This guide will tell you how to get MMS on an iPhone 3G or 3GS running 3.0 or 3.01 still.
THIS WILL GET YOU THE OFFICIAL AT&T 5.5 CARRIER FILE ON YOUR PHONE WITHOUT UPDATING TO 3.1 LIKE APPLE/AT&T WANT YOU TO DO!
Also please note, if you want to do this on an an original iPhone (2G), please see my previous post on that subject.
There are many reasons for this… actually like two.
So to begin, first thing is first:
1. Be sure you close iTunes
2.
MAC OS X:
Close iTunes.
Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
Run the command:defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
Windows 32 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:"C:Program FilesiTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
Windows 64 Bit:
Close iTunes.
Go to Start then Run and type CMD.
Run this command:"C:Program Files (x86)iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
3. After you accomplish that, you will need to download this Official AT&T 5.5 Carrier File. I’d have recommend you save it to your desktop.
4. Open iTunes up, and plug in your iPhone, say NO to updating to 3.1 firmware.
5. Click your iPhone in the left sidebar, and then:
(Mac) Option+Left Click the “Update” button.
(Win) Shift+Left Click the “Update” button.
6. After that, you’ll see a window show up where you need to select the type of file before it lets you choose it.
7. After that, pick the AT&T_US.ipcc file, and choose Open.
8. Nothing will really happen to notify you that it worked, after you’re done though, unplug your phone
9. Reboot your phone.
10. Go into Settings, and then General, then About, your carrier should show your carrier as AT&T 5.5.
11. If all is well so far, then you should be able to start sending/receiving MMS messages.
12. Enjoy, and post any questions/comments/concerns in the comments section, and direct your friends to this post as well.
Lgndryhr on September 25th, 2009 at 3:17 PM says:
I did this but now my celluar data network does not work. Is there a way to keep my celluar data network working or configure it?
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Corey DeGrandchamp Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:18 PM
@Lgndryhr,
Not with this file, this is the official AT&T 5.5 .ipss file, it’s not supposed to have the Cellular Data Network visible.
You can always go back to using a hacked .ipss file if you wish, but there’s alot of us out there that don’t want to use those files.
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Lgndryhr Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
@Corey, I followed this guide. Everything worked fine and added the 5.5 file but now my internet through AT&T is not working.
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Lgndryhr Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
@Lgndryhr, nevermind. it’s all working just fine now.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
@Lgndryhr,
glad to see you got it working properly!
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
@Lgndryhr,
Eh, I was wrong again. This time I got zero “error” but when I go to iTunes, I can’t select the ipcc file.
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Corey Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
@Lgndryhr,
yeah, sometimes you might have to restart your phone – users doing the real upgrade were experiencing that too.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
@Lgndryhr,
yeah, sometimes you might have to restart your phone – users doing the real upgrade were experiencing that too.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
@Corey,
My computer accepts the file download as a zip file. Once the zip is downloaded, I cannot find the ipss file. Please help
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:40 PM
@Lawrence Williams,
You’re using OS X and Safari aren’t you? Use Firefox instead, it’s not a zip file, it’s apple trying to protect those files by disguising them as a .zip.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:40 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp,
Thanks for getting back to me. I’m using windows vista. I still can’t find that ipcc file. Should I use a different browser?
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 7:56 PM
@Lawrence Williams,
It worked. My problem was I needed to download the zip file using firefox. But now, I still can’t send or recieve. At&t says its an issue on their end. But I wonder . . . .
ALA on September 25th, 2009 at 3:49 PM says:
I’m running 3.0.1 on 3GS and i dont see the AT&T_US.ipcc file when i search for it and i made sude i change the file type to .ipcc
any ideas how i can fix this?
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
@ALA,
Try redownloading the file to a location you can remember, if the file type is .ipcc you should be able to select it if you can find it.
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ALA Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:06 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp, i did and i unzip the file, but still dont see the ipcc file.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
@ALA,
Use firefox to download the file, Safari will think it’s a zip… but it’s not… it’s just a .ipcc file directly.
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ALA Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:08 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp, all i see is the following path
ATT_US\Payload\ATT_US.bundle but no ipcc
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
@ALA,
see above comment.
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Tario on September 25th, 2009 at 3:54 PM says:
I can’t get this to work for the life of me. I’m in the command prompt & I get nothing except C:\Program is not recognized as an internal or external command. Can someone help?
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ALA Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:57 PM
@Tario, type cd..
untill you get to the C:\>
then run the command
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
@ALA,
I did exactly that, & I still get that error. I’m on the C:\>
Any ideas?
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:00 PM
@Tario,
Nevermind, got it to work. No paste, just typed it out & it appears to work now.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
@Tario,
Glad you got it working.
Please not, if your MMS’s show up with a red !’s mark, its because part of AT&T’s cell network is down for MMS, overloads, don’t ya know
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ALA Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:01 PM
@Tario, run this command
“%Program Files%\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
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ALA Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:03 PM
@ALA, i dont see the AT&T_US.ipcc when i search for it.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
@ALA,
Be sure you downloaded it to a place you remember, it shoudld show up as long as you change the file type to .ipcc
Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:05 PM
@ALA,
This is also a valid solution, probably a better one in fact! Thanks!
