Updated: How To Upload Photos To Facebook From (Some) Boost Phones
For as long as I can remember Boost Mobile users have been complaining of problems uploading photos to Facebook. Actually, for many users it flat out doesn’t work.
Update: Thanks to tips from BoostApps readers we now have solutions for uploading photos to Facebook from iDEN phones plus the Mirro, Rambler, Incognito, Innuendo, Seek and possibly other CDMA phones. Here’s how:
For the Mirro and Rambler (tip by Shawn Grambo, aka shawn1g614 )
- Go to m.facebook.com with the phone browser.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Photos.
- On the Photos page click Upload Photos, then click the Browse button.
- Click the My Pictures folder and choose the photo you want to upload. Hover over the filename to see a thumbnail.
- Enter a caption and click the Upload button.
- Uploading is slow. It takes about a minute on the Rambler.
- The Rambler browser has trouble keeping me logged into Facebook. Sometimes I get logged out while uploading and have to start over.
- Find your unique personal Facebook photo upload addess by clicking “Upload Photos” from yourFacebook Mobile homepage.
- Send an MMS (a “picture message”) to your Facebook photo upload email address
For the Incognito, Innuendo and Mirro (tip by KrazyKev and Shawn Grambo)
- Install the latest version of Opera Mini from here.
- Run Opera Mini
- Go to m.facebook.com with Opera Mini.
- Click Photos at the top of the Facebook page
- On the Photos page click Upload Photos, then click the Browse (or Search) button.
- Browse to the photo you want to upload (On the Innuendo you may need to copy the photos to the memory card and upload them from there)
- Enter a caption and click the Upload button.
- Download the Facebook App from the Facebook mobile site using the Seek’s browser (if you can’t find it on Facebook or their version doesn’t install get it from here.).
- Go to your main screen on phone. Go into your Applications. Click Facebook. Follow everything until main screen.
- Click on photos and take pics and upload.
According to Facebook, users can upload photos by sending an MMS (a “picture message”) to a special email address. Every Facebook user has a different address, you can see yours by clicking “Upload Photos” from the Facebook Mobile homepage or by going to facebook.com/mobile with a PC browser. I’ve used the email technique with a Boost iDEN Motorola i776 and it does work. Not so with the Boost CDMA Motorola Ramber. Every time I try to send a picture message to my Facebook email with the Rambler instead of a picture, this is what shows up in my Facebook status:
You have received a Multimedia Message – You received a Media Mail from {TRIMMED_SENDER} Click to view. http://mediamail.boostmobile.com/share.do?invite=XEOrJBm1Yk7pqhOhzUeQ
That’s all, no picture, just a link. Clicking the link does take you to the picture but that’s not a satisfactory solution. Facebook users expect the actual picture they uploaded to appear in their status or album on Facebook, not a link.
Boost Mobile has a Facebook fan page which is updated frequently. They also have a Facebook discussion board. Often a user will complain about the Facebook picture uploading problem on the Boost’s Facebook Wall or on the dDiscussion board. The official Boost Mobile account will typically respond with something like;
“Please try to send your pictures as an MMS to the Facebook short code 32665, as long as you have your phone registered to your Facebook account this should work.”
The only problem is that it doesn’t work. There is no error reported and it looks like the message is sent. If you’re on the Pay As You Go plan you even get charged 25 cents for sending a picture message. However, the picture never shows up on Facebook. Maybe it worked at one time but it doesn’t now. You can send a text message to 32665 and it get’s posted as a status message but sending photos to that short code does nothing.
One thing I’ve heard that does work is using the built-in email app found in some Boost phones. On the Incognito and Rant, the app allows you attach pictures to emails. Several users, both here on BoostApps and on the Boost Facebook discussion forum, have reported that they are able to send photos to Facebook using the Incognito’s email app and a Gmail account. However that doesn’t help the users of phones like my Rambler whoose enail apps don’t support attachments. If you have a Motorola i1, the official Facebook Android app does work for photo uploading as well.
Facebook is the biggest Website in the US and the third largest in the world and is an important part of many Boost Mobile user’s lives. Posting photos is a popular activity on Facebook and the fact that is doesn’t work with many Boost phones is inexcusable. I don’t know if the fault lies with Boost or Facebook, although I suspect it’s Boost as photo uploading (using your Facebook personal email addresses, not 32665) seems to work with every every other mobile carrier. Regardless of who is to blame Boost and Facebook need to work together to resolve this issue. The current situation makes Boost look incompetent and I suspect causes more than a few Boost users to switch to a different carrier.
How about you? Can you post photos to Facebook using your Boost phone? If you can leave a comment mentioning which Boost phone you use and how you upload the photos.
i use a juno and have tried to upload pics and have even got a diff fb email address. the same multimedia link popped up. if theres anyone tht can assist me id glady appreciate it
i have the motorola theory..it dont have a memory card..so does that mean i cant upload picture to fb the right way..when i send a picture it has a link u have to click to see the picture i dont like that i want the pic i post to be on fb..and not have to click a link to see it..
