How to get MMS picture messaging working on a T-mobile G1, Android without the data plan
T-mobile reps almost convinced me that there would be no way to get my picture messaging working on my g1 without the data plan. I turned off the data plan as soon as I set it up upon arrival. According the the T-mobile reps, I can’t even place or receive calls without the data plan. (Either they say anything to get you to buy the plan or they’re just dumb useless fellows, the latter being more accurate based on experience.)
So after doing some yahooing and alot of futsin around, I finally managed to get my MMS working by changing the settings. Here’s what to do:
Goto
Menu -> Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names -> T-Mobile US
Make sure you go into T-mobile US and not any other setting and change the name like I did, don’t even create a new one. It took me 2 months to figure out what I did wrong.
Change the settings to the following:
Name: T-Mobile US
APN: wap.voicestream.com
proxy: 216.155.165.050
port: 8080
Username: not set (delete everything in this field)
Password: not set (delete all here too)
Server: not set (delete the *)
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.050
MMS Port: 8080
MMC: 310
MNC: 260
APN type: not set
Restart your phone. Now your MMS should work. If you have the 5.99 t-zones, I think your internet will work too. (UPDATE- it does work. check here)
[digg=http://digg.com/gadgets/How_To_MMS_picture_messaging_on_Tmobile_G1_without_data_plan]
*Troubleshooting*
1. If you’re having trouble still, go into mobile networks and enable ‘data roaming’ and ‘use only 2G’
2. Make sure your connecting to T-mobile US
-to do this go to the marketplace and download ‘any cut’
-open any cut and click create shortcut
-goto activity and select ‘testing’
-you should have a shortcut on your desktop that says testing, unless your desktop was full.
-click testing -> goto phone info -> this should tell you what connection you are connecting/connected to.
-For some reason if you are not using T-mobile US, change the settings for the appropriate one.
-If phone info shows you are not connected, hit menu and click on more and click enable data.
-now data should be connected.
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sorry guys, I haven’t been keeping up with this topic. Honestly, I don’t ever receive MMS. And If its that important, you can add on the $25 package once every few days, download all your mms the same day and take it off.
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G1 mirror screen protector
UPDATE*- These settings work for iPhone on T-mobile, maybe they might work on the Android:
Data:
APN: web.omwtoday.com
(no user name, no password)
MMS:
APN: web.omwtoday.com
(no user name, no password)
MMSC: http://wirelessfour.mmsmvno.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.50:8080
Max msg size: 1058576
MMS UA PROF URL: (none)
Popularity: 93% [?]
Tags: Android, data plan, droid, g1, mms, mytouch, nexus one, t-mobile g1 gphone settings mms 216.155.165.050, tmobile, tzones
February 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
[...] -For some reason if you are not using T-mobile US, change the settings for the appropriate one. -If phone info shows you are not connected, hit menu and click on more and click enable data. -now data should be connected. …Continue [...]
February 8th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for this tutorial. I was having problems with MMS messages as well, as I also have a G1 with T-Mobile but without a data plan. The APN settings worked perfectly for me
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February 8th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
hey, do you have the apn settings for the AT&T?
February 10th, 2009 at 6:08 am
@ Juhayman
You can find them here – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=475564
February 10th, 2009 at 6:22 am
[...] To get it working on your G1, check my post about getting the MMS to work without having a data planhere. Then go into your test settings and change the data method to WCDMA preferred or unknown. If you [...]
February 11th, 2009 at 5:02 am
[...] it asks you to sign in. click on apn settings and change the Tmobile US settings by following my older post. Now you should have internet access through WCDMA and you should be able to sign in. Posted [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Hey I tried to use these settings with my tzone account, but whenver I try to switch to 2g only, the setting for WCDMA network gets changed back to the default GSM.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
@theg1superusers- try changing the setting to unknown. are you sure you added the tzones plan?
