Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Ok was working fine until I updated today. So played around with settings (Vodafone uk) with wiki info and I could recieve again. But when I try to send it comes up with a screen full of failed info. How do I call up this log? Love the new features just want to use them lol

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

As frals says in his signature:
"Run in x-terminal: cp /tmp/fmms.log /home/user/MyDocs/
After that you'll see fmms.log in filemanager or when you connect the device to your desktop as a mass storage device.
E-mail the log to me"

And his e-mail: fmms@frals.se

Hope this helps
/oxpo

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Size restrictions? Or perhaps they have some filtering based on extra tags in the image that are lost/added.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

In case I'm not alone, the default handling still doesn't work properly for me here. Investigation ongoing. :confused:

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Also as me. Only on Cyrillic text :) Wrong nessage without text field & wrong characters on message subject in list

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Yeah, great! I can confirm that the issue now is fixed.

Fast, amazing and extraordinary community support! :)

Thanks, frals!

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Doh how many times have I read that! Cheers will sort that when home.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Is anyone else who are using the swedish operator Telia suffering from issues with this application where it can not retrieve mms? it seems to have started with version 0.9.12 for me. I have tried messing with the resizing,apn settings,connection method etc. but to no success. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Video / Sound in fmms?
 

It is possible to resize video with mencoder (command line).
No sound though, i think i would need a port of ffmpeg for this.

I can send the reencoded videos via fmms to my own n900 but when i try to send em to another phone just a blank message arrives, if i send the same vid via bluetooth to the other phone
it plays so i assume there is some problem with fmms.

Re: Video / Sound in fmms?
 

Since fMMS receives it one *could* argue it's the other phone that is the problem... ;)

Seriously though, there is a reason it says "Tap to add image", the SMIL being generated tells the other phone it's an image, so if a video shows up there instead theres no telling what happens (if the phone even accepts the video, as it might be the wrong format to begin with). :)

Thanks for looking in to mencoder and experimenting with it :)

Re: Video / Sound in fmms?
 

Yea m8 it was not ment as critisism more like just a fact and that i tried it :) Maby some day if u have time ull add it or maby not ;)
Still thanx for your effort and work
cheers

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

is anyone here on t-mobile uk? how much does an mms cost on contract? I have free txt so will it be free or charged as an extra?

Re: Video / Sound in fmms?
 

Jorå jag förstod det :)

Who knows, if someone ports ffmpeg it should be trivial to add the correct parts to fMMS... I *think* :)

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

what are the configurations for US At&t? I'm not sure what to put in there now..

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Have you tried these settings?

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Not related to fMMS, but the APN it creates...

Using the latest version of fMMS, i'm still getting the problem of the MMS APN being the first connection to be used when auto connect to any connection is used.

My Vodafone APN isn't used and the MMS APN always connects.

Does it choose the connections in alphabetical order or is it a different problem?

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Thanks i got it to work..I just needed to change it to havoc..Also, does anyone know how to get old MMS' it just says trying to download and nothing happens...

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

@frals: Apologies for not reading the entire thread, over 1500 posts and 150 pages is a tad too long (yes, I'm lazy :P).

I had fMMS up and running perfectly with fAPN for over two months. Since mms isn't something I usually use, I just kept fMMS up-to-date (btw, congrats on all the work you've put into it). I didn't have any problems sending or receiving before, when the mms apn connection had to be established manually. Receiving, especially, was a breeze.

After the last updates, and reading about the new connection modes, I decided to give it another go. After the 12 or 13 update the mms apn disappeared from the list, and the apn settings inside fMMS were gone, so I decided to follow an advice by another user and copy the newer operator_settings version from the SDK to my N900, uninstalled fAPN and rebooted the phone. After rebooting, fMMS "detected" and displayed the correct mms settings for my operator.

I'm assuming it is intentional (again, didn't read the whole thread) that when you choose Havoc mode, the MMS APN disappears from the connections list and those settings are only "stored" in fMMS. Going from Havoc to Rude or Polite, recreates the MMS APN on the connections list. Correct?

