How functional is the V3m as a mp3 player?

Originally Posted by bigsho

supports WMA playback, i couldn't get MP3's to play back at all. They phone wouldn't read them at all.

Originally Posted by raventai

do you have a V3m or V3c? I ask only becuase you have a V3c next to your name,

so far I have nto been able to file transfer into the phone (gonna take hacks) , nor do I have a TF card yet so dont know how well it actually works as an MP3 player

Edit read your reply in the other thread, TF card etc must be a V3m

Originally Posted by bigsho

supports WMA playback, i couldn't get MP3's to play back at all. They phone wouldn't read them at all.

Originally Posted by WaltA

Were you able to play MP3 on your previous V3c? I can on my V3c, though, of course without nice features like playlists. I am just wondering if they took that ability out?

Originally Posted by Robert Calhoun

According to the rep at the store that I talked to today, it will still play the MP3's off the PHONE MEMORY ONLY. On the card and with their player it has to be WMA because of VCast (that is evidently it's format). She said it is exactly the same phone except the TF card (which will only play WMA) but everything on the phone memory will still work as it does now. She also said that you could put MP3's and pics on the TF card from a reader on the PC and "move" them to the phone (not copy) but so far no one has figured out how to do that yet.

Originally Posted by DoAsFan

I got my v3m last Friday. On Sunday I transferred a couple of songs onto the phone memory. Didn't buy a MicroSD card yet, and I might not ever.

I couldn't find any instructions in the documentation on how to transfer songs from my Windows PC to the phone, but I eventually made my way to Motorola's site which informed me I needed to browse on the phone to the SYNC MUSIC feature under GET TUNES & TONES menu. Then I launched Windows Media Player 10, and it found the phone just fine.

Synchronizing songs was easy. I checked off two MP3's I had in my library that I had previously ripped in iTunes to MP3 192kbps format, hit the Sync and it was done in a couple minutes. WMP did say it was doing some sort of conversion during the process, so I don't know if it converted to WMA, but when I go to GET INFO on the song in the phone, it displays as a 192kbps file.

The music player (and the entire Verizon menu for that matter) sux. It's response is slow and not as intuitive as my last Samsung phone. But the phone looks nice. I've listened to the songs thru the phone, which plays like speakerphone mode, and also thru a wired headset. Both sound like a 192kbps file ought to. Have yet to receive my Bluetooth headset yet.

Originally Posted by DoAsFan

The music player (and the entire Verizon menu for that matter) sux. It's response is slow and not as intuitive as my last Samsung phone. But the phone looks nice. I've listened to the songs thru the phone, which plays like speakerphone mode, and also thru a wired headset. Both sound like a 192kbps file ought to. Have yet to receive my Bluetooth headset yet.

Originally Posted by MrKite

Has anyone tried the hack that works on the VX8100 to get mp3's to work (v7 firmware) - essentially
* press the menu buton
* press 0
* enter 000000 (all zeros) for the password
* and then at the bottom select music player or mp3 or something like that and enable mp3 support

Can someone with the phone see if this is a possibility?

Originally Posted by DoAsFan

I got my v3m last Friday. On Sunday I transferred a couple of songs onto the phone memory. Didn't buy a MicroSD card yet, and I might not ever.

I couldn't find any instructions in the documentation on how to transfer songs from my Windows PC to the phone, but I eventually made my way to Motorola's site which informed me I needed to browse on the phone to the SYNC MUSIC feature under GET TUNES & TONES menu. Then I launched Windows Media Player 10, and it found the phone just fine.

Synchronizing songs was easy. I checked off two MP3's I had in my library that I had previously ripped in iTunes to MP3 192kbps format, hit the Sync and it was done in a couple minutes. WMP did say it was doing some sort of conversion during the process, so I don't know if it converted to WMA, but when I go to GET INFO on the song in the phone, it displays as a 192kbps file.

The music player (and the entire Verizon menu for that matter) sux. It's response is slow and not as intuitive as my last Samsung phone. But the phone looks nice. I've listened to the songs thru the phone, which plays like speakerphone mode, and also thru a wired headset. Both sound like a 192kbps file ought to. Have yet to receive my Bluetooth headset yet.

Originally Posted by GoldMembr

If the V3m has factory installed MP3's and plays them then you guys with the V3m should be able to get MP3's to work like this. After you transfer the MP3's to the phone by whatever means use P2KCommander to set the attributes to "System File". So this way the phone will think it's a factory installed MP3 and should work correctly. You won't be able to delete the MP3's through the phone or Master Clear them either but you can just undo the attribute any time you want to delete one. Also if you just use P2KCommander to transfer the MP3's it will automaticaly set the attribute to "System File". Give it a try it should work.

Originally Posted by MrKite

I personally think this is a load of crap since it is advertised as and mp3 player - ...

Originally Posted by j9_ls1

does anyone have this successfully working with both motorola phone tools and with the media player 10/11?

Originally Posted by j9_ls1

Thanks, yeah that works, but I am getting an error when I try to sync. Can you take out your minisd card and see if it still works with those steps?

Originally Posted by Verizonuser92

what i mean is like, is there a screen through my sounds or domething where there are mp3 controls using the keypad or is there just the play button like the ringtones. I heard there was one, but i may be wrong.