mms on iphone 4s with straighttalk

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know asking for poligtness was rude. I will make sure to have it reviewed by an Apple moderator. Thank you.

Hey, I came across this link when i was trying to activate my phone's mms. I am not adverstising, or anything like that. This website helped me create an APN.

Solution A

1. Connect your iPhone to some wifi/wireless network which can give your iPhone Internet access

2. From your iPhone Safari browser, open the website : m.apnchanger.org

3. Choose "Automatically" and pick up the carrier from the pull down menu

4. Then press "Install Profile" and allow installation of the new profile on your iPhone

Solution B

1. Connect your iPhone to some wifi/wireless network which can give your iPhone Internet access

2. From your iPhone Safari browser, open the website : m.apnchanger.org

3. Choose "Manually" and type the APN settings for your carrier, to get the user name and password for the APN, check our Main Page (choose country and cellular provider)

4. Save the profile and re-start your iPhone

That only works for Data APN settings. Doesn't change the APN for MMS unfortuately. Nice try. There are several websites that create an APN profile like the one you posted.

I was also told by straight talk that the cdma phone is the one I needed in order for it to work correctly. My phone cuts out after 2-5 min. into a phone call while I am at home. I don't understand how I am able to start out fine in a phone call then it drops, straight talk told me its my phone, needs to be a cdma phone even though when purchasing the sim card gsm sim card was what I needed.

If you'd bothered to read this thread, you would have learned that StraightTalk does NOT support or officially allow unlocked GSM iPhones on their service. They are a CDMA carrier, as they told you. If you want support for using an iPhone on StraightTalk, then buy a StraightTalk CDMA iPhone.

I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but this text is copy/pasted from the http://www.straighttalk.com/ website (click SHOP - SIM CARDS to see this)

YOU NEED TO PURCHASE A STRAIGHT TALK SIM CARD

My phone is an unlocked GSM phone operating in 850 and 1900 MHz bands.

My phone is a GSM T-Mobile compatible phone

My phone is a GSM AT&T compatible phone

All GSM phones sold for use in the USA are supported, you buy your SIM card on the Straight Talk website, receive the package, and follow the instructions for activating, You simply select whether your device is unlocked, T-Mobile or an AT&T compatible, and order the appropriate SIM card. Follow the instructions on the Straight Talk website for updating your APN settings, and off you go. I have friends, family and co workers that use Straight Talk. They ordered their SIM cards and usetheir existing GSM iPhones and Android smartphones. They are happy with the service, and many get full LTE speeds on the data side (as do I). This is handset dependent.

With that said, existing Verizon CDMA devices are not supported, you have to buy the devices through Straight Talk.

I'm not sure what's going on here, if this is ignorance or misunderstanding, but it's not fair to the folks on this forum to be misled with wrong information. Straight Talk is not a carrier, but they are an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) that resells GSM and CDMA service on the three major carriers.

They are a supported CDMA carrier. Using an unlocked GSM iPhone on Straight Talk is not supported, as the posted I was responding to was told by StraightTalk. It's ignorance and misunderstanding, both on the part of the people who are trying to use GSM iPhones on StraightTalk. Of course, it's hard to blame them when ST is so bad at providing accurate information... what else do you expect from a phone company run by WalMart, though...

Straight Talk supports locked and unlocked GSM iPhones, because they provide instructions for updating iPhone APN settings on their website: http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/support/apn/!ut/p/b1/04_Sj9Q1NLGwMDM xNDa10I_Qj8pLLMtMTyzJzM9LzAHxo8ziXQy8fI0DHT2MgozcXA083dyMDHw9gwzc3Q30c6McFQFSoQ4 f/#.UuIiL_bx_hc

In the dropdown box, there are instructions for IOS 5 and earlier, and IOS 6 and later.

Additionally, I am currently using an unlocked iPhone on Straight Talk, and it works perfectly.

I've already ported out of Straight Talk and ported in with AIO Wireless which is an AT&T Subsidiary. My experiences with AIO has been very positive! My iPhone has no issues and loves it! I'm glad to be getting Enhanced/Visial Voice Mail with the service. I may pay $10 more a month than when I was with Straight Talk but trust me it's worth it. They give you 2GB's of data monthly at 4G speeds and after the 2GB they reduce to 3G speeds. No need to do the SIM swap to access the APN settings.

