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Mms problems

Any one else habe trouble sending mms? I can set one up to send and it just says sending. If I restart phone the message will send.
Im rooted and removed att crap if I reset all data will I hsve to reroot?
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whoa, thats strange. i recall some people saying you wont have to reroot but i dont remember for sure. Either way, rerooting is easy.

Im not worried about reroot.but more the less my contacts and all else reseting.
Alao if some one dont mind testing something for me.
When I go to settings and click check for update...message apears "dm not initiaized"
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Mine just says no updates.
hey since you're on and may be reworkin ur phone, will u read this guide i wrote. I need some peeps to look it over/check info and make sure it makes sense.

chvybeatsford said:
Im not worried about reroot.but more the less my contacts and all else reseting.
Alao if some one dont mind testing something for me.
When I go to settings and click check for update...message apears "dm not initiaized"
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Works fine for me.

No link given. And i reset so i can confirm that root will not be lost. I still have user permission icon
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Ok about super user for rooting. Cany rember but dont u have to click on it and accept something. When i click on super user all i get is a black screen.
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I can send MMS just fine, but I cannot receive them from other networks. Upsetting.

im having these issues to but mine has not been rooted. I can receive pictures all day long fine, i just cant send them with any reliability. Restarting when it says "sending" doesnt work to force it send for me. I was in a 3g town yesterday and didnt have much problem sending pics, back in home town today on EDGE and having issues yet again.
Anyone got any thoughts?

I have had the same issue. I was even unable to send a picture through gmail as an attachment yesterday while in a 3g area. today i can send one through my corporate e-mail but still no mms. I have rooted and removed the att junk with ti backup. I dont think i removed anything that would effect mms though. I have also tried a factory reset. It deleted all my apps and settings but i did not have to reroot. It also did not return any of the att programs. Any help with this issue would be great.

had the same issue...could not send PIcs at ALL. took it back, got a replacement and it sent one fine.... then i tried again and didnt work. WTF?

I am an att manager and I have a captivate and have sold tons of others. I spoke with galaxy s support last week and they are going to call me back Monday to let me know if they have a fix yet. The tech said that he got it to work 2 out 10 times trying mms. As soon as i hear the fix i will post for all.
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You are an att manager!? Talk to them on our behalf! Demand a I/O FIX in the next patch!

mgarciamma said:
As soon as i hear the fix i will post for all.
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Good to hear we have an insider on board
I seem to be on the same boat, however:
Can't send pictures to my dad (AT&T, iphone)
Or my mom (ACS; local Alaska carrier)
But send em' just fine to my girlfriend(AT&T via LongLines Cellular towers)
Boy does that make sense

I had the same issue with sending MMS but was able to figure out a work around. It appears it is something related to the message size. If I crop an image, and the message size stays under 80kb, it will send with no issues. Not sure what the magic number is where it stops sending but will post once I figure it out.

Non-rooted Captivate, had a similar problem receiving MMS for the first week (purchased July 18th). Specifically, I could not receive MMS from Verizon customers unless they were using a Blackberry. Verizon customers using LG and Samsung phones, I got nothing. Verizon customers using a Blackberry, MMS would come through to me fine. SMS worked fine to and from all carriers and I could send MMS to friends on all carriers (and they would receive them properly, regardless of their device).
Tested with 3 different Verizon customers in 2 parts of the U.S. (cross-country), with Samsung Intensity and LG Envy phones on their end ... none of them could send me MMS. My screen would wake up as if something were coming in ... but nothing would ever come through. Very frustrating. Went to an AT&T store, duplicated the tests on their demo unit with the store manager's SIM installed.
The Fix (for my issue, YMMV):
AT&T's billing system was correctly showing my device as a Samsung Captivate, but their network provisioning system was showing the device field as blank (which apparently defaults the behavior to "non-smartphone," for what it's worth). The tech submitted a ticket to correct that, as apparently everything had to be in order before the network folks would take a look at the problem. Turned out that simply correcting that field fixed my MMS issue (since it registered my phone in the "smartphone" category). Note that I was told that correcting that field usually takes them 5-7 days, since it's not considered critical, but she pushed it through more quickly.
Customer Support
I have to include this bit here, because the customer support I received was amazing and far beyond what I expected. I understand that I may have had better luck than most. Got to a higher level tech with no fuss, and she immediately took ownership and had excellent communication, emailing me and following up with multiple phone calls to keep me in the loop with what she was doing. I've been thinking about switching carriers, but AT&T finally releasing the Captivate (even with the GPS issue, etc.), coupled with this tech's absolutely superb customer-focused support, will keep me here for awhile longer (and I'm definitely going to send her a glowing email saying just that, which I hope she forwards to her supervisor).

