Originally Posted by
gocat91 I have the 820 for a couple of days.I cant send txt pix , cant send out emails and ive just talked to straight talk , they said its cuz my fone is locked. ive got an ATT 820. is this true? and im also having trouble keeping my blue tooth connected to the fone? i always have to pair it with my fone. frustrated
Your post says your using an "ATT 820" and this is a thread for the HTC 8x, are you posting in the correct spot?
But hopefully this will help in some way:
First your phone does not have to be unlocked to use an AT&T straight talk compatible sim card with an AT&T phone. If you were to use the T-mobile straight talk compatible sim card then it would have to be carrier unlocked. So if your phone is an AT&T 820 and your using the AT&T compatible card then your phone will work, but if your using the AT&T 820 and the T-mobile compatible sim card (or a non-AT&T compatible sim card) then your phone will need to be carrier unlocked.
Second your settings are more then likely incorrect. As extremely simplified as I can get txt pics (mms) and email messages have two components to them. First both require access to the data network and second is both have specific settings for the respective service. Your email messages (if sent by the outlook or other similar client) need smtp and pop3/imap settings, and your mms messages have other settings.
Both of these settings need to be correct in order for email and mms to work.
To help determine if part of your setting is correct lets see if the internet apn is correct. With the wifi turned off see if you use the data network at all (open the browser, go to a website and see if it loads).
*If the page does not load then you don't have the correct settings in your phone. You will need to find the correct settings and enter them
*If the page loads then you have the correct internet apn which means your mms specific settings are wrong or incomplete.
As for the rest of the settings specific to mms and/or email I can not tell you for sure what will work or not. Quoted below are the MMS and Internet APN settings I use on my HTC 8x. I can not say for sure these will work for you since your not using the HTC 8x.
If they don't work then you will need to check the forum topic specific for your phone or else do some Google searches to gather more information.
Internet APN
APN: tfdata
User name: (blank)
Password: (blank)
Proxy server (URL): (blank)
Proxy port: (blank)
MMS APN
APN: tfdata
User name: (blank)
Password: (blank)
WAP gateway (URL): mms3.tracfone.com
WAP gateway port: 80
MMSC (URL):
http://mms-tf.net/
MMSC port: 80
Maximum MMS size: (blank)
Third if you just activated your phone it might take a day or two for things to work properly. If they don't and you have found the correct email, internet and mms settings (and your using an AT&T phone with an AT&T compatible straight talk sim card) then you will have to contact Straight Talk and request they open a trouble ticket.
