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MMS Notification but when i click there is no message

So this has now happened to me twice, yesterday being the second time.
I'll get a notification for a message at the top, both times it has been after I already had another SMS message that I had not checked yet, then when I click on the notification to bring up the messaging app there is only one of the two messages waiting there in the list. Both times I have texted the person back and they did indeed send me some type of picture message. After resending I receive it the second time. It makes me worried that maybe we could be losing messages and not even know it. It seems to me this is a software bug (vs. Carrier problem since the phone shows a notification for the message)
Has anyone else seen this problem?
I'm on stock 4.2.2 but the first time it happened was on 4.2.1 about a month ago.

Yea, happen to me as well when I was connected to WiFi. Turned off the WiFi, and told them to send them again and it received them that time. Maybe an issue when connected to a WiFi connection?
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Eddiepapi said:
Yea, happen to me as well when I was connected to WiFi. Turned off the WiFi, and told them to send them again and it received them that time. Maybe an issue when connected to a WiFi connection?
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I think you have to be connected to data in order to receive a MMS message. Wifi will not work. You will get a notification but no picture.

Of course you can't receive a MMS over a wifi, the problem is that the phone is not switching over to mobile data to receive pictures while connected to wifi. I also have this problem.

NoL1m1tZ said:
Of course you can receive a MMS over a wifi, the problem is that the phone is not switching over to mobile data to receive pictures while connected to wifi. I also have this problem.
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I don't quite understand your statement. You say you can receive MMS over wifi but then you say the phone has to switch to data in order to receive the picture? How is that different that what I said?

Sorry, autocorrect stole my apostrophe t. I meant cant as in can not.

I have the same issue. The slide down text msg notification icon reported 3 texts from 3 different senders. When I clicked on the icon I am taken to my text msg inbox but only 2 of the 3 text msgs where there. I then verified with my friend that he did indeed send me a text msg. I have never had an issue receiving MMS texts over WiFi. I use WiFi exclusively at work and home. So I had created the same type of thread on the androidcentral forums.

That's exactly what happened to me today, twice! My girlfriend sent me three MMS, I got the first one and two notifications after. But when tapped, all I saw was the first MMS.
My connection was poor, I thought that could be the cause...
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Yea I was wondering if it is a carrier issue or if its LG or Google ?

I think a part of the issue is that the phone creates the notification the moment it recognizes that there is an incoming MMS instead of when the MMS is actually received and able to be viewed.

NoL1m1tZ said:
I think a part of the issue is that the phone creates the notification the moment it recognizes that there is an incoming MMS instead of when the MMS is actually received and able to be viewed.
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Well that would be fine if it is a preview of the MMS before it arrives, but when it never arrives is where the problem is. There has got to be a solution. I can't help but wonder whom has sent me a text of which I did not receive.

this happens to me also. its annoying. but i do have my wifi on all the time, so I will try it without wifi on, and see what happens.

I'm having this problem as well and I don't like any of the third-party apps. Has anyone found a fix? Thanks.

Well, I contacted T-Mobile, my carrier, and they went through a lot of troubleshooting. It basically came down to turning on mobile data alongside WiFi because apparently MMS msgs need data to send and receive. Sucks, but there it is.

I can't send pictures? Using it on T-Mobile

I put the lte apn settings but I can't send pictures but I can receive them sometimes. Does anyone know how to fix that? The internet and all works just can't send pictures and can't receive them sometimes
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Does anyone know how I can fix that?
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Do you have the the tmobile s4 or att s4 unlocked? I found that when I unlocked the my att gs4 for tmobile the apn setting s automatically popped and mms nd lte wrk I try to edit them to include was left out nd mms stopped wrking so I reset the settings back to default
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I had a similar problem with mine, but only when I rooted it. It would send and receive MMS and then stop and never send or receive MMSs again. The solution for me was resetting and going back to pre-rooted (unrooted?)
Is your device rooted?

