After yesterday’s post on the iPhone 3.0 group SMS bug, we’ve received a few reports from Optus customers that the bug has been fixed. All you have to do is sync your iPhone with iTunes, press the update button and download the updated carrier settings file. Bam – group SMS is back. Anyone on Voda or Telstra wanna let us know if this works for them?
Daniel T
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 2:57 PMSo yet again Gizmodo are reporting on iPhone stories yet are too afraid of Optus to contact them about the appearance of Cupcake for Australian users. This is just garbage Gizmodo, stop staring at your iPhone and start recognising them for the over-marketed pieces of junk they are. Report on other phones, WinMobile, Blackberry, Symbian or Android ANYTHING just stop spewing about the fricking iPhone, Contact Optus and ask where is Cupcake for the HTC Dream users, or are you too scared of losing your advertising budget from them??
Nick Broughall
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:29 PMWhat the hell? We’ve asked Optus. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/05/android_cupcake_coming_to_htc_dream_owners_soonish/
They’re testing it. They’ll release it when they’re ready. Nothing we say or do will influence them in their decision. Nor will it persuade them to tell us a firm date.
If it’s that big a concern for you, why not contact Optus yourself? You’re sure to get a response pretty much identical to the one we’ll get…
Michael F
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:11 PMTo be honest I needed this news as last night i was trying to send a MultiSMS and it came up with Group MMS and then when I tried to send it wouldn’t send. There was a carrier update this morning and I didnt know what it did. This is just iPhone envy :)
BTW I have an iPhone but want a Hero …. so i’m no fanboy :)
Jimbo
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 5:27 PMRegardless of Daniels charming post above, it would be great to see some follow up on the Optus Dream / Cupcake issue. The post you reference is over 2 months old. Have a read of the Android forums over at whirlpool and you will see Optus has flogged this phone off and have virtually disowned it. To summarise:
1. Most Optus support/CSR have absolutely no idea about this phone.
2. The ones that do give out blatantly incorrect or misleading information (one user was told to flash the ADP developer firmware to his retail HTC Dream!!!!).
3. There is still no access to paid apps. Magic owners from Voda and 3 have had this from day 1.
If you don’t think this is worthy of a post then so be it, but this is a local issue that is of interest to many of us. As far as I am concerned Optus need to be called out on this.
Sorry to hijack this thread. To bring it back on topic, I wish I bought an iPhone now. I will be leaving Optus as soon as possible.
Kieran Cummings
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:59 PMYet another example of an internet troll posting when they have an issue with a popular device that just works for the people who own it.
I can understand your frustration, but the bottom line is that your fanboyism of HTC doesn’t excuse your stupidity. If you don’t like Gizmodo, don’t read it. If you don’t like the story, don’t click on it. If you want more news on HTC, maybe go digging and find out then tip off Gizmodo.
Otherwise, keep your hands away from the keyboard and go back to trolling Whirlpool or Fark.
Michael F
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:18 PMWow….
Nathan
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:17 PMFail……
Cam
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:30 PMAwh, I’m sad. I quite liked that group MMS feature, and MMS is unlimited and free on my plan anyway. I wish there was a way to enable or disable it as you please.
Also, Daniel – waaaaaaahhhhhh where is the software update for my massive brickphone?
Nick Broughall
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:38 PMYou can send MMS to groups of people by selecting the file you want to send, pressing the share button and selecting MMS. Once it loads, just add the people you want to send it to up the top…
Cam
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:02 PMYar, I was thinking more along the lines of MMS without any content attached – ie. the current behaviour. I like the threaded group chat.
If you remove the attached file, does the message still get sent as a group MMS, or does it revert to SMS again?
Either way, it’s a bit hacky. It really should be a choice.
Glenn Fairbairn
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:40 PMHahaha Daniel, if you succeeded as well as you failed, you’d be a total winner in life.
tom
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM^^ lol :P
Michael Davis
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:13 PMI’ve always been able to multiple SMS on 3.0 since the update on Vodafone.
Tristan
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:39 PMTelstra is working fine now… kinda funny that I’ve had this problem since 3.0 came out, saw your post last night, thought to myself that you were late to the party, then BAM! update released the next day!
The problem with the MMS behaviour, was if I was sending messages to people with Non-MMS enabled phones, all they got was the carrier message or worse, they got nothing! So I’m glad Group SMS is back to the way I expect it to work!
krnageskillz
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 4:45 PMThis issue was never present on Vodafone. I don’t understand why anyone would go up with an inferior network like Optus when you can get Free Visual Voicemail, Free Data Tethering and cheaper extra data (12c Mb compared to Optus ~35c Mb) on Voda.
Kit Grose
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 5:59 PMOne particularly pertinent reason is Vodaphone’s rubbish coverage outside of the city.
Cam
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 6:25 PMEver been out of metropolitan areas? Have you noticed how your Vodafone mobile doesn’t work any more?
Uh, yeah. Vodafone’s network is far smaller in geographical area than Optus’.
Vaughnus
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 7:06 PMThe problem is fixed for the 3 network
Adriano Vittorio
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 10:02 PMhey hey… gizmodo australia is picking up. i love reading the comments when somebody gets owned haha. thanks gizmodo, i wouldn’t have had a clue about plugging my iPhone (im a hardcore fanboy, live in the app store n shit) to iTunes. THANKS BRO.
Cal Smith
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 10:04 PMerrrrr,,,,,, what if i’m using one of the patched internet tethering carrier files? Anyone?