MMS over WiFi - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

searched the whole site and couldn't find an answer, so here's hoping.
I can't seem to get a straight answer whether this is normal or not. But when I'm on 3g or 4g on my White Evo HW 0003 running Myns I receive MMS perfectly fine.
If I'm on WiFi and receive an MMS it'll say downloading and end up failing, if I kill the wifi connection it downloads the photo right away.
My wife has a stock Evo with no root or rom, and the latest build just like me . 3.30.651.3 and the same happens on hers. Only difference is, while on wifi she'll eventually (after about 20 minutes) receive the picture sent.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

there is no mms over wifi, it will turn on the 3g to download it even with wifi running and wont tell you. if you had mobile networking turned off and only ran wifi you wouldnt even get a text

NewZJ said:
there is no mms over wifi, it will turn on the 3g to download it even with wifi running and wont tell you. if you had mobile networking turned off and only ran wifi you wouldnt even get a text
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Really,
So the reason it worked in the past is because it would do it when it wanted? Well that's great

I'd question that one further.
I am only on 1x at home (airave) and WiFi. I've always had a problem getting picture/ MMS while on the airave+WiFi combo until recently. Now I am able to download and receive pictures from WiFi it seems.

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anyone can receive/send MMS while WIFI on?

im in nyc currently running OMJ 2.2 v3.0 rom with Stock kernel. But my issue has been happening since before I rooted my evo. The problem is I cant receive MMS during wifi is switched on then have to switch wifi off and wait about 20 minutes in order for the mms to download so I can view it. I called tier1 and 2 and tier 1 just made me factory reset my phone or clear cache on the mms app in settings which fixes it for about 2 minutes before I turn wifi on again. Tier 2 told me that theres no way I can receive and send mms while wifi is on so there goes my issue...I never had this issue with my apache, mogul, diamond, tp, tp2, BB bold.
The error msg I get is a transient error failure...please can anyone test their device and turn wifi on and try to receive and send MMS and let me know if its successful so I can send this to sprint b/c its totally oblivious I have to turn wifi off and wait 20 minutes and then have my mms download w/o errors.
Thanks in advance
No one?
Tapatalk'd on Evo
My texts go through with WiFi on.....no problems. I probably send 50 texts a day while connected to WiFi; if not more.
Currently MMS uses your data only. You will notice that when sending MMS your 1x/3G icon shows up next to your wifi icon.
rugedraw said:
My texts go through with WiFi on.....no problems. I probably send 50 texts a day while connected to WiFi; if not more.
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text comes in fine its MMS im refering to
krazyflipj said:
Currently MMS uses your data only. You will notice that when sending MMS your 1x/3G icon shows up next to your wifi icon.
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no the 3g symbol doesnt show up next to the wifi signal when trying to send/receive mms...
My 3g icon pops up when sending/receiving MMS when I have wifi on.
Could be your ROM. Have you tried different Roms?
No problem here getting or sending mms texts, email, even browsing the web on the phone while tethered or wireless.
Fresh ROM
superlinkx said:
Could be your ROM. Have you tried different Roms?
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Im on OMJ 3.0 deodexed with kingkernels v5
Jim M said:
No problem here getting or sending mms texts, email, even browsing the web on the phone while tethered or wireless.
Fresh ROM
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damn I wish my phone was that way lol....

Issues with transmitting photos and 4G

First of all, the setup:
Myns Warm Two Point Two RLS 3 with netarchy toastmod 4.2.1 bfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass kernel.
I was in Orlando this past weekend for a family vacation and decided to test out a few things. I wanted to see how well 4G worked and how bad the battery drain was because I'm taking a business trip to Vegas in a few weeks. I turned it on, and it sat there "scanning" forever. That's all it ever said, until I turned it off a few hours later. Maps show that I should have had 4G coverage. I'm not sure if it's a ROM issue, a kernel issue, a Sprint issue, or something else entirely.
My second issue - I use Handcent SMS exclusively. I would snap a picture with the phone camera and share it via SMS. It would automatically resize and then try to send, but never would send. I kept getting "generic network failure" on any image that I tried to send. I finally got irritated enough to try and just email the pic, but it wouldn't even go through my Exchange email (at this point I didn't try Gmail, because I was ready to toss the phone in a pond...) I can receive MMS, but seems like I can't send any pictures. Anyone have any ideas what may have been going on?
I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.
postwick said:
I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.
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Fair enough - but once I determined that 4G wasn't going to connect, I turned it off. The MMS was being sent with only 3G enabled.

Help! HTC Evo can't recieve picture messages

Hey guys, my friends evo won't recieve picture messages. She can send them, but never recieves them. She is currently using Go SMS Pro, but even on the stock app/handcent, etc. she still has no luck recieving them. Her phone is non-rooted btw. Any input to help her recieve pictures is greatly appreciated.
This may sound silly, but is she always on WiFi when she is trying to receive them? When I am rooted or was when I wasn't rooted, I could only receive picture messages on 3G for some odd reason. My WiFi would always be a very strong signal and three times faster than my 3G, but it would continually try and never get a thing and then I switched to 3G and boom, there it was.
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This may sound silly, but is she always on WiFi when she is trying to receive them? When I am rooted or was when I wasn't rooted, I could only receive picture messages on 3G for some odd reason. My WiFi would always be a very strong signal and three times faster than my 3G, but it would continually try and never get a thing and then I switched to 3G and boom, there it was.
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when she gets a mms it should auto switch the 3G radio on to download the pic then go back to wifi atleast that's how it is on my phone.

