LG VX8300 Tutorial for Newbies

has anyone else had a problem with the 8300 where the earpiece and mouthpiece dont work but you can still make calls and recieve them. also my speaker phone button does not work anymore but the side speakers still work to play music. Im wondering if anyone knows a special way to reset the phone that could fix this. also the phone software seems to be a little slow and sometimes the phone resets itself out of no where.

I am trying to add new ringtones to my new LG 8300. I bought a microsd chip and formatted it for the phone. I have created a new folder called my_ringtones and have saved a sound clip that I want to use as a ringtone as a midi file. There doesn't seem to be a way to access this folder from the phone. Just to see what happens with a commercial source of ringtones, I have purchased and downloaded a ringtone and it works fine. Is there a way to get my phone to recognize a folder on the microsd chip and what file format and extension is required?

I bought an LG 8300 and a 2GB SD card. I've loaded music onto my card but when I go to Music Settings to Enable MP3, i get a message saying "Not Avaible". What must i do to get around this message? Do i need to upgrade my plan, or is there a way around it?

Sorry for cross-posting this from another thread, but this seems to be the one w/ the most traffic.

I just got a new VX-8300 a week ago and tried to get some mp3 ringers into it. Had no problem w/ creating them from my existing mp3 files, but no matter what I tried (emailing them and uploading from Funfor Mobile), they show up on my phone as MIDI files. The quality is passable, but ain't no mp3.

I haven't tried the cable+software route. One can buy these cheaply on eBay, but it's not at all clear if it would do specifically the mp3 ringtone trick.

I tried to change that option 11 through the seven zeroes deal, but it's no longer possible to do so. I have no mp3 music on the phone, as I'm not into listening to music on a cellphone.

Any suggestions?

Just got a shiny new VX8300 from the local verizon store and the software version is saying it's V4. Does anyone know what sort of differences/limitations there might be with this version vs previous versions? So far I have had no luck trying to connect to it with bitpim and my bluetooth adapter. The com port will come up but when I try to get data from the phone a bunch of numbers will briefly flash on the outside display and I get a generic message in bitpim that the folder is not accessable or something like that. My micro-SD card is still on a UPS truck somewhere between here and California. The main things I would like to do is sync my contacts to outlook, pull pictures I take with it off, and manage MP3s for playback on it.

I just obtained the LG VX8300 last week, and have read a lot of these posts. My problem is getting to the secret menu option. When I open the phone and press the OK button, the Contacts tab is displayed, not a Main Menu and I cannot enter the 7 zeros. Did they change the menu options with a newer version of the software, or is there a setting that allows you to just see the menu options without directly seeing the tabs? I know on my last LG phone there was a menu display that you had to scroll through to get to the various options, but this new phone displays the tabs that you scroll through with the left and right buttons, but no single display of the icons on a main menu screen. Am I missing something, or is there a way to display this main menu by changing a setting on the phone?

I too just received my 8300 last week and I cannot get any results with the instructions at the beginning of the thread.

When I hit OK, I also get Contacts, and then I cannot enter the 7 zeros.

Help!

The good news to Hoosier Bob and anyone who just received a new VX8300, is that you don't need to set up MP3's in the menu. You can't perform the setup as listed at the beginning of this post. Instead, I just formatted my MicroSD card in the phone and copied my mp3s to the card on my computer, putting the mp3 files in the My Sounds directory. They played fine. I guess they changed the software in their latest version, and the old setup isn't necessary.

I'm still working on the ringtones, but since I haven't bought a cable yet, I won't be able to comment on how that works until I get everything set up.

Its been a while since I came to this site.

I don't think this method works anymore but you can cut a portion of the music you want as your ringtone (preferablly less than 30 seconds) using Audacity ( the link is somewhere in one of the threads) and then set up a vzw account( once you set it up, you should get an address which is your 7 digit phone number@vzw.pix) and send it to that address via your email. It sends the ringtone to your phone as a text message and once you open it, it plays the music and you just hit options and press save as ringtone.

I tried doing this recently but it hasn't worked but maybe it will bring some luck to someone else. I used to do this all the time when I needed ringtones few months back and had no problems up until a couple of weeks ago.

If that don't help, there's a free website

search for mobile17 and you can have them cut what part of the song you want as a ringtone and they send it to your phone through text message for free. Just gotta wait because there is a line of people, usually an hour maybe.

Hope this helps the ringtone heads.

LG VX8300 Tutorial for Newbies

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