Cant send but can receive sms

So it was working yesterday without issue. I can recive text but cannot send them with default messenger. If I use hangout for sms it will work. All sent messages said failed. I have cleared messenger from apps and even gone as far as a factory reset. I am at a lost.
Tried with WiFi calling on and off. WiFi on and off. Safe mode. Nothing is letting the default messenger send.
My only luck I had once was while it was booting I was able to send a message
Did more trouble shooting. Problem is while on lte. Called and opened a ticket with the engineer

Do you have WiFi calling enable? I heard that played an issue for some people
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Have tried both on and off. Instant fail
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I had the same problem I turn off wi-fi calling and Voice over LTE the fix the problem for me. I can send and receive sms/mms .

I also have intermittent problem sending sms/mms. It would report as failed but the other end actually receives it. Will try disabling wifi calling.
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Issues with MMS reception while on WIFI with Android Messenges

I am on T Mobile and I have had issues receiving MMS messengers while on WIFI. Does anyone have a fix for this? I read previously that there was an APN setting to change but I am not sure. Thanks in advance! Also, this is using Android Messages (Stock APP).

Haven't changed anything and it's working on my end..also on T-Mobile...
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I had the same issue and I am on TMobile also. If WiFi was on, I could not send nor receive MMS. I fixed it with this: https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/61843
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Once I made the changes I was able to send MMS and receive them

I'm also on T-Mobile and was not receiving mms when on Wi-Fi, but receiving them fine. The problem was fixed when I turned off Wi-Fi calling. Hope that fixes your issue also.

I agree the problem is fixed by turning off WiFi calling, but WiFi calling is something I want to keep on

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I agree the problem is fixed by turning off WiFi calling, but WiFi calling is something I want to keep on
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Okay so I noticed wifi calling wasn't on for me when it was working. I went and checked my APN settings and they were wrong. I corrected them using the settings in the link a few posts up and now it works with wifi calling on for me
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I am glad it worked for you.

I also used the above fix, it seems to be working as well. Thanks

I have bookmarked that TMO page. Just a FYI, my pixel unlocked and unbranded does not have this problem

I am going to run by t-mobile today, I'm trying to gauge my signal with my wife iPhone today to see if it's the same.

eakrish said:
I am going to run by t-mobile today, I'm trying to gauge my signal with my wife iPhone today to see if it's the same.
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As with the MMS on Wifi .. the APN that the Essential pulls is not complete .. NONE of the 4 it pulls. I would go in and edit yours. The MMS while on wifi regardless of wifi calling on or off .. should be fixed with the proper APN. Remember that you should reboot after changing the APN. My wife's was having an issue with MMS and weird signal issues. I fixed her up with a proper APN. It's a pitfall of a non-carrier phone. My U11 suffered the same issues. Anyway. Give a proper APN a shot.

I did this but am still having reception issues as well as MMS issues

To clarify if you make this chnage to get it to work, you need "Cellular" checked under Wifi Calling. If you have WiFi calls as preferred it still does not work. These changes and that setting allow the phone to jump back and forth when needed, correct?

eakrish said:
I am on T Mobile and I have had issues receiving MMS messengers while on WIFI. Does anyone have a fix for this? I read previously that there was an APN setting to change but I am not sure. Thanks in advance! Also, this is using Android Messages (Stock APP).
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I don't think MMS works over Wifi, though.

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I don't think MMS works over Wifi, though.
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Sure it does. I just sent a gif from Gboard and a photo from my gallery to the wife and she's got an Essential on TMO. It works fine.
Again, a proper APN will make all this work properly.

What have those of you on Verizon been doing?

Hello - I saw this post while looking for an MMS solution for my PH-1 on AT&T. I have had Verizon, Sprint, Google Fi, and AT&T on this phone, and the only one that I could send/receive SMS/MMS was on Verizon while on my work network's WiFi. I work in a school building behind three layers of cinder block walls, and I have to have a way for this to work. I could go back to VZW, but I'm trying to avoid their high and not-unlimited Unlimited plans' rates. Can you direct me to the correct APN settings for AT&T? Thanks!

Verizon Messages MMS issue

For some reason, every now and then, I'll send an MMS using Verizon Messages, and it will get stuck on "sending", and never send. This happens when connected to WiFi or data. If I delete the MMS, and send it using Samsung Messages, they go through immediately. Anyone know what that could be? I never had the issue with my S9. It only started when I got my Note 10 Plus. I've tried uninstalling and installing the app, and also going back to older versions, and it didn't help.
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