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I want a G1 as well but i don’t want the data plan. So let me get this straight, i can get the data plan and cancel it when i activate the phone and all functions would still work such at wi-fi, text messaging etc. correct?
thanks
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:58 am
you are correct.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hi, I just got a G1 and I canceled the data plan, but 90% of the time i make a call the screens saids “USSD code Running” and then it saids “Connection problem or invalid MMI code” and it prompts me to click ok. This didn’t happen before i canceled the data plan… any ideas would be appreciated.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
the USSD code would be if you typed in like #646# to check the minutes. when you place a regular call, its not a USSD code.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:35 am
I was trying to call my voicemail, and your right regular calls worked just fine, thanks! If i call my voicemail using the 800 number it doesn’t encounter that error message so ill just do that. By any chance do you know how to use a different message tone other then the lame choices they gave us? I have a short mp3 file (3 seconds long) that i want to use as my notification (text) ringtone, I used to have a t mobile dash and it was just a matter of putting the file in the right folder with that phone… not so easy with the G1, sorry for deviating from the thread
March 6th, 2009 at 5:00 am
steve, once you’ve downloaded the mp3 to your phone, you would hold your finger on the file and click on “use as ringtone”. alternatively, you can download the rings extended app from the market.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:31 am
That’s how you set Phone ringtones, but I’m trying to use a differant Notification Ringtone, you know the tone you get when you get a text and other stuff. Any idea on how to use your own instead of the 14 generic choices they give you?
March 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
you need the rings extended app for that. i don’t know if you can do it manually. haven’t looked into that.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Hey it does work when I set it for unknown but somehow the settings wont stick. it will still go back to gsm. Do you know anyway to keep the unknown setting permannet?
April 6th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Ur a life saver, and a genius!!!!! Thanx alot…anymore hacks ill be sure to check with you!!!
April 7th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Settings work great with 2g (GSM only). I haven’t had any luck with 3g (WCMDA).
Have you figured out a way to make google maps work with the WAP connection?
April 11th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
hey guys can anyone please help me i just got the 9.99 t zones and i followed all the steps but when i change the network type to wcdma preffered and try to put the 2g on it resets to gsm can any please help id really apprecetiiate it
April 15th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Hey i’ve tried these settings and nothing is working. what am i doing wrong. Ive put it on 2g and roaming and its connected according to the testing so please help
April 15th, 2009 at 3:16 am
I used the settings above and mms still won’t work and its connected what do I do I’ve tried everying please help
April 16th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Thanks for this…My picture messaging was working after I did this now all of a sudden it stopped…I tried to reneter the information in and did all the trouble shooting…
I dont know what went wrong? Do you have any suggestions? Anyone else having these problems?
Thanks
April 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
hey guys, i tried all the settings and changed them all. but how do i get tmobile to add the tzones on my G1??? what do i sayyy???
April 19th, 2009 at 2:45 am
tell them you want the 9.99 internet and don’t tell them you have a g1. say you have something like a motorola RAZR.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:46 am
try to clear all the settings or reformat.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:47 am
yes, my google maps works.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:59 am
I just recently bought a G1 to use with my flexpay T-Mobile account. Just a phone plan with 400 texts thrown on it. No T-Zones plan or anything like that. Picture messaging isn’t working, as has been said. Are you saying is all I have to do is plug in the info above and follow the steps and it should then allow me to send mms? No t-zones plan required? orry for the noob questions, but it’s all new to me. Thanks in advance.
April 19th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
yes, should work.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Another quick noob question before I give it a go, and thanks for the quick response. With me havng flexpay and therefore can only use what I already paid for, whenever I move too far away from a WiFi hotspot, lose my WiFi, and the icon converts to 3G, am I actually getting 3G since I haven’t paid for it? And if I am, will I be somehow charged later? Again, thanks in advance.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 pm
hey i tried all the settings and everything with downloading the any cut and messing with the settings and everything and restarting my phone afterwards like a 100 times but it doesn’t seem to work..it worked when i put the APN thing in before but now it doesn’t work all of a sudden..please help…and if i do a reset and start the phone again without the data plan im gona have to log in wont I? and if i do it’s not going to let me because i canceled the data plan…please helppp!
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
u must be doing something wrong. you can reset the phone and follow the directions in one of my posts to sign in without a data plan.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
where is that? and are you sure that will work cuz i dont wna get stuck and not be able to sign in after i do a reset..?
