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Incoming MMS not working , how to fix ?

Been having this problem since day one with Cyanogen.
Invariably the incoming picture mail ceases to function.
Ive gotten it to work when its acted up by resetting fixing permissions , unchecking then re checking "auto retrieve mms" , and selecting "TMOBILE" under provider listing to re register with network.
Since most of the time I have to ask people to pic mail me its extremely difficult to troubleshoot regularly.
"mms" is too short a term for seach it seems so apologize if this is an old issue.
1. Is there a specific fix to get MMS working as it should ?
2. Is there a way I can test if it works by emailing my phone ([email protected]) with a pic attached ? That never works.
3. If this is ROM specific ,are there any ROMS that dont have any sms/mms issues ?
G1
cyanogen 4.02
default messaging , handcent ,chomp have all given me the same problem...only using handcent currently.

Try sending yourself two mms messages

Tried 3 different.... only 1 came through. grrr

Noone has any ideas ?
Would upgrading my radio do any good ?

I noticed that both you guys are running old roms ...have you considered updating to 1.6 rom ,, I had issues sending mms with handcent when upgraded and I emailed them and they issued an update for 1.6 donut support. works great now

dan0zone said:
I noticed that both you guys are running old roms ...have you considered updating to 1.6 rom ,, I had issues sending mms with handcent when upgraded and I emailed them and they issued an update for 1.6 donut support. works great now
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I will be trying this now that theres a one file Cyanogen. I was pessimistic about Hero roms because so many were limited or laggy.
qhemani said:
The hell with the incoming mms i cant send any mms..n no 1 on this site is help n anyway this site suck
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For all I know there could be a wealth of info..but mms wont come up with anything in search.
Worst case scenario you can receive my MMS and Ill send out any you need.

for me if i am on wifi, i can never get mms sent or received. but onc ei turn off wifi and get on 3g it sends and receives fine. i missed a lot of mms because at home i always have my phone on wifi. i only know i miss them because right after an mms is sent, sometimes people sms me and say "did you get that?" and then i am aware they sent an mms.

Installed Cyn 4.1.999999999999999
STILL same issue. Ugh.

I have the same issue and I just switched to that ROM. My problem is real intermittent and in fact mine will somes times not receive regular texts, or the recipaent never gets them, or even sometimes someone will get multiple copies of my text messages all at once and I'll even get a few copies of received text messages on my phone. Just annoying.
Found this though, basically just sending a picture to your own phone.
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23379.xml
I live in some crappy 3G coverage, so its always switching between that and edge. Something I've been meaning to try is to force the phone to only use 2G networks and see if that helps.

Raceit said:
I have the same issue and I just switched to that ROM. My problem is real intermittent and in fact mine will somes times not receive regular texts, or the recipaent never gets them, or even sometimes someone will get multiple copies of my text messages all at once and I'll even get a few copies of received text messages on my phone. Just annoying.
Found this though, basically just sending a picture to your own phone.
http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23379.xml
I live in some crappy 3G coverage, so its always switching between that and edge. Something I've been meaning to try is to force the phone to only use 2G networks and see if that helps.
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Did you have this problem before switching to this ROM ?
What ROM were you using prior ?

KOF33 said:
Did you have this problem before switching to this ROM ?
What ROM were you using prior ?
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Yep, same problem. I'd say I'm 99% sure I even had this issue when I was using JF roms. I just came from Cyan 4.0.4 rom and a few of his previous roms before that.
I'm also half temped to unroot it and go back to a factory T-Mobile rom.

Raceit said:
Yep, same problem. I'd say I'm 99% sure I even had this issue when I was using JF roms. I just came from Cyan 4.0.4 rom and a few of his previous roms before that.
I'm also half temped to unroot it and go back to a factory T-Mobile rom.
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As am I.
Its annoying as hell to get "did you get my pic ?" or "what do you think" wondering wth theyre talking about.

Not sure if this will work for you but works for me. Only way I can receive mms from anyone is they have to type something in the subject and something in the message. If they do that I get it everytime. Might want to give it a try.

spankymclovin said:
Not sure if this will work for you but works for me. Only way I can receive mms from anyone is they have to type something in the subject and something in the message. If they do that I get it everytime. Might want to give it a try.
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Will try..
TMo had me pull out battery then re try...it worked....till I got home.
Rep said it may be caused by a bad tower in my area pulling out battery connects me to another tower.
Sounded like BS but seeing that it worked when we tried but failed later on ..perhaps.
Id feel better if I knew this was a problem with or without Root. Im fighting my urge to just go back to stock...hate to lose apps2sd though.

Is anyone else having any problems receiving calls?

