Help MMS sending trauma

[turbohobbit]

I seem to be having a problem sending MMS's from my phone. Basically, I take a picture, "share it" via Handcent, Handcent reduces the size of the piccy in order to allow it to be sent as an MMS, and off we go. But then when I try and send the message it takes ages to try and do it, then gives up as a bad job and the message never goes. I don't think this is a problem with Handcent as the stock SMS app also had the same issue. And this happens regardless of whether I have GRPS, 3G or H signal. Similarly when I receive an MMS from someone it either takes ages to download (I hit the download button in the received message, often multiple times after multiple failures) - by which I mean hours - or nothing turns up at all.

I was just wondering if anyone had encountered this and what can be done to resolve it. It's been going on for ages now - pretty much since I've had the phone - and no amount of ROM and radio changes have sorted the issue. Or is it just that MMS sending and delivery is an inherently flaky process?

 

[firedesire]

Have you tried contacting your network provider?

I am on Orange and when I had a similar problem I contacted them and found it was a setting on the phone which should have been set up from new was the problem.... once it was fixed I've never had it re-occur.

 

[turbohobbit]

Ah-ha. I'm on Orange too. I'll try that. Thanks FD.

 

[SUroot]

of course if thats not it, it could be down to a titanium restore gone wrong. Not a given though.

 

[turbohobbit]

True.... But given that it was happening before I rooted I'm hoping that it's not that. The last time I used TiR I was flashing Defrost 6.0, and I just restored missing apps with data so I hope that won't have fossicked anything up.