Try the method in the post that works with the Rambler, i.e, using the built in browser and the Facebook mobile site.
Or f the Theory’s email app lets you send attachments you should be able to do it that way.
I have the samsung seek and would love to know if anyone has successful uploaded photos to fb with there phone! If so please let me know! This is my only source of internet and it is VERY frustrating!
I don’t have a Seek but based on my and other’s experiences with other phones there are two ways to upload photos to Facebook that may work:
1: If the Seek’s email app (which might be be an email option within the the messaging app rather than a separate email app) allows sending attachments, compose an email to your Facebook Upload address (you can find yours by clicking “Photo” on your wall) and attach the picture and send the email.
2. Using Opera Mini go to http://m.facebook.com and click the Photo button below the Share textbox and browse to and select the photo you want (may only work with photos on the memory card) and click OK and then Upload.
Let us know if you try either and it works.
Dennis, I KNOW this was not the right post entry, I wasn’t getting any help when looking at the other IM programs commentary that I looked up on this site.
The “Help” page was really of NO help to me, nor were the IM apps’ commentary as I just said. After all, this posting entry is the “Boost Annoyances” post.
So excuse me, and if you don’t mind approving this entry, I’d appreciate it if I could get some assistance here.
If not YOU, then isn’t there someone, ANYONE who reads up on these posts and/or is more knowledgeable than the two of us that can help me find a WORKING IM program with correctly mapped keys, IS COMPATIBLE with my W385 CDMA phone AND does NOT require “registration” at all??????
Someone? ANYONE???? Please???
Would really appreciate clear, concise help with this from someone who has the time and patience to help me here.
Thanks in advance!!
I thought I made it clear in my first reply to you that ALL the IM apps I have seen have some issues with every Boost non-smartphone I’ve used or heard about. I’ve never used a W385 and I don’t think anyone who comments here regularly uses one either, but I wouldn’t expect it to be much different as all the Boost phones use basically the same Java Virtual Machine from Qualcomm.
Issues include key mapping problems or not working properly (crashing, freezing, connection issues, etc.) or at all with one or more IM networks. The posts for each IM app include any issues that I experienced personally. I don’t use IM on a regular basis so my experiences are generally limited to verifying if the app installs, runs and appears to have at least some functionality on my Boost phones (an i776 and a Rambler). In the comments other users have described their experiences with the various apps.
BoostApps is a community of users sharing their knowledge and experiences. None of us have a database of what features in each app work or don’t work on each Boost phone.
I urge you to read the posts and comments and then try the apps and report back in the comments what works and what doesn’t on your w385. In reality the only person who can find the best IM program for you and your phone is YOU.
The apps that require registration generally do so because they use a thin client and server architecture to offload some of the processing away from the under-powered phone to the cloud. As far as I remember, the most any of them require is a username, password and email address. If you are worried about spam or identity theft use a unique name and password for each app and disposable email addresses.
I need help and am thoroughly annoyed and frustrated with my Motorola W385 phone by Boost. As you may know, it is a CDMA phone, yet NONE of the JAR links for the IM programs work for my phone correctly! All of these stupid, nosy programs want you to register somehow and even when I can download them, they don’t open/load properly and the goddamn keys are mapped wrong! I mean what the fuck? Seriously? What the hell is up with this? Isn’t there an IM program that’s 1)hassle free, 2)that works right with the keys mapped right and 3)no registering is needed AND 4)is compatible with my W385? I mean, I am at my wit’s end here with no help!! Sorry, but I am not leaving my email address; I simply find it totally unfair you get to see and keep posters’ e-mail addresses when we can’t even see/know yours, and I get enough spam anyhow. Hope you still approve this post so I can actually get some real help! Thanks anyway.
Unfortunately the IM programs here on BoostApps are the only ones I know that even partially work on Boost’s phones. The key mapping and performance issues occur to one degree or another on all the Boost CDMA and iDEN phones.
Blame that on:
1) The very loose and ill defined Java ME spec which has allowed every manufacturer to implement different key mappings and leave parts of the spec out if they so desire.
2. Sprint (including Boost) phones being a tiny part of the global universe of Java capable phones. Worldwide most Java ME developers have never seen a Sprint/Boost phone and have no way of testing on them.
A really don’t care what email address you use to comment on this site. Use a fake or disposable one if it makes you feel better.
This comment has nothing to do with Facebook, which is the topic of this post. Please don’t post off topic comments, which are just noise to anyone interested in the original topic. There are plenty of posts about IM apps on this site, any of of which would be a more appropriate place for your comment as would be the Help page.