iPhone 4 MMS just doesn't work. Period.

[StephenCampbell]

For some reason my blasted phone doesn't do MMS. It just doesn't. It'll hang on the "sending" stage for a while, and then give me the red circle with the exclamation mark next to it, and the option to try to resend the message. If someone else tries to send me a picture, it appears to send on their phone, but just doesn't show up in mine. The text just doesn't arrive. There's some blockage between my phone and MMS. The MMS is turned on in Settings, and I've reset network settings as well.

Why is my phone doing this? It's a non-jailbroken phone running on AT&T, and I'm in one of the best cities for reception in the country.

 

[Mliii]

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For some reason my blasted phone doesn't do MMS. It just doesn't. It'll hang on the "sending" stage for a while, and then give me the red circle with the exclamation mark next to it, and the option to try to resend the message. If someone else tries to send me a picture, it appears to send on their phone, but just doesn't show up in mine. The text just doesn't arrive. There's some blockage between my phone and MMS. The MMS is turned on in Settings, and I've reset network settings as well.

Why is my phone doing this? It's a non-jailbroken phone running on AT&T, and I'm in one of the best cities for reception in the country.

Not to be funny, but I assume you have turned on MMS Messaging AND then restarted your phone?

 

[iphone1105]

Get the latest carrier file, reset network settings, MROOGLE

 

[bid2ask77]

Get the latest carrier file, reset network settings, MROOGLE

I had the same problem a while back and this worked for me.

 

[StephenCampbell]

How do I get the latest carrier file?

 

[vincenz]

Update through iTunes?

 

[StephenCampbell]

Update through iTunes?

I update through iTunes all the time...

 

[vachargerfan]

I update through iTunes all the time...

Have you called AT&T and made sure that there isn't an MMS block on your phone?

 

[sdsvtdriver]

do you have an iPhone messaging plan or one of the B2B text plans?

 

[TruckdriverSean]

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I'd call AT&T.

My brother in-law just got a Samsung Focus and after setup, texting just didn't work. Called AT&T and found out that the folks who sold him the phone (local Walmart) goofed up and didn't include a text plan or Internet service.

 

[StephenCampbell]

Well, my whole family is on a family plan and we have the $30 unlimited family texting plan. It definitely works. We don't get charged additional for texts every month. I'm gonna call AT&T.

 

[KingMob16]

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Make sure you're sending through your data and not through wifi

 

[iceterminal]

If you've updated through iTunes already, then you need to contact AT&T. I have a family plan as well as the unlimited data, etc. Yet still needed to have the clowns at AT&T fix our account so I could MMS from my iPhone. Even though the wife and kids could MMS on the account I could not.

So you might want to change the title of the tread to:
"MY iPhone 4 MMS just doesn't work. Period"

 

[DirtySocks85]

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Make sure you're sending through your data and not through wifi

MMS doesn't ever go through wifi.

 

[Opstech]

I had the same issue when I first activated the phone. called ATT and they had me do a complete reinstall. Reset the phone and then download the update again. It took forever!