It all started with an
iPhone-borne MMS video of a Kirby plush toy that I tried to send. You see, I don't have a 510 number -- that AT&T mobile number belongs to a friendly gentleman living in Fremont, CA, about 40 miles from where I reside -- but that didn't stop the message from going through the airwaves with his number listed as sender. Confused? Yeah, so are we, and a quick look through various forums say we're not alone. We've contacted AT&T for more information, but in the meantime, let us know if you've noticed any similar problems.
Read - MMS coming from wrong sending address?
Read - MMS messages I send showing received from different phone number iPhone
posted Oct 14th 2009 7:08PM
When I'm not drooling on myself I like to push buttons.
Oh, and sometimes I like to say "first" when I can remember to.
I just got a 3gs today. Can someone tell me if I must pay for MMS or if its just part of the unlimited data plan?
yess, push the button :D
I pushed the button to downrank ya :)
Max, MMS is part of your text messaging plan. It doesn't cost extra, but MMS messages count against your text message plan.
Yep.. better add that text plan to your account if you are going to MMS :-)
K, I pushed the button to uprank you. Bet you feel like a dick now.
I feel good actually. Blue looks great on me.
No, but I do like plush Kirbys.
Didn't you hear? Starfy's the great new thing... *cough*nintendosux*cough*
Nausea, Indigestion, Diarrhea, Upset Stomach, Heartburn..... ALL DEAFEATED by KIRBY BISMOL !!!!
Kirby > Starfy
While I'm drooling on myself I like to push buttons.
For some reason I don't think it's a problem within the iPhone. This used to happen on my LG Vu, weird that it's happening again.
Happened on my brother's Vu just a few days ago. i don't think this is an iPhone thing - it's more like an AT&T issue.
I had this happen in the UK on O2 a couple of times when MMS was first launched. It works ok now though...
I love both of the battery symbols on the iphones. First one is just plain funny. Second one is just plain typical.
Going back in time drains quite a bit of battery...
Typical of what? I've been using mine all day today and my battery is at 52% right now. It's not nearly as bad as the Pre's battery life.
drained in only one minute!
methinks you dont know JACK about the Pre, but good attempt to pull your MMS overlords into the picture. Fact is my phone and network dont have MMS problems - and my Pre's been around for years less than the iPhone. Yet its been doing MMS longer..... cutting edge indeed...
OH shoot - forgot to mention how my battery doesnt get hot enough to discolor my phone - even with inductive charging - wait, you cant do that either?
...ah yes - that battery - it lasts longer than my co-workers' 3GS.... yup - just needs a ~2 week break in period to reach peak - as is the norm for these batteries
seriously? a poll for such minute problem?
its obvious fanboys will either vote for it or against, irrespective of whether they are actually experiencing the problem or not.
i ask engadget, why bother?
Because it is fun to have people like you taking the time to type comments like those. It is just the icing on the Cupcake.
Minute problem?
Uhh...no?
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see your name. Carry on, good sir.
@ fanboy
i ask you, why bother?
why bother posting a complaint when you know engadget doesn't give a crap about your whining?
it is what it is, bro. the poll is up and it's not going anywhere, just go with the flow. don't let the fact that this is a negative poll about the iphone it keep you up at night. it's nothing personal, i promise ;)
I think 100% of iPhones (40 million)
r having trouble. It's gotta be that darn nokia n900.
I gears u can get google wave. That's revolutionary !!
Dee Dee deee!!!
hears?
You are the equivalent of knowing one's elbow into an apple fanboy's head..... pure pain.
You sir, give a bad imagine to a decent product. You sir make the iPhone look like Jerry Springer material. I even think Steve Jobs could tell you to "Shut UP!"
*knocking ((darn it, I can't type well on my iPhone :( ))
@ Truth
I Thought we went over this yesterday....or have you finally come up for air from blowing Steve's manhood.....
Oh my god thank you. I need this to become WIDESPREAD AND KNOWN! AT&T and apple claim they know nothing.
This is SO ANNOYING!
By the time Apple gets MMS functioning perfectly it'll be a totally outdated comunication medium..............
..........Oh, wait.....
MMS works perfectly on my iPhone. But then again, I'm no o2 in the UK, not AT&T.
From the insider in the Microsoft Project Pink fiasco:
"Pink was already a going concern but had no engineering staff...
Yes they cut SMS from the phone recently (because SMS is ‘too hard’)"
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/10/12/microsofts-sidekickpink-problems-blamed-on-dogfooding-and-sabotage/
LOL SMS was too hard?? The Project Pink phone will arrive any day now to kill the iPhone. Oh wait...
