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Native MMS iPhone 2G replaces ActivateMMS2G

MMS2G No Longer MIA

If you’re hearing “Where did you go?” repeated in the background by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones when we start refering to ActivateMMS2G by geniusan, you’re not the only one.

No longer a fixture in Cydia many Jailbroken iPhoners are left trying to figure out how to Activate MMS on their iPhone 2G. Now tune out the Bosstones. MMS for the iPhone 2G is still running strong in one form or another.

Solution through Cydia:

1. Add Source http://cydia.ifoneguide.nl
2. Install Native MMS iPhone 2G
3. Reboot your iPhone
4. Go to: Settings –> General –> Network –> Cellular Data Network
and enter in your carrier settings
5. Reboot your iPhone
6. Start MMSing

OR

1. Add Source http://sinfuliphonerepo.com
2. Install Enable MMS for 2G & 3.0 or Enable MMS for 2G & 3.1.2
3. Reboot your iPhone
4. Go to: Settings –> General –> Network –> Cellular Data Network
and enter in your carrier settings
5. Reboot your iPhone
6. Start MMSing

Manual Solution:

1. Download MMS2G
2. SSH into your iPhone and copy mms2g.deb to /var/root

In Terminal
1. Type: ssh root@ur.ip.address.here
2. Type: dpkg -i mms2g.deb
3. Reboot

 
 
IMPORTANT UPDATE
After reading about an iPhone crashing in the comments below, I did some research to see what other issues people might be having with these MMS tweaks.

1. DO NOT install on an iPhone 3G - It will crash (these are only 2G solutions)
2. ActivateMMS2G may not work properly if you have upgraded past firmware 3.0.1 - it has not been updated to work on subsequent firmwares.
3. Native MMS iPhone 2G may have been is designed for firmware 3.1.2 only - although success with the tweak seems to vary across the boards

Please update your iPhone to a custom 3.1.2 firmware. Then follow the instructions above to activate mms. If you are on 3.0 and do not want to upgrade, please use terminal and the attached ActivateMMS2G deb file to activate or use the sinfuliphone repo.

I have personally installed Native MMS on my iPhone 2G with custom firmware 3.1.2 (created with PwnageTool) and can confirm that it is working. I have also installed Enable MMS from the sinfuliphone repo without any issues.

ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR IPHONE BEFORE ATTEMPTING ANY TWEAKS/PATCHES/ETC!

Receiving MMS Screenie

If you’re on a 2G iPhone (using a carrier other than AT&T) you have been able to use MMS shortly after firmware 3.0 was released (thanks to geniusan). If you’re on a newer generation iPhone (under contract with AT&T), then you’re still waiting for AT&T to authorize Apple to unlock that function.

In the meantime, here’s what you can expect…

To activate MMS on your 2G or see more screenshots visit ActivateMMS2G.

My MMS Stopped Working…Solution

Two Recent iPhone Tweaks Don’t Play Well Together Proving That You Can’t Have Your Tweak and Eat it Too

If you recently discovered that your ActivateMMS2G stopped working, you’re not alone. ActivateMMS2G, better known for enabling picture messaging on your iPhone 2G has a lesser known compatibility issue with another iPhone Tweak, 3GS Battery; 3GS Battery enables a numeric battery percentage for your iPhone.

Both tweaks are a welcomed asset to your iPhone arsenal; due to unfortunate incompatibility issues, though, you are limited to using only one or the other.

To re-enable your picture messaging you must go into WinterBoard and deactivate 3GS Battery. To use 3GS Battery and inadvertently disable MMS, open WinterBoard and re-activate 3GS Battery.

Activate MMS on the iPhone 2G for Free

Suck it SwirlyMMS and Apple

Apple and AT&T, fueling their latest cash cow, say that the iPhone 2G is incapable of sending and receiving MMS. Seemingly, the only option left for first generation users was SwirlyMMS*.

Now that MMS is finally free on the iPhone, it seems rather nonsensical to pay for it.

Thanks go out to geniusan for providing another free MMS solution for first generation iPhone users.

5 Steps to Unlocking MMS:

1. Install ActivateMMS2G from Cydia
2. Reboot your iPhone
3. Go to: Settings –> General –> Network –> Cellular Data Network
and enter in your carrier settings
4. Reboot your iPhone
5. Start MMSing

IMPORTANT UPDATES:
Incompatibility Issues with 3GS Numeric Battery
Native MMS iPhone 2G Replaces ActivateMMS2g
Additional Screenie (Home Screen View)

 
 
 
*SwirlyMMS charges $8 to enable MMS for just one iPhone; so that if you switch iPhone’s you need a new license

iPhone Firmware 3.0: Bananas for Monkeys

Apple’s Latest Firmware Update Does Nothing More than Satisfy Some of the Long List of Complaints Formulated by the “Subordinate” Masses

The Apple marketing machine is at it again, passing off secondhand technology at a breakneck speed, re-wrapping it and dubbing it revolutionary. Two years in the begging, iPhone fanatics can finally begin to cross items off their request lists.

Hello:

New Features Include:

Copy and Paste. Everyone said you’d make headlines and they were right. Although you were available on jailbroken iPhones for quite some time. It’s kind of like Columbus “discovering” America.

MMS. Don’t send SwirlyMMS packing just yet. Apple reveals that only the iPhone 3G will be capable of picture messaging. The original iPhone seems to lack the hardware to make MMS possible…hmm…

Spotlight. Search your iPhone. Okay I can’t come up with a clever enough quip for the extra feature on your remote control you paid extra for, but never use.

Landscape Keyboard. What’s the quickest way to alienate developers and anger consumers who’ve already purchased apps that give you landscape capability for email and text? Provide landscape capability for email, text, and other programs in a firmware update.

Tethering. On again, off again, Apple’s relationship with tethering is like Ike and Tina’s (or for the younger generations, Chris and Rihanna). Apple loves you, then Apple gets a text from AT&T, Apple says it’s nothing, you two argue, Apple does some things it regrets, then Apple wants you back, and here you are. Thanks Apple for officially giving us permission to use the iPhone’s data plan/Internet connection on our laptops/computers, even though we would being doing it regardless.

Sync Notes. Syncing notes with iTunes is ingenious. Forget todo lists that sync wirelessly to servers that save, transfer, update and send notifications. Nope, use the Apple umbilical chord to keep you hooked on iTunes.

GPS. Turn by turn directions. That’s great because, essentially, if you couldn’t figure it out before, you really shouldn’t have had an iPhone.

Push. “Notifications” Instant messaging apps can now run in the background and notify the user when a new message arrives. Some apps already did that, but I can only imagine how streamlined and better integrated Apple will make it, although in earlier reports Apple stated it would never allow programs to run in the background.

App Add-ons. Get new in-game levels, maps, etc, a la carte via this option. This is fun if a 3.5 inch screen is all you need to get your game on.

Bluetooth. Has essentially been inoperable and useless on the iPhone. iBluetooth seemed to be the only app that exploited the Bluetooth capability of the iPhone. Now you get stereo capability with bluetooth headsets. Whoop.

This is Apple’s way of giving Spam to those who ordered and paid for filet mignon.

If you’re starting to feel like Oliver Twist, join the millions of other iPhone users who are lined up with open palms asking, “Please Apple, can we have some more.”