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How to rip files/add files to your ic902 (and other hybrids)
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Posted by: chris5h

First the software:

BitPim (Freeware, yay)
http://www.bitpim.org/

Motorola USB Driver
Your gonna have to google em.

1) First install USB Driver and install BitPIm. Dont run BitPim yet.
2) Plug in your ic902 and allow install the drivers as prompted.
3) Run BitPim. Go to Edit, then Settings.
4) In the drop down list for Phone Type, choose Other CDMA Phone

5) Click on Browse next to Com Port, and choose "Motorola USB Modem"

6) Click OK, and OK, and get back to the main screen. Then click the View menu, then View Filesystem. A new option in the right pane will appear that says Filesystem. Click That.
7) Click the + sign in the pane to the right. After a few minutes of it saying "Retrieving" a bunch of folfers should appear. This is the phones filesystem. In here are java apps, themes, ringtones, startup tones and pictures, etc. etc. etc.

Here is a brief list of some of the folders in here and what they are:
mmc1: This is your transflash card
brew/mod/camera/sounds: shutter sounds
brew/mod/camera/funframes/(low,medium,high): different resolution fun frames
brew/mod/obione/stk/cache/: web cache
motorola/: all of the content will be stored within this folder
motorola/preload/: all the preloaded content of the phone
motorola/shared/jas/content/: all your downloaded games, wallpapers, themes, etc.

There more in there, and I will post tutorials on more things, but for now that should get everyone started.

Have fun.

Posted by: elassowipo

thanks good info

Posted by: wthile

great nfo was able to read my phone just fine... Now where on the transflash would you put music?

Posted by: mrkwj

Followed step by step. The only port available says motorola usb diagnostic port (com6), but it lists a motorola usb modem under ports not available. What am I doing wrong?

Posted by: chris5h

Make sure you have the phone in DATA/Modem mode under USB in the Connection Settings menu, otherwise BitPim will not work. Make sure it is NOT in Mass Storage mode.

Posted by: wthile

Quote:

Originally Posted by wthile

great nfo was able to read my phone just fine... Now where on the transflash would you put music?

I figured it out.

Thanks

this is great information.

Posted by: Motohawk

Great info ...thanks!

Posted by: slovett88

Great find and really easy to install. Please get those tutorials posted so I don't fry my phone.

Posted by: slovett88

By the way, as an added bonus (I think that is redundant) by installing the USB driver you are now able to charge the phone through your computer.

Posted by: dacookster

thanks! this is so much nicer than using Webjal and the RSS, which were both painful to set up and use. Now we're all in the normal CDMA world. I am wondering if there's a hack to save the 'word' memory onto a SD card or the phone, so you don't lose all the words on power down.

Posted by: joeya7

Where do you get the USB drivers from??

Posted by: chris5h

I have them uploaded in a post over on Insider. I dont know if it violates the rules by posting it here, but here it goes:

http://insider.teknidude.com/forums...ead.php?t=19678

Unfortunately the size limit of attachments on this forum makes attaching them impossible here.

Posted by: dschachm

Anyone figure out how to load games on here yet? Also, i would love to figure out how to get sprint my cast without paying a monthly fee?

Posted by: melb10

I'm very new to this.... I installed everything correctly. The system is reading my phone but I'm lost after that. I don't know how to put the stuff on the phone..... I don know how to add ringtones, songs, wallpaper, etc..... Can somebody please help me.

Posted by: NYgangsta911

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris5h

First the software:

BitPim (Freeware, yay)
http://www.bitpim.org/

Motorola USB Driver
Your gonna have to google em.

1) First install USB Driver and install BitPIm. Dont run BitPim yet.
2) Plug in your ic902 and allow install the drivers as prompted.
3) Run BitPim. Go to Edit, then Settings.
4) In the drop down list for Phone Type, choose Other CDMA Phone

5) Click on Browse next to Com Port, and choose "Motorola USB Modem"

Have fun.

can anybody post the start up screen of the ic902??

Posted by: setox

if you delete the camera sounds this way it does not make a noise when taking a picture??? and where do you load a theme?

Posted by: B1g Bleu

anybody get this prog. to work on an i series phone and USB?

Posted by: DaGeneral

Does anyone know where to get themes, apps, and games from?

Posted by: sprintnutt

Thanks for the useful helpful information. I was beginning to lose faith in this website and beginning to think, the only way somebody would help you is if you bought something they sold. What I would like to see is the information for getting the programs, pictures, and ringtones off the condor and falcon series phones. Yes, I know certain people on here know how to do it and it is not generaly shared like this is.
If this is the same as what I have done with the RAZR, which I am pretty sure it is, I will be able to do all that and more.
Because my womans RAZR will say while turning on, not the standard Motorola theme, It says her name and says it is powering on so she can call me.

Thanks again for sharing and I will try the ic502, and some other CDMA phones I have, since I see the drop down list you have shown.

Posted by: GUNITsOLDIER299

yo nice info but does anyone know how i can transfer my phonebook from my i870 to my ic902? thanks alot

Posted by: FDX073092

Hi all I wonder if anyone has a way to get the sprint navigation loaded to the phone, I have an IC902 I deleted it by accident thinking I could reload it and now I cannot get it back, I tried to update the phone, no go, I tried several times to download it from my content, no go, it is in a loop, it keeps going back to the screen that says its on the phone under my content or update your phone software. I have called sprint several times with no luck. I went to the store and they told me they could not update the software? Can anyone help me out

Posted by: sprintnutt

GUNIT,

I am looking at my IC502 and I would take you SIM from your I870, read it with Phonebook Manager, then save it to the computer. Take the SIM out of the IC902
and put it in the I870, then load your phonebook from that file in Phonebook Manager
to the IC902. It should work and I am going to check with my SIM from my 7100 and put it in my IC502 to see if they transfer for you.

