| MMS Sending/Recieving |  Search
|
|
NowSMS Support Forums ⬆ NowSMS Support - SMS Issues ⬆ Archive through September 15, 2003 ⬆ |
◄ ► |
| Author | Message | |||
| sundaram m |
Hai, We are testing nowsms in trial period. sending sms of all types through the web interface works fine. But the problem is with receiving MMS. We followed the nowsms/mms setting for MMSC as per the documents and sent the mms message to a mms phone The phone has mms setting suggested by local operator etisalat.When the mms message is received by a nokia phone,a spinning envelope appears but nothing happens.when the message is received by sony ericcsson phone, and tried to retrieve, it says an error message 'check setting and communication error'. Please guide us. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support |
There's some good advice in this thread: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/228.html However, I would add some additional information and clarification to the above thread. Assuming that there is not a configuration issue where your NowSMS gateway is not accessible over the internet for firewall reasons, then you are likely being blocked. The above link explains how MMS works, and will help provide some technical understanding on how the notification is separate from the actual content retrieval. Many operators have established separate GPRS APN and WAP Gateway IP addresses ... where the MMS clients on their mobile phones are configured to use a different GPRS APN and WAP gateway from the one configured for the WAP browser. In these cases, the GPRS APN and WAP Gateway established for the MMS clients is restricted, and only allows MMS messages to be sent to/received from the operator MMSC. If a phone receives a notification message with a URL that points to an MMSC other than the mobile operator, then the WAP gateway configured for use by the MMS client might not allow the MMS message content to be accessed. In this type of situation, the following possibilities exist: 1.) For some applications, instead of sending MMS messages, your needs might be met by the "Send Multimedia WAP Push" option in NowSMS. This option formats multimedia objects into standard WAP pages, so that they are accessed in the phone's WAP browser instead of the MMS client. 2.) If you are an extremely large content provider (especially if you have a tie in with a broadcaster that has an extremely popular TV show), you might be able to get your mobile operator to allow access to your MMSC from their MMS GPRS APN. (This is a long shot, but I've seen it done.) 3.) Send your messages via the operator MMSC. This is easier with the v5.0 release of the Now SMS/MMS Gateway (still in beta, details and download at http://www.nowsms.com/beta5). To do this, you either establish an account with the mobile operator that allows you to send MMS messages via MM7 or EAIF ... or for lower volume traffic, you can send messages with the MM1 interface over a GSM/GPRS modem (you are charged by the operator per MMS message sending an MMS in this fashion, the same way that you are charged per SMS message sending through a GSM modem). -bn | |||
