nueMMS - beta test sprint workaround

[CheeZa]

Originally Posted by aughsum

this is a probably a dumb question.

how does sprint have our mms messages sorted out from those of regular handsets? is it based on the phones identification? when the MMS messages come from an esn from a mogul/touch is it filtered out or is it based on the format the message is sent in?

I ask because of the new esn method for the mogul. if it is done that way we could clone to a basic handset esn, install arcsoft and wed be good to go? maybe even receive inbound mail in a decent fashion with the porting of alltels mms software.

yes i do think sprint has some sort of filter. Basically its a Smartphone or PDA Blocker. All other phones are sending MMS.
this would be a great idea, question is how? How do we clone it?

[aughsum]

Originally Posted by CheeZa

yes i do think sprint has some sort of filter. Basically its a Smartphone or PDA Blocker. All other phones are sending MMS.
this would be a great idea, question is how? How do we clone it?

http://www.mobile-files.com/forum/sh...4&postcount=82

ill be giving it a shot this weekend.. or maybe ill do it right now.

any idea if sprints network seeing the mogul as a regular phone will affect its use?

[qbunnie]

Originally Posted by JRANGER

so you have to setup outlook email for this to work?

You have to have an email account set up in poutlook. But it can link to any email account (POP3, IMAP, or Exchange)

Originally Posted by aughsum

http://www.mobile-files.com/forum/sh...4&postcount=82

ill be giving it a shot this weekend.. or maybe ill do it right now.

any idea if sprints network seeing the mogul as a regular phone will affect its use?

Just to let you know, it is illegal, so be careful. That being said, I am curious. My advice would be to use an ESN for an Sprint phone that is at least EV-DO capable. That way, data usage won't look so fishy. A Razr V3m ESN for example. Even better would be a smartphone that does have MMS (maybe a blackberry's ESN?). I have no idea how their end sees ESN's so I can't confirm on that method working, but there it is. Good luck.

[aughsum]

Originally Posted by qbunnie

You have to have an email account set up in poutlook. But it can link to any email account (POP3, IMAP, or Exchange)

Just to let you know, it is illegal, so be careful. That being said, I am curious. My advice would be to use an ESN for an Sprint phone that is at least EV-DO capable. That way, data usage won't look so fishy. A Razr V3m ESN for example. Even better would be a smartphone that does have MMS (maybe a blackberry's ESN?). I have no idea how their end sees ESN's so I can't confirm on that method working, but there it is. Good luck.

yeah i know.. it may be illegal, which itself is laughable, but at least its not immoral, like sprints disabling of mms on a 600$ phone.

ive got a a900 cloned now for a "barphone" and ive got a v9m with a clean ESN that ive been trying to replace the a900 with. the v9ms esn is apparently impossible to change without the expensive hardware so needless to say i was excited when i saw that post.

does anyone have WMDC 6.1 64bit? giving vista another shot and apparently forgot to save the installation file i had for it.. unable to download it from the website...

[dishe]

Originally Posted by CheeZa

yes i do think sprint has some sort of filter. Basically its a Smartphone or PDA Blocker. All other phones are sending MMS.
this would be a great idea, question is how? How do we clone it?

I'm sure I wrote about this in the initial "MMS no longer working" thread, but I can't find it to link at the moment.

Basically, its NOT the device's ESN that is being blocked.

I've had handsets cloned to my Mogul's ESN for a while now. As soon as MMS stopped working all that time ago, I did a test from my backup Samsung m300 cloned to my Mogul's ESN. The m300 had no problem sending pictures, despite the fact that Sprint thinks it came from my mogul according to my account and ESN.

I'm guessing the block has more to do with Arcsoft's software. Or perhaps a Device ID string that gets sent with the message? Without further testing, I can't be sure. Problem is there is no way of really testing without having a private MMS server set up that we can connect a PDA with arcsoft to and monitor its output.

Either way, cloning your ESN to another phone clearly won't help. Perhaps it would allow incoming MMS tho. Outgoing would still be blocked.