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Putting games on VX8500?
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Posted by: Shazbork

I have games. I have a vx8500. I have a USB cable. I have Bitpim. I am not a total retard.

Either this is so easy that I am overlooking the obvious and that's why I am not finding threads on this, or it is so hard that only super elite phone people know how to do this.

I see the brew directories on my phone, but I notice just navigating my phone that there is no actual Games menu other than how to get them from VCast. I have no intention of paying $8 for a fking cell phone game (2 bucks a song for mp3's too, whoevers buying this crap needs to cut me a blank check for business ventures).

Is it easy to the point where I can just slap the jar files in my brew directory and go to town, if so wheres the game menu on my phone to access the games I put in there. Or is this some super difficult process and if so are there any links out there where I can read up on brew (in general would be nice, I don't really understand brew) and its relation to the lg vx8500 (and I wouldnt mind a break down of the difference between teh 8500 and the kg800, no one will give me a straight answer if its just a gsm/cdma difference) and what not.

A lot of the sticky threads are very specific, about one particular thing, or are hard to discern because some people type 'lyk they hav 2 fingrz'

Any serious people here that can give me a kickstart? Bring me up to speed with a link to a good guide that's well written? I have every intention of getting into this and eventually being the person responding to threads like this, but I gotta start somewhere and I've been researching on cellphonehacks.com for a day or so, and I've perused the threads here (you guys should weed out the stupid threads, maybe even this one) but I'm getting pretty frustrated since I have such a simple problem currenlty. Like I said though, I love information, it's just I can't find anything that's coherent and simplified enough.

Posted by: Shazbork

So the search function works a bit better on this board than over at cellphonehacks.com.

However, just so people that have been here for a while will take note - I can see why the boards are cluttered with "the same question" over and over.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...ight=games+8500

This thread doesn't even answer itself. It ends with speculation - unless my reading comprehension is totally failing me. This is pretty standard, and is why new threads are populated. The "Official Chocolate Owners" thread told me **** I knew after 4 hours of owning the phone. It's 8 pages long. I don't mean to sound harsh or anything, I just want to justify my posting this thread, because in the end I believe I could compile a walk through that if linked correctly could resolve a lot of this **** for kids who jumped on the Chocolate bandwagon.

So please, don't harp on me as I know this question has probably been asked a lot. it has nothing to do with registering and asking a question before researching - it has to do with research continuously leading to half-answers, or non-specific conceptual information that appears to be merely theoretical. Often times the threads I have come across are old as well, which (to me) means that the information inside is more than likely obsolete.

I probably need a better starting point with cell phones in general to understand what **** like NVM is and what not. Maybe I need to find a general break down of file systems. I like the threads that mention how many LG phones are almost exactly the same, that's great and all to most people but to me and others who don't know anything but the phone in our hands, I'm not really concerned with what works on a vx8100, I want to know for 100% sure it works on my phone before I end up walking into Verizon saying "lol i brokez my phoam dude, helpz me"

It would be nice to not have to weed through 2000 threads of the same question that never really got answered very well, it would be nice for everyone else to not have to half-answer the same question 20,000 times. But in order to do that, a solid, well linked, well written, walk through (essentially) would need to be created.

I'll keep digging as I'm sure I won't see but a response or two within 48 hours, but getting raw information isn't exactly easy.

I just find it amazing how hidden the information is on this ****, even in communities like this, there are no flat out walk throughs, unlike the DVD/MP3 communities that share tools and have well created websites with full guides that go from "What a DVD is" to using vobsub and crap.

Posted by: bfoos

The methods for putting music, ringtones wallpapers, bitpim use, dun hack, free wap, etc are virtually identical between recent LG phones. What works on a 8300 will likely work just about the same on a 8500 or 8600 or 9900 or 9800. Read threads on all the LG phones, particularly in the Verizon LG forum. As far as games on Verizon LG phones, the answer is a big fat definite NO when it comes to Java apps. Recent Verizon LG phones use Brew 2.0 and 3.0 which hasn't been hacked. No free games. The best you can do is download a monthly subscription for a game, back up the files, cancel the subscription and reload the files using bitpim. There are plenty of threads which describe this process and it's the same for all Verizon LG phones. Search for a thread called games for reduced price or go here for instructions...
http://www.northtexasfishing.com/8300.htm

Posted by: Shazbork

Much obliged. That page is pretty solid.

Any brew development sites I can surf around on? Can't seem to google stuff like that.
Also, I might be blind, but I haven't seen a general overview of LG phones, such as file structure and in depth explanation of each item accordingly. Is there no general synopsis considering the vast majority state that most later model LG phones are nearly the exact same? Pieces from here, pieces from there, gets tedious!