The other day I got prompted or just checked that update for my Windows Phone 8.1 is available. I wasn’t thinking much and just clicked Update. Everything when smoothly, no problems with installation whatsoever.
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How to Fix an Android smartphone when its messages are stuck on “Downloading” when trying to open a picture message, and/or when an Android phone gets stuck “Sending” when attempting to send a picture message. Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS for short is a feature that you most certainly want to work on your Android phone. How Do You Send & Receive Picture Messages on a Samsung Galaxy S II? Unmod an Android Phone. Message Encryption on Android. Reset the D-Link Administrator Password.
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The only problem after this update was that for some, unknown for me, reason MMS messages (images and other rich data) stopped working and by that I mean that I couldn’t receive images nor send them. I was constantly prompted, when someone tried to send me some pictures, with information
Get media content now
Unable To Download Picture Messages From Android
Which after tapping didn’t do anything besides showing spinning wheel – or whatever progress indicator it shows – for a while and after ‘it’ figured that it cannot download this content from the server it went back to the same state as it was before, which is inglorious Get media content now.
Two things to notice on this image. First, that this message that you cannot open is being kept for you somewhere on the server (probably servers of your plan provider e.g. Vodafone) and those servers are actually trying to resend it to you after a while (highlighted dates) if you did not downloaded it properly, hence you might get a message from your buddy at really random time and date and he or she wouldn’t have anything to do with sending it to you. When you have no knowledge about this behavior, it could be really confusing.I don’t know how long they keep those messages on the servers but my random guess would be ~2 – 4 weeks, so if you are worried of losing something important, don’t, you can easily fix that before this time passes and get your data message.
Second thing about the image, even if it’s completely not your fault and you had nothing to do with this problem of yours, some people are just haters, like one of my friends, and will just insult your phone, provider and probably you as well because of those problems ;]
Anyway..after some research and trying everything that I could try, with every possible combination, starting from old IT trick which is turning off and on the device, through turning off and on my Mobile Data, checking if Wi-Fi connection has something to do with it and again turning it off and on, then turning on and off Flight Mode and finishing on following some weird steps that should help in this case. Nothing helped, I was still unable to send message and receive MMSs. I was testing it by trying to send a image to myself
No luck.I started to check settings and what are my options to make it work. I went to mobile+SIM system settings and started playing with Highest connection speed, changing it from 3G to 4G and back from 4G to 3G. No luck either.
Then I checked SIM settings in the mobile+SIM window, but I didn’t find anything that could help with my problem
I checked *messaging *options in the Settings –> applications, but there was nothing there that could potentially fix the issue. The situation was hopeless.after quick chat with one of my friends, who had the same problems, he advised me to go to my provider (Vodafone) and ask them for assistance. So I did. The girl that was helping me with it wasn’t perfectly sure what she should look for, and you could feel that she wasn’t particularly familiar with Windows Phone in general. After couple of ‘half blinded’ tries and with a little bit of luck, she finally fixed it.
All you need to do is to re-activate your access point. Unfortunately it’s not that easy as it sounds. Lets open Settings –> *access point. *You will probably see that there’s already an access point which is configured and active.
If you want to check – *view *– it’s configuration, just tap it and hold it until you will be prompted with context menu. As you can see there’s no option like re-activate or re-start or whatever would force it to refresh.
You can go and check if all the fields are populated properly, though, but if your MMS messages were working before, the update or whatever happened, then nothing has changed and it’s all good. If for some reasons you feel like it’s not right, you want to double check or you’re just curios, compare it with your provider specification, values should match
Australian Vodafone access point configuration can be found on the official site, besides that you can find more detailed information how to set up your device with this Set up your phone page – just select your phone manufactured and phone model.Whatever result you will get from this comparison, if some of the fields are not correct or they all are, you have to create a new access point by clicking ‘+’
If your rich messages where working fine before (and you checked that all the values in your current access point are correct), you can just create a fake *access point *and make it active which will turn your current one to be inactive.
afterwards just *activate *your old access point and it should force it to refresh, and in result it should let you receive and send pictures. If this procedure helped, you can delete the fake access point and enjoy your rich data messages.
If for some reasons it’s still not working for you, instead of creating a fake access point you could create a real deal one, with all the proper values (taken from e.g. official web site of your provider) and activate it, and check if with this configuration you are able to send and receive rich data messages. When this fails, unfortunately you will have to go, as me, to your provider shop / help point and ask for assistance.
If you are experiencing issues with sending or receiving multimedia messages (MMS) on Cricket Wireless, sit back and relax, we are here to help you fix that issue in just a few steps!
Phone Not Downloading Picture Messages
In this guide we will help you determine the proper MMS Settings for Cricket and if that’s not enough, we are going to suggest some other tweaks that for sure will get you up and running.
Cannot send or Receive MMS on Cricket Wireless – Step by Step fix
Let’s get into the actions. Please follow the below steps and make sure everything is completed accordingly.
You have a Valid data Plan – Please do make sure that you have included a data plan on your mobile contract with Cricket Wireless
Mobile Data is turned on. Even though the MMS doesn’t consume the data from your cricket wireless data plan, it is still required to have it turned on, as otherwise the cellphone would not be able to communicate with the mobile operator’s server
You have correctly setup the APN Settings for Cricket. You will need the cricket specific APN/MMS Settings configured on the phone, this is a MUST do. Normally it will arrive as automatic settings after you insert the SIM card on the phone. If you don’t that, you’ll need to manually configure that. If you don’t know how to do this, please refer to the APN Settings for Cricket guide.
Cannot send or Receive MMS on Cricket Wireless – Check APN Settings
Change the MMS proxy. Under the APN Settings, locate the MMS proxy field and add one of the following IP Addresses:
192.168.196.78
192.168.196.79
192.168.196.117
192.168.196.118
Use an alternate MMS application. If you are using the native messaging app, sometimes it might be related to a hard-setting in the app blocking the MMS service. In this case we suggest trying a different picture messaging application and test them out.
Unfortunately, there was an error with the automatic installation of your magicJack. To manually install your magicJack, please download the corresponding file. Firmware is the software found within the magicJack device itself. Type under the applicable operating system in the list below to download the update file. Visit the Magic Jack web site and download the Windows 7 upgrade. To find the software upgrade you can either locate it through the FAQ section of the site,.
Another important thing to look at is make sure you have the correct value on APN Type. It should be default,mms or for some samsung devices internet+mms
If after all these steps you are still not able to send or receive picture messages, please drop us a message in the comment section and we will take a look at your issue.
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This post has been updatedon Oct 2018