Heya.
I did a little research and finally noticed that I would never get picture messages, and I heard this is a problem with the Iphone as well. But i figure with the Tilt I should be fine. Why do my picture messages not work and it directs me towards ATT's Viewmymessage.com website? Any help? Thanks everyone! -Jeff
The iPhones does not have mms capability, but the Tilt does. You should check with AT&T if everything is correctly provisioned in their system. I have a Tilt and I get picture messages fine.
Hope this helps!
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Jeff,
Do you know what type of messages are being sent that you cannot receive? MMS, email, other? I have no idea what viewmymessage.com is but on the front page it says...
If you received a text message directing you to this site, then someone has sent you a multimedia message.
To view your message, enter the personal password that was included in your text message.
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When you try that does it work?
I have AT&T also and have gotten MMS messages from Verizon and AT&T users without an issue. Maybe this viewmymessage.com service is related to where the message is originating from?
Hello.
I thought is was because of their service providers as well, but I've tried with people from T-mobile, Verizon and ATT and I always received the message without the pic..
It's a MMS, so it's a picture within a txt. I was reading online how this is setup because the iphone cannot received mms, so for the iphone they created this website to view photos within the txt.. But, I cannot understand for the life of me why I cant see pictures in my text's.
Interesting. Maybe AT&T thinks you have an iPhone? Are you on their iPhone plan? Also log onto your account and make sure your phone there isn't listed as the iPhone.
sounds to me like that's what the other persons phone is sending you to. nothing to do with your tilt. Like you could have a rzr and still see the same message. i get mms fine on my tilt with at&t
Yea I'm going to have to call them. It's def not the people sending it to me. I've gone online and ATT is showing me that I have a Tilt on their website, I'm just gonna give them a ring and see whats up.
I am sure this is a provisioning issue. I just called AT&T because of this and sms not getting to my phone and it was because of the way they setup my account. I am sure you will have this fix shortly.
Figured it out I think. I have a W810I registered with ATT because the net is cheaper on that phone. I only use my tilt 4 days out of the week and just dont use net on it those 4 days, cus 30 bucks is expensive. So i opted to just use my w810i for 15 bucks a month. I remember when i called they had to change the MAE or EMI whatever number to the old sony ericson, thats why they are not appearing correctly. This will be interesting...
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Figured it out I think. I have a W810I registered with ATT because the net is cheaper on that phone. I only use my tilt 4 days out of the week and just dont use net on it those 4 days, cus 30 bucks is expensive. So i opted to just use my w810i for 15 bucks a month. I remember when i called they had to change the MAE or EMI whatever number to the old sony ericson, thats why they are not appearing correctly. This will be interesting...
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nope thats not it. i have a tilt and att thinks i have a razr so i only pay 35 for unlimeted internet and sms adn i can send and recive mms so its on att's end. oh adn dont tell them you have a tilt or they WILL NOT HELP you trust me...they will say its becouse you are useing a pda on a media max plan
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I have searched the forum and I keep finding sources that say you have to have data plan and use the e-mail function in order to send pictures. Am I missing something or is the TILT capable of sending picture texts? It seems sort of ridiculous for such an expensive phone to not have such a basic capability. Sorry if this is a retarded question but I cant seem to find the answer on the forum.
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I have searched the forum and I keep finding sources that say you have to have data plan and use the e-mail function in order to send pictures. Am I missing something or is the TILT capable of sending picture texts? It seems sort of ridiculous for such an expensive phone to not have such a basic capability. Sorry if this is a retarded question but I cant seem to find the answer on the forum.
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You don't need a data plan to send MMS. aka Picture text.
but it does access media net to send MMS if im not mistaken, so its not free, at least thats what Cingular reps say...LOL
alright i feel dumb asking this question but the only way i can seem to send a picture is through e-mail. how exactly do you send the picture text? i dont see the option through the texting
^ Messages>Menu>New>Multimedia Message
all hail strike one
i now feel at least 50% stupider than before because that was pretty obvious. thanks a lot strikeone
Keep one thing in mind when using MMS. Pictures & text cannot exceed 600k. It has something to do with AT&T's OTA servers or something.
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so i tried to send the picture text and it seemed that i had to connect to the gsm network in order to send it. i have picture text in my plan but no data plan, is there any way i can do this for free without having to get on the network?