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
http://hydtechblog.com/2009/02/11/how-to-register-and-sign-in-the-tmobile-g1-without-data-plan-on-tzones-hack/ check here
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
it won’t let me lol…it says your are not allowed to edit this post.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:20 pm
sorry about that. click here: http://hydtechblog.com/2009/02/11/how-to-register-and-sign-in-the-tmobile-g1-without-data-plan-on-tzones-hack/
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:59 am
Dipen412, if you go about reseting the phone and trying again, can you post wether it works or not because the settings aren’t working for me either. I can get the text of the message, but I can’t download the image. I just bought my phone off a friend,so it was already activated and didn’t have to go through the data plan hassle. I have a text package so it’s weird that it doesn’t work.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
yea samething happens to me…i click download when i get the picture text but it says unable to download or w/e and it won’t let me send pictures either..and yea i kind of dont get the whole reset thing that hydtech posted..but i’ll try it as best as i can and tell you.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
if you dont understand the activation without a data plan, just order the data plan for 1 day and cancel it after you get activated again. It’ll cost you less than a dollar.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
If I have to go a similar route and reset then order the data plan for a day, can you do that on a flex pay account?
April 24th, 2009 at 12:40 am
Hi. I have tried your suggestion above, I am still not able to get the mms. I did the factory restore but still I am having issues. Please help.
Thank you.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:10 am
hmm.. dunno. you can ask cust service and please let us know.
April 24th, 2009 at 4:12 am
all i can say is that it works for everyone else, except for very few people. keep trying. make sure you can receive mms on another phone.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:49 am
it might be FlexPayers who can’t access mms without the data plan, I know that we don’t get call forwarding either so we cant get the Visual Voice mail programs out there on the market I’m also on Flexpay and tried all the settings and still wont work it fails every time I try to download an mms.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
yup, that seems to be the problem. thanks for the input
April 24th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Hi Guys,
Sorry to keep bothering. I am not on FlexPay. I have had my G1 since March. It use to work with APN changes until 2 weeks ago. After it stooped working, I did a factory restore to clear my phone and change the APN again – still does not work. Please Help.
Thank you.
Manny
April 24th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
mine started doing some weird things today. It said my data plan is not compatible with the g1, so i called in and added the 24.99 plan. I’ll cancel it and re-add the 9.99 and see if it works monday.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:33 am
So it’s the flexpay that’s not letting me send & receive mms. That’s a shame, especially since I was able to using the same sim card on the Wing. Since mms is no longer an option, any word when bluetoothing images will be added?
April 25th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
hey! sorry to bouther u guyz. i was using the settings above and it was working fine with mms. but suddenly it is not working now. i guess something is worng. plz let us know who’s is working and what is the new settings if there is any. thanx
April 25th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
you got MMS with the flexpay on your wing? do you recall the MMS settings or the APN settings?
April 25th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I checked through phone info that my data was connected to T-Mobile US using the settings above, but the MMS still does not work. The download button appears in a message and then when u click it, it says message was downloaded unsuccessfully. You cannot even forward it to an e-mail or any other number. Sending a picture message to myself works and I’m able to forward it to e-mail or another number, but when others send it it to me, it does not.
April 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
i deleted all APNs when i got the phone. How do i change the setting to Tmobile US?
i also dl anycut and followed the troubleshooting instructions but do not see any type of connection in phone information.
please help D:
April 26th, 2009 at 5:23 am
HydTech, yeah I was getting mms fine with my wing, and I’ve only ever had a FlexPay account with T-Mobile. Unfortunately, I Don’t know the MMS or APN settings for it, but I do still have my Wing so if you can tell me how to reach that info, I’ll no doubt look it up and let you know what it says.
April 26th, 2009 at 5:37 am
you have to add Tmobile US. to find connection info you have to go into testing.
April 26th, 2009 at 5:39 am
hey, did you try putting ur sim in a friends phone and see if you get mms?
April 26th, 2009 at 5:47 am
When I first got my G1, i put a friend’s sim in (She has a regular phone plan, but it’s not FlexPay) and sent her a picture message from my Wing with my FlexPay account and it showed up fine, no issues. When we tried to do the reverse, her sending it to me with my SIM in the g1, that’s when I run into the issues I’ve been having. I can’t download the actual image. All I get is the text. Do you know how I get those setting from my Wing?
April 28th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I tried changing the T-mobile US settings and my mms messaging is still not working ..help please
May 6th, 2009 at 5:39 am
not working anymore dont know what happened
May 6th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
tmobile is getting trickier
May 6th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
how so becuase mms stil doesnt work for me and its been 1 month everyday trying to get ti to work
May 8th, 2009 at 1:55 am
this fu**ed me up i cant even send anythin
May 8th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I checked the settings on my Wing and I noticed that it was using the APN was T-Mobile MMS. Do you think if you create that APn on our phones, will it work?