All my MMS works but 1 just showed up as a play symbol. It was a wide picture.

Captivate not receiving texts

NY sisters captivate wont receive texts she can send them but not receive. AT&T told her to download something called kaies mini (sp) to her computer and I'm not sure she was confused explaining it. Does anybody have any clue about this?
Also is there any speculation about when the update to allow sideloading is going to come for captivate?
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Samsung kies mini is to update the phones firmware. Is she still running eclair? Still not being able to receive messages shouldn't be because she is running eclair. But nonetheless the phone should be updated. Heres instructions how.
http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=558&AT_ID=368733

Thank you I emailed her the link and ya she is still on eclair
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Glad I could be somewhat of a help. If the problem still exist I'm sure someone will come around to help you out further.

My Cappy did this twice before. The first one was fixed by pulling the battery while the phone was on. Powered back on and got flooded with all my missed texts. Second time, I had to put my SIM in another phone, got the flood, put it back and everything was normal.

Thanks I told her to try the battery trick and it didn't work and unfortunately she dont have another att phone around yo stick the Sim in so she will go to the store and try it tomorrow
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she can call the carrier up and have them basically re-activate the phone. I've done this 3 times to fix the same problem.

When I had to do it, I just put the SIM in a buddy at work's P.O.S. RAZR. Worked like a charm. She must know SOMEONE who has AT&T. Just borrow theirs for a minute.
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Check the "Message Centre" section on the SMS settings. When I left the country and came back it wiped this number from my phone making everything fail. Probably not the issue but might be a good idea to check.

Did you try searching?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824213
Next time please post in Q&A

[Q] G2X on AT&T, DATA WORKING NO MMS??!?

Hey guys I purchased an unlocked G2X off of craigslist after my HD2 died on me :/ now I am running all of the Stock OS no mods nothing. This phone is unlocked as is working with at&t. I am able to access 2g which lets me get on the internet and browse (even thought it is slow it works really good). well the phone is great except I cannot download picture messages (MMS) it just keeps saying failed?!? idk what I am doing wrong? I tried to talk AT&T about it but they are saying that since they do not have a similar phone to it they cannot check the settings for me which sucks! I was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue and found a way to fix it?? **I HAVE GOOGLED, AND READ UP ON VARIOUS TOPICS BUT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANYONE WHO HAS THE SAME PROBLEM AS ME!*
Thank you for all of your help!! Someone please get back to me! THank you ago
Stef

Stefo1990 said:
Hey guys I purchased an unlocked G2X off of craigslist after my HD2 died on me :/ now I am running all of the Stock OS no mods nothing. This phone is unlocked as is working with at&t. I am able to access 2g which lets me get on the internet and browse (even thought it is slow it works really good). well the phone is great except I cannot download picture messages (MMS) it just keeps saying failed?!? idk what I am doing wrong? I tried to talk AT&T about it but they are saying that since they do not have a similar phone to it they cannot check the settings for me which sucks! I was just wondering if anyone else has had this issue and found a way to fix it?? **I HAVE GOOGLED, AND READ UP ON VARIOUS TOPICS BUT I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANYONE WHO HAS THE SAME PROBLEM AS ME!*
Thank you for all of your help!! Someone please get back to me! THank you ago
Stef
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I have the same issue with Simple Mobile. I think the images being sent are larger then what we can accept.

yeah i thought about that also, but it wont even let me send a message out, it just fails at that part too. I have tried using Handcent, resizing the images myself everything.
What I am thinking that it is, is the fact that MMS Proxy settings inside of the APN settings?
any suggestions?

