Okay, so this may seem like a stupid question, but is it possible to turn off all data except MMS? I've tried juice defender, and juice defender ultimate, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. I don't have a data plan, nor do I need to use data away from home. however, when I'm out and about, I do like to send photos and whatnot. however, that requires data to be on. But 4G is a such a battery killer, especially since I'm not even using it.
Any help would be awesome! thanks.
Not that I'm aware of. You can shut off data, and turn it on before you send a pic and then shut it off again.
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That doesn't help when I'm receiving pics though :/ I get random pics all the time. With minimal use my phone barely lasts 10 hours because 4G is always on. I would turn data off completely, but then I can't use mms. I think it's stupid we can't turn off 4F which is stupid. I don't use data away from home except mms. So I think there should be some app or something that should be able to disable it but enable to mms
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That doesn't help when I'm receiving pics though :/ I get random pics all the time. With minimal use my phone barely lasts 10 hours because 4G is always on. I would turn data off completely, but then I can't use mms. I think it's stupid we can't turn off 4F which is stupid. I don't use data away from home except mms. So I think there should be some app or something that should be able to disable it but enable to mms
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Sorry man, I don't know. There might be a way, but I haven't needed to look for it. My phone lasts so long I am not concerned with that. But good luck, and there may be a solution for you, I just don't know about it.
Thanks anyway, man!
pierre.randolph said:
Thanks anyway, man!
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You will get a notification when someone sends you an mms message. So you turn data right before you click on download. That's what I do and my phone last me more than a day on medium to heavy usage
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Yeah there is. Go to settings-mobile networks-click on your thing for me it would be t mobile-scroll down to apn and click just mms instead of internet and mms
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Yeah there is. Go to settings-mobile networks-click on your thing for me it would be t mobile-scroll down to apn and click just mms instead of internet and mms
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This ^^^^^ (modify apn for mms only) or u can use an app called droidwall, and disable all data for every app except mms
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Anyone else noticing the data symbol (h+) staying on even when connected to wifi?
Just curious... I'm running infused 1.4
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I'm able to hide it again by putting it in airplane mode and then back, but it's not ideal
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itll sometimes reconnect to data. not sure whats making it do that but its not actually transmitting. dunno.
Probably because it is still connected to the network, att needs to keep tabs on you. Plus your calls/text are never coming over wifi (going into airplane mode means you don't get those)
Mine will pop up here and there but I'm guessing it's just checking syncs in the background. I do use the att address book. My data symbol doesn't stay on though when on wifi.
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Some things like Market request a data connection instead of wifi for certain things.
gtg465x said:
Some things like Market request a data connection instead of wifi for certain things.
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Indeed. however, i would expect the data to go back in hiding, where it belongs when its done...
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Indeed. however, i would expect the data to go back in hiding, where it belongs when its done...
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Mine does go back to hiding. Not sure why yours isn't unless you have some odd app that's keeping it open.
Mine does this as well. While I'm on wifi the h+ will come on and sometimes go away, but sometimes it stays on the screen. It doesn't seem to affect anything so I don't worry about it.
Just curious, are you sending or receiving any MMS msgs when this is going on?
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Mine does this as well. While I'm on wifi the h+ will come on and sometimes go away, but sometimes it stays on the screen. It doesn't seem to affect anything so I don't worry about it.
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Same here, and it's always done that, not just on latest infuse version.
X2 here to
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Question. Have any of you run stock UCKE3 for any length if time? Wonder if the issue shows up there too. Anyways, sounds like a simple cosmetic issue rather than something serious.
Yes me too. I have never seen that when I am in 1.3.2.
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beatblaster said:
Just curious, are you sending or receiving any MMS msgs when this is going on?
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Nope
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..for no reason at all, my texts are failing to send...
i tried rebooting, i tried resending, i tried a battery pull, nothing works.
im not rooted or ROM'd at all... aside from ADW-ex launcher, i haven't modded the phone yet...
i can still RECEIVE texts, just cant send.
Internet works, on wifi and data, market works, it's sending/receiving data...
i tried turning my data off and back on... i cant figure it out.
someone help me please!
