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Tilt going international

Hey guys whats up. tomorrow im gng on a medeterranean cruise with My att tilt and was wondering if i need to do anythung to get service in france, italy and croatia. will i get charged for just getting reception without making calls etc.
ty in advance.
oh btw im writing this from my tilt now in opera.how com i cant use the actual keyboard for more then 1 letter
cheera

someone please just give me a quick answer, Im leaving in 5 hrs

IF you received emails, sms, mms or anything on your phone with out an international rate you will be charged for it. I would basically turn your phone on airplane mode and only when necessary use it unless you call ATT right now.
My buddy has ATT and just went on a cruise. He received like 4 text messages and some email and was charge a lot.

Euro SIM card
eskimochaos said:
Hey guys whats up. tomorrow im gng on a medeterranean cruise with My att tilt and was wondering if i need to do anythung to get service in france, italy and croatia. will i get charged for just getting reception without making calls etc.
ty in advance.
oh btw im writing this from my tilt now in opera.how com i cant use the actual keyboard for more then 1 letter
cheera
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If you are SIM unlocked, buy a Euro SIM card when you get to France or Italy. If you had planned ahead, there are good deals online but there are so many options it is a lot of work to find the best deal with the least restrictions. I got one for my daughter's college trip to Italy, worked great. Ask staff of cruise ship if they have a recommendation.

Your phone will work fine, call AT&T before you leave and sign up for their discounted Int'l plan, $5 fee will save you a TON of cash on your bill. Stay off of MMS, SMS and internet, they will charge a fortune for those items, telephone calls will cost you about $0.05/minute, so talk fast. I use my Tilt in EU all the time, works very well. Get the Int'l data plan if you need internet or SMS, MMS, adds about $25 to your bill, but again, saves a bundle, as you get 25 MB of data and about 100 SMS, MMS messages included, and those could cost you around $300 otherwise. Got a $1000.00 bill a few years ago before I wised up and got on the Int'l plans

Meant to say $0.85 voice call per minte, sorry for typo.

Emailed AT&T my phone number/IMEI and asked to SIM unlock code - they sent it to me w/o problems.
Entered it and tried my Tilt in Russia with Beeline - worked perfectly fine, no roaming fees.

sorry i'm late on reply.
i have kaiser and it works fine. since tilt is basically the same phone, it should work mostly anywhere.
if your phone is unlocked you can use some croatian provider. however, data is pretty expensive here (85$ unlimited, 65$ 3gb, and much more for prepaid), so i would suggest you to use some free wifi hotspots (there are some in serious restaurants and bars on coast). making internacional call with croatian providers is also expensive (probably more expensive than roaming on at&t). so i would recomand you to use croatian providers only for calls inside croatia (+385...) and the best would be some tele2 or tomato (this one have the cheapest calls and it can be used only for voice, no data, no MMS, no roaming) prepaid sim which can be found almost anywhere. tomato sim costs about 10$ and it has 10$ prepaid included, which means you get sim for free. call from tomato to USA is 1,47$.

just got a used nexus one on craiglist. have a few questions.

hey guys. as you know, i just got the nexus one. loving it so far but i have a few question if you don't mind answering.
1) how do i restore everything back to the beginning(or factory settings)? because the seller forgot to delete his contacts and left his gmail account on there. and once i'm done with that, how do i import my contacts from my sim card?
2) what or how is the best way to sign up for a data plan? i'm currently in the family plan and my brother is the primary account holder. i heard some people got the web2go one for 10 dollars. is it as fast as the android data plan?
thanks.

tigerin said:
hey guys. as you know, i just got the nexus one. loving it so far but i have a few question if you don't mind answering.
1) how do i restore everything back to the beginning(or factory settings)? because the seller forgot to delete his contacts and left his gmail account on there. and once i'm done with that, how do i import my contacts from my sim card?
2) what or how is the best way to sign up for a data plan? i'm currently in the family plan and my brother is the primary account holder. i heard some people got the web2go one for 10 dollars. is it as fast as the android data plan?
thanks.
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1) Go to your home screen>menu>settings>privacy>factory data reset
what a dumb seller lol...
2) no one knows which phone company youre with or where you are in the world...

lol i'm with t-mobile. sorry about that. i just automatically assumed everyone has t-mobile. btw, how do i know if it's the t-mobile version or att version? is it the 3g network?

There's a couple of model numbers posted on here, should come up with a quick search.
As far as the data plan, call them up and ask them to put on the $10 data plan.
It should work. Add the apn of epc.t-mobile.com (again a quick search should yield the rest of the info on here).
If that doesn't work you'll have to step up to the big boy plan that's $25.

