3G iPhone & Multimedia Messaging
Does anyone know if the 3G iPhone will be a hardware upgrade or a software upgrade. I haven't bought an iPhone yet because I want the 3G one, but if its just a software upgrade then I can buy it now and wait for the update. Also a friend of mine who does have an iPhone doesn't get any of her multimedia messages to her phone she can only access then through her email. The people at AT&T say that it's because Apple didn't make the iPhone able to recieve the multimedia messages. Is that going to be addressed with an update as well or will that never change?
Does anyone know if the 3G iPhone will be a hardware upgrade or a software upgrade.
Hardware related which will require a new purchase. You can't turn a non-3G radio into a 3G radio with a firmware/software update.
The iPhone does not support MMS with the existing SMS client at the present time and my never support this. This is a user to user help forum only so no one here knows what Apple has planned for future updates or with a new iPhone model - except for the next generation iPhone will be 3G which was announced by Apple and AT&T. If someone here is privileged to any such information that has not been officially announced by Apple, they aren't allowed to say.
The only thing we know is the 3G iPhone will be available sometime in 2008 which could mean just before Xmas or earlier or this could be delayed until 2009 for all we know.
Do you live in an area where AT&T has 3G network access?
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Is there any way to save audio attachments from multimedia messages or text messages as ringtones so I can set them to specific contacts on the iphone 3gs??
You have to create iphone ringtones.
There are many free ways to do this. Google will find them.
Click Support and the top of this page, then Manuals, then iphone user guide to find the manual, or look at your bookmarks on the iphone. -
I have an iphone and i was sending a multimedia message and all of a sudden the phone turned off and will not turn back on. We have been charging it for almost half an hour or more and it still hasn't turned on. How do we fix it?
Wine, were you charging over the USB Connection or AC Power? We've found in our organization that at times not enough power is generated over USB to recharge it in situations like this...I quote from the email of a fellow technician that i just received today...
I’ve had a couple of users up here bring their iPhones to me so dead that the phone was unresponsive, no matter what we did. One thing that many people do not realize is that the iPhone (iOS devices in general) have power management in them. The power management appears to be set up so that the device will not power on at all until the battery is at a certain minimum level. If the user will plug the device into the power adapter, not a USB port on a computer (laptops especially), and leave it for about an hour, maybe longer, the device will come back to life.
The reason I say they have to use the power adapter is because the USB port is not high enough power to bring the charge up fast enough for the battery to come back out of “hibernation”.
Each time I have had the users do the power adapter plug in, and leave it for a couple of hours, the devices have come back to life
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I use a Samsung Brightside and I have this problem for a while already. When I receive a multimedia message and try to download it, I get "message receipt failed". Sometimes I receive the messages with no problem, and I don't have any problems sending multimedia messages at all, I just have a problem receiving them. Most of the time the message receipt would fail which has been making me frustrated. I have looked online for any solutions and had no luck at all. It was recommended for me to switch over to using a smartphone, but I don't want to because I use an iPod touch that almost does everything that an iPhone does and it saves me a bunch of money. I tried to restore my phone and reset everything and still the issue is still occurring.
I am paying all this money for 'unlimited data,' and yet my data is being limited.
SMS & MMS are not part of data access over a cellular network and cost money if one goes over their messaging allowance where email does not. The data exchange involved with sending and receiving email is included with unlimited data which costs all of $20/mo and includes 200 SMS which is the most reasonable by far unlimited data plan made available by any provider in the U.S. for any phone in the smart phone category. There is a 300KB or less message size limit with no such small message size limit with the exchange of email. All other phones need to catch up with this capability.
It undermines and insults every Iphone/Apple customer who are the ones to thank for promulgating the company's success.
For you and some others but not for me and definitely not for ALL iPhone owners which you don't and can't begin to speak for nor can anyone else. I rarely if ever used MMS with any previous cell phone - primarily because I wasn't interested in seeing a mediocre quality photo at best captured by a cell phone and viewed on a tiny little screen which wasn't the best either. -
Multimedia Messaging anytime soon?
I don't currently have an iPhone but am going to be getting one soon, however I would really like being able to send (not using some e-mail workaround) and receive (without having to go through that whole viewmymessages.com thing and actually get it in the message) multimedia messages and being able to store them in the iPhone's photos folder. I was wondering if anybody has any idea if Apple is working on implementing this into the iPhone in an updated version or something. I am willing to wait a while for one with this, but would like to know if this is even being worked on. Anybody know anything? Same question about taking pictures from the iPhone's Safari and saving them into the Photos folder, that would be nice too... Thank you...
Mr. OHYEAH1213
I would like to inform you that the reason that the iPhone currently does not support MMS messaging is that ATT use of Flash for their MMS messages. I do not know if you are aware but Adobe and Apple have been butting heads over getting flash onto the iPhone because Adobe does not feel the need to make a special version of said product just because it happens to run poorly on the iPhone. Apple's case is quality control, which means Apple refuses to have software on the iPhone that would make the phone's user experience sub-apple-standard.
