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Hi all,
Have found an issue with MMS. I can send them fine, and the person receiving them has no problems.
When I receive an MMS, though, it's greatly reduced in both size and quality.
I've tried saving the MMS image to open in the gallery app - in case the messaging app displayed it smaller for some reason - but it displayed the same.
The only settings I can find (I believe) are only related to sending not receiving, but none the less has been checked at 600k for maximum size.
My previous phone - One XL, same network/carrier - didn't have this issue at all.
It just looks as though the One compresses incoming images :/
Has anyone else experienced this?
HTC One
Android 4.1.2
Sense 5.0
Wow, I think we have found one of the last 5 MMS users in the world!
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Sounds like the person sending you the image has compressed it. Seems unlikely that your phone would compress incoming images
Haha, I still use it on a regular basis!
Not being compressed from sender tho - I work for a Telco, and have sent images from multiple handsets - all of which came through compressed.
From my phone, I've sent a photo to both myself and other handsets (iPhone & Galaxy S III). Comes through perfectly on them, comes through reduced on mine.
So it's definitely unique to the handset, and it's definitely compressing incoming images :/
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Why don't people use MMS anymore? I send MMS to my girlfriend throughout the day and she sends to me. Am I missing something?
Kilmar said:
Why don't people use MMS anymore? I send MMS to my girlfriend throughout the day and she sends to me. Am I missing something?
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People use apps like Whatapp and Facebook to send pictures to one another as its free to do so. MMS messages are usually not part of the included texts so are charged.
All my friends send MMS all the time. I think most plans in Canada have nation-wide SMS and MMS included though.
Use whatever works best for you and the people you communicate with.
However, SMS and MMS (from a data-transmission standpoint) are about the worst way you could possibly send text and pictures/media (in terms of speed and reliability). Apple was smart to invent iMessage and have it tied to peoples phone number. They were dumb not to open it up to every platform and there-by kill SMS once and for all. G+, FaceBook, and 100s of others are trying to get control of peoples SMS/MMS, but nobody other than Apple has been smart enough to converge people that still use it with the modern digital-data age.
I'm not saying you shouldn't still use it... I'm saying the fact that it is more convenient for you to still use it is a major failure of the software industry (HTC, Google, your carrier, Apple, or whoever you want to point the finger at.).
OP: Please let us know if you find a solution. I get an MMS every now and then, and it being compressed is bs... it should be upscaled like 1080p TVs do if anything.
Mcyates said:
People use apps like Whatapp and Facebook to send pictures to one another as its free to do so. MMS messages are usually not part of the included texts so are charged.
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Ah, that makes perfect sense. My girlfriend doesn't have a smartphone (she likes little phones for her little hands) and rarely uses FB, so we are relegated to MMS. I use Whatsapp with other friends and family. I'm not too worried about charges since Sprint has unlimited text and data.
mercury670 said:
Hi all,
Have found an issue with MMS. I can send them fine, and the person receiving them has no problems.
When I receive an MMS, though, it's greatly reduced in both size and quality.
I've tried saving the MMS image to open in the gallery app - in case the messaging app displayed it smaller for some reason - but it displayed the same.
The only settings I can find (I believe) are only related to sending not receiving, but none the less has been checked at 600k for maximum size.
My previous phone - One XL, same network/carrier - didn't have this issue at all.
It just looks as though the One compresses incoming images :/
Has anyone else experienced this?
HTC One
Android 4.1.2
Sense 5.0
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I got an MMS this morning from my iPhone 5-using friend on Verizon and it wasn't noticeably compressed.
rpmccormick said:
Use whatever works best for you and the people you communicate with.
However, SMS and MMS (from a data-transmission standpoint) are about the worst way you could possibly send text and pictures/media (in terms of speed and reliability). Apple was smart to invent iMessage and have it tied to peoples phone number. They were dumb not to open it up to every platform and there-by kill SMS once and for all. G+, FaceBook, and 100s of others are trying to get control of peoples SMS/MMS, but nobody other than Apple has been smart enough to converge people that still use it with the modern digital-data age.
