Hello,
I've had a quick scan round for information on this, seems to be a problem with Windows Mobile whereby any MMS pictures I receive are being shrunk down to a completely useless size. Is there a fix for this yet? I believe the settings in the MMS menu only relate to the size of outgoing messages.
I have an unlocked, unbranded UK X1 and I have an O2 Sim in there if that's of any relevance.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as it's becoming a pain in the backside...
That's because the images are being resized by the senders' phone (smaller image > smaller size > less data transfer > cheaper)
Not much you can do your end, other than perhaps persuade your friends to see if they can chan ge their MMS settings to stop (or at least reduce) the image resizing before sending =/
The images are coming to the X1 at a much smaller size (2/3kb) than they are to any other phone.. and I've seen others report similar problems that have been fixed by phone-specific cabs?
I cannot confirm this, my MMS always come in the right size and the photos are as big as the sender wanted them.
Maybe you have set the network settings for MMS wrong? Do you receive them via GSM or GPRS?
Probably GSM - where do I check?
Messaging --> SMS/MMS
then press MENU and choose MMS-Options.
There you can change the settings, as maximum picture-resolution and so on.
One page there is named "Server", there you can change the connection.
It's named "A1 MMS" here and connects via "live!", while live is the connection I previously defined in my "Modem connections". When "live!" is a 3G-connection than it should be no problem, if life is set to a GSM connection then I could think of problems with this. You can also try to increase the maximum amount of data in the MMS options.
I haven't set too much there because my phone is branded and the correct settings were set from the beginning.
Doh.. just found another thread here relating exactly to my problem - sorry!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2926070&postcount=14
Tried it - works perfectly!
Just read that thread you provided, but I have one question.
Are we supposed to replace the Value data:
Current: X1i/arcsoft-mmsua-5.0.0.xx
"with"
New: http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/NN95-1r100.xml
I just notice also that I only see 5strings instead of 6strings. Can someone shed some light on this matter?
Mahalos in advance.
Okay, I reapplied the registry settings and I got it to work now
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It appears this nice device (or at least all of WM5 devices) are not yet enough considered from SP as I cannot find any setup and/or settings for MMS and WEB connection settings anywhere...
www.clubimate.com only supply any kind of settings for any other SP but VODAFONE ITALY...
Their support (I-Mate) is also not present (I even tried calling them while in Dubai with no luck).
At VODAFONE Customer Service there are only chances to use the automated answering system or the website and again no one of them considers WM5 devices...
ANY HINT ???
With manual settings I entered I can do MMS -OR- WEB but I cannot get it configured to "automagically" use one of the two when needed. I always have to manually switch between them... :-(
Again: ANY HINT ???
Thanks a lot.
Hi Michele,
I am Italian too. Why do you switch them manually? In Connections/Advanced, the default connection should be not be the MMS one, but the internet one (APN: web.omnitel.it). The one used for MMS will be defined here but NOT selected as default. This needs to be indicated in MMS configuration in the Messaging application.
The problem that I have (with a Worldwide English K-Jam) is that I just can't make MMS work. I have tried all settings based on Vodafone Italy indications, but no joy.
Would you tell me your detailed settings to make it work?
Thanks.
Massimo
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Thanks for this!
This is however not suitable for me, as I live in two countries (UK and Italy), and I do not want to hard reset just to fix my Italian MMS settings.
Would you be able to just give me your Voda IT MMS settings?
What I have done is:
1) Created a new connection with APN = mms.vodafone.it (everything else is default)
2) Created a new set of MMS settings in the MMS application, with:
Gateway = 10.128.224.10
Server = http://mms.vodafone.it/servlets/mms
Port number = 80
Connect via = the above created connection
WAP version = with this I am unsure, I tried both settings, but no joy.
With these settings, the phone tries to send or retrieve MMS's, correctly connecting to the APN and exchanging data. However I always get a vague error message in the end.
Can you let me know what you have done differently?
Thanks.
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Many thanks for this!
I modified the config based on your comments. At a later stage I also went into the registry and manually modified some settings that looked different in your list. Still no joy!!!
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I am particularly puzzled by the Profile parameter, pointing to an XML file in a website. You claim this is very important. The default one points to a different XML file.