T-mobile or AT&T?
To find out whether yours can do 3G with AT&T, turn the phone off and take out the battery. Look at the data plate inside. The grey part above describes your specific phone - IMEI and serial number. The black part describes the model. In the black part, there is a line for FCC ID and then one for IC that looks like this:
IC: 4115B-PB99100
That last part is the sub-model that will tell you what you want to know:
PB99100: 3G on T-mobile only
PB99110: 3G on AT&T
hope this helps.

yay!! i got the t-mobile version. thanks for the help guys.

Bad Experiences With Phone Companies

I'm sure we've all had one at some point, so share yours.
I'll get the ball rolling....3 days ago my mom bought a new G2x to replace her Mytouch 3G. It worked fine at the store when getting her Google account on the phone, and on the way back with restoring her apps. The next day, mobile data doesn't work at all, but wifi works fine. So she calls T-Mobile to see what's going on, they say she has a data plan on her account still, everything's all good. We go to the T-Mobile store to go replace it, thinking it was bad hardware or something, to go get a replacement phone. She goes through the whole troubleshooting situation (factory reset, making sure data is enabled, etc.) still nothing. So the rep looks up our account and it shows that her data was future dated until December of next month, while my data was fine. Why the first rep who sold us the phone did this, we, or they, don't know why he did this. I think the worst part about all this, It took 5 T-Mobile reps to finally realize the plan wasn't correct
So anyways, post those stories.
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once they sent me a wrong bill, and i called and then they said we'll fix it... Then i got another bill and it was the same so i didnt pay it, then i got a letter from a credit agency

They mistakenly activated a line on my family account and then tried to charge an activation fee...
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[Rant] Optus Rant

So fellow IncS users, us Aussies are stuck with Optus. As much as we love Optus, there are many things we don't love as much about Optus.
This is the thread to share everything about Optus you like and don't like.
Let the ranting begin!
Rules:
-No Racism
-No Spamming
-No more than 2 Off-Topic Posts per page by any one user. That is why there is an Off-Topic thread.
Feel Free to get passionate.

Personally, from my own experience Optus have been the best mobile company I've dealt with. My wife is on Vodafone and they have been abysmal from the off and given the opportunity I'd break the contract in a heartbeat. I'm currently on Virgin as is one of my kids and I'm currently in a battle with them over a $900 bill which has arrived following a 'free' handset upgrade (which took almost 3 weeks to arrive after they messed up the original order). When questioned about it I was told the fee was an equipment charge, despite the fact I pay a $5 monthly handset charge.
On the other hand, I upgraded my other daughters phone with Optus and it arrived less than 24 hours later and the threw in additional credit on the monthly allowance as a thankyou for renewing the contract.
The only issue I have with Optus is the flakey coverage where I live but it's the same for many services as so many use the Optus network. But in comparison to Vodafone, Optus coverage is light-years ahead.

My home phone is Optus, my whole family's phones are Optus, my home broadband is Optus. Customer service isn't half bad compared to Telstra and TPG. Once, when I churned my Internet to Optus, they told us that there would be a 2-3 day delay on modem deliver and then the compensate they didn't charge the first bill, which was 60 dollars.
Sometimes they send their promotional spam via SMS though, and that's annoying. Besides that I've never had a poor experienced with thrm
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Optus has been alright for me, coverage is pretty good in areas I go. I switched from telstra because it was cheaper, Telstra still craps over Optus
Telstra>Optus>Vodafone
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mr nick said:
Personally, from my own experience Optus have been the best mobile company I've dealt with. My wife is on Vodafone and they have been abysmal from the off and given the opportunity I'd break the contract in a heartbeat. I'm currently on Virgin as is one of my kids and I'm currently in a battle with them over a $900 bill which has arrived following a 'free' handset upgrade (which took almost 3 weeks to arrive after they messed up the original order). When questioned about it I was told the fee was an equipment charge, despite the fact I pay a $5 monthly handset charge.
On the other hand, I upgraded my other daughters phone with Optus and it arrived less than 24 hours later and the threw in additional credit on the monthly allowance as a thankyou for renewing the contract.
The only issue I have with Optus is the flakey coverage where I live but it's the same for many services as so many use the Optus network. But in comparison to Vodafone, Optus coverage is light-years ahead.
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Yea that may be true, but when you have ur internet, home phone and 4 mobiles connected to optus, it gets annoying.
1. Optus Broadband can be slow and can be fast, many times the router doesnt respond and we have to resort to restarting it. On top of that, when we first connected with optus 4 years ago, they sent us a broadband router which would often be slower than dial-up. We later found out the router was buggy and ordered another router. A week later They sent us another one, and they mucked up the order and they sent us a router which was not wireless. (No Wifi). After another week, we got our current modem which is still quite slow. At this point we gave up and were content with what we had.
2. Last year, one of our devices could not connect to the modem. We called up Optus and asked how to deal with the problem. After 1 hour, (30 mins on hold and 30 mins of rambling) we hung up and i decided to ask Mr. Google. It turned out that it was a small security feature which thought my device was an unknown device, and blocked because of security. I just disabled it and voila! Thankd Optus. -_-
3. The coverage of Optus is pathetic compared to services like Telstra. Most of the time i find myself Holding my phone to the phone to the sky just to get 1 bar of reception. Not to mention that mms problem with AOKP roms.
4. Optus used to have good internet packages (1TB of data for $129) but now they are extending their prices and it is $100 for 300GB. Come on.
We are not changing because it is too much of an effort to switch. We have been loyal customers for years but they still do not have any loyalty offers at all. All standard prices.
Lift ur game Optus.
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I found that Optus had been pretty good in Hobart alone, Hadn't really ventured too far out of the metropolitan area as I was 14 and still under my parent's wings. But I'm with Telstra now, which is good. I got my phone from canada, just so I can use Telstra 3G on the INC S

