Android MMS on Orange UK

I love Android. It’s not quite as slick in certain areas as iPhone but overall, especially if your connected world revolves around Google, it’s a fantastic mobile platform and day-to-day experience. However, one thing that’s been scuppering me for the past few weeks since using an HTC Magic was that I couldn’t get MMS working on Orange UK. Despite checking out the usual forums [Modaco, Android Central, XDA Developers] I couldn’t get the correct settings. And then I came across ‘Android Bloke‘. Were there ever a more male, techie “I call a spade, a spade” name for a blog? Anyway, not only can he accurately title garden implements, he also has the magic [ahem] combination of APN settings for Orange. The trick that I hadn’t previously come across is the value to enter in the ‘APN Type’ field at the bottom of the APN Settings. Instead of a helpful dropdown with options [presumably because in theory some developers may like to create their own APN types], the field is just a text entry field, and hence didn’t know to enter ‘mms’. I can now send pictures of my children to their grandmother again.

2nd September 2009

Ben Childs

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