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poor connection and no sms?

hey I'm using Kangs rom, love it, so fast great battery life, i also flashed francos kernel but I'm having an issue with connection.
my connection is really spotty. my apn settings look fine and occasionally i get good speeds that will sometimes just drop to nothing. I'm on the xxkk6 baseband in nyc, appreciate any help, thanks.

thatg said:
hey I'm using Kangs rom, love it, so fast great battery life, i also flashed francos kernel but I'm having an issue with connection.
my connection is really spotty. my apn settings look fine and occasionally i get good speeds that will sometimes just drop to nothing. I'm on the xxkk6 baseband in nyc, appreciate any help, thanks.
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try one of the latest radios XXLA2 or UGCL1
no sms just screams wrong APN settings so does spotty connections ... just sayin

ok now using ugcl1, connection seems good for now but still can't send sms, here is what my apn looks like, i keep getting message not sent
Name: Cingular 410
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: Blank
Port: Blank
Username: [email protected]
Password: CINGULAR1
Server: cingulargprs.com
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS Port: Blank
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: Blank
APN Type: default,supl,mms
APN protocol: leave as is
Bearer: unidentified

this person seems to be having the same issue as me but i can't exactly figure out what that did here if someone can help me
Similar issue here with my GSM Galaxy Nexus on AT&T.....
Seems the problem started earlier today
I can make and receive calls with no issue, I can receive texts but I cannot send texts.
Tried sim in my old iPhone 4S, texts send no problem, even with imessage turned off so it forces to send as SMS.
Tried factory 4.0.1 that shipped with my phone and also tried 4.0.2 and 4.0.4
like i said, I can receive texts no problem.
I was able to send texts prior with no issue.
multiple factory resets and resetting APN's to default.
AT&T rep couldn't help so they have a case open to resolve...
This is driving me nuts!
UPDATE: I can send MMS with no problems at all.
UPDATE 2: I tried the steps listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6#post24329026 to make sure the SMSC was listed correctly, but i am still unable to send SMS...
UPDATE 3: IT'S WORKING FINALLY!!! I found a list of SMSC numbers here: http://smsclist.com/downloads/default.txt and used the online PDU encoder decoder here: http://www.twit88.com/home/utility/s...-encode-decode to get the number needed to enter into my phone. SMS are sending now

thatg said:
hey I'm using Kangs rom, love it, so fast great battery life, i also flashed francos kernel but I'm having an issue with connection.
my connection is really spotty. my apn settings look fine and occasionally i get good speeds that will sometimes just drop to nothing. I'm on the xxkk6 baseband in nyc, appreciate any help, thanks.
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Try all the radios and find which is better in your zone of phone use. For me, best coberture anda wifi done by LC1
Im writing this post cause i havent 10. Im new in this forum but not in development Knowledge, and i consider its a stupid rule. Im sorry if i write any Irrelevant post.
EDIT: and now 5 minuts between post? buffff....For that things, this forum its not the best :S (and captcha )

thatg said:
this person seems to be having the same issue as me but i can't exactly figure out what that did here if someone can help me
Similar issue here with my GSM Galaxy Nexus on AT&T.....
Seems the problem started earlier today
I can make and receive calls with no issue, I can receive texts but I cannot send texts.
Tried sim in my old iPhone 4S, texts send no problem, even with imessage turned off so it forces to send as SMS.
Tried factory 4.0.1 that shipped with my phone and also tried 4.0.2 and 4.0.4
like i said, I can receive texts no problem.
I was able to send texts prior with no issue.
multiple factory resets and resetting APN's to default.
AT&T rep couldn't help so they have a case open to resolve...
This is driving me nuts!
UPDATE: I can send MMS with no problems at all.
UPDATE 2: I tried the steps listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6#post24329026 to make sure the SMSC was listed correctly, but i am still unable to send SMS...
UPDATE 3: IT'S WORKING FINALLY!!! I found a list of SMSC numbers here: http://smsclist.com/downloads/default.txt and used the online PDU encoder decoder here: http://www.twit88.com/home/utility/s...-encode-decode to get the number needed to enter into my phone. SMS are sending now
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Wow what a hassle! I'm glad you got it working
I would suggest backing up your APN settings to a file with titanium backup or whatever!

