RSSMMS for iPhone goes live, thousands stop complaining
By Tim Conneally | Published September 25, 2009, 2:49 PM
As AT&T promised, iPhone 3G and 3G S users today gained the ability to send Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages.
To enable MMS, users must first have iPhone OS 3.1 installed, and then the AT&T carrier update v5.5 which is installed through iTunes. Once the update is in place, phones must be rebooted, and then the Messages app will feature a camera icon in the lower left corner, which triggers multimedia messages to be sent.
For users of the original iPhone, MMS cannot be natively sent or received. However, AT&T has a service which sends users a standard text message with a link to Viewmymessage.com, where messages can be viewed for up to 7 days on non-MMS compatible, but Web-enabled, phones.
Apple also warns that the Messages application does not support sending or receiving MMS content over Wi-Fi connections, so if you're on a slower EDGE or GPRS connection, you'll just have to wait for your MMS to be sent. Of course, Apple says you can still send pictures through Mail over Wi-Fi as a workaround to slower connections or poor coverage.
Yah too bad Apple's 3.1 software is a steaming pile of crap. Lets see it locks up several times a day whenever I try to bring it out of standby mode.(I push the button and nothing will happen, and the screen stays off) The only way to fix this is to reset it by holding both buttons. This is not just me because everyone I have talked to with an Iphone is having this problem. Also for some reason sometimes the alarms I have turned on don't go off and the ones I have turned off do go off. So way to completely botch your software Apple.
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|Thousands may have stopped complaining about sending picture messages but not for being stuck on AT&T.
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|Congratulations! You've got technology which was useful 3 years ago at last!
These days we have these things called "email-attachments".
I hear they're quite good at doing exactly the same thing, only cheaper over WiFi.
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|amen to that. Unlimited Email is no extra charge on my iPhone. I hate how you can not cancel instant messaging service on AT&T though, at least i could on Verizon. I hate having people send me text messages since i have to pay. SEND AN EMAIL!
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|do these "e-mail attachments" appear instantly on other users' phones?
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|ok, I updated... works great! I have a 3g, not 3gs so the only diff is that it will only let you fWD a video clip that has been mmsed to you via mms... but you cant "create new mms" and include saved video clip..sucks I know!!
workaround is using cycorder on 3g record video clip and use "ifile" to attach video clip using email using receipients mms addres (xxx-xxx-xxxx@mms.att.net)
so if you bought a 3g 4 weeks before the 3gs was released, dont worry about 3gs.. just jail break your 3g and wahlaa!! cycorder+ifile= send video clips
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|i've had mms capability for a few months now on the iphone 3g with no added programs necessary. the only thing i had to do was unlock it so it no longer tied to at&t and run it on t-mobile's network. mms on the 3.0 firmware with a 3g, no updates necessary.
at&t is an embarassment for needing not only a software update but a carrier update as well for mms on an iphone. the sooner they lose exclusivity the better for everyone.
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|My carrier update did nothing for me. I reverted back to the 5.1 carrier file and it works. WTH?
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|"For users of the original iPhone, MMS cannot be natively sent or received. However, AT&T has a service which sends users a standard text message with a link to Viewmymessage.com, where messages can be viewed for up to 7 days on non-MMS compatible, but Web-enabled, phones."
LMFAO... thank god us 3g/3gs users will never have to see that link again!!!!!
good news for all your oldschool iphone users... SWIRLYMMS has your back run to Cydia now ;-)
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|Or you could just use activatemms2g. in enables the built in mms functionality on the 2g. (download thru cydia, must be jailbroken to make it work.)
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|oh thats right! nice, so there is 2 options for 2g folks
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