My Note using the stock messaging app automatically saves any picture I take and send. Is there any way to disable this? I can't find any settings about it. The vast majority of pic messages I send I don't really need or want to save as they're usually pretty unimportant. I've never had a phone that did this, though I've been away from touchwiz for the last several years. Just kind of annoying, trying to save my gallery from being filled up with every dumb picture message I send.
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My wife easily sends/receives pics and videos through email (hotmail) on her iphone. But when i try it says things like "file size too large"...or, i send it, but the receiver never gets it. For the iphone, if the file is too big, it will ask to resize or compress the video/pic....any help please? thanks
Try Image Shrink from the Market.
Or change the size of the pics the phone takes, in camera settings, i have minr set at 640x480. Not sure the resolution the iphone shoots at.
I just switched to Handcent SMS... you can change the settings for how large the MMS pictures can be, and then when you try to send one it will automatically resize it for you. This is a problem with Samsung's Messaging app. The weird thing is I was able to send to iPhone users for a while, then it just stopped...this has fixed the issue...and I actually prefer it over the built in app anyway now.
yeah I love handcent sms
Mine will do this automatically on the stock rom, with the stock text messenger app.
Anyone else have problems with this? My MT4G keeps trying to put the pictures in a "slideshow" or something, and I either get error messages when trying to send the pictures to people (usually people without android phones or android but not MT4G), or the people get an error when trying to view the picture on their phone. This has happened with 3-4 people now. I have to end up emailing it to them. What gives?
Could anyone else try this? YOu don't have to send the picture, you go to gallery, view the picture, share it with "Messages" (is this what I'm doing wrong?), and it adds it to a slideshow thing asking if you want a new slide or whatever. I don't think other people's phones support this though...
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Anyone else have problems with this? My MT4G keeps trying to put the pictures in a "slideshow" or something, and I either get error messages when trying to send the pictures to people (usually people without android phones or android but not MT4G), or the people get an error when trying to view the picture on their phone. This has happened with 3-4 people now. I have to end up emailing it to them. What gives?
Could anyone else try this? YOu don't have to send the picture, you go to gallery, view the picture, share it with "Messages" (is this what I'm doing wrong?), and it adds it to a slideshow thing asking if you want a new slide or whatever. I don't think other people's phones support this though...
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my wife told me she sent me mms messages but I never got them. and we both have mt4g phones.. haven't really had time to look at her settings..
sorry but here try this thread... might work for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838294
Matt105 said:
Anyone else have problems with this? My MT4G keeps trying to put the pictures in a "slideshow" or something, and I either get error messages when trying to send the pictures to people (usually people without android phones or android but not MT4G), or the people get an error when trying to view the picture on their phone. This has happened with 3-4 people now. I have to end up emailing it to them. What gives?
Could anyone else try this? YOu don't have to send the picture, you go to gallery, view the picture, share it with "Messages" (is this what I'm doing wrong?), and it adds it to a slideshow thing asking if you want a new slide or whatever. I don't think other people's phones support this though...
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Settings > wireless and networks > mobile networks > access point names > T-mobile Data. make sure u dont have Telkilla selected
This fixes the MMS issue, but I am now unable to download things from the market except by WiFi. What gives? it just freezes on "Download starting.."
Another thing, can you make it not do this slideshow thing? What does that even do anyway? What happens if you try to send a slideshow to a non-android phone, does it just show up for them as a text with a picture attached? What if your slideshow had 2 pictures?
Sorry for all the questions, I just cant find any documentation on how this slideshow stuff works... :/
A slideshow is how HTC sense handles multimedia messages. Try downloading Handcent to handle your messages. I don't think they use slideshows.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
Wow this helped a lot. But how in the heck did I get telkila anyways.
jaleroca said:
Wow this helped a lot. But how in the heck did I get telkila anyways.
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I think it's one of the default internet service provider for one of the main apps we use on the MT4G.
I wouldn't Delete it I would just switch to the tmobile data one, just in case we need that service provider for like for example Video chat...
Just talked with tmo pda support...telkilla was a testing apn, they released it with default to telkilla. He told me I had to delete it, or reset would set it back again.