I'm not saying you shouldn't still use it... I'm saying the fact that it is more convenient for you to still use it is a major failure of the software industry (HTC, Google, your carrier, Apple, or whoever you want to point the finger at.).
OP: Please let us know if you find a solution. I get an MMS every now and then, and it being compressed is bs... it should be upscaled like 1080p TVs do if anything.
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Nahhh man, LOTS of people still use MMS -- probably the majority of people with cell phones...... they are already conversing via sms.... so mms is what they use... for convenience sake.
And it has been fee for probably five years (with unlimited text and pics plans becoming more the norm)
I would be surprised if more than 2% avoid using mms, even though it is pretty lossy.
gruuvin said:
Nahhh man, LOTS of people still use MMS -- probably the majority of people with cell phones...... they are already conversing via sms.... so mms is what they use... for convenience sake.
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The problem is they are still using SMS. When Android was first invented, the first G1 phone had a GoogleTalk online bubble in the contacts/dialer. They were hoping people with Android phones would use GoogleTalk instead of SMS (as I always do), but it did not catch on. Apple on the other hand built iMessage right into the SMS app and forced their users to use it... too bad there is not an iMessage app for Android... we could all be free of the evils of SMS just like iPhone-to-iPhone users are.
js931 said:
Wow, I think we have found one of the last 5 MMS users in the world!
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Welcome to the outside world! You'll be shocked there's still millions of people using MMS... Specially like here in our country where you could send one for free
Just so you can see, these are screen shots. Same photo, same source. First image is as received on One XL, second is from the One.
Clearly obvious how much they're being reduced :/
Has no-one else honestly not noticed this?
It's practically a deal breaker
i have noticed this also...thought it was the sender. will have to play around with this myself.
**UPDATE**
Today received a call from Telstra about the tech enquiry I asked for.
They've done some in-house testing, and have confirmed it is a unique issue to the One, nothing to do with carriers.
I've lodged 2 separate support 'tickets' with HTC, and am currently in the middle of email trails trying to find a resolution.
Will report back with more info when available.
HTC One
4.1.2
Sense 5.0
Stock, Telstra AU
mercury670 said:
Has no-one else honestly not noticed this?
It's practically a deal breaker
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I just noticed this today. I am unable to send a mms picture larger than 50-80kb even though the size is multiple MB.
I checked all settings but can't figure out a way to use a larger image as mms.
Stock android 4.3
This is really annoying because i am sending images of text that aren't readable when reduced in quality. I would rather text than email.
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mercury670 said:
**UPDATE**
Today received a call from Telstra about the tech enquiry I asked for.
They've done some in-house testing, and have confirmed it is a unique issue to the One, nothing to do with carriers.
I've lodged 2 separate support 'tickets' with HTC, and am currently in the middle of email trails trying to find a resolution.
Will report back with more info when available.
HTC One
4.1.2
Sense 5.0
Stock, Telstra AU
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Any updates?
Alcoholic said:
I would rather text than email.
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SMS, MMS, and Fax-Machines are the worst data-transmission technologies that we are forced to cling on to. I long for the day when all 3 are extinct.
i dont know if my problem is the same but its really annoying when i can't send pictures taken from my phone camera. i can send pictures from the internet and pictures that arent very high quality taken with my camera but with a lot of the pictures i take that have a lot of detail and very focused they always fail when their sending. i have not changed any settings for MMS
Would anyone be interested in finding the solutions to the problems below as a "job" and giving me a price for the solutions?