It will temporarily connect to Media Net. Don't worry, as soon as it's finished sending/recieving it will disconnect. If you have a picture messaging package, then any picture message less that 600k is free for you, unless it's sent to someone not on AT&T. I've been doing it for years & trust me, I don't get billed for internet usage. I promise!
thanks again vamp!
No problem, bro. That's why we're here.
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thanks a lot strikeone
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^ yep, no problem .
Lets put it like this. When you send a picture, you do in fact access the internet. It is called a MMS (Multi Media Message). AT&T says as long as you have a SMS plan that allows MMS to send and receive, you will not get charged. However there is a size limit of 600k. As for my tilt, I keep the internet disabled. I Am too cheap for a data plan right now. I only enable my data when I know a MMS message is coming. If you don't have an internet plan through AT&T you can have what they call pay as you go data. You get charged for the usage by KB (Kilobytes). With the tilt and how it likes to access the internet all the time, this can get pricey. Just a FYI...
Well, this would be my first official post. I'm a newbie . I just bought my Diamond about one week ago and I like it alot. I'm a convert from Verizon. Loved the service but not the price plans so I switched. I get so much more with Sprint for the price. Anyway, when I first got it the internet connection would not work. Called techs and they fixed that problem. Set up email, Wifi, pic mail, and pic mail service and all other stuff. Except pic mail does not work or it only half works. I can send or upload to my sprint pic account website, but I can't receive pic mail. I see the uploads and pics from my friends but it doesn't send them to my phone. So, like WTH . Anyways, I can't receive from the website or from my friends who are on Sprint. Talked to a tech and she said I would have to set my email up and pic mail up and I did. I had to do something else and she said she would call me back, but never did. Kinda pissed about that. Any clues or the like would be helpful? Like I said I can send, upload, and receive on the web account but not receive from the web or from my friends phones on Sprint. If anybody had a similar problem or fixed it their own way before calling the techs let me know? I want the pic mail to fully work.
i have a simimliar problem i cant send/receive mms messages from my girlfriend who has verizon and i have ATT. i jsut got my diamond about 5 days ago
I was reading other threads/posts and sometimes it depends on the network and the quality or size of the picture, video, etc. she is sending to you. The higher the resolution or larger the file, the longer it takes. The lower the quality or smaller the file the shorter it takes. Sometimes the networks regulate the size of what you send. Hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344383
The weird thing is that Cybertoads and my mutual friend also has a Diamond and on his everything works perfectly fine. At first it literally took 2 weeks for a picture mail to arrive on my phone after sending it from his, but downloading the Picture mail update from Sprint seemed to have fixed that issue, now he can send and receive them no problem. I have a Sprint Touch, and I have no problem either sending and receiving pictures.
Anyone else have the problem that Cybertoad is encountering?
Possible Solution: sMMS App
I've had the same problem, I've had my Diamond since it came out months ago and I've tried several times to get picmail working. Just last night I came across this: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=22509 [the first post has a lot of details about the app.] Read through that and you can download the program and try it out, I really liked it and donated the $5 through paypal like the creator suggested and I was surprised by how quickly I was able to register and get the full version up and running [and you get a lifetime license for that donation]. So far, I've gotten sending picmail working just fine with this program. Receiving is another matter, and it's an issue that seems to only be on the Diamond and the Touch Pro. Typically on Sprint phones that can't get regular MMS, they'll send a regular txt message with a link that you can click on and download the picture, they were able to get this program to intercept those txts and automatically download the picture like regular MMS is supposed to work. However, on the Diamond and Touch Pro, it does not send a txt with a link to the MMS since the native Sprint picmail app should be working (but they just can't seem to get it working at all!). They have wrote on their site [http://smms.vision5.com/] that they are working on that problem. In the meantime, in the app you can just click on your inbox and it'll sync all your recent new picmails right in the program, you don't need to go through the Sprint picmail site and you can view the pictures, download them to your phone, reply to the messages, etc. It's just a matter of how often you get picmail which would determine how often you should check for anything new. Alternatively, if you tell people that when they send you an MMS make sure they send a regular txt message telling you they sent the MMS, you'll be able to go into the program and check. This app seems way easier to use than the native Sprint one [if it even worked] and seems like these guys can get more things done in their free time than the developers over at Sprint who should have had this problem solved by now. It's also quite fast at sending the pics [and notifies you when it's done sending] and you can set if you want the pictures resized before being sent.
