The MMS Complaints Thread!

[Silent Assassin]

Okay, we're just 36 hours away from what 20% of the threads on this board were about.... Getting MMS... the ability to send pictures and videos via messaging...

Once we get it, I'd like to believe that everyone will be happy, and all will be right with the world... the troops will come home, global warming will stop and both Megan Fox and Alicia Keys will be waiting for me at the house in nothing but aprons... with a big pot of gumbo..

but that's not realistic, so I'm designating this as a thread for which people can complain about all that is wrong with MMS, once they get it...

I know, you know, and they know that regardless of what AT&T does, it will be flawed come Friday... and well.. I look forward to your complaints... :ok:ok

What do you think the PRIMARY complaint will be???

[iNinja]

LMAO - I like your pre-emptiedness (sp)

Have they announced the pricing structure yet? lol

[Silent Assassin]

LMAO - I like your pre-emptiedness (sp)

Have they announced the pricing structure yet? lol

Believe it or not, it's going to be FREE!! (or atleast everything I have read says that it will be...

people LOVE complaining about FREE stuff.. :dft010:smiling

It would be pretty low of AT&T to drop a "pricing structure" on the 24th... when MMS goes live on the 25th...

[njdevils1986]

AT&T has to be $hitting their pants nervously waiting for MMS to roll out Friday! I bet the main complaint will be "I can't send an MMS between 4pm and 11pm (peak times)"! Because the servers keep crashing! To all who eventually will complain about something with the iPhone, be glad you do not own a Blackberry Storm! I did, and the difference between the two is night and day!

[Silent Assassin]

thanks for moving, and not locking.. :ok:ok

i'll admit, this thread was sorta obnoxious, and sorta serious at the same time..

because I KNOW there will be a TON of complaints... we're never happy around here... we want everything and nothing at the same time..

thanks guys.. :ok:ok

[scottjf8]

I'm guessing it'll take 15 hours for a MMS to get delivered to the recipient. :)

[evolution83]

I for one will say, that I know there will be users complaining of not being able to send a single MMS. Well, that will be because everyone is overloading AT&Ts servers.

I will choose to ignore these complaints and system errors, because I know MMS will have just launched and things will take time to calm down.

If no one can understand that and still asks questions as to why things don't work, may the good Lord be with you.

[Europa]

Okay, we're just 36 hours away from what 20% of the threads on this board were about.... Getting MMS... the ability to send pictures and videos via messaging...

Once we get it, I'd like to believe that everyone will be happy, and all will be right with the world... the troops will come home, global warming will stop and both Megan Fox and Alicia Keys will be waiting for me at the house in nothing but aprons... with a big pot of gumbo..

but that's not realistic, so I'm designating this as a thread for which people can complain about all that is wrong with MMS, once they get it...

I know, you know, and they know that regardless of what AT&T does, it will be flawed come Friday... and well.. I look forward to your complaints... :ok:ok

What do you think the PRIMARY complaint will be???
Nope, none of that's going to happen. The world will still be at war, humans will continue destroy the Earth as planned, and Megan and Alica won't be coming over for a surprise visit.

We'll move right on to the next big thing to complain about. The only difference will be that we can use an archaic method of sending and receiving images. We still feel a need for it since not enough people upgraded to smart phones in the last two years because our economies crashed due to human greed. :dft012:wink

[Silent Assassin]

Right... LOL

It'll be like EVERYONE wants to send MMS at the same time, once they get it.. for no real reason other than to test out the new toy... see if it actually works...

and with ALL of AT&T iPhone customers trying to send MMS messages (both pics and video) at the same time... that bottleneck is going to be disastrous!

[njdevils1986]

Don't send an MMS at 10am Eastern Time!

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Nervous-About-Smooth-iPhone-MMS-Launch-104606

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

No one is destroying the earth. The planet will survive. We might not, but that's another matter... The earth will heal itself and go on as it always has after catastrophes.

And, to the OP, the only think I need "pre-emptied" is my bladder.

[Silent Assassin]

It's people on here complaining about the rigged version of MMS already...

they done ran some code to figure out how to get MMS working, before AT&T officially releases it, but then got the nerve to complain that the bootleg version doesn't work properly... and are asking for assistance on how to get it going... LOL

I be wanting to say... "uhhh, you can try waiting til the 25th, that might work.. and is probably the only thing that will GUARANTEE it'll work..", but that would be mean...

that's like stealing someones prepaid phone, then complaining because there's no minutes on it...