1st Issue for me: when I started having problems sending mms's I naturally switched from Havoc to the other two modes to see if I could make it work. In the process of doing this, I noticed that when fMMS recreates the APN in the connections list, regardless of whether the settings include a proxy or not, the corresponding checkbox for "Use Proxy" in the Connections Settings dialog (the one provided by the OS itself) is never enabled. The value for proxy and port are stored there, at first, but since it's not enabled, I'd wager the connection doesn't work.

Now, and again I'm assuming this is intentional, when on Polite or Rude, fMMS reads the APN configuration as stored in the OS connections list. Since this was created with the proxy checkbox unchecked, as soon as you switch out of Havoc, fMMS's internal settings for proxy go blank. Placing a check on that box results in fMMS obtaining all the settings correctly. Sorry for all this, but I didn't see it reported in the last few pages.

Sending woes: since I can't reproduce my testing for yesterday, I decided to start fresh today.

First test send on Rude failed with no discernable error message.

First test send on Polite was successful, but app crashed or closed shortly after (apparently, immediately after I manually closed the mms apn connection -- gave it a good few seconds between getting the "message sent" dialog and closing it). Log file shows some errors.

Follow-up to the above: can't get the app to receive said mms (sent it to myself). Push-for-mms came shortly after fMMS crashed, pressed it and fMMS opened without issue. Clicked on received message, get no error dialog, app just keeps on "working" (ie, get that "still processing/working" animation at the top). Doesn't crash, though, pressing to close closes app immediately (yesterday the app was hard crashing on me).

Another note.. Somehow between failing to send with Rude and sending successfully but not being able to receive with Polite, the dreaded Use Proxy checkbox got unset again.. Does fMMS recreate the APN even if you're switching between Polite and Rude?

Second attempt to send through Polite worked, again, log file seems to get less errors -- but this time I didn't close the APN at all (though there was a period there where it was "crossed out"). Reception was flawless this time. Tried receiving the other mms that had failed, asked me to disconnect current connection (odd, it was the MMS APN), clicked Yes, took a little longer than the other one, but eventually retrieved my mms.

I'm attaching a zip file with the logfiles.. I know it keeps incrementing, and that's what they are, but I wanted to be able to identify, through filename, what I was trying to do in the hopes it'll save you some time wading through the info (download here).

(didn't test Havoc as it's harder to see what's going on)

One last thing, no idea if it's related to fMMS or not: since the last few updates and the issues, I routinely unlock my N900 to find an open dialog for "Select Connection" -- something I've never had happen to me aside from using the Maps app (when it tries to get A-GPS data).

Feature request: (I know I'm pushing it, but hey, doesn't hurt to ask ;)) Something like File Manager has for deleting files on fMMS's main dialog. Ie, something that allows me to mark multiple messages for deletion at once, as opposed to deleting each one by one (testing in particular creates a lot of fluff).

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

I have a problem, and using the latest version. When connected to a wlan and on havoc mode pressing the send button doesent send the mms it just says resizing and sending, when i try to go back the program crashes. When connected to wlan and on rude mode fmms takes down my current connection but does not open up the mms connection? any idea? I have to choose the mms connection myself and if i do so its no problem to send the mms. I tried to test this: connect to the mms apn send the mms and when the mms was sent i quickly took down the connection but i got the mms anyway? Receiving is not a problem only sending.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

wow.. finally it works... thanks a lot for whoever done anything for this program.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

I have the same problem on 0.9.14. When on havoc mode + wifi, receiving is perfect. It switches to the correct apn in the background when needed. But sending does not. I think it tries to use the wifi.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

this is getting closer and closer to the real deal... thanks mate....

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Grr.. im getting so frustrated with this... ive tried older versions, newer versions, but no matter what, i cannot get it to send a thing,

ive phoned Vodafone UK, and they keep telling me N900's dont do MMS, and they cant help with the settings, but can confirm MMS is active on my account.

anyone else having probs on Vodafone UK??

all seem to have gone wrong from the point i sent myself a test MMS, (cant remember which version now, 0.72 to 0.9 something) and i recieved the MMS message, but ALSO, recieved an SMS saying i need to go to the vodafone website to retrieve it ???

