Receiving small MMS picture messages...

[daveday2@yahoo.]

Hi,

I have a SE S700i that used to receive MMS picture messages fine (around 30 - 40K and about 640X480px) then one day all my received MMS pictures started to come in at around 8-12K and only 112X150px, around about the same time I'm sure I received a 'settings text message' from Vodafone that I accepted.

When I phoned Vodafone they said they have never heard of this problem and I must of changed some settings on my phone.

Anyway I lived with the problem and did nothing about, now I've moved over to Orange and have a N80 and now I have the very same problem!

I send myself a photo on the N80 and it leaves the phone a healthy 512x384px 60KB and a couple of seconds later I receive (on the same phone) the same image scaled down to a puny 176x132px 8KB ?????

I rang Orange and they didn't have a clue. I know my N80 is NOT resizing the photos before it sends them because I've sent the same photos to other phones (Razr & K750i) and they receive them nice and big. I think it's my network resizing the images in transit.

Please someone help it's driving me mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave

[adr]

I can't help directly, but I can tell you that 176x132 is the display dimensions for an old Series 60 nokia. They have a 176x220 screen, but when in standby mode, the visible area for the background is 176x132.

That's some very specific resizing that's going on at some point.

[jammers]

I think the settings are wrong on your receiving or sending phone. I'd find it very surprising if the image was resized en route.

I got a pic message from www.ninja-net.co.uk and it fit ok, but I'd have to put it on my computer and edit it to change the res so that's a weird one.

Try displaying the pic as a background and see if it's the same size maybe. Or get a new phone. Sorry. It might be your network only handles below a certain amount for MMS (picture messages). Mine (3) is 150 k which is still pretty lame let's face it but 50 k man.

Try getting a pic from www.ninja-net.co.uk they're about 140KB for an animated gif and see if it displays correctly.

[andrewkeith5]

orange very unkindly resize the image automatically as it passes through them to "cost you less in data charges for downloading the message"

explains why i never use mms

youll also find a lot of their earlier SPVs are the only HTC devices that have been programmed to resize the image in an mms before it leaves the phone

[boukob]

I'm having exactly the same problem with my K800 !!!!
anybody has a clue !?!?