You gotta love us... LOL

[psylichon]

If it weren't for complaining, this site would have MUCH less traffic than it does. Like it or not, a forum cannot exist by simply talking about how perfect everything is. :)

[Silent Assassin]

If it weren't for complaining, this site would have MUCH less traffic than it does. Like it or not, a forum cannot exist by simply talking about how perfect everything is. :)

Agreed! :ok:ok

[Europa]

No one is destroying the earth. The planet will survive. We might not, but that's another matter... The earth will heal itself and go on as it always has after catastrophes.


I know you don't believe we are contributing to the greenhouse effect, but you can't deny we are depleting its resources, causing topsoil erosion, and that man made CFC's contributed to the partial depletion of the ozone layer.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I know you don't believe we are contributing to the greenhouse effect, but you can't deny we are depleting its resources, causing topsoil erosion, and that man made CFC's contributed to the partial depletion of the ozone layer.

All I'm saying is that man might destroy his ecosphere, but he won't destroy the planet. The earth has suffered through several large collisions in its ancient past, so anything we do ecology-wise won't permanently hurt it.

Don't get me wrong - again. I'm all for humans taking reasonable care in protecting the environment, but I'm tired of hearing from different groups (who need publicity and money to go on existing) that man is the sole cause of climate change. Earth itself has something to do with it as well.

[UFGator]

No flash! After that I will have nothing to complain about.

[Europa]

All I'm saying is that man might destroy his ecosphere, but he won't destroy the planet. The earth has suffered through several large collisions in its ancient past, so anything we do ecology-wise won't permanently hurt it.

Don't get me wrong - again. I'm all for humans taking reasonable care in protecting the environment, but I'm tired of hearing from different groups (who need publicity and money to go on existing) that man is the sole cause of climate change. Earth itself has something to do with it as well.
While that is true, you can't take it so far to lift all of our blame. We do have a part in it. I think most people realize that it can't all be attributed to humans, and it's unfortunate that these groups present it that way. Volcanoes contribute millions of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year.

Just because it has been fine, doesn't mean it will continue to be fine. Look at what happened to Venus.

[evolution83]

this thread is WAY off topic lol

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

You're missing my point completely.

I'm not absolving people of all blame for our environmental woes. Please show me where I did.

You brought up a very good point about volcanoes. One good eruption can wipe out any good we've done up until now.

Look what happened to Venus. Are you saying that there were people on Venus who caused its current greenhouse state? I'm sure that Venus' closer orbit to the sun had nothing to do with it at all. Venus has survived just fine.

And curse those Martians as well. They had a lot of nerve destroying their water supply and thinning out their atmosphere. It would have been perfect for us if they hadn't ruined things for everybody. I could be drinking gloog and making sleemoff at the foot of Olympus Mons f it hadn't been for those greedy green bastards.

Of course, I'm being a little facetious here, but my point still stands. We can discuss it until the cows come home (and let's not mention their noxious emissions!), but nothing will be settled. We're on two different sides of this issue. :dft010:smiling

[psylichon]

http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080908/Thread-Offtopic-Derailed.jpg

[Silent Assassin]

It's cool.. I like the discourse...

We'll get it back on track in a few hours.. let these guys have at it..

[Europa]

You're missing my point completely.

I'm not absolving people of all blame for our environmental woes. Please show me where I did.

You brought up a very good point about volcanoes. One good eruption can wipe out any good we've done up until now.

Look what happened to Venus. Are you saying that there were people on Venus who caused its current greenhouse state? I'm sure that Venus' closer orbit to the sun had nothing to do with it at all.

And curse those Martians as well. They had a lot of nerve destroying their water supply and thinning out their atmosphere. It would have been perfect for us if they hadn't ruined things for everybody. I could be drinking gloog and making sleemoff at the foot of Olympus Mons f it hadn't been for those greedy green bastards.

Of course, I'm being a little facetious here, but my point still stands. We can discuss it until the cows come home (and let's not mention their noxious emissions!), but nothing will be settled. We're on two different sides of this issue. :dft010:smiling
I just think you implied that we have no part in it when you said, "no one is destroying the Earth". You later agreed we do have a [small] role in it.

