sms not working between 2 iphones

[Anonymous]

me and a mate have a iphone 5 but soon as i turn my off wifi or 3g i stop getting texts(sms) from him then when i put on imessage a get all its texts throw it once 😕 in my settings have got everything on send as sms on imessage on send read receipts on anybody help us out a can't be doing with my 3g internet on all day draining my battery ps a get texts from other folk ok and in my settings his says mobile my says cellular to turn the the 3g off like cellular date enable 3g cellular date network ? It's this meant to say mobile instead of cellular 

[Liquid]

Change your language setting to "British English" rather than "English" it will change the cellular to mobile:) found this out yesterday after a month of confusion between members haha.

Ok now to your main problem.

Is 3G working ok for you data wise? Can you use the web etc?

What are your APN settings?

do you recieve iMessages from other people without problem?

[perksie]

You need wi-fi or 3G turned on to use iMessage.

[Liquid]

I totally read that wrong haha.

Yup perksie is completely right:)

Why on earth are you turning 3G off as well?:/

[Anonymous]

@liquid thanks for the language of the iPhone, mine was awfully confusing too

And iMessage basically used Internet, so you and your friend have to have some kind of web access, so you could just have mobile data enabled and not 3G

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

just restated my settings and that seemed to solve the problem 

[Liquid]

I know right haha. The amount of times I told people to look in "cellular" and I got the response of "I can't find it" was horrible.

Everyone was looking for ages for a solution then boom I found it:) so ruddy simple haha:(

I take full credit because I am that modest

[Liquid]

Glad to hear its sorted Darren:)

[Anonymous]

do a go into international then language because a can't find the setting anywhere 

[Liquid]

Yup that's the one:)

Settings>general>international>language.


Set it as British English.