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.
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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?
Trusselo said:
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.
ap1618 said:
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
zelendel said:
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.
diablo009 said:
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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.
Anyone else having issues similar to this? While connected to wifi my messages just time out / retry. if while it's retrying I disconnect from wifi, the message goes right away.
Moto X DE Rooted on 4.4.2 as of Tuesday evening.
Any chance you have ad block plus installed?
Steve-x said:
Any chance you have ad block plus installed?
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I have AdAway installed.
You do need an active data connection to send MMS (they don't send over WiFi). So it depends on what else you have going on -- i.e. if you have a Tasker profile to turns data off while connected to WiFi or something like that
piccit said:
You do need an active data connection to send MMS (they don't send over WiFi). So it depends on what else you have going on -- i.e. if you have a Tasker profile to turns data off while connected to WiFi or something like that
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The last two times I've had issues with it sitting, as soon as I dropped wifi it sent. I do have/use tasker, but am on vzw unlimited data so I don't ever turn it off even when connected to wifi. Thanks for the suggestion.
I don't remember this issue pre-4.4.2 but I don't send a *lot* of mms's so I wouldn't argue its starting point as being 4.4.2 for sure.
For some reason I can't receive any phone calls while I'm on wifi. When I turn Wifi off my calls come through again. Any clues on what is going on?
I have rooted and am using boot image with encryption enabled. I haven't messed with anything else. I have Sprint.
Update: It's weird. It comes and goes. Now I can receive calls on Wifi.
To my understanding, T-Mobile phones can utilize wireless texting along with the wireless calling. How does this work, and can MMS be sent over wi-fi in addition to regular SMS?
Right now, I have wireless calling disabled on my T-mobile GS6. Does this disable the ability for wireless texting as well?
Just curious to how this all works. Thanks!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem
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"Generic Bootstrapping Architecture" on @wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Bootstrapping_Architecture?wprov=sfia1
SmiLey497 said:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem
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"Generic Bootstrapping Architecture" on @wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Bootstrapping_Architecture?wprov=sfia1
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All this mumbo-jumbo doesn't answer the question. :banghead:
Pp.
i have wifi calling turned off, and I send and recieve text messages, including mms all the time through wifi without issue, so the answer is YES
zackmack7 said:
To my understanding, T-Mobile phones can utilize wireless texting along with the wireless calling. How does this work, and can MMS be sent over wi-fi in addition to regular SMS?
Right now, I have wireless calling disabled on my T-mobile GS6. Does this disable the ability for wireless texting as well?
Just curious to how this all works. Thanks!
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'WiFi calling' is used when you, for example, have no service in a your house. You would turn 'WiFi calling' on and it would use your home internet that you're connected to as your signal source. All your calls, texts, and data (of course) will go through your home internet instead of the tmobile cell tower. It turns zero or bad service into perfect service. Now it also depends on your home internet quality. If you have no T-Mobile service in your house AND a crappy home internet connection... then you may be screwed lol
You don't NEED WiFi calling on to send and receive calls or texts. Just turn it on when it's needed.
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i have wifi calling turned off, and I send and recieve text messages, including mms all the time through wifi without issue, so the answer is YES
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How can you tell that the messages are being sent via Wifi and not mobile data?
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How can you tell that the messages are being sent via Wifi and not mobile data?
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If you have wifi on you will not have any type of wireless data other than what normal voice gives you. I would assume in a instance that wifi is on and wifi calling is off it would send all sms texts via voice and mms as wifI. Just tried to send a mms with mobile data off but connected to wifi with wifi calling off and it said will send mms after it connects to mobile data. So there is your answer! Guess we still get mobile data when connected to wifi.
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'WiFi calling' is used when you, for example, have no service in a your house. You would turn 'WiFi calling' on and it would use your home internet that you're connected to as your signal source. All your calls, texts, and data (of course) will go through your home internet instead of the tmobile cell tower. It turns zero or bad service into perfect service. Now it also depends on your home internet quality. If you have no T-Mobile service in your house AND a crappy home internet connection... then you may be screwed lol
You don't NEED WiFi calling on to send and receive calls or texts. Just turn it on when it's needed.
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Right but I'm assuming that if Wifi-calling is off, even if Wifi is on, SMS and MMS will still be sent through normal means/mobile data instead of via Wifi. Is that correct?
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If you have wifi on you will not have any type of wireless data other than what normal voice gives you. I would assume in a instance that wifi is on and wifi calling is off it would send all sms texts via voice and mms as wifI. Just tried to send a mms with mobile data off but connected to wifi with wifi calling off and it said will send mms after it connects to mobile data. So there is your answer! Guess we still get mobile data when connected to wifi.
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Perfect! Thanks
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Right but I'm assuming that if Wifi-calling is off, even if Wifi is on, SMS and MMS will still be sent through normal means/mobile data instead of via Wifi. Is that correct?
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'WiFi calling' and WiFi are independent of each other. You can have WiFi on and still have 'WiFi calling' off. lf your 'wifi calling' is off...all calls, SMS, and MMS will be transmitted via cell network. If 'WiFi calling' is on... then all calls, SMS, and MMS will be transmitted via WiFi.
Also remember there are three different options when using 'WiFi calling'...if I'm ever in a situation where 'WiFi calling' is NEEDED, I would definitely say use the third (the one I have chosen) option in attached picture.
wase4711 said:
i have wifi calling turned off, and I send and recieve text messages, including mms all the time through wifi without issue, so the answer is YES
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You can not send MMS through WiFi unless 'WiFi calling' is on. If your 'WiFi calling' is off, then all your calls, SMS, MMS go through cell network
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You can not send MMS through WiFi unless 'WiFi calling' is on. If your 'WiFi calling' is off, then all your calls, SMS, MMS go through cell network
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I think it is important to note that it requires mobile data. You can send a sms via voice but mms must be sent with 2g/3g/LTE Or wifi calling.
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I think it is important to note that it requires mobile data. You can send a sms via voice but mms must be sent with 2g/3g/LTE Or wifi calling.
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Correct. See this is what I like to see within a forum! lol Find an issue, troubleshoot issue, solve issue. BOOM
My new Note 8 periodically pops up this message for 2-3 seconds than disappears. But actually my phone works fine, my wifi signal is strong no problem with going online. But the message keeps popping up so irritating. Any suggestions to help fix the problem?
Could it be the reception of the mobile network for voice calls? Switching on wifi calling may prevent the pop-up...
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Could it be the reception of the mobile network for voice calls? Switching on wifi calling may prevent the pop-up...
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Thank you for the reply, how do i check this? The popup stil comes up on wifi and off wifi.