Cricket: MMS Not Working When WiFi is Enabled

[Becca Breann]

Re: MMS Not Working When WiFi is Enabled

FIXED! Thanks for sharing this. I updated my MMS proxy to the first IP address listed and MMS now works like a charm.

Can someone please in detail explain how to do this switch?

 

[acejavelin]

Re: MMS Not Working When WiFi is Enabled

Can someone please in detail explain how to do this switch?

MMS Proxy is in your APN settings... Set it to the first entry in this post http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=4897373

Or just switch to Textra

 

[telrod11]

Tweeted with Cricket support yesterday, and they tell me 300K is the limitation for MMS with them. Could this be part of the issue?

 

[Abie Gonzales]

just download the textra sms app and life will be so much easier on cricket I did works great. set as default

 

[idbl_fanatic]

PERFECT!!! I have been trying to figure this out since we switched to Cricket

 

[Gal Mariansky]

This is very interesting. I have a moto G 3 and my wife have the 4. Both on Cricket. The 3 work fine the 4 dont work on WiFi. Both have the same APN setting. Change the APN setting on the 4 and now it works, so dont know maybe it Motorola to blame afterall?

 

[mcdonsco]

Just an FYI I have the same problem using the Nexus 6p the IP address thing did not work for me but setting the preferred cellular network to 3G instead of Lte did work. Of course that's a crappy solution to not be able to use LTE, but it's the only one I found to work.

Also, I switch phones a heck of a lot and I've noticed it's almost always a problem when I'm using phones that are stock Android (Nexus, motos etc). Anytime I'm using a skinned phone like a Samsung or an LG it doesn't seem to be a problem???

Would love to know why that is?

 

[Rivest]

I've never had this issue until switching to Cricket. I was an actual ATT customer prior. MMS can still be and should stills end via wifi. Everywhere I have looked states this is pretty much an issue on Cricket.

 

[Scott Howell]

PERFECT!!! I have been trying to figure this out since we switched to Cricket

Worked for me as well. My MMS would not work from home. (Even if Wifi off) unless I drove to a different tower. Called Cricket and they weren't much help. Changed my proxy to that first IP address mentioned here and instantly works again. Thanks for sharing. Glad a web search to this page fixed the problem!

 

[telrod11]

I tried the IP address, and several other combos, and I still was getting some inconsistent results with MMS.
I have had mine set to what I'm posting below for about the last two weeks, and mine seems to be working fine now:

MMSC - http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
MMS - Proxy proxy.mobile.att.net
MMS Port - 80
MCC - 310
MNC - 150
Authentication Type - PAP

 

[SoNic67]

I have tried your solution and works! I was using the hard IP address for a while now, but the ATT proxy is safer and more consistent in the long run. At least ATT seems to be on top of keeping the DNS updated, not like worthless Cricket Wireless tech support.

I just didn't change the MMSC setting, it is not needed for the MMS issue.

 

[beat2def]

Re: MMS Not Working When WiFi is Enabled

Wow! Submitted this to Cricket's customer service email and they replied in 12 minutes confirming:


Looks like the reddit guys were correct and IP addresses are legit.

This totally works for me! Tried the first IP address and it worked. Thank you very much for uploading this info.

 

[electricity bill]

I'm having this problem with several different phones (BLU, moto G4) on Cricket. Reading through this thread, I find a couple of interesting things:

1) all of the IP addresses given in the reddit reference start with 192.168. Those IPs are private, and won't go across the internet. A router should simply filter them out and no response would be received. Why does this work for some people? Maybe the phone is automatically switching to LTE (or 3g or whatever over the air internet it can get) when it gets no response on wifi?

2) both "proxy.mobile.att.net", the alternate apn proxy in one of the replies, and "proxy.aiowireless.net" resolve to the same IP address (currently 172.26.39.1). This address falls into the range of 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 which is also private. But in August 2012, ARIN began allocating "172" address space to internet service, wireless and content providers. Given that the address range is private, I'd assume that most routers (including home routers) are configured to simply filter these addresses.

Thoughts?

 

[idbl_fanatic]

Interestingly enough, the 192.168.196.78 worked fine for me up until yesterday 6/6/2017 (when they made the data change for unlimited account, which I don't have) I just changed to the
MMSC - http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
MMS - Proxy proxy.mobile.att.net

And everything is working now