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MMS Beta 2 Thread! AT&T only!!!
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For what it is worth....
I have a number of phones for testing, 2 work and one does not. I can get it to work, by switching the SIM and then back to the iPhone, but within a few hours it stops working. The long and short of what I found was that there seems to be a process that runs on accounts to ensure that MMS is disabled if there is a iPhone on the account.
He said he flipped it back to Yes, which allows for MMS, but said he can not ensure that it does not change back.
I have a number of phones for testing, 2 work and one does not. I can get it to work, by switching the SIM and then back to the iPhone, but within a few hours it stops working. The long and short of what I found was that there seems to be a process that runs on accounts to ensure that MMS is disabled if there is a iPhone on the account.
He said he flipped it back to Yes, which allows for MMS, but said he can not ensure that it does not change back.
Is your mms working? No
are u on a 8 gig or 16 gig.. 16GB
what location are u in? NYC
what plan are u on? 200 Text messaging minutes
did u restore from a backup? Yes
did u edit any files? No
are u on a 8 gig or 16 gig.. 16GB
what location are u in? NYC
what plan are u on? 200 Text messaging minutes
did u restore from a backup? Yes
did u edit any files? No
Mine says this and I still cannot do MMS. I keep getting a failure message. I had WiFi off when trying to send.
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I never did anything with AT&T or the iPhone except install 3.0b2.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I doubt my AT&T account is switching back and forth on its own. It's a beta - don't expect it to work 100% until it's finally released.
Yes I did, thank you. Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to assume that everyone else is an amateur.
I was not complaining about what is in all reality a remarkably stable and very impressive beta, I was simply providing my input and experiences in this matter and noting that it appears to have no rhyme or reason for working or not working at any given time.
another update...
Called AT&T yesterday and got them to provision my iPhone for MMS and it started working beautifully, by the end of the day it had stopped again. My best guess is that AT&T is still sweeping the system and turning off iPhone MMS provisioning. What I really don't understand is why do this in the first place? If the phone is incapable of sending MMS why put forth the effort to make sure that MMS isn't provisioned through the system? I'm sure it's money related but it seems crazy to me. If someone has unlimited messaging on their account, they should have MMS capabilities on their account regardless of the capabilities of their phone. /rant
Called AT&T yesterday and got them to provision my iPhone for MMS and it started working beautifully, by the end of the day it had stopped again. My best guess is that AT&T is still sweeping the system and turning off iPhone MMS provisioning. What I really don't understand is why do this in the first place? If the phone is incapable of sending MMS why put forth the effort to make sure that MMS isn't provisioned through the system? I'm sure it's money related but it seems crazy to me. If someone has unlimited messaging on their account, they should have MMS capabilities on their account regardless of the capabilities of their phone. /rant
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here...
First, I have a question. Did those who were trying to get SwirlyMMS to work experience the same problems, i.e. calling AT&T to provision the account for MMS which would fix Swirly, only to have it unexpectedly turned off later?
If so, I think what is happening is this: Back in the day, once AT&T realized that people were provisioning their iPhones for MMS so they could use Swirly, they started doing blanket sweeps across the network to un-provision iPhones that had allowed MMS, assuming that all of these people had jailbroken their phones anyway.
But now that 3.0 is out, and it's legit to have MMS, AT&T hasn't turned off this blanket sweeping all iPhones on a regular basis to turn off MMS. They will obviously stop this system come summertime when 3.0 is standard.
We are basically suffering the consequences meant for jailbreakers, not beta testers.
First, I have a question. Did those who were trying to get SwirlyMMS to work experience the same problems, i.e. calling AT&T to provision the account for MMS which would fix Swirly, only to have it unexpectedly turned off later?
If so, I think what is happening is this: Back in the day, once AT&T realized that people were provisioning their iPhones for MMS so they could use Swirly, they started doing blanket sweeps across the network to un-provision iPhones that had allowed MMS, assuming that all of these people had jailbroken their phones anyway.
But now that 3.0 is out, and it's legit to have MMS, AT&T hasn't turned off this blanket sweeping all iPhones on a regular basis to turn off MMS. They will obviously stop this system come summertime when 3.0 is standard.
We are basically suffering the consequences meant for jailbreakers, not beta testers.
Answer to your first question, yes, AT&T swirlyMMS users have experienced the same "works for a few days then stops" kind of problems.
My problem with your theory is that some people have not experienced the intermittent service. Mine was working with swirlyMMS before I upgraded and has continued to work, still works. I was at the hospital last night and I was mmsing pics to my wife in the waiting room of what the doc was doing to me. I probably sent 20 or so MMS in the space of a couple of hours, I only had two that didn't want to go through...but that was probably the file size. I had one this morning that I sent to myself (this thread and others has me paranoid it will stop working) that gave the red "!" next to it, but a few minutes later I received it.
Until it is officially supported by AT&T and Apple, people are going to have issues.
Hmm maybe the blanket sweeps only cover a certain percentage of AT&T users, maybe it's not quite a total sweep. I don't know. It's just so weird, I'm just grabbing for straws trying to make some sort of sense here.
I used the US_ATT.ipcc file and updated the carrier settings. It is the same one I used to get MMS working on beta 1, I did not create it, I don't know who did, I downloaded it on the recommendation of someone on another forum and it immediately started working for me. It gives you settings for your cellular data network and a menu to turn on tethering.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N5ZSO0H8
HOW DO I GET THIS FILE ON MY MACBOOK? IT DOES NOT SAVE RIGHT.