(1 - Data Roaming Nag)
Recently upgraded from HTC desire running 2.2 (I think?) to Razr I which is now running 4.12, before if I'd be abroad I'd simply get a text from my service provider about the rates, I always had data roaming enabled as it's a business phone and only €2 for the first 50mb which is more than enough for a days use. So I set the razr up in much the same way, albeit on 4.12 but I had data roaming enabled and when I first got connected to a foreign network it prompted me about data roaming, which I thought would be just a once off for the first time since I already had it enabled, I clicked yes to acknowledge it anyway and continue using data roaming which was fine, but then it seemed as soon as I dropped out of coverage and came back, the notification would come up again. It actually got so frequent that the notification was on my screen almost every time I unlocked the phone and it got pretty annoying.
Has anyone else experienced this and found out a way to disable the popup? I'm not sure if it's android or motorolla related?
(2 - Enable USB Mass storage)
I've seen mods of this but I don't think they are compatible with 4.12, if anyone has a solution or could edit the settings.apk to enable it and post it that would be great
(3 - Contact Sync Issue)
My contacts are not syncing properly. I've over 2,700 contacts as it's a business phone. I save all to my gmail account under different groups (my contacts/business/sport) and never had sync issues on my old desire but I'm having issues with this. When I check the account in settings, sync is fine for everything (calendar, gmail etc) but contacts and the last successful sync is days and days ago. The error just reads "Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back again shortly", which obviously isn't the case. I've tried "contact sync fix" app and although it works, I don't like using such a solution and would of course much rather it to just work as it's supposed to. Also I'm getting a "Sync - too many contacts deletions" notification sometimes that I'm not sure what to do with, when I click it it comes up saying "Deletion limit exceeded" and then says there are 8 deleted items for contacts account [email protected]. What do you want to do?" giving me the options: Delete the items - undo the deletes - do nothing for now. I don't know what to do so just choose "do nothing for now" contacts seem to be still intact but I'm very worried about losing any.
(4 - Space between numbers)
I'm not sure if this is a new thing with the newer androids, a dialler issue or what, but the phone is automatically adding gaps between numbers when I try and save. I've a lot of numbers and prefer to keep them all the same formatting, which is, for example, +353871234567, if somebody rings me, sometimes it comes up as +353871234567 which is grand, other times it might come up as 0871234567 so all I used to need to do was delete the 0 and add a +, now when I edit the number, spaces are automatically added and it shows up something like 087 123 4567. This used to only happen with landline numbers and then sometimes if you tried to delete say the space between 3 and 4, it would delete the space AND the 3!
I thought it was an issue with Go Contacts/Dialler EX but it's happening on EX Dialler too even though I've clicked off the area code setting, so I'm thinking it might be an android issue? Anyone managed to sort it out? I may have found something to do with it from Android Development, but I haven't a clue if that can be changed as a mod for a specific phone?
http://developer.android.com/refere...I'm having on an otherwise pretty good phone.
#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..
pangyaaaaaa said:
#2 dont work on JB..since "moto" and "ms" had together trouble on the mass storage thing..
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you think there will be a solution, ever?
I think I solved the contact sync issue, I chose the "undelete" option and then I noticed 8 new "my contacts" groups in gmail itself (from desktop) so I deleted them groups from gmail and I think it's ok now. I also sent Go contacts/dialer to system app (because of a missed call issue) so I'm not sure if this contributed, I also deleted the "contact sync fix" app. Hopefully the issue doesn't resurface.
OP this>>>>Job/Payment offer! Is not what XDA is about, now you willing to "donate" for items you are looking to resolve it different. BTW moved as this does not belong in the Development Threads.
That's fair enough, thanks So, donations offered for solutions folks!
Well, we all have obviously been using 4.4 Kit Kat for a while now. I love it personally! But there's always room for bigger and better things and more importantly, improvement.
Some things I want in stock Android:
-complete removal of all holo blue and more UI uniformity
-lock screen notifications
-customizable quick settings
-more speed and battery adjustments
-redesigned camera UI (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE)
-battery percent indicator built in
-snazzier UI animations
That's it for now, I think. My list will probably grow as will yours.
What about all of you?
