How to Enabled MMS on Your iPhone 2G

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Posted June 29, 2009 at 1:50pm by iClarified

These are instructions on how to enable MMS capabilities on your iPhone 2G. You must be jailbroken on the 3.0 iPhone firmware to do this.

You can find instructions on how to jailbreak your iPhone here: Windows, Mac

IMPORTANT: This patch will ENABLE the MMS feature on the 3.0 firmware. It will NOT input the correct settings for your carrier. Therefore MMS will only work once the correct carrier settings are set.

Step One
Press to launch Cydia from your SpringBoard

Step Two
Press to select the Sections tab at the bottom of the screen

Step Three
Press to select Messaging from the list of Categories

Step Four
Press to select ActivateMMS2G from the list of Packages

Step Five
Press the Install button at the top right of the screen

Step Six
Press the Confirm button at the top right to begin installation.

Step Seven
Once installation has completed successfully press the large Reboot Device button.

Step Eight
You iPhone will now be automatically restarted. Once the reboot has completed tap to open the messages application from the Springboard.

Notice you now have MMS capabilities. Please be aware that your cellular provider may charge an additional fee for using MMS. Please contact them before send an MMS to verify charges.

Thanks go out to geniusan the author of this patch! You can learn more about how to use MMS here

To input your networks settings please navigate to Settings - General - Network - Cellular Data Network Settings

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Anthony - May 3, 2010 at 1:58pm

So i can't find this anywhere under the ispazio repository in Cydia. Has there been an update on this? i've tried searching through the net for a fix, i've tried the iphonorepo and some other ones but no luck. anything?

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Ahmed - September 20, 2009 at 3:50am

After upgrading to 3.1 DO NOT enable MMS using this. I tried it 3 times and it hung my iphone 2G. If it is hung enter DFU mode using the tutorial in iclarified. After which use the DFU mode in PWNAGE and then restore normally with the custom firmware you already built

Benz - October 4, 2009 at 2:18pm

My laptop does not see my iphone when I connect the device to my computer. Did you have this problem before? And how could you solve it? Could you please tell me how to enter DFU mode? Thank you so much.

ceefax - October 17, 2009 at 6:01pm

Where can i find ActivateMMS2G? I have a 2G phone and 3.0 software installed. Any ideas?

David - September 17, 2009 at 12:17pm

Does this work on firmware 3.1?

kevin - October 4, 2009 at 12:55pm

NO!!!!! Activatemms2G does NOT work for 3.1! IT will Brick your phone and it just becomes a big hassle. Were going to have to wait till someone makes a patch for this

Masae - August 27, 2013 at 4:54pm

How great that you went up to visit Kristen! I need to get up there when Jax nurse is here. Oh and I keep forgeting to send you a check for my cladnears. Are you not the president anymore? Should I send them somewhere else?

Paul - August 22, 2009 at 3:57am

i have searched in cydia and there is no file to activate mms 2g - any suggestions - has it been removed

Tolu - August 22, 2009 at 6:34am

Yeah... the Ispazio repo is not available for now, they r upgrading to a bigger server so we alll have to wait

tlmahesh - August 19, 2009 at 5:15pm

did this actully work for you in US. I did the APN change and restart. I still cannot see the cellular data n/w option in general settings..

Josh - August 19, 2009 at 4:17pm

I just tried this and got this message "NetDB: Open nodename nor servname provided, or not known." Any ideas on what this means and if there's a way around it or not?

tl Mahesh - August 1, 2009 at 3:51pm

After installing this, my phone just hung on apple logo. After several tries of Power and home button combination, it gave me the option to restore. I reconfigured the phone, as i did when newly purchased and resynched everything. Did the MMS install twice and it did not work at all. Both time I had to reinstall everything from scratch..

geeji - August 1, 2009 at 9:01am

Although it works perfectly, ActivateMMS2G has the unfortunate effect of dividing by 6 the idle autonomy of my iPhone V1 (300+ hours -> less than 48). The same problem has been found by others. Let's hope for an update of ActivateMMS2G since it was a great add-on to all V1 iPhones. My configuration : iPhone v1 US, BL 3.9, jailbroken + desimlocked with redsn0w-mac_0.8

cavehtoossi - July 30, 2009 at 10:48am

what i did was that i got swirly & checked its setting & typed all its info for my network setting after installing the activation, after 2 reboots it worked & i got the camera on my sms app!

Adam - July 23, 2009 at 8:55am

My issue is not only did it not work for me, but after I installed, I could not even launch Cydia. It would open then crash. Wound up bringing my phone back to factory settings. Any idea what I did wrong?

