Greetings,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
You folks are way more advanced with phone mods than I am so I've never had anything useful to contribute. I've learned a lot from reading and re-reading, but now it's time to ask my question.
I bought a Droid Turbo from an on line reseller. I put it on my account through my regional carrier(Cellcom, Wisconsin). Voice in and out worked, data worked, SMS in and out worked, however MMS didn't work. After a bit of tinkering I found out Verizon cripples the phone by not allowing the APN configuration to be changed when used on another carrier's network. All the fields are greyed out, and there is no option to add another APN. I was hoping to use this phone on my contract with Cellcom, and have the ability to put in a GMS SIM when we travel to Canada. Everything else works great with the phone, just the ability to add or edit the APN config when on a non Verizon CDMA network.
The question(s):
1- If I Mofo root the phone(it's KitKat 4.4.4) and then flash the original Quark image I found by following several leads, will I be able to edit the APN .xml file(apns-conf.xml) through the phone or will that remain a protected system file?
2- If my only option will be to edit the APN config file before I flash to the phone, what(Windows) program can I use to extract the image file? I tried using ext2explore but it keeps crashing before it completly expands the entire files. What(Windows) program would I then use to recreate the image file in the format the phone needs?
I pulled the apns-conf.xml file from the phone. I can see the Verizon fields I need to change and I have the APN settings for the Cellcom network. I'm just stuck on getting it back to the phone.
Thanks
Hmmm. From what I came to understand, is that you *could* edit the apn once another Sim was insert. Apparently my understanding was in correct.
Tapped out from my Motorola Droid Turbo, featuring Android 5.1. Please pardon my brevity.
The ability to edit APNs was always greyed out no matter how I tried.
Went back to the store with a second phone; a Moto X Pure- got the same results- everything works except MMS.
After a lengthy phone conversation with Cellcom customer support today I learned they(Cellcom) flash something to their inventory phones that permits MMS on their network.
I now have a brand new Moto Maxx XT1250 which is identical in specs to the Droid Turbo XT1254. I picked this one up through Amazon. The Moto Maxx is the the Cellcom equivalent to the Verizon Droid Turbo. Since this one did not come through Cellcom, I'm told it most likely won't do MMS. I was told I could take it to one of two Cellcom service centers so they could flash whatever config they use, but there still would be no guarantee of 100% compatibility.
Ah well, I guess if I want to continue with Cellcom service I have to get my phones through them.
I got the APN to work with Cellcom.... MMS works again! Android 6.0.1
The facts:
Moto Maxx XT1250 from Cellcom (Wisconsin) not Israel
CyanogenMod 13.0-20161221 (Andriod 6.0.1) because Cellcom stopped supporting the phone and stopped at Android 5.0.1
All this broke the APN so no MMS. Called their support and they gave me the APN settings. However when I entered the MMC and MNC it broke again.
The fix:
Go into settings and find your APN modifications.
Locate the VZWINTERNET APN settings or make your own and modify it to these settings:
Name = Cellcom
APN = VZWINTERNET
Proxy = Not set
Port = Not set
Username = Not set
Password = Not set
Server = Not set
MMSC = http: // mms.cellcom.com/ cellom /mms. php ( Do not have spaces. XDA won't let me post this as it thinks it is a link. Put this as one line!)
MMS proxy = Not set
MMS port = Not set
MCC = 311 (this is the default, do not change it, this is what will break the APN profile. Cellcom Says to make it 310 but leave it)
MNC = 480 (this is the default, do not change it, this is what will break the APN profile. Cellcom Says to make it 600 but leave it)
Authentication type = Not set
APN type = default,mms,dun,supl
APN protocol = IPv4/IPv6
APN roaming protocol = IPv4/IPv6
APN enable/disable = will be grayed out and cannot be modified
Bearer = Unspecified (you must turn off all the others and only check the box for Unspecified)
MVNO = SPN
MVNO value = Cellcom (this will auto populate when you change the MVNO to SPN)
Press the 3 dots upper right and click save. Reboot and enjoy MMS again!
I tested with the Cyanogen messaging app, Googles Messaging app, and Google Hangouts and the all work sending photos and multiple people texting.
Now will this work for other handsets or ROMs? I do not know. Please reply to the post with your results.
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Yes, I know this question has been asked 150,000 times. Yes, I've read the threads. Dozens of times.
I have a Droid 1 on Cricket's $45 plan, and it's working perfectly. Calls, text, data, everything works 100% of the time, except MMS.
