I am having a problem with picture messaging. When I receive them, they are only about 5 -10 kb and they are VERY tiny. Is there any way to set the phone to download the actual file size of the picture sent?
How I tested: I send a 95 kb picture to myself, and when it got sent back to me, it was only 5kb. However, when I sent the picture to my e-mail address, it received the entire 95 kb file. So I know there was no cap on the file size when i sent it, but why am i getting it back in a tiny 5kb? Any help would be most appreciated!
Ok, I'm going to update and bump this back up to see if there are any other reports. I'm also getting tiny pictures on all WM6 MMS messages I receive. I don't do a lot of MMS stuff, but my daughter sent me a 640x480 image and it came in as a thumbnail 160x120 size which is frustrating. I can send out images in full size from WM6, but all images coming into me are scaled.
I've verified that in the MMS settings, Photo Resolution is set to Original size (i've even set it to every other size and it still doesn't matter, all pics received are 160x120).
Is there anyone out there running WM6 that receives full size images? If so, which WM6 rom are you using? What version of Arcsoft is on your phone? I'd like to try to get to the bottom of this.
Just got off the phone with Cingular and HTC. Decided to call Cingular as I saw on another forum (for another type of phone) that if the celluar provider doesn't have the info on your phone then their system will scale pics to small images like 160x120. Cingular of course has no clue about this and claims its an issue with the device so they put me to HTC. HTC checks a few things then puts me back to Cingular...
What I can see is the message I'm sending has a size of 71K and contains a 640x480 image (by doing Info on the objects in the MMS composer of my sent messages). But the downloaded message is only 11K and the objects info shows the downloaded image is 160x120. So this tells me the scaling is happening elsewhere (I even turned off automatic download and I can see the header message I receive telling me that the message size is smaller than what I sent, so its already been scaled).
So is there something on our phones that send info up to the cell tower that tells it what type of phone this is? If so, could it be that WM6 is sending a code that isn't expected by the cell company, so they then scale it to the 160x120 size?
Here's a link to the forum note I found about this similar issue on a different phone. http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=131824 In that thread, it just started working (so they are guessing the cell provider fixed something on their end).
Thoughts? Comments?
mfrazzz said:
Just got off the phone with Cingular and HTC. Decided to call Cingular as I saw on another forum (for another type of phone) that if the celluar provider doesn't have the info on your phone then their system will scale pics to small images like 160x120. Cingular of course has no clue about this and claims its an issue with the device so they put me to HTC. HTC checks a few things then puts me back to Cingular...
What I can see is the message I'm sending has a size of 71K and contains a 640x480 image (by doing Info on the objects in the MMS composer of my sent messages). But the downloaded message is only 11K and the objects info shows the downloaded image is 160x120. So this tells me the scaling is happening elsewhere (I even turned off automatic download and I can see the header message I receive telling me that the message size is smaller than what I sent, so its already been scaled).
So is there something on our phones that send info up to the cell tower that tells it what type of phone this is? If so, could it be that WM6 is sending a code that isn't expected by the cell company, so they then scale it to the 160x120 size?
Here's a link to the forum note I found about this similar issue on a different phone. http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=131824 In that thread, it just started working (so they are guessing the cell provider fixed something on their end).
Thoughts? Comments?
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Most likely Cingular has a database of their "Official" phones and what resolutions they support. Their system is probably configured to send the small image to any phone that has no entry in the database. The only way you are probably going to get full size images is for cingular to add your model phone running win mobile 6 to their database of phones. My guess is this will be next to impossible to do so youll have to live with it or switch to a provider that wont limit your MMS picture sizes based on phone. If you can get enough wizard users to complain to Cingular they might do something about it.
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Most likely Cingular has a database of their "Official" phones and what resolutions they support. Their system is probably configured to send the small image to any phone that has no entry in the database. The only way you are probably going to get full size images is for cingular to add your model phone running win mobile 6 to their database of phones. My guess is this will be next to impossible to do so youll have to live with it or switch to a provider that wont limit your MMS picture sizes based on phone. If you can get enough wizard users to complain to Cingular they might do something about it.
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Yeah, the more I research this, the more I think this is likely the case. Cingular wants to send me a replacement phone (some guy called me back tonight ) said, the guy I spoke to had talked to him aobut my issue, and he was authorizing a replacement for it. I kindly told him I'd have to think about it as I'm not ready to rebuild this phone (little do they know I've done that multiple times in the past few days .
