{"id":342,"date":"2010-01-20T18:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T01:12:44","slug":"mms-on-2g-iphone-3-1-2-for-china-mobile-cmnet-quick-howto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/2010\/01\/mms-on-2g-iphone-3-1-2-for-china-mobile-cmnet-quick-howto\/","title":{"rendered":"MMS on 2G iPhone 3.1.3 for China Mobile (CMNET) &#8211; quick howto."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although most of my friends are using 3G\/s now, I do get the odd 2G phone to play with.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had another crack at enabling MMS on a 2G.  For some reason not much documentation, and too much misinformation out there on the net.<\/p>\n<p>Guaranteed working instructions for China Mobile users below:<\/p>\n<p>Note #1 &#8211; this is for 2G iPhones only.  3G and newer phones, skip to the MMS settings at the bottom of the post, and put those in Settings \/ General \/ Network \/ Cellular Data Network&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Note #2 &#8211; 2G users &#8211; if you used BlackRa1n to jailbreak, this will not work either, and will b0rk wireless.  Use PwnageTool, and create a 3.1.3 jailbroken \/ boot neutered (carrier unlock) firmware, install that first, then continue.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone 2G users &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Install 3.1.3<br \/>\nJailbreak with usual steps.<br \/>\nAdd cydia.ifoneguide.nl in Cydia \/ Sources<br \/>\nWait a bazillion years for cydia to timeout with the various blocked in China repositories.<br \/>\nClick Search<br \/>\nDownload Activate 2G MMS<br \/>\nReboot<\/p>\n<p>Normally we&#8217;d be done, however the MMS settings won&#8217;t let us save a diffferent MMS and GPRS name, so we need to install a specific IPCC (iPhone Carrier Setting file) for China Telecom.<br \/>\nAs China Telecom is (at time of writing) not an official iPhone supplier, they don&#8217;t have an IPCC file, so we need to roll our own.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one I found earlier &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/downloads\/ChinaMobileCarrierSettingsWithMMS.zip\">ChinaMobileCarrierSettingsWithMMS.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download that, unzip, and throw on the desktop.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll need to tell iTunes that its ok to use the IPCC file first, so close iTunes.<br \/>\nNow head off to terminal (or a DOS window  for those on Windows), then paste this in.<\/p>\n<p>Mac users:<br \/>\ndefaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE <\/p>\n<p>Windows users:<br \/>\n(32 bit)<br \/>\n\u201cC:\\Program Files\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe\u201d \/setPrefInt carrier-testing 1<\/p>\n<p>(64 bit)<br \/>\n\u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\\iTunes\\iTunes.exe\u201d \/setPrefInt carrier-testing 1<\/p>\n<p>Done?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, now open iTunes again, connect the phone if its not connected, and..<\/p>\n<p>Mac Users:<\/p>\n<p>Press + hold down Alt(option), and Click \u201cUpdate\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Windows Users:<\/p>\n<p>Press + hold down shift, then Click &#8220;Update&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>iTunes will prompt you for a file.<br \/>\nChoose the IPCC file you downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Sync the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Finally&#8230; shut the phone off again.<\/p>\n<p>Once you power up again, you should be able to send\/ receive MMS!<\/p>\n<p>If its not working for you, check that the settings are in there &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Settings \/ General \/ Network \/ Cellular Data Network<\/p>\n<p>(anything not listed below should be empty)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cellular Data<\/strong><br \/>\nAPN ->  cmnet<\/p>\n<p><strong>MMS<\/strong><br \/>\nAPN -> cmwap<br \/>\nMMSC -> http:\/\/mmsc.monternet.com<br \/>\nMMS Proxy -> 10.0.0.172<br \/>\nMMS Max Message Size -> 300172<\/p>\n<p>Tested, and working on lots of 2g iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although most of my friends are using 3G\/s now, I do get the odd 2G phone to play with. Today I had another crack at enabling MMS on a 2G. For some reason not much documentation, and too much misinformation out there on the net. Guaranteed working instructions for China Mobile users below: Note #1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,25,4],"tags":[176,92,178,179,522,177],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone","category-technical-mumbo-jumbo","category-useful-info","tag-2g","tag-china-telecom","tag-enable","tag-ipcc","tag-iphone","tag-mms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}