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Update and then reboot your phone, kids.
02:59PM Friday Sep 25 2009 by Karl Bode
tags: hardware · bandwidth · AT&T · wireless · AT&T Wireless Broadband
As noted earlier this week, this a big day for AT&T, and everybody involved in finally bringing MMS functionality to the iPhone is worried about the strain today's launch will have on the network. Insiders involved in the launch tell Broadband Reports AT&T expects usage to surge on their network today to the tune of 40%, as users tinker with the new functionality. AT&T's announced the launch over at the Facebook page, which notes MMS will only work for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users, but not for original iPhone users:
To enable MMS messaging, connect your iPhone to your computer and click “Check for Update” in iTunes. Once the update is completed, restart your iPhone by turning it off then on again. Note that iPhone OS 3.1 is required so you may need to update your software first. NOTE: MMS messaging is only available for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Original iPhone customers will continue to use www.viewmymessage.com to receive picture
SMS/MMS bundle pricing does not change: AT&T's $20 unlimited, 1500 for $15 or 200 for $5 still applies. Note that if you aren't signed up for a bundle SMS/MMS plan, you'll pay thirty cents to both send and receive video or picture messages, up from the twenty cents you'll pay just to send or receive a text message.

Our update was smooth as silk, with an iTunes and carrier update taking collectively less than a minute (albeit over our fiber connection). Let us know how the update went for you and if you see any network issues in our comment section below. Or, if you're not an iPhone fan, laugh at all the nerd jubilation over a fundamental wireless technology most people have been enjoying for years.

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jpboss

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Worked perfectly

Worked perfectly. Folks will complain that it's not working because they don't reboot the phone though I am sure. Already sent a test pic and works great.

HappyBunny
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Re: Worked perfectly

Has been working for months on T-Mobile with an iPhone. How funny is it that the company who does NOT sell the iPhone had full functionality before the one that did?
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Re: Worked perfectly

said by HappyBunny See Profile :

Has been working for months on T-Mobile with an iPhone. How funny is it that the company who does NOT sell the iPhone had full functionality before the one that did?
It has been working on AT&T as well, if you use the same level of hacks you used to make your iPhone work on T-Mobile.

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Re: Worked perfectly

I suspect that they were 'holding it back' until they finished those 850MHz overlays in San Fran, NYC, Denver, Atlanta, etc. so that it wouldn't be occurring at/around the same time as the service was being hacked up (many complaints already), or earlier (just crappy service).
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Re: Worked perfectly

Denver hasn't been done yet. Sometime in October is the ETA...

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Re: Worked perfectly

I've seen a lot of 'complaints' on »forums.wireless.att.com about the Denver area... I'm not surprised on the complaints. 3G was useless in the L.A. area when it was 1900MHz only, more calls dropped than successful.

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said by gopnick See Profile :

said by HappyBunny See Profile :

Has been working for months on T-Mobile with an iPhone. How funny is it that the company who does NOT sell the iPhone had full functionality before the one that did?
It has been working on AT&T as well, if you use the same level of hacks you used to make your iPhone work on T-Mobile.
You mean, unlocking the phone and that's it?
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MRCUR

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Re: Worked perfectly

I was under the impression you had to change the network settings as well in order for mobile data to work? (Which is essentially what you had to do on AT&T to enable MMS.)

HappyBunny
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Re: Worked perfectly

You just have to enter in the same network information that you would have on any T-Mobile branded phone, as the iPhone is not set up for T-Mobile, of course. You do not need SwirlyMS or any special hack.
clickie

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Re: Worked perfectly

Don't you have a tea party to attend?
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Re: Worked perfectly

I want the Repubican back in power i shorted a lot of stocks and I am losing my shirt with the stock market going up. You can not depend on the Republicans to do anything right.
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Ah, go easy on him, Florida is a pretty screwed up state, he can't help being grossly uninformed and overly political minded. Just ask him how he feels about his Senator Mel Martinez resigning his US Senate position, then taking a lobbyist job right away for big bucks. Once again, the revolving door of corruption, with Florida carrying the flag.

aztecnology
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Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...

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Re: Worked perfectly

said by aztecnology See Profile :

Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...
Yes, but that has been known since they first added MMS support to the OS. Didn't they give original iPhone users a contract offer to upgrade to the new hardware a while back?

