Straight Talk MMS & Data fix!

Now do I have to activate a tmobile or simple SIM card because they won't issue me one unless I buy a plan or can I just buy one from eBay and try it with that

Dead on the money... I had tried likewise on a 3gs...that was working with the settings and then suddenly quit???

Tried several times but then watched the youtube and did the notes trick and wham...done MMS back and working.. The video works but does go a little slow..maybe that's a good thing

Basically insert tmobile or other sim card... I use a China Mobile card I have.

Go to settings/ General/ Cellular/ Cellular Data Network

leaving this page open, now double click the home button and open "notes"

At this point switch out sim cards back to the straight talk sim.... Leaving the notes page open wait for the home icon to appear in the upper left hand network window at the top.. Once it says home....

Double click the home button again, click on the settings icon that is at the bottom in active applications...The cellular Data Network page will still be there...now type in exactly what is shown below then click out of the cellular data network page back to cellular page...

Now double click the home button again and try to MMS ......you should be rolling with MMS ..worked for me...YEAH!

Cellular Data

APN: att.mvno

Username:

Password:

MMS

APN: att.mvno

Username:

Password:

MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com

MMS Proxy: 66.209.11.33:80

MMS Max Size: 1048576

MMS UA Prof URL:

I HAVE A SPRINT IPHONE 5 THAT I UNLOCKED VIA THE GPP SIM.

I WAS USING SIMPLE MOBILE AND HAD NO PROBLEMS AT ALL.

I LEFT THE COUNTRY AND TURNED MY PHONE OFF FOR ABOUT 3 WEEKS.

WHEN I CAME BACK MY IPHONE WOULD NOT RECOGNIZE THE SIM. AT FIRST IT WOULD SAY SEARCHING, NOW, ABOUT A WEEK LATER, IT CHANGED TO NO SIM.

CAN ANYONE HELP? THANKS

I could not get this to work for me, I followed the steps exactly as they were put but still nothing

I am using version 6.1.3, and AT&T straight talk sim. My mms is not working but my data is. I don't want to Change any settings without knowing if these directions will work for me for sure. Do you know if it will work? My phone is iPhone 4 unlocked

Thanks for the info. I didn't know they started LTE until I was notified by your post. I received the new Net10 AT&T SIM card yesterday, and I'll get to test it out within the next week (no LTE here, but a city I frequent has it).

Two Net10 reps I spoke to said the APN settings direct from their site are automatic for LTE. I'm not worried about MMS at this point.

Here's the APN site for Net10: iapnupdatetfdata.net10.com

Hi I cannot receive pictures by text but can send them. I have 4s now on the tracfone network with Straight talk. This is a continual problem whenever they update. I have done the sim swap many times now to adjust to the changes but this time it does not seem to allow texts to come in. Not sure why it is frustrating. Thanks for any help.

MMS is now officially supported under iOS 7 for Straight Talk and Net10 BYOP iPhones.

Go to straighttalk.com from Safari.

Select SIM card program

Select Data/APN settings

Select AT&T Data Settings

Install the profile. You'll get a notification shortly after saying there's a carrier settings update. Install it.

Done.

You'll notice the carrier will now show TFW instead of HOME. That's when you know the settings are complete.

MMS has been working fine for me since the update.

You'll also notice it'll now show 3G instead of 4G. There's no difference. The 4G symbol was only part of AT&T's false advertising to begin with.

We did all these things and I can receive pictures from other iphone users because of I message but I cannot receive pictures from other non iphones. It has to be in the settings somewhere because I know pictures can come in and pictures can go out to iphone folks but not for other phones.

Don't waste your time. Straight Talk keeps changing settings and not notifying users. None of the APN modifying sites get it right.

I resorted to not upgrading to any train of IOS7 and keeping a Jailbroken 6.x version so that I can have the ability to manually enter APN Settings and data settings.

None of the publicized settings work.

When I do get one to work, I can send a picture in an SMS with my wireless turned off. This works for about one or two days, then just magically stops working. I have to completely change the settings, reboot the phone several times, and put the original settings back in, reboot again, then test. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have screenshot the whole process, but Straight Talk's BYOP (Bring Your Own Phone) plan won't even troubleshoot with me because they insist other iPhone users aren't complaining, so it must be a specific-to-me device issue. I am FORCED to jailbreak the device because of the limitations introduced in changing APNs and data settings in IOS6 and IOS7.

Being somewhat competent with computers, IT, geekery and communications, I recently came to these conclusions:

1) Straight Talk is a great deal if all you want to do is use simple data and phone calling.

2) More than "slight" data use with Straight Talk is a joke.

3) Using a "current and thus more agile" device like an iPhone or current Android phone is just plain Stupid with Straight Talk - the Data Rates they don't harrass you for using aren't sufficient for basic smartphone operations (iCloud, etc) and will get your data capped, limited, or terminated. (they prohibit streaming in their TOS, I mean... streaming and or downloading is the terminology. Last time I knew, you needed to "download" an html file to load a frickin' web page. That's how bad this company is.