Hope that helps.
Feel free to contact me if you need any help,
Matt
Thanks for the info Matt.
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Thanks for the info Matt.
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No Problem
Hey everyone,
I face a SMS sending problem. I'm texting to Australia quite often and I'm (different to my t-mobile button above) with E-Plus. A long time me and my partner down under had no trouble sending/receiving text messages. But lately only half my texts get through.
We had a problem earlier this year when she was with Optus. All of a sudden my messages did not get through anymore. All of them. Then she changed to Vodafone and it seemed to work. But E-Plus (I'm actually with MedionMobile, just using E-Plus network) made their messages cheaper and now I face this problem!
It's really anoying. Now -
when I have such a problem - does it have anything to do with my Radio / Rom installed on the phone? Or is this just a network fault?
Would changing to Vodafone solve this problem since Vodafone Germany and Vodafone Australia are partner networks?
It's just that E-Plus is so much cheaper (1/3 of the price for a SMS!)
Please try to help me!
Is your operator billing you for the txts? If so, you can be sure they're transferred to your operators server correctly and your phone's alright. But you probably won't be able to get a deeper insight into what happens after that- if and where your txts are lost....
Changing networks MIGHT help, but don't count on it.
You might wanna try sending your txts using an internet-based service?! just to check... and, btw, that might be cheaper, too. I remember seeing a tool that allows you to send txts via internet-based services from your xperia using your data connection. i just can't seem to find it right now.
first: thanks for your help!
My operator is billing me for the text messages, yes. So they send it correctly. I even tried out to get a confirmation for sent items, you know? I always get the message that it has been delivered. But then she does not get the message...
I tried out to send messages from two of my class mates and from my mums phone as well as from my dads phone. Their messages all get through...
I think I know what you mean with internet based SMS sending. Innosend is such a service, huh?
But items sent throught that service do not get stored in my SMS store...But I will try it out, I guess. As well as I try a Vodafone SimCard.
I hope there is nothin wrong with my phone...
Out of interest, what phone does your partner have?
Oh, I think you got me there. Long time it was a Sony Ericsson...older one. But she got a new one two weeks ago or so. But I don't think it's her phone because the fault occured on both, her old and her new phone. I'll write it in here as soon as I know...
Ah ok cool. The reason I was asking: When I got my Xperia I soon realised that my gf was only getting around half the texts I was sending. It drove me crazy as nothing seemed to fix it - I got my phone replaced, she got hers replaced, we both got new SIMs. Just like you, the texts were showing up on bills, and O2 could see them going through their message centre, so they could not identify the problem.
Eventually I figured it out, my gf did not receive my messages when they were longer than a single message. Anything more and it simply did not show up on her phone (LG Renoir), but still seemed to send successfully and show up on my bill. I then realised that the same thing happened when sending long texts to my friend (also an LG, but a Viewty). They can both get long messages from other people, just not me, so I think there must be some sort of incompatibility between the Brands/softwares.
Probably of no help to you really, but maybe you send long messages too?
No, it's fine since I experience such a thing on my own now. Thanks for sharing! I'm gonna ask her what kind of phone she uses now. Today I removed the SIM Card from my phone and replaced it. The Xperia did a new setup on my network and afterwards my 2 sent messages came through. Maybe I just had to do that because I flashed a new Rom and later a new Radio without renewing my network options...
As you, I do not have a clue where the problem is...But also takin my mums T-Mobile Sim Card in my phone she got all messages. I believe it's the operator...I keep you guys updated when I have my Vodafone card or if it should work normally now...
Thanks for your help. Always appreciated!
edit:yes, I experienced that longer messages have less chance to get through. Sometimes they are messed up or just the first part (first 160 characters) get through...hmm
Today someone sent me a a random picture and never thought it would work and guess what it worked!! I was like wtf??!! Well i have the new tmobile prepaid plan with unlimited text for 15$ but i just can send only recive but who cares i can recieve pics!! woohoo! lol!
Sorry but this doesn't really have to do with questions/ answers?