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Can you guys download apps from the market (WITH WIFI OFF) when you have the tmobile network selected? I can't. Mine says "Download starting..." and doesn't do anything for like 5 minutes (didn't wait around longer than that). I asked tmobile and they told me to clear the market data/cache, but that didn't help. They then told me I could try returning the phone. But I don't really want to do that.
I just want to see if this is just my problem or if this is everyones!
so i just looked all over the net trying to find this but is there really no way to view pictures like a normal human being from the stock message app when their are multiple pictures being received??:silly: instead of it putting it in the stupid slide show making the pictures smaller and not zoomable unless you save them.
I know even if you just receive one message with text then it also goes to the slideshow view. Just try to tell your friend to only send one picture at a time
I originally asked this in Tasks thread because that is my ROM, but it isn't only his ROM as it has happened before on different phones, but always AOSP.
When I have my phone set to auto-retrieve MMS it does the expected behavior unless the MMS doesn't download correctly the first try. Sometimes I miss the message completely if it doesn't download and sometimes it notifies me with "Message not downloaded tap to retry" but when I tap that it takes me to a messaging screen where that MMS is gone. If I set the phone to not auto-retrieve I can try to download multiple times and I will not lose the message.
I know the logical answer is not to have it auto retrieve, but in a group MMS I have to go to each specific contact and hit download on each message which is counter intuitive to the smart phone.
Again, I don't think this is rom specific because I remember it on my S3 happening a time or two when GroupMMS first came to AOSP, but is there any way to make the phone keep the message in messaging if it fails to download? I used to be able to download GOSMS and use it to find them, but on the S4 they are nowhere to be found with any app I've used so far. Sometimes the message when set to not auto retrieve will just sit and say downloading forever and I have to delete it. It is pretty frustrating. I saw something on Google about it where someone had started the issue but it was for Android 2.2 and it wasn't quite the same issue.
If you haven't seen this, try setting to auto retrieve and have someone send you a bunch of mms, see if you get them all. Sometimes I don't even realize I'm missing them, which sucks too.
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone fixed it?
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I originally asked this in Tasks thread because that is my ROM, but it isn't only his ROM as it has happened before on different phones, but always AOSP.
When I have my phone set to auto-retrieve MMS it does the expected behavior unless the MMS doesn't download correctly the first try. Sometimes I miss the message completely if it doesn't download and sometimes it notifies me with "Message not downloaded tap to retry" but when I tap that it takes me to a messaging screen where that MMS is gone. If I set the phone to not auto-retrieve I can try to download multiple times and I will not lose the message.
I know the logical answer is not to have it auto retrieve, but in a group MMS I have to go to each specific contact and hit download on each message which is counter intuitive to the smart phone.
Again, I don't think this is rom specific because I remember it on my S3 happening a time or two when GroupMMS first came to AOSP, but is there any way to make the phone keep the message in messaging if it fails to download? I used to be able to download GOSMS and use it to find them, but on the S4 they are nowhere to be found with any app I've used so far. Sometimes the message when set to not auto retrieve will just sit and say downloading forever and I have to delete it. It is pretty frustrating. I saw something on Google about it where someone had started the issue but it was for Android 2.2 and it wasn't quite the same issue.
If you haven't seen this, try setting to auto retrieve and have someone send you a bunch of mms, see if you get them all. Sometimes I don't even realize I'm missing them, which sucks too.
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone fixed it?
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Do you have any ad blocking software installed such as ad-away or ad-block? If so disable them and see if it works.. These programs I don't know which one exactly were causing this issue on my phone at one time. I disabled them and MMS worked correctly again. I never felt like going in and checking which setting was causing this problem so I just uninstalled them...
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Do you have any ad blocking software installed such as ad-away or ad-block? If so disable them and see if it works.. These programs I don't know which one exactly were causing this issue on my phone at one time. I disabled them and MMS worked correctly again. I never felt like going in and checking which setting was causing this problem so I just uninstalled them...
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I don't. Thanks for that info though. The weird thing is I might even get 9 out of 10 MMS, but randomly one will not download the first try and it just disappears. I'm ok with it not downloading the first try, but if it just disappears and I don't see it I have no idea who it's from or what it was about.
