cell data and MMS on AT+T prepaid

[ossands]

Hello Pine phoners,

I've not been able to get cell data or MMS working with my AT+T prepaid sim. Voice and SMS are fine. WiFi is fine. I've tried Manjaro-Phosh and Manjaro-Plasma and Ubuntu Touch with no success. Couldn't get SuSe working at all.

One one of them  (can't remember, Phosh I think) it would say that I needed to log in and send me to an AT+T site where I put-in the phone number and the password (not the PIN) and that would allow me to into that web site but nothing else. Utuntu lets me fill-in the MMS entries but doesn't hook up at all. 

The APN settings don't make sense to me on Phosh or Plasma as they're pretty sparse (nothing about MMS stuff). The phone appears to detect the presence of the 4G but won't hook-up to the internet. I tried putting-in the phone number into the APN 'username' and *both* the AT+T password and (alternately) the AT+T PIN but nothing seems to work.

I called AT+T and confirmed that I got the IMEI correct.

I don't think it's hardware as I'm able to get the AT+T web site that shows me how to pay my bill to load (of course). Is it AT+T? Is it the pinephone software? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance,

Scott Sands

[alaraajavamma]

Hello Pine phoners,

Scott Sands

Hello!

Ubuntu Touch is not ready for daily use - you can use it just for playing around or developing.
Manjaro Plasma - I don't have experience so I can't help.

But Manjaro Phosh:
Check that you have installed mmsd-tng
Then open Chatty -> Settings -> SMS and MMS settings
Put there your MMSC, APN and Proxy

All should work after that if AT+T has same APN for data and MMS.
If AT+T have separate APN for MMS and Data please see this:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17454

Edit. And please see here what are correct APN settings
https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1062162/
If that site is correct you should put these in System Settings:
APN: NXTGENPHONE
NAME: NXTGENPHONE
Username: (leave empty)
Password: (leave empty)
And to Chatty MMS settings:
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
APN: NXTGENPHONE
Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net:80

[ossands]

Hello Pine phoners,

Scott Sands

Hello!

Ubuntu Touch is not ready for daily use - you can use it just for playing around or developing.
Manjaro Plasma - I don't have experience so I can't help.

But Manjaro Phosh:
Check that you have installed mmsd-tng
Then open Chatty -> Settings -> SMS and MMS settings
Put there your MMSC, APN and Proxy

All should work after that if AT+T has same APN for data and MMS.
If AT+T have separate APN for MMS and Data please see this:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17454

Edit. And please see here what are correct APN settings
https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1062162/
If that site is correct you should put these in System Settings:
APN: NXTGENPHONE
NAME: NXTGENPHONE
Username: (leave empty)
Password: (leave empty)
And to Chatty MMS settings:
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
APN: NXTGENPHONE
Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net:80

Hello alaraajavamma,

THat did the trick!. THank you!
I wonder why the builds don't come with this software in place already. Seems that most people would want it!

Scott Sands