How to Get MMS on the 3.1, 3.01, 3.0 Firmwares! NO JAILBREAK! EASY!

Posted on 13 September 2009 by alexosh1234

Categorized | 3.0 Firmware, 3.1 Firmware, How to, MMS, Mac, Mod, News, Overview, Uncategorized, iPhone, mac os x

Brand NEW: You can now download this file which runs the terminal/command code for you and comes with the ipcc files. Download http://myurlz.com/mms1 and then you choose either the Mac or Windows Files. Unzip them, use winrar for windows to unzip, and then you have 2 folders. Click on the iPhone or executable file which runs the code in terminal or command. Its pretty obvious. The iPhone code extension is .app and the widows in .bat to recognize it.  After, you run the code, open up itunes(make sure it is closed during this), plug  your device in, and update to the ipcc file which you can download or it comes in the file you downloaded. Hope this helps. Comment if you need more help.


DOWNLOAD LINK for IPCC FILE USING FIREFOX!!!!!!(works on both Mac and Windows):  http://myurlz.com/IPCC

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32PSIL6U

Safari screws up the file structure of the ipcc file!

The first few steps are the same as before, we must enable IPCC updates in iTunes 8.2 (9.0 works too). Here are the instructions on how to get MMS on your iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3Gs. YOUR DEVICE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE JAILBROKEN!

From my research, this works on 3.0, 3.01, and 3.1

You have to run a command in Terminal(Mac) or the Command Console(Windows)
This allows you to update to the new IPCC file in iTunes which is very easy.

Mac OS X:
Close iTunes if it is open
Start Terminal (Applications > Utilities)
Run the following command: defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32-bit):
Go to Start -> Run (
type in “command” and hit enter
Type/copy+paste this into the command console that comes up: “C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
Hit enter


Windows XP/Vista (64-bit):
Go to Start -> Run (
type in “command” and hit enter
Type/copy+paste this into the command console that comes up: “C:\Program Files (x86)\iTunes\iTunes.exe” /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1
Hit enter

DIRECTIONS FOR EVERYONE(MAC and PC)

Download the file to some location on your computer
Plug in your iPhone
Start iTunes
Click on your iPhone in the device listing in iTunes
Alt(option)-Click the “Update” button (Shift-click in Windows)
Browse to where you saved the IPCC you downloaded
Select the file and click Choose (or OK on windows i think)
Once it updated, Reboot your iPhone

You should now have working MMS! Unlike previous hacks, this one should not disable your Visual Voicemail feature. Comment on the post if you are having trouble or on the YouTube video. Make sure to tweet about the article and video/tell your friends! Check out the other features of the site too! BOOKMARK if ya want :-)


98 Comments For This Post

  1. kevin Says:

    doesn't work.

  2. Alexa Says:

    Very nice. The only problem for me is that my iTunes is asking for a .ipsw file when i shit+click on update. Since the file i downloaded from you guys is .ipcc, it won't let me locate it. Any solutions to that?

    Thanks for any help given.

  3. Austin Holiday Says:

    Hey man thanks its awesome!…….. will this mess anything up when att does launch the mms…. and will it cost me anything?

  4. gEORGE www.youtube.com Says:

    HOW DID IT WORK?

  5. John Says:

    DL FILE LINK DOESN'T WORK!! Just a big page of programming! Help!!!

  6. Moviemaker156 moviemaker156.tk Says:

    sink your phone first

  7. LsH Says:

    hangs on the sending bar… ???

  8. Amanda Says:

    Mine works shows the cam button in my messages I take a pic but it fails to send and shows the red !

  9. Branden Jackman Says:

    No joy, i get the same thing, it's looking for an ipsw file not an ipcc. i have tried rebooting and eveything. Any help??

  10. Joe Says:

    thank you! it works like a charm!
    that was so easy too.

  11. mikey b Says:

    did you do the terminal command first before all that cuz i think that command allows iTunes to search for .ipcc

  12. THAgod Says:

    you got a drop box where the .ipsw file is…click it and the .ipcc will come up

  13. Cole Says:

    im having the same problem as alexa any help?

