So … How is MMS on the iPhone Treating You?
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As a guy who rarely uses text messaging at all, and had never once used MMS before this weekend, I am about as filled with excitement about MMS on the iPhone as the dude in the picture above. But I realize it ‘s a huge deal for lots of iPhone users “ and I am very interested to see how the AT&T network copes now that it has finally been turned on.
So I tried it out briefly yesterday with a work colleague, and three out of four messages containing pics worked first time. I received one successfully, sent two successfully, and had one send failure. We were buzzing up I-35 at the time though, so 3G signal strength was a little variable.
Speaking of 3G coverage, I was on 3G a lot on my iPhone over the last few days because WiFi was stupid at the place we were staying while out of town (as in, it was always there, but it forgot your login details and forced a new login roughly every 10 minutes). I found 3G to be mostly solid and good during Friday (the day MMS on iPhone launched), Saturday, Sunday “ but for most of that time I was in a fairly small city.
So that ‘s been the extent of my experience with iPhone MMS and 3G coverage thus far since launch day.
How about you all? How are you finding MMS so far? Is it working well / not so well / terribly badly? And 3G coverage? Holding up well, or falling all over the place?
MMS – geeked to have it but bummed it only works about 70% for sending. When it does send it takes about a minute or two. Receiving I don't seem to have any issues.
3G – I'm still on EDGE in Mid-Michigan. We were told we were getting 3G before the end of summer – nothing yet.
I'm wondering, do we actually need MMS? I mean, I usually send an email. Just my two cents.
I have similar feelings toward it.. meh. I don't text or MMS that often, so it's never been a big loss but it is nice to see such a glaring technical hole filled. Welcome to 2005 iPhone!
That's my point. Everybody was complaining about how the iPhone lacked MMS functionality. Truth is, I never cared about it anyway. Copy & Past, absolutely! MMS? No need for it. We know how to email.
Now it's there, nobody seemt to care.
Is every one serious here. First poeple complain. Boohoo I don't have mms. Then you get it and you say oh I didn't want it anyways. But thanks for the hard work AT&T. You sound like a bunch of Fu#%!?# babies in here. I love mms. I hated telling poeple that had a 3 year old phone that is mms capable that yeah I have an iPhone, the most amazing phone in the world that can do anything your little heart desires. Oh but I can't send mms like a razr can. That was almost embarrassing to say. Now I have mms so in your face all you iPhone hatred. No other phone even cones close to the iPhone.
I can tell you straight away that I've never moaned or groaned or said anything about missing MMS in the past, as I have honestly never used the feature on any phone until this past weekend, and I have the impression several of the commenters here have similar feelings, so not sure where the accusations come flying from. Also, given the title and content of this site, where the heck do you get 'iPhone hatred'??? LOL.
What about people (such as myself) who haven't upgraded to 3.1 due to the lack of jailbreakability to their iPhone 3G[S]?
That's part of what we all learn to live with when jailbreaking I think. There are times – when Apple firmware updates are released – when we have to make choices about which is more important to us, new features or maintaining jailbreak. I still feel very, very confident that a jailbreak for 3.1 on the 3GS will come along soon enough.
You can still get MMS if you're on a 3G[s] and don't want to upgrade to 3.1 yet. You can get the official 5.5 AT&T carrier IPCC from apple's website, run a quick command to disable some of the iTunes restrictions, then shift-update in iTunes to add the IPCC to your phone.
The IPCC can be found here:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.i…
The instructions I followed can be found here:
http://www.techjawa.com/2009/09/25/guide-get-mms-…
One note, if you download the IPCC in IE, you will need to rename the file back to .ipcc instead of .zip. I think Safari also unpacks it automatically. Easiest to just use Firefox.
@patrickj: We'll have a 3.1 JB for sure. From all that I've read, the holes have been found, they're just working out the kinks. I'm honestly not in much of a hurry for 3.1. 3.0 is working great for me, none of the 'features' of 3.1 sound very useful, and I keep hearing all sorts of stories about 3.1 coma mode and battery life issues.
Unless of course you have friends/family like I do that can't email on the 'less tech' advanced cell phones. Then MMS is a must for me.
Good point. This has always been one of the biggest reasons why many were clamoring for it.
Never used it before but my sons like to send them. I prefer regular SMS or email. GV Mobile has been crashing on me lately when trying to send messages even with the latest update. MMS looks cool so now that it's available, I may give it a try.
Only as a last resort would I need MMS (no email or old phone) but I wasn't happy when I was unable. But for the most part I hardly ever need it. So, I don't have any purpose for it right now and no time to waste trying it but I'm glad its there.
That's a very good way to sum it up – I feel about the same.
Also, when I installed the custom carrier bundle @ 3.0 with the tethering hack, during AT&T troubleshooting for why the visual vms wasn't working, they removed the MMSBLOCK SOC from my acct so I've had it for quite some time.
Also, when I installed the custom carrier bundle @ 3.0 with the tethering hack, during AT&T troubleshooting for why the visual vms wasn't working, they removed the MMSBLOCK SOC from my acct so I've had it for quite some time
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So far it's working great for me…. The one thing that does stink is the town I live in only has EDGE, but everywhere else is 3G….. Other than running into an EDGE connection which takes forever to send through, it has been working pretty well. I like how it works with video, contacts, pictures, & even voice memos…. I just wish AT&T had their 3G network more widespread where I live…. To me that's more important.