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How to post by MMS

This page applies ti b2evo 0.9.0

Originally posted by r0nh on the forums

MMS is a way to post messages to a web page by just using your MMS-enabled mobile phone. Entries diary can contain text, images and sound (such as voice recordings or a music file). Messages are posted in a bit of an unorthadox way though by (ab)using the MMS functionality in your phone. The script mms.php pretends to be an MMS Proxy-Relay.

What you need to do to use this is to set the URL to that script (on whatever host you install it) in your phone. So say for instance that you install the script in http://yourdomain.com/mms.php. Then you would insert that address as message server in your phone where you now have the operator's MMS Proxy-Relay. Of course, by doing so you cannot send "real" MMS:es anymore (till you change it back).

On my 7650 it's down in "Messaging -> Options -> Settings -> Multimedia message" and in there there are two options "preferred connection" and "secondary conn." When you choose the primary it gives you a choice of your default access points. You can either edit your provider's one or make a new one (which I did). On making a new one you can create it based on another profile. ("Options --> New Access point --> use existing settings") The setting that you need to edit is called 'home page' on the nokias. Use this new connection as your default MMS connection.

Then all you need to do when you want to make a entry is to compose a message, with images and texts and maybe sounds, with on the first line login and password and send it away and it will appear on the web page. The to-address is not necessary since it won't be transmitted to anyone of course, but most phones complain if you don't write anything there so you need to write at least something there.

Some operators have a very weird view of the mobile internet. They only want to let their users use their parts - parts that give income to the operator. Operator's worst fear is to become a stupid bit-pipe and therefore some have choosen the path to restrict access to the Internet.
So they don't let you run your own MMC and you have to use the one they have provided you with, where you have to pay for whatever they decide an MMS costs.

Created by • Last edit by on 2006-06-12 13:56 • •

10 comments

Comment from: Mudhenn

Mudhenn

So after a lot of tries I have found the error in this doku :-)
It was described by the author Hans in a posting ( http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=724 )where he wrote:


in the CVS you can find mms.php, which enables you to send photos straight from your phone to your site. Very soon this script will also be capable to receive photos by email.

To use the current mms.php simply put the following server url in your cell phone (adapt to your own settings):

http://mydomain.com/b2evolution/mms.php?login=admin&pass=......&cat=3

So note the part after the ? in the URL where you give Login, Pass & Topic!
After I have changed that, I’ve got it to work with T-Mobile / Austria.

2004-07-06 @ 13:48

Comment from: Rich M

Rich M

I tried this with a Treo 600 using T-Mobile in the US and it worked slick.

To setup a Palm Treo 600, go to the Applications list and choose MMS. Once MMS is running, click the menu button, and select the Options-Preferences menu. Under Connection Settings, change to CUSTOM and then click on EDIT. Say YES to their warning, and then change ONLY the MMSC URL line to:
http://website.com/b2directory/mms.php?login=login&pass=pass&blog=2&cat=5
(in the line above, change website domain, b2directory, login, pass, the blog number and category number to suit your blog).

On the Treo, the way you type an "=" is to press a "-" (above the S) and then press the "0" alt key (which shows a list of alternatives).

2005-09-24 @ 19:45

Comment from: audrey [visitor]

audrey [visitor]

i have been trying to set up my phone to send mms messages from my phone to a database on a server. i am using a PHP MMS Decoder written by Jonatan Heyman. i seem to have trouble on the phone end of things - it’s an ericson k700i. in regards to http://domain.com/file.php?login=user&pass=pass – is it necessary to have blog or cat since they don’t apply? or does ‘cat’ apply and if so how?

2005-10-22 @ 19:28

Comment from: Renish Ladani

Renish Ladani

Is blogging is possible through MMS? what is preferred size of MMS?

2005-11-22 @ 08:41

Comment from: I. tjolle

I. tjolle

Does anybody know if this is working with the belgian provider Proximus ? I can’t get it work, I always get the message "mms defective" after sending a mms message on my siemens m65… thx in advance

2005-11-24 @ 10:05

Comment from: Krishnan V

Krishnan V

I have a siemens MC60. I have the same freaking problem. I get that even when I try to send a blank MMS. I guess there is a specific way to write the etc because after giving that message it takes you back to the screen where u can type the header, add attachement etc.

2005-12-10 @ 15:41

Comment from: Jan Blückert

Jan Blückert

It seems as if a 50 character URL length limit applies on all current SE phones, except for the P910i that have a 100 character limit.
I found it quit easy to work around the 50 character limit, by hardcoding the ‘login’ and ‘cat’ parameters into the mms.php script, and only supply the ‘pass’ parameter in the URL.
After doing so, posting via MMS (picture and text) works fine with my SE T630 phone.

2006-05-26 @ 15:26