-Anthony
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I have a lot more requests for the tablet UI. I love Kit Kat for the Nexus 5. It felt like Kit Kat was a step backwards for the Nexus 10. They actually removed tablet UI features and put in phone UI in places.
I do agree with a continuation of removing the blue, and making it all a little sleaker.
I'd just like to see more attention given to the camera and battery
I would like to see the original features be addressed. The fact that Google Hangouts on the Nexus 5 acts strangely still concerns me. When sending out a group message, converts the message to MMS ( as it should ) however, once you hit send, it goes out to all people as individual SMS messages, which, when you get a reply, as opposed to being a group MMS conversation, is an individual SMS conversation. It's the little things like that which make it difficult...
ew2x4 said:
I have a lot more requests for the tablet UI. I love Kit Kat for the Nexus 5. It felt like Kit Kat was a step backwards for the Nexus 10. They actually removed tablet UI features and put in phone UI in places.
I do agree with a continuation of removing the blue, and making it all a little sleaker.
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I see mixed responses with the tablet UI all the time. I, for one, like the UI now compared to the old way.
As far as future additions to Android, I cant think of many. KitKat is beautiful in my opinion. The camera could use a little work though. I'm always looking forward to seeing what Google does though.
Separate the damn ringtone volume from the notification volume! I have volume butler, and it does what I want, but if I use my volume rocker while in a call, watching a video, listening to a song, etc, I have to go back in and adjust my volumes in there again. Pain in the rear.
Lossless PNG camera saving direct from raw data.
Quick setting customization
Art by default
Google music cache auto shrink if system needs space on data partition
Perhaps by flagging certain data as cache despite being on data partition and not cache partition.
The main thing missing from Android to make it user accessible is complete phone backup. I can't believe they still haven't introduced it.
I've been using Android phones since the G1, but one thing I prefer in iPhone is the fact that it used to automatically sync with iCloud everyday and backup. That way, if I lose my phone tomorrow, I can get a new one and restore an exact copy to it.
Using Google Drive, it should be the simplest thing to backup apps and data and settings.
I know Google has built in backup which backs up some data, but its not the same till all developers code for it. And yes, I have been using Titanium backup and also using the built in Google Drive option, and its still not the same.
Honestly, I'm happy with KitKat. I can't think of any other features that I need, but of course, any will be welcome.
My biggest wish? Get rid of the Holo blue in the in-call dialer. Why they didn't just make that look like the new dialer is beyond me, but it looks horribly out of place.
They definitely need to get rid of that awful black and greyish blue gradient background and replace it with a white or gray. It's very strange that the phone UI is very dark yet all of the Google Apps are incredibly bright, it just doesn't look right.
Actually I'm pretty happy. The only things I would love is a battery percentage next to the battery icon, but because its stock, this feature won't come.
Maybe.. Lower battery darin?
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Just give me a flashlight tile in quick settings and I'm set.
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Battery
MisterRich said:
I would like to see the original features be addressed. The fact that Google Hangouts on the Nexus 5 acts strangely still concerns me. When sending out a group message, converts the message to MMS ( as it should ) however, once you hit send, it goes out to all people as individual SMS messages, which, when you get a reply, as opposed to being a group MMS conversation, is an individual SMS conversation. It's the little things like that which make it difficult...
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Group MMS works fine for me on Hangouts. It sends it as a single MMS with multiple recipients attached. Do you have the Group Messaging option enabled in settings? I think that setting is setup to only work with specific carriers however so perhaps your carrier isn't supported.
Better Backup Features, WiFi Sync, Lockscreen Notifications.
bozzykid said:
Group MMS works fine for me on Hangouts. It sends it as a single MMS with multiple recipients attached. Do you have the Group Messaging option enabled in settings? I think that setting is setup to only work with specific carriers however so perhaps your carrier isn't supported.
