MMS failing to send?

[Guest Drift3r]

Hello,

I've been unable to send an MMS on my SPV yet. I haven't a clue why so I'll post my current settings (UK) below to see if it's different with yours.

All that happens is that after choosing a mate to send a photo to and click send, the animated picture appears indicating the phone is trying to send is, but the follwoing error message appears:

alert - Failed to send message! Message was moved to Draft Folder.

Under Settings -> Data Connections

Internet Connection - Automatic

WAP Connection - Automatic

then -> Edit Connections -> GPRS Connections -> Orange MMS

Connects to - Orange MMS

Access Point - orangemms

Username -

Password -

All other settings are blank.

Under Programs -> Accessories -> MMS Setup

IP - 192.168.224.10

Port - 9201

Mmsc Address - mms.orange.co.uk

all other blank

My GPRS connection works fine yet I thought MMS's are sent using this, but it still won't work. I've double check my mate is MMS capable.

Cheers for any help!

[Guest Drift3r]

One more thing, I don't know if this is a bug, but has anyone ever tried sending a text message that failed and then found it incredibly awkward to send it again because the message is stored in sent items?

[Guest samarasdim]

i have the same problem

i have the same settings

Orange told me that i the mms are not cross network availible yet but i I cant sent neither to an email address nor to myself. ;)

Please someone help or post his settings

thanks in advance

[Guest Stef]

I've experienced this many a time. All I do is re-try it and eventually it sends!

Not too pleased with MMS really, cross network doesnt (as mentioned) work and it takes an age occasionally to get it to send.

MMS taking over SMS? My Ass! ;)

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

All but one of my mates have picture messaging enabled phones, and he's on Vodaphone so i couldn't sned him messages anyway. I think once e-mail integration with mobile phones becomes more widespread the need for MMS and SMS will be lost.

A nice try at generating a bit more revenue by the service proiders, but i think it's probably a lost cause imho.

[Guest dbcohen]

I sent an MMS camera image from my phone to my home email account. It arrived after seven days!!

[Guest angeleyes]

i also haven't been able to send mms to email add - drop down menu appears i go to the name and select it (this person has no mob no.) and it doesn't appear on the send to column. i've tried typing it in manually and sending it but it won't send still :cry:

i've also had problems when trying to send sms as the person above - it just goes to outbox and i can't forward it - i have to re-write :?

thanks

[Guest Tyrant_worm]

Not sure how finicky ths side is as I have not had a decent eff about, but these are my settings and I can send.

Internet connection= Orange GPRS, the O/S goes searching for the best carrrier for the medium being sent if Auto is selected, give it as few options as possible.

In edit connections Orange MMS.

User name and password should be blank, but 0.0.0.0 should be entered into both DNS fields(I believe in I.P this is the equivalent of I have nowt, give me some! rather than blank)

In accessories Mms settings. I am as you are but the Mmsc address bar scrolls, the http:// part is required.

On inter-network sending. Due to still a relatively large proportion of GSM mobiles not being MMS compatible, it is required by the Mmsc to know whether to issue a WAP push for MMS retrieval or a legacy message is issued to the intended recipient. This is done when you subscriber to MMS.

Sending to e-mail - in all honesty i cannot remember the exact issue with this but I believe it relates to .smil, the file type used to play a multifile type message on an MMS handset, I think some mailservers view it as potentially hostile and quarantine it for seven days.

Slowly its getting added into mail servers as an accepted file type.

All this is just a precursor to CDMA take up when exchange of files will really kick off(for us country folk anyway).

Hope some of this helps . Oh just one more thing for the extravagant amongst you ;) Some recipient handsets cough on as little as 30kbytes, 50 should be considered large, MMS itself supports 100kbytes currently.