Lol, no I'm not saying people were involved with what happened on Venus. The greenhouse effect got started there and was similar to ours at one point, but then it basically snowballed and a massive greenhouse effect naturally occurred. The CO2 blanket is responsible for temps hot enough to melt steel on its surface. Venus has survived just fine?!? It's one of the most hostile places in the solar system. It's now 900+ degrees and it rains sulfuric acid.

Do you know how cold it gets on Mercury? There are a lot more variables than proximity to the Sun, such as atmospheric contents and how tenuous they are.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I just think you implied that we have no part in it when you said, "no one is destroying the Earth". You later agreed we do have a [small] part in it.

Lol, no I'm not saying people were involved with what happened on Venus. The greenhouse effect got started there and was similar to ours at one point, but then it basically snowballed and a massive greenhouse effect that naturally occurred. The CO2 blanket is responsible for temps hot enough to melt steel on it's surface. Do you know how cold it gets on Mercury? There are a lot more variables than proximity to the Sun, such as atmospheric contents and how tenuous they are.

Okay. let me try to say this in simpler terms:

The planet earth itself is in no danger from our ecological follies. The planet will be fine. Man's ecosystem might be damaged or destroyed, but the planet will continue to tippy-shay its merry way around the sun as it always has in its lifetime. I'm making a distinction between the planet and our ecosystem.

The origin of Venus' greenhouse atmosphere is a theory - not proven. Venereal disease? Now that's proven.

And, yes, I know about Mercury. You're not the only amateur astronomer to ever grace EiC. I'm sending Mizar and Alcor over to beat you up. :dft010:smiling

[MrEous]

I don't think MMS (nor the network) will be a problem on Friday.

Carry on

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I have a feeling it won't be a big problem, either.

[Youngbinks]

What's all this MMS business?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Shaddap. :dft010:smiling

[Silent Assassin]

the new iTunes update renders the rigged MMS fix that everyone has been using useless...

hurry up and wait!

[Hookem99]

MMS has been working for me for over a week(not hacked). It works well sending and receiving between at&t phones, but has been very intermittent to/from phones on other networks. I hope these issues are cleared up by the time the official release is made. At&t has had enough time to prepare, I would love to think they will get it right the first time, but still have my doubts.

[adnurahs]

It's people on here complaining about the rigged version of MMS already...

they done ran some code to figure out how to get MMS working, before AT&T officially releases it, but then got the nerve to complain that the bootleg version doesn't work properly... and are asking for assistance on how to get it going... LOL

I be wanting to say... "uhhh, you can try waiting til the 25th, that might work.. and is probably the only thing that will GUARANTEE it'll work..", but that would be mean...

that's like stealing someones prepaid phone, then complaining because there's no minutes on it...

You gotta love us... LOL

ROFLMAO!! That quote right there reminds me of when my husband's iphone was stolen last February and when he called the phone and the thief answered he actually complained to my husband that he had a code on the phone and he could not use it. Although that was so funny, we were dumbfounded and pissed. We couldn't believe his complaint! He actually had a complaint. We never got the phone back, but that was priceless.

I love my iPhone 3GS flaws and all! After being under the "Big "V"'s clutches for 8 long arduous years, I welcome the iPhone problems. Verizon suxed big time for me. Glad to be away from them.

[evolution83]

the new iTunes update renders the rigged MMS fix that everyone has been using useless...

hurry up and wait!

GOOD! I can't wait until tomorrow. While I won't be sending a ton of pics, it will be a nice feature to finally have.

[Silent Assassin]

MMS has been working for me for over a week(not hacked). It works well sending and receiving between at&t phones, but has been very intermittent to/from phones on other networks. I hope these issues are cleared up by the time the official release is made. At&t has had enough time to prepare, I would love to think they will get it right the first time, but still have my doubts.

They won't be, they'll be compounded...

a problem that affected a few users who were lucky enough to get it early, through legal and illegal measures, will then be thrusted upon the entire nation of iPhone subscribers..

unless of course MMS works better the more users you have.. which I doubt.. :dft010:smiling

[Silent Assassin]

ROFLMAO!! That quote right there reminds me of when my husband's iphone was stolen last February and when he called the phone and the thief answered he actually complained to my husband that he had a code on the phone and he could not use it. Although that was so funny, we were dumbfounded and pissed. We couldn't believe his complaint! He actually had a complaint. We never got the phone back, but that was priceless.

I love my iPhone 3GS flaws and all! After being under the "Big "V"'s clutches for 8 long arduous years, I welcome the iPhone problems. Verizon suxed big time for me. Glad to be away from them.

