iMessage on 3G connection

Same exact problem please someone help!!

I have the exact same issue. I was thinking iMessage might be wifi only but all literature I've read says it should work on 3G. All my friends have been able to use their iMessage over 3G. I've checked all my settings numerous times. What gives?

I had the same problem as well and found a solution that worked for me :

First I did probably like you and upgraded to ios5 and then restored all items on my iphone through itunes. Then I had the issue with imessage over 3G.

So I restored my iphone through itunes but then set it up as a new one and then it all worked fine.

To make sure this was the issue I then restored it to a date prior to the update and upgraded and restored like I did the first time and then I had the issue again with iMessage, so I did a new iPhone again and now it is working fine again.

Some bug somewhere probably in the upgrade process...

Same problem. Works fine on wifi. Not working on 3G. Please help.

A temporary solution until apple sorts this; if you press and hold the undelivered iMessage an option pops up to send as a text message immediately.

Hi guys,

I had the exact same problem on my iPad. iMessage worked perfectly over wi-fi, but I never could send or receive messages over 3G. The progress bar got stuck at around 90%.

Turns out, it was a misconfiguration of the APN settings for cellular data. The default settings that appeared in my iPad differ from the recommended ones (http://www.swisscom.ch/res/hilfe/internet/ipad/gprs/index.htm, in my case the username and password fields were not empty). Somehow, 3G always worked fine for everything else but this.

I hope this information is useful for you. I have been struggling with iMessage and know how exasperating it can be...

I have the same isue and restored last night. When I set up my phone as new, it worked correctly. As soon as I restored my settings, it stopped working again.

When you set up as new, you lose ALL settings, apps, texts, etc... and I'm just not willing to do this! Is there any other way to revert your system settings to the default to fix this bug without losing all of your personal data?

Ritali's suggestion about the APN user and password fixed my problem. Cleared those two fields and now iPad 2 is able to send iMessage over 3G.

My issue was on Swisscom. Clearing user and password on APN screen fixed the issue with iMessage over 3G. APN value is gprs.swisscom.ch.

So if I restore as new Phone then don't sync my apps and music etc. It should work? If i use Icloud would thad bugger it all up?

I wonder how many people with this same issue use icloud?

So if I restore as new Phone then don't sync my apps and music etc. It should work? If i use Icloud would thad bugger it all up?

I wonder how many people with this same issue use icloud?

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I could not find APN catagory on my phone did find VPN. Im new to all this so any help would be appreciated.