No more MMS notifications...?!?!?!?

kingakoopa · Feb 23, 2014

Hello All,
Im hoping you can help me out here with my issue.
So I used to get notified whenever I received an MMS with data turned off.
I could tell its an MMS but I could not read it.
In order to read it I would have to turn on my data and the message would show up( whatever it was picture or group message
or a High priority system alert from a server from my office)

Now 2 weeks ago I dont know what changed but this stopped happening.

So I turned on my data one day and I started receiving all these MMS messages that were like a week old.
(one of them was an alert from my office)

which means i was not getting any MMS notifications.

and in order to get MMS notifications I would always need to keep my data on.
How do i get my old setup back which I used to get notified whenever I received an MMS with data turned off.
and In order to read it I would have to turn on my data and the message would show up.

Im on family mobile FYI. Im using stock Nexus 4 ROM. No Root.
Im using GO SMS PRO & switched to CHOMPSMS

Please help me !
Any responses are monumentally appreciated.
Sincerely,
-KK
:-\

kingakoopa · Feb 23, 2014

anyone ?
any ideas please?

Steph618 · Aug 4, 2015

Having the same problem after the dreaded lollipop update and keep getting told its a service provider issue, they say its an android issue, they say its a google issue. No one can tell me how to fix something that worked not 2 weeks ago.

Hadron · Aug 4, 2015

Which phone model and what message app? Those might help us pin it down (and it might be that changing message app would fix it)? It might help to know what carrier too (might not, but that's the other relevant variable I can think of).

Steph618 · Aug 4, 2015

Moto x, messenger, att

Hadron · Aug 4, 2015

Thanks. If it started with the update I'd reckon it's more likely the OS than the app, but it would be interesting to know whether a different default app would change it? I say "default app" because that's one of the new features: you define one message app as your "default" app, rather than all message apps being equal.

So to be sure, prior to the update your situation was like the original poster's - with data off you got a notification, had to turn data on to get the message - and now you don't get a notification unless you have data on? Or do you just not get notified of MMS full stop? And you do still get notified of SMS? Just want to be sure of the exact symptoms, as these might help someone.

Have you checked your APN settings? I don't know about ATT, but some carriers (including mine) use a different APN for MMS than for regular data, which means if that is lost you can have data working but not MMS (on the plus side, it means you don't need to turn data on for MMS to work). So with any MMS problem that is the first thing I would check.

Steph618 · Aug 4, 2015

Hadron said:
Thanks. If it started with the update I'd reckon it's more likely the OS than the app, but it would be interesting to know whether a different default app would change it? I say "default app" because that's one of the new features: you define one message app as your "default" app, rather than all message apps being equal.

So to be sure, prior to the update your situation was like the original poster's - with data off you got a notification, had to turn data on to get the message - and now you don't get a notification unless you have data on? Or do you just not get notified of MMS full stop? And you do still get notified of SMS? Just want to be sure of the exact symptoms, as these might help someone.

Have you checked your APN settings? I don't know about ATT, but some carriers (including mine) use a different APN for MMS than for regular data, which means if that is lost you can have data working but not MMS (on the plus side, it means you don't need to turn data on for MMS to work). So with any MMS problem that is the first thing I would check.

I have not tried a different default app. However, this issue did not start until the update. Before the update a mms would show up when the sender sent it (it would not sound a notification) but would be there to open. Now i have to turn the data on for mms messages to be "delivered". SMS come through fine. An example, a friend and I were texting and in between SMS conversations they sent a pic I had no idea one was sent until the mentioned it, turned data on and it came through. Before the update it would have been in messenger when it was sent and although no sound showing it was there I would have seen it when I received their next SMS and turned the data on to open. The APN is up to date, I think anyway, before this issue I was unable to send or receive MMS even with the data on so I called AT&T and obtained the APN settings. The APN type is default,mms,supl,hipri,fota in case you needed to know.

GSYNCER · Aug 11, 2015

It really is not recommended to use MMS right now because of the very, very serious "Stagefright" MMS bug that Google has managed to find. Do not open an MMS message from someone you do not know.

EarlyMon · Aug 11, 2015

GSYNCER said:
It really is not recommended to use MMS right now because of the very, very serious "Stagefright" MMS bug that Google has managed to find. Do not open an MMS message from someone you do not know.

This may help with your confusion -

http://androidforums.com/threads/stagefright-vulnerability-disable-mms-auto-download.932588/

MLSS · Aug 11, 2015

This whole stage fright thing is way overblown!
It's been around for a long time and no one has used it lol
I wish folks would quit freaking out about anything and everything lol
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AZgl1500 · Aug 11, 2015

EarlyMon said:
This may help with your confusion -

http://androidforums.com/threads/stagefright-vulnerability-disable-mms-auto-download.932588/

that and Textra sent me a SMS message one day saying that I need to upgrade, because they solved the 'StageFright" issue... so I clicked UPGRADE and went back to sleep.... no problems at all for me.

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