MMS Fustrations On Your Android Handset? I Did Too. Now Resolved :-)

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Damager

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#72732 2-Dec-2010 01:06

I've been racking my brains trying to get MMS working correctly on my AT&T Captivate.

No matter how often I entered and re-entered the default settings which are

TelecomData

TelecomContent

TelecomMMS

No MMS would send or receive. It would just send or download indefinitely, without providing any notifications. Some looking on the net seemed to indicate that a combined MMS and Data APN was preferred by many Android handsets.

Right, created a combined data and MMS APN and voila... successful MMS send! MMS download still unsuccessful. Attempts to download gave a "Download Unsuccessful" notification. Only 1 APN with an internet + mms APN type here.

Walked into a Telecom shop and asked the salesperson to give me a Galaxy S so I can compare the settings with my stunningly attractive Captivate hehe :P

I saw the following 2 APNs. TelecomData and TelecomDefault. The TelecomDefault APN matched my combined internet and mms APN. The TelecomData APN was the internet only APN.

These are as follows:

TelecomData
Name - TelecomData

APN internet.telecom.co.nz

Proxy, Port, Username, Password, Server, MMSC, MMS proxy, MMS port - Not Set

MCC - 530 (defaults automatically)

MNC - 05 (defaults automatically)

Authentication type - PAP

APN type - internet

TelecomDefault
Name - TelecomDefault

APN - wap.telecom.co.nz

Proxy, Port, Username, Password, Server - Not Set

MMSC - http://lsmmsc.xtra.co.nz

MMS proxy - 210.55.11.73

MMS port - 8080

MCC - 530

MNC - 05

Authentication type - PAP

APN type - internet + mms

The difference is the Authentication type is PAP where as the defaults listed in the stickied posts show "None". It may be that certain handsets require the PAP setting.

When I had the three default APNs originally, only the internet only had the green notification, the other 2 had none. When I changed to the 2 APNs, the internet + mms APN had the green notification, nothing on the internet only.

After matching the 2 APNs from the Telecom Galaxy S, the TelecomDefault had the green notification, but the TelecomData now had a white notification. I read that this indicated the white APN was now working passively through the green APN.

Be interesting as to which Android handsets have the 3 separate APNs and which ones have just 2?

If you'e having issues with MMS, try these settings and see if they work for you.

- Telstra HTC Touch Pro2 - Energy ROM WM6.5.5 20 Oct/Cyanogen Mod Froyo 2.2 - R.I.P
- AT&T Galaxy S Captivate 16GB on XT (now with brother)
- Samsung Galaxy S2 on XT- Runs ICS 4.0.3 Resurrection Remix 9.2
- Business Hours - Work In The Electricity Industry, After Hours - DJ/Turntablist - Will Scratch Vinyl For Free'
- What's next??? S3?

Behodar

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#411904 2-Dec-2010 08:32

Did not work on my Nexus One... but the default settings have suddenly started working even though they didn't before (I could send but not receive; now it's working in both directions). I'm throughly confused now but it's working and I don't want to touch it!

For reference, here are the defaults from my phone:

Name: Telecom Internet
APN: internet.telecom.co.nz
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: <Not set>
Password: <Not set>
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: <Not set>
MMS proxy: <Not set>
MMS port: <Not set>
MCC: 530
MNC: 05
Authentication type: PAP
APN type: default,supl

Name: Telecom MMS
APN: wap.telecom.co.nz
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: <Not set>
Password: <Not set>
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: http://lsmmsc.xtra.co.nz
MMS proxy: 210.55.11.73
MMS port: 80
MCC: 530
MNC: 05
Authentication type: PAP
APN type: mms

As you can see, both of these have PAP by default, the MMS port is 80 instead of 8080 in your settings, neither of the APN types contain "internet" and the only "combined" APN is comma-separated instead of plus-separated. These are quite a bit different!

Damager

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#412044 2-Dec-2010 12:35

Great to see you got MMS working! You're quite right, your settings are different again!

Behodar

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#412048 2-Dec-2010 12:41

I have a suspicion that the "reset to default" option is more of a "download the latest settings file and use that". I'm suspecting that because I did a reset to default after Android 2.2.1 came out and it didn't work then, but it's suddenly working now after a reset.

But the important thing is that it's working for both of us. Thanks for your help :)

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#412056 2-Dec-2010 12:56

Aha! I was just looking around and I took a look at /system/etc/apns-conf.xml from my phone, which contains all the default settings. There is no entry for authentication type. I did a couple of test resets and sure enough, it just retains whatever authentication type was previously selected.

In other words, following your instructions and changing it to PAP seems to be what fixed it.

old3eyes

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#412059 2-Dec-2010 13:09

Thanx for the update to posts.

I can send MMS and get notification but when I retrieve it I get "Retrieving failed, Decoding failed". I guess it's a problem with the fone software. Fone = Samsung Eternity x AT&T. Just waiting to see what new fones we get here at work before I upgrade to something like the Galaxy or N8..

Regards,

Old3eyes

acsonline

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#412224 2-Dec-2010 19:02

Hi Old3eyes. When did you last check?