It seems like I've been having on and off problems getting calls ever since I updated to 2.1. Right now I'm on DamageControl v1, but I've had this on the others too. Sometimes my calls go straight to voicemail or the caller receives a message that my number is not available at all! This morning all three things happened back-to-back when my girlfriend called me (first voicemail, then disconnected number, then it went through). I am using my phone with an Airave system, but I never had this problem in the past or on my other phones with with it. I have yet to test it in a non-Airave area.

yep.. been experiencing the same thing the past couple of days... exact situation this morning as u.. my wife called a couple of times and went thru the same thing before she actually got thru to me... im also using DC v1.0 ROM..

TheBiles said:
It seems like I've been having on and off problems getting calls ever since I updated to 2.1. Right now I'm on DamageControl v1, but I've had this on the others too. Sometimes my calls go straight to voicemail or the caller receives a message that my number is not available at all! This morning all three things happened back-to-back when my girlfriend called me (first voicemail, then disconnected number, then it went through). I am using my phone with an Airave system, but I never had this problem in the past or on my other phones with with it. I have yet to test it in a non-Airave area.
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I have the straight to VM problem alot, even running stock. I think it is a problem with sprints network but with several calls in to them I get no where at all. The only thing they do is have me wipe and reset and they sent me an airave. All of which have done nothing to help the situation.
I think if more people call and complain then maybe Sprint will get a clue and fix the problem. Or not, after all this is Sprint that we are talkin about.

I had the same problem. Here is what I did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5891057#post5891057

I had this issue when i used to run android on my old winmo phone. If this is a 2.1 rom causing the issues i may wait for awhile to install.

I have had that issue on occasion since I took the phone out of the box stock rom or rooted or 2.1.

rlaxton said:
I have had that issue on occasion since I took the phone out of the box stock rom or rooted or 2.1.
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Really? Ive never had the issue on stock or running a custom 1.5 rom?

yes I have, not all the time just every once in a while.

Cant make calls????

I was messing around with a few custom roms last night and found this morning that when i try to make a call it goes straight to a sprint automated phone menu. I used the stock RUU to flash it back to factory settings and still having the same issue. I did the programing for it with sprint the gps and data work and i can get incoming calls. Anyone know how to fix this issue?
Sprint said I needed to call from another phone so they can troubleshoot mine but i dont really have access to another phone right now.

fbodylt1 said:
I was messing around with a few custom roms last night and found this morning that when i try to make a call it goes straight to a sprint automated phone menu. I used the stock RUU to flash it back to factory settings and still having the same issue. I did the programing for it with sprint the gps and data work and i can get incoming calls. Anyone know how to fix this issue?
Sprint said I needed to call from another phone so they can troubleshoot mine but i dont really have access to another phone right now.
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There's really nothing I know to do... make a free skype account. You can call toll-free numbers for free on Skype.

Well took a while but sprint finally figured out my account had a redirect script on it like you get when your bill is past due. they called the billing department and got it removed.

messaging issue.

So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.

metalblaster said:
So i did a search and couldnt find a similar issue.
I can text my friend, call him, and he can call me, I cant receive his texts however. It started 2 nights ago out of the blue. The day before i could still get his texts now nada. Im on CM7 RC-0 but i dont think that matters because even if i try sending a text via google voice on a laptop he still doesnt recieve it. Anyone with any Ideas? Oh btw hes the only person who is like this to me well at least to my Knowledge.
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These seem to be contradicting each other. It sounds like your issue is your not able to get his texts, right? If that's the case are you using any third part text apps, like GoSMS or Handcent? Is he? What kind of phone is he using? When did you first flash CM7 RC0? I think that only became available last night, so it sounds like the issue started before you flashed over to RC0.

yeah, I'm sorry I meant to say that even when I got into my Google Voice I cant see the messages he has sent.
I used to use Handcent sms and i just flashed the RC today AFTER the issue happened 2 days ago. I figured I might as well wipe the phone so i did and then updated to cm7 RC-0. Currently, I'm not using any 3rd party apps for messaging but before I used Hand-cent sms. In fact my phone is completely devoid of any Apps atm because i just wiped data, cache and Dalvik.
He is currently using a Droid X On Cm7 and I think he uses handcent as well. So he is on verizon.
Basically the event went down like this. The night before he and i had a talk via text, i received all the messages from his phone from that day then when i woke up the next morning he had texted me but I didn't get it. Later he and i chatted online and he asked if i had received the message earlier and I said no and asked him to resend it. He did and i still didnt see anything, so i sent a test message to him which he was able to get and then he sent a message back to me etc. We sent messages back and forth for about an hour. I tried to send a message via Google Voice on the computer and he received it but my log on Google voice did not update for even the message i had sent. I just deactivated my google voice account thinking i might be somethnig to do with that, but i still am not receiving his texts. I also called sprint and they did basically everything they could think of and still no messages.