Tempted to fall back to AKU3.3 and test it there (I didn't test MMS any). I've started questioning what WM6 is really buying me right now. Its been fun to play with. May have to switch back to see how it feels and then decide whether I stay on WM6 or not.
This may be your picture size fix.
I'm actually using an 8525 Hermes and not an 8125 Wizard, but I had the exact same problem as you. I think the problem lies somewhere in the setup of the Cingular MMS, GPRS, and Media Net settings. I'm not positive about that, but I do know that (at least for me) my picture downsizing problem went away as soon as I used the Cingular cab file developed by shogunmark, which can be found in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299393&page=2
So if any of you are on Cingular/AT&T and having the MMS picture sizing problem, try the cab. It may be just what your Wizard ordered!
djaladin said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299393&page=2
So if any of you are on Cingular/AT&T and having the MMS picture sizing problem, try the cab. It may be just what your Wizard ordered!
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Dude! This fixed my problem completely. Just sent and received a couple of 640x480 images with no issues! Thanks a ton for this info, I honestly thought running WM6 was the problem, but it was in how I was setting up my connections... Very very cool
FWIW: I actually went to the first post of the thread (they are keeping that one updated) and used the second cab in that post:
Cingular WAP MediaNet MMS Settingsv2.cab . I also removed the stuff I added so there weren't extra settings.
djaladin said:
I'm actually using an 8525 Hermes and not an 8125 Wizard, but I had the exact same problem as you. I think the problem lies somewhere in the setup of the Cingular MMS, GPRS, and Media Net settings. I'm not positive about that, but I do know that (at least for me) my picture downsizing problem went away as soon as I used the Cingular cab file developed by shogunmark, which can be found in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299393&page=2
So if any of you are on Cingular/AT&T and having the MMS picture sizing problem, try the cab. It may be just what your Wizard ordered!
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Tested and working!!! Thank you so much!
For those of you on services other than Cingular, you may want to check out this thread and see if the cab(s) here help on your particular service:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299023
If you try it, report back here with your findings.
How about for TMO?
mfrazzz said:
For those of you on services other than Cingular, you may want to check out this thread and see if the cab(s) here help on your particular service:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299023
If you try it, report back here with your findings.
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I am getting the same problems, only with TMO. I'm running Faria's Real Thing WWE Rom. I also can't send out any MMS, just receive thumbnailed MMS....
I7oobie said:
I am getting the same problems, only with TMO. I'm running Faria's Real Thing WWE Rom. I also can't send out any MMS, just receive thumbnailed MMS....
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Are your MMS settings correct? TMo's instructions have a mistake in them for the IP address. Check and make sure your IP address ends with .50
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demontefixo said:
Are your MMS settings correct? TMo's instructions have a mistake in them for the IP address. Check and make sure your IP address ends with .50
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Yup, got that all set up. At first, I had no MMS, I then did the steps you are talking about, and now I receive MMS, but thumbnails...
T-Mobile MDA
IPL/SPL 2.26
Faria's Real Thing WWE WM6
I am on TMO US, I can send and recieve MMS.... But I have the small video & pic issue. Will try fooling around with the settings, but it seems simular to what the Cingular folks were having.
mUns Build..
Tmobile MDA
I7oobie said:
Yup, got that all set up. At first, I had no MMS, I then did the steps you are talking about, and now I receive MMS, but thumbnails...
T-Mobile MDA
IPL/SPL 2.26
Faria's Real Thing WWE WM6
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hmm, are the options within MMs set to send "original" size?
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hmm, are the options within MMs set to send "original" size?
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I can check that, but that still wouldn't explain not receiving any MMS... I know there is a CAB file to fix it, but it's for Cingular... I suppose it wouldn't be wise to try that, would it?
It is set to send "original size" but that wont affect "receiving". My MMS sends the entire file size, but all pictures received are 160x120 or smaller. Its annoying.
I have T-mobile.
