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Root Problem receiving picture messages/Reinstalling MMS.apk

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jesch88

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Here's the deal. I'm rooted and removed the stock messaging app and widget.

I'm using the most recent version of Handcent. I can send and receive normal texts and I can send outgoing pic messages. But I'm not receiving picture messages I can confirm were sent to me. No gray download button or anything. I'm just not getting the MMS.

What do?

EDIT: Done some more research and apparently erasing the MMS.apk is known to remove functionality for receiving MMS. I tried reinstalling it via Titanium to no avail, just says the batch process for restoring is complete, but there's no effect to it. Tried reinstalling a downloaded stock mms.apk and installing it into system/app with Root Explorer, but on reboot the Messages app didn't show up and I got a bunch of force closes for com.htc apps.
 
Are you running a custom ROM or just rooting stock? If it is a custom ROM, I'd either do a Nandroid restore (you did do a backup before making a big change like removing a system app, I hope), or, if you cannot restore, I'd try flashing over with the ROM without doing a data wipe and see if that fixes things. I'd think that it would.

For future reference, in addition to doing a Nandroid backup, Titanium has the option of freezing apps, which will show you how things will run as if the app was removed without actually removing it. That's a great feature of Titanium.

If you are running stock, you may be able to get by with a flash of xtrSENSE over what you have without a data wipe. xtrSENSE should overlay over stock and restore the MMS messaging. It's worth a try.

I would Nandroid first, though, no matter what you do just in case it doesn't work well and you want to try something else.
 
Unfortunately, once you delete that its gone. you will have to do a new flash. Wipe the data and davlik cache before you do a new flash of the rom or it may not reinstall the message.apk
 
doogald said:
Are you running a custom ROM or just rooting stock? If it is a custom ROM, I'd either do a Nandroid restore (you did do a backup before making a big change like removing a system app, I hope), or, if you cannot restore, I'd try flashing over with the ROM without doing a data wipe and see if that fixes things. I'd think that it would.

For future reference, in addition to doing a Nandroid backup, Titanium has the option of freezing apps, which will show you how things will run as if the app was removed without actually removing it. That's a great feature of Titanium.

If you are running stock, you may be able to get by with a flash of xtrSENSE over what you have without a data wipe. xtrSENSE should overlay over stock and restore the MMS messaging. It's worth a try.

I would Nandroid first, though, no matter what you do just in case it doesn't work well and you want to try something else.
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I'm running a stock 2.1 rooted ROM. And I do have a Nandroid backup, but unfortunately it is without the MMS.apk (thought everything was working fine after removing it and was making other changes so I only kept the last 2 most recent Nand backups I had. Brilliant, I know)

It looks like flashing a new Rom might be my only solution, but to make sure I covered my bases: While attempting to restore the mms.apk in root explorer, I copied the mms.apk file, mounted system/app as R/W, pasted the .apk into the directory, and then mounted the directory as R/O, then rebooted. I think I got that process right. I did notice a bunch of .odex files named in correspondence to each .apk. Do I need to try reinstalling that file too into system/app?

And if so is there a way to recover those files from the backups Titanium generates on my SD card?
 
Actually, if you want to stay stock, you may be in luck. Erisuser1 has a downloadable ROM that installs the latest stock OTA from this month.

[ROM] HTC Eris March 2011 OTA Stock ROM - v2.41.605.6 - xda-developers

I flashed this myself over stock and all of my apps and data were retained, and everything worked. It keeps your custom Recovery, so you can still run nandroid backups and flash ROMs if you wish, but I believe that you will lose root. As long as you still have rootme.zip on your SD card, I believe that you'd be able to flash that to get back root and all of your apps and data should remain.

Again, you may want to nandroid backup first, just in case.

I'm not sure about TiBU and the odex files. As far as I know, TiBU backs up .apks and data associated with the app.
 
doogald said:
Actually, if you want to stay stock, you may be in luck. Erisuser1 has a downloadable ROM that installs the latest stock OTA from this month.

[ROM] HTC Eris March 2011 OTA Stock ROM - v2.41.605.6 - xda-developers

I flashed this myself over stock and all of my apps and data were retained, and everything worked. It keeps your custom Recovery, so you can still run nandroid backups and flash ROMs if you wish, but I believe that you will lose root. As long as you still have rootme.zip on your SD card, I believe that you'd be able to flash that to get back root and all of your apps and data should remain.

Again, you may want to nandroid backup first, just in case.

I'm not sure about TiBU and the odex files. As far as I know, TiBU backs up .apks and data associated with the app.
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Thank god for you. This looks like a great solution. And if I can retain everything without having to reinstall and all that, it would be amazing. Thanks so much.
 
Ok so I tried flashing the March OTA Rom, but after doing so I got stuck at the Verizon boot logo. No 'No Radio' warnings or anything like that, it just hung.

It did preserve Amon-Ra so I Nand'd back into my working ROM, still sans my stock MMS.apk. That would be the first time I've flashed a ROM, so I'm concerned there might have been something I'm missing/did wrong. Any glaring mistakes poke out at anyone?
 
That's too bad. As I said, I was able to flash over stock (though, now that I think of it, my stock ROM wasn't rooted, so maybe it's something with that.)

I see some things that you can try:

- not sure if this will help, but you could try to wipe the Dalvik cache and flash the stock ROM again.

- you can try flashing over with xtrSENSE and see if that works any better. Again, wipe the Dalvik cache first.

- you may need to do a data wipe to go forward. Since you have Titanium, you could back up what you have and restore it after doing a data wipe/factory reset, flash the stock ROM, restart the phone to activate it, restart in recovery to flash rootme.zip to get root back, restart the phone and install Titanium and restore your apps and data. Or you could just switch to xtrSENSE, since it's so close to stock and has some advantages over stock (i.e., faster clock speed when the phone is busy, slower when it is idle to save battery.)

Good luck and let us know if any of these works.
 
I figured it all out. I had forgot to wipe everything before flashing so it caused some issues. Fixed that and just decided to flash xtrSense. Everything installed fine and despite some issues that were fixed with a few reboots and battery pulls everything is stable and running much better. And MMS functionality is back.

So learn from my mistake I guess. Don't uninstall MMS.apk.
 
Dude, just get go sms from the market. It has a setting for those of us who deleted the stock messaging app. It's better than handcent too. :-)
 
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