May 8th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
maybe post it ill try it
May 10th, 2009 at 1:53 am
mine recently stopped working too
May 13th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I have read ALL of the comments and the post on here and i was just wondering if u could help me out also…i just got the g1 i had a dash before that and my plan was a 5fav but with unlimted MMS/SMS. Now my problem is that i dont have internet plan i just used wifi when i need it at home,school, or work when i need it. at first i try getting messages it would say download unsucessful…then i tried ur APN method when i get to Phone info part it says my
current network: T-Mobile
i know u said T-mobile US in the steps but i dont know how to change that so i think that might be a big problem for me. Or is it because i dont have internet plan? Or where i live is a problem?
Also little things i look at that i think are involved with the troubleshooting…
GPRS service:Disconnected
Newtork type: EDGE
GSM disconnects: State: inactive fail because unknown data error
But a couple of times i did this it was saying GPRS Connecting and setting up and connecting to the T-Mobile US, wap.voicestream.com,-8080,* i think it might be the * at the wnd could be something and it only does this sometimes when i put it to only 2g networks
So can you help or give any tips?
May 13th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
How do I use this with my iPhone?
iphonehelp@flyblackbox.com
May 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I reformatted (which was a hassle because i didnt have the data plan) but it still isnt working…..
I have been reading more into the issue, and Im wondering if my version of the phone (i have the white one) has some kind of software locks in place. I have heard of others suddenly stop working but not all….I dont know which version of the phone they have but that is all i can think…..
Any suggestions?
Thanks alot for taking the time to reply, i really appreciate it.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I second the notion that this doesn’t work anymore. I can receive MMS messages but I can’t actually download them. I have triple verified all the settings and have restarted a few times, but still can’t download messages.
According to testing:
Current network: T-Mobile
GSM Service: In service
GPRS service: Disconnected
GSM Disconnects: =====Data==== State, Inactive. disconnected with last try at blah blah, fail because no error
May 21st, 2009 at 1:53 am
so quick question does this work anymore? bc i filled it all out and sht but its not working for me?
May 21st, 2009 at 1:54 am
so does this still work? ive had the tzones hack for a number a years now ive used it for my iphone for a while. i just got a g1 can i still do this hack?
May 21st, 2009 at 3:01 am
does this still work?
May 21st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Hey the MMS setting don’t work anymore thanx Funkin T-mobile!
May 21st, 2009 at 8:26 pm
ya i had it workin on my blackberry and my iphone. i jus used epc.tmobile.com as the apn
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I WANT PICTURE MESSAGING
THOSE TMOBILE SONS OF BITCHES!!!!!!!
What the hell do they care, they dont already rape us enough with our 100 monthly bill I say we start a revolution!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I just thought I’d share that I’m still pissed about this.
PS – I tried what was suggested earlier: Using epc.tmobile.com … no good.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:00 am
found on the tmobile forums that tmobile disabled mms for nondata plan users. its a ploy to get into more peoples pockets, to have them purchase a data plan for mms even if you already pay for text messages.
May 31st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
After changing all that my mms still not working… my connection says t-mobile how would I get it to t-mobile US. I still can’t reseve or send any mms. Can someone help me out. This is really bugging me.
May 31st, 2009 at 10:45 pm
work like a charm .. and now i can use my 9.99 internet plan
June 8th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
mine isnt worken idk wats wrong with it can any one help me plz plz plz plz plz
June 10th, 2009 at 12:00 am
yeah i have a g1, 5.99 tzones, i can only use wifi for internet and marketplace stuff like that , i have tried all the hacks but have been un able to get the mms to work for me
June 10th, 2009 at 12:03 am
by the way all works for the iphone,pretty much same setup and all,
, I have tried also the send yourself a pic from mytmobile site-didnt work, just thought id mention it too, found it on a forum, and also was the instruction on the t mob web site saying one pic sets it up send a second to verify and your good, but it’s a crap shoot—-anything ever come of the person who took in there G TO A LOCAL DEALER AND GOT A NEW SIM?, the dealer told him there were some funky sims distributed and gave him a new one and it worked- any one verify this?
June 11th, 2009 at 4:17 am
u can use wifi, but i doubt your tzones hack still works. I recently tried the Tzones hack in an iphone and it worked but as soon as I put my sim back into the G1, it gives me a subscription upgrade required error.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
For all you guys getting the “upgrade your…etc.” on the tzones hack. Go to the apn and change from wap.voicestream.com to internet2.voicestream.com. this should do the trick.