Wrong section this should go in general. But I would do a factory reset.
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Dial 611 off your phone.
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Pay your bill...
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Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
Go to your message/settings/message centre/ +13123149810...make sure u have those number in there, if not then put them in there,it work for me. I had the same issue.
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igotdez said:
Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
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+16363848815
Worked like a charm. Thank you!
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+16363848815
Worked like a charm. Thank you!
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Np.
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worked for me. what changed?
Somehow it's possible for the message center to get corrupted/lost... Happened to me too.
Looks like the OP solved the problem, but I have this issue with my microcell. I can text everywhere but home. I have to try resending some texts 3-4 times. There is an new iphone in the house that has no issues, nor did my old 3gs have any issues on the microcell.
My wife and I have the same issue. Granted when we aren't at home and the signal is still low we will have failed texts but at home its horrible. I think AT&T is full of crap and the Mcell doesn't handle SMS and MMS as it should.
There is a thread here called "text message issues (infused)" I can't post links yet...but it refers to microcell and texting issues. It says there are posts that discuss fixing it, but I can't seem to find anything.
The other day I only had one or two fail, but today had been worse than normal, every single text fails at least twice. Really starting to wear on my nerves.
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I have the same problem with my phone. I just got an Infuse less than 2 weeks ago. Before that I had an HTC Aria, a Palm Pre Plus, and an iPhone 3G. None of those phones had problems with the mCell from AT&T or texts, but my Infuse immediately had trouble sending texts, and only on the mCell. I guess the Infuse and the microcell don't play nice together. Wonder if AT&T will fix it? We'll probably have better luck with a dev figuring it out for us first.
I had the same issue with MicroCell with the phone on WIFI. Once I turned of the wifi, the message usually sends without a hitch. Maybe it has something to do with the cellular connection not staying alive while on wifi with the microcell?
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I had the same issue with MicroCell with the phone on WIFI. Once I turned of the wifi, the message usually sends without a hitch. Maybe it has something to do with the cellular connection not staying alive while on wifi with the microcell?
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I think I tried this already, with no luck, but I'll try again once I get back home.
Sometimes it took a few seconds after I disabled WiFi, but it solves the problem 90% of the time for me.
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Sometimes it took a few seconds after I disabled WiFi, but it solves the problem 90% of the time for me.
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It also sometimes happens minus the microcell, which leads me to believe it has something to do with WiFi.... personally
You may be on to something with the wifi. I have tried it for the past two days without wifi on and all of my texts have gone through. Could just be a coincidence, I'm going to do some more testing in the next few days to see what happens turning wifi back on and off.
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Try this.... att.com/esupport/solutionDisplay.jsp?solutionId=kb38686
Go to your message/settings/message centre/ +13123149810...make sure u have those number in there, if not then put them in there,it work for me. I had the same issue.
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Had the same problem on my phone as well, was worried i messed up my kernal or something like that... worked like a charm. thanks!!!
Is there different messaging center #'s? I reverted back to stock so I could do the ota update to the new firmware, then I installed the community kernel and somehow it erased that #. I input the 1321....# and it works like a charm now. I dont want to get hit with any fees or surprises so just wanted to make sure the messaging center # was the same for all phones.
I am running the infused 1.5.3 rom and go sms. When I try to send a picture to my friend who has the exact phone I do and also my wife who has the iphone 4. They are both receiving this message
"Your phone is not compatible with this message type or size. Portions of this message will not be displayed."
Yet pics I send to my friend who has verizon go just fine. Is there some setting I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried sending the message through the stock messaging app?
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Have you tried sending the message through the stock messaging app?
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Yes I have, they receive the same message.
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My friend with his infuse can send me pics and I can get pics from my wifes iphone 4 when she sends them as well but they can't get mine.