4) Holy crap, I'm good at IT. Why am I wasting all of my time trying to make a purposefully-limited-by-the-manufacturer-device work with a cut-rate limited-service-providing constantly-complaining company that won't support its users... to save what.. $13-$27 per month? I'm easily wasting 2-4 hrs a week just changing settings and rebooting to maintain the ability to text message. I make more than $9 per hour. This is not worth my wasted time.

I bought a Galaxy Note III am on Verizon, and you know what? I pay exactly $56/month. And do you know what is broken about my phone and/or the service? absolutely nothing.

Also, my 6 year old son now has a really nice wireless device that plays music, takes pictures, and plays IOS games. Since it was jailbroken I used "unix science" to disable the cellular network. On my wireless network my kid filter keeps most things safe and I block things like youtube, etc.

I'm getting WAY more bang for my buck using the iPhone as a kid toy instead of as a half-usable device on a crappy not-really-an-official-carrier network.

If you're going to keep drinking the Apple kool-aid, get on one of the official supported carriers for their devices and deal with it.

Otherwise, for gosh sakes, if you make more than $9 an hour and are not geeking out on attempting to fix a problem for the sheer fun of it, save yourself some headache and money (in the form of your free time) and get the **** away from Straight Talk, or at least downgrade to a phone that Straight Talk supports, like the three year old Samsung Galaxy Precedent running Android version negative 8 or whatever. At least they will need to be held to making your old device send a picture on the SMS network, which according to Straight Talk is more difficult than orchestrating a moon landing.

Cheers, free your cycles -

-jre

Make sure you have MMS turned on. MMS has been working fine for me since the iOS 7 and Carrier updates. Remove any custom APN settings/profiles, then install the official one from Straight Talk. You could also try Reset Network Settings, then install the official APN from Straight Talk's mobile site using Safari.

Don't pay attention to n8ouz. He/she's obviously someone who has an issue with iOS 7 or can't live without a jailbreak.

Everyone I know with an iPhone on Net10 or Straight Talk has no problems with MMS working since those updates. I've even updated to iOS 7.1 beta, and everything is still working fine.

To the contrary, I didn't have to Jailbreak my phone until Straight Talk told me I had to after the fourth or fifth support call.

They said without access to the correct menu settings, I would not be able to turn on SMS. I asked them how, they could not tell me.

I spoke to three service personnel, and finally spoke to one who told me that there was some SIM card trick (ordered two off of ebay setting me back some cash and several weeks, the time spent without service was most frustrating) and then also told me that I could jailbreak the phone and the menu would appear.

I did not want to jailbreak my phone, and they said those were my options. I specificially asked them the pointed question "are you stating that I would need to jailbreak my phone to get my phone to correctly function on your network to use the SMS media services." and they would not answer. Their answer was that "they recommend I take appropriate action to enable my device to allow the settings to be changed." So I asked "you mean jailbreak it." And they said "we don't recommend it but it would work."

Pretty crappy, I said.

So, I did.

At some point, upgrading from IOS 6.a to 6.b (forget exact version) the ability to jailbreak went away. My picture SMS support didn't work for several months until someone came out for a jailbreak for that specific version of IOS. Which sucked. So now I can't upgrade to a newer IOS until I can confirm a Jailbreak exists and works for it (untethered) so that my crappy picture SMS doesn't get broken.

Ideal? Heck no.

My idea? Far from it. Just wanted a phone that worked.

Left both Apple and Straight Talk, since neither took ownership of fault in a crap situation.

You can decide not to pay attention to me if you wish. That's fine. I've just spent more than a year with spotty picture SMS capability, often without data entirely when the ST APN settings for data changed unannounced and I need to google for what the new settings are. The amount of time it spends broken far exceeds the amount of time it spends working. For more than a year now.

If that's not important to you, fine, ignore me.

I'm just sharing my experiences (which were poor for the pithy amount of savings ST resulted in compared to the headaches) in the hopes of saving someone hours (literally) per week of frustration.

-jre

As I said, iOS 7 and (2 now) Carrier Updates later, MMS and data work without performing the SIM swap. UPDATES TO iOS DO NOT BREAK IT!

I started with Straight Talk and switched to Net10. They're one in the same. If you want to be stuck behind by a year, more power to you. I'm just stating that data AND MMS (picture messages, SMS is NOT picture messaging) are working perfectly fine for me and everyone I know with an iPhone on iOS 7 and Straight Talk or Net10.

If you don't want to pay attention to me, that's fine. If, however, you want your iPhone to work, you'll do as I recommended above. If not, then you're just someone who likes to chronically complain when a simple solution is right in your face.

As soon as I updated to iOS 7, I received a Carrier Update that enabled MMS. I had the official APN from Net10 (Straight Talk would be the same, just user their mobile site). The dead giveaway is the carrier name is no longer HOME - it now says TFW.

I have the exact same situation. Would love to know how to resolve it.

Same for me! iOS & and a carrier update now allows MMS. It now says TFW instead of HOME on my phone as well. I have an unlocked iphone 4 on Straight Talk with no problems.