blowtorch said:
Wow what a hassle! I'm glad you got it working
I would suggest backing up your APN settings to a file with titanium backup or whatever!
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that wasn't me getting it working, that was me asking how the heck some other guy got it working. I'm not sure what happened but i took out my sim, installed a different hang rom which had horrible connection but my texting worked, i decided the poor connection was unbearable and restored to the one with the texting not working, and for some reason it was working this time, not sure if it was me removing my sim or what but this time it automatically had the correct smsc stored.
Now... a new issue. i came from an iPhone4s and forgot to turn off iMessage, this causes iPhone uses to have their texts sent to me incorrectly through only iMessage and not my phone number. i put my sim back into the iPhone and and turned off iMessage which cured the texting but mms is still having issues. this is one of the reasons i always end up going back to the iPhone. the customizability of android is fun and allows for a lot of play but you always run into problems you spend hours trying to mend. also having issues with gmail, i have to manually refresh it to get my emails

GNEX and straight talk MMS issues

Been working on this issue on and off for a couple days and thought it was time to ask the pros. I can send/rec sms messages with no problems. But if someone sends me a mms it has the download button but the picture will not download. I have double checked my APN settings and they match what Straight Talk says to use. This in an unlocked GNEX from the play store with the AT&T/Unlocked sim card they send out.
Thanks

this happens to me quite often but usually only on wifi or if the person decides to send like 5 pics at once, otherwise it will download the attachment just fine.

In the apn listing under MMSC, there is a line starting http://. Make sure the line starting with http:// has all the correct info. If not correct info press menu to see option to save changes.

My settings say http://mmsc.cingular.com

/b/laZ1n said:
My settings say http://mmsc.cingular.com
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make sure the proxy line starts with proxy, also try erasing the cingular apn setting the phone comes with.

My Unlocked Play Store Galaxy Nexus is doing the same thing on Straight Talk. Tried messing with putting the proxy back in and also turning off Wifi. Still the same issue as OP.

My first day with Straight talk and I'm having the same issue with MMS. All settings are right but I can't send out MMS

Hey guys. Make sure this is all correct too. I was getting very disappointed with Straight Talk about this. Somehow this got erased or reset having never entered that menu.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1635040
P.S. I use Google Voice now but I still receive MMS from straight talk regarding my bill. I got sick of entering all of the APN. Now I only include
Straight Talk
att.mvno
Thats it. Works like a charm. Have never had any issue. I've only been distributing my Google Voice number for about 2 years having frequently shopping carriers. But like I said I still receive MMS from Straight Talk.

[Q] No SMS or MMS after Straight Talk Switch (UPDATE 6/30/14)

I understand this thread may be in the incorrect location, so mods or admins feel free to move it to the correct location.
So yesterday I changed over from AT&T to Straight Talk on the bring your own phone feature.
I used my Galaxy Note 2 (not a clone) Jelly Bean 4.1.2 software. I am able to place and receive phone calls as well as access the internet so far. My MMS is functioning to send pictures, however will not receive them. Also, my SMS does not function for sending or receiving text at all.
I followed the instructions on Straight Talk for setting the APN. When I did that I had no internet or sending of MMS. I found on google some other APN settings which made my internet and sending MMS work.
My current settings are as follows.
Name: straight talk
APN: tfdata
Proxy: not set
Port: 80
MMSC: h t t p : / / mms-tf . net (without spaces)
MMS Proxy: mms3 . tracfone . com (without spaces)
MMS Port: 80
It's only been 24 hours since I switched but I've spent basically that entire time trying different APN's I found online.
I also made a Facebook account and went to the support tab on their facebook. I chatted with a person from tech support, however they were unable to resolve my issue. It was the exact same thing as talking to a tech support member at their 800 number. It was a whole lot of...
"send yourself a text and see if you get it"
Didn't work
"okay turn your phone off and back on again"
okay
"try sending yourself a text and see if you get it"
nope didn't work still
"okay trying deleting your text messages, it's probably full"
okay
"restart the phone and try to send yourself a message"
didn't work again
"Okay make sure your APN settings are exactly as they are on our website"
yep they are
"Okay now try to reboot your phone again and send yourself a message"
Wait a minute...you had me LOOK at my APN settings and since they're okay, we are just going to reboot again? Really?
"Okay we are going to walk you through a factory reset of your phone. You will probably lose any pictures, video or music you had saved on the phone. Let me know when you are ready to go ahead with the process"
Ummmm...CLICK...I hung up...
Except the chat support operator hung up on me when I tried their facebook support. They simply disconnected leaving behind a message saying "to assist you further, we will need to speak to you directly, please call our 800 number blah blah blah". They basically had me do the same thing as the phone operator except they once even had me remove my sim card and put it back in then reboot.
So...I still have no SMS or MMS.
I don't feel like it's going to be an APN setting issue because I tried every APN I could find on google yesterday and today. They all seem to allow me to do the same things and they all seem to restrict SMS. I find this odd because most people with APN problems, the main complaint seems to just be not being able to send/receive MMS only.
I was unable to delete or edit the AT&T APN that was already in the phone. Unfortunately the APN Backup & Restore app will not work for me because my software is version 4.1.2 so I'm feeling trapped here. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Here's my apn guide. Hopefully it might help you...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38641763
Your apn I see you listed looks a lil different, than the ones I posted...
Couple of questions.
Are you rooted?
Is that stock firmware?
Have the device ever been rooted?
Did ya get it used?
Many many factors can come into play. When running into problems..
SENT FROM MY SAMMY i317 USING TAPATALK4

