[Announce] fMMS - MMS on the N900
 

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Troubleshooting 101: http://wiki.maemo.org/MMS#Troubleshooting_fMMS

How fMMS works
fMMS installs a daemon (program running in the background) which will start whenever an SMS Push message (this SMS is of a special kind which is not handled by default in Fremantle) related to MMS is received by your phone. It will read the SMS message and try to fetch the MMS from your operator.
If successful you will get a notification "MMS Received" which looks like the notification you get when you receive a new e-mail; click on it or start fMMS manually to view your MMS.
If the fetching fails, you will get a notification saying "SMS Push received" which looks like the "New SMS" notification, clicking on this also launches fMMS.

Help improve
Encountered an error?
Please do the following:
Open X-Terminal and enter the following:
cp /tmp/fmms.log /home/user/MyDocs/

Then either use the email client on the N900 to send me 'fmms.log' or connect it as "Mass Storage" and send it from your desktop computer - the file is in the root directory when plugged in as mass storage device.
In the email/reply please include what operator you are on and in what country, as well as your forum username (if registered) and a link to any relevant post you may have posted in this thread. Thanks!
Please send the email to: fmms@frals.se or post it as an attachment in a reply to this topic.

FAQ
Delete messages:
Tap-and-hold in the main view -> Click "Delete"
or Open the message -> Application menu -> Delete

Save images from MMS message:
Tap-and-hold on the image -> Open -> "Photos" application opens with the image.
OR
Press the application bar when in the viewer -> Save attachments.

Explanation of connection modes
# Polite: This mode only connects to the MMS APN if no other connection is active.

# Rude: Automatically takes down your current connection, connects to the MMS APN and when it’s done reconnects to the previous connection if possible.

# Havoc: This is what other phone does (albeit much more reliably), it opens a second connection to the MMS APN in parallel with the one currently open. As an added bonus, the MMS APN is hidden from the “Connections” UI in this mode as it does not need to be visible. Due to the nature of the kernel in Maemo 5 there are some ugly hacks involved in this, so if your current connection and the MMS APN configuration share the same ip subnet, things might get ugly. Also, if the application fails in some way when opening/closing a connection in this mode it MIGHT lead to the modem not being able to open a new GPRS connection until a device reboot. You have been warned. Note: I’ve been using this mode for more than 5 months and not yet experienced it.

Note on APN
fMMS adds its own APN as of 0.9.0, if its a fresh install it will try to get the settings for you automatically when you open the configuration, otherwise it will import your old settings from the previous APN.
When using Havoc mode the MMS APN will be removed from the list in the connections UI as Fremantle does not handle 2 APNs gracefully and Havoc mode does not need it listed there.
The other two modes does however still show it, HOPEFULLY it should not get automatically picked up if you got autoconnect to GPRS on.

If the device is auto connecting to the MMS APN instead of the regular internet one automatically; runing:
/opt/fmms/fmms_config.py
in the terminal should correct this - please verify by checking in "Internet Connections" as well as edit the access point to make sure all settings got changed.

If your settings seems to be wrong, please check: http://wiki.maemo.org/MMS

Known issues:
Other devices might not receive/display non-english characters properly.
Other devices might not receive/display MMS without any text in.

Advanced configuration
Changing user-agent fMMS sends (Softbank JP users need to do this from what I've heard):
gconftool-2 -st string /apps/fmms/useragent "New UA String"

Manually specify image resize:
gconftool-2 -st int /apps/fmms/img_resize_width 1024

Disable all connection modes:
gconftool-2 -st int /apps/fmms/connmode 10

Reset all settings:
gconftool-2 -R /apps/fmms|grep apn
Should return: apn = xxxx
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/xxxx
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/fmms

Remove all messages: rm -r /home/user/.fmms/

Other
Nokias position on MMS for the N900: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=367
Vodafone UK support: http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.ph...pic=52406&st=0 and http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1271
Old thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39737

Great walkthrough/FAQ: http://thetekblogger.com/2010/05/27/...ia-n900-f-a-q/

Links
Bugs: https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=fMMS
Garage site: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/fmms
Code available at: http://gitorious.org/fmms
Dev blog: http://blog.frals.se
(PS. I'm not above accepting donations for the time I've invested in this project: http://blog.frals.se/donate/ ;))

Re: [Announce] fMMS - MMS on the N900
 

Great job! Thank you for all the effort.

