I have searched the forum and I keep finding sources that say you have to have data plan and use the e-mail function in order to send pictures. Am I missing something or is the TILT capable of sending picture texts? It seems sort of ridiculous for such an expensive phone to not have such a basic capability. Sorry if this is a retarded question but I cant seem to find the answer on the forum.
jwu222 said:
I have searched the forum and I keep finding sources that say you have to have data plan and use the e-mail function in order to send pictures. Am I missing something or is the TILT capable of sending picture texts? It seems sort of ridiculous for such an expensive phone to not have such a basic capability. Sorry if this is a retarded question but I cant seem to find the answer on the forum.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You don't need a data plan to send MMS. aka Picture text.
but it does access media net to send MMS if im not mistaken, so its not free, at least thats what Cingular reps say...LOL
alright i feel dumb asking this question but the only way i can seem to send a picture is through e-mail. how exactly do you send the picture text? i dont see the option through the texting
^ Messages>Menu>New>Multimedia Message
all hail strike one
i now feel at least 50% stupider than before because that was pretty obvious. thanks a lot strikeone
Keep one thing in mind when using MMS. Pictures & text cannot exceed 600k. It has something to do with AT&T's OTA servers or something.
to vampire2800
so i tried to send the picture text and it seemed that i had to connect to the gsm network in order to send it. i have picture text in my plan but no data plan, is there any way i can do this for free without having to get on the network?
It will temporarily connect to Media Net. Don't worry, as soon as it's finished sending/recieving it will disconnect. If you have a picture messaging package, then any picture message less that 600k is free for you, unless it's sent to someone not on AT&T. I've been doing it for years & trust me, I don't get billed for internet usage. I promise!
thanks again vamp!
No problem, bro. That's why we're here.
jwu222 said:
thanks a lot strikeone
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
^ yep, no problem .
Lets put it like this. When you send a picture, you do in fact access the internet. It is called a MMS (Multi Media Message). AT&T says as long as you have a SMS plan that allows MMS to send and receive, you will not get charged. However there is a size limit of 600k. As for my tilt, I keep the internet disabled. I Am too cheap for a data plan right now. I only enable my data when I know a MMS message is coming. If you don't have an internet plan through AT&T you can have what they call pay as you go data. You get charged for the usage by KB (Kilobytes). With the tilt and how it likes to access the internet all the time, this can get pricey. Just a FYI...
Related
Heya.
I did a little research and finally noticed that I would never get picture messages, and I heard this is a problem with the Iphone as well. But i figure with the Tilt I should be fine. Why do my picture messages not work and it directs me towards ATT's Viewmymessage.com website? Any help? Thanks everyone! -Jeff
The iPhones does not have mms capability, but the Tilt does. You should check with AT&T if everything is correctly provisioned in their system. I have a Tilt and I get picture messages fine.
Hope this helps!
bump anyone?
Jeff,
Do you know what type of messages are being sent that you cannot receive? MMS, email, other? I have no idea what viewmymessage.com is but on the front page it says...
If you received a text message directing you to this site, then someone has sent you a multimedia message.
To view your message, enter the personal password that was included in your text message.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When you try that does it work?
I have AT&T also and have gotten MMS messages from Verizon and AT&T users without an issue. Maybe this viewmymessage.com service is related to where the message is originating from?
Hello.
I thought is was because of their service providers as well, but I've tried with people from T-mobile, Verizon and ATT and I always received the message without the pic..
It's a MMS, so it's a picture within a txt. I was reading online how this is setup because the iphone cannot received mms, so for the iphone they created this website to view photos within the txt.. But, I cannot understand for the life of me why I cant see pictures in my text's.
Interesting. Maybe AT&T thinks you have an iPhone? Are you on their iPhone plan? Also log onto your account and make sure your phone there isn't listed as the iPhone.
sounds to me like that's what the other persons phone is sending you to. nothing to do with your tilt. Like you could have a rzr and still see the same message. i get mms fine on my tilt with at&t
Yea I'm going to have to call them. It's def not the people sending it to me. I've gone online and ATT is showing me that I have a Tilt on their website, I'm just gonna give them a ring and see whats up.
I am sure this is a provisioning issue. I just called AT&T because of this and sms not getting to my phone and it was because of the way they setup my account. I am sure you will have this fix shortly.
Figured it out I think. I have a W810I registered with ATT because the net is cheaper on that phone. I only use my tilt 4 days out of the week and just dont use net on it those 4 days, cus 30 bucks is expensive. So i opted to just use my w810i for 15 bucks a month. I remember when i called they had to change the MAE or EMI whatever number to the old sony ericson, thats why they are not appearing correctly. This will be interesting...
