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iPhone 3.0 MMS enabled via carrier update file

very nice, too bad i have the first iphone. Lets pray new iphone will come out in June.
 
My username and password are blank too but it's working fine for me so it must be unrelated. Anyways just as an update it's been about a day and my mms is still working perfect after multiple resets
 
nordr said:
I'm curious to know more. I called ATT three times, and twice they confirmed that both WAP/Push was set up, that there were no blocks on my phone for MMS, and that I should be good to go. I used the IPCC file linked from mediashare. I then shift+clicked (windows here at work), restored that IPCC file to the phone, restarted... nothing. I can pop the iphone sim into my blackberry and send and receive MMS just fine though. I'm starting to this there's a problem with that IPCC file.

As an aside, I've noticed under Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data -> that i I set my APN and a user and password. the APN is wap.cingular and my user/pass are blank. Is that the problem?
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No, the username and password are supposed to be blank. I just got off the phone with AT&T and I am restarting my phone now. Let's see if it works...
 
mattroman246 said:
My username and password are blank too but it's working fine for me so it must be unrelated. Anyways just as an update it's been about a day and my mms is still working perfect after multiple resets
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What all did AT&T do for you? I had them switch my iPhone text plan to a regular unlimited plan. Is there something else that needs to be done?
 
Dear Mr. Aydin,

Thank you for taking the time to e-mail AT&T. I apologize for the
frustration you have encountered in attempting to activate your iPhone
line with the ability to send and receive MMS. My name is Christina
Harper, and I am happy to help you with this.

After reviewing your e-mails regarding this subject, I attempted to
reach you at XXX-XXX-XXXX and the home number on the account; I apologize that I was not able to reach you.

I understand that you are a developer and therefore Apple has already
released the 3.0 software upgrade to you; therefore at this time all you
need from AT&T is the ability to send and receive MMS. Our records show
that you have the $30 Family Unlimited Messaging plan, which includes
text, IM, and multimedia messages. However, the MMS portion of this
feature was not active for the iPhone lines. I have corrected this, now both of these lines do have the ability to send and receive picture messages.

Again, I apologize for the misunderstanding regarding your request.

Mr. Aydin, we greatly appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Please let us know if we can assist in any other way, and thank you for choosing AT&T.

Sincerely,

Christina Harper
AT&T
Online Customer Care Professional



That all sounds good right?
Somehow i still do not have MMS working.
 
Just got off the phone with AT&T for the second time. I am still not able to send or receive MMS. She even tried to send me a message and I didn't receive anything! This is weird... I can't even get the normal message telling me to go to the web!:confused::mad:
 
on the phone with ATT right now guy is like WHAT 3.0 IS OUT! im like yup only for devs tho :p hes like ohhhhh crap! hes saving some settings im gonna reset after its done with.

EDIT: ok I had someone send me a picture. No dice yet. Turned on and off airplane mode and MMS. SSSSSSTIL nothing! crap! what should I do.?
 
Well I have successfully sent a picture but have not received any yet. LOL Waiting for my lazy ass son to send me something...:rolleyes:
 
Gathomblipoob said:
Do you need the unlimited text plan to get MMS activated?
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you CAN NOT be on an iphone plan regardless of unlimited or not. you MUST switch to a NON iPhone text plan in order for it to work.

good news

my iPhone 1500 text plan was the same price as the non-iPhone text plan.

so no changes to my bill
 
not really sure what to do. Cant send MMS and havent received one either. :( had att change it to unlimited regular plan. and still nothing! any suggestions?
 
I'm starting to think there's something wrong with the IPCC as provided (I used the megaupload link), or the settings aren't getting updated on the phone when you apply it via iTunes.

I spent an hour on the phone with a competent, friendly, and dilligent Tier 2 guy who even brought in an engineer to take a look. He covered every possible scenario in which the iPhone might not be able to send or receive MMS'es. The device is provisioned, WAP/Push is enabled (because I'm not longer getting those stupid viewmymessage.com notifications anymore), and I'm on a family plan with unlimited messaging.