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:04 PM
@Tario,
don’t forget the quotes around “C:\Program Files\iTunes iTunes.exe”
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp,
I did that too. The time I got it work, it just went to the C:\> prompt after appearing to complete.
I then opened iTunes, selected “update” with shift+left click & I have no option to select an .ipcc file from the drop down menu.
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:11 PM
@Tario,
So I typed everything out again & it worked!
I can now see the .ipcc file & have updated.
Corey, thanks for your help sir!
~Tario
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Tario Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:13 PM
@Tario,
Just an FYI if anyone else is having problems…
I pulled up my processes & was sure to close anything having to do with iTunes. iTunes was closed, however there were some things related to it still running in the background so I “ended” each of their processes (2 I believe was all there was).
Then I ran the cmd command & it worked.
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:42 PM
@Tario,
good advice, glad to see you had success!
Facebook User on September 25th, 2009 at 4:12 PM says:
Is there a way to get MMS with the 2.2.1 version AT&T 3.1
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 4:43 PM
@Barry Pate,
nope, MMS was added with 3.0
Why wouldn’t you want to upgrade to 3.0 and jailbreak/unlock that?
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Facebook User Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 2:05 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp,
I bought the phone already jailbroke/unlocked just not sure how
to do it myself and dont want to cause it not to work. Is there a place on here or program that i could use to upgrade to 3.0
if so then I will try it
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Brian on September 25th, 2009 at 5:00 PM says:
When I type in the CMD command line it says it isn’t a valid command
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
@Brian,
I guess you just have to make sure it’s perfect – it defiantly works, so just copy/paste maybe?
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Brian Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:13 PM
@Corey DeGrandchamp, on my CMD window it doesn’t start with just c:/ it starts with c:\Documents and settings\user
does that matter and if so how can i make it just c:
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Brian Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
@Brian, i got it to
“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
when i hit enter it just goes to the next line and waits at c:\> is this what it is supposed to do?
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Facebook User on September 25th, 2009 at 5:26 PM says:
C:\User\slimm)
is what my command line shows, how do i get it to just say C:
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Brian Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:36 PM
@Sonni Slimm,
type
cd..
and hit enter and keep doing that until you get c:>
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:48 PM
@Brian, ur awesome thanks
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Facebook User on September 25th, 2009 at 6:02 PM says:
im getting this error now
“C:Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” is not recognized as an internal or external command
operable program or batch file what am i doin wrong?
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Anonymous Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 6:07 PM
@Sonni Slimm, you can’t copy paste try typing it out
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
@, no, thats what i am doing, typing it out but i keep getting this message
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Facebook User Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 6:24 PM
@, i found it on another site, i needed to add (x86) to the line thanks though
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Brian on September 25th, 2009 at 6:09 PM says:
I get an error when I try to update with iTunes any advice??? Help please I have a jailbroken 3.0 3gs and windows xp 32 bit and the latest version of iTunes
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Pain b gone on September 25th, 2009 at 6:17 PM says:
So I get it to C:\> then enter the command for Vista 64bit and get the reply:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
What am I doing wrong?
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Anonymous on September 25th, 2009 at 6:18 PM says:
Do not copy and past the command, you have to type it out just like it reads and all will be good.
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Pain b gone on September 25th, 2009 at 6:36 PM says:
You guys rock! It works!!! Typing instead of cut and paste did the job!
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Sean Williams on September 25th, 2009 at 7:18 PM says:
I did the update and it works fine. But I lost my custom carrier logo. How do I get it back because I tried through SSH and nothing
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Rob on September 25th, 2009 at 7:53 PM says:
For Windows users now being able to get the command to work:
The quotes ( “” ) typed on an Apple machine are different than the ones typed on a Windows machine.
Typed on OS X: “C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
Typed on Windows: “C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
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Rob Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 7:54 PM
@Rob,
Ok, it isn’t the operating system, it’s the website that is changing the character codes. For Windows users, just delete and retype both of the quotes, and it will work.
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bc.budd.smoker on September 25th, 2009 at 9:26 PM says:
i have this damn problem… on my windows vista laptop i have been trying to get passed the damn command prompt part, i have typed the command 10000000 times and it say the same shit as everyone else, i stopped all apple things on my task manager, i copyed n pasted i also typed it in, checked letter by letter and its the exact same thing for not only the 64 but also the 32 just to try it n i cannot get the damn thing to work can someone help me n let me know what the hell i am doing wrong??????
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bc.budd.smoker on September 25th, 2009 at 10:20 PM says:
well i fixed it, try one command n if it dont work try it for the other windows version
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Anonymous on September 25th, 2009 at 10:46 PM says:
my itunes does not give me the choice of file type. it only shows .ipsw as a choice. whats wrong?