Anyone?

Cheers Ross.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

OK, so i thought id have a play and foned voadfone again. seem to have got it working,... at last...

Did following

Removed battery whilst on.
removed sim
fired back up without sim
removed batt again whilst on
replaced sim
fired back up.
went to Phone network settings and tried to change to orange, failed. (of course it would)
phone was then offline.
went back to settings, and reselcted voadafone UK.

in the mean time, i got the guy at vodafone to switch off my MMS, then reactivate it.

set username and password to WAP and USER

and it works.!

only problem i have now, is even if i set my connection to Vodafone GPRS only, it keeps connecting to the MMS access point for internet.??? any ideas??

Cheers Ross.

Re: Video / Sound in fmms?
 

You'll still need to put the formatting bit in to the SMIL to indicate it's video. :) That's something you can test now by getting a couple smaller videos and using them to test from phone to phone. I'm curious, is there an indicator for the type of video? Right now I know there are at least 2 popular formats for video on cells (3pg and mp4), and a ton of audio formats (acc, amr, mp3, mid, etc). Is there a SMIL spec for each type, just a generic "video" flag, or both?

Rescaling can be done lots of places (and honestly people are probably going to want to recale and clip a segment from a larger video). I think the bigger concern is getting the flagging right to be able to transmit a file after it's been massaged into the right format. :)

Great work as always, and looking forward to the 1.0 release! :) Let me know when it's ready and I can test/thumb-up it!

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Ive been doing some playing around, seems as other phones accept my .3gp vids if i send some text with it. Ofc this will prolly depend on the reciver phone :) atleast it worked with 5800 and n85.

mencoder currently doesnt support amr(3gp sound standard) out of the box but i stumbled over a page with amr install instructions
so i dropped the maintainer of mplayer(n900) a line about it, ill keep you updated if i get an answer

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Can anyone tell me how this works, I have had both fapn and fmms since forever and it has never worked. i am in the US, Tmobile is my carrier and I have just downloaded the lastest version of fmms hoping for better luck 0.9.14 but no change, I follow these steps:
top I click configure
AP: wap.voicestream.com
proxy: 216.155.165.50
port 9021
mmsc http://208.67.216.231/servlets/mms
set to rude
its resizes for a moment then dissappears but ppl dont get my message
i tried on polite, and havoc and they time out. I tried the alt ports and mmsc addresses as well no change.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Try port 8080

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

What are you guys doing about the MMS APN being used by the phone as an internet connection. I mean when coming off of WIFI or after restarting it seems like the phone selects one of the connections at random. This is quite annoying because now I'm always checking my connection to make sure Im connected correctly. Is there any way to have my main internet connection treated as preferred or something else that will fixed this problem?

Other than that great app, works great!

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

To everyone who has problems with the wrong APN being chosen (which should be all of you); I'm looking in to this and trying to find a way to make this work. Unfortunately the buggy component is a Nokia proprietary one, so we don't know how it works and cannot fix it directly.

I've been trying some workarounds but unfortunately things do not seem to work the way Nokia has described them. Might have to do some reverse engineering on this thing...

Bug report for those interested:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9476

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

So in the meantime, how can we revert back to the old fMMS I had installed where everything was working fine? Mind you, the fMMS I was on before updating it 2 nights ago was the really really old one where it had nothing to do with selecting Rude, Havoc, or Polite or anything like that. It was the one where I had to set my APN seperately and fMMS seperately and everytime I wanted to send or receive, I would have to manually switch APNs first.

Now with this new one I just updated to 2 nights ago, I'm having all the problems everyone else is having. So is there anyway I can revert to the old fMMS for now until this problem is fixed? I receive at least 3 picture messages a day and I can't go with out MMS for that long.

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

you can install old version from here: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1210

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Hmpf, they shouldn't have completly disappeared, but there might been some issues coming from earlier versions - as I'm always using the latest I don't really test with anything but the previous release I'm afraid :)

Yes, correct more or less, it's just hidden from the UI by masking out the sim_imsi stored :)

fMMS actually don't get care (or shouldn't, anyway ;)) if the "Use proxy" checkbox is enabled or not - as long as the values that are stored isn't null (0, or blank) they are used


Crossed out means the data connection has been suspended by the modem, this is controlled by modem firmware in some way ;)

I haven't had time to go through the logfiles at all yet, but I'll try to go over them and see whats wrong at some point.

