LG VX8300 Tutorial for Newbies

Same here. Is there a hack to make this available?

I don't want to buy a card if it's not going to work to begin with.

What are my options?

I would just like to say thanks for helping me out on how to get ring tones. I've had a lot of problems trying to find exactly what to do, I even call Verizon but they said they that there were ways to get them but they could not tell me how. However, this way worked great. Thanks again.

I recently found out that verizon has blocked attachments sent via email which is how I've been getting ringtones until now. What I did was save them to my micro sd card in my sounds with a .mid extension. Then, from my phone, I send the "sound" to myself and it comes through just fine. I use audacity and itunes to chop up my music but it does have to be under 350kb to work.

I've been through 20 some odd pages of the forum - I'm very grateful for the posts I've read, but no one has posted any information for Mac users trying to get their contacts onto their LG VX8300. The OS on my computer is Tiger 10.4.9.

All the solutions I've found on other sites are for Windows users as well as data cables for Windows users.

Verizon Wireless has a Backup Assistant but my Blackberry 7250 from 2 years ago doesn't have GET IT Now, and hence I can't transfer my contacts from my BB to my new phone. And while I could enter them by hand ONCE i have a phone with a PIN set up, if I do so with my LG VX8300 (when it arrives), my BB will be disabled.

Any suggestions I'd be grateful for. I have my contacts in Entourage, but can easily export them to Excel or to text or to Address Book. I also have them on-line at .mac.

Also, has anyone used VEMAIL on the VX8300 and what has your experience been? Being a current (and soon to be former BB user), I'd like to feel I can see and respond to emails from my POP account on my phone.

I noted there are a few of us who use macs - having read through 49 pages of this forum, I have an idea on how to get ringtones and music playing on my LG VX8300 (when it comes) but NOT on how to get my CONTACTS onto the phone (from Entourage - or any other mac Address Book, .mac or whatever). I posted a query that is on page 49 of the forum. In case you don't get to it, I'm hoping this reply will get your attention.

Thanks for the info in the forum - just a tad more information on my probloem and I'll be thrilled.

PocketMac doesn't have anything for the LG VX8300 (and anyway, the product had some problems in syncing my BB and Entourage - so I'm moving to a different phone entirely).

I have figured out how to get the mp3 on to the cell phone, now how do I tell the phone that I want that to be a ringtone? Thank You

I did not read through the whole thread so if somebody already clued you in I apologize.

What you said is not true at all. MP3's work fine with the version 3 firmware.

I was having all of the same troubles you are/were having until I renamed the .mp3 files to smaller names such as 123.mp3 and it now works fine and plays .mp3's in great quality.

What you do is this:

1.) Put in your micro sd chip and format it. You can do this one of two ways. The first method is powering off your phone and putting in the micro sd chip then powering the phone on. This will format your chip. Or you can stick it in while the phone is on and go to: Menu > Settings & Tools > Memory > Card Memory > Options (right hand soft key) > Format Card.

2.) Take your micro SD chip out of your cell phone and plug it into your adapter, card reader, and finally into your USB slot on your computer.

3.) Rename your mp3's to small file sizes such as: 123.mp3 111.mp3 112.mp3 etc etc etc.

4.) Copy and paste them into the my_music directory on your micro sd chip.

5.) Insert the micro SD chip back into your cellphone.

5.) Hold the play button down on the front of your phone for 5 seconds. Or go to Menu > Get it Now > Get Tunes & Tones > My Music > Songs.

Voilla!

It seems the problem was being caused by the large mp3 filenames.

So when i hit menu, then press 0, then enter the 0's, and then try to click on 11 it just says NOT AVAILABLE. Whats the deal?

Dear Rever —

What a godsend you are with these tips and explanations for my new LG VX8300 purchased this afternoon! I bought a memory card (gigantic memory) and will use my BlueTooth earbud with it. At the Verizon store he was not able to pair my BlueTooth to the cell phone without the BlueTooth booklet so I will have to figure out how to do it. (This is a Nokia BlueTooth and I was using it with my Nokia 6256i.)

Anyhow, I hope that you continue to write about this.

I have an iMac and am figuring that whatever software programs they have for the VX8300 is for the PC/Windows and not my Apple baby.

I do not intend to play music, but I do want to take pix and probably some video, too. That's why I bought the big memory card.

I have bookmarked this page so I can return and learn more. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with others.

Lorna

I have a question I have not seen in any thread. I just got an LG 8300. One thing I do not like is seeing the red VCast ad from Verizon when I power it on and off. I liked the old LGs that let you choose different pix and sounds. Is there a way to change the display and sound when powering on and off? or at least to turn off the VCast ad?

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