If I send MMS messages through Handcent, people on other networks receive them fine. However, if I send an MMS message via the stock messaging app, people receive the message as a slideshow (e.g., a play and pause button appear), even though I'm only sending a single picture. Do others have this problem as well? Is there a fix for it? Between 3rd party launchers being more stable than Google's stock launcher, and now Handcent having less bugs than the stock messaging app, this is really starting to get old.
nyijedi said:
If I send MMS messages through Handcent, people on other networks receive them fine. However, if I send an MMS message via the stock messaging app, people receive the message as a slideshow (e.g., a play and pause button appear), even though I'm only sending a single picture. Do others have this problem as well? Is there a fix for it? Between 3rd party launchers being more stable than Google's stock launcher, and now Handcent having less bugs than the stock messaging app, this is really starting to get old.
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Eh, happens to me sometimes, it more or less depends on what carrier is receiving the MMS
ATT Tmo and Sprint users get my MMS fine Verizon get a slideshow thingy
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Anyone have trouble sending mms? Mine just stalls and eventually gives me a notice that it can't be sent...had the trouble for a while now....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Are you having this problem on both 3G and Edge or just when you are on Edge?
your not trying to send it through google voice are you?
I had trouble with mine on EDGE. The solution was to get Handcent SMS and set the size of the MMS.
Settings->Send message settings->Maximum MMS size and I set it to 100k
No problems since.
mmm_tacos said:
I had trouble with mine on EDGE. The solution was to get Handcent SMS and set the size of the MMS.
Settings->Send message settings->Maximum MMS size and I set it to 100k
No problems since.
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I am also having this problem. I found that it was only an issue on Edge.... which is all that is available here. Pretty much rendering my MMS messages useless. Along with GPS. So im quite displeased at this moment.
As for the Settings = send message settings above thing .... I do not see the "Send MEssage Settings" option anywhere. Not in Message Settings or in regular Settings. Any particular place for it? Hope it works if i find it. Frustrated.
Correction - I see you mean to get the program Handcent SMS. Though that actually pisses me off more that I have to get a program to send on Edge, I will give it a shot.
Works
I can confirm that the Handcent SMS app on the Marketplace works for MMS on Edge network. Thanks for the tip off good sir.
If you're running Stock JF6 ROM and only has EDGE signal, you have two choices:
1. Some how shrink the picture down to 100k or so. Anything bigger won't send over EDGE. It is one of the known bugs in stock ROM.
2. You can flash to the newer leaked beta ROM. This bug has been addressed in newer ROMs.
Or you can wait for the official ROM update that fixes GPS among other things. No one know when that will happen yet.
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mmm_tacos -
Did you find a way to disable the regular Messaging system so you dont get two notifications for every text/MMS message received?
Finch44 said:
mmm_tacos -
Did you find a way to disable the regular Messaging system so you dont get two notifications for every text/MMS message received?
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You should be able to open the stock Messaging application and hit your menu button and go to settings and go to Notifications and uncheck it.
mmm_tacos said:
You should be able to open the stock Messaging application and hit your menu button and go to settings and go to Notifications and uncheck it.
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much appreciated
I can send a MMS, but cant receive one.
Those I send it to do receive it.
When I receive a MMS I get a Txt which has a 'Download' button in it. I try to download but it doesnt work, even if the photo is tiny.
Im on JH7
I wondered whether anyone else has seen this behaviour in the Stock SMS messaging app.
To set the scene I have a Vodafone Branded Sensation with the latest OTA applied.
When I create large text messages, so over 500 Characters which splits into 4 messages, I try and use a Google contact GROUP as the recipient. When I do this just before I click send I get the dreaded message "mms app has stop responding and needs to be forced closed".
I have no other option than to hit close, this then forces the app down and also doesn't save my mammoth message I just ticked in!!
Anybody else seen this happen, I swear it was working pre the OTA update!!??
EDIT: The same behaviour happens with Handcent SMS, which makes me think something more sinister is going on here!
I am running the Hyperdrive RLS7 ROM with Lean kernel. I have decided that I like Chomp for messaging better than the AOSP style messaging app I installed using AROMA with this ROM. I used App Manager to disable the baked in messaging app and, after that, I could send SMS, but couldn't receive any SMS/MMS or send MMS. So I re-enabled messaging and could send both, but only receive SMS. I went back to a nandroid, but this didn't fix the problem. I ended up doing a clean install of Hyperdrive.