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See, there lies my problem, and, maybe it really is me at this point. My Nexus 5 is on hangouts 2.0.217 ( latest ) and under SMS settings, the first option under "Advanced" is "Delete old messages" ( just like in 2.0.1 ) When 2.0.2 was released, there's supposed to be "Group Messaging" which, doesn't exist. Unfortunately I don't know anyone else personally who owns a Nexus 5, so I can't compare, however, when I check a Galaxy S4, and some other phones on my same carrier, the option is there, and they're also on 2.0.217. Makes no sense. I know my carrier doesn't restrict it, and the firmware on these phones are not modified...
Most of all of the above but I want transparent systemui in every app.
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I would like to see the original features be addressed. The fact that Google Hangouts on the Nexus 5 acts strangely still concerns me. When sending out a group message, converts the message to MMS ( as it should ) however, once you hit send, it goes out to all people as individual SMS messages, which, when you get a reply, as opposed to being a group MMS conversation, is an individual SMS conversation. It's the little things like that which make it difficult...
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One thing I found out is that it works with people who have iPhones. I don't know anybody who uses Hangouts so I can't speak on that and I know if the people you're texting have a Galaxy or any other kind of phone, the replies go into individual threads, but if the people you're texting have iPhones, group messaging should work. It's worked for me.
1) Camera-Fix that dam low brightness in the video recoding, the static noise, new and a better ui for camera.
Raw image would be a welcome change.
2)UI-In terms of ui decrease the google search ram usage around 130mb due to the fact that it has been added to the homescreen and ability to create folders in the app drawer, battery %
3) battery life improvement a must and decrease in the thermal throttling with performance improvement.
And last but not the least active listening like the moto X( I knw they won't bring it but still)
-raw images
-faster shutter and focus
-new camera ui
Maybe some other small changes like battery percentage by default etc.
Anyone know of a bug tracker for the ZTE Axon?
I have seen quite a few bugs so far and am wondering how to provide feedback. Off the top of my head some bugs I have seen:
- Google fit can't count steps correctly on the ZTE Axon, unlike on my Nexus 5. I may walk for a couple of hours and only see a few minutes show up on Google Fit. I **hope** this is a software problem.
- Sometimes widgets don't work (I have weather underground, fitbit and google fit on my main screen) forcing me to do a restart. I haven't seen that in a week or so though.
- Take some photos with HDR on and some photos with HDR off before going back and looking at the photos. The pictures with HDR off sometimes are lost.
Don't know of one but this is as good a place as any to begin listing them. As far as notifying ZTE, their CS is decent, maybe send list through them.
Another potential problem - I am having a lot of issues trying to send/receive pictures over MMS/SMS (I haven't been able to successfully send or receive a picture yet). Anyone else have problems?
Make sure you select your mobile carrier/provider correctly. A lot of providers have unusual rules when it comes to picture/MMS messaging. I use Handscent (now Next SMS?)and you can select the provider in the app to make sure you are following the rules correctly on size etc.
Understood. But I have never ever used anything other than unlocked phones with T-Mobile and it "just works" without me having to mess with anything. There is something wrong happening here.
I have two other Nexus 5s in my household and checked their APN settings:
- One is running 4.4.4 and an older version of Hangouts. I have verified that MMS works on this phone. I went into the Hangouts configuration and I saw that it had the APN just for MMS pointing to a MetroPCS APN which was not configured on my phone. The default APN configuration fast.t-mobile.com is identical to the one that is configured on my ZTE Axon (the ZTE Axon has only one APN configured).
- The other is running the latest 5.1.1 (the SIM is relatively new - this is my old phone which I installed clean for a relative) and the latest version of Hangouts. I checked Hangouts configuration - the option to choose a different APN just for MMS is gone...but MMS is still working on this phone. It also has the MetroPCS APN configured in the APN list but is not selected anywhere.
So I tried to add the MetroPCS APN configuration to my ZTE Axon and "Saved" it. Save was successful but the MetroPCS APN did not appear in the list. I partially re-added the MetroPCS APN and I saw the MetroPCS APN in my APN list. I completed the MetroPCS APN configuration and it disappeared again!
