cant get the mms settings on my Blackberry Curve 8900 for o2

[mickyplop]

Hi i have just bought a blackberry curve 8900, its on o2,pay as you go but i cant sent or receive mms (picture messages)
Can anyone help me on this please, i have just treat myself to a new Bm and want to sent few of my pals the pics of it!!
Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers
Micky (new user)

[stevetaz]

Hi i have just bought a blackberry curve 8900, its on o2,pay as you go but i cant sent or receive mms (picture messages)
Can anyone help me on this please, i have just treat myself to a new Bm and want to sent few of my pals the pics of it!!
Thanks in advance for your help
Cheers
Micky (new user)

Hi Micky and welcome to EB:

MMS is a function controlled by the carrier and if you are on a pay-as-you-go plan I don't think you can get the required BB Service Books to enable that service. No Blackberry tariff means no service books.

According to what I have read, O2 only does tariffs on monthly contracts, not pay-as-you-go. Orange UK does do the tariffs for pay-as-you-go so you might want to investigate that.

Do you have email as a part of your plan? If so just send the picture as an attachment. I am guessing you may not have any kind of a data plan with the pay-as-you-go service though. If nt, you are missing out on many of the great BB features.

I am not a UK user so I may be missing some of the fine points of your plans over there so please do let us know if I posted misinformation.

Enjoy your time here at EB. Visit and post often....

[mickyplop]

Hi thanks for reply. Right, i am new to blackberrys, i am aware what they do, internet, can hook them upto itunes, sat nav.. ONE QUESTION....
HOW?
How do i hook it up to the internet? How do i get sat nav? etc.I bought the phone as an orange phone but have had it unlocked to any network. I am on o2 pay as you go. I cant get on the internet on my phone, it says 'connection failed, if this persists contact your provider'.
I know how to use mobiles so aint a'beginner so to speak but i just cant get my head round the fact that i cant get any of this on. I am aware i need to download software for the gps etc but i need to be on the internet on the phone to do this.
All help greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advancy chaps

[stevetaz]

Hi thanks for reply. Right, i am new to blackberrys, i am aware what they do, internet, can hook them upto itunes, sat nav.. ONE QUESTION....
HOW?
How do i hook it up to the internet? How do i get sat nav? etc.I bought the phone as an orange phone but have had it unlocked to any network. I am on o2 pay as you go. I cant get on the internet on my phone, it says 'connection failed, if this persists contact your provider'.
I know how to use mobiles so aint a'beginner so to speak but i just cant get my head round the fact that i cant get any of this on. I am aware i need to download software for the gps etc but i need to be on the internet on the phone to do this.
All help greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advancy chaps

Micky, without a BlackBerry data plan you will be limited in what you can do. If you have access to WiFi you can use a third-party browser like OperaMini to access the web, but the BB Browser will not work without the BB data plan.

Anything else requiring data like GPS Navigation will also need the BB data plan.