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Re: Worked perfectly

said by cbrigante2 See Profile :

said by aztecnology See Profile :

Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...
Yes, but that has been known since they first added MMS support to the OS. Didn't they give original iPhone users a contract offer to upgrade to the new hardware a while back?
I call bullshit, because it asked me to do the carrier update yesterday for both of our iphones...
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said by aztecnology See Profile :

Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...
MMS was never advertised as a selling point for the original phone. Not Apple's fault. There's always something better just around the corner, such is technology.
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Re: Worked perfectly

said by GilbertMark See Profile :

said by aztecnology See Profile :

Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...
MMS was never advertised as a selling point for the original phone. Not Apple's fault. There's always something better just around the corner, such is technology.
Sure, it wasn't advertised, but it's Apple's fault that it was never implemented in the first place.
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Re: Worked perfectly

said by Gbcue See Profile :

said by GilbertMark See Profile :

said by aztecnology See Profile :

Mine didn't work, thanks for supporting original iPhone users...
MMS was never advertised as a selling point for the original phone. Not Apple's fault. There's always something better just around the corner, such is technology.
Sure, it wasn't advertised, but it's Apple's fault that it was never implemented in the first place.
Agreed, anyone who's owned a iPod knows that Apple loves to enable features in their new products that are perfectly compatible with older hardware, but they use it to tease/force people to upgrade.

Case in point, Mac Pro's are perfectly capable of being upgraded, especially graphics cards, yet Apple only provides upgrades so as long as they did not have a newer product to sell you. They foolishly think that a user will pay another 2k+ for a new mac pro just so he can get the latest graphics cards, I did the math and it was cheaper to build the latest PC for about 1500 soup to nuts. So while I still have the Mac Pro, I do not count on it for upgrading while my PC has already been upgraded a few times as needed.

At least Microsoft and Linux have one good thing in common. They leave you the ability to adjust your hardware as needed. Apple just leaves a burning hole in your pocket as they see fit.
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up next

third party app support.

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Re: up next

said by bender See Profile :

third party app support.
Never gonna' happen lol, it's Apple.

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Re: up next

said by Gbcue See Profile :

said by bender See Profile :

third party app support.
Never gonna' happen lol, it's Apple.
It already has happened. It's called jailbreaking.
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said by Gbcue See Profile :

said by bender See Profile :

third party app support.
Never gonna' happen lol, it's Apple.
It already has happened. It's called jailbreaking.
That's also voiding the warranty.
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submrge

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Re: up next

there is not reason NOT to jailbreak the iphone. apple has that device locked down so tight they give us no choice.

and if i ever have a hardware problem and need to take it to the apple store, a simple restore does the trick.

when the "genius" asks me why i had recently restored the phone? "it kept restarting on it's own so I tried that so see if it would work" lol

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Works on 3.0.1 jailbroken iPhone.

Using the 5.1 IPCC file, can send and receive MMS's now plus I can still tether.

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The unofficial ipcc worked for me and 3 others.

No one here was prompted to install any updates. I did however go online to appleiphoneschool.com article on how to enable mms. I got the ipcc file from there and put it on 4 iPhones today and it works great. Two of them are on 3.1 while mine and my buddies is on 3.0.

Now I wonder if they count as regular txt messages, or are they priced per mms?

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Re: The unofficial ipcc worked for me and 3 others.

They're included in regular SMS pricing plans. But if you're not on a bundle plan, video/pic messages per message (both send and receive) is thirty cents, up from twenty cents for just text messages.

eatsheit

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iphone

i hope all your jailbroken phones break and your warrenty is voided...you nerds

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said by eatsheit :

i hope all your jailbroken phones break and your warrenty is voided...you nerds
Jealous much?
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said by eatsheit :

i hope all your jailbroken phones break and your warrenty is voided...you nerds
I guess you "upgraded" to 3.1 before you realize it broke you jailbreak....
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said by eatsheit :

i hope all your jailbroken phones break and your warrenty is voided...you nerds
I guess you "upgraded" to 3.1 before you realize it broke you jailbreak....
You most likely hit the nail on the head.
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Worked fine here...

I rebooted and all went well. The initial MMS I sent did seem to take a while (about 35-40 seconds) but I have serious network issues in my area so I'm not surprised.

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Re: Worked fine here...

said by gigahurtz See Profile :

I rebooted and all went well. The initial MMS I sent did seem to take a while (about 35-40 seconds) but I have serious network issues in my area so I'm not surprised.
no issues in my area - even crossing carriers (att to vzw).
installed the 5.1ipcc to my jb'd 3gs. all works well.

q.

[edit]the real test will be when i step foot on the asu campus. will report what happens there.
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Yay

Works fine here....

Gbcue
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Saturday

I can probably expect the AT&T network to go down Friday night (party time) and all of Saturday .
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we are all idiots

I admit that I am happy that I now have MMS. But I should be mad that it has taken AT&T and Apple this long to bring us functionality that every other smart phone already has.

We, iPhone users are idiots. There I said it.

Now if you will excuse me I need to send people stupid photos because I now can.

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Re: we are all idiots

wow, there are others that think like me...I think I love you

Cheddarhead
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Network Failure Prediction

I predict a catastrophic AT&T network failure about 23:32:03 when all the fan boys start posting drunken videos of each other MMS'in
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Re: Network Failure Prediction

Rebooted twice on my 3GS. Still no option to send message as MMS. Still cannot uplaod to Facebook mobile either.

