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Receiving contact via mms from iphone

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reeseboy

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I have quite a few clients with iphones and have always had issues receiving a contact when they would send them to me via mms. Its been one of those annoyances for me for a while, but I just tested it on my G2 today and it worked! I don't know if this is a result of an ios update or the messaging app on the G2. Has anyone else had this work for them recently?
 
This is meant to be a general question for android devices. I am trying to find out if others NOT using the LG G2 with its messaging app are able to receive contacts from an iphone via mms. Receiving such in cm would be a bonus answer.

Please do not move this to the G2 forum.
 
reeseboy said:
I have quite a few clients with iphones and have always had issues receiving a contact when they would send them to me via mms. Its been one of those annoyances for me for a while, but I just tested it on my G2 today and it worked! I don't know if this is a result of an ios update or the messaging app on the G2. Has anyone else had this work for them recently?
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I have an old Lg Optimus V, never could receive mms from an iPhone, just recently a guy i work with got an iPhone and i know i still can't receive mms messages from his iPhone. :(
 
It used to be that you couldn't send an mms from one carrier to another. That was all worked out. The remaining hurdles are iPhone to Android. MMS doesn't work, iMessage doesn't work ,,,

Eventually someone with more than half a brain cell will take over some division and tell his people to submit a solution or a resignation by end-of-week. (I'm betting it'll be a solution,) It took a lawsuit last time - let's hope this time the opponents are at least as intelligent as insects.
 
Rukbat said:
It used to be that you couldn't send an mms from one carrier to another. That was all worked out. The remaining hurdles are iPhone to Android. MMS doesn't work, iMessage doesn't work ,,,

Eventually someone with more than half a brain cell will take over some division and tell his people to submit a solution or a resignation by end-of-week. (I'm betting it'll be a solution,) It took a lawsuit last time - let's hope this time the opponents are at least as intelligent as insects.
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Sure you can do MMS iPhone to Android and vice versa. My friends and I have done it, although these days we've all adopted WeChat. MMS is a standard GSM and CDMA thing, that all phones and carriers should have. Been around for a long time, from when it was just feature-phones. AFAIK iMessage is the proprietary one, that only works with iPhones.
 
So back to my original question, has anyone successfully received a contact card from an iPhone on an android device? If so, what phone, ROM, and messaging app were you running?
 
I discovered a person having a signature sent with there MMs to a iphone on certain carriers esp cricket got a blank message. My wife has a S4 and set up a sig to be sent and some people with iphones started to respond they where getting blank messages
 
I'm resurrecting this thread from the grave to try and get more info...

recently I was sent a vcard again via mms from someone on an iPhone 5 and it showed up as a blank message in Go SMS Pro (who supposedly supports vcards since april 2012). For the fun of it, I opened the stock messaging app on my G2 and it shows up fine there - I can view and save it to my contacts. I know that when I'm running a cm or aosp based rom I can't seem to view vcards sent via mms, so I would like to find a 3rd party app that does actually support vcard. Does anyone know of one?

I have also emailed Go SMS support to see if I missed something in the config for this as well... we'll see what they say.

Edit: Handcent apparently supports it. I just tried it out to confirm...for any noobs like me trying to find a good app.
 
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