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artmanp on September 26th, 2009 at 12:30 AM says:
I have the carrier file 5.5 loaded on my phone but when i go to type a mms message there is no camera next to the window where u type. Why?? thanks
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Vishnu on September 26th, 2009 at 9:26 AM says:
HI is got the mms working but when i sent mms to someone they are not receiving it,
and when i send to myself it coming.
What to doo
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Anonymous on September 26th, 2009 at 10:38 AM says:
In the command center I type everything in just the same and hit enter and then it just brings up the next C:\>. Is that all its supposed to do in the command center? Does that mean the command went through?
Then when I do the shift+update in iTunes it says “The Iphone could not be updated. An unknown error has occured.
What am I doing wrong?!
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S.O.T.B. on September 26th, 2009 at 10:38 AM says:
In the command center I type everything in just the same and hit enter and then it just brings up the next C:\>. Is that all its supposed to do in the command center? Does that mean the command went through?
Then when I do the shift+update in iTunes it says “The Iphone could not be updated. An unknown error has occured.
What am I doing wrong?!!!!
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S.O.T.B. Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
“Then when I do the shift+update in iTunes it says “The Iphone could not be updated. An unknown error has occured.”
Still having the same problem! Is there a way to manually put this onto the phone through SSH?
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X on September 26th, 2009 at 12:10 PM says:
for those of you having issues with the cmd prompt once you get to C:\> just copy and paste the command from this website into your cmd and then change the (” “) in the cmd program by just going over to it delete and readding it then just press enter and you will see C:\> pop up again that means it worked
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Brian on September 26th, 2009 at 12:18 PM says:
FIX FOR iTunes Error when trying to update
If you are recieving an ERROR when updating the ipcc file the reason i have found was because of the ATT Cumstom Carrier LOGO via Cydia. I removed that and rebooted and WORKED! Perfect.. Don’t forget that MMS will not work(atleast well) if your wifi is on..
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Anonymous Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 1:17 PM
@Brian, Thanks Brian, I’ve been looking for a solution to that problem all morning. This worked perfectly.
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beaker Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 1:30 PM
@Brian, Were You able to restore the custom icon or is it unable to coexist with MMS?
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Sethster Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Brian – THANK YOU so much for posting the ATT custom carrier fix. I removed it from Cydia and was then able to download the 5.5 file to m iphone without the error in iTunes. You rock!
@Brian,
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S.O.T.B. on September 26th, 2009 at 1:38 PM says:
“Then when I do the shift+update in iTunes it says “The Iphone could not be updated. An unknown error has occured.”
Still having the same problem! Is there a way to manually put this onto the phone through SSH?!
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DB Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
@S.O.T.B.,
Did you use the dropdown to select “carrier settings” after shift-clicking update?
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Anonymous Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
@DB, Yes, then the scroll bar comes up for a second and then I get that error message
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DB on September 26th, 2009 at 3:58 PM says:
If people would just read and follow directions exactly as posted you’d have no problems. Took me about a minute and a half.
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Facebook User on September 26th, 2009 at 6:45 PM says:
Did the update checked the carrier in settings and its 5.5 but not getting the camera in message mode. I had installed swirly MMS but removed it could that be the problem I heard it disables the MMS on the IPhone
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Al on September 27th, 2009 at 8:52 AM says:
Installed this hack from another site and now have ATT version 5.1 – works on 3GS and 3G phones with 3.0
This version is ATT 5.5 (official). Any differences ?
Thanks
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Anonymous Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 11:55 AM
did the same worked but carrier is at and 5.0
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Anonymous on September 27th, 2009 at 11:56 AM says:
worked but carrier say 5.0 any difference
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Facebook User Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:31 AM
@,
you didn’t update anything then, so it didn’t work.
it should say 5.5
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Anonymous Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 7:49 PM
honest says 5.0 updated in itunes now have mms sending and recieve honest …….
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Kash on September 27th, 2009 at 6:37 PM says:
why the comnd line not working for me …
any one hit with correct comnd line for me i am on vista 32 bit
now i am reinstall itunes let C what happnd
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Kash on September 27th, 2009 at 6:43 PM says:
there is space in this commend or not , i know its very stupid question but its not working for me
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
C:\ProgramFiles\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefIntcarrier-testing1
which one are Correct please help me out
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Facebook User Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:30 AM
@Kash,
there IS a space.
“C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
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yourbig.ru on September 28th, 2009 at 9:58 AM says:
There’s a lot of information here. I’ll be back again.
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qbertman on September 28th, 2009 at 10:48 PM says:
I couldnt get this to work untill I actually typed in the command . For some odd reason copying and pasting does not work. Works fine now. I beat my head on the wall for an hour of this one.
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Gabe on October 6th, 2009 at 8:28 AM says:
Hey Guys, I had problems with my network, I tried to go to safari and would tell me no network connectivity, same with the app store and other programs that require internet. so what I did was I reset my network settings. this is located under settings –> General –> Reset. now I have my MMS work and internet. hope this help some of you who run into this, i was going nuts trying to find a solution and couldn’t find one.
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D's elites on November 7th, 2009 at 10:30 PM says:
i tried it but it didnt work.
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