Well my wife and I are with TPG who use the Optus network. While coverage may not be as good as Telstra it suits most of our needs. I went with them for the value/price. I pay $35 a month to get $1000 of calls and 3gig of data which is all I need.
The only bad part is AOS/KP roms and mms. I think I've got it sussed now, a bit of mucking around but not unbearable. Time will tell.
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no mms
the only issue i have with optus (im actually with exetel) is the mms. I have been using mysms or whatsapp to get around it but doesnt help when someone tries to send me an mms.
Does anyone know what the actual issue is?

poompy said:
the only issue i have with optus (im actually with exetel) is the mms. I have been using mysms or whatsapp to get around it but doesnt help when someone tries to send me an mms.
Does anyone know what the actual issue is?
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+1 with it not working on aosp. Also, service has been terrible for the gf. They refused to repair her phone under warranty. Every staff member in their stores have been rude with the whole process of her broken phone. I think I will be going to Telstra after my contract expires!
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i was with optus back before digital... still have the same last 6 digits... i had 4 phones on their business plan, and always thought they were looking after me so to speak, never had any issues with reception or customer service but only 12- 18 months ago I heard about amaysim, who use the optus network, and their deals were so much cheaper, so i rang optus and asked if they would match amaysim's prices, they said no, and the rest is history. saving approx 50% each month.
I still have one of optus's fusion modems with an amaysim sim in it haha
Addy

Optus MMS on AOKP
poompy said:
the only issue i have with optus (im actually with exetel) is the mms. I have been using mysms or whatsapp to get around it but doesnt help when someone tries to send me an mms.
Does anyone know what the actual issue is?
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From what I understand, Optus uses WAP 2.0 as the protocol for MMS. This option isn't available in AOKP builds, only IPv4 and IPv6. Which is why it works over WiFi, I guess...
Not sure if there is any way to get around this.
It's a shame...

There is a way around it that seems to be working for me. Setting it up is the hardest part and that is just removing 1 of the items in mms APN settings. I briefly outlined it the Unofficial CM10 thread. If anyone is interested I can do it all here. I'll try to be a bit more comprehensive here.
This is not my work solely , but a combination of numerous others trying all sorts of things and me doing bits and pieces from them all till I found what works for me.
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Burtrum57 said:
There is a way around it that seems to be working for me. Setting it up is the hardest part and that is just removing 1 of the items in mms APN settings. I briefly outlined it the Unofficial CM10 thread. If anyone is interested I can do it all here. I'll try to be a bit more comprehensive here.
This is not my work solely , but a combination of numerous others trying all sorts of things and me doing bits and pieces from them all till I found what works for me.
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Spill.
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Sorry for this being a bit long winded. And if all else fails go back to step one and reload the default APN's!!
Here is a brief description of how I am now able to receive MMS messages on Unofficial CM10 with Optus AU as the provider or carrier. This is not my work but derived from reading a lot of different posts with various ideas and things tried.
First I went into CM10 settings and restored all APN's to default. When this was completed I deleted all the APN's except the 3 Optus (Optus Internet, Optus Yesinternet and Optus MMS). Optus MMS will be the only one with no select button alongside it.
I then open up the Optus MMS APN and one of the last settings is 'APN Type'. I removed the 'mms' from this line and left it blank. You now save and back out from here. Then you look at the APN's there should now be a select button alongside all of them.
I then open up a message and go to the settings and under 'Multimedia (MMS) Messages' I have de-selected 'Auto-Retrieve'.
That is the only 'Settings' that you need to change. Now it is only a little inconvenience when you use the phone. No matter which APN you select the Phone and SMS will operate normally.
When I get a MMS I then go into the APN select screen, select 'OptusMMS' back out, activate 'Flight Mode', wait a short time, then de-activate 'FlightMode'. When I see the 3G/H/E symbols turn up I then open the MMS message and hit 'Download'. Your picture should be downloaded shortly.
Similar applies when I want to use data. go into the APN select screen, select 'Optus Yesinternet' back out, activate 'Flight Mode', wait a short time, then de-activate 'FlightMode'. When I see the 3G/H/E symbols turn up all is good to go.
Using 'Optus MMS' even though you see the 3G/H/E symbols on your signal strength you can not access data, internet etc. And similar using 'Optus Yesinternet' you can not download Multimedia files.
You now need to decide what is more important. Do you spend more time using data and only get the occasional MMS or do you send and receive a lot of MMS and only use occasional data? If Data the leave the phone using 'Yesinternet' or 'internet' as your APN. If MMS then leave the phone using 'MMS as your APN.
I'm not sure what the difference between 'Yesinternet' and 'interent' is.
They both appear to have the same settings!!