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Frals, this is very good news! :)

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Awesome, thanks alot for all your hard work!

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i really want to use this but for some reason the new access point i set up for it wont connect. any ideas? i used all the settings from the wiki, i'm on vodafone uk by the way

ok so i got it working, it was the automatically created apn that wasn't working so set one up from scratch and it seems to be fine.

one question though, does anyone know how to get rid of the apn that fmms sets up automatically? i dont seem to be able to delete it

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join the club not resolved this yet. Have tried two passwords - user and wap but nothing. Is vodafone blocking us? With an early version I could send and recieve but with last update no luck.

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@ frals: Great news mate, keep up the good work!

What setting have you put for the "Resize image width" option? as for me and a few other people, original does not work, I'd recommend leaving it on Large for now until this is fixed.

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i have it on small and i seem to have it working after setting up a new apn from scratch

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ok tried all the sizes but no luck so will try to delete the original apn set up and start again!

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i cant figure out how to delete the apn that fmms sets up for itself and now my connection list looks cluttered.......

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Haha we seem to be doing the same thing same time same problem !!

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definitely working fine for me, succesfully sent and recieved picture messages and fmms is connecting itself to the new apn i created with no problems

props to the creator!

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congratulations! :)

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if you are uk
name your new apn fmms
access point wap.vodafone.co.uk
user name wap
password wap
use proxy
http proxy 212.183.137.12
port 8799

set this up then start fmms and co to configure, it should have found this new access point on its own
click save
set image resize to small

give that a go and let me know how you get on as it worked for me

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Ta tried that fMMS didn't find the new apn so configured it in fMMS. Now cuts out the manually set apn fMMS but doesn't try to open the configured one?

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hmm, i cant think what else to try. when i set up the manual apn and clicked on configure in fmms it found the new apn on its own and just worked. sorry i cant be of more assistance :(

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Thanks for trying I will have to send log to frals in the morning. I will get there.......again!

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no worries, i like to try and help if i can.
hope you get it sorted

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frals great job!!!
Thank, Thank, Thank for all your hard work! ;)

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Thanks for this app!

Have just tried it myself. fmms didn't detect apn settings, so i entered the details for virgin mobile australia.

I can see that I have a message in the list, but when I select it I just get the message "Trying to download MMS..." for a long time, followed by "Failed to download MMS mesage".

When attempting to send, I get the message "Resizing and sending..." for a long time, and then it seems to just give up.

Any suggestions?

Cheers.


Update: Working! Turns out I misspelt the APN name - my own mistake. This was combined with me trying to retrieve an old message which was no longer on my operators server.

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nice work! IMHO, this app is the most important 3rd app.. it should have been incorporated as part of the firmware in the first place..

my suggestion:
1. to incorporate fmms as part of the conversation. meaning we can read the mms via conversations without opening a different apps.
2. to include the ability to delete multiple mmses..

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frals, thanks a lot, you have did a great job!

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Thanks frals, fmms is amazing app for me and work absolutely fantastic, congratulations for your amazing job what you do for all of N900 users.

Does in future be possible to add more images into one mms message and send to other people?

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Ok did the x-terminal log but can't find that in file manager? fMMS is just says resizing and sending for a few seconds then nothing. Would it be worth deleting fMMS and reinstalling? Weird how with an older version it worked fine but now?

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When on my companies wlan and try to send mms the connection to my job is dissconnected but fmms doesent connect to the mms apn? using rude method. when using havoc it works perfect.

