OK usually when im using wifi, and someone sends me an MMS, it connects to Edge or 3G to recieve the message. Recently my G1 will not connect to Edge or 3G while on Wifi to recieve the picture, and I constantly have to disable wifi and tell the sender to resend it, which is pretty annoying seeing as how if I send an MMS while on wifi, it will connect and send out. Also it takes a while longer than it used to with recieving MMS messages, has anyone else had this issue or is having it?
I'm not but will test when I get home on my wifi
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Hey i was wondering if someone can help me out! i just recently started getting a lot of MMS messages and sending MMS messages. Now i was wondering if there was a way to send and receive MMS messages with out using the data plan. I dont pay for the data plan so each time i send/receive MMS i have to pay. Is there a way to use WiFi connection so i dont have to pay and i can send/receive for free? Is there some settings i need to change? or some programs i can dl? or there is nothing i can do!
Thanks!
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Hey i was wondering if someone can help me out! i just recently started getting a lot of MMS messages and sending MMS messages. Now i was wondering if there was a way to send and receive MMS messages with out using the data plan. I dont pay for the data plan so each time i send/receive MMS i have to pay. Is there a way to use WiFi connection so i dont have to pay and i can send/receive for free? Is there some settings i need to change? or some programs i can dl? or there is nothing i can do!
Thanks!
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You could always attach media in an email. That uses WiFi.
Hope that helps.
that wont work cause i would like to recieve and send to people cell phones not to email!
In Settings -> Connections -> Connections you could set you settings to "My Work Network" which it usually assigned to WiFi (you can check in WiFi settings)
MIGHT work but I'm not 100% positive. And even if it did, you'd have to stay connected to WiFi all day or for an access point to just Send/Recieve to see if you got an MMS message.
OR I do believe theres an option through activesync that you can use your computer's internet through your phone. So that would probably be your best bet.
Hope that helps.
Does AT&T still charge data for MMS messages? I read somewhere they don't anymore even though MMS still uses data.
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1484340
MMS is under your messanging package.
I have a family plan and in that plan it is unlimited messaging (SMS and MMS)
I also have unlimited data so I need not worry.
On the other hand, when another member of the family plan gets a MMS message, it will cost them the $0.25 per KB or whatever the rate is now to download the MMS.
MMS uses the data connection to get the message.
Got in deep charges once with that on an older phone.
MMS will ALWAYS use Data. Such Is Life.
That is true but i spoke to someone at ATT since i have unlimited text messaging...mms is free....yes the data starts up when you send/receive mms messages/downloads and will stop right after its done....and with unlimited text its free...theres a reason it is but i dont remember why!
Hello,
Has anyone ever experienced the inability to download pictures from SMS/MMS while connected to wifi? My buddy can send me a pic via messaging or chomp sms and once it gets to me, usually a long time later, I will get a small, empty chat balloon touch the balloon and it will give me the loading circle for a few minutes and it will eventually stop without dl'ing anything. If I turn off wifi then it will dl within seconds. This is the same on both my phone and my buddy's(captivate) the only difference is I run the Firefly 2.0.5 and he is running stock eclair.
Is this just something that we have to deal with or is there a fix for this?
I did a samsung live chat and the agent said it was the way samsung makes their phones and restrict it to only allow SMS/MMS DL from the carrier signal.
Thanks for any and all help.
mms are done over 3g, are you able to browse the internet on 3g? are your APN settings correct?
I get mms when on wifi too. I was home two days back when I got like 4 sms. And at home I'm always on wifi.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Never had a problem
MMS are only done over your carrier network. To prove this send your self an mms and as it is sending and receiving what your task bar and you will see that your data network connects to download it.
since the phone has to drop the wifi signal and connect to the carrier data signal to send or receive MMS (it might not show in the icon though), yours might be lagging somewhat in doing that...
so when the buddy is on wifi his one does it quicker yes?
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mms are done over 3g, are you able to browse the internet on 3g? are your APN settings correct?
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Yes can browse the internet while on 3G and WIFI.
I do not know if my APN settings are wrong or right.
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since the phone has to drop the wifi signal and connect to the carrier data signal to send or receive MMS (it might not show in the icon though), yours might be lagging somewhat in doing that...
so when the buddy is on wifi his one does it quicker yes?
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No, in reference to the way the devices act both do the same thing. Do not allow you to DL MMS while the WIFI is turned on. neither seems faster or slower it just will not complete the task on wifi.
Thanks to all for the replies
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MMS are only done over your carrier network. To prove this send your self an mms and as it is sending and receiving what your task bar and you will see that your data network connects to download it.
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I checked it 2 days back. Even when on wifi, it turns on EDGE/3G, downloads MMS and disconnects it.
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I checked it 2 days back. Even when on wifi, it turns on EDGE/3G, downloads MMS and disconnects it.
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So is there a setting that I need to look for that allows for the edge/3g to turn on/off for mms?
Anyone?
Would love to figure this out as it is quite annoying.
When ever I'm connected to Wifi Calling on my phone I can't seem to send or "download" MMS (Pic, Group, Video, Etc..). By download I mean, my phone can see that I have a new MMS and it prompts me to download it, but it fails. As soon as I turn off Wifi Calling, magically I can send and receive those MMS. I am using hangouts as my primary sms app, I have tried various other 3rd party apps, all of which end in the same result. I can send and receive voice calls and sms perfectly fine.
I have the same issue.
I recently upgraded to Lollipop and now anytime wifi is turned on and connected I'll run into this when sending texts.
Brand new 920T, took the 5.1.1 update, now cannot send or receive pictures... Any suggestions?
Im having picture send/receive issues as well (MMS), but only when connected to wifi
are you connected to wifi? have you tried send/receive MMS when only connected to data?
starting to wonder if my issue started on the update now
Hi Guys,
I hope someone can help me with this. I noticed when I was trying to send an MMS my data connectivity drops. So, when I am on mobile data I can't receive nor send MMS message. My work around is to delete the incoming or outgoing MMS messages.
The thing is when I am connected to Wi-Fi I can receive MMS no problems but then again I am not connected to wifi all the time.
Any insights is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jovie.Android
That's a correct behaviour, due to mms using different connection settings (APN for example).
No big surprise. If you look on the GCF website, it doesnt appear that the MMS testing was performed. Likely they say, we support it, but not according to 3GPP or OMA. This is becoming more and more popular as MMS testing costs about 20k€ for first run testing and most people never even use MMS anymore.
They also fail most of the wifi alliance testing, btw. That is slightly related. They have a big issue with cellular stack performing a PDP context deactivation when it shouldn't. Basically, the stack looks if wifi is attached, but not whether or not data traffic is possible, then drops the cellular data connection.