LG VX8300 Tutorial for Newbies

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quote="Smassie"]I have been using the LG VX8300 for a month now. For me its not quite perfect but its still very good, at least once I got one issue worked out.

I like to listen to podcasts and I wanted to use a bluetooth headset with a phone/mp3 player. At the moment the LG VX8300 and the motorola Q where the only two Verizon offerings that supported Bluetooth Stereo Headsets and I choose the VX8300.

I had ordered a bluetooth head set, a iTech III from outside of the country and when the phone arrived, I found that it would not play mp3 files only wma's. So I loaded a few into the phone and I paired the phone to the headset. I could place and receive calls with the headset, but the phone would not play music over the head set.

I went into our verizon store and they were no help at all. Told me that the headset was probably not compatable as it was for markets out side the USA. I didn't believe them and I was right! Here's what I found out.

The phone is capable of playing mp3 files, but the factory defaults prevent it. You have to enter into a seacret menu by pushing "menu" and then entering a series of 7 "0"s this gets you into a services menu. From here scroll down to Item "11. mp3's" press "OK" and then select enable mp3"s. Back out to the main menu, go to "get it now" > 1. Get tunes and tones > and then scroll down to 8. My MP3s. If you see "My MP3s" The phone is ready to load and play mp3s. Next you will need to install and format a trans flash card with the phone. And finally transfer your files to the My mp3s folder on the transflash card using a computer.

This is a hassel, but you have to jump through these hoops once to get the phone to work with a headset. And even after this, you can only listen to mp3s and not wma files over the bluetooth headset. The combination works great though! It is worth the hassel. No entagling cords, great sound, and good volume. The phone also has graphic equalizer settings that you can scroll through to adjust the effects. Nice!

I can recommend the itech III headset. It is a clip on Bluetooth dongle with ear buds. You can listen in stereo or detach one bud and just listen in mono. (which works fine for the podcasts that I listen to.) If you shop around the internet, you can find them at a good price out side the US. Mine came from Australia. It cost less than the headsets available here and didn't take long to arrive.

Now the only other complaint I have with the phone is the speech recognition. It Doesn't work nearly as well as it did on my old Motorola v710. But that could just be my speech patern. I've read other reviews who had good results.

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The information is here... u just need 2 look 4 it. If u download bitpim, it will tranfe photo, let u make ur own ringers......

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I just bought this phone on Aug 2nd. I followed the first post to create ringtones, and I've had no problem what so ever. It really worked that easy for me. And I was in such a hurry to make ringtones that I skipped the part about enabling my phone to play mp3's, yet it till works flawlessly. I am just writing this so others don't get discouraged who are concidering this phone. I love this phone. I am glad I found this forum though. Thanks for all your help.

I just got my vx8300 today and this forum has been my home ever since. I was quite disappointed to find that I couldn't just send an mp3 from my laptop via bluetooth and set it as a ringer ilke you can on so many other phones. From what I understand my best bet would be to get qpst, but I can't seem to find a working link to download it anywhere. Any ideas?

I am a mac user, but I have access to a PC if needed. Also, any idea how to transfer pictures from a computer to the phone and vice versa?

Thanks for all the posts, everyone!

Dan

I have a Mac Mini, which doesn't have a flash card slot. Will I be able to d/l music mp3s from my Mac iTunes mp3 library to my MicroSD card, via a device like the Dazzle ZIO USB 2.0 High Speed Universal 10 in 1 Reader/Writer? If not, what are my other options?

I might have missed the answer I'm looking for; but, it seems as if the posts here concern ringtones, which are cool; but, I'm more interested in being able to listen to songs from my iTunes library.

This is a great forum! I just bought the phone yesterday. I've learned more from this forum than Verizon and the owner's maunal, combined!

Thanks!
Tom

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