Oh..yes I have read it..."THEY ARE NOT SUPPORTED." "ONLY CDMA PHONES SUPPORTED" "BUY A DICTIONARY" "NOT SUPPORTED"....I could go on and on repeditively...but don't feel the need to repeat the same thing over and over and over again. I would think for as much as you have to repeat yourself...that you would move on to bigger and better things than a apple forum, your knowledge has exhausted us here. Please..feel free to move on...PLEASE...

This a late post but I hope to clarify this matter some.

They are supported! With the correct carrier update from st. It will hold the apn settings and are correct. The issue some are having is that the apn settings are incorrect after the new carrier update because they are incorrect for the older sim. Cut down or not it's a old sim and either need a new one for the new carrier updates or change them manually through various methods and thus deal with them needing re-entered every so often. Needing to carry a st pink TMobile sim around in the case of the phone. Lol. Or jailbreak and install tether me or use iPhone configuration utility to configure a new apn. Then restore in iTunes after you configured the data apn and did the sim swap to configure the rest of it then restore in iTunes. It will keep its apn! It's another way to do it. The jailbreak being the easiest. But all of that can be avoided using the correct carrier update. It's on their site for any sim you have.

And as for you comment on CDMA that's partially correct for the st iphone 5. It's lte radio is useless unless it's on Verizon or Sprint due to the frequency aka channels it has. But there's a sim slot for lte and for gsm. Lte uses gsm technology. It has a quite capable and compatible and supported radio for HSPA+ which is AT&T's so called 4g or really 3G+. It's fast enough for me at 10-15mbps down and 1.5-6mbps up. I use a straighttalk att blue sim in a Verizon iphone 5 with support from straight talk and att as a supported mvno with a current carrier update. Lte is supported with a blue att straighttalk sim and a compatible lte iPhone 4S, 5 or 5s with the right freq aka channels for the carrier of choice this case att. So if you have either model with the right channel or a att or TMobile model that has the right radio, lte is possible on att mvno straighttalk. The carrier updates also help retain the apn settings because there supported by the carrier. Verizon st iphone is set with only 3G (slow as molasses much slower than any gsm 3G service if you want to call CDMA 3G) due to no lte sim installed when purchased. Yes you can go get a sim for lte and go with Verizon prepay. If you can get a straight bill from them!? I personally don't care for Verizon. It's overrated and coverage isn't what everyone claims it is. I go for the oldest and most towers first for wireless service. Plus I like the way gsm technology works on AT&T's system better anyways. Voice and data simultaneously. Verizon has a great fiber internet service and I love the residential speeds. By far the best uploads! Back to the "Supported" subject...

Please, get the facts straight before stating something misleading to many of people. Attitude isn't necessary, it's just a phone. All of the big 4 are "supported" with the correct carrier update which is from the carriers themselves. It's taken some time to altercate the settings to the mvno's liking but it is done and working. With the newest sim and the most recent carrier update from straighttalk you can use a CDMA phone on GSM! Again, LTE is GSM technology.

As for the 5s it has multiple lte radios, so it's not carrier specific. For those who care, yes it will work on st att and on lte with the correct carrier update. Man did I repeat this enough?

From an rf engineer and avid electronic techie in the know.... I hope the helps all in question.

208Bonez wrote:

This a late post but I hope to clarify this matter some.

They are supported! With the correct carrier update from st. It will hold the apn settings and are correct.

False. With the correct carrier update from st. it will work. That doesn't make it "supported". Apple doesn't support it. ST doesn't officially support it. If it works for you, great, but it is NOT supported.

Words matter. Use the right ones.

Please, get the facts straight before stating something misleading to many of people.

Um... sorry. YOU are the one who is misleading people. YOU are the one who doesn't have your facts straight.

Apple does not support the use of an unlocked iPhone on StraightTalk. They only support the CDMA StraightTalk phone on StraightTalk. That's a fact. Deal with it.

From an rf engineer and avid electronic techie in the know....

I don't care if you designed the phone yourself. You're wrong.

The carriers do support it. That's why there is a carrier setting for it!

It is also written in the carrier profile from the carriers under mvno supported devices. No, not by apple! Does apple support anything other than what they want? NO! But to answer and correct your supported advice your mistaken. If I must I will post the "supported" mvno carriers and there info. It's not straight talk to do that anyway it's the block they purchase from the main carrier anyways. The main carrier supports it under mvno. I'd recheck if I was you and look at the current information on the matter. FCC.gov is a start lol

Again. You are wrong. I suggest you educate yourself a bit before you make a bigger fool of yourself.