Motorola RAZR ( CDMA versions ) post your questions here

[z3razerviper]

Originally Posted by rwsrichard Should not be any problem. Just be careful 'who' you order from.

Who would you recommend?

[shenoums1]

Originally Posted by z3razerviper is that just using the standard $5 wireless web option that uses your mins? If so what keeps verizon from knowing and charging you more?

no, I set up a dial-up connection on my laptop. It doesn't cost anything except airtime, so I only use it on nights and weekends (mainly at work). You can also do it using MPT, in which case you don't need to set up the new connection.

Originally Posted by shenoums1 I've been using my razr as a modem to get wireless on my laptop. Does plugging it into a usb2 port make the connection faster, or is something other than the transfer rate of the usb connection the limiting factor?

Originally Posted by shenoums1 Oh yeah, I forgot to ask... can I do the same thing using bluetooth?

There is alot of factors that determine the rate of which the transfer happens. Most important is the reception. The USB2 is much faster and works much better than the 1.0/1.1 USB.

Most bluetooth dongles will work with up to 7 different items/functions at the same time. I have used mine to transfer stuff from pc to phone.

[z3razerviper]

Originally Posted by shenoums1 no, I set up a dial-up connection on my laptop. It doesn't cost anything except airtime, so I only use it on nights and weekends (mainly at work). You can also do it using MPT, in which case you don't need to set up the new connection.

I am new to this what exactly is mtp? In your case you are using your own isp correct?

Originally Posted by z3razerviper Who would you recommend?

Should have clarified that some. Most companies are ok to order from. And by that I mean some are real slow, others are so fast, it makes your head swim.

If you buy from an individual and it does not feel right, I would be leary. I have never had a problem ordering from individuals from ebay/amazon, etc.. Just look at their RATING before you buy.

[shenoums1]

Originally Posted by rwsrichard There is alot of factors that determine the rate of which the transfer happens. Most important is the reception. The USB2 is much faster and works much better than the 1.0/1.1 USB. Most bluetooth dongles will work with up to 7 different items/functions at the same time. I have used mine to transfer stuff from pc to phone.

Interesting. I'll have to start playing with that bluetooth dongle to figure out how to get the computer to dial the connection. I've been just using a standard dial up connection via the motorolla usb modem. I might switch to using MPT with bluetooth, since I have no idea how to set the dial up connection settings to bluetooth.

Thanks again.

[shenoums1]

Originally Posted by z3razerviper I am new to this what exactly is mtp? In your case you are using your own isp correct?

MPT is motorolla phone tools. There's an option called "internet connection". When I dial up, I'm using the phone as a modem, no need for an ISP. Follow the directions on the Wiki. it's number 20

http://www.motov3m.com/tiki-index.php

[shenoums1]

anyone figured out how to disable that annoying low battery chime?

[SCARFACE323]

hi im new to this and i have wmp 10 and a usb cable for my razr v3m from verizon and it says when i hook it up no device is hook up in wmp 10 can and i wat to put music in my phone can anyone help me thanks

[z3razerviper]

Originally Posted by shenoums1 MPT is motorolla phone tools. There's an option called "internet connection". When I dial up, I'm using the phone as a modem, no need for an ISP. Follow the directions on the Wiki. it's number 20 http://www.motov3m.com/tiki-index.php

Do the motorola phone tools work with XP x64. Also how do I get my iPAQ to use Bluetooth DUN?

Originally Posted by shenoums1 anyone figured out how to disable that annoying low battery chime?

Menu->Setting & Tools->Sound Setting->Ring Style->Loud Detail->Reminders

Select beep, vibrate or off


BUT you might want to verify with Cincyball - I would be wrong.

Originally Posted by Cincyball I gotta stop you right there Everything you write is usually right on, or damn near close , but the V3M doesnt have the ability to play music thru bluetooth That phone doesnt have A2DP (or something like that). It doesnt have the profile to play music thru bluetooth. It is strictly limited to wired headsets. It sucks, but the V3M doesnt have the ability to transmit music thru bluetooth, so not even a seem edit can change this.

thanks, for that COMPLIMENT!!!! I'll remember that.