Stefo1990 said:
yeah i thought about that also, but it wont even let me send a message out, it just fails at that part too. I have tried using Handcent, resizing the images myself everything.
What I am thinking that it is, is the fact that MMS Proxy settings inside of the APN settings?
any suggestions?
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It definitely has a lot to do with apn settings. What I suggest is to find out what is the apn settings for one of at&t's (& Simple Mobile's) Android phone and copy it to the G2x and that should most likely fix the MMS issue. I fixed a myTouch 3g for somebody having MMS issues and all it took was Googling the apn settings of the carrier and then add it to the phone and you should be golden.
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Have you checked your APN'S... Cuz that's the part you need to fix if it isn't set up for Att.
Usually you would need APNbackup from market or sideload it and backup and then alter apn for att then restore.
If not try using goSms and fill in mms proxy/apn info
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Mytouch 4G firmware update 2.3.4

I just went into tmobile and got the update. Was skeptical before I went in thinking that it would not be
Worth the trouble having to set my phone back up again from ground zero.. Well, it was worth it. feels more like a smart phone.. Better keyboard, more accurate.. Swype works way better With you now..
It is a bit more responsive.. Feels like you get more out of it.. Voice texting works really well. Battery lasts longer.. That's what I got to say.
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Well, that's the point of updates. They are supposed to make things better. I'm glad you like it!
I sure hope you don't decide to root. My wife was dead set against me rooting her phone, but she ran into a problem that was best fixed with root privileges, so she gave in. She is glad she did. Downgrading and rooting that phone is a beast for someone new to it.
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I tried to root it several times.. As a person that has used custom mods in the past I was looking to see what else there was out there.. Have experienced quirky behavior in the past so now I'm glad I have a stock phone with a decent update that feels good to use as is.
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The gingerbread update is what made me fall in love with my phone all over again. That being said...my one and only gripe....and the reason I rooted:
I couldn't send mms without having a data connection enabled. Couldn't receive either. Before the update, I could see there would be a momentary connection to data but only for the quick downloading of the image in the text message, even though my mobile network was off. After the update, it didn't function this way, forcing me to have to hawk my data connection/syncing when not on wi-fi...which was a hassle.
That and the whole CIQ business. Made my stomach hurt.

Sparky....are you saying that you can do mms now without data enabled?
If so, tell me more!
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earnyourz said:
I tried to root it several times.. As a person that has used custom mods in the past I was looking to see what else there was out there.. Have experienced quirky behavior in the past so now I'm glad I have a stock phone with a decent update that feels good to use as is.
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You do realize there's been a rooted and deodexed rom that's stock 2.3.4 right? You could've saved yourself a trip and rerooting. It's also going to take longer to actually root.. but if you like it stock that's all that matters So good luck!
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Skipjacks said:
Sparky....are you saying that you can do mms now without data enabled?
If so, tell me more!
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On my stock mt4g (froyo), the Mrs. and I could send mms/sms without having to enable data. At first I thought the sms was going over wifi, after disabling WiFi and trying several different combinations, I noticed that my little H icon pops up only when I send or receive multimedia messages. No H icon for plain text.
Fast forward to the gb update. After updating, the only way I could send mms is while data is enabled. I tried editing the carrier network settings to match my wife's but to no avail. It's clear that the update did something to remove this temporary data connection for mms.
Fast forward to last week when I rooted and switched to cm 7.1. I still couldn't send mms without data enabled. Made me think I would have to make accommodations and live with it.
Then I flashed the virtuousAffinity Rom and Hello!!! Mms with data and WiFi disabled. Again, I'm certain its using data connection for mms, tmo doesn't count it towards usage so its fine. My only sadness now is that affinity is on hold while the team reorganized, but the Rom is gorgeous.
I just started flashing so I'm hoping if affinity falls through, I can find another Rom that let's me do the same.

kinda lost here.........

