MMS on iPhone 2g with OS 3.0

[unfaced]

Forgive me for not wanting to sift through 44 pages of posts on how to get this to work, so I'm just gonna ask a few questions and maybe someone can help me out on this.

I just saw the "Activate MMS2G" thing on Cydia last night. (I have a 3G, but my fiancee has a 2G, so I was trying this for her). Now I know people say, "Just use Swirly!", but...

1. It costs $12.
2. I had it. And although it worked, it sucked. All the pictures I received were so small I could never make them out.

Anywhoo... I tried to install "Activate MMS2G" and it said "reboot" but it never did. So I manually rebooted it and all the things were there. The "Turn on MMS" setting and the "MMS Settings" under network. SO I turned it on, set all the proper settings for it. But everytime I would set the APN it would never take. I would go back into the settings and it would be missing. Anyone else have this problem? So I tried to fix this by reinstalling. It then rebooted and then stayed on the Apple logo and never booted up again. It just kept trying to reboot itself. So I totally had to do a Shift+Restore in DFU mode.

So my question is.... how are people getting this to work???

[leijae]

commandoscorch: post some screen shots of your settings and such, also take a look at settings>>general>>profile it should say help.benm.at when you clikc on it, it should give you the option to remove it. DON'T! just make sure it's there.

unfaced: here is my walkthrough. start where it talks about help.benm.at
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/4638101-post625.html

[DanielNTX]

are you on ATT? if so, what plan and how did you get yours to work?

Yes, I'm on AT&T Blue with unlimited mmode, mms and texting. AT&T blue are the plans pre-2006 before AT&T (blue) became Cingular (orange) and then back to AT&T again. The SIM works in unlocked 2g and 3g.

[leijae]

ah, grandfathered in. me likes.

I checked out VLingo from appstore. it's free. it's a voice control app similar to the 3Gs's. It doesn't run Apps, or Ipod, but it works ok i guess. I'll give it a 3.5 out of 5. I don't think it's something I'd use all the time.

[unfaced]

unfaced: here is my walkthrough. start where it talks about help.benm.at
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/4638101-post625.html

What if I have t-mobile?

[eelzaf]

Hi there, im having the same problem which my mms apn setting can't stick.
im from Malaysia n im using 2g iphone and running 3.0. can u please tell me how to this problem.
anyway, just for ur information, i haven't done anything regarding the ipcc or what so ever.
ive tried read all the topics but seems confused. so i am hoping that u can help me with this problem cause i need my mms back man. Anyway i below is my settings for mms;

Carrier: DIGI

Internet APN: diginet

MMS

APN: digimms
USERNAME: mms
PASSWORD: mms
MMSC: http://mms.digi.com.my/servlets/mms
MMS Proxy: 203.092.128.160

as you can see, my internet APN is different with my MMS APN. Thanx man

[leijae]

unfaced: tekwiz has a good walkthrough for t-mobile somewhere around here.

eelzaf: try going to help.benm.at and install a custom profile from there.

[subm0ral]

@eelzaf

Make sure that your APN for Cellular Data and MMS are identical.


Be warned, Incoming MMS quality is really bad. I'm looking into it right now.

[klouud]

Hey guys!

Just did all the stuff talked about in this thread (coupled with another one). I had to SSH in the bundle stuff. Everything worked like magic until i went to send an mms. It gets hung on the last little bit of info.

Got any suggestions for me?

thanx

tim

Info: 8GB 2G iPhone jailbroken and unlocked with redsn0w using a PC running Windows Vista 32 (crappy OS!)

I don't have PAYG is that an issue? I also have push and fetch turned off.

[DanielNTX]

It hangs at 90% if your apn, mmsc, mmsc proxy are wrong. Make sure you have the right strings. And it really doesn't hang. It comes back with a ! saying it couldn't send.

[eelzaf]

i solve my problem!!! check this site out!!

http://www.*************/showthread.php?t=47020&page=2


and thanx mr LEIJAE for your link

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/4638101-post625.html


So happy now. Thanx guys!!

just a reminder, please MAKE SURE ENABLE TETHERING IS SET TO ON!

the setting didnt stick the try coz i forgot to set it on..