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I'm on O2 in the UK, and my postpay net settings are the same as the mms settings, so I followed the guide and left fMMS using the postpay settings.

However, if I try to download the mms, it disconnects me from the postpay and then fails.
It's like it's trying to connect me to a different connection.
In fMMS config I have O2 Postpay GPRS as the access point, which is the correct name.

Any ideas?

It sees there's a mms waiting to be downloaded, so it's closer than the "General Error, speak to author" issues I was getting earlier!

Nicola

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Pretty please? With sugar on top?



Anyway, 1.0.2 has been uploaded to -devel, it fixes a few issues with Polite/Rude-mode making them more fault tolerant.
Also, if "Your phonenumber" is set to 0, the MMS header sets the From header to 'insert-address-token' which means that the MMSC should set the from-field, which hopefully solves issues some people might have had with that (e.g. LuxGSM). :)

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try this:
open terminal and

type I'd like to request a feature - you only have 4 settings for image sizes, it would be better to have and additional option so that I can resize the image so that it use the maximum amout of the 300kb allowed for an MMS!!!

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Again another user here saying thanks for putting in the time and effort with this. Building N900 into something great. Cheers.

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Okay these are my APN settings:
# Access Point Name: general.t-mobile.uk
# User Name: user
# Password: pass
# HTTP Proxy: 149.254.201.135
# Port Number: 8080
# MMSC: http://mmsc.t-mobile.co.uk:8002

After about a minute or two i get the response along the lines of OK, but i haven't recieve anything, hmm and i have tried every other lot of APN settings for tmobile uk i could find.

Any ideas?

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One important thing to note is that if the company knows you have a non-MMS phone (like the N900) they may have the feature turned off. If you can MMS friends and it gets out, but can't get them back in (and don't even see a "push" message) you may want to call your provider to have them check the setting. We've seen this a lot on previous threads, especially where the phone was purchased through the provider.

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I am in Austria on "3" (drei.at) and fMMS 1.0.2 works great!
:D
I could receive MMS in rude mode and send MMS in rude mode and in havoc mode. (Other combinations I will check tomorrow...)

Very very nice. Thanks a lot!

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I can't find this application in extras devels for some reason. And when I try and download it from the garage it says that I'm missing packages. Someone help please. :/

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Firstly cheers for a great app. I'm so chuffed to see this working!

If anyone is on o2 in the UK and having problems with the configs I managed to get these ones to work (contract only, no idea about PAYG)

Access point name: wap.o2.co.uk
Username: o2wap
Password: password
Proxy: 193.113.200.195
Proxy Port: 8080
MMSC: http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002

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On Virgin Australia. I couldn't get it to work in havoc mode, but rude mode seems to work. It's very slow to download or send messages though, but that might be the network.

It's pretty annoying that there's no indication of progress, and no error messages. When it doesn't work it just ... sits there.

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The app doesnt clean up after itself when it is uninstalled. The MMS APN, created by fMMS, is still there after the uninstall.

EDIT: On closer inspection the uninstall did delete my providers APN however. I had fMMS configured in havoc mode if that makes a difference. Rude would be a more appropriate mode for this behaviour ;)

Re: [Announce] fMMS - MMS on the N900
 

In France, using the provider Orange, the application works very well using the havoc mode (I didn't manage to make it work in rude/polite mode).

Thanks frals! :)

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This does not work for me. I've tried running the script, and "Internet Connections" says "VirginInternet" under "Automatically connect to", but it still automatically connects to the MMS APN and then nothing works :(

I also tried rebooting, but that didn't help either.

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got confused cos there's 2 fmms threads with the same subject. Here's my post from the other thread in case it gets lost.

Has anyone else come across this problem?

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1583

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Ever since I installed fMMS I have this MMS internet connection that can not be deleted. Anyone know how I can delete that connection?