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Resolved Straight talk & the iPhone

KeegM480

KeegM480

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Ok so I have an iPhone 5 data works, calling, and SMS works but I cannot send mms.

Anybody know how to get that working? I would love to finally be able to send and receive mms.

Thanks :)

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The APN profile from unlockit doesn't work with mms. The only way is to do the sim swap trick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEZiVvf2Jh4
 
KeegM480 said:
Ok cool I didnt know where I could get a Tmobile sim without paying $30+ or needing activation to buy the sim. I will have to try this tomorrow.
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You missed the $2 sim sale from T-Mobiles website, but you can pick a sim up on eBay or Amazon for under $5. Just make sure it's cut to Nano Size (or an actual Nano Sim), if you don't have a sim cutter.
 
Beezy253 said:
You missed the $2 sim sale from T-Mobiles website, but you can pick a sim up on eBay or Amazon for under $5. Just make sure it's cut to Nano Size (or an actual Nano Sim), if you don't have a sim cutter.
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Crap. Haha only a couple bucks though so no big deal.
 
H2K03 said:
Some cell shops will cut them for you. There are also templates online to cut them yourself with a razor blade.
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Yea, I cut the sim card thats in my iPhone 5, have it taped onto the sim tray because I cut it a tad too small haha.
 
KeegM480 said:
Yea, I cut the sim card thats in my iPhone 5, have it taped onto the sim tray because I cut it a tad too small haha.
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Better than cutting it too big, jamming it in there and getting it stuck like I did on my 4S lol. I had to take my phone apart to get that crap out.
 
KeegM480 said:
Ok so I have an iPhone 5 data works, calling, and SMS works but I cannot send mms.

Anybody know how to get that working? I would love to finally be able to send and receive mms.

Thanks :)

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If you have the new LTE card, you need to do the T-Mobile SIM swap and use the following settings:

First, remove the APN profile that you installed.

APN: tfdata (goes in 2 places)
MMSC Address: http://mms-tf.net
Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com


If you have the old card, you need to do the T-Mobile SIM swap and use these settings:

APN: att.mvno (goes in 2 places)
MMSC Address: http://mmsc.cingular.com
Proxy: 66.209.11.33

Hope that helps...


KeegM480 said:
Ok cool I didnt know where I could get a Tmobile sim without paying $30+ or needing activation to buy the sim. I will have to try this tomorrow.
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I believe you can get a T-Mobile SIM card at Best Buy for around $15. It will need to be cut down to Nano Size, you can buy the tool here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009P16FKY/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
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scotrinaf said:
If you have the new LTE card, you need to do the T-Mobile SIM swap and use the following settings:

First, remove the APN profile that you installed.

APN: tfdata (goes in 2 places)
MMSC Address: http://mms-tf.net
Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com


If you have the old card, you need to do the T-Mobile SIM swap and use these settings:

APN: att.mvno (goes in 2 places)
MMSC Address: http://mmsc.cingular.com
Proxy: 66.209.11.33

Hope that helps...




I believe you can get a T-Mobile SIM card at Best Buy for around $15. It will need to be cut down to Nano Size, you can buy the tool here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009P16FKY/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Yep. Thanks :) I will try to do this today
 
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Hey guys. I'm planning on picking up 2 straight talk sims for my wife and my iPhone's (they are both the iPhone 5) and we are still under att contract. I plan on getting the ST sims, activating them online and porting out numbers over. I believe this will work and att will just bill me the ETF.

If I understand correctly we will be able to send/recieve MMS using these new ST sims. Also visual voicemail won't natively work but there are apps like YouMail that will fill that void. I should be able to get LTE no problem since I live in an area with great ATT LTE. Am I missing anything or should that all work as I imagine?
 
brendu said:
Hey guys. I'm planning on picking up 2 straight talk sims for my wife and my iPhone's (they are both the iPhone 5) and we are still under att contract. I plan on getting the ST sims, activating them online and porting out numbers over. I believe this will work and att will just bill me the ETF.

If I understand correctly we will be able to send/recieve MMS using these new ST sims. Also visual voicemail won't natively work but there are apps like YouMail that will fill that void. I should be able to get LTE no problem since I live in an area with great ATT LTE. Am I missing anything or should that all work as I imagine?
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It will work but as stated above you will need to to a sim swap. I guess without Jailbreaking thats the only way to get Data & MMS
 
brendu said:
Hey guys. I'm planning on picking up 2 straight talk sims for my wife and my iPhone's (they are both the iPhone 5) and we are still under att contract. I plan on getting the ST sims, activating them online and porting out numbers over. I believe this will work and att will just bill me the ETF.

If I understand correctly we will be able to send/recieve MMS using these new ST sims. Also visual voicemail won't natively work but there are apps like YouMail that will fill that void. I should be able to get LTE no problem since I live in an area with great ATT LTE. Am I missing anything or should that all work as I imagine?
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You are correct. :) Except that you need to do the T-Mobile SIM swap for MMS to work...


KeegM480 said:
It will work but as stated above you will need to to a sim swap. I guess without Jailbreaking thats the only way to get Data & MMS
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Yep!
 
KeegM480 said:
Nope :)



Not an iPhone 4, 4S, 5, or Samsung Galaxy S3/S4. you dont need to unlock an at&t phone to use At&t towers :)
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You do need to unlock the 4 & 4s because it has to be able to recognize the ST branded SIM card... I've owned all 3 models, the only 1 I didn't have to unlock was the 5.
 
scotrinaf said:
You do need to unlock the 4 & 4s because it has to be able to recognize the ST branded SIM card... I've owned all 3 models, the only 1 I didn't have to unlock was the 5.
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I have owned them too and they were not unlocked in fact I just recently sold my 4S. Not sure why yours didn't work.
 
scotrinaf said:
You do need to unlock the 4 & 4s because it has to be able to recognize the ST branded SIM card... I've owned all 3 models, the only 1 I didn't have to unlock was the 5.
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It'll work without unlock as long as it's an AT&T iPhone with an AT&T Straight Talk SIM. Also, same applies to T-Mobile. T-Mobile iPhone works without unlocking on T-Mobile Straight Talk SIM.
 
H2K03 said:
It'll work without unlock as long as it's an AT&T iPhone with an AT&T Straight Talk SIM. Also, same applies to T-Mobile. T-Mobile iPhone works without unlocking on T-Mobile Straight Talk SIM.
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That's what I was using... AT&T phones with AT&T SIM cards from ST... Oh well, beats me...
 
scotrinaf said:
That's what I was using... AT&T phones with AT&T SIM cards from ST... Oh well, beats me...
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Did you go to unlockit.co.nz to download a profile for Straight Talk? This will allow data to work but not MMS. Or the SIM swap trick would work in order to change the APN settings manually.
 
H2K03 said:
Did you go to unlockit.co.nz to download a profile for Straight Talk? This will allow data to work but not MMS. Or the SIM swap trick would work in order to change the APN settings manually.
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Yep...

FYI, You can also use the iapnupdatetfdata.straighttalk.com if you don't care about MMS... But if you have either profile installed, they need to be removed prior to doing the SIM swap.
 
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