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Audiovox CDM 8900 with Bitpim Instructions
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Posted by: Waruwaru

Ripped from thread http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...15&pagenumber=4

Quick Instructions on how to get BitPim to work with Audiovox 8900 on a Windows XP machine
- Buy a cable, either the DICU 8400, or one of the LG VX 6000 straight USB cable from freedomnet on eBay
- install the USB driver from Curitel website (PD-K500 driver from Curitel)
- click OK and CONTINUE on all non-tested XP driver dialog box to install drivers onto your system
- remove the rubber plug in the bottom of your 8900 phone (use a needle/paperclip). Don't be so rough to break anything inside.
- plug Audiovox 8900 to one end of USB cable, and the other end of USB cable into your computer's USB port
- WinXP will recognize new hardware, prompted to install driver 3 times, clicked OK and Continue to install them all
- Go to Device Manager (right click on My Computer, click Properties, Hardware tab page, click on Device Manager button in the middle of the dialog box
- Select menu View->Devices by Type
- On the tree, click the '+' next to the Modems. For me it shows the "Curitel Packet Service #2", might be different on your computer, double click on that, and select the Modem tab page. On top of the dialog box, you should see Port, and it tells you which COM port it is.
- Installed bitpim (http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/), I used 0.62 regular, not the VX6000 version
- Start BitPim
- Go into Edit->Settings, and click BROWSE on the COM port selection. Enter the port you found above, and clicked OK
- Check on both View->View Protocol Logging, and View->View File Systems. You should get 2 additional tab pages.
- clicked on the Filesystem tab page in Bitpim
- clicked on the '+' next to the root, Bitpim displays the file structure tree
- If it doesn't work, then you can click on the Protocol Log tab page, and it will show you all the communication between the phone and the computer. That might give you a clue on why it doesn't work

If BitPim stucks on after you click on the '+' in Filesystem, it is most likely that you selected the wrong COM port. Try enter a different one. Look under Modems in the Device Manager again, and check the COM port in other modems. I think I actually got it working with the Agere Modem once for some weird reason (it won't work now). Good luck, yall!

Thanks to ACL88 for helping me got mine working, and Zaediex for the 8900 upload thread!

Posted by: AlteZza2k2

hey, are you sure that the lg vx6000 usb cable will work? Thanks.

Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by AlteZza2k2
hey, are you sure that the lg vx6000 usb cable will work? Thanks.

I am using the LG VX 6000 USB cable from freedomnet/eBay as we speak.

See thread for more details.

Posted by: kei78

cool, time to do this to my cousins phone!

Posted by: acf

Couldn't find anything from "freedomnet" but I did find it here.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=50329

Good price?

It says ONLY for the 6000, wonder why?

Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by acf
Couldn't find anything from "freedomnet" but I did find it here.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=50329

Good price?

It says ONLY for the 6000, wonder why?

This is the Freedomnet guy that we are talking about. Good deal, send him an email to see if he has cables for 8900 or 6000.

These are officially only for the 6000. They probably don't want to take responsibility if your phone catches on fire.

Plus, the software support isn't all that great for the 8900 yet.

Posted by: acf

, thanks man.

Posted by: acf

I assume the cable is also used to connect your phone as a modem? No extra cable for that function?

Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by acf
I assume the cable is also used to connect your phone as a modem? No extra cable for that function?

I didn't try to dial out to internet personally, but the phone does appear as a modem in Windows XP's device manager.

Posted by: Got VoX

So im intersted in getting a data cable for my CDM-8900, is this the only way i can get it to work with windows XP? Thanks!

Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by Got VoX
So im intersted in getting a data cable for my CDM-8900, is this the only way i can get it to work with windows XP? Thanks!

I am using XP and it works fine. Check BitPim site to see what other platform it supports.

Posted by: Fighto78

Quote:

Originally posted by Waruwaru
I didn't try to dial out to internet personally, but the phone does appear as a modem in Windows XP's device manager.

Can we get some clarification? I really want to do this and soley bought the cable for this purpose. It is possible, right?