Well after my wife talked to ST with some attitude they have finally offered to send a new sim card to me, which is the first new thing they've tried not involving rebooting my phone. I don't have much faith in it providing a fix. If it does, I will update this thread to show my findings, however if it does not I will be returning to AT&T to get a gophone sim.

83HatchGTI said:
Well after my wife talked to ST with some attitude they have finally offered to send a new sim card to me, which is the first new thing they've tried not involving rebooting my phone. I don't have much faith in it providing a fix. If it does, I will update this thread to show my findings, however if it does not I will be returning to AT&T to get a gophone sim.
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Ok I'll wait, and check back on your outcome... Hopefully everything works out for you...
SENT FROM MY SAMMY i317 USING TAPATALK4

Bajanman said:
Here's my apn guide. Hopefully it might help you...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38641763
Your apn I see you listed looks a lil different, than the ones I posted...
Couple of questions.
Are you rooted?
Is that stock firmware?
Have the device ever been rooted?
Did ya get it used?
Many many factors can come into play. When running into problems..
SENT FROM MY SAMMY i317 USING TAPATALK4
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No my phone isn't rooted.
Yes it's stock
I don't know if it's ever been rooted. I am the second owner of this phone.
Yes I got the phone used.
I'll look at your link. I'm not afraid to keep trying other options right now. My new sim won't be here for another 3 to 5 days. That's way too long to be without sms. I downloaded Voxer and can send text and pictures through its features but not everyone in my contacts has Voxer or wants to get another app just because of me. This has sucked all the way around.

So my new SIM card arrived today. I installed it immediately and placed a call to Straight Talk via a different phone (wifes iPhone) to activate it. I am well finished activating my new SIM and am able to place calls as well as send MMS, yet still cannot receive them nor send/receive SMS yet. It's been a several hours now and nothing. This sucks. I didn't want to wipe my phone completely but I tried it. Back to factory settings and still nothing. In the process of downloading all my apps and putting all my pictures back on my phone now. Blah.

For anyone interested in hearing how this turned out, I sort of have an answer. My SMS and MMS both work now as well as internet.
After putting my new SIM card in and having Straight Talk re-provision my account, then hard resetting my phone, it ended up working after about 5 hours. I kept trying to send SMS off and on during that time and suddenly a message made it to my wifes phone and she was able to reply. So far everyone in my contacts can get messages and reply. It was Straight Talks problem all along.

UPDATE: So I crushed my Note 2 in a machine at work while using the flash light app on it. The sim card and memory card survived. I ordered a new Note 2 unlocked from Amazon. The only difference between the new phone and my old one aside from color, is that mine was not unlocked and this one is.
I put my same sim card from the old phone into the new one. Everything worked again except mms. After going back and forth with ST trying to get a new sim card again, they had me set my apn mms proxy to "mms3 . tracfone . com" without the spaces. After a restart, I was able to send pictures to my wife and get pictures from her. I sent pictures to various contacts all morning and suddenly have a new problem. Now my pictures say they failed and have an exclamation point next to them in my inbox, but my contacts were still getting pictures after that occurred. I did a restart again and now they don't get pictures and I still get the exclamation point. Also I get a pop up that says Error: Network Error Occurred. Any ideas?

