MMS Works in Beijing,China
January 2nd, 2008
Tonight i did sent the first MMS out successfully in my iphone by the newly updated SwirlyMMS v0.2. Refer to the left below screenshot. The right one shows the specific APN settings.
BTW, I’m one of more than 360M China Mobile subscribers. My number formats 1391xxxxxxx.
However still some confused issues are found and waiting for further investigations, like ’still can browse normal http-based webpages while the global APN has been changed to cmwap by SwirlyMMS’, ‘what’s the exact steps by which i can send mms out successfully for sure’ etc.
Anyway, one successfully-sent MMS does mean the native MMS app does work here in Beijing,China. And i’ll make more tries and find out more.
Update(Jan.3,2008): here’s the repro steps for you:
1. manually disable wifi;
2. make sure the strength of mobile signal is fine;
3. launch SwirlyMMS;
4. enter title in English.
If in Chinese, SwirlyMMS failed all the time. It’s a bug here.
5. pick the receipants and picture you wanna send.
6. send and done.
Update(Mar.9,2008): please check out the latest SwirlyMMS v0.3.5, which for sure works well on firmware 1.1.3 & 1.1.4. By ‘well’, i mean, sending and receiving MMS 
Now all that I wanna see most next is a built-in MMS reader, which, of course, should be able to read Chinese characters 
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hi,
I tried exactly setting on my 1.0.2(downgraded from 1.1.1) iphone, it doesn’t work…
I am wondering if there is any difference between the Mobile network in Beijing and Shanghai?
It kept saying ‘EDGE is not available’. But if I change the APN to cmnet, MMS was trying to send the pic out. However after minutes waiting, it failed in the end.
So annoyed… :S
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Not sure about the network difference between sh and bj. I suggest you to take more tries after you manually turn wifi off.
i guess SwirlyMMS would turn it off each time it launches. However,since it’s still in beta, manually turning wifi off will be the best bet.
However, as i mentioned in the post, there ARE some things really confused me. I did check the global APN settings immediately the moment i sent the MMS out. Guess what? it’s cmwap. Then i launched safari. and I could read news by Google Reader. Well, you know that’s not supposed to happen since cmwap only allows Wap-based.
I’ll take more tries, too, to find out the repro steps by which we can send the MMS out as expected later.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
i also tried many times. cmwap fails. cmnet keeps trying but does not go through. Has anyone got swirlymms working in shanghai?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am
i’m pretty sure SwirlyMMS should be working with cmwap as long as you use China Mobile.
perhaps you may give your local mobile service provider a call for more details on how to send MMS in the mobile phone.
June 15th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Hello cui, when i saw your website i was excited. at first i couldnt get my swirly mms to send with the settings you gave. but after a few times and closing manually the wifi it sent, but the receiver couldnt receive it. why is that so?
i will try again.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
polly, just make sure you are in the latest SwirlyMMS free version 0.8 before your trying.
Good luck