My wife tried to send me a couple of pictures from her cellphone today, but I never received them. I have the full BlackBerry plan with Cingular Orange and she has the the add on to her regular plan that allows her to send picture messages.

Is there something I might be missing on my end?

Thanks

If you have just the Blackberry Unlimited plan it does not include, SMS or MMS. Picture messages are MMS. If she could send it out as regular email though then you'd have no problem.

It doesn't matter if you have an SMS plan on your account or not you still should be able to receive SMS messages. You'd just be billed .10 cents per message. Call Cingular data support.

A search of this forum for MMS problem pulled a thread with this post.
No Compose MMS Option on 8700c

Don't know of any resolution yet.

Hope this helps.
Rcbjr

Not sure if you cited the wrong post by mistake or not but the one you've referenced doesn't seem to have anything to do with not being able to receive SMS or MMS messages.

I think he was trying to answer the original question. While the poster titled it unable to send SMS messages, the context was about his inability to receive pictures whaich are MMS messages. As has been stated before, Cingular does not yet support MMS for the 8700. SMS (text) messages work just fine.

Ahhhh, that makes sense now. I hadn't made the distinction between SMS and MMS since I figured if one was working the other would work.

That's truly annoying.

my 7100g (6-9mo) and 8700c (a few weeks old) have issues getting SMS messages, I try to redirect people to send me email. Tmobile users regularly fail in the sends. My outbound seems to generally work though. I was thinking it was a ATT/Cing BB and SMS issue as prior phones never had issues.

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I probably should have linked to the whole thread, instead of this one post. The topic of the thread was "No Compose MMS Option on 8700c". If they don't support sending MMS, it stands to reason that it wouldn't support receiving. Additionally, I should have mentioned that Pictures are sent as MMS and not SMS.
And as usual, John (Barjohn) is right.

Sorry for the confusion.
Rcbjr

I likewise had a problem receiving SMS messages for the first week or two on my device. I worked through the issue with Cingular tech support, and it was eventually escalated to a third-tier support rep (with whom I never actually spoke, only corresponded). I was able to receive SMS messages from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Cingular Orange, but not Cingular Blue, Sprint, or Nextel. Removing and resetting text messages from my account didn't yield any resolution. I don't know if the third-tier techs reps did something, but I was eventually able to receive messages. My hypothesis is that, in migrating from Verizon Wireless to Cingular, something in the SMS routing tables took a while to update for certain carriers, hence the non-receipt of messages. After a week or two, this issue appears to have auto-resolved. Sorry I can't be of more help!