I just bought a USB data cable for my LGvx5300 phone. The software that came with it installs fine; the drivers all seem to install fine (three of them - one for a "USB composite device," once for a USB CDMA modem, and I don't even know what the third is). I just wanted to use it in mass storage device mode to transfer pictures and so forth, but I can't get *anything* to work. Trying to connect through Content Bank gives me a timeout error, and no new drive showed up in My Computer like I was told it would for mass storage mode. I've gone through the manual which doesn't say a thing, and there seems to be very little information about my particular phone online, and nothing about using the USB cable with it.
So, anything you could anyone could do to help would be extremely... ...helpful.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
In my experience, cellphones with USB connect to a computer tend to be very moody. I had issues with my Motorola v360 as well as my Nokia FatBoy... "plug and pray", basically. I've since given up trying to use the USB cable and just use a card reader.
But, I'm not sure what the issues are with these things... there might be a power on order to get them to work properly...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Card reader would work, if it had a memory card. Alas, its all internal. Anyway, I'm fairly sure I've been had - the place I bought the cable from was cheap, but I've since noted that the data cable sold by the manufacturer has a box of electronics in the middle and costs 9 times - 9 times - more. I think this is just a charging cable that they billed simply as a "USB cable"....note they don't explicitly say "data"....
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
On the same subject of cellphones, how many of you have been hit by the "No-custom-MP3-used-as-ringtone" rule?
My new Motorola K1 KRZR is set up so that any tunes transferred to the phone from my computer cannot be used as ringtunes. The phone is set up so that I can only use ringtunes downloaded from the web.
This is kind of idiotic given that I have several MP3s from my own collection that I assign to my friends. One of my friends is also a drummer for a small group and he gave me an MP3 of one of his band's songs to use on my phone. Neither can be used.
Given with the rules regarding the phone that prevent me from using my own legit MP3s I kinda find these restrictions idiotic. Has anyone else gotten around these issues?
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Saltah'na, I have the same problem. Sucks, don't it? I'm sure there has to be a way to get around it, but I haven't really cared enough to find it. (I really only use my phone for outgoing calls and text messages.)
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Right-click on My Computer, go to Manage, then Disk Management, and see if there's a drive listed there without a drive letter, or (more likely) assigned one that is alreasdy assigned to a drive on your computer. If there is, change it to a new letter.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I'd try that just on the off-chance it fixed my problem, but...there's no such utility in XP, is there? (I downgraded from that @#*$&@# Vista.)
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Um, that is XP.
And I actually didn't have that problem with either the v360 or the FatBoy... There must be a way around that. I'll ask my brother (he sells the damn things).
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Really? I didn't know you could do that in XP...I've used XP since it was first released, and I had no idea you could do that. I feel put out by my lack of knowledge.
Anyway, I found the cable's "instructions" (four lines of printed text) and it does claim to be a data cable...but for a different model of phone than the one I ordered. Well, $5, you get what you paid for.
Posted by bX (Member # 419) on :
My iPhone (on which I am presently typing) does let you make custom ringtones through iTunes, but only certain songs are eligible and there's a 99 cent fee to do it. Interestingly, you can creates your own tones with an audio editor (like GarageBand) and get them onto the phone by renaming the .m4a file as a .m4r, but there seems to be a limit on size, etc. (Current ringtone is a TNG blip, you'll be proud to know) Which is all to say that perhaps ringtone may need to be of a special and particular format/size/etc in order to work with your hardware.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
This phone, when I had service, had no problem receiving MP3's in a text message, sent as an attachment to [email protected] (which was the address for pictures, too - simple text went to vtext.com) and then saving them to memory. MP3s and MIDIs were both happily used as ringtones. So, I dunno if it's Verizon or the phone itself that chose to allow that...cell phone networks and companies are the last aspect of technology that truly confuse me.