I've tried different roms (stock, bugless beast 0.2 and onwards, gpa15, gpa16, gpa17, simplystunning 5.2-.4, liquid gingerbread 2.0-.6, cyanogenmod 6-7, droid concepts, all of them), I've tried greenk45, I've tried xsylus's recommended apn settings + scriptrunner, I've tried the regular cricket APN settings (wap.mycricket.com:8080, 310:004, 310:016, server being * or wap.mycricket.com or mms.mycricket.com etc.) I've tried EVERYTHING.
And no matter what, when I try sending an MMS it just keeps 'sending' forever, and when I send an MMS from another phone or text4free.net, I get a text from 8662742538 saying "Multimedia messages are being sent to your device, but your device doesn't support these messages. Visit your nearest Cricket store for new device options"
I will do ANYTHING. ANYTHING you tell me to do. I will flash any rom, I will type any APN settings, run any script, I don't care what it takes. I just want to receive a single MMS on this otherwise perfectly-working phone.
I've been a C/assembly programmer for 13 years, I'm no stranger to any technical jargon you can throw at me, I just desperately need to know why this unimaginably simple task is impossible to achieve.
Log into your mycricket.com account and check your plan. This just happen to my wife's phone. I changed phones and did a ESN change. It removed "Picure Messaging/text messaging" and replaced it with "text messaging". Therefore you'll get that message when someone sends you an MMS because your phone does not have that feature enabled.
Call cricket and have them provision your phone again. I had to tell them i had a Samsung (cricket phone) and explained that it was flashed to Sprint and back to cricket.
not sure if this applies to cricket but on verizon, i couldn't ever send a mms without setting my data to enabled, if i didn't enable data it would take 399 years
Believe me, it's the account settings. When I did a ESN change a few days ago the system automatically removed Picture/Video. I had to call back and tell them i had a Samsung R560 and refresh my account. Then it showed back up and I no longer get that message when pictures are sent to the phone.
Very interesting! I logged in and only had text messaging, no picture messaging listed. I called 1-800-CRICKET and a lady said everything was now fixed, but still no MMS. Now there's not only no picture messaging listed, but no regular texting either. Seems strange.
Perhaps worst of all, when sending test MMS's from web sites, I'm no longer receiving the dreaded 'your device doesn't support these messages' text from 8662742538 that I used to, now there's no notification of anything whatsoever!
I've posted a screenshot of my current plan settings at the end of this post, can anyone comment? I'll go to the local Cricket shop tomorrow, but I doubt they'll know what's going on - it's a very small shop that doesn't do flashes or anything.
Pic link (can't post links/attachments yet):
i40.tinypic.com/307yefd.png
OK the Cricket store said everything was 100% fine, there was nothing wrong with my plan, and that picture messaging was included. Though if you look in the screenshot, there's still nothing mentioning picture messaging.
Could someone post an (anonymous of course) screenshot of their plan from mycricket.com? Preferably someone on the $45 plan. I just don't understand why it's so difficult to receive MMS messages - if I had a debugger and access to the phone's radio I could figure this out in 5 minutes, the current system seems like nothing but voodoo.
Well nothing changed regarding my last post, and I didn't change any settings on my phone, but now SMS is sending and receiving. No idea why.
APN settings I've had for the past month: Name: Cricket, APN: internet, no proxy, no port, user: (MDN)@mycricket.com, pass: cricket, server: wap.mycricket.com, mmsc: hxxp://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms (hxxp changed to allow posting here), no proxy, no port, mcc: 310, mnc: 016, apn type: default,mms. this is all using the dns-based autostart.sh being executed by ScriptRunner.
Also if anyone has trouble with the APN list appearing empty or edited entries disappearing, it's because your build.prop file is listing a different MCC/MNC pair than the APN you've entered - your build.prop probably lists ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric as 310004 or something, so unless the APN matches that (try changing MNC to 016 and watch it disappear), Android decides not to display it.
Having issues with MMS on Droid 4, Verizon US and the 12/15/13 nightly build of CM11. Continually pops up a toast of APN Not Found. Tried to make my custom APN and add in the MMSC of mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms, but it would not stick. logcat just shows MMSC url blank, bail in there along with a lot of other apnFailed log entries.
Texting and other data works fine, only MMS does not.
I also tried editting the /etc/apns-conf.xml to have the mmsc url, but was still a no go. Not sure what info you need to help get this fixed in CM11.
Also, I couldn't post in the Dev thread for the CM11 builds because I don't have more than 10 posts, so I hope this is an ok place to put this.
Sleepybear84 said:
Having issues with MMS on Droid 4, Verizon US and the 12/15/13 nightly build of CM11. Continually pops up a toast of APN Not Found. Tried to make my custom APN and add in the MMSC of mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms, but it would not stick. logcat just shows MMSC url blank, bail in there along with a lot of other apnFailed log entries.
