I have KDE’s Spacebar installed on my Librem 5 but cannot figure out how to access/receive MMS messages.
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I added my MMS settings but still get the message above:
Have any of you been able to receive MMS messages? I am attempting to receive cat photos.
The screenshot was taken on Mobian.
Personally, I use Mobian Linux but with Chatty, I can receive MMS but my mobile operator uses 2 Access Point Names (one for the Internet, one for MMS) which implies I have to switch the second APN to make it work.
Three MMS messages walk into a Spacebar …
How do the rest of your APN settings look?
The only APN I have is: NXTGENPHONE
No place in the app you’re using to add the following?
APN type: default,mms,supl,hipri
(In Chatty MMS settings and in Mobile Settings in Phosh, I think that field is absent, too, but it’s actually contained in a config file in the system. And yes, carrier MMS does send and receive in Chatty… assuming the Librem 5’s modem iself is not unfairly “blacklisted” by the carrier.)
By the way, unless you’re using Purism’s AweSIM service (which currently runs on AT&T), I believe the Libem 5 is disallowed by “regular” AT&T, strangely. So are you running “whitelisted” by AT&T (as an AweSIM customer), or maybe “blacklisted” by main AT&T service? 
EDIT: Or maybe it’s more accurate to say there have been reports of AT&T denying service for the Librem 5. But last time I tested their IMEI checker (for BYOD), the Librem 5 didn’t pass. All this by way of background, in case it applies here.
So to narrow down the problem, does chatty work for MMS. Because it might not be AT&T but rather ‘spacebar’
And do phone calls actually work? (Even if it is AT&T.) If so, then that’s a positive.
Note that VoLTE has to be enabled first, and in a separate app called BM818 Tool, followed by a complete restart. Have you already done that?
Yes, I am utilize AT&T’s service (not AweSIM).
This may be the underlying issue.
Yes, phone calls and cellular data work.
Cellular data was working, but it seems to have some issues now.
I do not see any application know as BM818 Tool in the Debian repositories.
Are you sure it exists for Mobian?
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=BM818&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
Not sure, but the actual package name is bm818-tools, I believe. It was probably upstreamed to Debian, though.
This does not appear to exist within the Debian repository:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bm818-tools&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
If apt search bm818-tools doesn’t find it, then maybe a Mobian user here in the forums can comment.
This is most bizarre it does work in Chatty.
I have created an issue in the Spacebar Issue Tracker to see if their developers have any input:
Even if you can find and install it, that doesn’t mean that it actually works.
From memory, it’s a fairly straightforward Python script … so it could work to scrounge the script from somewhere outside of Mobian and then either run it or extract out the lines of code that you need. At the end of the day, all it does, I think, is send the right one-off AT command(s) to the cellular modem.
Can be downloaded from here: https://software.pureos.net/package/bin/pureos/byzantium/bm818-tools
But, yeah, we don’t know if it works on Mobian.
Here’s some info on AT commands with the Broadmobi modem: Tips & Tricks · Wiki · Librem5 / Librem 5 Community Wiki · GitLab
