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Help MMS messages come through anonymous / message not found

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Hello, I'm new to android having recently left my iphone for the S3, and I'm hoping to get some help from the hive mind. I have an AT&T S3 (U.S)

When someone sends me a picture it comes through as anonymous sender and in the message itself "message not found". This happens whether its from an iphone user or an android user.. I have already unregistered my old iphone, tried sms apps (they freeze or crash) and compared my settings to my husbands s3 (He rarely has this happen) none have fixed the issue.

(I would post a screenshot, but its not allowing it since I'm new.)

Any ideas/suggestions before I give up and just reset the phone, start from scratch and pray it works?

Thanks!
 
I have the same exact issue with the stock Messages app, ChompSMS and Go SMS Pro. I can only get maybe 2 out of 10 MMS messages. Just switched from iOS (since the original iPhone in 2007) to Android via Galaxy Note 2 on AT&T. Enjoying the switch so far aside from this annoying MMS issue. I've Googled the crap out of it and nobody seems to have a definitive solution.

I have tried disabling auto-retrieve and receiving with and without text included. There doesn't seem to be a specific pattern.
 
Oooh! May have found the culprit. Just spent the last hour testing. Using ChompSMS, I disabled the auto-retrieve for MMS then left the default Messaging app to auto-retrieve. I had my fiance send 10 MMS (5 with text and 5 without) and all came through when I had it set this way.

I also tried with auto-retrieve enabled for Chomp, while disabling it for Messaging and would get the message not found error. So far I haven't had any issues but time will tell. Most SMS/MMS apps tell you to disable the native app's auto-retrieve and enable theirs, seems that this may cause the issue.
 
I have tried both ways, disabling chompsms auto retrieve and leaving the stock messaging app auto retrieve turned on and vise versa, but I am still experiencing the same problem. Has anyone else found any possible solutions for this issue?
 
Seems like for such an advanced phone there would be a more consistent solution. I will keep troubleshooting different ideas and see if I can get something to work 100% of the time. I'll post back here if I find anything out.
 
I have the same problem, 2 out of 10 messages don't come in. I have spent countless hours online searching for a solution, but can't come up with anything. I've tried GoSMS and Handcent...and while the group messaging does work, actually receiving MMS messages is spotty...every once in a while I will get a message with "unknownsenderaddress" and no message content, or a button to "download" the message, only to find that when I hit the download button, it fails to download. I've tried restarting when this happens, still doesn't help.

I wonder if I were to root my phone and put Android 4.2 on my phone if this would solve my issue? Anyone had any problems as described above with 4.2?
 
I have a feeling the problem could be on either the carrier end (not bothering to change you from an iphone account even though you requested it) or not having installed the correct APN settings. Either way, contact the carrier. Its not android or samsung that are to blame :beer:
EDIT: lol i just realised the vintage of the OP sorry :)
 
Carrier knows I have a GS3, APN settings are correct, I have actually called AT&T to see if they could help and all they did was "re-register" my device and that didn't do anything. Anyone else? I know there are tons of people out there with this problem....
 
So I was going through apps and decided to try new messaging apps. Therefore of course you know you have to set the new messaging app to default for either MMS or SMS messaging. Once I deleted the new apps I kept getting the 4505 message not found error and didn't know why. Then it hit me I never reset a default messaging app. Did that and those anonymous messages disappeared then all the missed messages came through
 
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Go to settings and uncheck the auto-retrieve option. My girlfriend sent me a picture and I didn't receive it and I unchecked the auto-retrieve option and she sent it again and I received it. You will have to manually press download on the picture but it will at least download it.
 
Turning native MMS auto retrieve on on native and off on FB Messenger seems to be working. All missing messages came through. Thanks!!!
 
I have a samsung galaxy s6 and AT&T. I too have this problem when I'm in a group message and someone sends a pictures I get a seperate message that is anonymous and the message says message not found. Sometimes it shows the download but it doesn't work. Has anyone found a solution?
 
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