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After using a 2014 Moto X for years and years, I finally decided to get with the times and bought the LG V30 Unlocked (from B&H). Verizon is my carrier.
The problem is all received MMS are compressed to hell. Like, down to 26kb and 640x480 resolution. This happens no matter which texting app I try: Google Messages, Textra, Pulse, etc. Anyone know what's going on?! It's driving me mad.
Does it have to do with the APN settings? When I check what they are, it looks different from what i see here: https://vsenn.com/verizon-apn-settings/ (not that I know this site is legit) The problem here is when I try to change, the settings don't hold. I can't Add a new mobile network or make it Save. If I adjust any of the MMS fields, then the whole thing gets deleted.
Should I just return the phone and get it from Verizon? Is there any advantage to getting the unlocked version? Just to avoid bloatware?
I'd really appreciate any help! :good:
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I was wondering for all you who use the Touch HD with at&t if you have had any problems. In the settings for the network everything looks to be set properley (cingular.wap...etc.). It says I have service to but will not let me make or receive calls. When I go to a different part of town it sometimes lets me make calls and sometimes lets me text, even though t says I have service.
Does anyone know if at&t is putting restrictions on the phone or has a solution to the problem which I don't even know what the problem is.
Thanks
carbonaccord008 said:
I was wondering for all you who use the Touch HD with at&t if you have had any problems. In the settings for the network everything looks to be set properley (cingular.wap...etc.). It says I have service to but will not let me make or receive calls. When I go to a different part of town it sometimes lets me make calls and sometimes lets me text, even though t says I have service.
Does anyone know if at&t is putting restrictions on the phone or has a solution to the problem which I don't even know what the problem is.
Thanks
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I haven't run into this yet. I have only had the phone now for 2.5 days and love it, been playing with it alot. Testing my old software and stuff and it always works, gets text messages, emails, and calls.
Did you play with the Phone/Band settings? If so put them back on auto or force them to use ones that work.
I've been using the HD on att for months now without any problems...I didn't have to set anything up to get it to work...just chose ATT when it asked which carrier to use when I turned the phone on for the first time.
Link in my sig if you want to input them manually to be sure they are correct.
I flashed my phone to Page Plus, bought a texting plan, and have everything going...except texting to the only phone I need to. I cannot send a text TO my friend's At&t Go Phone, but can get texts FROM it, along with every other phone I have tried. My friend flashed his Droid Bionic to Page Plus as well and had this very same problem. Is it my friend's phone, or is it mine? I have followed a guide to flashing and all that from this site, along with help from other sites. I have changed the PRL's to get rid of the roaming indicator, which I kinda thought would help, but didn't.
I am getting frustrated as hell. Any tips would be apprciated.
I should start out by saying that I have a Telus I317M N7105 Note 2. Other than rooting the stock 4.0, the only rom I have installed is ProBam (many times over) and to my knowledge it does not touch the modem files or the APN settings. I just recently learned that while I can send MMS messages (attachments to texts), I have possibly NEVER been able to receive them. If people send me a text message, I get it. If they send me a text message with a picture attached, from their end it sends normally with no errors but I never see it or any sign of it.
At first I thought it was the APN settings, but after trying approximately 7 trillion combinations nothing fixes it. I can break things all I want, but the best I can do to fix it is to get back to square one - namely, me being able to send but not receive. And before anyone points me to a link with Telus APN settings, please pm me your home address so I can come and poop in your kid's sandbox. Trust me, I know how many google results there are for such a thing because I HAVE BEEN TO ALL OF THEM.
In desperation I wondered if at some point my modem files were b0rked, even though ProBam wouldn't have touched them and neither have I. Of course I had my original modem/EFS/EMEI stuff backed up from the very beginning, needless to say it doesn't work. My phone was shipped with the I317MVLBMA3 modem, after digging around for a while I flashed the newest Rogers I317MVLUCMK5 modem. What I learned is that the Canadian modem files are NOT cross compatible. When I flashed the newer modem, my primary APN settings screen (which has 3 radio options: Koodo SP, Telus SP, and Telus SP Tether) was firmly locked onto the 'Telus SP Tether' and nothing would make the normal one (Telus SP) stick. Which wasn't a problem, because the phone worked, and so did normal text messages. What wouldn't work was MMS in either direction, no matter what the settings. Also, unlike the stock setup, it was difficult to make changes to the APN settings 'stick'. If you hit the back key, they would revert - which they don't do on stock! If you hit settings, there is a 'save' option, which WILL make them stick, but of course since I never got MMS to work who knows what is really happening?
And now for the saddest news of all: Using the new Rogers modem, my phone had NOTICABLY better reception. I live in Northwest BC, and there are more holes in the cell net around here than a Canucks goalie (sorry, inside joke). With this modem, a lot of those holes were filled, in fact the signal strength was better across the board. A shadow is still a shadow, but in the fuzzy areas I had solid reception. LE SIGH. I should mention that I don't have LTE where I live, but I do have 4G.
And so, I had to flash back to the original modem, where once again NOTHING I do makes it so I can receive MMS messages. I saw some oddball suggestions, there is a 'settings' menu in the actual SMS/MMS app (again, I am using the stock one that I guess is from CM, but I have used Chomp and others and they all work the same), some people have said that unchecking 'auto receive messages' made miracles happen for them, but it didn't make a difference to me.