-dan
June 12th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
i’ve tried that before. it didn’t work for me. are you sure it works for you or you’re just guessing?
June 13th, 2009 at 3:06 am
how can i use my t mobile phone with other sim plans… still locked.
im in asia..
June 15th, 2009 at 3:46 am
get it unlocked
June 16th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Im sure, It works. Oh but i forgot to say. i use the steel browser and have it set as “desktop” instead of “android” or “iphone” under the menu. The market works fine. the android browser will let you google. but anything else it says access denied, something about a converse. Yahoo web browser works good too.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
this is f*ckin gayy…no one has any idea of how to make it work.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:51 am
ill post a video later with its full functionality.
-dan
June 19th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
It wont let me get mms.
It says downloading but nothing ever is downloaded.
Pleaaassseee hellp!!!
June 20th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Heres the video. Everything works except MMS.
June 20th, 2009 at 4:31 am
Heres the video. Everything works except MMS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaMnsTmsZA
June 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
hHow do I start-up my G1 phone with my prepaid sidekick plan sim card? I did it once before and it was working for months until I updated my phone. How do I fix this? I need to know ASAP! what are the APN setting for free Data service?
June 20th, 2009 at 8:21 am
How do I start-up my G1 phone with my prepaid sidekick plan sim card? I did it once before and it was working for months until I updated my phone. How do I fix this? I need to know ASAP! what are the APN setting for free Data service?
June 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
thanks for the video. try this for mms
http://216.155.174.84/servlets/MMS
June 20th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Quick FYI. Internet pages load faster if you set steel browser to “iphone” instead of “iphone” And just tried mms, still not working with
http://216.155.174.84/servlets/MMS
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 am
I bought g1 and had T-mobile sim card. What can I do to make my sim card work on G1?
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
My internet isn’t working now.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Thanx for the vid Daniel. When I changed the settings everything did work (Steel Browser, Market Place, Gmail…) But it only worked for a couple of mins and then it started giving me the same msg to upgrade the data plan. What do you think is the problem? I have the $5.99 T-Zones. You think there’s a difference between the $5.99 and $9.99 plan?
June 26th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
are you using wap.voicestream.com or internet2.voicestream.com?
June 26th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
internet2.voicestream.com
Can anyone download mms?
June 27th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Hmmm. I know that t-zones was used on wap.voicestream.com. And once they shut the g1 off of wap.voicestream.com i switched to internet2.voicestream.com and got back up and running. Maybe there is a difference. Just yesterday (6/26/09) i set up a friends g1 to run the 9.99 plan and it worked just fine. Give it a shot.
-Dan
June 27th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
well eberything works but I can’t download mms.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
none of it is working for my G1…
June 30th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Anyone get mms working yet?
July 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Alright so here’s the deal. Tmobile found out a bazillion people were using this hack. So all they had to do was shut this server down and there would be no more. And they did. They fixed all our hacks… All of them. Well. Good thing I have a backup phone to receive mms ^-^. Good luck. N I hope new hacks come soon…
July 7th, 2009 at 2:08 am
ok i switch my notification ringtone just fine but i wanna change it to something different but it is not changing can someone help
July 8th, 2009 at 12:12 am
my text messaging is working but cant send/receive picture msgs
July 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
This actually worked perfect for me. I changed the settings the exact way you said to, went back to 2 mms i recieved, pressed download and it worked. I told 2 of my friends to send another one, and it appeared without the ‘download’ button. thanx
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:26 am
i dont have the data plan for the G1 .. nd my MMS stopped workin after a while .. i looked at yur tutorial nd changed the settings but it still didnt work and wen i added the any cut from the marketplace nd went to testing i clicked enable data connection nd after a quick second it gets disconnected .. am i doing something wrong?
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:56 am
TMOBILE SURELY KNOWS HOW TO PISS PEEPL OFF! WAT DA HELL THIS IS SUM BULLSHYT .. watts da point of buyin an expensive as hell fone if yu kant work it properly wit da original plan that yu have …
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Hi, i got my t-mobile g1 phone without the tmobile sim from a cousin.How can i get it up and running since there’s no service even if the tmobile sim is available?Thanks!