We are a nation deserving people, aren't we...

"Say buddy.. Why'd you have to go and put a code on your iPhone that I just stole from you?? That's pretty selfish of you!"

The nerve of that guy! LOL

[Silent Assassin]

MMS has been working for me for over a week(not hacked). It works well sending and receiving between at&t phones, but has been very intermittent to/from phones on other networks. I hope these issues are cleared up by the time the official release is made. At&t has had enough time to prepare, I would love to think they will get it right the first time, but still have my doubts.

You didn't happen to see this, did ya?? :dft010:smiling

It seems AT&T may be having seconds thoughts about offering MMS to iPhone customers, if the reports filtering out of DSLReports are any indication.

According to the article, “AT&T is extremely nervous about the impending launch of MMS for the iPhone scheduled for this Friday”.

It seems early testing of the MMS features has put a strain on the network, and they’ve had to shore up things beyond what they anticipated, which isn’t good to hear even before the feature launches to millions of iPhone users. They report telling sources “they are seeing record traffic just in the testing phase of the MMS launch”.

Some sources have said that iPhone MMS could push AT&T traffic on their network up by as much as 40% as it launches initially, and they fear it could cause outages or poor performance.

Oh yes... TOMORROW will be Beautiful...

http://thefoologs.com/BLOGIMAGES/v4.gif

"Remember Remember, the 25th of September..."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[evolution83]

Doomsday is coming....

[psylichon]

I, for one, welcome our MMS overlords. I'll be in my basement, on wifi, sending emails all day. :)

[evolution83]

Are they e-mails about your master plan to take over AT&Ts network during launch? :)

[Silent Assassin]

I won't be one of the ppl sending picture messages seconds/minutes after getting the text from AT&T notifying me of it being active...

Life will go on as usual.... I'll just have the ability to do so, when I please... and not so much feel obligated to do it right then and there, to test it out..

THAT is what's going to crash the system.. Everybody is going to want to test drive it 4 or 5 times as soon as they get the activation message... LOL

5 bars just turned into 1...

[Silent Assassin]

Let the games begin!

from this...

http://www.yubm.org/images/Starting-line.jpg

to this

http://reelsofrhyme.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/frustrated-man13.jpg

and finally... THIS

http://www.knitwareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/protest.jpg

[Silent Assassin]

So has anyone gotten the LEGAL carrier update yet??

Anyone... Anyone..... Bueller??

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

It's a bit early, isn't it?

[psylichon]

MMS works here. No complaints yet. :)

[scottjf8]

MMS works here. No complaints yet. :)

Did you get it this morning, or are you part of the snobbery group that hacked their carrier update to get it weeks ago? :D

[up10ad]

Since the topic of this thread is MMS complaints, and since the official MMS has not yet been released, I want to hear Europa and Naps talk more about planetary chaos; any comments about Uranus? What is each of your takes on how it is pronounced? And is Pluto still a planet?

[Europa]

Pluto got the shaft big time in 2006, lol.
I don't care for either of the pronunciations. You have to choose from urine (urine-us) and anus (your-anus). Therefore, I sometimes refer to it as, "the planet William Herschel discovered" ;)

[Silent Assassin]

I like Pluto.

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/pluto1.jpg

[Europa]

Me too, but its blocking my sun.

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews/fig6.jpg

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/Gathomblipoob/2388642010_a334bd11cc.jpg

[Krunk83]

My complain is that it's taken this long for at&t to get their stuff together and give it to us.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Me too, but its blocking my sun.

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews/fig6.jpg

Damn Kuiper objects.

[Silent Assassin]

My complain is that it's taken this long for at&t to get their stuff together and give it to us.

Did the iPhone have it when you bought it, and it just stopped working? :dft010:smiling

If so, then I understand your angst..

[Hookem99]

Did the iPhone have it when you bought it, and it just stopped working? :dft010:smiling

If so, then I understand your angst..

I was thinking the same thing. Besides, if MMS was out months ago, people would find something else to complain about! Just like they will after MMS is released......

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

We'll be back to the, "Where's my front-facing camera?" whining.

[Hookem99]

We'll be back to the, "Where's my front-facing camera?" whining.

And why didn't fw 3.2 add it to my 3G :dft012:wink

[Silent Assassin]

Yes, it definitely needs a front facing camera.. maybe if we complain enough, we'll get one in the 5G.. or the 5GS

[Europa]

5GS, lol!

