Sending Pics/Vids in Text messages - Motorola Q Forum

DarkStar87 · 05-28-2007, 08:53 PM

Hey when I take a picture and want to send it I click send and it gives me the option to do email or text so I do text. I used to do text all the time with my razor but when I send it it doesnt attach the picture for some reason. Any help would be appreciated

extremum · 05-28-2007, 09:09 PM

Do you have SPrint? If so, Sprint doesn't have MMS support for this phone. Therefore, you don't send pics/videos/sound files over a text message. Your only option would be to send it via email.

DarkStar87 · 05-28-2007, 09:10 PM

No I'm with Telus

da84tona · 05-28-2007, 09:10 PM

hmmm I know Alltel does not support MMS either. its possible Telus has blocked this feature as well?

extremum · 05-28-2007, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkStar87

No I'm with Telus

Just did a little research for ya - Sprint and Telus use the same network. Sorry. Email is the only way to send media attachments.

DarkStar87 · 05-28-2007, 09:19 PM

Thats so weird that they allow it for other phones including ones from motorola but not the q... oh well thanks for the help.

extremum · 05-28-2007, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkStar87

Thats so weird that they allow it for other phones including ones from motorola but not the q... oh well thanks for the help.

Exactly. I share the same pain. Rumor has it, Sprint will eventually support universal MMS. It's really no big deal to me. Emails don't have text limitations, so you don't have to worry about broken up messages beyond 160 characters. Plus, if you don't have a text message plan, but have a data plan, you can have unlimited data access for pictures and email. All you have to do is get your buddy's phone email address - it's the 10-digit number plus...

AT&T Wireless
@mobile.att.net

Cingular
@cingularME.com

Nextel
@messaging.nextel.com

Sprint PCS
@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Tmobile
@tmomail.net

U.S. Cellular
@email.uscc.net

Verizon
@vtext.com

VirginMobile
@vmobl.com

da84tona · 05-28-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by extremum

Exactly. I share the same pain. Rumor has it, Sprint will eventually support universal MMS. It's really no big deal to me. Emails don't have text limitations, so you don't have to worry about broken up messages beyond 160 characters. Plus, if you don't have a text message plan, but have a data plan, you can have unlimited data access for pictures and email. All you have to do is get your buddy's phone email address - it's the 10-digit number plus...

AT&T Wireless
@mobile.att.net

Cingular
@cingularME.com

Nextel
@messaging.nextel.com

Sprint PCS
@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Tmobile
@tmomail.net

U.S. Cellular
@email.uscc.net

Verizon
@vtext.com

VirginMobile
@vmobl.com

I too am very angry that my provider (Alltel) does not support MMS. How Ironic, they require you to switch to a more expensive unlimited data use, unlimited text, and UNLIMITED MMS plan when you buy the Q.

As for just using their 10-digit phone number + @message.alltel.com , It doesn't even work when sending from one Alltel customer to another! Even the top of tech support ladder at Alltel will strait up tell you, "you cannot send or receive MMS's on your phone. Its not supported"
If you try to do the number@message.alltel.com , it only sends the filename of the picture you were trying to send, with no actual file attached.

Why on Motorola's website do they list the phone as being MMS capable? THATS what I don't understand, Along with how our providers can be so stupid to leave it out of their provider specific software implementations !

extremum · 05-28-2007, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by da84tona

I too am very angry that my provider (Alltel) does not support MMS. How Ironic, they require you to switch to a more expensive unlimited data use, unlimited text, and UNLIMITED MMS plan when you buy the Q.

As for just using their 10-digit phone number + @message.alltel.com , It doesn't even work when sending from one Alltel customer to another! Even the top of tech support ladder at Alltel will strait up tell you, "you cannot send or receive MMS's on your phone. Its not supported"
If you try to do the number@message.alltel.com , it only sends the filename of the picture you were trying to send, with no actual file attached.

Why on Motorola's website do they list the phone as being MMS capable? THATS what I don't understand, Along with how our providers can be so stupid to leave it out of their provider specific software implementations !

Motorola Q DOES support MMS. Unfortunately, providers like Sprint, Alltel, and Telus don't support MMS - I know, it sucks. Supposedly, they're making attempts to resolve the issue - something with the network itself isn't making it work. Keep in mind, the Moto Q has only been around with Sprint and its predecessors or a short while, so they're working out the bugs to make MMS possible. My biggest surprise, is that this phone doesn't support Sprint's Power Vision Package (Sprint Navigation and Sprint TV). However, this is a business-oriented phone, not a phone for entertainment. Personally, I'm more concerned with Sprint making the Q Windows Mobile 6 upgradable, like Verizon.

At the same time, they're trying to push the their line of new Treos and Blackberries, to compete with T-Mobile Dash, Cingular's new phones, and other hi-end smartphones/PocketPCs. The cellular market now, is focused on making the ideal GSM smartphone/PocketPC.

Aside from this, if you have Verizon, you will have full MMS capability with the Q.

If I were to do it all over again, I'd have the Q with Verizon. However, I got a tremendous deal for the Sprint Q, because I was a previous Nextel subscriber. Sprint literally voided my previous existing contract fees with Nextel, voided my activation fees, and gave me every rebate imaginable to make sure I got the Sprint Q for free. IMO, this phone serves its purpose for me. I can live without MMS, for now. Since I'm a computer/PDA guru, and I can handle the burden of sending media files through cellular email, rather than MMS. Overtime, you'll be able to deal with it as well. Give it time.

da84tona · 05-28-2007, 11:08 PM

never! lol. i will probably eventually learn of some way to get around it, or live without it im sure. for me, its more a matter of principle than anything. i love my q, every phone has its downfalls, and thats understandable. BUT the point is that they lied to my face. they said whatever they needed to sell me this phone. ilove this phone, im glad i bought it, because i love tweaking and messing with my phones. oh well, ur probably right