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does your phone ask you if you would like to resize them when you try and send...if so are you selecting yes
are there any other changes that you have made like:
freezing thesms/mms app
using a different sms app
etc etc
and then the same goes for their end...
have they made any changes, do they receive pics from others and only not yours
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does your phone ask you if you would like to resize them when you try and send...if so are you selecting yes
are there any other changes that you have made like:
freezing thesms/mms app
using a different sms app
etc etc
and then the same goes for their end...
have they made any changes, do they receive pics from others and only not yours
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I am using go sms and I've tried stock sms. I haven't froze any sms apps. It doesn't ask me to resize, just the usual compressing or resizing message it normally gives without prompting for a user response. My friends infuse is stock and not rooted and my wifes iphone 4 is jailbroken but nothing has changed anytime recently with it. The apps I have frozen is just media hub. Yes they can receive pics from others and send them as well.
Edit: I have media hub, maps, and news & weather frozen.
Actually it just reads "converting to multimedia message" no prompt for anything. Very frustrating as to why mainly verizon people are getting my pics and not others. Thats how it seems anyway.
As far as trying to send pics that I actually took with my phone then forget about it. Longest I've had it sit is about 15 minutes before I get pissed and just delete the send. Those stay stuck on "sending" and never go anywhere.
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Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I'm missing some kind of setting after flashing infused
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Fee454 said:
Anyone have any ideas? Maybe I'm missing some kind of setting after flashing infused
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I use handcent...in the settings there is an option of "max mms message size limit"
I believe you want that to be 2mb...anything over that will not send to some phones.
that has been the only instance where some people did not receive my msgs.
Have you tried on wifi and network? I have not noticed the issue on att, but on sprint you could not send or receive mms while on wifi
those are the only things I can think of
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I use handcent...in the settings there is an option of "max mms message size limit"
I believe you want that to be 2mb...anything over that will not send to some phones.
that has been the only instance where some people did not receive my msgs.
Have you tried on wifi and network? I have not noticed the issue on att, but on sprint you could not send or receive mms while on wifi
those are the only things I can think of
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I do currently have it set to 4g 5M for the photo size. I could give that a shot. Still odd that it would not send to my friends infuse I have tried wifi and att network and home I have the 3g microcell which is NOT worth the $200. I'm kinda pissed I bought it.
If you want full bars yet calls cut in and out and you want to resend each text about 4 times cause they will instantly fail (happens no where but when I'm connected to microcell) then pick one up lol
But yea the mms issue happens elsewhere as well.
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Fee454 said:
I do currently have it set to 4g 5M for the photo size. I could give that a shot.
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I bet that is it.... let me know...
it will usually work for sending, but their phone may be blocking
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I bet that is it.... let me know...
it will usually work for sending, but their phone may be blocking
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I kept the size the same for now but unchecked preserve image size and now it seems the pics send. Yesterday it would be stuck on sending. I can only test with people at work. The ones with issues are asleep right now. Hopefully that or the 2m image size fixes the issue
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Can anyone offer any advice or explanation as to why texts sent to me as pictures won't load? They're just stuck at "downloading" if I click on them.
This was happening on my stock rom and on my current infused 2.1 rom. I've tried using stock sms, handcent, and go sms pro, with no luck.
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You can't receive pictures through sms. So sounds like you don't have an mms data plan.
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are you on wifi? i cant rec pics but rather a download option if wifi is conencted simple fix disable wifi conenct to att network, tab download = pic loaded
Tomdg07 said:
are you on wifi? i cant rec pics but rather a download option if wifi is conencted simple fix disable wifi conenct to att network, tab download = pic loaded
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You are awesome, going on 4g fixed it, I can't believe how stupid a problem that was. Freaking at&t.
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Your welcome glad I could help!
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I'm unable to send OR receive pics wifi or Not!
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Disable the WiFi, hit download, it's a bug if you are using Juice Defender.
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Disable the WiFi, hit download, it's a bug if you are using Juice Defender.
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Genius! Not a actually a bug but rather a drawback. I knew that mms should still work with wifi on because Att network should still maintain the connection for need data features such as mms and found it odd that it did not on my infuse (my apologies to gtg I simply blamed infused but never felt like flashing back to stock to confirm so never mentioned it). However after reading this and checking juice defender the option is there to disable network data with wifi connected and it does state that this will interfere with mms. Mystery solved !