- Subm0ral : thanx man but the problem solved even though my APN for Cellular Data and MMS are not identical.

[commandoscorch]

Ok here is my current situation. I have taken screenshots so hopefully leijae or someone else who has gotten this working on At&t can help.

First I downloaded the cydia package and followed leijae's tutorial on how to get it working. Unfortunately it did not work for me.
I have attached a screenshot of my settings on my iphone. I also included a picture of my At&t account plan. AS you can see from the picture, I have the messaging and data unlimited plan currently enabled and NOT an iphone plan. I can put my sim card into my other phone and send mms messages perfectly fine. If anyone can help I would be so happy. Thanks.

Note: In the mms settings screenshot my proxy is set to wireless.cingular.com. I also tried 066.209.011.052 which is what it defaulted to when I installed the carrier profile but it still didn't work. When I try to send an mms, it hangs at around 90% and then throws up the red exclamation mark.

[klouud]

It hangs at 90% if your apn, mmsc, mmsc proxy are wrong. Make sure you have the right strings. And it really doesn't hang. It comes back with a ! saying it couldn't send.

APNx3: wap.cingular
Username: blank
Password: blank
MMSC: mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com

looked over my AT&T messaging data plan and I cannot tell if I have an iPhone messaging plan or a regular messaging plan. I do know that I have a grandfather plan back from the days of Cingular. How can I tell if my IMEI# is the same between my sim/phone/account?

[unfaced]

unfaced: tekwiz has a good walkthrough for t-mobile somewhere around here.

Where? I totally searched and can't find it.

[Lemony Vengeance]

it's on page 21 man.

[mrjoey35]

it's on page 21 man.

Just a heads up I don't think the quality problem has been resolved yet on Tmobile

[leijae]

eelzaf: glad i could help a little, you're first link is broken, and please don't forget to hit the thanks button

[StellaCaelum5]

QUESTION:

I tried downloading and installing the Tmobile Carrier package that tekwiz put in a zip file but when I go to update I don't see any actual .ipcc file? I tried downloading it and just removing the .zip extension but that doesn't work either? Any help? I need to use the two different APNs to allow EDGE and MMS simultaneously...

[unfaced]

I just changed my APN to wap.voicestream.com, it's interesting to see that T-Mobile seems to have opened all ports via that APN (before they blocked the hell out of everything, hence the reason for the proxy hack).

Anyway, I sent an MMS to myself and it sent fine (without the 5 minute lag some are reporting) and promptly received it (of course, the image was scaled down).

Working Steps (T-Mobile USA):

1) Install the hack via Cydia (Reboot)
2) Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network and tap Reset Settings
3) Reboot
4) Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network and input wap.voicestream.com for both APNs and use these settings:

MMS APN: wap.voicestream.com
Username: [Leave blank]
Password: [Leave blank]
MMSC: 216.155.174.84/servlets/mms
Proxy: 216.155.165.050:8080
MMS Max Message Size: 307200 (300kb limit)
MMS UA Prof URL: wap.sonyericsson.com/UAprof/W800iR101.xml (meant to fix the small image size issue but doesn't seem to be working)

5) Reboot
6) Settings -> Messages and check that MMS Messaging is on.

You should now be able to send picture messages. No need for the carrier update.

Here is another T-Mobile USA MMS setting:

[MMS] APN: wap.voicestream.com
Username: [Leave blank]
Password: [Leave blank]
MMSC: mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.50:8080

Side note: Does anyone know if this guy has PayPal? I am definitely donating!

EDIT: List of more profiles: List of available UAProf profiles

Here's the thing. If I change the APN under the Cellular Data area, I lose edge connection. Because my edge connection has to be internet2.voicestream.com in order to work.

[tekwiz]

QUESTION:

I tried downloading and installing the Tmobile Carrier package that tekwiz put in a zip file but when I go to update I don't see any actual .ipcc file? I tried downloading it and just removing the .zip extension but that doesn't work either? Any help? I need to use the two different APNs to allow EDGE and MMS simultaneously...

remove .zip from filename, then in itunes after you click shift+update you need to type *.ipcc in the filename box and hit enter, then it will show files with .ipcc extension and you can select. This is because itunes is looking for files with a different extension other than ipcc