty mms.
Again thx for the reply.
Ok so it seems like the MMS on Mobilicity don't work, I was wondering if anybody could tell me how to check the settings for MMS, I have look around and I'm extremely blind about it.
I want to compare with my N8 since I can send and receive no problem on my phone but I still can't make it to receive properly on the T989.
No MMS pics on TMO T989
On the Tmobile network, no pictures are received. I spent an hour with customer support on New Years Eve, trying to view what would have gotten my GF beads on Mardi Gra, but TMO CSR said they have had problems since Dec 15 on Samsung phones, in particular the T989. It can not receive MMS pics, and has a difficult time sending them, took 30 min for one pic to go out, either wifi or on the network and no work around.
Generous tech supt offered to issue me a $1 credit on my bill. Will be going back to my local store for a refund on Monday.
Check here: post 4027
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1322642&highlight=blurry+mms&page=403
probably the person who sent pic has a low end camera. lol
Blurry MMS
I'm using a custom rom and when I receive pics they are small and blurry. I always come across this problem with certain roms...but this particular rom I love it and really dont want to change right now so that's why now i'm taking the time to try and find a fix. Any help?
NotoriousX3 said:
I'm using a custom rom and when I receive pics they are small and blurry. I always come across this problem with certain roms...but this particular rom I love it and really dont want to change right now so that's why now i'm taking the time to try and find a fix. Any help?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414560&highlight=mms+apk
Try that.

[Q] mms slideshow?

not sure if this has been discussed but i have a att galaxy s3 and each time i get a mms on my stock messaging app i get the pic in a slideshow as if its a video in order for me to zoom in and out i have to save the pic and then i ca nzoom in and out. is that a carrier thing or am i doing something wrong?
Mine does the same thing, and also sends pictures in a slideshow by default. My Captivate used to do this too, which leads me to believe it's a feature of Samsung's messaging app, not necessarily an AT&T thing.
Nobody sends me MMSes. No dongers and such... :crying:

[Q] MMS shows as slideshow

I'm having an annoying issue when I send or recieve an MMS it shows up as a slideshow in my stock MMS app. I'm using the Galaxy Note II SGH-I317M from Telus with Android 4.1.2. This issue was also in the 4.1.1 version. I've used custom roms and this only seems to be an issue in the Touchwiz releases.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? If so, have you encountered a fix for it?
Thanks!
The only thing I can tell you is to not send text with the image and only send one picture at a time. Tell your friends not to send text with the picture and to send only one at a time. It is annoying the only other thing to do is save the images to your device.
CodeNameRedNeck said:
The only thing I can tell you is to not send text with the image and only send one picture at a time. Tell your friends not to send text with the picture and to send only one at a time. It is annoying the only other thing to do is save the images to your device.
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That's something I noticed on my old Galaxy Nexus... If text was included with the image, it would show as a slideshow. With the Note II it doesn't seem to matter. Whether or not there's text included with the image, it still shows as a slideshow.
blazed04 said:
That's something I noticed on my old Galaxy Nexus... If text was included with the image, it would show as a slideshow. With the Note II it doesn't seem to matter. Whether or not there's text included with the image, it still shows as a slideshow.
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This drives me nuts! Hard to believe it's really this way and there is no fix. Well, other than using another Texting app, which i've tried and don't really want to do. I wish there was a way to fix this on the stock app.
Because of this issue I started using Go SMS Pro. It's far better in almost all aspects and doesn't show MMS as slideshows. I love the pop-up messages without exiting other apps as well.

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