Motorola RAZR ( CDMA versions ) post your questions here

[shrubman]

Hello folks,

I have, actually, read this entire thread and though the answer may be in here, I haven't found it. What I want to know is: what options are available for listening to music stored on my phone besides the built-in speaker?

Let me clarify. I know there is a stereo headset available from Verizon, but what about connecting to a receiver or speakers? What sort of patchcord would I use. For that matter, if I have access to a coputer, is it best to play music through the V3M software or just read the data on the phone's chip with my desktop machine and play the songs that way?

As you can see, this is all a little confusing to me.

Thanks,

Evan

[Devil_Dawg]

i just got a v3m and im wanting to install a 1gb sd card in it but i cant find out where the original sd card is?

[shrubman]

There is no "original SD card." It's up to you to add one if you want it. I put mine in yesterday. Amazing what can fit on something so small...

[Devil_Dawg]

where do i add it?

[shrubman]

Don't you have a manual? If so, it has illustrations on page 28. That being said, the slot is under the battery cover. It's a tiny slot that sits at a slightly higher elevation than the battery itself. It's just to the right of the white dot.

[Devil_Dawg]

Hey thanx alot! you have been very helpful.. i looked all back in there and it was under my nose the whole time.. i feel pretty stupid..lol thanx again

[shrubman]

Glad to help.

[musicarr]

I've posted the most current PDF of this thead. It's a PDF doc of pages 1 - 27. Some of you may find it useful. You can get it here.

Motorola RAZR V3m Thread.pdf

[Umbra]

I don't know if this question was already asked and answered in this thread, but how do I get my V3M to work with BitPim? I'd like to change my start and shut off animation, as well as other things. (I'm a master at photoshop, so I'm gonna milk my talent all over my phone.)

[HaloEight]

Thanks for all the info on seem editing. I recently switched from nextel after 6 years to verizon and I was worried about being able to edit the phone features. You guys are awesome. Its alot easier to edit the v3m using the right tools and techniques than it was my nextels. It's pretty ____ty that vzw disables alot of the features, but you guys saved the day and my wife and I are happy again. The next thing will be to disable the carrier string on the outer lcd if it's possible. Maybe someone could link the post number? I read alot of the posts already and got the wallpaper to show up, didn't really see anything for the carrier string though? Thanks again for all the help. This is now saved in my favorite places as I believe I will be coming here alot in the future.

[oscinis]

Yes, I've read the thread.

I have a Verizon Razr V3m. Got it two days ago.

I have tried out the custom driver from the member on this board, DriverTool.exe, mtpfix, and I've installed MTP. I can use BitPim perfectly fine (with the exception of getting sounds, of course, which is expected) but every time i try to use P2kCommander, Windows suddenly recognizes four new hardware devices for which i have no drivers for (I guess):

Motorola Communication Interface
Motorola Communication Interface (again)
Motorola Test Command
Motorola MCU Data Logger

It's really quite irritating.. all I want to do is have my own ringtones! PST is very confusing, P2kCommander won't work for me at all, and BitPim doesn't work with ringtones.

Bottom line: I'm willing to SEEM, I'm willing to mess around with different drivers, I just want to have some audio ringtones (and a few cosmetic SEEM changes would be nice as well).

ANY help is appreciated.

[jcradio]

Hi All,

I AM NEW AROUND HERE. Been playing with my new V3M razr and having a ball.

Does anyone have info on how to upload games to the phone> Any info would be greatly appreciated.

I M SORRY IF THIS IS A REPEAT QUESTION.

[stikle]

Originally Posted by Umbra

I don't know if this question was already asked and answered in this thread, but how do I get my V3M to work with BitPim?

Yes.

Read the thread. 28 pages full of information.

I went from knowing nothing to learning how to edit my V3M in 2 days.

[stikle]

You know...it sure would be nice if people weren't lazy.

READ, PEOPLE!

Quit replying to a 28 page thread saying that you're "sorry if this has been asked before"...which means you haven't even bothered to look. Or search.

Richard and Jon, as well as others, put a lot of work into this thread to get the information out there.

All you have to do is read. If you can't do that, then there's no way you should be trying to edit your phone.

It's all right here. Still.

[slocate]

Originally Posted by MaximusMXX

are you u using wmp10?

I get the same error and yes I have WMP10.
I think it has to do with the license on the song.

[Umbra]

Originally Posted by stikle

You know...it sure would be nice if people weren't lazy.

READ, PEOPLE!

Quit replying to a 28 page thread saying that you're "sorry if this has been asked before"...which means you haven't even bothered to look. Or search.

Richard and Jon, as well as others, put a lot of work into this thread to get the information out there.

All you have to do is read. If you can't do that, then there's no way you should be trying to edit your phone.

It's all right here. Still.

I did read through all 28 pages, twice actually, but I still couldn't find out how to make BitPM compatible with my v3m, so stop being an ___. I might've passed them but I went through this thread very thoroughly, took me about an hour and a half.

EDIT: Ok, just went through my fourth time and i finally found it, Rosenjojn posted it on page 11, so thanks Rosenjon.

But Stikle you still gotta cool down.