My question is whether this is a ROM issue, related to my use of the App manager or a problem with the messaging choice in AROMA or something else altogether? Should Chomp have still worked with the messaging app disabled and should it have worked correctly after enabling it again? Was there any way to fix it without a full clean install? TIA.
I think the problem is with Chomp. I've always had MMS issues with Chomp and Handcent fc'ing. Also, you should not disable your stock messaging app (as you found out), otherwise it will give you issues with the third party apps.
Honestly, I've tried a lot of different sms/mms apps, since I'm not a huge fan of the stock S3 one, and I keep going back to GoSMS. I do really dislike the push notifications they force on you, but it handles group messaging the best of anything I've tried, along with mms. I have tried the AOSP messenger tweak for TW, too. No bueno. Just my two cents.
Have you tried contacting your sim provider and asking them to send the default usage setting for your phone? It will come as a text and will install when you open it!
Hi there,
I recently got the new Android messenger app after upgrading my phone to L
I prefer it to hangouts, but I can't receive MMS.
The important thing is - if I use hangouts, I can receive them without issue on hangouts. So I don't think it's my APN settings that are the issue (I'm on Straight Talk)
Is anyone else having this problem?
Tried unchecking auto retrieve MMS, but it just freezes on 'downloading' and the MMS never shows up.
Thanks for any help you can offer
bruce_aisher said:
Hi there,
I recently got the new Android messenger app after upgrading my phone to L
I prefer it to hangouts, but I can't receive MMS.
The important thing is - if I use hangouts, I can receive them without issue on hangouts. So I don't think it's my APN settings that are the issue (I'm on Straight Talk)
Is anyone else having this problem?
Tried unchecking auto retrieve MMS, but it just freezes on 'downloading' and the MMS never shows up.
Thanks for any help you can offer
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I have this isuue with all messing apps in kitkat cant confirm if i have in L. The fix i found was i couldnt start my phone on my home wifi. If i started it on LTE MMS worked.
krolla03 said:
I have this isuue with all messing apps in kitkat cant confirm if i have in L. The fix i found was i couldnt start my phone on my home wifi. If i started it on LTE MMS worked.
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Ah right - I tried doing that but it didn't work. Thanks for the suggestions though.
I think part of the issue is Messaging has no options for MMS, whereas in Hangouts you can select a different APN.
I can't see any option for this in the messaging app.
I'm having the same issue. I've got android L on the lg g3
MMS works perfectly fine for me in the Messenger app. Both sending and recieving.
I'm also on straight talk and MMS worked fine in hangouts. Since installing messenger it won't receive. Just sits hanging on the downloading screen.
I would love to start using messenger as I feel it handles SMS just slightly better, but can't do without the MMS and group texting features. Will wait for update.
No problems here either, and I'm in an edge area.
I've encountered the same problem. Tried multiple ROMs to be sure; same problem existed. Messaging lets me receive them, but not Messenger. I have to change my default SMS app every time I want to download a MMS message. Sending MMS works, strangely enough.
Same here....when I receive a MMS , the app seems to freeze , I can't send any sms during the "downloading" time
Doesn't work
I always hated Hangouts so i downloaded SMS app now i tried downloading messenger and it will not download MMS messages. I am on Straight Talk and have a Nexus 5.
Thanks
Pic shows my issue and when i hit "Tap" it said download but will not. HELP!!!!!
What I did (I found this somewhere online), go and delete all the APN settings except the one you use. Reboot and viola. MMS on AT&T Straight Talk worked for me in Google Messenger!
Just bought a Honor 8 for about a week and still finding my way around it. I had a LG G flex 2 and the honor is so much better. Anyway I use Hangouts to send SMS and MMS. Just notice I can receive MMS but not sending them out. I can use the default Message App and it sent out MMS just fine so it is not the Access point problem. Anybody ran in this problem and how do you fix it? TIA.
PS. Still waiting for OTA update to 7. L04 in US with T-mobile.
maybe you should re-install the configuration settings .. contact the service provider
I am on T-mobile and I have the same problem. I can receive MMS within Hangouts, but cannot send one. I am on Nougat, though, and I noticed this problem only after the upgrade (probably because I never sent an MMS before the upgrade).
If I install Google Messenger and use it as my SMS app, it does not display SMS conversations correctly. All SMS conversations are labeled as "unknown sender".
I also use MightyText to send text from a computer, and any SMS sent from a computer does not show up on the phone.
It seems that Honor 8 has a bug related to SMS/MMS...