Actually it does kinda help because many people are wondering how to recieve pics without a data plan and this can sort of help them lol
I think it might have something to do with the network / type of plan. I'm not sure but I think text includes picture messages as well. I can't tell because I have a data plan and text plan
yea i know but last sunday when i changed to this plan they tried to send me pics and its just said download so i clicked download and it just said download unsuccesful. Now i dont even get a choice to download the picture is there already
Picture and video messages are included with those new plans. My sister has it on a gravity.
It wasnt working the first day when i changed to this plan but idk i probably messed with the settings or something
pointless....................
Yo.
I dont have a voice OR a data plan on my G1 (I do *everything* on wifi), and by using textPLUS I can do the same thing..........
Tazer
I have Even More Plus Talk and Text (no data) and with all other phones get and receive MMS, but on Android. Does not work that way. I call BS on this. Need more details.
One of the biggest promises of 5.1.1 for me on T-Mobile was advanced messaging, with a limit of 10 megs per message instead of just 1 meg with MMS, I looked forward to sharing pictures by text without the horribly poor-quality compression. Then, AT&T announced they were going to be supporting it, too! Great bonus!
But why can't I get it to work, at all? I have WiFi Calling and VoLTE activated (as T-Mobile's website says), I've gone through all the 'Chat' settings. Tried sending messages to friends with the same T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1., but the pictures get MMS compressed from 2-3 Megs to 200-300 Kb, just like old times. Not even notifications that the other sender is typing a message or has received the message.
A Google search and XDA search revealed surprisingly little help. Anyone know how to get this going? Thanks in advance!
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One of the biggest promises of 5.1.1 for me was advanced messaging, with a limit of 10 megs per message instead of just 1 meg with MMS, I looked forward to sharing pictures by text without the horribly poor-quality compression. Then, AT&T announced they were going to be supporting it, too! Great!
But why can't I get it to work, at all? I have WiFi Calling and VoLTE activated (as T-Mobile's website says), I've gone through all the 'Chat' settings. Tried sending messages to friends with the same T-Mobile Note 4 with 5.1.1., but the pictures get MMS compressed from 2-3 Megs to 200-300 Kb, just like old times. Not even notifications that the other sender is typing a message or has received the message.
A Google search and XDA search revealed surprisingly little help. Anyone know how to get this going? Thanks in advance!
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your post is a bit confusing . You said AT&T is "going to" support it. Do they already support it out is it a future plan? Then you start talking about Tmo. Are you on Tmo or AT&T? Has Tmo said they have/will implement this plan?
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I haven't check it out yet on the chat setting but I will let you know
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your post is a bit confusing . You said AT&T is "going to" support it. Do they already support it out is it a future plan? Then you start talking about Tmo. Are you on Tmo or AT&T? Has Tmo said they have/will implement this plan?
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Sorry, I'm only on here late, so I'm tired and the words don't sense always make.
T-Mobile has been advertising Advanced Messaging in it's new phones since the summer - I was able to find a YouTube video of it in-action. https://youtu.be/MuC2c0E1c8I
Also, in my search for info on the T-Mobile iteration, I saw the announcement that AT&T will be implementing it, too (making it more useful).
Anyways, I had to call T-Mobile's billing department to fix something, so I had them connect me to tech support when we were done. The tech didn't initially know what Advanced Messaging was, but after waiting on hold for about 5 minutes, he came back and said they have been having system-wide issues with VoLTE for a while, which has been keeping Advanced Messaging from working, right now.
I'll just continue emailing the big attachments, for now, then.
Don't forget that the person you are texting must also be on Tmo with a newer Samsung phone that is setup for Advanced Messaging. I don't know anyone with those specs so I can't even test it.
I'm on Metro PCS, since it's a part of tmobile would the messaging work?
Yes it works
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Don't forget that the person you are texting must also be on Tmo with a newer Samsung phone that is setup for Advanced Messaging. I don't know anyone with those specs so I can't even test it.
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I actually had it work with another friend (It still randomly switched between Advanced Messaging and regular messaging throughout the day). It is kinda cool, but I turn-off the invasive notifications.
BTW, my first friend with same same T-Mobile Note 4 forgot to mention they'd switched messaging apps...
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I'm on Metro PCS, since it's a part of tmobile would the messaging work?
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I confirm it works. Metro PCS HERE
The wife and I have Note 4's updated to 5.1.1 and neither Advance Messaging or Video Calling is working.