Had this issue intermittently since the phone was new.

Huawei Ideos U8150. Got a VFNZ SIM on account card and aplan that includes data.

Symptoms:

• Perpetually shows it's downloading MMS attachement (usually an image), but never appears. 


• Perpetually showing outgoing MMS as sending, but never sent.

Here's the apps I've tried.

• Stock messaging app.


• Handcent SMS


• Go SMS


• Chomp SMS

Identical issue with all of them

Happens whether I have phone rooted or un rooted. 

Here's fixes I've tried:

• Send myself an MMS first


• Manually entered apn settings (in Go SMS which allows this as an override option)


• Reset to factory defaults


• install stock ROM from scratch (that fixed a few other issues I've had, but that's not for this thread)




• and spent an hour each time reinstalling apps :(

Same SIM sends MMS on my old Nokia 6630 just fine. Vodafone say it's handset issue.


Any suggestions?