Jonathan - Do you have MMS working on the ZTE Axon with T-Mobile? This looks very broken to me.
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Understood. But I have never ever used anything other than unlocked phones with T-Mobile and it "just works" without me having to mess with anything. There is something wrong happening here.
I have two other Nexus 5s in my household and checked their APN settings:
- One is running 4.4.4 and an older version of Hangouts. I have verified that MMS works on this phone. I went into the Hangouts configuration and I saw that it had the APN just for MMS pointing to a MetroPCS APN which was not configured on my phone. The default APN configuration fast.t-mobile.com is identical to the one that is configured on my ZTE Axon (the ZTE Axon has only one APN configured).
- The other is running the latest 5.1.1 (the SIM is relatively new - this is my old phone which I installed clean for a relative) and the latest version of Hangouts. I checked Hangouts configuration - the option to choose a different APN just for MMS is gone...but MMS is still working on this phone. It also has the MetroPCS APN configured in the APN list but is not selected anywhere.
So I tried to add the MetroPCS APN configuration to my ZTE Axon and "Saved" it. Save was successful but the MetroPCS APN did not appear in the list. I partially re-added the MetroPCS APN and I saw the MetroPCS APN in my APN list. I completed the MetroPCS APN configuration and it disappeared again!
Jonathan - Do you have MMS working on the ZTE Axon with T-Mobile? This looks very broken to me.
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More information - it screws up once I try and set the "MVNO type" and "MVNO value" which is set for the MetroPCS APN on both Nexus 5s (MVNO type - GID, MVNO value - 6D). If I set the MVNO type to GID and leave the MVNO value as the default it blows away my default T-Mobile APN when I save. If I set the MVNO value to 6D as well, the MetroPCS APN disappears on the save.
EDIT: Also double-checked my default APN settings against what T-Mobile suggests:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090
The fast.t-mobile.com configuration provided by the SIM (and shown in the Axon) is identical to this.
gflash2015 said:
More information - it screws up once I try and set the "MVNO type" and "MVNO value" which is set for the MetroPCS APN on both Nexus 5s (MVNO type - GID, MVNO value - 6D). If I set the MVNO type to GID and leave the MVNO value as the default it blows away my default T-Mobile APN when I save. If I set the MVNO value to 6D as well, the MetroPCS APN disappears on the save.
EDIT: Also double-checked my default APN settings against what T-Mobile suggests:
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2090
The fast.t-mobile.com configuration provided by the SIM (and shown in the Axon) is identical to this.
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The support document is correct and my APN is set the same.
However, I am talking the messaging client. Most MMS messages have a limit set by the provider. If I'm correct T-mobile is 1MB. You have to set that limit in the messaging program or app. If you don't, the message just gets blocked by the provider. Have you tried sending a picture message of something that you know the size of? Like a 30KB jpg or something. If that gets through and others don't that's your issue. The only reason why I say this, is that I had the same issue when I got my OPO. It was the whole reason I started using Handscent in the first place, because you can choose what network you are on and it will re-size pics appropriately.
Found My MMS Problem
I went outside my house and tried to resend (and try to re-receive) my MMS messages. MMS worked!
Came back inside and it stopped working. Turned wifi off while inside and it worked again!
Narrowed the problem to the adblock plus wifi proxy on my phone (as I don't have the phone rooted yet I can't use AdAway - ugh). Once I turned that off MMS worked while wifi was on.
Even though I have worked in telecom in the past, I did learn something here - I thought MMS messages came in over the mobile network...but that does not appear to be true. They must be retrieved from the internet (whether it be 3G/LTE or wifi). It now makes sense that the APN defines a MMS URL. I guess the mobile network (probably via SMS) provides a key to look up the MMS at that URL.
Still doesn't explain the wacky disappearing MetroPCS APN...but that is not as big an issue for me now since I can get MMS to work.