I'm kinda lost and spent about 2 hrs on the phone with at&t about this. I can send text msges get on the web get emails and everything but i can't receive text msges. They told me think it is because I still have gingerbread instead of the ICS on my phone. Well I'm taking care of that right now, what I'm wondering is will that take care of me not getting my text msges. Everyone else on my account is able to receive text msges but me.
PLEASE HELP

Doesn't make sense
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how did that not make since. i can't receive text msges but at&t is saying that it could be because i don't have ICS on my phone which i do now but what i'm asking is will that take care of the problem putting ICS on my phone

sgt_addyjp said:
how did that not make since. i can't receive text msges but at&t is saying that it could be because i don't have ICS on my phone which i do now but what i'm asking is will that take care of the problem putting ICS on my phone
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He is saying att's advice was crap. It won't make a difference whether u have gb or ics. The android version is irrelevant when talking about an issue such as yours
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Ok thank you just upgraded it and it did not work....ugh

Try this. System Settings -> Applications -> All Applications-> Messaging-> Clear Data.
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I don't know anything but try resetting your apn settings.
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seanci said:
I don't know anything but try resetting your apn settings.
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where do i find the apn settings at.........

System settings-- More-- Mobile Networks-- Access Point Names
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Tried that and didn't work......
QUOTE=seanci;29474132]I don't know anything but try resetting your apn settings.
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Replacement?
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Did you come from an iphone on at&t before this phone by chance?

sulpher said:
Did you come from an iphone on at&t before this phone by chance?
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this could possibly it, iphones have their own individual data plans and could maybe interfere.

Juicy555 said:
this could possibly it, iphones have their own individual data plans and could maybe interfere.
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Well not sure exactly why, but had the same problem when my dad switched from an iphone 3gs to an sgs2.. everything worked but receiving messages, eventually at&t removed his old messaging plan and then added a new one and it worked finally. (least thats what they told me they did)
Should go bother them again... and this time don't let them make up excuses (like you need to switch to ICS for it to work)

no never had a iphone hate them.....will never have a iphone

sms doesnt rely on apns, mms does. if you have the right message center number, thats for sending out the texts and it gets that number from the sim card.
if you cant receive texts then its a network problem and its on att head not yours, i agree call them up

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sms doesnt rely on apns, mms does. if you have the right message center number, thats for sending out the texts and it gets that number from the sim card.
if you cant receive texts then its a network problem and its on att head not yours, i agree call them up
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Message Centers are for sending only AFAIK, I remember on all my old phones, when I restored to stock and had to reset my number or reset message center for any other reason, I could still get peoples' texts, just not send any.
Either something is wrong with his phone or sim or something is messed up on AT&T's end.
I'm assuming you've never done anything custom to it judging by not knowing about APN's and such, so I don't see how anything software-related could cause it. But if you're desperate, try a data reset just incase but don't get your hopes up. Maybe some security app you might have downloaded is blocking them.
It's under Settings>Privacy IIRC, my phone is broken atm so I can't check for myself.
Edit: And yes, GB to ICS will make zero difference. If that was the case, you wouldn't be able to use custom roms because we have 4.0.3/4.0.4 ICS roms, JB roms now, GB 2.3.5 and 2.3.6, none would work except whatever version the newest ICS that AT&T released is.

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Message Centers are for sending only AFAIK, I remember on all my old phones, when I restored to stock and had to reset my number or reset message center for any other reason, I could still get peoples' texts, just not send any.
Either something is wrong with his phone or sim or something is messed up on AT&T's end.
I'm assuming you've never done anything custom to it judging by not knowing about APN's and such, so I don't see how anything software-related could cause it. But if you're desperate, try a data reset just incase but don't get your hopes up. Maybe some security app you might have downloaded is blocking them.
It's under Settings>Privacy IIRC, my phone is broken atm so I can't check for myself.
Edit: And yes, GB to ICS will make zero difference. If that was the case, you wouldn't be able to use custom roms because we have 4.0.3/4.0.4 ICS roms, JB roms now, GB 2.3.5 and 2.3.6, none would work except whatever version the newest ICS that AT&T released is.
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if he had problems with his phone he would have more issues than just sms, as sms is so basic that it doesnt rely on anything(just a signal to the tower) to get or send texts, even the dumbest phone can do sms, its the most basic and dumbest communicating tool there is for a phone, my bet its on att's end, call them up and reset or reorder the service for your account.

yes i've never done anything custom to it. so i'm like lost. talking to AT&T again. I hope they can get this working