Motorola RAZR ( CDMA versions ) post your questions here

[RedDawn22]

Originally Posted by musicarr

Second, regarding ringtones, (again, after the seem edits) should the phone be able to use ringtones in mp3 (.mp3) and/or midi (.mid) format? And it looks like they should be no longer then 20 or 30 seconds. Does that sound right?

Yes, I just transfered thru MPT several 20 sec mp3's to mine and they showed up in the get tunes menu with the option to set as tone. called the phone - worked just fine.

[mustangpaul]

Has anyone tried to get rid of the "Verizon Wireless" at the second line?
Its the seem edit on line 117 of the spread sheet of all the seem edits.

On a side not, what is your favorite edit so far. I did a couple to my phone. My fav is having the inside screen show on the outside.

[sapper17]

Tried to run MSU per instructions and I keep getting a runtime error. It then shuts down the program. This is my first try at seeming. Anyone else run into this? I did try to search the thread first.

Joe

[rosenjon]

musicarr: That is a good question -- it is my belief that the phone will not be able to see mp3 files, due to the way the phone software has been setup. I think if you rename the .mp3 extension to .midi, you can then play mp3's on the phone.

It is possible there is a seem out there somewhere which will reenable mp3 playback for files with the mp3 extension, however I have not seen it yet.

Personally, I like the way the WMP10 syncs songs, however since it is lacking a playlist sync it isn't really that useful compared to direct copying I suppose. However, I know if I sync with WMP10 that I don't have to worry about the files not being recognized by the phone - they will always be in the right format for playback, and I don't think there is any audio degradation in the conversion as far as I can tell.

[musicarr]

Yeah, that makes sense. I main reason I bring this up is that I run a Mac and a PC. Most of my work is done on the Mac, so if I can get things working there, that would be great, but for now I'm thrilled with gettin' it done on the PC.

One other question regarding the apps being used. If I have MSU and MPT to do most of the file transfers along with BitPim, and do the seem editing with P2Kseem, then... what is P2Kcommander used for? What is the benefit of keeping around? Is P2KSeem a part of P2Kcommander?

I'm trying to nail down what are the neccessary apps and what they are used for. Thanks.

[rosenjon]

Can someone do me a favor? I am playing with Outlook sync with MTP, and whenever I do a mass sync from Outlook to the phone, it moves the time ahead for each event. So if the event is at 2PM, it will show up as 6PM on the phone. I have not yet nailed down the exact shift of each event (it only happens when mass syncing events), but clearly this is a really annoying bug. Can anyone else see if they can reproduce? My time/date settings are correct on each device, so there shouldnt be any kind of "region realignment" going on.

[rosenjon]

Ok I found out the problem. If your phone is set to Daylight savings time in the calendar on the phone, this will screw up your whole calendar sync process. I turned off Daylight Saving Time, and the synch works now.

At first I thought that the phone should be smart enough to know if it is DST or not, however apparently Congress enacted a new law recently which has changed Daylight Saving Time's dates in 2007 (see http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html) so apparently the manual setting is necessary. I must admit, I don't understand why this moves things ahead 7 hours, as opposed to one hour.....

[rosenjon]

The phone moves things ahead 7 hours by the way, not Congress's DST ACT

[rosenjon]

Ok....mad props to the first person who can find where the phone stores its playlists in the file system

[RedDawn22]

Originally Posted by sapper17

Tried to run MSU per instructions and I keep getting a runtime error. It then shuts down the program. This is my first try at seeming. Anyone else run into this? I did try to search the thread first.

Joe

joe, go back to pg14,maybe 15, look for willy's thread about 2/3 way down. he gave us a good step by step for this. I did it EXACTLY in the order he outlined and it worked first time through. beyond that, I would uninstall or delete the MSU you have and re-download it, then run again. be sure your MPT is current too, i know that was causing problems for some ppl.

[RedDawn22]

Originally Posted by mustangpaul

My fav is having the inside screen show on the outside.

where/what seem edit was that??? or plz share how you did that?!?!

[Festus440]

Originally Posted by rosenjon

Ok....mad props to the first person who can find where the phone stores its playlists in the file system

It looks like it's in a folder \brew\mod\10889 in my case, but I can't access the files with bitpim even though I've done the seem edits.

[jaysv3m]

Originally Posted by mustangpaul

Has anyone tried to get rid of the "Verizon Wireless" at the second line?

are you talking about the "Verizon Wireless" banner under the red Signal and Battery status? If so, yea i got rid of it and i overwrite on it now it says "Jay" =D

[jaysv3m]

i got a question, i use to have razr v3 something with cingular, it has an FM radio on it. And now my v3m doesnt have it. Is there a way to get a radio install onto the phone? or does it need something else?

[rosenjon]

ahhh....you're right. way to go. I also have the problem of bitpim saying the directory is locked. I wonder if there is a workaround for this.

[rosenjon]

Playlist files are .vpl -- i wonder what programs can create these?

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=VPL

[WiLLy2900]

Originally Posted by rwsrichard

Did you notice that Pirates of the Caribbean 2 broke ALL records for the biggest opening day movie? Over $132 million!

Never noticed ill have to check that out...i wonder if the movie is that great? haha anyone see it yet?