I don't get what this has to do with Apple. MMS is working fine on other carriers outside of the US.
Move along.
@wimno_Sux
Please refrain from posting any of the bullshit articles posted on roughlydrafted, which talks about microsoft's every mistake but forgets to post things like apple's time machine failing, guest accounts deleting memory, etc.
It's sad to know that my RAZR never had these problems.
possibly a problem related to google voice?
Some people are saying that, but I know some people who have never used GV.
Leave Google out of this ! Do you want to turn this into a soap opera now?
This isn't necessarily limited to MMS, is it? I've seen incorrect numbers pop up from time to time on callerID and was able to verify that it was truly a bug in the system, not just a misdial or the like.
Want to know what's really weird? I got an MMS text, on my iPod Touch!
Pics or it didn't happen.
lately apple having lots of bugs in their products...
So, is this really a problem with the iPhone or isn't it really AT&T's fault?
If it really is the iPhone don't you think you should have heard more from the countries that have had MMS on the iPhone for months now?
Read below. This time, the iPhone is innocent :O
Its not the phone. Ive had similar problems on 2 seperate phones and 2 different sim card, along with all firmwares from 3.0 to 3.1.2.
I worked under a employer that supplied landline and GSM switching to AT&T. It would be pretty funny if a bug I flagged two years ago would be generating this.
Proven: AT&T has dyslexia
this could be troublesome for those with "detailed" sexting habits...
there is where the "its because your phone is jailbroken" flames start to burn...
Please see:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8635680&postcount=18
There was a similar problem a little while back (I think it might have had to do with PUSH now that I think about it) and at that time it was blamed on Jailbreakers & Unlockers. I believe that Engadget even did a story on the matter. But it doesn't affect me as I can't get MMS to work on my OG iPhone. Stupid hardware/software limitations. And before anyone says that I should try 'ActivateMMS2G', did that and it still didn't work.
This problem is caused by having a jailbroken iPhone. the jailbreak randomly gives your phone a new ESN. so either your phone, or the person in Fremont has a jailbroken phone, with the others ESN. This is a common problem with no fix.
Sorry unlock not jailbreak.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/23/iphone-3-0s-broken-push-messaging-caused-by-unlockers-dirty/
Wrong. I had a TOTALLY CLEAN 3.0.1 installed phone and I had an SMS add on text from a message sent the night before.
that doesnt change ur ESN
GSM phones do not have ESNs
Technicly its call an IMEI but its the same thing
IMEI is not ESN. For a number of reasons, starting with the fact no phone account is associated to an IMEI, it's only used as salt and as a "keycard" for the registration of the phone on the network.
Here's the wikipedia link because I'm that sort of poster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switching_subsystem#Home_location_register_.28HLR.29
Haven't had that issue, but now when I send an SMS or MMS... 1) email addresses show up as an option to send to which makes no sense, and 2) "Mobile" is no longer the first number listed when I type in a person's name. For instance, if I want to SMS or MMS "Bob Smith" his work or home number shows up before his Mobile. Pain in the ass!
GSM supports sending SMS to e-mails. You can even send an SMS to a fax machine, as long as your provider supports it. Why you'd want to do that is another question all together.
No problem here, I'm not on AT&T though..
I had an awkward exchange from someone the other day that swore I sent them a swine flu joke photo. I now wonder if it came from an iphone user.
I had a message sent to verizon show up as a random number so it could potentially be any network.
"honey, I swear I don't know where that crazy porn came from. It must be AT&T's fault!"
Dont joke. That kind of happened to me... :(
What about the "I can't use MMS because I have a 1st gen iPhone and Apple is trying to force me to upgrade by not giving me all the features available to newer phones" option?
My girlfriend sent me an MMS from a Verizon phone around noon on Sunday, Oct. 11th.
I received the message, and picture, on Oct. 13th at 1:38am.
We've sent quick a few MMS messages before this without incident to my 3GS since Sept. 25th without incident. Also, I've been in a city (San Francisco) with constant cell coverage for weeks. AT&T sucks. No defense.
Verizon is hurting CDMA is near extinction. Days are numbered.
How low can they go.
Commercial says. We have a map for that!
imagine if for one second apple chose to not be original with their commercials.
We would never finish hearing it. Just for that commercial I will never ever use vzw. Agree??
Seems like that wife was not being cheated by his husbund after all...
I believe that area is going through an area code split. That might have caused issues with the cell network.
Ive heard reports of area codes messed up in so cal, washington, and riverside, and now im sure theres hundreds others.
ohai please read other comments, welcome to the internet.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8635680&postcount=18
And my GF moms phone had this problem. Shes non JB. Verizon too. Explain that.