Texting and other data works fine, only MMS does not.
I also tried editting the /etc/apns-conf.xml to have the mmsc url, but was still a no go. Not sure what info you need to help get this fixed in CM11.
Also, I couldn't post in the Dev thread for the CM11 builds because I don't have more than 10 posts, so I hope this is an ok place to put this.
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Try the verizon messaging app on the google play store as well as updating to a newer nightly. There are official cm11 nightlies now as well.
I flashed my droid 4 over to cricket wireless long ago. My question is getting APN working for MMS for cricket. I had it working under JB rom (Eclipse) and it not working now. I seen the conf-apns under /etc and the list is long but does have Cricket. I changed it to include my number and had it under APN's in mobile network under the rom....but still not working. I messed around with build.prop changing certain lines.
I know that Droid 4 want to read from SIM on certain apps. I know changing certain settings will make it read from NV and RUIM/SIM. Any ideas????
Sleepybear84 said:
Having issues with MMS on Droid 4, Verizon US and the 12/15/13 nightly build of CM11. Continually pops up a toast of APN Not Found. Tried to make my custom APN and add in the MMSC of mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms, but it would not stick. logcat just shows MMSC url blank, bail in there along with a lot of other apnFailed log entries.
Texting and other data works fine, only MMS does not.
I also tried editting the /etc/apns-conf.xml to have the mmsc url, but was still a no go. Not sure what info you need to help get this fixed in CM11.
Also, I couldn't post in the Dev thread for the CM11 builds because I don't have more than 10 posts, so I hope this is an ok place to put this.
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Try change the operator code (mcc & mnc) in the build prop.
Find "ro.cdma.home.operator.numeric"
Put the value as your operator has. It is the combination of mcc and mnc.
If the operator numeric code is match with your carrier, the APN setting will enabled, corresponding APN will show up and your can add APN with the same operator.
How to edit APN in att?
it is grey and not allow to change.
Even I add new apn, it will change to old apn automaticlly.
How can I fix it in the new apn?
s20011301 said:
How to edit APN in att?
it is grey and not allow to change.
Even I add new apn, it will change to old apn automaticlly.
How can I fix it in the new apn?
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You should be able add a -new- APN, then once saved, you can set the new APN active. Just name it something different from the default APN.....like MY_ATT_APN or something.
If you continue to have issues, I'll check my friends X to see exactly how I did it. I put his AT&T Moto X on H2O wireless (which requires adding an APN).
samwathegreat said:
You should be able add a -new- APN, then once saved, you can set the new APN active. Just name it something different from the default APN.....like MY_ATT_APN or something.
If you continue to have issues, I'll check my friends X to see exactly how I did it. I put his AT&T Moto X on H2O wireless (which requires adding an APN).
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I have add a new apn and saved it. After a while I went back to check the setting, the new apn is still here, but the system choose the old apn automatically. Can I detele the old apn or force the system fix in new apn?
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I find the method. It needs to type "default" in the "apn type" otherwise the system will change to old apn itself.
Ultimately, I was unsuccessful in making this work. I changed my carrier to get the phone to work.
I broke my old reliable S3 and I needed a new used phone. I got a Galaxy S5 off craigslist for $80. I ran into some problems getting it to work right. I really would have liked a page like this to explain me through the problems I encountered in one place, so here it is. I got my problems fixed last night and here's how I did it.
Here are some of the biggest issues I had.
How to get network network access.
How to get the phone to stop saying non-verizon sim
How to get the phone to dial in-call (for automated systems like entering conference call numbers or extensions, etc.)
How to call back people who call me.
I also established root on my phone which wasn't really necessary after all but I'll explain how anyway...
Network access was easy:
Go to Settings > More Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names
Then tap the + to add a new network.
You can get these settings from your carrier. I'm using H2O Wireless ($30/month unlimited) which runs on the AT&T Network. I just googled h2o wireless access point names and I got instructions straight from their website. Maybe these will work with other AT&T Network based carriers.
Name: (doesn't matter)
APN: att.mvno
Proxy: 66.209.11.33
Port: 80
Username: <Blank>
Password: <Blank>
Server: <Blank>
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: <Blank>
MMS Port: <Blank>
MCC: <Blank>
MNC: <Blank>
APN Type: <Blank>
Press Menu and then Save.
Make Phone Calls
In order to make phone calls, you will have to change the network mode.
Go to Settings > More Networks > Mobile Networks > Network Mode
Most instructions I saw said to change it to Global, but I had a problem where the phone wouldn't dial inside a call so anything with an automated menu wouldn't work. I changed it to GSM / UMTS and that solved it.