The phone itself knows that I am not on a stock rom, so people who say that the APN settings are completely separate from the rom are wrong. If I hit 'reset to defaults' it changes the APN type to 'default,supl,mms'. Again, I am going to stress this one more time - I have tried EVERY SINGLE SETTING that I have found on the internet. Pro tip: you don't need spaces, and you don't need to reboot (although I have tried that too between every change, of course).
So PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, someone give me an idea as to what I can try next?! This is insane, it almost feels like a faulty sim card or something. I don't know if I have EVER received an MMS message, and it was only when someone insisted that they sent me a pic that I knew there was even something up. Please, anything...
I should start out by saying that I have a Telus I317M N7105 Note 2. Other than rooting the stock 4.0, the only rom I have installed is ProBam (many times over) and to my knowledge it does not touch the modem files or the APN settings. I just recently learned that while I can send MMS messages (attachments to texts), I have possibly NEVER been able to receive them. If people send me a text message, I get it. If they send me a text message with a picture attached, from their end it sends normally with no errors but I never see it or any sign of it.
At first I thought it was the APN settings, but after trying approximately 7 trillion combinations nothing fixes it. I can break things all I want, but the best I can do to fix it is to get back to square one - namely, me being able to send but not receive. And before anyone points me to a link with Telus APN settings, please pm me your home address so I can come and poop in your kid's sandbox. Trust me, I know how many google results there are for such a thing because I HAVE BEEN TO ALL OF THEM.
In desperation I wondered if at some point my modem files were b0rked, even though ProBam wouldn't have touched them and neither have I. Of course I had my original modem/EFS/EMEI stuff backed up from the very beginning, needless to say it doesn't work. My phone was shipped with the I317MVLBMA3 modem, after digging around for a while I flashed the newest Rogers I317MVLUCMK5 modem. What I learned is that the Canadian modem files are NOT cross compatible. When I flashed the newer modem, my primary APN settings screen (which has 3 radio options: Koodo SP, Telus SP, and Telus SP Tether) was firmly locked onto the 'Telus SP Tether' and nothing would make the normal one (Telus SP) stick. Which wasn't a problem, because the phone worked, and so did normal text messages. What wouldn't work was MMS in either direction, no matter what the settings. Also, unlike the stock setup, it was difficult to make changes to the APN settings 'stick'. If you hit the back key, they would revert - which they don't do on stock! If you hit settings, there is a 'save' option, which WILL make them stick, but of course since I never got MMS to work who knows what is really happening?
And now for the saddest news of all: Using the new Rogers modem, my phone had NOTICABLY better reception. I live in Northwest BC, and there are more holes in the cell net around here than a Canucks goalie (sorry, inside joke). With this modem, a lot of those holes were filled, in fact the signal strength was better across the board. A shadow is still a shadow, but in the fuzzy areas I had solid reception. LE SIGH. I should mention that I don't have LTE where I live, but I do have 4G.
And so, I had to flash back to the original modem, where once again NOTHING I do makes it so I can receive MMS messages. I saw some oddball suggestions, there is a 'settings' menu in the actual SMS/MMS app (again, I am using the stock one that I guess is from CM, but I have used Chomp and others and they all work the same), some people have said that unchecking 'auto receive messages' made miracles happen for them, but it didn't make a difference to me.
The phone itself knows that I am not on a stock rom, so people who say that the APN settings are completely separate from the rom are wrong. If I hit 'reset to defaults' it changes the APN type to 'default,supl,mms'. Again, I am going to stress this one more time - I have tried EVERY SINGLE SETTING that I have found on the internet. Pro tip: you don't need spaces, and you don't need to reboot (although I have tried that too between every change, of course).
So PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, someone give me an idea as to what I can try next?! This is insane, it almost feels like a faulty sim card or something. I don't know if I have EVER received an MMS message, and it was only when someone insisted that they sent me a pic that I knew there was even something up. Please, anything...
Asking this for a friend who has an S9. I have an S10, so I have some familiarity, but we're still fighting with the problem. Here's the story:
He was on TMobile. I suggested he try changing to Total Wireless (Verizon MVNO) as I have had good luck with them. He switched and things were working fine for a few weeks.
Nothing on the phone was changed, but then about 2 weeks ago, his text messages weren't going through, particularly to iPhone users. Normally, we'd think this is a problem on the iPhone side, but nothing changed there either (his wife's iPhone)... in addition, this happened with multiple iPhone users, so it's not just one person...
We've done a ton of digging, contacted the carrier, they contacted VZ for help, tried different apps (stock, Google Messages, etc)... no one has been able to figure out the solution. The most recent finding was that the stock Samsung messaging app works fine for all users, but GMessages continues to have problems. With regard to GMessages, we have checked and confirm that iPhone users are getting detected at "SMS/MMS" and not RCS, so that doesn't appear to be the issue either.
APN settings match what I have (I have no problems with my S10 with any users - iPhone or otherwise).
Only remaining thing I can see is that his phone is seeing a CSC of TMB/XAA/SPR (mine is TFN/TFN/SPR). I think it could be due to the TMB/XAA he's seeing, but the carrier thinks this is not the issue. His ROM is showing up as SM-G960U_OYN_TMB.... I wonder if it's because it's U (instead of U1) so it's unable to switch to TFN?
Anyone else have any ideas on what could be going on here? Since the stock app works, it seems it's not a carrier issue... but I still don't get why that would fail to work on GMessages when it works fine on the stock messaging app?
Any ideas appreciated. We're quite technical and able to do all sorts of things (ODIN flashing, etc)... so nothing is off the table. Just trying to figure out how to fix this.
Bump - no one has any ideas or theories? I'm in brainstorming mode, so no idea is not worth trying!