Question: how would the messaging application use this info? I mean, it is not possible to go out to the web using the MMS APN, so how is this Profile URL used?
I also tried to soft reset after changing that, still no joy....
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Thanks for your great help.
Just to clarify, I normally live in the UK, but in this period I am in Italy, this is why I am configuring MMS on my Italian SIM card from Vodafone Italy.
And I've got very good news: everything now works!
I am not really sure how, I simply reset everything back to my original config, doing a few soft resets in between, and now I can send and receive MMS's.
By the way, that IP must only be used in the Gateway field in MMS configuration. Using it as the IP in the connection panel makes it impossible for the phone to connect to the APN (which is logical).
Again thanks for your help.
Ok here goes: I have unlocked an Orange SPV M600 (Prophet) and use it on the UK o2 network. It has original AKU2.0 as it is still under warranty by HTC.
Everything works fine except the MMS pictures are tiny thumbnails. If I set not to download automatically then I see the message (on the server?) at full size, it is only when I click download that it is shrunk, e.g. last night a picture was showing as 16k and when I hit download it arrived and was 3k - so too small to be of any value.
I have checked settings, including installing the o2 settings cab on the wiki (Lordsmiff...). This sets up mobileweb, and put some strange settings for MMS, not the o2 setting listed for manual input. The wiki o2 cab installs amongst other things the wrong server address (vpix or something similar!) . These setting do not work at all (I've tried). When I manually enter the settings (correct server etc) it works, but MMS are shrunk to 3k all the time.
I've tweaked the registry as per the wiki entry for prophet, but this really relates to send size and means I can set to 250k (previously unable to select this option), and tried all the settings like Original size, QVGA, etc. Still no luck.
I've also found a thread on here reporting similar problems in the USA with Cingular, and a cab to fix problem. I installed and then manually entered o2 setting, but again no luck.
One thing I'm puzzled about is when putting in MMS settings I have to say which service to use to download - the gudiance on here says select "O2 MMS" - but this is never on the drop down list. I have to select either O2 active or mobile web, or something else on the list and regardless they all exhibit the same behaviour - a 3k MMS picture!
I'm tearing my hair out, and if I don't get help soon will have none left!
Can anybody point me in the direction (or send) of a cab with the correct o2 MMS settings as the one on the wiki is corrupt (I've used the cab and the exe through activesync).
Other ideas and registry tweaks welcome. Or just sympathy from others with the same problem....
PS I emailed o2 and they said go to o2 shop, so I did and they said "ring customer support".
Update: put the spanish vodafone settings on a different wm phone last night and it too has the vpix settings in MMS. Is this just a setting that users are expected to manually input?
Come on, somebody must know the answer....?
hi guys, i have a problem. when i receive mms messages, the pictures are sooooo tiny. i have it set to download manually and when i look at the msg details it'll say that the msg is 100+ kbs in size but after it finishes downloading, the picture is only about 5kb in size. same thing goes for short audio files(if a person sends me a 10-15sec recording, i only receive a 5sec clip of it). have any of you the same problem? i've looked through all my settings and can't find anything that would help if i changed them so i come to all you kind ppl. please help. thanks in advance
I think this topic came up around 2 weeks ago on XperiaX1.net, and I think they concluded it was a network (carrier/provider) setting. Might be worth a look.
thats what i first thought but with my n95 and all my previous ericssons, it's never been an issue. i've always received everything in full. but perhaps i have some incorrect mms server settings on this phone. i'll look into it. thanks for the quick reply
The phone speaks to your network when downloading the message and your network is going "I have no idea what this phone is" so it sends down the small version. If you search there was a regedit which tricked the network in to thinking you were a different model.
LOL, the answer to your question is literally 11 threads down!
"MMS pictures Shrinking in size when downloaded"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441428
mobmanX said:
There was one guy who had this problem over at esato and he fixed it. This is hidden in a rather long genieric thread so i'll just copy his post here...
"Basically, it has something to do with the phone not being set up, or directing to the correct 'profile' with the network operator. For example, my settings were directing to the Taiwan HTC website for some reason. Because O2 didn't have these settings, it was defaulting the MMS settings to how they were when MMS was first introduced.
