So I just got a mytouch 3g tonight, and for some reason I'm not able to send or receive mms messages. Has anyone else had this problem? We've tried everything but nothings working. When I try to send there's a little message icon with a red clock looking thing on it. After a while I just get the message icon with a red triangle with a "!" in it. Also when I get mms messages, it says unable to download. I have no idea what to do! Anyone know what's going on?
Do you have a data plan? I had 3G data blocked on mine and then later found out that on smart phones, MMS are sent using 3G data. If your plan is blocking data, you will not be able to send MMS.
I have the same problem - on Orange with a Touch Pro 2. Just got sent my first MMS message, there's a pic of a paper clip, but I'm unable to download it even though internet and standard SMSs are fine...
I have a Rogers HTC magic on using on AT&T. I had to manualy enter all the APN settings to get my MMS to work.
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I received a picture in the form of MMS, but when i click on download button it says that download has failed. I called customer service and they said I need a data plan for it to work. I dont have one.
Do I really need one?
Have you tried wifi ...........
yes, it dosent work
Have the sender try to send it to maybe another phone to see if its maybe the message or something. If the other phone receives it, have them send it to you. Never know.. just try it out. Hope it works good luck.
I am not sure how there 3g network is setup, but on my WING i did not have the data plan but still was able to send and receive MMS ........ Try selecting the option to connect to ONLY 2G networks and restart your phone and see if it downloads then
Okkkk thnks alot.. I am going to try it right now..
I dont understand why G1 is so big on data plan.
hey guys. im using tzones on my xperia, everything used to work fine as for sending mms and sms. however, i recently flashed a new rom, and the settings were all deleted. i know the settings by heart and all, but now when i try to send an mms through my tmobile gprs connection, it stops at 99% and doesnt pull through. it goes on a loop and keeps trying to resend, but stops at 99%. i am able to recieve pciture messages through the same settings though, so i dont know whats wrong. anyone have any ideas?
ok so i ALWAYS have a problem sending/reciving mms pictures via text thru handcent. I'm NEVER able to send/download mms pictures using my 3g. It only works via wifi. But if the mms started always with 3g, it HANGS and NEVER downloads. so im not even able to view it unless i start it with wifi. how do i fix this?!?1
that depends on the rom cuz ive had probs to with mms send and recieve i use handcent now no probs
When I had handcent on stock evo, I had the same prob. Even the stock message would screw up. But now that I'm rooted, the regular messaging app works like a charm.
Try go sms, out worked pretty well for me.
Sent using my fresh Warm 2.2.
I think this is a problem with android 2.2 and older, and I have seen it worse with sense ROMs. Sprint picture mail will only be delivered through 3g. If you try CM7, and are connected to WiFi you will see 3g turn on when sending or receiving a picture message. So connecting to WiFi will actually stop the download because it turns off mobile data. If you are having a problem while connected to 3g then it could be a ROM or signal problem.
If you Google "Sprint MMS wifi" you will see MMS only works on 3g, not wifi or even 4g.
Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm on tmobile..stock jellybean and stock texting app.
sometimes the MMS will go right away..sometimes they will sit for days..and then i send (or recieve) one from someone and suddenly the floodgates open all my 'stuck' MMS messages go.
i dont know this is a defect..or maybe something quirky about tmobile's network..but it seems to happen about once a week the messages get backed up like this.
never had a problem with SMS..i dont think.
Not sure why but i've had that too. The other night sending to my friend on T-Mobile it wouldn't go for hours then i resent it some 9hrs later and it worked fine. I don't think it's a N4 problem per say as i've had that with my SGS2 also. Maybe it's a ROM thing or just carrier issue but wish it wouldn't be so!
I got this experience with MMS:
- when on WiFi than impossible to send;
- only when on Data transfer MMS is send.
Try to manually set the data and not wifi and try.
Good luck.
MMS only send on mobile data connection, thus has been standard behaviour on every Android phone I've owned
makes sense. i'm on/near wifi for most of the day every day so i guess its not going to send until i'm in my car driving somewhere and regular data kicks on
Shouldn't matter as the phone wont use WIFI to send MMS if the APN has "mms" designation it it. You can watch the signal bars and see he up/down arrow in the cellular signal bars vs wifi when trying to send. At least, that's what it does on my phone yet it still just doesn't send once in a while.
shotta35 said:
Shouldn't matter as the phone wont use WIFI to send MMS if the APN has "mms" designation it it. You can watch the signal bars and see he up/down arrow in the cellular signal bars vs wifi when trying to send. At least, that's what it does on my phone yet it still just doesn't send once in a while.
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did an experiment today; sent 3 MMS (while i'm hooked to WIFI) and 2 of them went..made a phone call before the 3rd one sent..and it got stuck in 'sending' mode.
2 hours later still stuck in 'sending'. i sent a text to that number ...didn't help.
I then sent another MMS..and when i did, it triggered both the new one and the 'stuck' one to go through.
so there you have it..not conclusive but it seems like maybe when its switching between voice and data it can get stuck..and the stock MMS messenging app doesn't seem to be smart enough to resend automatically. it seems like you have to 'jiggle the handle' to get it to go by sending another MMS.
it also seems sending ANY mms (not even to the stuck #) will release all the hung MMS for everyone.
Hi All.
Have my MXP on Verizon. Love it. However, I'm currently having some issues - I can't get MMS when I'm on wifi - I get notifications for the messages, and then get "failed to retrieve message" and then it just never shows up.
I'm using the stock messenger app.
I know textra has an option to "fix" T-Mobile (where this happens apparently), but I don't really want to use that because it uses a different text message database than the standard one, so I can't launch tasker events based on SMS/MMS when I use it.
I have unlocked the "secret" menu and enabled HD calling, and I switched my "preferred network type" to LTE/CDMA (since I'm on Verizon) in an effort to allow voice and data concurrently. It seems to be working. Not sure if this causes an error when I'm on wifi.
I also have Adblock Plus. Per this thread I just changed my APN to set MMS port to 8080; I'll see if that affects anything when I get home.
However, as I have not tested this, I am wondering if anyone else has this problem? As I type this, I'm now thinking that I may only see this when sending messages to/from iPhones ... I'll do more testing tonight and update, but I'm hoping someone sees this and is like, "Oh, I know exactly what it is ...."
EDIT:
So this didn't fix anything. I have to turn wifi off to get mms. REALLY ANNOYING. Anyone at all see this and have any solutions? Anything?
Thanks.
never had problems since day 1 if I was on wifi or not to send MMS. Maybe try factory reset.
To my knowledge, you can't get regular MMS over WiFi. You have to have your phone data on too. I have found no solution to automatically turn phone data on when a text comes in. Every solution I found doesn't work for Lollipop.
i just got the same thing but after i updated to 6.0 so figured it was because of the update
So I have cellular data on and wifi on. I don't know if there's a setting I'm missing that turns data off automatically when connect to wifi ... anyone know anything about this?
Either way, if I'm on wifi, I get no MMS whether using default messaging app or hangouts.
There is a know issue with any app that accesses the MMS database on 6.0 ....ie Pushbullet.
Let me see if I can find a link
Found it...
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/09/android-6-0-1-fixes-the-annoying-failed-mms-bug-in-marshmallow/