[RedDawn22]

guys, I got a mod to sticky this thread for us so we need to be careful to not fill it w/too much off topic stuff

[nordy]

Another happy Verizon V3m user! Thanks x10^6 to you guys for the great data on seems and tools.

My buds at work have Cingular V3C's, and they can map a bunch of keys to functions (*LOTS* of shortcut possibilities), but my V3m only allows the "down" key to be mapped. Is this a "seemable" thing, or is this just a limitation of the V3m?

Again, thanks for all the great input!

[TSOnTheDrums8892]

Has Anybody gotten Movies on the V3m yet, and what format do they need to be in wma, mp4??? i tried to sync them from WMP10 and directly onto the microSD card but neither worked.

[jaysv3m]

do anyone know about making funlight.pat work with our v3m phone?.. cuz i read and saw a video of it. and it look totally awesome.

[WiLLy2900]

Originally Posted by jaysv3m

do anyone know about making funlight.pat work with our v3m phone?.. cuz i read and saw a video of it. and it look totally awesome.

Hey i never herd of it before u said something...i saw the pictures and some videos of it and it looks pretty neat...Im sure me or one of the guys can figure it out somehow

[jaysv3m]

Originally Posted by WiLLy2900

Hey i never herd of it before u said something...i saw the pictures and some videos of it and it looks pretty neat...Im sure me or one of the guys can figure it out somehow

yea i read u have to upload the funlight.pat into a/mobile/audio or something, but i couldnt locate the funlight.pat in any of the directories, hm i dont know, but i wish someone could find out soon lol

[rosenjon]

TSOnthedrum: I have loaded a full length movie onto the v3m.

Here are the steps to follow:

1) Use this to program to convert videos to the right format:
http://www.topdrawerdownloads.com/download/104143

Once you download, run setup.exe, and configure it for 3GPP + AMR

4) Then run the program, and drag and drop the movie file into the program.

Choose an output directory, and the outputted file can be played on the phone.

For fairly small movies, you can go into MPT and upload the video.
For full length movies, you will need to upload directly to the root directory of a transflash card because MPT will not load files over a certain size. The phone should see the video if its in the root of the transflash card. If it doesn't, go into Menu...Get Pix and Flix...My Flix... Then select a video, go to "options", and select "Move", and then choose "yes" for move flix to card. This will make the phone look to the transflash card for videos.

[musicarr]

Originally Posted by Festus440

It looks like it's in a folder \brew\mod\10889 in my case, but I can't access the files with bitpim even though I've done the seem edits.

Yeah, I see my wma songs in that directory as well as wmpinfo.xml and ldb.db, but like Festus440, I was not able to download them - blocked.

[musicarr]

Hey, I found this link while looking for the funlight.pat video.

http://www.planetmotox.net/motox101/faq.htm

I still am not sure what it is (haven't found the video, yet), but it sounds interesting.

[musicarr]

Found this link for more links to other programs for editing the phone.

http://www.motox.info/showthread.php?t=1297

I don't know if it is useful or not, but thought I would share it.

[dick_onion53]

Has anyone tried "Menu: Java App Loader" seem edit? I assume this would allow you to run java apps on this phone right?.... Anyone have any input?

thanks
onion

Getting some email about BitPim write up. I have not finished the BitPim write up with screen shots yet. Sorry about that. So here is a quick over view.

1.) Close ALL programs.
2.) Reboot computer - make sure phone and cable are not connected first.
After reboot.
3.) Connect your phone to mini-usb
4.) Connect cable to computer
5.) Start BitPim
6.) Close All windows that popup, if any popup
7.) From the BitPim Welcome screen
8.) Click on Edit from menu
9.) Click on Setting - 'BitPim Setting' window will display
10.) Click on Browse button across from Com Port
11.) Another window called 'Choose a comm port' will display
Look for "Motorola USB Modem" in the Available Ports Section
12.) If it is NOT listed anywhere, you need to close ALL open windows including BitPim, remove your phone and cable from computer and install DriverTool.zip, then start this 'complete' process over.
13.) Click one time on "Motorola USB Modem"
14.) Click on OK button
15.) the Com Port field will automatically fill-in for you
Note: Do NOT fill this in by hand even if you know the comm port as BitPim does NOT like it if you do - I do not know why - especially IF #12 above is 'true'.
16.) Make the following are SET on the "BitPim Settings" screen
Read Only = uncheck
Disk Storage = leave as is – Take special note of this location. It is where BitPim is going to store the information it gets off of the phone.
Config File = as is
Phone Type = V3cm (next to the phone listed, click on the arrow pointing down; scroll down the list to find V3cm and select it.)
Com Port = filled in from steps 10 thru 15 above
Check for update = never
Start = uncheck
Task Bar Icon = uncheck
Autodetect at Startup = uncheck
BitFling = as is
17.) Click on the Ok button - you are taken back to BitPim Welcome screen
18.) Click on Edit
19.) Click on Detect Phone

You should be up and ready to rock and roll now.

GET 'ER DONE !!

Originally Posted by RedDawn22

guys, I got a mod to sticky this thread for us so we need to be careful to not fill it w/too much off topic stuff

Sorry about the following question folks, but I am 56 going on 22 and this is the first time I have ever taken to or been invovled with a forum. So you will have to excuse me if I ask some dumb questions every now and then.

So, with that out of the way.

What does "got a mod to sticky" mean in the above context?