FYI, my mms works fine with WM5. I first thought that maybe T-mobile had a server issue and downsized pix. But then when i went back to Xelecin's custom 2.6 rom, it worked fine. I even tried the standard t-mobile 2.26 rom. I am only getting small pix with WM6
Possible T-Mobile Fix for Tiny Pictures
Hey guys I was looking at this problem with the tiny pictures coming through on the MMS. I didn't have the problem on MBE but I flashed Not Too Smart's ROM and found this problem. One of the possible solutions I came up with was to unlock the Extended Rom using the UNLOCK EXTENDED ROM WIZARD and the running the setup file to restore this to a T-Mobile (branded?) Style phone. It will keep WM6 on there but add on the other features from the T-Mobile WM5 ROM such as OZ instant Messaging, T-Zones, Hot Spot Locator, as well as all the default settings for SMS, MMS, and EDGE.
As soon as I can get someone to send me an MMS, I'll let you know if it worked.
falconeyez said:
Hey guys I was looking at this problem with the tiny pictures coming through on the MMS. I didn't have the problem on MBE but I flashed Not Too Smart's ROM and found this problem. One of the possible solutions I came up with was to unlock the Extended Rom using the UNLOCK EXTENDED ROM WIZARD and the running the setup file to restore this to a T-Mobile (branded?) Style phone. It will keep WM6 on there but add on the other features from the T-Mobile WM5 ROM such as OZ instant Messaging, T-Zones, Hot Spot Locator, as well as all the default settings for SMS, MMS, and EDGE.
As soon as I can get someone to send me an MMS, I'll let you know if it worked.
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But, I'm running the Faria V5.0 Extended Rom already... Does that matter? Also, will I be able to do this fix with Vista, I used a buddies computer to flash the rom...
falconeyez said:
As soon as I can get someone to send me an MMS, I'll let you know if it worked.
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Just send one to yourself, or PM me and I'll send you an MMS.
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But, I'm running the Faria V5.0 Extended Rom already... Does that matter? Also, will I be able to do this fix with Vista, I used a buddies computer to flash the rom...
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I don't know. I would assume that Faria's Etended ROM would have over write the T-Mobile extended ROM.
I have the files in a zipped folder, but for some reason I keep getting upload errors. Any help?
Just unzip the file and throw the unzipped folder onto an SD card. When the card is in your device, launch the autorun program. Hopefully it should work. I would probably delete all the previous MMS settings, and GPRS settings that you placed previously.
I know this is a bit old, but I've never managed to fix the problem and I just received a picture message, so it jogged my memory
I've searched the forum, and it seems that everyone having the problem of receiving small pictures in messages has fixed it with either Cingular or T-Mobile cabs. What I'm wondering is, has anybody found a proper fix for it that works whatever network you're on?
I'm on O2 in the UK, and haven't seen anything posted specifically for O2, or in general for people not on Cingular/AT&T or T-Mobile, but I'm hoping someone knows what I can do!
I'm on T-Mobile USA and I have this problem with Crossbow Reloaded 1.7. I've tried searching and CANNOT find a FIX! What are these cab files you're talking about... Do you have a thread you're reading this from?
Tiny MMS fix
For t-mobile customers, i have provided a post with a fix a WHILE back
enjoy!: (POSTING #48)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297538&page=5&highlight=tiny+mms
MMS Working on wizard with WM6
How you managed to get MMS working in general? I used Faria roms and IGnetics non of them support MMS.
For everyone with small MMS issue, install this fix. It worked like a charm for me.
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/MMS_FIX.cab
Right click, save as...
worked like a dream - had a quick look at the changes it makes - all in the registry, seems to use a nokia xls for the formatting rather than the htc one... weird...
Cokey said:
For everyone with small MMS issue, install this fix. It worked like a charm for me.
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/MMS_FIX.cab
Right click, save as...
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Okay this link does not work for me at all right click or not I get an error not found also tried to direct the phones browser to it and url not found so is there anywhere else that this MMS fix cab can be located?
Tiny mms fixed (no tweaks needed)!
have you guys tried this..
Go to Messaging -> SMS/MMS -> OUTBOX
then Click MENU -> MMS Options...
then select your preferred photo resoulution...
it worked on my Xperia X1
Finally! A fix that worked for my TMOUS HD2 w/Touch Xtreme ROM
Follow this link and scroll down to fixes!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653563
From what I understand this fix will not work on an HTC Inspire. Is that correct? Does anyone have a solution? thanks.