Email, lol. Poor iphone users.
I got a message from a girl about me that was supposed to go to her girlfriend, thumbs up to AT&T
So were they trashing you or talking good about you?
AT&T doesn't care. They just want to charge the sender and the receiver for the MMS message.
hmmm...that explains why a picture of my gf's in sf area came from a friend in ny. or does it?
gf's cat*
I have an opinion. I choose not to own an IPhone.
can you has cheezburger?
Happens to me sometimes in Canada on Rogers. Been happening since MMS went live here to. I'm pretty sure this happens on every carrier, because this used to happen on Telus on my old phone. Someone tried to explain to me that if you send a message at the same time someone else does there is a chance that the signals get crossed and the message goes to the wrong phone. Doesn't seem right tho
I'm noticing since I have been using google voice, incoming textmessage numbers have been random. Theres a little downfall of goog voice i didnt think about.
A friend and I had a similar thing happen a few months back while both on OS 3.0 on O2 network in the U.K. but that wasn't the strangest thing that happened. He called me one day and to me it seemed like the call got cut off but his phone was still connected to a call and he ended up being 'patched' (that's the best way I can explain it) into 3 other phone calls! I talked to O2 customer service and they told me there was an OS update that would stop it happening again (even tho the software update only mentioned fixing an SMS vulnerability). Never did happen again after that though. Makes me wonder how bad the vulnerabilty was and how much we were told about it though!
A picture I received from a friend on Verizon had it's color inverted to a lime green and pink color. It was very weird... but other than that happening 2 nights ago its been pretty dead on.
Well at least all the iTards out there can console themselves by the fact that at least it has an Apple logo on it. That's good enough right? Right? riiiiiiiight.
I have a G1 on ATT and it is happening to me! Started yesterday and I was wondering what the hell was going on!
Really weird...
I used to have an iPhone plan, but I don't think I do anymore... So yeah, I don't think it's iPhone specific, but it might be?
-Taylor
HaHa, look, an autocomplete typo in the screen shot!
It's funny because it's true!!!
I have even picked up my phone when i was ringing only to hear 2 other peoples conversation and they couldn't hear me
This was happening on T-Mobile about a year ago... all G1 phones were somehow sending SMS with someone else's number as the from... we all got constant replies from texts we never sent... there are a few threads out there about it on various websites... I wonder if it's the same issue again??
Wow. iphone failed
It can't even get something as simple as MMS right. Wow!
Its actually an iPhone problem because TMobile does the same thing with Unlocked iPhones.
your mom pushes buttons.
A few weeks ago I sent a text message and received a reply from someone who I had never talked to before, from a number I didn't send it to. I triple checked, and it was shown as sent to one person, and replied to from another.
This reminds me of a statement made by the CEO of AT&T in the past about their pricing in comparison with Sprint's. He said something about AT&T's superior network and how it justifies higher pricing.
Yeah, some superior network you have there, AT&T. Your 3G coverage is spotty. You have unsatisfactory customer service. You blocked Skype on iPhones for years (until just recently). You continue to block Slingbox content on iPhones. You made people wait forever to have MMS on their iPhones that everyone's had for years on any other phone. Now this. Just another reminder of how justified you are in continuing to charge us an arm and a leg for it all.
About as satisfying and justified as spending luxury money for a ratty car.
The closest I've come to this is that when sending an MMS or SMS to multiple senders, the recipient thinks the other person I sent the message to sent it. It was funny, one of my friends text my other friend telling him to stop sending him pictures because he didn't know him but really I had sent it to both of them.
I'm on O2 in the UK. This happened to me a few times when I sent MMS to a few people... Seems like it's not just AT&T. Hasn't happened for a while now though.
I'm in Canada, but I had this happen A LOT over the summer. Texts between my iPhone (Rogers) and a friend's cell phone (Telus) would get screwed and come up as weird numbers (about 80% from Alberta numbers, and the rest from BC numbers). We both contacted our carriers to inquire and they pretty much said they didn't know why this was happening. Mainly we called because, though we have unlimited texts for our "Fave 5" people, all of the other texts were costing us. Annoying. And it lead to some pretty awkward texts to strangers - probably more awkward for them.
This is an example of how jailbreaking your iPhone is a lot more hassle than it's worth.
This has happened to me twice. First I sent a picture TO an iPhone 3GS, from my 7 year old Nokia 3620, then another to a Blackberry Storm with Verizon... two different numbers. Not sure what's happening, but I doubt it's related to JUST the iPhone.