I'm still having problems with sending and receiving MMS the messaging ap crashes every time I try to send one or try download one that was sent to me. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. Nothing.
Arsenic53 said:
I'm still having problems with sending and receiving MMS the messaging ap crashes every time I try to send one or try download one that was sent to me. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. Nothing.
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What have you tried? Have you tried MMS in both the Messaging app and Hangouts? Have you tried on LTE and Wifi?
What happens when a message is sent to you? In Hangouts if it receives the message from the mobile network but can't get the MMS, it tells you there is a message waiting (the ZTE Messaging app displays nothing).
Agreed with gflash2015, need more detail. All my mms come through no problem.
gflash2015 said:
What have you tried? Have you tried MMS in both the Messaging app and Hangouts? Have you tried on LTE and Wifi?
What happens when a message is sent to you? In Hangouts if it receives the message from the mobile network but can't get the MMS, it tells you there is a message waiting (the ZTE Messaging app displays nothing).
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Well today I got a software update from zte and it fixed this problem.
Not sure if it's a bug or intended but music services, such as Tidal, that provide hi-fi streaming music do not work on the hi-fi setting. Music streams fine on the other settings but not on hi-fi. Seems that this was overlooked. Hopefully an update can resolve.
I am having a problem with the camera on my Axon Pro. I guess this would be considered a bug. It seems almost all the pictures I take have a skin image softening effect to them. Outdoors, with daylight, indoors even in a bright room, etc. No matter what effects I try changing, it seems just about every image I take has a softening effect to it. When you view the image in the gallery and zoom in, you can see everything looks softened or blurred. Not sharp and detailed. I have tried various other camera apps in the Google Play store, and it seems that this softening effect is just built in to the base camera firmware or something, because it happens with every camera app I try. Google Camera, Camera FV-5, Camera MX, etc.
The only time it doesn't apply the softening effect is when you are close to something with the flash on, but even then, it still comes out softened sometimes. I took a picture of my cat from about a 2 feet away, with the flash on, and it came out super clear and detailed. I was using Camera FV-5. But when I try taking pictures outside, in my backyard or wherever, or in any other situation, it applies that image/skin softening like effect. Very VERY annoying.
It's not as noticeable when you just view the picture zoomed out all the way, but if you pinch to zoom you can see that effect I'm talking about. I hope it's something that can be fixed somehow... Otherwise I might have to sell my phone and get the Samsung Galaxy S6. I like everything else about the Axon Pro, especially the audio/music quality, but I'm also a photography guy and based on reviews I read, I expected the quality to be pretty good. I didn't see anything about a softening effect in any reviews I watched/read.
So anyone else experience this? Can this be turned off somehow and I just am blind and don't see the setting? Or is this something ZTE would have to fix with an update? Or is it not fixable at all?
Are you on the bokeh setting?
No, not in the Bokeh mode. I did try that, and that is a nice feature to have.. I tried all different settings though, auto mode, and manual mode. For some reason the pictures I take all seem to have this softening effect applied to them. It's strange.
I don't know, maybe I'm just expecting more out of the 13mp camera than it's capable of... But then why did my Sony Xperia ZL from a few years ago, which also has a 13mp camera, not have this softening effect?
Trouble with Music Player
My Axon is just 3 days old. There is this annoying problem with its music playback, it just randomly skip last part of the songs. like it wont play last 4-5 seconds. It is there for mp3 and FLAC files. These same files plays just fine on my nexus 5 and ipod and PC. Phone is just new, no settings changed yet. Installed Play Music and tested with different sets of files.
I have contacted ZTE support. They tried to clear the cache and test in safe mode and it still continue to behave the same. So they are replacing the device.
bluefish123 said:
My Axon is just 3 days old. There is this annoying problem with its music playback, it just randomly skip last part of the songs. like it wont play last 4-5 seconds. It is there for mp3 and FLAC files. These same files plays just fine on my nexus 5 and ipod and PC. Phone is just new, no settings changed yet. Installed Play Music and tested with different sets of files.
