Mine works Flawless… I Have a Lightphone also a Sunbeam Aspen. Both are in my desk drawer.
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@shadock I know this issue is frustrating & our team is working on this. One possible issue could be wrong/incorrect APN settings (MMS vs SMS), because I believe that you’ve confirmed that this is not a ‘duplicate contacts issue.’
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We’re so glad it’s working out for you. 
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We have no more MMS in Swizerland.
Is there a setting in the phone that I can check?
There are two places: In the SMS message settings & in network settings. Also- who’s your network provider? APN settings matter as well.
Thanks.
I haven’t the menu MMS of your second pic.
My provider is Yallo, branch of Sunrise.
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Have you verified the APN settings?
I clicked on the link, came on an page where there was a like to a user manuel, click on it and came on a general page.
It’s old. When I bought the Fairphone, a day, I couldn’t send or received any contact cardav, any MMS.
I looked at all e/os and Fairphone forum, nothing. Then I searched quite an hour on Yallo’s website, to find, at the end, at an end-page, that they doesn’t provide MMS anymore.
REALLY? Your provider doesn’t support MMS messages?
Yes, most of the providers in Swizerland.
They don’t see the necessity as everyone (except me) is using WhatsApp.
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@shadock Yeah, that’s Europe for you. Everyone & their mother is on WhatsApp (except you, I guess) LOL 
and me 
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I feel as though WhatsApp, prevalence of, should be studied. It is absolutely intrusive and sponsored by Meta yet everyone happily downloads and uses it. Not judging, honestly. I 100% understand the need. Just find it perplexing that it is “THE” app of choice. I guess first to the market? and people like what they know?
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In my country (Bulgaria) we use Viber or FB Messenger most of the time. I personally have never used WhatsApp 
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I think it became popular before it got acquired by Meta, and because they had some privacy talk initially.
People who see the problem are now shifting towards Signal and Telegram, but it’ll take time and perhaps our effort to convince others.
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you only have to look at the number of people that have facebook app installed to see why, most people are like sheep and haven’t woken up to the mass surveillance going on driven by the device the carry 24/7
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Do you get notifications with signal?
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I agreed 100% with your experience. These dumb phones are making people social distancing themselves because the limited functionalities. I used it for two weeks now, feels no difference from the light phone iii in any functionality wise but worse on quality. People who are in the minimalist phone are ignoring the basic fact that the technologies have already merged into the daily life, the toxic part is the social media stuff, not communicating stuffs. By cutting all of them out will make life harder. By ignoring it can only fool self so long until the others move on already. Most of the dumb phones are doing high price, low quality builds and marketing to make people to buy it and stick with it physiologically, while company itself profit from the low end cost. Android 12 already have clear phone log, group messaging stuff, Mudita cut them out and put it into the so called updates so that the community will appreciate that they are working on it. I am not particularly attacking the Mudita, but other dumb phones too like light phone iii and minimal phone that I had. Just pure money rob. Smartphone can also turn into a dumbphone with self-control, but I am too lazy to customize it, all the notifications from a smartphone is too annoying to be appreciated. If I haven’t checked the phone for 3hours, 20+ headsup-notifications will show up non-stop. I really wish there is a phone like in-between the dumbphone and a smartphone as a phone + productivity tool, not entertainment or dumb enough that I have to carry two phones. Just my experience. But before you buy this phone, you should know what you get into in the first place.
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Well, the Kompakt did work for me. I am trying to answer your message with my limited knowledge :
I think Mudita did not “cut” the RCS but sticks, for good reasons, to the open source Google-free Android which cannot support RCS due to the way this technology is implemented and the underlying infrastructure it requires (kinda seems it was on purpose ?)
As for me, I actually am MORE connected to my friends & family than before because, well… I now actually call them and talk to them significantly more than I used to ! And compared to my previous dumbphones endeavours, it is easy enough to write long-enough messages / send pictures and massively less buggy.
Also I am not stressed of getting lost anymore – I try not to use the GPS, but if I really need to, I can.
Well, there are still a couple of issues but I am pretty confident about the upcoming updates ! My regret is the group-MMS not working with most of my contacts. I hope it will one day !
As for turning a smartphone into a dumbphone, it never worked for me – I always work around the system one way or another.
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Simply having a Kompakt for a few months last year (with plans to buy again later this year) had a POSITIVE effect on my approach to cellphones.
Thanks in large part to Mudita putting the Phone icon in the primary position on the Kompakt’s home page, I now see CALLING as any cellphone’s PRIMARY purpose.
So, as for me, I, too, am MORE connected to friends and relatives than I was a year ago.
When someone text-messages me, I try to call him or her back immediately.
- I know he or she is available to answer my call.
- The call cheers up both of us.
- We end the call knowing MUCH more than we would have known by me text-messaging a reply, and this strengthens our relationship and understanding of one another.
Thanks, Mudita!
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