Thanks

Posted by: s2kohio

I was surfing Ebay and came across this item

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&category=50327

Anyone have any information on this? It is a USB CHARGING cable for the LG VX6000 VX 6000 USB CHARGING DATA CABLE KIT

I assume it will work with the vox 8900??

Any info is appreciated. Thanks

Posted by: FocusOnMBM

Dont use a USB CHARGING cable on the 8900. Word has it they blow up. There is a seperate charging port on the 8900 to charge the phone.

Posted by: Zaediex

Quote:

Originally posted by FocusOnMBM
Dont use a USB CHARGING cable on the 8900. Word has it they blow up. There is a seperate charging port on the 8900 to charge the phone.

This statement is only true for the LG charging cables. The DICU-8400B (the Audiovox OEM cable) charges, and works well with the 8900.

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Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by FocusOnMBM
Dont use a USB CHARGING cable on the 8900. Word has it they blow up. There is a seperate charging port on the 8900 to charge the phone.

I believe the person reported retracted his statement. But we still don't know why his phone smells like smoke after using the charging cable... So, if I was going to get another one, I would avoid the LG charging cable for my 8900.

The non-charging one works fine for me. The $20 cable (there is a whole thread on this in this forum) seems to work fine as well.

Posted by: mrblufeel

Actually we have been testing an Audiovox CDM 8900 on one of our charging cables and it has been cooking for over 7 days now. No problems what so ever. They both have the same boards (phones). The setup is regulated as well. We have drained and charged about twice a day for the last 7 days with no worries. Same charging rate as an OEM Audiovox 8900 car charger. You can get them on eBay and a few other sites. I would not bother with Serial converted cables either. They are a mess to setup.

For what it's worth...

Posted by: FocusOnMBM

I never tried an OEM charging cable but I'm still personally going to stay away from them

I don't need my usb cable to charge my phone. That's what I personall use an outlet for.

Posted by: acf

What's the skinny on preserving battery life? Manual says to be sure to drain the battery completely before charging and then charge to 100% which I've heard benefts other devices as well as a general rule. Something about it learning an incorrect capacity if you always charge half way for example...

Posted by: Waruwaru

Quote:

Originally posted by acf
What's the skinny on preserving battery life? Manual says to be sure to drain the battery completely before charging and then charge to 100% which I've heard benefts other devices as well as a general rule. Something about it learning an incorrect capacity if you always charge half way for example...

Some batteries have "memories". If you always just use half and charge it, eventually, it will think 50% is your maximum capacity and won't charge beyond that.

Posted by: KPT

Quote:

Originally posted by mrblufeel
Actually we have been testing an Audiovox CDM 8900 on one of our charging cables and it has been cooking for over 7 days now. No problems what so ever. They both have the same boards (phones). The setup is regulated as well. We have drained and charged about twice a day for the last 7 days with no worries. Same charging rate as an OEM Audiovox 8900 car charger. You can get them on eBay and a few other sites. I would not bother with Serial converted cables either. They are a mess to setup.

For what it's worth...

So by "one of our charging cables" you mean the lg vx6000 cable, not the audiovox oem cable?

Posted by: mrblufeel

We do not offer any OEM data cables. All of data cables are either made inhouse or manufactured oversease. So, to answer your question it is not an OEM Audiovox cable.

Posted by: flash12345

Can someone please help!!!!!!! I am very new to this. Can someone please post the right driver for the cdm 8900. I think that is my problem, for some reason when i go into bitpim to select my driver it does not recognize com 4 which is where my phone is hooked up. The rest of my com ports are being used.

Posted by: flash12345

i've downloaded bitpim 7.0 and it communicates with my phone fine, now how do i get both images and ringtone to my cdm-8900. i'm with verizon. i've already clicked DATA then sent to phone but when the next screen pops it does not let me click on any of those options that would send it to my phone.

Posted by: acf

"Sending data to the phone" is basically synching data from Bitpim with the phone. I'm not sure its even works. You can individually overwrite images and tones in the MMS/OM folder. Do so at your own risk though.

Posted by: Neofite

Hi

I went to the curitel site to get the drivers, but the k500 does not have USB drivers under it only a PC Sync program. Is that what i should get???