[Q]sending mms via WiFi ?

something i have noticed is when sending pic messages from home on wifi is not working. If i have wifi on my phone will just say sending for ever. if i turn off wifi and the 4g pops back up then the pic gets sent. i dont thing i have any toggle set. I do not have llama on the phone. So my question is does this phone send mms over wifi or just over the network?
am i the only one with this issue? i did a phone exchange a week ago and I noticed the new phone had the same thing so two phone same experience...any ideas?
How is your signal at home? U can't send mms over WiFi, only data
Mine will send while connected to wifi.
Using tapatalk on my Galaxy 2 to post this!
Mine sends MMS when wifi is on also. I would only have 2 bars and on edge and it still sends in like 20 secs
Im having the EXACT same problem with you. I have the tmobile version model, SGH-T989. I got online with a rep at tmobile for 2 hours trying to resolve this. After a point she said galaxy s 2 doesnt have voice chat over wifi which I didnt understand what that had to do with not being able to download or send attachments via mms. She basically said you have to have data enabled in order to send and receive pictures. I was pissed because my brother's mytouch g is part of my family plan, and he is able to receive attachments while just being connected on wifi. My issue is that I only have edge, not even 3g connection at my home. I don't know what to do. I searched for apps to fix this. But no luck. Anybody else tried fixing this?
StinkyK said:
Im having the EXACT same problem with you. I have the tmobile version model, SGH-T989. I got online with a rep at tmobile for 2 hours trying to resolve this. After a point she said galaxy s 2 doesnt have voice chat over wifi which I didnt understand what that had to do with not being able to download or send attachments via mms. She basically said you have to have data enabled in order to send and receive pictures. I was pissed because my brother's mytouch g is part of my family plan, and he is able to receive attachments while just being connected on wifi. My issue is that I only have edge, not even 3g connection at my home. I don't know what to do. I searched for apps to fix this. But no luck. Anybody else tried fixing this?
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Your brother can receive them while on wifi, but not "over" wifi. It has to access data to get mms. You'll see data turn on when on wifi when a pic is coming in.

Is it me...

Hey is is me, or did we use to be able to send MMS while connected to WiFi and in a call?
I swear that I use to be able to send pictures while connected to to my home wireless and being on the phone until EL29 came out. I use that function a lot, but I'm starting to question myself. I've flashed multiple ROMs to make sure I was just going crazy, but it seems that every EL29 ROM I flash the MMS just says sending until I get off the phone. Then after that my 3G icon pops up with the WiFi icon still there, then the picture gets sent. I SWEAR it didn't use to be like that.
I still can send mms when on a call
I am pretty sure that I can as well. Ill have to try tomorrow and let you know for sure.
oh man. geeze. please let me know. I wanna find out what's going on
im not sure about the phone call part,
but even if your on wifi the phone still turns on 3g to authenticate thru sprints picmail servers before sending it
I can answer this one. If your on 3g and on a call, no you can't send mms. When you're on a call it knocks off your 3g to make the call. Now if you're on 4g, then you can send mms because you still have your 4g connection running. Another thing I would like to add is back when the first Evo and Epic came out, sending mms wasn't supported over 4g till Sprint made some changes on how sending mms works on their network. However one thing I haven't tried is to see if I can send mms thru just wifi with 4g and 3g off. It has me a lil curious because I know it didn't back then but they might had changed that when they changed it to allow sending thru 4g. But it could also just work on their networks only so idk..
Edit: I just put my E4gT on hotspot mode and disabled network data on a Sprint iPhone and Evo3D, both failed at sending. Soon as I enabled their data back the messages got sent. So you still can't send mms over wifi it relies on falling back to 3g. The way I recall it is the 3g comes on to send the mms then drops once it sends, but since you're on a call it won't do that.. Hope that helps lol
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RayTrue04 said:
I can answer this one. If your on 3g and on a call, no you can't send mms. When you're on a call it knocks off your 3g to make the call. Now if you're on 4g, then you can send mms because you still have your 4g connection running. Another thing I would like to add is back when the first Evo and Epic came out, sending mms wasn't supported over 4g till Sprint made some changes on how sending mms works on their network. However one thing I haven't tried is to see if I can send mms thru just wifi with 4g and 3g off. It has me a lil curious because I know it didn't back then but they might had changed that when they changed it to allow sending thru 4g. But it could also just work on their networks only so idk..
Edit: I just put my E4gT on hotspot mode and disabled network data on a Sprint iPhone and Evo3D, both failed at sending. Soon as I enabled their data back the messages got sent. So you still can't send mms over wifi it relies on falling back to 3g. The way I recall it is the 3g comes on to send the mms then drops once it sends, but since you're on a call it won't do that.. Hope that helps lol
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right, uses 3g/4g to authenticate thru picmail servers, wont do that on wifi itself. no sprint connection=no picturemail.
Connect to wifi and send a picture (while you have a signal) and you will still see the 3g icon come on for a few seconds while it sends.
That's really weird though. I really use to be able to send mms while on the phone on wifi. I swear that changed on EL29. but oh well maybe i'm just tripping out
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wizky911 said:
That's really weird though. I really use to be able to send mms while on the phone on wifi. I swear that changed on EL29. but oh well maybe i'm just tripping out
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I think you're trippin. Hey maybe you should Odin back to a previous software to test it out and let us know! Lol
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OK so I Odin'd back to stock rooted EL29, and guess what?
I CAN send pictures while on the phone and connected to WiFi. the 3G icon doesnt pop up. it just sends. I knew I wasn't trippin. This function seems to have gotten lost among all the modding or something. But yea on a stock ROM, you can hold a conversation and send a picture...you just cant take the picture while in call. but yeah.

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