I hope we don't have to wait that long.

[Silent Assassin]

Haven't tried to send an MMS yet, but it's not looking good I hear.. LOL

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

My brother just got the carrier update and MMS on his 3G, and he's running 3.0.

[Europa]

My brother just got the carrier update and MMS on his 3G, and he's running 3.0.
What carrier/ipcc was he on before getting the update? I'm wondering if it is because he updated that. Mine is 4.0 and I didn't get the update and Apple's website says you have to be on 3.1.

[Krunk83]

It's out already?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

What carrier/ipcc was he on before getting the update? I'm wondering if it is because he updated that. Mine is 4.0 and I didn't get the update and Apple's website says you have to be on 3.1.

He was previously on 5.0 (we had updated it to 5.0 last week).

[NHenry5]

its a little slow, which is expected. but besides that i have no complaints.

[Youngbinks]

Wait so what is the new carrier file? Is it still 5?

[scottjf8]

Wait so what is the new carrier file? Is it still 5?

5.5 I guess.. I'm running 5.0 on my Jaibroke 3.01 3GS phone and MMS works.

[Silent Assassin]

5.5 is my carrier setting

[Youngbinks]

Ah interesting. I'll stick with 5.0 until I'm sure you can tether on 5.5. Unless you already can?

[evolution83]

Got my carrier file update and I'm now on 5.5 with MMS enabled.

This is what my friend on Facebook had to say about MMS:

"Ok. I've sent 2 MMSs and I'm done. Fun is over. 2 years for this? Stupid...LOL."

[Youngbinks]

Can't please everyone I suppose.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I'd like to correct some erroneous information posted earlier by the Pod People who momentarily took over my body.

My brother had 3.1, not 3.0, on his iPhone when he got the updated carrier file today.

[mstape]

Well im already done being able to send mms messages. I got to have my fun earlier but now it takes forever for the status bar to complete and I get an error everytime except if I turn wi-fi and 3g off. Im not gonna switch everything off everytime I send a picture message??

[biggrumpy]

i tried the carrier update last week, tried it a couple times, didn't work, let it go

just downloaded the real carrier update, worked the first time with WIFI on, let it go, cool to have and will probably use it some, but enough to complain and gripe about

on to the next one

[seanwes]

I wish you could save received voice recordings. :(

[Watcher]

Ooooo!! I wanna complain! :ok:ok

[MrEous]

Still no issues in Dallas.

[adnurahs]

The wildest thing that happend when I used MMS this past Friday, October 2nd was I sent a few pics through MMS and my recipient only received one of the pictures while on my side the pictures were there. The same day I sent a video and they didn't receive that at all. It was on my side shown as sent so I expected them to get it. It only happened on Friday nothing strange so far. I guess the network was busy.

Other than that, I sure like having MMS. It's great!

[juls1585]

The wildest thing that happend when I used MMS this past Friday, October 2nd was I sent a few pics through MMS and my recipient only received one of the pictures while on my side the pictures were there. The same day I sent a video and they didn't receive that at all. It was on my side shown as sent so I expected them to get it. It only happened on Friday nothing strange so far. I guess the network was busy.

Other than that, I sure like having MMS. It's great!

i had the same issues on friday as well it was in the mid afternoon around 1pm eastern time (i remember because i was on lunch) it corrected itself later in the day. since then everything has been fine for me

[Austinsdc]

I sent my family members some pictures thru mms. They showed up on their phone as being from a completely different number than mine. Different area code and everything. Then tonight my sister sent me a picture from her phone and it showed up on my phone as coming from an international number. Anyone else experiencing this?

[rarity]

My family on tmobile cannot receive my mms, nor can I receive theirs. Smh

[evolution83]

I sent my family members some pictures thru mms. They showed up on their phone as being from a completely different number than mine. Different area code and everything. Then tonight my sister sent me a picture from her phone and it showed up on my phone as coming from an international number. Anyone else experiencing this?

Happened to me today. I received an MMS from some # I don't even recognize.

Image below:

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9716/noname2o.jpg


I told my buddy about it and he thinks he's being gay hacked lol

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7284/convo.jpg

[styfle]

LOL nice convo

[evolution83]

He's funny as hell. IDK why he thinks someone hacked into his phone lol

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

"Doublicate" texts?

<inserting fork through right eye>

[evolution83]

He doesn't always proofread, Naps. I've learned to just accept that and move along lol