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lg 8550 help (DRM)
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Posted by: yo77

I have a few questions about the LG 8550 chocolate spin. I someone can help…

1. I’ve used BitPim and transferred an mp3 song that I’ve cut down to 30 seconds to my phone. However I cannot use is as a ring tone or a ringer because I get the message “file is Non-DRM protected” Does anyone know who to get around this or know where I can find a program that encrypts mp3 with DRM (digital rights management)?

2. The phone has 1GB memory card and the phone itself holds tons of space. Why it is then that LG as allotted such a small amount of space for text messages? I’ve read that phones that have extremely high storage space for text messages have system issues and slow responses. I agree and don’t want that but 40-60 inbox messages and it’s pretty much full? Is there a way to increase your inbox size besides from simply turning on auto delete to help manage it?

Thanks!

Posted by: gpfury

The second question about text message storage is a good question i have a vx 8500 and i wish it would store more than 50 alotted messages I am fairly certain there is no way to change that the text messages are stored on the phones internal memory there is no way to use the a memory card for extra text message i don't beleive. I used to have an old audiovox cdm 9900 and it held 200 inbox and 200 outbox messages but it was different software than what are on most verizon phones now....

Posted by: vinvam

you can't do anything about the text message inbox

about the ringtone, try converting it to .mid and putting it in the phone through bitpim

Posted by: C DM

The new LG Chocolate can hold 100 text messages and 100 picture/video messages in the inbox folder as well as 50 text messages and 50 picture/video messages in the sent folder (along with some in the drafts folder). It's more than on some of the older VZW LG feature phones, but still not too much. There's no way to increase that or change that in any way, unless VZW decides to do it in a firmware upgrade of some sort (which is unlikely to happen). One possible reason for the limits that has been mentioned before is basically the phone speed--in many cases on some of the other phones that don't have any limits, as people have more and more messages that are stored the phones become rather slow, in particular when accessing and using messaging.

Posted by: yo77

Thanks for the feedback on the DRM issue vinvam. I can't seem to find a free .mid converter online thats free, can anyone help?