I tried to follow this advice- but the contact already had NO parenthesis so that wasn’t the problem :( At the verizon store, the sales guy was able to send a pic from my droid to his storm, but a pic will not send to env2 or env3.. I’m wondering if it can’t send to phones other than smartphones till this bug is fixed?? Hope to find an answer soon !

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Interesting: Your Droid, is it specifically getting the “You have entered an invalid address” error message, even without parentheses?

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Yeah my wife and I have had a ticket open with VZW and ran across the fix as well.  Now the odd thing was that we were able to MMS to anyone except each other.  Worst thing was that my wifes MMS messages to me were being sent to someone else with the same area code as her droid but with my number.

You can read up more here: http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/

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I managed to figure out this solution on my own the other day, but I have another little hint…
Another problem I had was even after I removed the parentheses, I still had the (1) in front of my numbers: 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx. That seemed to still cause the Droid to not know what to do. Once I removed the 1- from in front of the area code, it has been working on contacts I wasn’t able to send to previously.

You can test this also to see if it is a true issue, but it worked for me.

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I did this and it worked for a day before giving me the invalid address error again. However, everytime I delete a message thread and reboot, it works again for a little while but eventually errors out. I can get by until a fix comes next month by just emailing pics to MMS systems (ex. Number@vzwpix.com) but it’s really annoying. This is where I miss hotfixes on HTC phones….you don’t have to wait for a new software update to correct problems like this.

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I have no 1-  or parentheses   and always get the invalid address nessage,,,,,,

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Verizon has identified the issue, pointing at the parentheses, and apparently have a patch in the works to correct it.  We hear you saying that this is not always the case, and that the invalid message is coming up even without the parentheses.  My sincerest hope that this patch, when it fixes the one problem, will knock out whatever is causing the glitch regardless of the contact.  Rumored release is December 11th, will probably post about it later.

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Just want to let you guys know that with the () in i am still able to send MMS with no issues. I did read about a bunch of issues that are happening with the phone though. The camera and its auto-focus… this is being fix with a silent push of software to your phone which means you wont even know its happeneing. Also the next one is the speaker phone. sometime when you get a call or you make the call you can hear the person talking to you but they cant hear a word you say. i think they are going to release an offical update for this to fix the firm ware. if you guys find anything let me know….

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No parentheses, no 1 in front of area code, and no error message! Just won’t send, there’s a symbol beside the message of an envelope and a little red clock

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PROBLEM SOLVED!
I spent a few days working with a tech from Verizon, and he fixed the mms problem! Though I had made sure there were no parentheses or a 1 before the area code, my phone still would not send pictures to one contact in particular~ all other contacts were having no problems.. 
What he advised me to do ~ Erase the contacts phone #, re enter it with just the 10 digit number.. (dashes will be automatically entered by the phone).. erase all message threads . restart phone..  we actually had to do this a few times ..
what was happening was a little over my head, but he said that my phone was sending text to this number as 123.456.7890 instead of 123-456-7890 and this contacts phone number was in his words “being stubborn” in the way it was being sent..

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Followed Gina’s post and my picture messages are working great.  Make sure when you delete your contact, add the phone number as “cell” or your contact will not show up when trying to send a MMS or SMS message.

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I had similar problem with error message hen i was trying to send text, but then realized i had to change # from home (default) to mobile. After reading these articles i realized i was the only one creating this problem for myself. Anyhow, i do have a couple of questions, the first one is in my contacts list with no pic caller i.d. how come the little droid icon is sometimes left sometimes right and sometimes upside down? Does this mean anything, does anyone know? My second question is how do i send a video? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

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I went through all of my contacts (all 350+ of them) and replaced all of the phone numbers in gmail so the sync would be fixed too and i still get the error message but only with Verizon customers.  I can send to any other carriers except other Verizon.  Any other ideas?

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I was having trouble sending MMS, but could receive them fine.  I was not getting teh “invalid address” message, just a message that the message failed.  My problem with either the VNC app, or the “my location” app.  uninstalled both and everything works fine.  Just an fyi.

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Thanks for discovering and solving this problem.

Hopefully more and more of these defects get worked out by Motorola quickly.

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I Have a question i dont know if its just me or the phone doesnt send music messages unless u record while your going to send the message

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I had a problem where I couldn’t save pictures sent by text message. I downloaded an application called Save MMS by Andrew Schwinner and all is well. You will need an SD card but the app is free.

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YES!!! it works, thanks guys - saved me a trip to the store

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Thankfully, I’m pleased to report that so far I have had no such bug problems with my new droid .  I’ll keep you all up to date though, I’m pretty tough on my devices.

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This is, this element makes us all happy. Why? Mainly due to some things in here.

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after i send a text it shows a gray envelope with a ! in the right hand corner, my phone is the droid. what does this mean

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you’re a dope

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I had heard about the event, and had planned to attend a movie or two, but I hadn’t expected a call from Chef Clayon

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This doesn’t help me!! My hero won’t even give me the option of sending an mms when I try and I am unable to receive any mms messages either!!!! Please help!!

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Thank you x 1500000000. It’s the ‘1’ in front of certain phone numbers that was making my phone not be able to receive picture messages. It was driving me crazy & Verizon had no clue why it was accepting from certain people. Thank you!!!

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Does upgrading to Android 2.2 helps this issue?  I guess you could sell your Droid and hop on a new Droid 2. You’d need a Droid 2 Case

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I just purchased a droid 2 last Friday. I love everything about it EXCEPT I can’t send text messages, any type whether it be a photo or a regular message!! I can receive them just fine but when I send one NOTHING. I get a message that says sent, and has the time but , they are NEVER received. I tried removing the parentheses, the 1 in front of the number, restoring to factory state, rebooting dozens of times, making sure the numbers were stored as mobile instead of home, removing the battery…...nothing works. The techies are clueless and it is so annoying. I don’t know what to do :(

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So I cant send pics and saw this thread. Tryed fixing and it’s still a no go, but I have to say my droid A8 running 2.2 only acts like it’s sending no error or invaid messages just says “sending” forever. I also cant upload to facebook, consistently, it seems that the ones that wont upload stay in que forever and ever. I know I had a place to resend but this last udate seems to have made that go away or am I losing my mind?

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I am having this issue too…and can’t find a solution….I’ve tried EVERYTHING.

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Kathy & Lauren, i am having the same issue.  the thing is i didn’t have it when i first got the phone.  this problem only started 2 weeks ago.  do you think it is a virus?

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I think I am sending mssgs no prob. However, I am unable to to receive pic mssgs. Plz note the only mssgs this happens to are fwds (jokes etc.). All that shows is the pic icon a mountain with a sun I think. Could this be because the ppl sending me a fwd have a 1 or ()‘s in my # info? I’m new to the droid & frustrated with this issue. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated p

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So this is a human input error and auto save errors?
I wasn’t aware the droid put parenthesis around contacts automatically.
Someone I know had this problem but we couldn’t figure out why. Thanks.

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Okay, mine just stopped sending and receiving mms messages randomly one day several months ago and hasn’t worked since. There have been several updates since then and it still hasn’t changed. It’s not due to the reason mentioned in this post. I’ve searched in many forums for solutions and can’t find one, has anyone else had this issue and fixed it? I’d rather not get stuck on the phone with tech support.

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I tried this for the isue I’ve been having on my Droid 2… the whole “when I try to send a photo I get the “National access coverage not available”  didnt work

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thanks for helping out so many people…really cool work…

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