I created a new APN profile on my Android-7 phone. I excluded all MMS properties & references from this new APN profile, saved it, and selected it as the default APN profile. I then restarted the phone and had someone else with an Android-11 phone on the same MVNO send me various messages. Here is how those messages appeared in the Android-7 “Messaging” app (the default app from Google for Android 7):
- Plain text – auto-sent as SMS; fully received
- LONG plain text – auto-sent as SMS; fully received as single message, to my surprise
- Plain text + simple emojis – auto-sent as SMS; fully received, likely because Android has a set of emojis that are based behind the scenes on old-school, character-based ways of writing emojis – such as “;-)” for a winking smiley face.
- Plain text + photograph – auto-sent as MMS; received as “Message size: 144KB / New multimedia message. / Receive? / (Expire date: May 26 …) / [Download]” (FYI: Clicking the [Download] button failed to retrieve anything, likely because of my Android-7 phone’s new, limited APN profile. I got an “unsuccessful” message after five clicks – five “retries” – of the button.)
- Plain text to another person + me (group message) – auto-sent as MMS; received as “Message size: 1KB / New multimedia message. / Receive? / (Expire date: May 26 …) / [Download]” (FYI: Clicking the [Download] button failed to retrieve anything, likely because of my Android-7 phone’s new, limited APN profile. I got an “unsuccessful” message after five clicks – five “retries” – of the button.)
I have no interest in the MMS workaround posted elsewhere, because I have no interest in sharing my messages, etc., with Google.
So, if the Pure cannot display the text from an incoming MMS message – EITHER (a) because MMS requires cellular data and the Pure will use cellular data ONLY EVER for tethering, OR (b) because the Pure CAN be configured to receive MMS messages BUT the Mudita developers are not writing code to extract and display the text from an incoming MMS message – then I should cancel my Pure order.
@urszula, no matter whether the reality is (a), or the reality is (b), it seems that the Pure will NEVER support MMS, which I now see as essential for me. Please tell me how to cancel my Pure order and my order for a cork cover and a charger. I no longer have email about these orders. Thanks!