The solution is basically using a program like PHM Registry Editor to change the profile, so it directs to the correct details. However, as there aren't any specific Xperia ones yet, you can have it use those of another phone. In my case, I have used the N95 settings, as these are ones set up on O2.
So, in the reg editor you need to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Arcsoft MMS UA - Config - mm1 - WspHeader
There will be 6 strings in this part of the registry. You just need to edit the 'User-Agent' profile to:
NokiaN95/11.0.026; Series60/3.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
And the 'Profile' string to:
http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/NN95-1r100.xml
You don't need to reboot. And that should get the pics coming through at the correct size.
Hope this helps if anyone is having the same problem."
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ooops i found the answer last night lol suppose i should've reported back. the regedit trick fixed the problem. thanks you guys
Hello,
I searched this forum, but I was unable to find a similar discussion: do you have issues when trying to send an MMS? I'm unable to send, the message that keeps bothering me is: "Cannot connect for an unknown reason. To check your connection settings and change them if needed..." etc. I tried looking at the connection settings, but the MMS ones look ok. Also, all other connections (internet, weather, etc) work ok.
Any idea?
OK, I've done some research and it seems the issue is with the HTC Messaging app that completly replace the WinMo one. For my network operator settings to work, I need to enter the following information: MMS server IP: port AND server address (http://wap.mms.orange.ro:8002).
They instruct me to enter them by selecting Start-Messaging-SMS/MMS Options - but this is obviously WinMo messaging application, which seems inaccesible due to the HTC one!
Any help on this?
HTC messaging - settings - options
menu - mms server.
Found it - thanks. The settings were already configured (probably due to Automatic configuration run when the phone first booted) - so the problem is still here.
Any idea if "Connect via" makes any difference? Now Orange MMS is selected; should I try to select a data profile (i.e. the one used by Opera)?
Yes, it should connect via whatever the standard data profile is.
catastrat said:
Found it - thanks. The settings were already configured (probably due to Automatic configuration run when the phone first booted) - so the problem is still here.
Any idea if "Connect via" makes any difference? Now Orange MMS is selected; should I try to select a data profile (i.e. the one used by Opera)?
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send a mms to youreself with the standard configuration...
Has anyone been able to remove t-mobile's annoying image compression? When browsing the web all images are heavily compressed in browsers and ROMS that I've tried.
Apparently German tmob customers can change preferences online and usb stick users can remove it using the connection manager. Probably isn't possible, but thought it was worth asking
Using my phone as a modem (with T-Mobile UK) I use the modify headers add-on in Firefox. You can then change two settings:
Name: pragma, Value: no-transform
Name: cache-control, Value: no-cache
When they are both enabled you can get uncompressed images. I've never looked into why but it does work. Maybe that might be of use in some way?
sh2811 said:
Using my phone as a modem (with T-Mobile UK) I use the modify headers add-on in Firefox. You can then change two settings:
Name: pragma, Value: no-transform
Name: cache-control, Value: no-cache
When they are both enabled you can get uncompressed images. I've never looked into why but it does work. Maybe that might be of use in some way?
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I've seen this before, but there's no way to modify headers in opera via the usual opera:config page. Nothing else seems to work either.
I was with T-Mobile UK for quite a while and I never noticed any image compression but then I never used their proxy servers.
Do you still get this when not using their proxies?
I removed tmobs proxy settings from the connection. Via Wifi I get perfect images so I know they must have some compression running. The extra speed is great, but the compression is just too heavy for my liking.
derinahon said:
I removed tmobs proxy settings from the connection. Via Wifi I get perfect images so I know they must have some compression running. The extra speed is great, but the compression is just too heavy for my liking.
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same story here, removing the proxy settings did not help
I have no useful advice to offer, sadly, but if anyone ever figures this out, please let me know!
I'm on T-Mobile in the UK and I hadn't noticed this until I've just read this thread. Now it is really annoying me. I haven't got any proxy specified and I can confirm that when roaming (ie not connected via Wi-Fi) Opera does indeed display compressed images (badly compressed).
iouk said:
I'm on T-Mobile in the UK and I hadn't noticed this until I've just read this thread. Now it is really annoying me. I haven't got any proxy specified and I can confirm that when roaming (ie not connected via Wi-Fi) Opera does indeed display compressed images (badly compressed).