OX Mobile Spy
My phone seems to have no fix, I have encountered such a problem, there is no better way to do that?I urgently need someone to guide us.
hi there I have a Unlocked Blackjack 2 and im using Tmobile. ok well when i get an MMS Picture, i get it like 14 k and its small like a thumbnail, but when i send its the original size...please anyone help ....
It sounds more like a setting at the other end, not your phone. There are roughly four main sizes in which a Windows Mobile device sends photos (don't know them) and it sounds like the other person has it set to the smallest size for compatibility reasons.
Perhaps provide a bit more information and we will try and help.
Jadel said:
It sounds more like a setting at the other end, not your phone. There are roughly four main sizes in which a Windows Mobile device sends photos (don't know them) and it sounds like the other person has it set to the smallest size for compatibility reasons.
Perhaps provide a bit more information and we will try and help.
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well my phone was setup for ATT but i got the setup proxy and grps for the tmobile, its brandnew though, but i cant find the sizes, my tmobileWing was like this, i had to install a cab for it to recieve original size pics, is there a cab file for this phone by any chance?
can u post your mms settings?
can u post your mms settings?
Does anyone got any news about official WM6.1? or never?
Why this Treo750 thread so quiet and empty... ??
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Its written here in this treo thread, it looks like, no official wm6,1 but that unofficila works great
I try to find a cooked rom for the treo 750 but I cannot find some good ones.
aaischa said:
Its written here in this treo thread, it looks like, no official wm6,1 but that unofficila works great
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Yeah i know about those two version (standard & Lite) but it just doesn't work for me. tried both of them... got problems with the ringtones and some other little things.
Standard rom
sliders7 said:
Yeah i know about those two version (standard & Lite) but it just doesn't work for me. tried both of them... got problems with the ringtones and some other little things.
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The standard version from dubai is OK for the Ringtone problem just simplifly click event dropdown and select item "Phone:Known Caller" the Ring type will display correct. Over all of this rom it work so smoothly.
k101d
6.1 is just so much snappier than 6...
the biggest drawback i've had so far is the fact i cannot send MMS messages on 6.1 tried all settings etc.
revert back to 6 and it works. i'm struggling to deal with the LAGGINESS of 6 but waiting for someone to find a fix to MMS and 6.1
or i'll cave and get a nokia e71.
calvin_sy said:
6.1 is just so much snappier than 6...
the biggest drawback i've had so far is the fact i cannot send MMS messages on 6.1 tried all settings etc.
revert back to 6 and it works. i'm struggling to deal with the LAGGINESS of 6 but waiting for someone to find a fix to MMS and 6.1
or i'll cave and get a nokia e71.
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use the normal 6.1 and not the lite version . see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374381
(when you use the lite version, there is solution - install the palm message software. my recomodation is - install the normal version).
you have no problems with mms on 6.1 normal? that was the version i was using...
i'm in AU on three network.
calvin_sy said:
you have no problems with mms on 6.1 normal? that was the version i was using...
i'm in AU on three network.
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I am using normal 6.1 and in Vodafone AU. MMS works well
I'm on Telstra - AU, to get MMS working with 6,1 I had to edit the network configuration within messaging.
Menu
Options
Advanced
Edit
The Message Centre number was correct, but had to change MMS gateway & MMS URL
Works perfect now.
Good luck.
I updated my Treo 700wx with a ROM i found on the net. It's WM 6.0 and runs very well on the phone, EXCEPT text messaging. All i get is jumble. Like "&" and "|" and square boxes.
Anyone know what's wrong with it???
Also, i'm with BELL Canada, but the ROM i think was made for SPRINT phones (I didn't think it made a different from what i've read on the net)
Can anyone help???
The_New_Guy said:
I updated my Treo 700wx with a ROM i found on the net. It's WM 6.0 and runs very well on the phone, EXCEPT text messaging. All i get is jumble. Like "&" and "|" and square boxes.
Anyone know what's wrong with it???
Also, i'm with BELL Canada, but the ROM i think was made for SPRINT phones (I didn't think it made a different from what i've read on the net)
Can anyone help???
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Hmmm... Sounds like an encoding problem.
Try this: Download and install Schap's Advanced Config. Run it and look in the messaging section. There should be an option to have SMS accept Unicode characters. Whatever it is set to, change it and see if it fixes the problem.