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Help ::How Do I Save An Image That Has Been Sent To me (MMS)?::

Labas-

I hope I am just overlooking the obvious but I cannot for the life of me save an picture from an MMS into my photo library... I click on the picture once and it blows it up full screen and if I hold down that particular message it gives me the option to (View, Call, Forward, View Details, and Delete). Is there any way to save it to my library so I can save it?

Thank you in advance! :)

-Viso
 
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Well, the funny thing is, when I forward the message to my gmail acount all I get is blue question marks and no picture. So, I send it to my yahoo account and it work nicely, I was able to save it from there. How lame is that! Can't even save images through google, have to go to through another source to do it. I hope they get their act together soon!

David
 
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No long press around the picture area does nothing but bring up a pause start time line. no action no joy.

Yeah, I don't know why, but I can't long press MMS pics anymore either. It used to work but now you have to scroll up to it with the trackball and long press the trackball. Does the same thing as the screen long press method.
 
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Well, the funny thing is, when I forward the message to my gmail acount all I get is blue question marks and no picture. So, I send it to my yahoo account and it work nicely, I was able to save it from there. How lame is that! Can't even save images through google, have to go to through another source to do it. I hope they get their act together soon!

David


Yepp... thats exactly whats going on with me.
 
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Don't long press the pic, long press the area around the pic in the message itself.

Edit: also it won't work if you forward it to your gmail. It has to be forwarded to one of your POP accounts if you have one set up.

worked for me, I forwarded it to gmail, it popped up a second later and was able to download to the phone, no problems.
 
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Has anyone figured out how to save a pic from a mms message. I know if u get a email it let's u down load then it saves it from there. Just can't figure out. Any tips....... anyone :)
...Yeah, unfortunately the only solution right now is to "long press" on the area around the picture that was sent to you and then one of the options will be to Forward. Then just forward the pic to any email address, preferably your Gmail account.

Hopefully they will correct this issue in a future OS update.
 
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Well, it worked, my gmail was received 24 hours laterr, whats up with that.?
Also the same email was sent to my personal home email and work email just to test, and it also arrived 18 to 24 hours later.

The smtp servers must have ahd a problem.

I am happy atleast we have a workaround even if it is like using a commodore. lol
 
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