I installed the recent MMS update on my iPhone 3G some hours ago and it worked fine! I just tried it right now, and it looks like MMS/picture messaging does not work. Whenever I try to send an MMS message, I get the following error: “Your message was not sent. Tap Try Again to send this message.“. A red exclamation mark appears next to my message and photo that I’m trying to send.
I did a search on Twitter, and it appears that I’m not the only one who has this problem! Other people are having it too. If you are getting an error message, please let us know in the comments. I’m not surprised that AT&T is having these problems today, hopefully they get it fixed soon.
iPhone 3G/3GS Picture Messaging & video messaging on AT&T
iPhone MMS not working?
iTunes Connect is down
We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded
In order to send MMS, your phone must be capable of browsing the internet as well. Sort of.
MMS requires an ‘online connection’ to send messages. This is why some mobile carriers need to send configuration settings to your mobile phone (I’m talking any-brand mobile here) that’ll enable GPRS (or in developed countries — EDGE and 3G).
On the iPhone… it’s quite ridiculous, but I found that it requires at least a WIFI connection to send MMS!! This is ridiculous because I am able to send MMS on an old Sony Ericsson with GPRS (a slower version of EDGE). That said, the iPhone can send MMS messages with much, MUCH better images — and of course bigger filesizes, hence the WIFI or (at least) 3G requirement.
Will try to confirm this again folks. You might be able to send certain MMS (ie: contacts or very small, edited and compressed-with-an-external-app-pics) via an EDGE connection.
im having the same problem but i can send pics but i cant resieve them it tells is the file is too big…. but i tried to send it ipho to iphone and is he same error….. hopethey fix it soon