[em22angel]

I'm having the same EXACT problem!! My computer sees the phone as a modem while it's off (and it installed those drivers just fine) and when i turn it on the new hardware message comes up for the v3c...so i do the reccomended option and it just keeps saying that it "could not find the necessary software"....i've tried the manual way too where i point the where the file is...with both the verizon music essetials disk and with the downloaded driver files...I'm SO FRUSTRATED!!!!! anyone PLEASE HELP!!

Originally Posted by thevolslover Yeah I did a system restore to get rid of all the drivers back to before i bought the phone and it will install the USB modem but it won't install Motorola V3c!!!!!! I really am just stuck now....... When it does try to install V3c it shows a question mark for the icon and won't find the friggin drivers! If ANYONE has any ideas give them to me because I am stumped..........

Originally Posted by z3razerviper Do the motorola phone tools work with XP x64. Also how do I get my iPAQ to use Bluetooth DUN?

The software will run on XP x64 or 64bit machine. It just will not run at 64bit speed.

I was informed in school, that if the software is not 64bit then it will run as 32bit.

You might verify with Cincyball, though.

Originally Posted by em22angel I'm having the same EXACT problem!! My computer sees the phone as a modem while it's off (and it installed those drivers just fine) and when i turn it on the new hardware message comes up for the v3c...so i do the reccomended option and it just keeps saying that it "could not find the necessary software"....i've tried the manual way too where i point the where the file is...with both the verizon music essetials disk and with the downloaded driver files...I'm SO FRUSTRATED!!!!! anyone PLEASE HELP!!

Could you please elaborate on 'recommended option'.

My son was doing some stuff to his V3m throuhg MPT on my computer. It was working FANTASTIC.

Well, MPT came up wanting access to the internet, so he clicked on 'allow'. Well, MPT upgraded from ver 4.04 to version 4.21. Now none of the phones are working through MPT. I even did the new drivers for MPT, ver 4.21 and did the mptfix.exe, BUT nada, nothing. MPT will only recognize the phone(s) as V3c and NO multimedia.

When I go into the 'recommended options' and set them the V3m and then to V3cm and then to V3mm, I get no mulitmedia.

I even uninstalled the drivers and MPT and reinstalled from scratch, but now NADA.

I guess we will have to wait on Cincyball for EXPERTISE in this field.

[shrubman]

Originally Posted by Cincyball Didnt you receive this free when you got your phone??? I did, bought the phone July 25,2006. It should have come with it. With that product, u need to buy a 2.5mm plug that accepts 3.5mm headphone jack. The input to that part doesnt accept normal size headphone jacks, so u need to buy the adapter from liek radio shack.

I'm sorry. I posted without looking clearly at the product. In fact, the one I got is this:

http://www.cellularaccessory.com/syn1504a.html

Stereo, mini-usb to 3.5mm. Sorry, again, to add to the confusion of the original poster.

Evan

[trosenm]

I did the seem update on v3 and I got everything to work ok and have transferred pictures form my computer and changed to the vibe ring. However, after I used the phone as a modem to connect to the internet, the phone has not been recognized by phone tools since that time. I think something is up with the USB driver. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by shrubman I'm sorry. I posted without looking clearly at the product. In fact, the one I got is this: http://www.cellularaccessory.com/syn1504a.html Stereo, mini-usb to 3.5mm. Sorry, again, to add to the confusion of the original poster. Evan

No problem on the confusion part. I got the 3.5 for my stereo headset, also. It plays in both ears but not in stereo.

I thought I was helping out too and got it thrown back in face.

Maybe we can get un-confused on the next one.

Originally Posted by rwsrichard Ok my turn. Does anyone know how to make two (2) voicemail annoucements? It seems like the only option is to use the default or make up one. I want one for when I am in school and when not in school use the default. I made up one for school, but to use the default, I have to delete the one I made up for school.