Just a thought but do you have any numbers blocked on sprint dot com (they allow certain text senders and numbers to be blocked from msging or calling on you account settings)? Reason I ask is that I don't fully trust sprint's system for this. When I blocked one number for instance from calling it completely disabled my roaming calls from going through and I had to reverse it. Even though I've successfully used it to block texts I wonder if it could cause issues for someone else.

Just puttin in my 2 cents but I had this happen to me a while back and it was foor my boss... I could send em to him and everything u say u can do but it just had to pan itself out. Hell sprint even gave me a new phone just to try and it never did... then one day it just started workin again and hasn't messed up since... it rly has nothing to do with thr roms or anything... just sprints horrible service and they don't even kno wat causes it. So hopefully it will pan out
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My brother is having the same problem between his & his wife's phones and they're stock. It's a Sprint problem - they told him a car knocked down a tower in their neighborhood.
If you complain enough, they'll give you a credit

No Call Notification

Haven't had a lot of luck with questions here for the last little while, but maybe someone has an idea as to why this would happen. My wife tried to call me 6 times yesterday. Not a single call came through or registered on my S7 Edge. She said all calls immediately went through to voice mail. When she got home, she stood right beside me and tried again and again, I was not notified of the call and it went right through to voice mail.
The phone had recently been rebooted. DND was not on. All sounds were on. The phone is not rooted and no apps like Greenify or anything like that running. After her last unsuccessful call to me, standing right beside me, I called her and it went through without an issue. She then tried to call me back and it worked. A minute or so later I received notification of her 2 voice mail messages from her previous calls. It's like the phone was in an extreme deep sleep. Which is pretty annoying considering I use the phone as a phone and I need calls to come through when they are made.
I took the phone into my carrier and they gave me a new sim card to try. I didn't have any issues with the previous sim card other than the issue from time to time of the first call I place being dropped and then the second call going through without issue. The signal is not fantastic in our condo, but I've never had someone tell me they have tried to call me and simply gone to vm before, so I don't know of any time of this happening previously. My wife had never had problems calling me before at all.
Anyone know what might have caused this?

No answers to this post,. Guess no one knows. Just another bizarre Samsung issue. Had it happen again today. My wife had to send me a Whatsapp message saying she couldn't call me. She said she called over and over again. No voice mail, no nothing. Never rang on my end or registered a call at all. Phone just didn't work until I called her and then she called me back and it worked. So sick of this thing working when it feels like it. Checked signal Not great, but no better than her signal and she never has any issues. She said she would call, it would just drop. No ringing, no voice mail, no nothing. Just call and then drop sound. Over and over again. Good thing this phone is only a $1000 device. Works great.

I don't have a solution for your problem, but had a similar issue when phoning my wife. It would ring on my side, but not on her side, then goes to voicemail. 2nd or 3rd time the call would go through to her to answer. Her phone wouldn't show any of the other calls. She was with a specific service provider and I moved her over to my provider. That is when the problems started as she was ported over to my provider. In the end it was on the provider's side where the problem was. They made some changes on her number profile and she could receive all calls and not random ones. Don't know the technical side of what the provider did, but they did admit they created her "call profile" incorrectly. Perhaps it's the same with you, that there is a setup on your profile that is not correct.

Thanks for the post, but I have contacted my provider. We use the same provider. Same settings. They reset everything for my phone and I reset everything on my end too. Still no solution. She does not have the same issues. Same phone. Same provider. Just sucks when you don't know if someone is trying to call you or not and if the phone actually works or not. I just want a phone that works all the time without having to worry about it. At the end of the day, that's all this is....a phone. If people can't call, well, that's an issue. I'm currently looking for work so it's even more important now than it's ever been.

Sorry to hear that you went the route of the provider and still no resolution. Maybe someone else can give light on the subject...

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wtwo2 said:
Solved
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Huh?
No it isn't.

TheIgster said:
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Sorry..solved my problem by flashing stock..first doesnt work..but now all is good

wtwo2 said:
Sorry..solved my problem by flashing stock..first doesnt work..but now all is good
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OK...What does that have to do with this thread that I created about my issue? I feel drunk...I think I need another drink. WTF?

What do you want? I had the ****ing same issue..solved it and deleted my message..
Try to flash some stock firm with Odin.. solved the very same issue for me!!!

So why did you delete the message then?