The SDK for the iPhone was let out months ago so it will be all in good time before we see anything resembling MMS messaging on the iPhone.
I may suggest you to http://www.pktpix.com/how.html this site tells you how to email any friends cellar phone ( even if they do not have email on their phone ) and through this email a text message will be sent to your friend's cell phone with a link to download the picture message you have sent.
I myself have had small luck with this site but the few times it has work makes it worth trying for anyone.
Best of Luck to us All! -
Saving Multimedia messages!!! Bottom line you just cant!
Im sure most people have noticed when reciving a multimedia message on the iPhone you get a text message saying:
"I sent you a multimedia message. You can view my message via the internet at viewmymessage.com using Msg ID xxxxxxxxx Password xxxxxxxx" Well 1st of all that kinda ***** but the worst part of all is once you go to the site, login, see the picture, and then decide you like it and want to save it it doesn't matter if your on your iPhone or home computer! YOU CAN'T!!! Talked to the people at both apple and AT&T and got the same answer from both people and that was as of right now that there is no way for me to save that picture and that I should go on apple.com and leave a message about this and apple.com is check multiple times a day! So maybe sometime in the maybe near future changes will be made and I would b able to save that picture I really wanted to keep, but wait that not all!
So, I figured I would just save the message, logon ID, and password till maybe when I would be able to save it....Oh forget that idea the message EXPIRES IN 7 DAYS!!!
So what I got out of all this is that after that point I am just kinda F%$@ed out of being able to keep a important picture to me that I wanted!
Apple & AT&T lets please see some changes to this soon!
It would have been great to jump on my home computer, go to the the website, login, see the pic, right click that pic, and save it! Really simple I thought, but I guess not!
Thanks BI think he's referring to the phone itself, as opposed to the computer.
Anyhow, I don't think this was built with the intention of saving things directly on the phone. To me, the iPhone was built as a synchronization tool, so that things would synchronize to it as opposed to users downloading to it directly. Just think about the security issues this creates! I think it was designed to make the iPhone more secure. -
Multimedia messaging, ringtones, and sounds
I have two questions actually. First is, why, when I receive a text from someone who has attached a photo to it do I NEED to go to "viewmyphotos.com" to see it. Why is it that iphone doesn't have the ability to reveive texts with photo attachments. Also, when I want to send a photo to someone else, I have to email it to them. What happens if that person doesn't have an email account?
Secondly, I am extremely frustrated at apple's inability to allow songs other than those "purchased" through itunes to be used as a ringtone for the iphone. I don't understand why, if I already have the song on my computer, whether it be from a CD or just in my music library, I have to go and "buy" it again to use it as a ringtone.
Lastly, i also am disappointed in the fact that the sounds for the text messages, new mail, sent mail and such can not be altered. The phone is beautiful, but I've only had it 4 days and I am already disappointed in the lack of personalization.sara6,
Unfortunately it seems you suffer from, LRS. Lack of Research Syndrome. The iPhone does NOT support MMS (Multimedia Messaging) or Custom Ring tones. The iPhone has NEVER advertised that they do. When you bought the iPhone and asked a Apple/AT&T employee they would have also confirmed this for you.
The current thinking about the iTunes ring tones is you have to buy the song from Apple, to verify you did not illegally obtain a song, and then you have to pay 0.99 cents to turn it into a ring tone, that .99 cents is basically a licensing fee allowing you to use a portion of that song on a phone as a ring tone. There is a STRONG belief that this is a result of the Record Industry wanting more money for the songs they hold copyrights to.
Since you DID NOT do adequate research to find out if the phone was a good fit for you, I would advise (it being only 4 days and all) that you return the phone for a refund minus a 10-15% restocking fee and then buy a phone that fits your needs.
Good luck for your future purchases. -
Why am I charged for Iphone group messages on my Droid?
Just receive my bill and was shocked to find over $100 in charges for text messages. I have a group of friends who all have I phones and they started a group message that I was added to as well. It seem that to Verizon these all show up as picture or video messages when sent to an Android OS phone. These type text messages were not part of my 1000 text allowance. Not very happy right now. When I called they offered only to block these type messages. Now I cannot receive group text messages from anyone. This is totally unacceptable. Shopping elsewhere.
edpowell67,
I understand how shocking that bill was, I've been there myself. We definitely want to clarify this to prevent it going forward. Messages from iPhone to iPhone when iMessages are powered on are not deducted from the messaging allowance you may have as they run through other servers. However, since not all in that group have iPhones, the one Android phone causes all messages to send as MMS(multimedia messages); since not all phones are compatible with iMessages. MMS are deducted from allowance http://vz.to/1kyWR3L
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When I get an SMS with multimedia content I get a message that sends me to a website and provides a complicated username and password. Without cut & paste or a link to the website, I find myself waiting till I'm near a PC to look at my message. Am I missing something?
