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MMS - Picture Message question

Ok, I'm looking for a site or software to create funny picture messages. Now I'm sure you are all laughing, yes yes...
I have a HTC Excalibur that allows you to sort of create one. I could never get the music to play if I added a short clip. So, basically I'm an idiot who doesn't send MMS's but would like too. Any have any recommendations. Where do you find your MMS messages?
screen 320x240 if that matters
P.S. you can stop laughing now

Video's with MMS and Email.

So I came from an Iphone 4 and so far am happy with my captivate, except for one area, pics and vids.
I have two kids and like to take tons of pics and vids of them. With that I always found myself sending what I took via MMS or email to my flickr account. With the iphone this was a breeze. If the size was too large it could compress or allow me to choose a smaller video size. Unfortunately I can't even send simliar pics or vids via MMS or email as i have before.
Yes..I know you can choose the MMS mode for video, but to be honest the quality sucks. Pictures, there is a reason I take the pic at 5MP cause I want to view and send it that way.
I find myself wanting to go back to my iphone for this reason. But I am enjoying everything about my cappy. If anyone in a similar situation has any advice or possibly resolution to allow my cappy to act as before, please let me know.
Appreciate any advice.

I use handscent instead of the defult messenger. It compresses all my 5mp pics and sends them at a good quality.. i dont know about video because i havnt used it
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I use Pixelpipe to upload videos and pics all the time with no issue.

Thanks for the suggestions...
I do see that handcent dose compress so I am actually happy about that. Appreciate it.
The video issue is two fold though. Although I am on the cappy, my wife and mom have iphones. So you can rest-assured I get messages wondering where the latest pics or videos are.
So quick (good resolution) videos is a must via MMS. Hell, even email I can send a full video to my flickr account. I compared the two recently actually. Took a video on my iphone 4 and my cappy. Same length, same subject, lightiing everything. I was able to successfully send it, recorded resolution, to my flickr and normal email on my iphone. The captivate not so much. "FILE TOO LARGE" blaring everytime.
So i guess the search OR wait is on to make this happen.
Thanks

[Q] GO SMS Pro - MMS sending

So I've been using GO SMS for awhile, but just had a friend point out to me that when I send him a pic, he gets a shady looking link from GoSms. (Not to mention this enables the dev to spy on any photos I send)
Appears that the app sends MMS thru their server (Go MMS feature). But I can't find a way to disable this c**p..
The dev doesn't answer emails, so anyone find a way to disable the Go MMS "feature"?

scoob8000 said:
So I've been using GO SMS for awhile, but just had a friend point out to me that when I send him a pic, he gets a shady looking link from GoSms. (Not to mention this enables the dev to spy on any photos I send)
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ROTFLMAO. Well, next time read the docs I guess. Do NOT use the Go-MMS functionality if you want to send normal MMS. Use attachment in normal SMS mode.
How on earth did you think the picture/video would fit into 160 chars?

No matter what mode, or how you make an attachment, it uploads it to their server and sends a link.
I think I've been around cells long enough to know the difference between mms and sms.

[APP] GO Sms Pro V3.48 is released
Please post in pre existing threads on that note thread closed.

[Q] Can iphone MMS be received properly on AOSP MMS?

Whenever i receive MMS messages in android from phone it seems device wide they come in as a slideshow not individual pictures, i know this is an issue with android and im using Textra which seems to properly receive MMS but i would like to use the stock android app, pulled from CM or some other source is there any way to make one of these MMS.apk to properly show MMS when sent from iphone?

Actually if anything it's a iPhone "problem" as the MMS spec will combine them into a slideshow vs sending multiple messages for people that only have limited MMS but maybe unlimited SMS. Wouldn't want to send grandma 10 pictures of the kids being silly and have her get 10 seperate pictures that she has to open, close, open close.....
Back in the earlier "smartphone" days, you would send a MMS and include music and such to create a slideshow and the music would play when opened and the pictures go through the motions of changing like a slideshow should (timed, default is 5 or 10 seconds).
So to answer your question, no the AOSP MMS.apk wont do it any differently. That's actually just a front end for the internal workings of the system.

Well that sucks...
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Is T mobile re-sizing our pictures through text???

I take a normal 3-4 meg picture and when I send it using Google messenger it compresses it to 30-45kb, yea, KB!
This is horrid and embarrassing when people actually get said picture. Its such terrible quality. My friend on Tmobile with his Iphone looked to have the same issue a week ago when we were testing.
Is there some setting here? OR is this going to be Tmobile's new thing?

It's not tmobile only, mms have some standards and one of them is that they cannot carry big amounts of data (3-4mb). every phone does it whether on tmobile or some other carrier, its built into the phone and therefore into the messaging app. The phone has to compress the image in order to be able to send it. Thats why I use whats app or any other internet based messaging system(imessage, hangouts, etc) when I send any photo

maybe I should rephrase
This isn't my first rodeo, I've done enough with phones over the many years to understand exactly how it works, but this is the first time they have ever compressed a 3-4 meg picture down to 20-40kb, for example on AT&T and Verizon during my testing its at least double that for the same size picture, if not even more , many times compressing it to a 200-350kb size picture. @ 40kb the picture is not even really recognized..
do the test now, take a picture high res. and send it to someone, check the size of the photo you sent.
Is this my phone issue? or is this a tmobile issue? or is there a setting somewhere within the app or phone that is telling it to use low data when sending pictures

It is Google messenger. Use the stock app and the issue goes away. 820KB file size for stock app and 17KB for Google messenger.

if you are sending the pic to a newer phone it will send the full size
the sms app on newer phones has more features you can only use on newer to newer phones
Rich 1 on 1 and group messaging, including near real-time chat
See when others are typing, when your message is delivered and even read
Share high-res photos and videos up to 10 MB just as you would a regular text message

I've heard the opposite about the default messaging app in android. Started with my note 5. I couldn't send pics and text, only pics. So all you have to do is download a messaging app that has better features.
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The issue is specifically with Google messenger. I noticed this right when the G5 was released. Any other SMS client (stock, textra, hangouts) fixes the issue. I haven't tested it with the latest update of Google messenger though. Which version were you using?

google messenger sucks, facebook messenger sucks, I use handcent and that seems to send reasonably sized pictures.