Can someone with the technical know-how please confirm that the IPCC provided is indeed correct?
 
A friend of mine had an MMS icon on his home screen on his iPhone, that was about a month ago, before official word of 3.0. The icon looked like the SMS icon but was red. I assumed it was because he was on a contract but I was on Pay As You Go. So when I heard that the iPhone didn't have MMS anyway I was baffled. I wonder if he secretly worked for Apple? haha.

Anyway this would for me be a significant update. I've never used MMS before, but now with the iPhone, there's been many occasions where I've wanted to a sent a photo to someone, then realise I can only do in mail.
 
nordr said:
I'm starting to think there's something wrong with the IPCC as provided (I used the megaupload link), or the settings aren't getting updated on the phone when you apply it via iTunes.

I spent an hour on the phone with a competent, friendly, and dilligent Tier 2 guy who even brought in an engineer to take a look. He covered every possible scenario in which the iPhone might not be able to send or receive MMS'es. The device is provisioned, WAP/Push is enabled (because I'm not longer getting those stupid viewmymessage.com notifications anymore), and I'm on a family plan with unlimited messaging.

Can someone with the technical know-how please confirm that the IPCC provided is indeed correct?
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If you are a developer (and you should be if you are messing with this) you should be able to pull up a Console on Xcode or iPhone Configuration utility.

Turn off/on MMS in the Settings application, and it'll print out the diagnostic data on MMS to the console with the settings from your IPCC. If it's set right, you'll see the proper settings of MMSC.cingular.com for the MMSC.

But if you never got it to work, or had to reactivate your line with AT&T, I bet you'll also see 403 Forbidden Messages when trying to send or receive MMS messages on the Console. AT&T is actively blocking known activated iPhone accounts from the MSSC. Getting around this block requires to use another non-iPhone with MMS a few times and also enable My Media Net.
 
So I called up Rogers today and asked for the MMS settings. And this is what they gave me...

APN: media.com
Username: media
Password: mda01
Message Server: http://mms.gprs.rogers.com
IP Address: 172.25.0.107

What do I do with these settings? I know where to put the APN, Username and Password, but not the rest.

The Rogers tech person was clueless about 3.0 and she asked me all about it, we talked for about 10 mins about all the new features and she was so happy haha.
 
So now the MMS is working for some... I have a question. Do you know the charge rates for these. The AT&T guy told me he's not sure how it will work wether it would be part or the text / data plan or if we would pay the 30 cents or so for sending a picture... anyone know?
 
adameels said:
A friend of mine had an MMS icon on his home screen on his iPhone, that was about a month ago, before official word of 3.0. The icon looked like the SMS icon but was red. I assumed it was because he was on a contract but I was on Pay As You Go. So when I heard that the iPhone didn't have MMS anyway I was baffled. I wonder if he secretly worked for Apple? haha.

Anyway this would for me be a significant update. I've never used MMS before, but now with the iPhone, there's been many occasions where I've wanted to a sent a photo to someone, then realise I can only do in mail.
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Sounds like his phone was jailbroken.

I tried to get MMS enabled, I called ATT and the girl spoke with level 2 and they said they were not doing it anymore - "Its against our policy". :(
 
Mine was sending and getting mms last night. The posted pics are on the front page of macrumors and are in page 8 of this forum i think. This morning I tried sending and getting them but i get the ! now. I have reset my phone hard and soft and I got nothing. Very frustrating.
 
Help Please

Hello,

My account was updated by AT&T and now I need to update the file. I have downloaded the file, however need help with the process to update.

ANy help always apprecaited.
 
Go to your phone in iTunes.
There you should see check for update.
Make sure you hold option+click check for update.
Then browse for the ATT_US.ipcc file.
Click open. It should start updating and take like 5 seconds.
Then turn the phone off.
Turn it back on.
Tethering and MMS should work if the settings are correct on AT&T's side.
Hope this helps.
 
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