July 30th, 2009 at 1:12 am
You are so stupid this does not workk!!!!!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
t mobile got smart because cheap bastards wanted to save 5 bucks
July 31st, 2009 at 5:42 am
Guys,any ideas on how i can get my phone up nd runnin without d T-mobile sim.There’s no service where i reside.
July 31st, 2009 at 7:30 am
T-mobile network is not available in my area and so is at& t.The SIM i tried with the phone gave a message “my sim card may not b provisioned for data services”. What should i do?thanks for your earlier response!
July 31st, 2009 at 7:31 am
T-mobile network is not available in my area and so is at& t.The SIM i tried with the phone gave a message “my sim card may not b provisioned for data services after loggin on to google”. What should i do?thanks for your earlier response!
July 31st, 2009 at 6:32 am
Get at&t and look up the apn codes for it
August 1st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Well what service is there and where abouts do you live in you have neither?
haha
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
I reside in Nigeria and the service providers available here are either locals or from South Africa.How can i get the phone running?Thanks again!
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
So if i want to do all this i have to buy the plan first?
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:27 am
I did what you said and its still saying it was unsucessful downloading it.
August 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Get a sim card from any one of those companys that has 3g service.
Wait is it unlocked?
August 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
i have tried a 3.5g SIM with the phone and it still gave the message “my sim card may not b provisioned for data services after loggin on to google”.What do you think might be wrong or could it be that it’s locked or what?Thanks for your earlier posts!!!!
August 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Is there any news on the MMS situation? I have been missing out on a lot of things because T-Mobile wants to try and squeeze out every penny.
Please let me know if there are any work arounds or thoughts!
August 9th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I too am curious about the situation on the MMS. I love how this topic turned into a “how to get a G-1 working on an African SIM card” thread. I imagine there is a much better place to vent those questions. Meanwhile, us T-Mobile customers paying for unlimited texts are getting hosed. I get a picture message every other day that I can’t download… talk about lame.
Let’s get this topic back on point… Has anyone heard / figured out anything about MMS without a data plan?
August 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
sorry guys, I haven’t been keeping up with this topic. Honestly, I don’t ever receive MMS. And If its that important, you can add on the $25 package once every few days, download all your mms the same day and take it off.
August 12th, 2009 at 5:03 am
umm you used all the settings that you got from this website and it works fine?
August 14th, 2009 at 1:56 am
yo wad up brother?! i tried this on the new phone G2 aka my touch but it doesnt work i guess! you think you could help me out! tHankS
August 18th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
i changed the settings and tried the any cut app
and i still cant send mms
pls help
August 30th, 2009 at 8:35 am
well the part where u see the mms port the next one of mine says mcc not mmc like it is on the site. and mines is not working at al
September 1st, 2009 at 3:55 am
Can someone help me?!!
All my settings worked perfectly without a data plan
But after I got the cupcake update my MMS messages won’t work.
September 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I had to fix my new blackberry the other day cause i couldnt send or recieve mms . tech support had me go through a bunch of steps to get me off edge and onto EDGE. that’s right from lower case edge to upper case EDGE. it worked and now the blackberry can send and recieve mms without data package. i asked them to do the same for one of my G1′s that does not have the data package. they chuckled and said they can’t do it. sorry you have to buy the data package to use mms on G1. i am still waiting for someone to crack this.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:54 pm
do you remember the steps?
September 1st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
hi,
any update on my previous post?
September 4th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
anyone find a new way yet?
September 10th, 2009 at 3:13 am
I tried to get tzones on my g1 and they didnt offer it becuase I have the g1 but they will let me get tzones if I place my acct on my tmobile Dash but then will I be able to place my sim card in my g1 and have no problems in trying this out. Please let me know what you think. Thx
September 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
you just tell them you have a tzones capable phone! i always told them I had a motorola. let us know how it goes.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:40 am
my mms is still not working any hellp. mine said mcc not mmc
September 17th, 2009 at 5:59 am
do I need the tzones thing?