Has anyone tried optus mms on szesos ROM?
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Has anyone tried optus mms on szesos ROM?
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Nup. Optus MMS will not work on any AOKP rom because of the problems stated above. You could try the fix on above post. Please tell us the end result. :good:

Can anyone tell me if they've had the same success as me using this method to get mms messages?
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Optus have decent signal and plans. They are also linked with TPG which is great for a cheap deal. BUT all the other providers are dominating in signal and quality. I also remember being really annoyed with the huge delay of the Official ICS update for our beloved Incredible s. They also have terrible call centres. But its all stuff that can be put up with.
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Burtrum57 said:
Sorry for this being a bit long winded. And if all else fails go back to step one and reload the default APN's!!
Here is a brief description of how I am now able to receive MMS messages on Unofficial CM10 with Optus AU as the provider or carrier. This is not my work but derived from reading a lot of different posts with various ideas and things tried.
First I went into CM10 settings and restored all APN's to default. When this was completed I deleted all the APN's except the 3 Optus (Optus Internet, Optus Yesinternet and Optus MMS). Optus MMS will be the only one with no select button alongside it.
I then open up the Optus MMS APN and one of the last settings is 'APN Type'. I removed the 'mms' from this line and left it blank. You now save and back out from here. Then you look at the APN's there should now be a select button alongside all of them.
I then open up a message and go to the settings and under 'Multimedia (MMS) Messages' I have de-selected 'Auto-Retrieve'.
That is the only 'Settings' that you need to change. Now it is only a little inconvenience when you use the phone. No matter which APN you select the Phone and SMS will operate normally.
When I get a MMS I then go into the APN select screen, select 'OptusMMS' back out, activate 'Flight Mode', wait a short time, then de-activate 'FlightMode'. When I see the 3G/H/E symbols turn up I then open the MMS message and hit 'Download'. Your picture should be downloaded shortly.
Similar applies when I want to use data. go into the APN select screen, select 'Optus Yesinternet' back out, activate 'Flight Mode', wait a short time, then de-activate 'FlightMode'. When I see the 3G/H/E symbols turn up all is good to go.
Using 'Optus MMS' even though you see the 3G/H/E symbols on your signal strength you can not access data, internet etc. And similar using 'Optus Yesinternet' you can not download Multimedia files.
You now need to decide what is more important. Do you spend more time using data and only get the occasional MMS or do you send and receive a lot of MMS and only use occasional data? If Data the leave the phone using 'Yesinternet' or 'internet' as your APN. If MMS then leave the phone using 'MMS as your APN.
I'm not sure what the difference between 'Yesinternet' and 'interent' is.
They both appear to have the same settings!!
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When you said two selected leaving the optus MMS with no select button. How do you select more than one it won't let me.
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No. You can only select one. But with the default settings you can't select mms. You have km remove the Type setting
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james1196 said:
Optus have decent signal and plans. They are also linked with TPG which is great for a cheap deal. BUT all the other providers are dominating in signal and quality. I also remember being really annoyed with the huge delay of the Official ICS update for our beloved Incredible s. They also have terrible call centres. But its all stuff that can be put up with.
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When you said two selected leaving the optus MMS with no select button. How do you select more than one it won't let me.
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What have you got against the call centers? You do realise that telstra etc. Have the same call centers..
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New APN setting for straight talk ATT

