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Posted by: peterbrown77

Hello Gurus,

New member here. I own a Verizon T720, about 1 yr old. I bought the Motorola Data Connectivity kit a while back, under the mistaken assumption that I would be able to manage the phone with it. What I really want to do is put snapshots (kids, etc) in the Media Center>Picture Viewer without having to use a service like Snapfish, etc. Not really interested in ringtones, mine is usually set to vibrate. Just by accident I read about GAGIN, and then PST.

Will either of these apps do what I want, that is manage the contents of Picture Viewer? And where do I get them?

Also, I just looked in it for the first time in ages and there are all these animations that I didn't see last time, and I didn't add.

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: peterbrown77

Wow, 169 reads and not a single person can answer this....

Posted by: ifox2002

Im asking the same questions....

Posted by: peterbrown77

Well, I finally have some answers. I downloaded PST 6.3.1 from:

http://www.************/html/programs.htm

It's in spanish or italian or something, but the programs themselves are not. Grab:

Motorola PST
M-Services Backup Editor
EMS-Manager 1.2.3

I'm still trying to get M-Services Backup editor to work, but the EMS does the same job.

I'm assuming you have a USB cable and XP. Install the PST software (but you don't have to start the program), plug in the phone and let Windows go through the add hardware routine (could be 4 separate items). Each time it looks for a driver, specify the location where the PST installed (program files\motorola\pst, I think). After you have no yellow flags in Device Manager, you should be good to go. Maybe a reboot or two is in order. If you're using XP, go the website:

beavermjr.com

and read his PST FAQs. For XP I had to edit 2 registry entries for the usb to work correctly. If not XP, I think you can skip this but it is still a good read. Realize he wrote the FAQs for a much older release of PST, so it is not all relevant.

The way PST works is that you create a new file, and select it's type from the list (datebook for example). Once you name the file and create this empty file, you then read the contents of the phone into the file. You can then edit it and write it back to the phone with the edits. You can't do anything in the interface until you've created these empty files. I only concerned myself with 3: phone book, date book, and M-Services (where the pics and ringtones are).

In order to edit M-services (the file will be whatever you chose for a name with a .ems extension) you need ANOTHER piece of software, MBE or EMS. I've only been successful with EMS, but I'll figure out MBE one of these days. You can edit phone/datebook with just PST.

Install EMS, and then use it to open the .ems file you made with PST. Here is where you can then add a picture(s), make it a GIF file 120 x 160 pixels, 64 colors (maybe more colors possibly, but I know 64 works). Add it to the Images column and then save the .ems file. Add pics/ringtones until you're happy with the results.

Now, fire off PST again and open the edited .ems file and write it back to the phone. You're custom images are now in Picture Viewer.

With EMS I could not remove the default pics and ringtones, they don't appear in the .ems file when you read it from the phone. MBE is supposed to let me do that, but I am having trouble reading the .ems file that I already created, so I'm doing something wrong. I'll play with it more later.

Also, the phone occasionally locked up, black screen and I couldn't turn it on. I rebooted the pc, plugged the phone back in, and then re-wrote the datebook back into it and it woke it up and all was well.

Regards