Originally Posted by rwsrichard No takers on this previous post?

Ok, found out that you CANNOT have two (2) seperate stored voicemails. You can either use the VZW default OR create one (1) of your own.

This case closed, unless a certain person proves me WRONG.

Originally Posted by SCARFACE323 hi im new to this and i have wmp 10 and a usb cable for my razr v3m from verizon and it says when i hook it up no device is hook up in wmp 10 can and i wat to put music in my phone can anyone help me thanks

Did you install the drivers for your phone? You can get the driver here.

http://www.bvrp.com/Customers/Motorola/DriverTool.zip

If it still does no work, there is a patch for the WMP10. You can get the pach here.

http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/at...m-sync-fix.zip

You might want to verify with Cincyball, though. I could be WRONG.

[Cincyball]

Richard, I wasnt trying to PROVE you WRONG. I was just trying to make sure it was known that you cant use bluetooth for music. If I didnt respond to that post, and that user went out and spent money on those headphones and they didnt work, that wouldnt be very good. I dont proclaim to know everything about this phone...but I will chime in if I know something is out of place, or I know the answer to a particular question. I apologize if you were offended.

[joefuf]

Originally Posted by rwsrichard If you put them on the card as a ringtone, the phone will not play them. You would have to constantly swap them from the card to the phone and then turn off the phone then turn it on to make the phone recognize and put them in memory. If you just wanted the memory card as a place to store them, it would be ok. Just remember from the card, it will not play them. Now you can rename them from .wp3 or .wma to .mid. They will play, but some complain that the quality is no longer there.

I dont get wat ur saying about this (on an lg vx9800) i moved a file from my card to my phone. and it can play it without the card being in. now how do i get the phone to see it as an applicable ringtone (or did i really misunderstand wat u were saying?)

[shenoums1]

Originally Posted by shenoums1 Interesting. I'll have to start playing with that bluetooth dongle to figure out how to get the computer to dial the connection. I've been just using a standard dial up connection via the motorolla usb modem. I might switch to using MPT with bluetooth, since I have no idea how to set the dial up connection settings to bluetooth. Thanks again.

Alright, here's an update. I was able to use the phone as a modem to get my laptop online using DUN via bluetooth. The bummer is that it was painfully slow. Also, using bluetooth is a pretty good way to drain a battery (as opposed to charging it while connected via USB). So the short and skinny is that after spending time and engery figuring out how to do it, the only question left is "why did I want to do this?"

[shenoums1]

I now have my v3m almost exactly the way I want it. There's just one thing that still annoys the ---- out of me: the verizon logo that haunts me for 10 seconds on start-up. I've asked before, but that was a couple dozen pages ago, so I figure it's worth another shot. Anyone know how to get rid of it?

[Cincyball]

Originally Posted by shenoums1 Alright, here's an update. I was able to use the phone as a modem to get my laptop online using DUN via bluetooth. The bummer is that it was painfully slow. Also, using bluetooth is a pretty good way to drain a battery (as opposed to charging it while connected via USB). So the short and skinny is that after spending time and engery figuring out how to do it, the only question left is "why did I want to do this?"

The reason why is if you are ever out on the road, or camping, or anything like that and u have ur cell and laptop, and NEED the net, u will have it. I can use the net on my phone, but its painful trying to navigate. I would rather use my DUN and connect at 1x thru my laptop than use my web browser on my cell and connect at EVDO speeds. Thats wy u did it

[Cincyball]

Originally Posted by shenoums1 I now have my v3m almost exactly the way I want it. There's just one thing that still annoys the ---- out of me: the verizon logo that haunts me for 10 seconds on start-up. I've asked before, but that was a couple dozen pages ago, so I figure it's worth another shot. Anyone know how to get rid of it?

Your liek me man, I have scoured pages, I have searched thru every .bar file with Bre Resource Editor, in hopes to find the location of this image...no luck. It is like the Windows startup, you cant avoid it Im afraid. Maybe when/if firmware is ever leaked, possibly someone could figure it out, but until then, i think we are SOL. Sucks cuz thats my last Verizon branding!