Just before lunch today I lost all data, could make calls and text. I called straight talk. I got the normal run around. I asked if there was any outages in Alabama. Was told no. I called my local ATT store and they said they have no reports. So I looked up straight talks apn again just to make sure something didn't go crazy. There is a NEW APN. I put it in and I have data working again.
http://www.straighttalksim.com/support.php#
new settings
Field
Settings
Name
straight talk
APN
tfdata
Port
80
MMSC
http://mms-tf.net
MMS Proxy
mms3.tracfone.com
MMS Port

I deleted my old one and added this bone and got NOTHING. However when I added my old one back in, my speed went from 280kbps to 5.3mbps instantly! Wahoo! Never seen these speeds from ST AT&T!!
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3UR0TR45H said:
I deleted my old one and added this bone and got NOTHING. However when I added my old one back in, my speed went from 280kbps to 5.3mbps instantly! Wahoo! Never seen these speeds from ST AT&T!!
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Same here. I got nothing with this new apn.
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Hmm not working for me either

Doesn't work for me. Strange they would use this now.
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Ok something fishy is going on here. I just got home and looked at my wifes phone. She still has the same APN settings I had. Her phone is working ok. I have tried ever APN setting I can find. Nothing else works but the one in the first post. I just done a factory reset and its still the same. I was wondering if it was a location thing but my wifes phone still the same, Something is going on with my phone or other Straight talk is screwing with me.

My data now keeps freezing up Wtf ?
My data is about twice as fast now.. But.
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Before & after .
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Doesn't work for my byod at&t sim. Maybe straight talk will start carrying new at&t sims that work w/ those settings. Those settings r the same as net10's.
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Create/save/select it for about a minute . then reselect the apn you were using. Do not delete the new one.
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I had totally lost data with the old apn and entered the new apn. Now it is working.

Its not makeing since, working on some and not others! Something that just hit me, yesterday was my renewal date. Not sure if thats haveing something to do with it or not.

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Its not makeing since, working on some and not others! Something that just hit me, yesterday was my renewal date. Not sure if thats haveing something to do with it or not.
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I just had the same experience. My AT&T Straight Talk Nexus 4 data stopped working yesterday, but my wife's phone, also on AT&T Straight Talk, continued working without a hitch. My renewal day was yesterday, too, but my wife has a different renewal date. My data stopped working at around the same time I got the email from them indicating my auto-charge was successful.
I called Straight Talk and was given the runaround that my data was disabled because I was violating their terms and conditions. I told them I categorically was not violating them, which is true - I use less than 1GB of data each month, and don't even watch Youtube on my phone - then demanded to be transfered to a supervisor. I was connected to a supervisor who was more helpful and gave me the new APN information, and I was soon back up and running.
The good news is that performance during my morning commute seem much better with the new APN. Perhaps AT&T started kicking Straight Talk customers off of att.mvno at the end of their monthly cycle and Straight Talk is scrambling to get them on their own APN? I have no problem with it if that's the case and the APN performance is OK, but it sure would have been nice to know in advance...

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Its not makeing since, working on some and not others! Something that just hit me, yesterday was my renewal date. Not sure if thats haveing something to do with it or not.
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I think you are on to something. My renewal date was today and I lost all data. Changed the apn and all is well.

Same
grubbster said:
I think you are on to something. My renewal date was today and I lost all data. Changed the apn and all is well.
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my end date was yesterday too... on two phones.. got off the phone today with ST with a new APN.. well SMS/Phone/Data are working, but no MMS i can send from the phone but its not reciving them. anyone checked this?

This may very well be the case. My wifes service ends about the middle of the month. Looks like they could have said something when i was on the phone with them for 30mins, or an email!!!
My mms is working

i can send MMS to my email [email protected] but cant recive them. i get a notifcation for Message Not Downloaded! any ideas

I'm trying not to panic, but it may be that Straight Talk is going to go downhill from here :^(
AT&T doesn't want to subsidize it's services anymore, I don't want a T-Mobile sim!
My renewal date was yesterday and my data went totally offline. I googled it and found the "new" apn settings on the ST website. I updated and everything works except MMS, I can send but not receive.
I spent hours going to dozens of websites, entered new apn settings at least 25-30 times to no avail, and spent an hour on the phone with ST support (they didn't help at all).
Hopefully this is just a transition that needs some time to resolve a few bugs. Clearly the MMS server/proxy is having forwarding problems.
Oh we'll, I've pinned this thread and plan on checking it often to see if there are any developments.

Same here... No warning, just lost data yesterday - coincidentally the same day as my subscription renewal. After fighting with settings all day, noticed new APN info on ST site. Entered and now working perfectly. WTF?