XA2 SFOS 5.0.0.72
French operator SFR
Increasingly often, my MMS (pictures but also long text) are redirected to my operators website where I have to go with a browser to see the received MMS.
I receive for that an SMS with the URL and password.
Sometimes MMS work and I can receive e.g. a picture.
I’m looking to understand why this happens.
Is there is something I can do to avoid that?
Thanks for your lights
I would start with Messages app settings. There is an MMS section in there, where you can set upper limit of the MMS message.
Surely that is for sending?
Well, the wording does not indicate this. But you may as well be very right.
In Germany with Vodafone this is the default behaviour since years. There’s no more real MMS. Everything gets directed to a Vodafone website.
This might be different with other providers, though.
MMS is fading out. Like 2 and 3G.
That’s how MMS works. An MMS is basically just an e-mail with some strange encoding of the headers (WBXML). The phone gets an SMS with download details to pull an e-mail via HTTP. To make those e-mails billable, they put the HTTP servers behind a different APN to make it impossible to download the content from an arbitrary PC connected to the internet.
IMAP IDLE is far superior and with current contracts it’s pointless to keep using MMS.
That’s something one controls only on one’s end. It’s the society that decides whether we receive MMS or not.
I agree MMS is a pain. But it’s like a tile that has fallen from a roof. When it’s on your head, too late.
Thanks for the thoughts anyway.
The strange thing is, that if I send an SMS from the senders operator (FREE->SFR) with an old Iphone, it works.
From the same operator (SFR->SFR), it works.
My friend has an recent Android, which is perhaps sending as RCS or whatever.
And he can’t recall not to send pictures via MMS nor he can dive into parameters.
Well… I’ll live with it.
edit: Don’t suggest me to tell him to change for SFOS. I had convinced him and he tried for 2 years or so.
I never saw a so buggy malfunctioning device in my whole life even though he had the same device as mine, with the same SFOS(mine is near perfect).
Some people must have waves/wibes with tech…
Yes. Positions here vary a lot. In Germany and Switzerland MMS are nearly gone. Usage in the Netherlands and Scandinavia is minimal and most most markets SMS is a niche product. Only USA and Canada seem to rely on MMS as a means of communication between actual individuals.
My complete MMS experience happens on a yearly basis at my birthday with a friend using an iPhone.
It could be that the operator decides that the particular message is too big for you to receive over MMS. The message size option on the SFOS side only affects sending.
I don’t think so, as also a text message (longer than the standard SMS but not so huge) was sent to the web portal.
The phone itself can send a text message over some length as MMS as well.
It’s not necesarilly about operator’s technical inabilities to do so. They may as well be backing off from supporting the feature and/or punishing/discouraging users for using it over ie. RCS. I would not be surprised if they were financially interested in doing so.
Hello,
I have the same issue, with probably the same configuration: FRANCE, SFR, C2.
I had MMS issues until I rechecked if my operator MMS settings matched with phone MMS settings. Rarely in use but it does work flawlessly after that.
Thanks,
Was it randomly happening too. Or systematically?
Actually, all parameters seem correct.
Out of the protocol which of I’m not sure and don’t find the info: IP(V4?), IPV6 or DUAL.
It was on IP, I’ll try on DUAL but I’m really not sure it’s related.
I received them fine but sending always stopped with an error.