Punker1234 said:
Figured it out I think. I have a W810I registered with ATT because the net is cheaper on that phone. I only use my tilt 4 days out of the week and just dont use net on it those 4 days, cus 30 bucks is expensive. So i opted to just use my w810i for 15 bucks a month. I remember when i called they had to change the MAE or EMI whatever number to the old sony ericson, thats why they are not appearing correctly. This will be interesting...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nope thats not it. i have a tilt and att thinks i have a razr so i only pay 35 for unlimeted internet and sms adn i can send and recive mms so its on att's end. oh adn dont tell them you have a tilt or they WILL NOT HELP you trust me...they will say its becouse you are useing a pda on a media max plan
So i know all phones have a Email attached to the number for example [email protected], So i have a friend that lives in Canada and i at .25 cents a text it gets spendy to text her.
So if instead of just putting in the number as 123456789 i put it in as the email address will it avoid the charges or will it still see the cell tower it sends from and charge me? im attached to email all day so i can just email form a normal email address but Texting just seems much more convenient
Hehe
Thanks for any help.
i dont get what u mean by the cell tower thing, but i think i get what you mean......you want to avoid international sms charge by sending a txt msg to an email address.
if you are using an at&t rom, then all u have to do is put in the email address in the recipient box and send it. if you're using a non-at&t rom, then u have to do some tiny changes in the registry, i dont remember wat they were, search for it.
this way u will be charged the normal sms rate, or if u have an sms plan then it will be deducted from the plan
If you are sending an email... you will be charged via your data plan. While this is convenient for you, it becomes a challenge for the other person who may be trying to respond.
You might want to consider a good chat tool in the case of an online conversation. Skype is popular, free, and can be run on a desktop OR PPC phone.
Cheers!
Do you have pay as you talk in the States? Does it allow international roaming?
What I'm thinking, and it's a solution that worked for a friend who lived in the UK and had a Canadian boyfriend, is that she bought him a pay as you talk UK phone, shipped it out to him and whilst he didn't really use it for anything, she could send him texts on that phone that came out of her inclusive allowance, thus avoiding any charges. Of course this would depend on the price of the pay as you talk phone, any running costs etc. For a UK phone, once you buy it there were no running costs hence why this was an option. YMMV.
There is an easier way than sending messages as an email. You can download java applications to your phone that allow you to send messages through the phones GPRS rather than SMS. This costs a fraction of the price and works the same way as you would send a normal message.
A good site to check out is FishText.com. Texts to canada cost €0.02 and in my experience it has always worked.
if you have a data plan or using wifi get this software from the link http://www.nimbuzz.com/ it is free and you well not get charge for any text
Well, this would be my first official post. I'm a newbie . I just bought my Diamond about one week ago and I like it alot. I'm a convert from Verizon. Loved the service but not the price plans so I switched. I get so much more with Sprint for the price. Anyway, when I first got it the internet connection would not work. Called techs and they fixed that problem. Set up email, Wifi, pic mail, and pic mail service and all other stuff. Except pic mail does not work or it only half works. I can send or upload to my sprint pic account website, but I can't receive pic mail. I see the uploads and pics from my friends but it doesn't send them to my phone. So, like WTH . Anyways, I can't receive from the website or from my friends who are on Sprint. Talked to a tech and she said I would have to set my email up and pic mail up and I did. I had to do something else and she said she would call me back, but never did. Kinda pissed about that. Any clues or the like would be helpful? Like I said I can send, upload, and receive on the web account but not receive from the web or from my friends phones on Sprint. If anybody had a similar problem or fixed it their own way before calling the techs let me know? I want the pic mail to fully work.
i have a simimliar problem i cant send/receive mms messages from my girlfriend who has verizon and i have ATT. i jsut got my diamond about 5 days ago
I was reading other threads/posts and sometimes it depends on the network and the quality or size of the picture, video, etc. she is sending to you. The higher the resolution or larger the file, the longer it takes. The lower the quality or smaller the file the shorter it takes. Sometimes the networks regulate the size of what you send. Hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344383
The weird thing is that Cybertoads and my mutual friend also has a Diamond and on his everything works perfectly fine. At first it literally took 2 weeks for a picture mail to arrive on my phone after sending it from his, but downloading the Picture mail update from Sprint seemed to have fixed that issue, now he can send and receive them no problem. I have a Sprint Touch, and I have no problem either sending and receiving pictures.
Anyone else have the problem that Cybertoad is encountering?