September 20th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Yo got an AT&T Tilt, but have T-Mobile so used an online unlocking service through ebay. Cost me just $4 to get the unlock code. After I unlocked it, I got on the T-mobile network. I still have the $5.99 t-zones so I used epc.tmobile.com as the APN: Homescreen -> Settings -> Connections -> Add a new modem connection -> name for the connection “TZones” -> Select a Modem -> Cellular Line (GPRS, 3G) -> Access Point Name: epc.tmobile.com -> no un/pw/domain – Finish. This has been working great for me except after a week, it stopped working. I removed the modem link, went to t-mobile – my phone -> and set my “Unknown phone” to a Razr. Then waited a little while again and now my AT&T Tilt and epc.tmobile.com is working great. Skyfire even works well now which it didn’t with this method on my old Shadow. Still MMS doesn’t work and haven’t found a fix for that yet.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
So is the tzones data plan still working with the g1? With flexpay?
September 21st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Also, hydtech, what made you stop using it?
September 21st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
i don’t think this has been working for a while on the G1. Some still claim it works tho.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:10 am
k thx
September 29th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
hey im still having the problem even when i did wat u said, i did that nd now it tells me it was unable 2 even quicker then normal plz email me or post on this wat 2 do asap or email me at erinehold92@gmail.com
October 9th, 2009 at 1:05 am
it doesn’t work still
October 11th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
nope, i called customer support nd they said the only possible way to send nd receive pic messages is to hav a data plan
October 14th, 2009 at 3:52 am
i kinda learned not to listen to tech support ever since they insisted that a g1 without data plan would be useless….
October 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Hey i think these settings have been blocked has anyone figured out a way to get mms with out a data plan. or maybe even through wifi?
October 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
can any1 help me on this, i cant figure this problem out
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
[...] it asks you to sign in. click on apn settings and change the Tmobile US settings by following my older post. Now you should have internet access through WCDMA and you should be able to sign [...]
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
[...] get it working on your G1, check my post about getting the MMS to work without having a data plan here. Then go into your test settings and change the data method to WCDMA preferred or unknown. If you [...]
November 15th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
[...] How to get MMS picture messaging working on a T-mobile G1 without the data plan moved to http://hydtechblog.com/2009/02/06/how-to-get-mms-picture-messaging-working-on-a-t-mobile-g1-without-... [...]
November 17th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
This isn’t working. Anyone know of an update? I can get and send MMS fine on my HTC Wizard with the same SIM card, and T-Mobile says it’s possible to send and receive MMS with the HTC Dream if you have a data plan, so it’s obviously technically possible to use it with the SIM card and the HTC Dream. How do we configure it?
March 13th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
does it really work? i dont wanna get my phone a virus! plz tell me i dnt wanna have to regret this…
March 25th, 2010 at 2:22 am
this worked for me.
march 2010
April 5th, 2010 at 11:25 am
I am able to receive but not send mms. Help!!!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Tzones data don’t work with wap.voicestream.com method.Somebody has this method working?
May 20th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I’ve done all the above but I still can’t send or receive pictures. What else can I do????????????????????????????
May 20th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
did everyhting changed everything and still no sms or mms., What else can I do? Please e-mail me. This G1 is driving me bananas
June 14th, 2010 at 1:30 am
It worked for me !
June 30th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
This definitely works. Thank you so much!
July 24th, 2010 at 6:46 am
worked for me using the aria. thanks, it was a BIG help!
August 15th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
YUP! worked for me too, (G1) i tried so many of those trick but this one def works, just for mms tho, I’d love the internet to work also
August 21st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
it tells me that “subsciption upgrade required” your current plan is not compatible with ur device. please click here to view plan option. hellp????
August 21st, 2010 at 4:08 pm
thank you soo much i did exactly what you wrote here and it worked instantly, the funny thing is i had just got off the phone with customer service and they were telling me a bunch of bull, and then i found this so thank you. this will work if you follow the directions.
October 26th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Here is what you do for a 3Gs Iphone that is jailbroke on Walmart’s My Family Mobile to get MMS to work:
Goto
Menu -> Settings -> general -> cellular data
Skip the APN for voice and got to MMS APN section then
APN: wap.voicestream.com
proxy: 216.155.165.050:8080
Username: not set (delete everything in this field)
Password: not set (delete all here too)
Server: not set (delete the *)
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS Proxy: 216.155.165.050
Leave rest blank.
Exit out and power cycle phone.
That is it.
November 27th, 2010 at 2:01 am
these are the right settings for G1 thanks a lot i was in t mobile a couple of times and nobody couldn’t help me.if somebody have a htc magic from overseas and use t mobile use these settings they work just great for me.thank again
December 19th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Worked fine on rooted G1 running Android 2.1, using the settings exactly as above and rebooting.