83HatchGTI said:
UPDATE: So I crushed my Note 2 in a machine at work while using the flash light app on it. The sim card and memory card survived. I ordered a new Note 2 unlocked from Amazon. The only difference between the new phone and my old one aside from color, is that mine was not unlocked and this one is.
I put my same sim card from the old phone into the new one. Everything worked again except mms. After going back and forth with ST trying to get a new sim card again, they had me set my apn mms proxy to "mms3 . tracfone . com" without the spaces. After a restart, I was able to send pictures to my wife and get pictures from her. I sent pictures to various contacts all morning and suddenly have a new problem. Now my pictures say they failed and have an exclamation point next to them in my inbox, but my contacts were still getting pictures after that occurred. I did a restart again and now they don't get pictures and I still get the exclamation point. Also I get a pop up that says Error: Network Error Occurred. Any ideas?
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I had the same issue after updating to kitkkat. Make sure the APN Type is blank. Mine had some presets in it after updating and I deleted them out and now it says APN Type not set, And it fixed it for me.

Shrek77 said:
I had the same issue after updating to kitkkat. Make sure the APN Type is blank. Mine had some presets in it after updating and I deleted them out and now it says APN Type not set, And it fixed it for me.
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Well, I tried that. This time when I sent a picture, I got the swirling circle (loading) to the lower right of the picture I tried to send. It was loading for about 2 or 3 minutes and finally showed that it sent. Everyone was getting my pictures 3 times on their phones before my phone would say it failed. This time, my wife got my picture one time and it shows on my phone that it did send. Thanks for the help.
I think it took a while to send just now because I'm being throttled by Straight Talk.

83HatchGTI said:
Well, I tried that. This time when I sent a picture, I got the swirling circle (loading) to the lower right of the picture I tried to send. It was loading for about 2 or 3 minutes and finally showed that it sent. Everyone was getting my pictures 3 times on their phones before my phone would say it failed. This time, my wife got my picture one time and it shows on my phone that it did send. Thanks for the help.
I think it took a while to send just now because I'm being throttled by Straight Talk.
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You are welcome. Glad I was able to help!

Shrek77 said:
You are welcome. Glad I was able to help!
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Thanks again. I wonder why before, with my at&t phone I had to specify the apn type but with this unlocked phone, I didn't? Strange.

83HatchGTI said:
Thanks again. I wonder why before, with my at&t phone I had to specify the apn type but with this unlocked phone, I didn't? Strange.
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I have the AT&T variant note 2 and before the update it defaulted blank but after it plugged in some by itself. I don't know why but who knows.

Shrek77 said:
I have the AT&T variant note 2 and before the update it defaulted blank but after it plugged in some by itself. I don't know why but who knows.
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just a quick update for you...the whole issue where everyone was getting my pictures 3 times...worked itself out. Your suggestion to delete the APN type is what got my pictures to send. Then after a few days it randomly quit sending the picture 3 times and then saying it failed.
Now my phone works great

83HatchGTI said:
just a quick update for you...the whole issue where everyone was getting my pictures 3 times...worked itself out. Your suggestion to delete the APN type is what got my pictures to send. Then after a few days it randomly quit sending the picture 3 times and then saying it failed.
Now my phone works great
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Glad your phone is fixed!

Issues with the LG G3

Ok so the phone doesnt download any images or send any images while I am on wifi. Then the women in my family have the habit of sending big group messages and they appear as MMS and they never download either not on wifi or mobile network. Anyone gone through this. Thinking of rooting or getting a new phone. I've only had it for a few months and I love it. But as of late the images not going out or coming in have started to really annoy me. It is not rooted at all. It is from Tmobile if that helps.

Felixcgp said:
Ok so the phone doesnt download any images or send any images while I am on wifi. Then the women in my family have the habit of sending big group messages and they appear as MMS and they never download either not on wifi or mobile network. Anyone gone through this. Thinking of rooting or getting a new phone. I've only had it for a few months and I love it. But as of late the images not going out or coming in have started to really annoy me. It is not rooted at all. It is from Tmobile if that helps.
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I was having the same issue at first, when i switched to hangouts as me default text and mms app everything went back to normal.

Yes, maybe try an alternative messaging app, like Hangouts, Textra, or Chomp.
Also, I don't have your variant or run stock anymore, but we had a similar issue with CM ROMs where the APN authentication was not set for MMS, causing failures while connected to wifi. Have a look in your Mobile Networks portion of Settings and see if there is an APN where MMS is the only APN type for one of them. Changing the authentication type and rebooting is what fixed it for us. That may not be there, but worth the look.