Possible Solution: sMMS App
I've had the same problem, I've had my Diamond since it came out months ago and I've tried several times to get picmail working. Just last night I came across this: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=22509 [the first post has a lot of details about the app.] Read through that and you can download the program and try it out, I really liked it and donated the $5 through paypal like the creator suggested and I was surprised by how quickly I was able to register and get the full version up and running [and you get a lifetime license for that donation]. So far, I've gotten sending picmail working just fine with this program. Receiving is another matter, and it's an issue that seems to only be on the Diamond and the Touch Pro. Typically on Sprint phones that can't get regular MMS, they'll send a regular txt message with a link that you can click on and download the picture, they were able to get this program to intercept those txts and automatically download the picture like regular MMS is supposed to work. However, on the Diamond and Touch Pro, it does not send a txt with a link to the MMS since the native Sprint picmail app should be working (but they just can't seem to get it working at all!). They have wrote on their site [http://smms.vision5.com/] that they are working on that problem. In the meantime, in the app you can just click on your inbox and it'll sync all your recent new picmails right in the program, you don't need to go through the Sprint picmail site and you can view the pictures, download them to your phone, reply to the messages, etc. It's just a matter of how often you get picmail which would determine how often you should check for anything new. Alternatively, if you tell people that when they send you an MMS make sure they send a regular txt message telling you they sent the MMS, you'll be able to go into the program and check. This app seems way easier to use than the native Sprint one [if it even worked] and seems like these guys can get more things done in their free time than the developers over at Sprint who should have had this problem solved by now. It's also quite fast at sending the pics [and notifies you when it's done sending] and you can set if you want the pictures resized before being sent.
Hope that helps.
Feel free to contact me if you need any help,
Matt
Thanks for the info Matt.
CyberToadZ28 said:
Thanks for the info Matt.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No Problem
Today someone sent me a a random picture and never thought it would work and guess what it worked!! I was like wtf??!! Well i have the new tmobile prepaid plan with unlimited text for 15$ but i just can send only recive but who cares i can recieve pics!! woohoo! lol!
Sorry but this doesn't really have to do with questions/ answers?
Actually it does kinda help because many people are wondering how to recieve pics without a data plan and this can sort of help them lol
I think it might have something to do with the network / type of plan. I'm not sure but I think text includes picture messages as well. I can't tell because I have a data plan and text plan
yea i know but last sunday when i changed to this plan they tried to send me pics and its just said download so i clicked download and it just said download unsuccesful. Now i dont even get a choice to download the picture is there already
Picture and video messages are included with those new plans. My sister has it on a gravity.
It wasnt working the first day when i changed to this plan but idk i probably messed with the settings or something
pointless....................
Yo.
I dont have a voice OR a data plan on my G1 (I do *everything* on wifi), and by using textPLUS I can do the same thing..........
Tazer
I have Even More Plus Talk and Text (no data) and with all other phones get and receive MMS, but on Android. Does not work that way. I call BS on this. Need more details.
So I have a dell streak on a T-Mobile pre-paid mobile broadband plan. The device/account is assigned a phone number which my first guess tells me is simply required to connect to the network in any capacity. I'd like to know if there is someway to use this number for SMS either via extra service thru T-Mobile or thru some form of tweaking/hacking/moding/editing/praying....... But the few T-Mobile reps I've spoken to don't have a clue. The answers I've gotten range from "I think you can add text messaging" to "You definately can't maybe I think not do that sort of".
Is it good for anything?
Can I MAKE it be good for anything?
Is there somewhere to maybe tie it into my google voice number in a way I can use ANY SMS app?
Is there like an "SMS for non-phones 101" somewhere?
Thanks.
fliberdygibits said:
So I have a dell streak on a T-Mobile pre-paid mobile broadband plan. The device/account is assigned a phone number which my first guess tells me is simply required to connect to the network in any capacity. I'd like to know if there is someway to use this number for SMS either via extra service thru T-Mobile or thru some form of tweaking/hacking/moding/editing/praying....... But the few T-Mobile reps I've spoken to don't have a clue. The answers I've gotten range from "I think you can add text messaging" to "You definately can't maybe I think not do that sort of".
Is it good for anything?
Can I MAKE it be good for anything?
Is there somewhere to maybe tie it into my google voice number in a way I can use ANY SMS app?
Is there like an "SMS for non-phones 101" somewhere?
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can text from it. Use the native texting app and it'll send/receive fine (I believe it's MMS). T-Mobile has unlimited texting on their data plan, so you already ought to be set up for it.
Thank you! I guess I'm going to have to contact Tmobile as I can neither send nor receive in this fashion.
Thanks again