I'm having the same exact problem, OP. I'm rocking a Play Store Galaxy Nexus on AT&T. I miss a lot of group messages and I'm almost ready to switch to an iPhone, or a carrier that does MMS over WiFi.
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I'm having the same exact problem, OP. I'm rocking a Play Store Galaxy Nexus on AT&T. I miss a lot of group messages and I'm almost ready to switch to an iPhone, or a carrier that does MMS over WiFi.
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Don't like the iPhone idea, but I do wonder what else I'm missing. Today I woke up and had 3 text messages showing, but when I clicked the notification I only had one unread. I don't know if it was an incorrect notification or if I lost those sms also. I might download go and leave it on there to see if it helps. So far Handcent hasn't helped. I have it hidden in the background to see if it will catch these. I also got a message that I missed this morning and I'm not sure if it was a resend or if it just randomly came to me, but I got it 4 hours later.
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Don't like the iPhone idea, but I do wonder what else I'm missing. Today I woke up and had 3 text messages showing, but when I clicked the notification I only had one unread. I don't know if it was an incorrect notification or if I lost those sms also. I might download go and leave it on there to see if it helps. So far Handcent hasn't helped. I have it hidden in the background to see if it will catch these. I also got a message that I missed this morning and I'm not sure if it was a resend or if it just randomly came to me, but I got it 4 hours later.
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We're definitely losing messages. Sometimes I get a toast messages "Can't download message from Jane Doe" if I catch it at the right time.
Sometimes it also shows up in my notifications preview, "Jane Doe" but I click on it, it takes me to the Group MMS, but then Jane Doe's message isn't in the thread. It shows up in my friends' iPhone threads though. It's like the phone receives it initially, then just throws it out.
Other times if I miss messages, I get a ton of "Hidden Sender Address" in my notification bar. I tap on it, it's blank. I check my friends' threads, and of course there's some messages I miss.
Like you said, the only reliable way to receive these MMS is to turn off auto-retrieve, but then I'm going into each individual's thread and clicking download a many times. If we're all live group chatting, this is a little intense, but I want to be part of the group...
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We're definitely losing messages. Sometimes I get a toast messages "Can't download message from Jane Doe" if I catch it at the right time.
Sometimes it also shows up in my notifications preview, "Jane Doe" but I click on it, it takes me to the Group MMS, but then Jane Doe's message isn't in the thread. It shows up in my friends' iPhone threads though. It's like the phone receives it initially, then just throws it out.
Other times if I miss messages, I get a ton of "Hidden Sender Address" in my notification bar. I tap on it, it's blank. I check my friends' threads, and of course there's some messages I miss.
Like you said, the only reliable way to receive these MMS is to turn off auto-retrieve, but then I'm going into each individual's thread and clicking download a many times. If we're all live group chatting, this is a little intense, but I want to be part of the group...
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Also, I'm guessing we aren't the only ones dealing with this, but maybe others haven't noticed it yet. It's pretty frustrating.
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Also, I'm guessing we aren't the only ones dealing with this, but maybe others haven't noticed it yet. It's pretty frustrating.
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I found this issue awhile ago in the tracker. Pretty much sums it up, but compound it with group MMS. Look how old the dates are...
FYI - I was having issues with Text/Picture Messaging Not Downloading/Sending with AOSP ROMS.
After some heavy duty Googleing and putting the pieces together from numerous posts across different sites this is what I came up with...
Go to: Settings --> Mobile Networks --> Preferred Network Type
Select: CDMA+LTE/EVOD instead of Global and reboot. (I think AOSP ROMS are set to Global for the purpose of being used worldwide.)
Since I did this my picture messaging works perfectly! Be sure to check this each time you change ROMS or update your current installed ROM.
Everyone i try to send someone a picture through text they always tell me it didn't work or it comes through cut halfway off or messed up. It only does this on the stock messaging app. Is this a common issue? If so how do u fix it?? I want to keep the stock messaging app since it's the only one that shoes a text on the always on display.
Other than this issue the phone is great. However, this is a major flaw not being able to send a picture.