Poor Quality MMS fix?

[Guest vidler]

Gday everyone, I have been browsing alot of pages looking for a fix to my MMS problem, I can send and receive them fine, however when i snap a photo on my camera and then send it over to a MMS, it shrinks it down to a ridiculous 10-15kb. I've rooted my phone with the r6-desire-root-alt and then updated the Telstra A8183 ROM. I've got all my APN's correct and working great, and have confirmed its an issue on a stock Telstra desire.

Does anyone out there have and tips to increase the size of the actual pic i attach? My max mms size is 600kb so it seems a waste not to use it.

Cheers, Jay

[Guest Silvarbullit]

Gday everyone, I have been browsing alot of pages looking for a fix to my MMS problem, I can send and receive them fine, however when i snap a photo on my camera and then send it over to a MMS, it shrinks it down to a ridiculous 10-15kb. I've rooted my phone with the r6-desire-root-alt and then updated the Telstra A8183 ROM. I've got all my APN's correct and working great, and have confirmed its an issue on a stock Telstra desire.

Does anyone out there have and tips to increase the size of the actual pic i attach? My max mms size is 600kb so it seems a waste not to use it.

Cheers, Jay

I'd check the customisation files in the Telstra A8183 ROM aren't being overwritten by a Titanium backup restore after you do the flash.

I had some fun and games with TB overwriting the /system/customize/MNS (and CID) default.xml from an older non-telstra fix ROM which kept changing the user-agent back to A8181 which causes the crap quality MMS. Simple way to check is to check your user-agent string on one of those "what is my user agent" type sites. (heaps of them if you google that string).. if its still A8181 then theres the problem.

Once I flashed with muskies 8183 fixed ROM and then very selectively restored the important stuff with TB (mainly just sms and a couple of apps), everything started working properly.

Alternatively you could try pushing the two default.xml files from the kitchen file zip again through ADB in recovery mode to see if that fixes.

Another big F*(! YOU to Telstra for being such pricks with their MMSC profiles.

Edited July 10, 2010 by Silvarbullit

[Guest spammyspam]

I've not tested this, but apparently you have the same problem with O2 in the UK. A solution given to that was to use something like Handcent to spoof your user agent to an iPhone or something. Perhaps try that?

[Guest vidler]

I'd check the customisation files in the Telstra A8183 ROM aren't being overwritten by a Titanium backup restore after you do the flash.

I had some fun and games with TB overwriting the /system/customize/MNS (and CID) default.xml from an older non-telstra fix ROM which kept changing the user-agent back to A8181 which causes the crap quality MMS. Simple way to check is to check your user-agent string on one of those "what is my user agent" type sites. (heaps of them if you google that string).. if its still A8181 then theres the problem.

Once I flashed with muskies 8183 fixed ROM and then very selectively restored the important stuff with TB (mainly just sms and a couple of apps), everything started working properly.

Alternatively you could try pushing the two default.xml files from the kitchen file zip again through ADB in recovery mode to see if that fixes.

Another big F*(! YOU to Telstra for being such pricks with their MMSC profiles.

I've had a look at a Desire straight out of the box from telstra and its the same. So it may just come down to the big F you... Will see what i can scrape up. If I manage to fix it I'll post up what I've done.

Jay

[Guest vidler]

Righto downloaded the Handcent app and it works a treat. MMS size is up to 250kb, good quality screen sized pic.

[Guest Silvarbullit]

Righto downloaded the Handcent app and it works a treat. MMS size is up to 250kb, good quality screen sized pic.

This works for receiving them too?

I can't receive MMS more than 49kb using chompsms or the built in messaging app without using a Telstra hack ROM.

If I use anything else other than that all the MMS I get suck. Sending doesnt seem to be a problem.. just receiving.

[Guest _Dejan_]

Is there any fix for HTC MMS application that allow you send MMS file big up to 2MB???

And also sending pictures in original size(not resized and big 8-15kB)???

[Guest Silvarbullit]

Is there any fix for HTC MMS application that allow you send MMS file big up to 2MB???

And also sending pictures in original size(not resized and big 8-15kB)???

I doubt most telephone providers will let you send 2MB mms files, I'd say maybe 1MB max because alot of phones probably won't handle files that big.

Handsent doesnt make any difference for me. Was playing with the r4 Froyo 2.2 for sense and couldn't get anything more than 10-20kb received.

Noticed the /system/customize folder is back on the r4 froyo so tried playing with the files in the customize folder to make them similar to the 2.1 Telstra files - didn't make any difference. UA didn't even change, really must be hard coded and the stuff in customize is just a hangover from the eclair build.

[Guest _Dejan_]

I doubt most telephone providers will let you send 2MB mms files, I'd say maybe 1MB max because alot of phones probably won't handle files that big.

Handsent doesnt make any difference for me. Was playing with the r4 Froyo 2.2 for sense and couldn't get anything more than 10-20kb received.

Noticed the /system/customize folder is back on the r4 froyo so tried playing with the files in the customize folder to make them similar to the 2.1 Telstra files - didn't make any difference. UA didn't even change, really must be hard coded and the stuff in customize is just a hangover from the eclair build.

My provider allow sending MMS with size up to 2MB... And in HSDPA network this is not big problem(you can send it very quick)...