  14. matth Says:

    this activate the mms on 3.0.1 iphone 3G but sending doesn't work.

  15. stephen Says:

    yes….same as Alexa…no option for ipcc file. I tried entering the filename and ext and still just errors out

  16. nick Says:

    look man for pc the command line that u wont us to do isnt specified on were to start to copy it, more details please

  17. brian Says:

    yea its not working for me i do it and nothing happens

  18. @bhanner95 twitter.com Says:

    you have to enter the command

  19. Alexa Says:

    The only option is .ipsw files.

  20. Alexa Says:

    yes i did the terminal command.

  21. Alexa Says:

    i did sync my phone first.

  22. Bryan Says:

    If it hangs when it is "Sending", go to Settings>General>Network>Cellular Data Network> and type wap.cingular in the MMS APN.

  23. sud Says:

    this works for 3.1???

  24. jose Says:

    this does work you guys im in the chicago area rockin mms finally!!!!!!!

  25. cwvr Says:

    doesn't work for me. I get the camera icon… but message send fails. probably becuase at&t has the blocking enabled on the account…

  26. Alexa Says:

    Thank you, it works! :)

  27. Tratana Says:

    USE FIREFOX!!

  28. Daryl Says:

    mine is still blocked in Cleveland oh. i get message failed when i send.

  29. John Says:

    Too bad, this doesnt work on jailbroken iPhone 3G 3.0. sad indeed.

  30. Jared Says:

    It works, Thank you!

  31. Alex Says:

    I did this and got it all up and i can bring up all the MMS options but when it comes to sending the pictures i just get the RED! every time and i try again and it doesnt work. Recieving pics doesnt work either it still comes in as the ATT Website garbage

  32. Bruno Says:

    I keep getting a red exclamation mark next to the pic, i'm in Cleveland, OH.

  33. humbe Says:

    it keeps trying to save the file as a .zip
    what can i do?

  34. jason Says:

    alexa try this i thought it was a L IN Prefint but it's an i instead i had the same problem when I put i it worked. /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

  35. Ryan Says:

    Sending fails. Any new advise?

  36. Mike youtube.c Says:

    Can you please make an instructional video on this!!
    You would make it easy for those of us who need visual aids
    novice

  37. Brandyn Says:

    will this mess our phone up on the 25 when mms is really released

  38. mason Says:

    So, no go on a jailbroken iphone?

  39. Aaron Krill Says:

    Way to steal someone else's content and not giving him credit. YOU FAIL

  40. cphia intensedebate.com Says:

    AWESOME! Totally worked for me!! Thank you

  41. chris Says:

    sending failed. any updates to this..?

  42. JimBoArmani intensedebate.com Says:

    Someone please help me, I cannot get it to work. I am new to this type of stuff and I'm about to CLAW MY FUCKING EYES OUT TRYING TO DO THIS.
    I've downloaded it, extracted it or w.e using winrar and now i'm trying to figure out what the fuck to do after that !

  43. RedStarr5 Says:

    Is there any way to reverse this?

    MMS works but it’s screwing up my VVM! Before doing this, I had tethering on using Ben.M’s method and my VVM worked just fine. After doing the mods for MMS, my VVM just stopped working. Now i have to choose between tethering or knowing when someone leaves me a voice message!!

    Help!!

  44. Scott Says:

    Doe’s this delete everything off (music, photos, videos, ect.)?

  45. dj myspace.com Says:

    it doesnt work bro i did the terminal thing with itunes closed i turned off my wifi and left it how it is
    and it still doesnt work

  46. seth Says:

    why dose it get stoped on sending?

  47. Lou Says:

    I don't have the VVM option under my cellular network option… How do I get that to appear ? Thanks.