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Opera and IE as well (so it's clearly not the faulty of the browser).
t-mobile have had compression on web images for ages, it's annoying but hardly noticeable on my HD2
On my netbook it's really annoying but shift +R removes compression on a single image and shift +A removes compression on all images on a page.
Not tried the Name: pragma, Value: no-transform / Name: cache-control, Value: no-cache workaround but I've made a not of it and will give it a go.
Hmm
Have you dived into the registry to look at Network settings? Or Failing that, have you tried to set another proxy server? There are many available on the internet.
Other than that, I'm not entirely sure.
Some one much smarter will have a look at this thread and say something.
Also, believe me I don't mean this in a patronising way, but did you soft-reset after applying no proxy settings?
Jake
J.Hendy said:
Also, believe me I don't mean this in a patronising way, but did you soft-reset after applying no proxy settings?
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I think you'll find you did mean that in a patronising way but yes, I haven't been using T-Mobile's proxy server (or anyone else's) for the past 2 months, now - I had to deactivate it because for some reason it interferes with Outlook's ability to fetch email from my POP account. Switching it off makes no difference to image compression.
I did actually ring up T-Mobile tech support about this once, and was told that there is no way to configure an HD2 to prevent the compression - but they might have been wrong. I live in hope.
im on o2 and found compressed images too.
but it only happened after i changed from stock rom.
unless o2 has just started this recently i have to believe its a phone setting.
(made too many changes to revert back to stock rom for proof :/)
also noticed its only in opera an not explorer once the cache is flushed. and yes when using wifi it doesnt have any compression. so i think the phone is sending data telling the data provider to use compression.
with that said there must be a way to stop the compression.
anyone found the solution yet?
xda9467 said:
im on o2 and found compressed images too.
but it only happened after i changed from stock rom.
unless o2 has just started this recently i have to believe its a phone setting.
(made too many changes to revert back to stock rom for proof :/)
also noticed its only in opera an not explorer once the cache is flushed. and yes when using wifi it doesnt have any compression. so i think the phone is sending data telling the data provider to use compression.
with that said there must be a way to stop the compression.
anyone found the solution yet?
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solved it ... the compression does come from the network provider and they can give you alternative servers
Tmobile compression is done on a transparant proxy between there server and proxy server. Thus dissabling the proxy does not actually stop traffic being routed by the transparant proxy.
I see there is some software provided by tmob for changing image compression when using their 3g dongle. I wonder if that will work on the phone, by using the phone as a modem you may be able to use your PC to connect to your account and adjust the compression setting.
Will have to wait untill im home in a few days and give it a go
for everyone on o2 you can disable the compression by changing the username for the mobile web settings, change it from o2web to bypass leave the rest of the information as it is. Clear the cache for your browser and reload and you should notice an improvement on the pictures. Might need to soft reset.
Is this still unresolved for T-mobile?
xda9467 said:
solved it ... the compression does come from the network provider and they can give you alternative servers
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Did you speak to T-mobile to get the "alternative servers'? Can you share the settings that disable the compression?
Bump.
Interested in potential compression removal on T-Mob UK.
funnily enough I'm using my HD2 now as a modem and I went looking for this solutionagain. I'd done it last year on another laptop but couldn't remember exactly how to do it again.
anyway this solution from T-Mobile forums works great
If you use Mozilla Firefox you can make the browser do the job for you and disable the software that controls the images.
In Firefox go to
Part one
Tools > Add ons > Get Add ons > Click in the search and enter modify headers > You will get a few results, scroll to the one named 'modify headers' > Select Add to Firefox >Accept and Install > Install now > Click to restart Firefox
Part two
Tools > Modify Headers > Top leff drop down select 'Add' > Click in the name box (its next to where you just clicked to select add) enter this: Pragma > In the Value box (next one over) enter: Cache-Control > Click the Add button to the right (it will drop down with a green spot)
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Top left drop down select 'Add' > Click in the name box (its next to where you just clicked to select add) enter this: Cache-Control> In the Value box (next one over) enter: No-Cache> Click the Add button to the right (it will drop down with another green spot)
Part three
Bottom Right Hand Side click 'configuration' > Under General tick 'always on' > Close the box
Then Clear the Cache and History in Firefox and restart the Firefox and hey presto, clear images.
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