IT WORKS!: Finallly--MMS for the xv6700!!!

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mrs.edwardcullen33

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--First Step: Get mobile WAP to work. *chuckles* :p http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1041644
--Second Step: Go into MMS Messaging menu and choose MMS Configuration to setup the ArcSoft MMS Composer
--Third Step:Configure a server setting for Cricket MMS. Choose the Servers tab and create/select your Cricket MMS entry. If you don't have one already, follow this link: http://www.howardforums.com/showpost.php?p=8663536&postcount=17

The settings are as follows:

--Server name: Mine is "Cricket MMS"
--Gateway: LEAVE BLANK!!!
--Port Nuraber: 8080
--Server address: http://mms.mycricket.com/servlets/mms
--Connect Via: Your Cricket WAP connection
--Sending size limitation: Leave alone (350k)
--WAP: WAP 2.0

Make sure your Cricket WAP connection settings have the username [email protected] and cricket as the password. Nothing else neeRAB to change about your Cricket WAP/Proxy settings!

Got mine to send to my other Cricket account today (Motorola RAZR v3c).

THANKS TO EVERYBODY for helping-out in this endeavor!!!

:buddies: :clapping:
 
YOU RULE!

I'm on hold with cricket right now trying to get my MMS problems figured out so I could post settings for you.. guess that's not imperative anymore.

Congrats and thanks for figuring this issue out!

Now I'm totally stoked to receive my XV6700 next week (bought one on ebay thursday)
 
I'm telling ya... freakin geniuses up in here!



So here's a lame question... would one of you guys be willing to write a start to finish walkthrough for how to program the xv6700 to work with cricket, and also for WAP, MMS, and Travel time? I'm cell phone tech retarded, but I am fairly tech competant otherwise... will ya give me a hand so I don't have to post 50 questions next week when I program my phone?
 
Unfortunately, I cannot repeat the success I had after I had originally posted this thread.

But I swear on everything it worked: I was able to send three messages with picture attachments--two to my Cricket RAZR and one to my gmail account, and I was able to receive an MMS that I sent from my gmail account that actually had the picture in it for once.

Both mr.candid and I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday evening testing various theories to no avail. While mr.candid was able to send an MMS message from his native Cricket phone without incident, he was unable to send or receive from his xv6700.

I am certain that my settings for ArcSoft MMS Composer are correct. But there are two possible things I think might be the cause of the errors: 1.) There must be some minute setting in the phone itself for how it handles data (over radio?), or, 2.) Cricket servers detected strange packet data from a non-Cricket device and have since blocked or disallowed such data to be sent or received.

Perhaps I should call Cricket and ask them to reset my MMS (Picture Messaging) service. But I think healthman tried this to no avail.

Think about it like this: NOTHING CHANGED about my settings when I started getting errors again. Which tells me that there are circumstances either in the phone itself or Cricket, the provider, that prevent this from working smoothly every time.

Any ideas?

Meanwhile, I'm going to investigate the settings in the PST some more today.

Wish me luck... :reallysad
 
It's working again!

I just sent a picture message from my xv to healthman's gmail account!

I called Cricket tech support this morning and complained. They said they would escalate my request to another tier of tech support and have their engineers look at the problem. (I explained to them what phone I had and assured them that everything had been working without incident prior to yesterday.) I never got a service call back from them, however.

So who knows if this is just a random fluke or did they actually look into the problem...? Plus I asked them to reset my picture messaging service and I did another *228 afterward to make sure.

But I am now 98% confident that the problem is not with the phone or its settings, unless there is some small detail about how data is sent to the tower in some obscure setting in the phone's firmware.

ADDENDUM: You want to make sure that when you compose a picture message that you use the ArcSoft application to do so. I notice there are TWO MMS options when you go to send a picture message: You get a menu asking you to Select an account. On my phone, the last two options in that menu are MMS ([email protected]) and New Pix Message (MMS) ([email protected]). I USE THE SECOND MMS OPTION! This brings-up the ArcSoft MMS Composer window. The thing that sucks about this is that it doesn't allow you to insert a new contact address from the context menu--you either have to know the nuraber/address you want to send to OR copy and paste it in the TO field. Maybe there is a registry hack that will allow MMS Composer to see and access your contacts...?

That's all I got for now...let's all keep at this until we get it solved for certain! :befuddled

*EDIT: It's also worth mentioning that I am making sure that I am only connected to my Cricket WAP connection from the connections manager. I turned of WiFi in both cases.

*PPS: Honesty as a policy--Be advised that I let Cricket know that I was using a non-Cricket hanRABet. I let them know the make and model of my phone. If you think about it, this makes sense, because perhaps they can flag my account to allow or block MMS services. This would explain why this would work on a customer-to-customer basis and why Cricket native hanRABets have no issues, presumably. Just a thought.
 
Okay, I'm an idiot: When you are in the ArcSoft MMS Composer application, you get contacts to appear by clicking the word "To:"

Otherwise, clicking, double-clicking, or tap-and-hold in the To: field does absolutely nothing.

:doh:
 
Not working again. I'm starting to think that this might be a tower/relay dependent type thing.

Meanwhile, Cricket still owes me a tech support call... :reallysad
 
It works. I'm now more sure than ever. I just sent a picture AND a video MMS to Gmail AND another native Cricket phone. (Incidentally, the first option in the MMS menu is to send video/multimedia messages.)

The only way to know for sure is for someone not in the Eastern time zone to try it. The only other possibility is some minor setting in the way the phone communicates data.

But given that customers with native Cricket hanRABets have been having problems with their Picture Messaging (lord knows I have... :rolleyes: ), I'd say the problem is pretty much as resolved as it's ever going to be for now.

*shrugs*
 
It works for me off and on. But then, I am on the East Coast just like you are. So our results may be slanted. I wish someone in another time zone could try for us.

But anyway, I just tried sending you a video message but it failed again, so... *shrugs*
 
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