Posted by: sprintnutt

Okay, if you insert the another SIM not associated with the account that the phone is tied too, it will tell you to insert correct SIM. So let me try the phonebook manager solution.

Posted by: WithoutRemorse

i have gotten this set up but when i try to add content such as ringers or pics it says:

Access to the file/directory has been blocked by the service provider.

I have the ic502 running on spint/nextel service.

Posted by: SuicideMyk

Very nice

I seen something

CM/CSMQCOOK

i wonder if that is the date to hide on my phone because I wanted to hide that but on the phone it's self there is no option just for the clock you can hide it

Posted by: SuicideMyk

just was messing around an figured out how to make my own fun frames just because ummmm...... well I was bored lol

this is how I did it if you want to know:

brew/mod/camera/funframes: High

I selected any one of them right clicked and saved to my computer to get the right size then opened it in photoshop made a new layer added my own design then saved the image with a new name. Then I went back to BitPM and right clicked an selected New File an uploaded the new funframe that I made , thats it an boom you have a new personal fun frame

this is what I did really quick just to show ...

Posted by: FDX073092

Hi folks, I need the sprint navigation software, I deleted it and have called sprint about 15 times, they say they are going to send me a text message but no luck. is there anyplace I can get it from? My software is 2.62 so it will not let me update the phone. Thanks

Posted by: DNic

Sweet. I used to use bitpim a long time ago. It's nice to be able to use it again.

I wanted to delete some of the stock ringtones to free up memory, but it says "Access to the file/directory has been blocked on this phone by the phone provider." Any way around this?

Posted by: Sprintina

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNic

Sweet. I used to use bitpim a long time ago. It's nice to be able to use it again.
I wanted to delete some of the stock ringtones to free up memory, but it says "Access to the file/directory has been blocked on this phone by the phone provider." Any way around this?

It appears that all of these files are actually named something that you wouldn't expect and may be able to be added/removed by handling them in a different, more detailed way... These directions are very different from what I have read in other threads dealing with transferring files to/from the ic902 and actually getting them to work correctly (for example, people may have supposedly been able to transfer ringers to the phone via a cable but could never figure out how to have the phone be able to assign them)...

Check out this thread:

http://www.insiderforums.com/forums...ead.php?t=20115

I haven't tried this yet but it seems to make alot of sense and I did get into my BitPim to see what was being described. Meaning it may be possible to not get an access denied error doing it this way because it appears to allow the phone software to do its own internal thing once you follow the directions and restart, where it would move the files to the denied spots or delete them as long as they are removed from the location shown in the thread. Not sure what happens to the numbering if you do delete from there (again if this is works). There seems to be a little .dat file there that probably keeps track of the numbered files and may renumber, but I'm not sure...

Anyway, if you're game, give it a shot.

Posted by: DNic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sprintina

I looked through the file system and unfortunately all the ones in that location are applicable to only pre-loaded apps and ringtones that I have put on the phone. It does not contain any information about the default ringers.

Posted by: sprintnutt

It sounds like Insider has their act together for helping people make the most of their phones.

Posted by: Sprintina

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNic

Okay - thanks for the update. I am wondering if some of the firmware updates closed a (perceived) loophole somewhere by write-protecting certain areas - maybe to avoid having people brick their phones by mistake.

I expect there is a way though... Will keep hunting.

Posted by: Sprintina

Quote:

Originally Posted by sprintnutt

It sounds like Insider has their act together for helping people make the most of their phones.

Yeah I just found out that I could just rename the extension on a somewhat large (900K) .mp3 to be a .qcp and throw it in the "Voice Records" directory on my sd card and be able to assign that as a ringer and it worked.

Didn't even have to move it to the phone or anything. Don't know how long that will stay assigned (I have read of people assigning home-made ringers that eventually stopped working when someone called but I'll see...

)

Posted by: Dyke67ny

When I connect my IC902 and run the Bitpim program, it always comes up "failed to open port" when I select Motorola USB modem. No matter what I seem to do, it will not open the port(s) I select...
Can you help?
Thanx!

Posted by: vampiro921

did you ever get this fixed cause im having the same problem..any suggestions guys.

Posted by: martinezken971

is this method covered under the power source evdo data pack for 15 dollars or are you running this as a modem under the $39.99-$59.99 packs? Under my phone details it doesn't say unlimited phone modem use or not,

Posted by: martinezken971

Also I've been trying to follow info about the ringtones and software but still have no luck in getting ring tones using mpt and the driver i downloaded from sprint with the sprintbroadband, but I think the broadband is the 39.99 - packs, I have the 15 dollar one and just want to do the ringtones from my conputer. any help for me e-mail me please or lead me in the right direction. martinezken97@yahoo.com.

Posted by: runagun

Use this to add your own ringers to your phone via text message.

http://mobilereelz.com/

Posted by: kernyk

could someone forwardthe drivers to me I've been trying for two days to log on to the link above