SMS multimedia messages are called MMS.
Have the sender of the MMS address the MMS to an email address for an email account that you access with the iPhone's email client. Have the sender enter this email address in the To: field for the MMS.
The MMS will be received as an email with a photo attached to the message and you will have the sender's cell phone email address for sending this person an email with a photo attached. Address your email with photo attached to this email address and it will be received as an MMS. -
I just bought a new iphone 3GS and found out that I cannot send or receive pictures in my text messages as I could do with my previous provider. The website video says that I should be able to send and receive pictures via MMS, but I do not seem to be able to have this option when I open a pic from my phone. It will let me email them, but that is not what I wish to do. Can anyone help me.
According to a MacWorld article: "Later this summer, as part of the 3.0 software, AT&T will make multimedia messaging (MMS) available at no extra cost to customers with a text messaging bundle." http://www.macworld.com/article/141155/2009/06/attmms_will_be_available_at_no_extra_cost_if_you_havetext.html
It's included with OS 3.0, but not activated until available from AT&T.
"Turn MMS messaging on or off:
In Settings, tap Messages, then tap MMS Messaging to turn it on or off. You may want to turn MMS Messaging off, for example, to prevent sending or receiving attachments when fees apply.
NOTE: The MMS Messaging setting doesn’t appear if MMS isn’t supported by your carrier."
http://www.apple.com/iphone/how-to/#messages.sending-and-receiving-messages -
Multimedia messages,send and receive
Is there an application that you can get so that you can send and receive multimedia messages, ie ,pictures phone to phone.
This is one of the most common used items not to be able to do on that phone.You can accomplish this via email.
Ask the sender of an MMS to address the MMS to an email address for an email account that you access with your iPhone's mail client. The sender will enter your email address in the To: field for the MMS instead of entering your cell phone number with area code.
The MMS will be received by you as an email with the photo attached to the message. If you also access this email account with an email client on your computer, you will have access to the received photo on your computer as well.
This will give you the sender's cell phone MMS email address - included in the From field for the received email. Add this email address to the contact's info in your iPhone's address book.
Select a photo to be emailed and when addressing the email to the sender's cell phone MMS email address - placing it in the To: field, the email with the photo attached will be received as an MMS by the recipient. -
Unsupported multimedia messages!
Is there any fix to recieving this message? My husband has a phone that isn't a "smartphone" his is the flip phone. He receives messages from iphones my "smartphone" just says unsupported multimedia message. Do I have to give in and buy and iphone or will the droids fix this problem?
That is very likely, Kay-pea!
I know you want to be able to view the messages on your Droid Pro. You should have someone try to send a picture in email form to see if it can be read that way, but normally it is a compatability issue.
Tamara H.
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i have a problem in my account every time i want to install application from app Store on my iphone a message shows that my Apple ID has been disabled, i creat a new password and still that message shoes ,what is the problem ?can you help me please???!!!!
If your account is disabled then you might be able to re-enable it via this page : http://appleid.apple.com, then 'reset your password'
You might then need to log out of your account on your phone by tapping on your id in Settings > iTunes & App Store and then log back in so as to 'refresh' the account on it
If that doesn't fix it then you might need to contact iTunes Support : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page -
When I get n email from. Cell phone that's a picture the email says I have a multimedia message but, that's all. It won't show an attachment or anything. I've tried opening the email in adobe and everything. How can I get the attachment to show? Please help.
You did not get an email, you got a MMS. You have to enable MMS on your phone before you can see the picture.
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How do I make it so my phone can send Multimedia messages again? Samsung Intensity II
I'm not sure if this is even where I am supposed to post this, I've been having a few difficulties navigating around the site as it is, so my apologies if it is in the incorrect section or anything.
I have a Samsung Intensity II, and up until today it was perfectly fine. but now it wont send Multimedia messages anymore, I think I may have accidentally changed a setting on it some how. So far I haven't seen any other problems with it.
Every time I try to send a Multimedia message of any kind, to anyone, it will sort of freeze on the percentage sent bar, for about 5 or so minutes, and then it will continue through all the way to 100% pausing like that, and then say "send failed would you like to try again?"
I can receive Multimedia messages, and text messages, I can send text messages, but not multimedia messages. It fails every time.
I have turned my phone off and back on, I have removed the battery and put it back in, nothing has changed. actually about the only thing I've seen change since the first time it wouldn't send, is that it pauses on 29% instead of 19%.
If you can tell me what setting may have changed this, or another way for me to transfer my pictures, I would be very appreciative. Thank you for your time.Hi okikust,
I use picture messages all of the time! I understand why you would want this corrected as soon as possible. I would like to look at your account, in order to determine the root cause of the issue and fix it! Please send me a DM with your name, mobile number, and contact number. I will be happy to review this personally. Thanks!
Christina B
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