Raul - July 16, 2009 at 12:34pm

I seem to have the opposite problem as everyone else. I have both APN and MMS APN setting enabled. They're both set at internet2.voicestream.com It was working normally for me but then after I upgraded the 'mobile substrate' on Cyidia I don't have a camera icon of the option to turn MMS on in the settings app. Could mobile substrate have something to do with it? I tried resetting my phone, I turned off and uninstalled all apps that use mobile substrate and still nothing. However, MMS APN settings remained through out. I'm so confused :|

ritz - July 14, 2009 at 6:20am

My phone hang, and still is (after a day)..after downloading the app and attempted Reboot. Can anyone help me please...

PerrA - July 24, 2009 at 2:14pm

MMS dont work.. Just makes your Iphone freeze. Hold down power button 10 sec then home 3 sec or vice versa then u must jailbreak it again..

jakefoster - July 7, 2009 at 3:45pm

Hi i installed the activemms2g and it didnt work for me. i reinstalled it and it still didnt work for me. i didnt get the button on the messaging screen. can anyone help?

Lashley - July 8, 2009 at 9:33pm

Bro, You have to get the Carrier bundle. UnInstall Activate2gmms & reboot. Then go into Cydia make sure you have the Mod My I repository (if not add it as a resource on the cydia frot page). Look for the T mobile Bundle Carrier Pack ( I assume you are t-mobile. Install it. Re boot. Then you should have the Toggle switches in Messages setting. Once you do that Then Install Activate2gMMS Then you should be good to go, Well after you change the APN via Unlockit,co.nz Google That on Safari via Iphone. Joey Long Balls AKA LAshley

ivan - July 8, 2009 at 9:55pm

just adjust your settings in SETTINGS>GENERAL.NETWORK>CELLULAR DATA NETWORK first. There's a link earlier in the thread to the settings. After that reboot your phone if you already have the mms installed and there you have it. If you do not have it, just install it and reboot. REMEMBER TO GET THE SETTINGS CORRECT FIRST!!!!!!!

M - July 5, 2009 at 11:44am

That worked brilliantly with the saving issue, thanks! :-)

Al - July 17, 2009 at 11:18am

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N4rit4 - August 6, 2009 at 10:37am

Worked great on my phone, the second time I installed the cellular data info icl. the max size and proxy

nameless2k - July 5, 2009 at 8:32am

http://news.metaparadigma.de/?p=2404 article explains in deep how to install ActivateMMS2G to make it work on 99% of all the iPhones 2G. No Camera issue, no Cellular Data Network Save Error, no Send Error.

Al B - July 4, 2009 at 8:08am

This is almost there, thank you for that! How do you get the MMS APN, Username and Password entries to stick though when you have different APN data for MMS and Cellular Data? I am on Vodafone UK and the MMS settings get deleted when I come out of network settings.

ahmad - July 5, 2009 at 8:27am

check this article: http://news.metaparadigma.de/?p=2404 how to solve MMS save issues. Eventually worked for me.

Al B - July 5, 2009 at 6:41pm

ahmad, Thank you very much for the link! Worked first time. My wife is very happy, she is sending and receiving MMS on her iPhone 2G on the Vodafone UK network now.

Umair - July 2, 2009 at 8:57am

me install the active mms in my phone its not show camera in message can any body have this kind of problem plz help me

ahmad - July 5, 2009 at 8:28am

check this article: http://news.metaparadigma.de/?p=2404 how to solve MMS camera icon isues. Eventually worked for me.

dave - July 1, 2009 at 7:25pm

I just tried to do this now my phone is stuck with the apple and it wont do anything. I did the reboot by holding home button and power button comes to apple screen again and stops there. I then tired to hook up to itunes and it dosent register. Can anybody help ?????

Wender - July 2, 2009 at 11:30am

Hi, same happen to me. I had to restore the iphone with iTunes.

morgan - July 21, 2009 at 5:38pm

Hey, the same thing happened to me. What you need to do is hold the power button down until it is off, then plug it into your computer. Turn the phone off again and go onto redsn0w and jailbreak it over again. I just did this five minutes ago and it worked. Hope this helps : )

Gabriel Klein - July 1, 2009 at 4:49pm

BEAUTIFUL! what you guys do at iClarified is great! thanks for all these tutorials.. they help a ton...

Wender - July 1, 2009 at 12:49pm

When I reboot the device, it never restart, only show the black screen with the apple and never start nothing, I had to re-jailbreak again.

iamse7en - July 13, 2009 at 1:19pm

I got the black screen as well, but it finally rebooted after about a minute or so.

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