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Eddie Bombay said:
Disable the WiFi, hit download, it's a bug if you are using Juice Defender.
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I've tried that also. That's usually what I do but at the moment it's not allowing it to upload or download
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I had the same problem. I fixed it by going to Settings, Wireless and network, Mobile networks, Access Point Names, ATT WAP scrolled all the way down and selected APN type and selected Internet + MMS. Boom! Problem solved!
bignate78 said:
I'm unable to send OR receive pics wifi or Not!
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Check your APN then turn off wifi
Some roms have apn's that to not play well with MMS.
I usually update my APN to be sure......
SNadler said:
Check your APN then turn off wifi
Some roms have apn's that to not play well with MMS.
I usually update my APN to be sure......
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How do you update your APN?
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My dad recently updated to ICS (Thanks Team Acid) but when someone sends him a picture a box comes up that says download as opposed to the picture just being there like on my phone which also has ICS. Can anyone help me fix this? It's important as he needs the pictures for work.
P.S. Nothing happens when you hit download. Just says downloading and nothing happens. Checked his gallery for download pictures and nothing new was there.
Help is much appreciated!
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If your talking about MMS then you need to check something on your side, MMS works fine on my side, my friend sent me a picture of his Math Homework
Check settings in the messaging app and see if auto retrieve is checked.
Make Sure Data is turned on.
Hey Jacob said:
My dad recently updated to ICS (Thanks Team Acid) but when someone sends him a picture a box comes up that says download as opposed to the picture just being there like on my phone which also has ICS. Can anyone help me fix this? It's important as he needs the pictures for work.
P.S. Nothing happens when you hit download. Just says downloading and nothing happens. Checked his gallery for download pictures and nothing new was there.
Help is much appreciated!
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Make Sure Data is turned on.
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If his data was turned off, then he wouldn't even receive the message. His problem is that he could not see/view the picture that was sent to him.
Logic my friend
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Check settings in the messaging app and see if auto retrieve is checked.
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I will check to see if he has this checked when I wake up, thanks for the feedback.
I'll let you know how it turns out.
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If his data was turned off, then he wouldn't even receive the message. His problem is that he could not see/view the picture that was sent to him.
Logic my friend
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Actually that's wrong, he will still receive mms but he would have to "download" it to view the picture.
He said that nothing happens when he pressed download, so I would check to make sure he has data turned on
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pisherthefisher said:
Actually that's wrong, he will still receive mms but he would have to "download" it to view the picture.
He said that nothing happens when he pressed download, so I would check to make sure he has data turned on
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How do I go about that?
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Edit: Solved
System settings
WIRELESS & NETWORKS section, More...
Mobile networks
Data enabled [v]
pisherthefisher said:
Actually that's wrong
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Possibly my three favorite words. lol
@OP Google "TMOB MMS APN" and see if your APN matches. If all that is good I'd call TMOB.
pisherthefisher said:
Actually that's wrong, he will still receive mms but he would have to "download" it to view the picture.
He said that nothing happens when he pressed download, so I would check to make sure he has data turned on
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Can you explain this further. When I had Virgin Mobile they had many growing pains when they started selling the optimus v and with that several data outages. When data was out you couldnt ever get mms pictures. I got a couple free months of service because of that. I was told by sprints level three techs mms would not be transmitted. As in you would never get the message unless data was on.
If I am misreading what you are saying please ignore. But I am almost positive you still need data to get the mms. Not just to download but to receive it.
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Can you explain this further. When I had Virgin Mobile they had many growing pains when they started selling the optimus v and with that several data outages. When data was out you couldnt ever get mms pictures. I got a couple free months of service because of that. I was told by sprints level three techs mms would not be transmitted. As in you would never get the message unless data was on.
If I am misreading what you are saying please ignore. But I am almost positive you still need data to get the mms. Not just to download but to receive it.
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I don't know if its just the way t mobile handles mms but when I have my data off I will still receive a text message with the subject of the mms and an option to download (obviously it won't download it unless I have data enabled)
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Ive never tried guess its time to check it.