The "Selection Connection" issues should be unrelated as fMMS doesn't interact with that part of the system.

As for the feature request, it be nice to have but won't be there any time soon as I think it's quite a bit of work ;)

Thanks for the report! :)


Exactly what problems are you having? See Schturmans post for link to earlier versions



Send me the log please so I can investiagte, thanks!



I'm working on a solution to this, it seems to work somewhat decently for me but I need to finetune it a bit before I push a new update. For more information about the problem see the bug Ossman linked 3 posts back :)

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

This app keeps getting better & bettter you ROCK! Today an MMS arrived without the manual switching etc, Damn Amazing work you have done. Thanks so much! :):):)

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Alright, uploaded 0.9.15 which fixes a minor bug and *SEEMS* to do fix the inserting the APN as non-default on fresh installs.

If you are using an old install, running:
/opt/fmms/fmms_config.py
from the terminal should switch the MMS APN so it's no longer default (while preserving all settings, hopefully).


Please test this and see how it works for you as I'm hoping to hit the "Promote" button very soon ;)


(PS I'm using dh_pysupport now which should show itself in faster startup time :))

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

HI!
My fmms is working perfectly, and has done so since day one (I've upgraded it along the way everytime I've seen an update available).
Also, I have never had any problems with the APN; I've vreated two, one for Internet and one for MMS => never any problems!
So, great app!

But, one question: How can I save the received image to my N900?
This might be a stupid question, but I can't find a way to do it...

Thanks in advance!

problems sending mms with vodafone australia
 

Hi everyone, this is my first post :) Firstly i would like to express my appreciation for this fmms app. I was quite disappointed when i got my new n900 out of the box and it didn't do mms. Your efforts have made a good product much better!

I do have a problem though... I'm on the vodafone network in australia. It seems that i can only send mms messages to other vodafone mobiles. All the messages i send seem to leave the phone without issue but will only be received if the other phone is vodafone. sending to email addresses works fine. Any advice for this problem? Thanks again!

Ooh forgot to mention, i can receive mms messages from any network...

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

Press and hold on image in fmms. Then press 'Open', which should open the image in the gallery. Select the top bar and then 'Save'.

Re: problems sending mms with vodafone australia
 

Uh, I think you have to contact Vodafone about this as messages to the same network gets delivered there shouldn't be anything wrong with fMMS afaik. You can try changing image resize to Small and see if that makes a difference though. :)

Re: [Announce] fMMS for N900
 

It seems to, though.. I don't mean to be pushy, mate, but every time I tried it, fMMS's proxy settings came up empty. I'm not sure whether the OS's own connection settings eventually clears data for fields that are "disabled", and whether that's why fMMS doesn't get the data properly, but unless I manually check the box those fields on fMMS do come up empty for me.

Now, since I did most of my testing on Polite (as it seemed to be the mode with the greatest success ratio) and with the APN settings correctly inserted, I have no idea if what fMMS shows me actually "counts" -- ie, don't know if even though fMMS shows empty fields for proxy (because the corresponding checkbox on the OS's connection settings is unchecked) it still manages to use the correct info.. Could you reproduce this on your N900 at all? Even if it's a cosmetic thing, unless getting that checkbox to go "active" is really tricky, it'd be nice to see, consistency-wise.

As for the random "Select Connection" dialog.. You are entirely right, it is unrelated to fMMS. I jumped to that conclusion since, aside from the fMMS's update and change of functionality, I hadn't installed anything new. Turns out, after some methodic (and tedious as I had to give it plenty of time in between iterations to "trip" itself) testing, a widget I had recently added to a desktop belonging to a standard/default app was causing that behaviour, even though it was supposed to be properly configured to not ask for connections, merely download data *if* there was an already active connection *and* it happened to be WiFi. *sigh* Sorry about that.