  48. leon Says:

    Worked for me im using itunes 8.2 windows vista 64bit. What i did is right click on itunes and Uncheck the readonly button. Then run the command line like 3 times. then ipcc showed up

  49. D-Rock Says:

    works for me in Detroit MI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was also getting the red! at first, but I went under cellular data network-MMS-APN and had to manually type in wap.cingular, then its works perfect! Works on Wi-Fi and VVM works too. The only thing I can't do is take a screen shot pic (pressing the home button and lock button simultaniously), it doesn't work anymore!?!?!?!? Has anyone else had this happen after enabling MMS?

  50. Jenn Says:

    hey thanks for all your help! does the mms onlly work for others that have mms becuase i tried sending a pic to an iphone 3G and i keep getting the message send failure..what should i do?

  51. Jenn Says:

    DOes anybody know if this works in Mountain View, CA?

  52. John Says:

    LOOK down bottom right of window, you can select TYPE of file. If you copy & paste the IPCC to desktop, then you should be able to SEE it easily

  53. Jarret Says:

    my screen shot pic works, maybe u didnt press it right lol

  54. spiknspan Says:

    richeous! it worked, and i'm stoked!

  55. ali Says:

    i did the update now every time i go to my messages my phone restarts. any help?

  56. BHembrook81 intensedebate.com Says:

    This Hack took the software for my one unjailbroken 3gs running 3.1, But on my jailbroken 3gs running3.0 it will not take the file?? Has anybody got this to work running a jailbreak on 3.0.1????

  57. yoyo Says:

    This works for me in AK…but you have to reset every once in a while….If it hangs when it is "Sending", go to Settings>General>Network>Cellular Data Network> and type wap.cingular in the MMS APN….

  58. bob Says:

    It hangs on me still after i typed in wap.cingular anybody know what to do

  59. bob Says:

    It hangs on me still after i typed in wap.cingular anybody know what to do

  60. taurusx5 Says:

    Does this hack work on iphone 1G (1st generation iphone)?

  61. D-DuB Says:

    If you can not see the ipcc it is because the ASR – ipccEnabler did not work. Apple disabled the ability to see ipcc files in iTunes release 8.2 to current 9.0. So… if you can not see the ipcc file this explains why. If you can find a copy of iTunes 8.2 BETA it will show up there. Maybe this will explain why some of you can not see the file.

  62. shawn Says:

    when i copy and past into command prompt for my 64 bit operating system it does nothing, any suggestions?

  63. ellis Says:

    im in st. louis works 99.9%

  64. francis Says:

    make sure you have itunes 9

  65. Charliefox Says:

    How do u reverse this?? It doesn’t allow group txting anymore! Please post and let us know how to revert back, thanks!

  66. Melanie Says:

    mine works perfect and i live in virginia. when its on wifi it doesn't send but i receive mms hours later. when wifi is off it works perfectly.

  67. Nikola Kuhar facebook.com Says:

    OK here is what you do,hit CTRL+Shift+ESC and make sure anything that says iTunes in the Processes isn't running and that your iPhone isn't pluged in. IF YOU DON'T IT WON'T WORK!

    Now, in Vista or Windows 7 go to start in the search type in CMD, right click the icon and run as administrator. When you do it will go from C:usersyourname to C:WindowsSystem32.

    Type in this with quotations "%ProgramFiles%iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

    OR for 64 bit users

    Type in "%ProgramFiles(x86)%iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

    Hit enter and you are DONE!

  68. Mike Says:

    i keep getting an error!!! help!

  69. Jeremy Says:

    Is anyone even replying to these?? I did it, and i have the options under general>settings>network in messaging i dont have the button that alows me to add a picture please advise!!!

  70. doctorbiml biml.ru Says:

    Hey! Racial humor! Thanks, Internet!

  71. GeneonMAC Says:

    Great stuff!
    Have been able to send, either WIFI or 3G. HOWEVER – have not been able to receive.
    Any suggestions?