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said by bn1221 See Profile :

Rebooted twice on my 3GS. Still no option to send message as MMS. Still cannot uplaod to Facebook mobile either.
You installed the carrier update, correct?
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Talked to an AT&T tech earlier. I was getting a data plan changed on a Blackberry & we got to talking about the I-phone & MMS launch this morning. This was about 3:30 this evening & he said they had only person to call in with a problem. But they got it taken care of & it had been smooth sailing ever since. That's here in NE LA. So far it's went more smoothly than they were really expecting.

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said by KSUJace See Profile :

I predict a catastrophic AT&T network failure about 23:32:03 when all the fan boys start posting drunken videos of each other MMS'in
Huh?

RShacklefrd

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Weird stuff going on

Did the update. Rebooted my phone and now I keep getting messages that read, "Matthew Verbin It's 3:00" Anybody else getting this? Did my phone get hacked?
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Picture Compression

My iPhone updated just fine. Whenever I send pics to another AT&T # the pic is the same. However, when I send a pic to a T-Mobile # the image is blurry and seems to be compressed. Whenever a pic is sent from that same T-Mobile # to my AT&T # their image is received just as it was sent. Is this a T-Mobile or AT&T problem?

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mms

Well i got it sent a few pics to people no responses and nobody in the same room as me got them yet, that was 10 mins ago

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Re: mms

Welcome to 2003 Apple fanbois and Iphone users!!

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said by toddbs98 See Profile :

Welcome to 2003 Apple fanbois and Iphone users!!
This is a revolutionary feature brought exclusively to iPhone users by AT&T and Apple.
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Re: mms

You mean the 'king of media'?

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said by toddbs98 See Profile :

Welcome to 2003 Apple fanbois and Iphone users!!
And apparently AT&T.
Mons00n1

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Well ok but...

Updated, rebooted, selected image to test....

Sending hits about 90% then fails

Tried to send images to both AT&T and AllTel both with the same result.
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Re: Well ok but...

I also read that I should have a new option under the Settings->Network->Cellular Data Network

I don't see this BUT I do have the camera button in Messages

Power cycled again with no change....

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Re: Well ok but...

said by Mons00n1 See Profile :

I also read that I should have a new option under the Settings->Network->Cellular Data Network

I don't see this BUT I do have the camera button in Messages

Power cycled again with no change....
I went from 5.1 to the file released today, 5.5 and I lost the Cellular Data Network option. It's gone.
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Re: Well ok but...

Ah thanks. Guess I just need to wait! No problem.

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work great

Updated, rebooted, tested a mms.... works great !
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Ain't workin

I'm getting failures as well here in Austin
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Re: Ain't workin

said by NHTracker See Profile :

I'm getting failures as well here in Austin
.. same here.. 3 phones in the house and they're all failing at about 90%.
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Re: Ain't workin

Just talked to ATT.. some phones don't have the proper provisioning on them for MMS.. if you can't send a message, you have to call them, they'll push a new configuration to the phone and it will work.

They said about 1 to 5% of phones have this problem.
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Prices are absurd

That's neat and all, but those (sms/mms) prices are nuts.

You'd think that after a plan, and a data plan, mms would just be freaking free.
Incoming ought to at least be free.
If it isn't, can you decline to accept messages, or must you call them and have it blocked completely?

At least my carrier allows incoming sms/mms for free (U.S. Cellular), though their lack of 3g is disheartening. Don't have a data plan though, so it really doesn't matter to me very much; my phone/sms/mms service is fine

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Re: Prices are absurd

I totally agree. I think if you spend 30.00 on a data plan; the text/mms should be free. Text messages cost AT&T nothing. That's right. You heard me. NOTHING AT ALL. They are making boatloads of money on text messages.

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Re: Prices are absurd

I couldn't agree more. This is why I end up getting something with email. If I have a data package, why use text if I can use email and not have to pay extra.
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Re: Prices are absurd

I agree also. It's extortion not unlike paying high monthly fees for caller ID or call waiting on a landline.

Now that I have push IM, I can nearly get rid of texting altogether.
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were not paying anything extra for MMS. if you have a text plan its technically free. However if your saying texting in general should be free then yes your right but that goes for any carrier and i'm not talking about a sign up deal either.

for those saying it gets stuck at around 90%, it isn't getting stuck. it has to compress the message then it sends the message in packets more than likely. takes a minute. ever send a MMS message on a regular phone? its not instant there either. if it takes over a min or so then i stand corrected.

kevdawg

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MMS Fails

Updated, tried MMS, gets to 90%, then fails. typical AT&T!!

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Jailbroken Iphones

Just in case you guys with jailbroken phones don't feel like redoing everything, here is an official shortcut to just enable mms without updating anything else.
»forums.macrumors.com/showthread.···t=792894
MRCUR

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Worked for me...

Took all of 30 seconds to do the update, then 30 mins to run a backup and sync (that really needs to be fixed). Rebooted and the camera icon was still there (I had been using an IPCC file from GearLive).

Everything is working just fine. I couldn't receive from anyone off the AT&T network with the hacked file, so it's nice seeing it really working now.
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