I have contacted ZTE support. They tried to clear the cache and test in safe mode and it still continue to behave the same. So they are replacing the device.
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Isn't there a setting mentioning something about fade? I'd check myself but I've parked the Axon while I test drive a Z5.
augie7107 said:
Isn't there a setting mentioning something about fade? I'd check myself but I've parked the Axon while I test drive a Z5.
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Couldnt find any except for a setting in music player which hide audio less than 60 seconds, it is already disabled. No specific setting for fade.
bluefish123 said:
Couldnt find any except for a setting in music player which hide audio less than 60 seconds, it is already disabled. No specific setting for fade.
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Sorry confused with nubia music player, it has the fade setting
Hey, so I'm an owner of an Samsung galaxy Nexus, Nexus 5 and an N6.
With my galaxy nexus I'm able to send texts, in bulk to hundreds of different people at once from one app. Then send texts through the stock app without my bulk text showing up there.
When i try on the n5/6 the texts i sent keep showing up in the stock app, making the hundreds of business associates appear in front of my regular texts.
Also there's a restriction of how many texts I can send through the app now, which is annoying and ruins my work. Yet owning both n6 and n5, I seem to just use the GN despite it being sluggish, it does what i need it to.
I've seen the Liquid fluid rom for the N6 can solve my 2nd question, but the DL link is dead and google just sends me to deadends.
tl;dr
How do I stop the stock sms app from showing texts from my group sms app?
How do I remove the restriction of sms sent?
The solution can be for either the N5 or N6, I'd just like to be able to use either of them for what I need.
OsiBasi said:
Hey, so I'm an owner of an Samsung galaxy Nexus, Nexus 5 and an N6.
With my galaxy nexus I'm able to send texts, in bulk to hundreds of different people at once from one app. Then send texts through the stock app without my bulk text showing up there.
When i try on the n5/6 the texts i sent keep showing up in the stock app, making the hundreds of business associates appear in front of my regular texts.
Also there's a restriction of how many texts I can send through the app now, which is annoying and ruins my work. Yet owning both n6 and n5, I seem to just use the GN despite it being sluggish, it does what i need it to.
I've seen the Liquid fluid rom for the N6 can solve my 2nd question, but the DL link is dead and google just sends me to deadends.
tl;dr
How do I stop the stock sms app from showing texts from my group sms app?
How do I remove the restriction of sms sent?
The solution can be for either the N5 or N6, I'd just like to be able to use either of them for what I need.
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You cant. It all uses one system. You also cant remove the limit it is set there by google to prevent spamming. While some roms claim to bypass it the carriers also block part of them if they detect something like that. Which sets off all types of alarms.
yes android 4.2 can
zelendel said:
You cant. It all uses one system. You also cant remove the limit it is set there by google to prevent spamming. While some roms claim to bypass it the carriers also block part of them if they detect something like that. Which sets off all types of alarms.
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well, i own said 3 (!) nexus phones. i am handicapped depending on help from pca's -personal care assistants. if one is sick i am f-d and need someone fast. n text/sms is WAY faster than email. so i have a google contacts group 'pca' w 200+ pca's. Since i'm CLEARLY not spamming, ive rooted all 3 phones n with sqllite editor manually removed stupid smslimit n all 3 so all phones so they all send sms to my 200+ pca's when i need help. BUT only said sluggish phone GN runs old android4.2 where i am not forced to get BACK 200+ sms... a) can i install android 4.2 or older on my n5 or n6? or even n7 ipad? b) how off this annoying 'auto-sms-back' in newer than android 4.2? c) whats tthe fastest phone capable of running a4.2 or older (flashing rom no prob)? sony z3? Thanks for any ideas
A: No.
B: That answer has already been given. See the post above yours.
C: Can't answer that. Other people will have to chime in.