**Update, after upgrading back to Android 5.0 (lollipop) I began having the problem of not being able to dial in calls again. I fixed it by going to:
settings>applications>call>
Scroll down to DTMF tones and change setting to long.
Kill Message About Non-Verizon SIM
Really this message doesn't do anything but I didn't like it cluttering my notifications. The solution I'm using needs to be repeated every time I restart the phone. No big deal to me.
1. Open notifications by dragging down from top of phone.
2. Click and hold on the notification about the sim. I message will pop up "about app" or something. Click on it and it will open up the program "Setup Wizard"
3. Force close the app, clear cache and clear data. The message will go away until you restart your phone.
***If you want it to go away forever, you will probably have to block the program permanently, which may require root access. One solution is using titanium backup pro (costs $6) to freeze the program.
***This thread includes a nice program that will fix this issue and remove other unwanted programs from your phone (requires root)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s5/general/g900vod5batchdebloater-windows-t3148980
How to call people back
Sounds simple enough and the most basic land line phones can do it, but somehow, this became a problem. When someone called be, when I went to my call log an tapped on the number to call them back, the call wouldn't go through. Annoying... For this, I 'm using an app called "Prefixer" available on Google Play.
1. Download and open prefixer
2. Tap "outgoing calls"
3. Tap + icon on bottom left of screen (this will create a new rule) and tap "manual"
4. Scroll down under actions and tap "remove characters"
5. Enter \+ and click "ok"
6. Repeat for "incoming calls"
*Note: I already had root access when using this program, I don't think this program requires root access but if it does, follow instructions below.
Establishing Root Access
Problems Faced and Solved
1. Rooting programs I tried (towelroot and kingo root) didn't work
2. Phone bricked after downgrading to kitkat
Establishing Root access what much more difficult than anticipated. Firstly, the instructions on this page will tell you to use towelroot (available at towelroot.com) but I got an error message saying the device is not supported. This wasn't true. It''s the android OS (operating system like windows 7, etc.) that wasn't supported. That's when I learned about the different android versions (kitkat, lollipop, etc.). android 4.4 is kitkat and android 5.0 is lollipop. My phone had lollipop and I had to downgrade to kitkat.
Please note, I don't know a lot at all on this topic. This is just a compilation of info I gathered over the course of about 2 days, mostly on this xda site. Thanks to the hosts of this site and all the developers who are helping us take control of our phones. All this being said...
I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY OUTCOME OF YOU TRYING TO ROOT YOUR PHONE OR INSTALL/FLASH YOUR OS AS YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
First backup your files. and I suggest watching this video from @rootjunky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_VCf73UZc
Here are instructions for downgrading of Kitkat and upgrading back to lollipop with root access. If you need to downgrade to kitkat, look at the bottom of the instructions page for that info. Hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...w-to-update-to-g900voe1-5-0-keeproot-t3149784
I hope this is helpful. I can't guarantee I'll be able to answer any questions...
I have a verizon account, Verizon doesnt have the S5 Active only AT&T have the S5 Active if I use the Sim card from my S4 in the S5 Active will it work???
I'm not sure, I suggest calling verizon to ask. Is the S5 a verizon phone? If not, you are taking a risk.
Hi guys.
I switched from AT&T to IDEA when I moved back to India.
I was able to send messages when I was on AT&T.
But now that I am on IDEA, I am not able to send the mesaage.
I receive below message. I tried multiple SMS apps but none worked. Any help will be appreciated.
Error:- message not sent. Phone number not formatted correctly.
I am using nexus 6 with stock 7.1.1 (august security patch)
https://www.komparify.com/blogs/index.php/apn/idea.html
Check your APN. Also, is your N6 a US model or world model?
My N6 is a us model. Also why would internet settings (APN) are required for text messaging? Internet works fine with LTE.
Text messaging is enabled through three fields in the APN: "MMSC", "MMS proxy" and "MMS port". In order for text messaging to work those fields must be filled in. In the case of my carrier, Straight Talk, it uses AT&T's settings for text messaging. In the APN it looks like this.
Code:
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
MMS proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
MMS port: 80
In taking a second look at the Idea APN, it doesn't appear to use those settings, but you might want to get a hold of Idea and ask them what is going on. It's unlikely the device itself is the issue, but being an XT1103 I have no way to know for certain.
I think it's has to do with # formatting. I had Tuenti Movistar app in Spain and when came back was getting incorrect format message as all #s were prefixed with +34 Spain country code by default. Uninstalled app and was fine with text and calling
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk
Issue resolved
Thank you Strephon , Hjicons,
The issue resolved after changing the SIM. so it seems the sim was faulty or something.
Thanks,
Nilesh.