Pixel 2 XL APN duplication and triplication issues

I keep getting notifications of MMS failures... when trying to retrieve and trying to send. When this occurs, I check the APN listing and notice instead of just one APN, my carrier's APN has been automatically duplicated and sometimes triplicated but with missing info in the new APNs such as maybe the MMS proxy or the port will be missing from these new automatically added APN entries - and also the phone has automatically changed to one of the new "bad" APNs. I delete the "bad" APNs, leaving the "good" one and everything works. Few hours later, it does it again. And sometimes it won't do it again at all until I reboot the phone. I just had to go through the process of deleting two new "bad" automatic APN additions because an MMS I was trying to send failed. Checked the APN list and sure enough, the phone had triplicated my carrier's APN and changed itself to use one of those. Deleted both of them and MMS working again. This is really getting annoying. I'm on Cricket Wireless (owned by AT&T using AT&T towers). I just did the Network Settings Reset and when I did that, once it reset everything, sure enough there were two APNs listed for my same carrier and one of them was missing the MMS proxy address. I selected the "good" one and sent a test MMS and it failed. I went back into the APN list and deleted the "bad" one, retried the MMS and it worked.

I'm also not receiving mms but I am on Sprint. How did you access the apn list?

I'm seeing the exact same behavior on my mother-in-law's new Pixel 2 on Cricket. My wife and I both have Pixel 2 XLs on Cricket. I see the duplcation/triplication on our phones as well, but so long as the correct APN is selected, MMS messages send. On the Pixel 2, I also have to delete the "bad" APNs that are missing the MMS proxy and port in order to get MMS to work.
Are these APNs pulled from the SIM or does the SIM connect to Cricket and then download APN information? I'd just like to know if this is a Google problem or a Cricket problem.

Definitely seems to be an issue with Cricket. I've since left Cricket and went to Google's ProjectFi. No problems now and using the Pixel 2 XL's eSIM. I posted about the issue on Google's Help Forums and see there's others having the same issue, all with Cricket. Could be Cricket's SIM cards, could be the Pixel not reading them correctly.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/phone-by-google/s8ABqw0ZA-o

I kind of figured the post on the Google forums was you as well. Unfortunately, Project Fi service doesn't work well enough where I live to be an alternative. Sprint and T-Mobile are pretty much worthless here. I've opened an escalated case with Cricket. I was told I'd hear something back in 3-5 days. I'll let both forums know what I hear back. Glad I'm not alone on this one.

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I'm seeing the exact same behavior on my mother-in-law's new Pixel 2 on Cricket. My wife and I both have Pixel 2 XLs on Cricket. I see the duplcation/triplication on our phones as well, but so long as the correct APN is selected, MMS messages send. On the Pixel 2, I also have to delete the "bad" APNs that are missing the MMS proxy and port in order to get MMS to work.
Are these APNs pulled from the SIM or does the SIM connect to Cricket and then download APN information? I'd just like to know if this is a Google problem or a Cricket problem.
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Me too on cricket. I don't think that the APN's are coming from the SIM directly, because I'm using the same SIM I used on my 6P, and it updated to the proper APN over the network when the SIM was inserted into it.
I'm guessing we could go into a Cricket store and get a new SIM if needed? Carrier should definitely have to fix this one. But like you, once fixed mine stays good...
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After more experimenting, I have found that this does in fact affect both of the Pixel 2 XLs as well. I don't notice it on my phone because I use Google Voice for my texting which doesn't depend on the carrier's APN settings. Basically, if more than one APN exists and one of them is missing MMS settings such as the MMS proxy and MMS port, MMS does not work. This is true regardless of which APN is chosen as the active APN. If the "good" APN is chosen, but the "bad" APN still exists on the phone, MMS does not work. My phones will hold their settings until they reboot the next time at which point they will redownload the duplicate and bad APN data which will break MMS again.

Samething here but now with 8.1. I have to delete the 2 automated APN's and add a manual one. The manual one is the same info as one of the ones I deleted. After I reboot the APN is set on my manual one but it added the 2 other ones and then I can't send any pictures until I delete the 2 automated ones...WTF!!!!! Things I've done, flashed September, November and December images multiple times, tried different kernels, rooted/unrooted, both unlocks and re-locked, deleted and edited the 3 APN.xml files in system/etc, edited the the file in framework/res but it gave me errors when pushing back to the phone. The sim works fine in nexus 6 and 6p. If this is crickets problem it will never get fixed. So looking at Plan B. Stop the phone from adding APN's. If anyone has any info on how to stop the adding of APN's. You will save my sanity lol.