[shenoums1]

Originally Posted by Cincyball The reason why is if you are ever out on the road, or camping, or anything like that and u have ur cell and laptop, and NEED the net, u will have it. I can use the net on my phone, but its painful trying to navigate. I would rather use my DUN and connect at 1x thru my laptop than use my web browser on my cell and connect at EVDO speeds. Thats wy u did it

Oh, you're definitely right, I love using the phone as a modem, I just meant that bluetooth offers no advantage whatsoever compared to connecting via USB port.

[em22angel]

"Recommended option" is when windows asks if you want to install the driver...you have the option to let windows find the setup file for the driver...or you can point to the correct path....well neither option has worked. The only other option i can think of would be to somehow manually install driver...but i don't know enough about computers...I'm using the verizon music essentials kit...and i've installed the driver numerous times but windows still sees it as an unknown device...except for when the phone is off...then it sees it as the modem...I've even re-formatted my hard drive to try and solve the problem...I'm confused on what to do next...my whole point in buying this phone was for the music!! and i can't get it to work!

Originally Posted by rwsrichard Could you please elaborate on 'recommended option'. My son was doing some stuff to his V3m throuhg MPT on my computer. It was working FANTASTIC. Well, MPT came up wanting access to the internet, so he clicked on 'allow'. Well, MPT upgraded from ver 4.04 to version 4.21. Now none of the phones are working through MPT. I even did the new drivers for MPT, ver 4.21 and did the mptfix.exe, BUT nada, nothing. MPT will only recognize the phone(s) as V3c and NO multimedia. When I go into the 'recommended options' and set them the V3m and then to V3cm and then to V3mm, I get no mulitmedia. I even uninstalled the drivers and MPT and reinstalled from scratch, but now NADA. I guess we will have to wait on Cincyball for EXPERTISE in this field.

[Cincyball]

Originally Posted by em22angel "Recommended option" is when windows asks if you want to install the driver...you have the option to let windows find the setup file for the driver...or you can point to the correct path....well neither option has worked. The only other option i can think of would be to somehow manually install driver...but i don't know enough about computers...I'm using the verizon music essentials kit...and i've installed the driver numerous times but windows still sees it as an unknown device...except for when the phone is off...then it sees it as the modem...I've even re-formatted my hard drive to try and solve the problem...I'm confused on what to do next...my whole point in buying this phone was for the music!! and i can't get it to work!

There have been sooo many problems with that music essentials kit. From what I have gathered, that kit does not have the correect drivers for the phone. Have you tried installing the "driver tool" I have attached a file for it. What you need to do is save the program to the computer, open it, run the program. What this does is it removes the old "bad" drivers, and will install the correct one. Once you do that, turn off ur phone, then connect it to the USB port. Make sure it is a USB port that is already on the computer, (dont use a usb port that is part of a hub extension or anything like that). Once u plug in the phone (still off), it should recognize the v3c, and then try the "recommeded" install. See if that works. If so, you should be able to go to the next step. Please post back once u have tried this, and we will go from there, or try another solution.

[em22angel]

I don't know what else to try..i've done the driver tool and the fix program from motorola...for some reason my computer can't find the install files for the driver...no matter which way i do it...it finds the modem and installs it just fine while the phone is off....but when it comes to the v3c driver it just won't work!

Originally Posted by Cincyball There have been sooo many problems with that music essentials kit. From what I have gathered, that kit does not have the correect drivers for the phone. Have you tried installing the "driver tool" I have attached a file for it. What you need to do is save the program to the computer, open it, run the program. What this does is it removes the old "bad" drivers, and will install the correct one. Once you do that, turn off ur phone, then connect it to the USB port. Make sure it is a USB port that is already on the computer, (dont use a usb port that is part of a hub extension or anything like that). Once u plug in the phone (still off), it should recognize the v3c, and then try the "recommeded" install. See if that works. If so, you should be able to go to the next step. Please post back once u have tried this, and we will go from there, or try another solution.