  72. thantoss Says:

    Thanks alot it worked, but I did have to add wap.cingular to the MMS APN

  73. fangorn81 trappedstateside.blogspot.com Says:

    Works fine. You just have to run the app that comes bundled with it to allow iTunes to use ipcc files. Pretty simple.

  74. Brian Says:

    omg thank u so much i had this problem and this fixed it. u just made my day no joke haha. i friekin love u no homo.

  75. Alfredo Says:

    does this work for t-mobile?

  76. Freeyourmind Says:

    It works great on a jailbroke phone.

  77. Christian Says:

    When I attempt to enter "%ProgramFiles%iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1 into my command prompt, I receive a message stating that 'C:Program' is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

    Any help with this? I'm running on a Windows Vista 32 bit.

  78. Christian Says:

    When I attempt to enter "%ProgramFiles%iTunesiTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1 into my command prompt, I receive a message stating that 'C:Program' is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

    Also I am on a 1g phone.

  79. John Says:

    I’ve applied the above, and while it did activate the camera icon in Messages, it doesn’t seem to work. I am not using AT&T, so does that matter? Where can we get a non-AT&T ipcc file, for those of us who are not on AT&T network (actually in another country all-together)?

  80. Friedrich Sacher classicpianist.webs.com Says:

    Firefox doesn't start the download. The text is just shown in the window…:-(

  81. shay Says:

    i doubt anyone is ever gonna reply to this im on iphone 2g and did the installation perfect!!! but when i click shift update and click the file ipcc or whatever the hell it is it doesn't load all the way it just closes so i dont know if it works or not???

  82. bjnyc Says:

    I have an iPhone 2G. Downloaded the file using Firefox, did the Terminal modification and updated the Carrier File in iTunes. After rebooting the iPhone, the camera icon does not appear next to message text box. Any suggestions?

  83. bjnyc Says:

    Me too. I'm also on the 2G (Running 3.1 and iTunes 9). I don't get the camera icon to the left of the message text box, so you know it's not working. If you update the carrier settings when you connect to iTunes after you do this process, you loose the Cellular Data option under Settings/General/Network.

  84. bjnyc Says:

    It did not work for me. I'm have the original iPhone running 3.1 firmware and iTunes 9. The phone is not jailbroken and with AT&T.

  85. George Says:

    Mine did that too and I restarted the iphone and it worked fine after that

  86. iDanielX intensedebate.com Says:

    I've had MMS since 3.0 came out, its been enabled ever since by itself.

  87. mike Says:

    I’m having the same problem with the command prompt.I receive a message stating that ‘C:Program’ is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program, or batch file. I have vista 32 bit

  88. mike Says:

    I also have a netbook with windows xp if that would make it easier. But both get the same message stating that ‘C:Program’ is not recognized as a internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.

  89. Nic Says:

    I followed the instructions and everything worked PERFECTLY for me. I have an iPhone 3G running on the 3.0.1 firmware and it is jailbroken. It took a total of about 15 seconds and my MMS is working without a hitch…..thanks so much!!!

  90. Greg Says:

    if the command isn't working for you, try doing cd "C:Program Files (x86)iTunes" so that you get into the directory, then run the rest of the commend iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

  91. Annie Says:

    I followed all your steps and does not work. I even lost the camera icon which I use to have.

  92. The Dude Says:

    worked like a charm… this is so clutch… now i dont have to upgrade to 3.1 and rehack

  93. kjs Says:

    id try going into your message setting and chose the enable mms option… see what this does and then comment back

  94. Otto Says:

    Does this work for First Gen Iphone running on 3.1.2?

  95. nanna Says:

    i have iphone 3G 3.1.2 and all steps well but after reboot of iphone not appear the small camera in sms near the box of sms

    where the problem

  96. ewitttas ewittas.com Says:

    infact i dont know this but its nice information regarding how to get mms for 3.1

  97. Alex Says:

    I am not able to download the file it tells me that the page was not found. does this link still available?

  98. shelly Says:

    hmm I did that but whenever i go back there it's not saving?? and it still doesn't work :(

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