[Mainter]

ok i just bought a Verizon V3M phone and i want to beable to play music on my phone and i have the data cable already when i plug the phone in windows comes up saying it has found new hardware and would you like to install i click yes and it trys to install the v3c drivers after it trys to load them it says cannot install this hardware what do i do from here

[Mainter]

ok so i went thru all the manuals and read the board i have windows mediaplayer 10 i have the data cable i have the bluetooth headset/headphones already but i do not have the software that comes in that music essentials kit

can someone upload it or something i really do not want to waste 40 dollars on a bunch of crap that i already have

[Schnard]

Originally Posted by Mainter

ok i just bought a Verizon V3M phone and i want to beable to play music on my phone and i have the data cable already when i plug the phone in windows comes up saying it has found new hardware and would you like to install i click yes and it trys to install the v3c drivers after it trys to load them it says cannot install this hardware what do i do from here

Well start reading this forum from about page 4 on and go here
http://www.motov3m.com

really. . . we've all had to do it !

[shrubman]

Folks,

Can anyone take a moment to read my post above and give me advice on listening to music that I've already successfully loaded onto my V3M. I want to connect to a pc, external speakers, receiver or whatever.

[erjr]

Has anyone found a way to re-map the home keys? This would be the last thing on my list to modify!!!

[sickwitit]

Does anybody now how to remove the Verizon Logo on starup before the animated gif starts? I enabled the motorola startup but the verizon logo shows before the animation starts. Any help would be appreciated.

[lsteiner]

Hi. Have you used Windows Media Player to sync files? My phone seems to lock after about 100 songs. The only way to correct is to reformat the transflash card. So it seems to have a limit (not close to the 1gig memory card). Also, any luck making playlists and loading them to the phone? Thanks for the info. Cheers! Larry

[notredame123]

i have some issues with my phone do you have to have the SD card to put files on??? can you take images from your computer and set them as backgrounds? also when you get the card where do you put it??? I just got my V3M yesterday...

[vol_fever]

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?(using bitpim) I can get data from the phone but i can't send data to the phone, it keeps saying Moto-v3cm on com4: The phone is not responding while transitioning mode from none to modem. I have read every page on here and can't find the answer. Can someone please help me?

[jskube]

I only registered on here to download the excel file and what not. I just want to thank all of the people on this board for the hard work and dedication. Thanks to you guys im rocking out to my own mp3 ringtones that verizon tried so hard to stop me from doing. My hat is off to you fine fellows. If you ever come through Augusta GA ill buy you all beers. Like I said, my hat is off to you fellows.

[nordy]

I wanted to use my own headphones with the V3m, and had a bit of trouble finding an adapter cable, so I decided to make my own cable that would let me plug my 3.5mm headphone plug into the 2.5mm jack on the little Mini-USB adapter that came with the phone (see "Razr Adapter.jpg" in the attached zip file).

I succedded, but with mixed results. Here's what I did:

1. Bought a 4-conductor, 2.5mm plug from Mouser, P/N 171-7425 ("2.5mm Plug.jpg"). This type of connector is necessary, since the Moto wiring scheme uses one of the standard 3-conductor stereo leads for the mic in channel (meaning, if you just use a "standard" 2.5mm-to-3.5mm stereo adapter, you only hear one channel!)
2. Cut an old 3.5mm stereo extender cable I had in half (I needed the female end) ("3.5mm Stereo Extender.jpg")
3. Trimmed and tinned the leads of the cable ("Tinned Leads.jpg") and soldered them to the 2.5mm jack ("Soldered Leads.jpg"). Note how short the tinned wires are--the new 2.5mm plug is pretty small! Also note how the leads attach to little metal squares on the inner shaft of the 2.5mm jack.

Here's how things worked out:

I get sound in both ears, but not true stereo! It looks like Motorola doesn't actually push out separate left and right channel information through their adapter, but rather mono to both sides! I verified this by creating two small audio files, one containing only left channel info and the other only right. When I play either one on the V3m, the sound can be heard in both earpieces. (And yes, I checked my solder joints--the channels are not shorted together!)

Can anyone verify that it's possible to hear true stereo via headphones on the V3m? Maybe one of those "direct" Mini-USB-to-3.5mm cables works? Or Motorola's own headphones?

[catchneyez]

I'd like thank everyone who posted on here. I'd also like to encourage those who haven't figured it all out yet to keep trying. It tool me about 2 days of reading and trying new things to get to where I am now. And finally, I want to share with you what my new startup screen looks like instead of the old Verizon Vcast crap.



With a little modifying to an original 300 x 300 pixel GIF using Irfanview and UnFREEZ, I was able to to make the 176 x 220 pixel GIF needed for the phone's screen. Then I just used Bitpim to overwrite the original customer_opening.gif in the file system.

I love this phone!

[afdbeatle]

I took some pics that are locked and I did not lock them. I want to unlock them but I am not given that option for some reason. Yet some pics I took do have that option available. I have seem edited for use with phone tools. I have used pk2 and copied. I have it synching wma's to internal drive through Windows Media 10. No problems there. Any suggestions on how to unlock pics? Also I changed my opening and closing animated gifs but now they are available in My Pix section. I dont think I want to have them available in case of accidentally deleting them. Can anybody help me?

[catchneyez]

Use Bitpim. It's pretty easy to install. You can find the info on how to set it up on some earlier pages of this post. From there, you can access the file system by clicking the view menu, then show file system. Then click file system in the menu on the left. All the pictures will be in there under motorola/shared/picture. I think all the viewable ones on the V3m are the .jpg formatted ones. You should be able to delete them from there, although I haven't done this myself yet.