OFFICIAL LG VX8500 Chocolate V5 Firmware Thread

[Humpa]

If you have ringtones on and upgrade it erases your ringtones and then you are locked out from copying them ?

It didn't erase my custom ringtones when I flashed to V05.
But I already said this 6 posts ago.

[SAKITA]

well my friend got the strawberry chocolate and its locked so disappointing. i didnt bother to look on here cause i thought it would sync up with bitpim. boy was i wrong VZW sucks. crippling phones like this. im glad i still have the old firmware on my chocolate.
anyways i found out a way to put ringtones on the v5 firmware.

[anw_ilson]

i have the new "strawberry" chocolate. it has the v5 software on it and every time i try to transfer into our our of bitpim it says that it has been blocked by the service provider. any suggestions? im really just mainly concentrating on the ringtones. if someone could explain even how to transfer them through bluetooth thatd be great! thanks!

[cwguth]

anyways i found out a way to put ringtones on the v5 firmware.

May I ask how you did this? Did you send them in a message, or use an online loader, or did you find another way?

[RichChrisB]

I have been using the old pix trick. At 112kbps a 20 second ringtone is about 275kb and will not be compressed by Verizon's message server. Just send an email to **********@vzwpix.com and attach the ringtone. When you get it just select save as ringtone. ********** is your phone number. This also works with backgrounds.

[SAKITA]

I have been using the old pix trick. At 112kbps a 20 second ringtone is about 275kb and will not be compressed by Verizon's message server. Just send an email to **********@vzwpix.com and attach the ringtone. When you get it just select save as ringtone. ********** is your phone number. This also works with backgrounds.

you can do that or you can just make the ringtone under 200kb. i used my chocolate and sent it to mine under sounds. then i would text my friend the song and save it as a ringtone. i tried the email thing and half of the time it wouldnt work.

[darqmarc]

For what it's worth, my VX8600's SW version is T86VZV02 (got this in January) and I have no trouble at all accessing it with bitpim over bluetooth. Unfortunately in this version there are no custom TXT/PIX/EML alerts for individual contacts, and because of that and my use case I'll be upgrading as soon as I hear of a firmware wherein LG readds that functionality.

[cjh6386]

just when I thought maybe they would update the music player and tag reading, they just make everything worse

[LisC79]

I have 2 chocolates (cherry and strawberry) I am trying to decide which I like better and returning the other. My Cherry has ver 4 and my strawberry ver 5. This is what I noticed right away is different between them:

1. Bitpim is locked out for ver 5
2. You can now adjust all volume levels without first hitting the side button to unlock the phone (ring volume, speaker volume, music volume)
3. When listening to music and it goes to your main screen with your wallpaper, if you hit the music button on the side it goes to your player and shows you whats playin so you can hit next, pause, etc. On my ver 4 phone when i hit the music button it goes tp the playlists option and tells me i have no playlists then tries to start vcast. On the ver 4 if I want to stop or change a song I am listening to i have to go to menu, music, my music, etc and start from scratch. PITA!!!

I will let you know anything else I notice different between them as I am using both phones for the next 15 days to decide which I like better. (I originally thought this decision was going to be a color decision only, but not anymore since they changed the software)

[Humpa]

Sigh I really screwed myself, thinking this was great but now like everyone else Im locked out. After researching though I think that version we were using wasnt even for the chocolate phone I got this info from http://ttt.phonenews.com/phones/inde...racker#Verizon
just replace the ttt. with www. It states it is for LG VX9800 (V) - T98VZV05
which is not even a chocolate ?????

That page doesn't say anything at all about the V05 chocolate firmware actually being the 9800 firmware. The 9800 firmware is T98VZV05, the 8500's is T85VZV05.

The chocolate's from the store that have T85VZV05 are also locked out of BitPim.

[lawman0210]

Why does verizon try so hard to screw the end user out of being able to install their own cutom ringtones and wallpapers? Isn't there some way to complain about them manipulating the phones in such a way?

[firefox15]

Why does verizon try so hard to screw the end user out of being able to install their own cutom ringtones and wallpapers?

It's simple economics. Verizon makes it impossible for you to do it yourself because they want to force you to purchase their own service.

Isn't there some way to complain about them manipulating the phones in such a way?

If you really want to complain, you need to drop your service along with a few million other people. Because that will never happen, your best bet is to file a complain through planetfeedback.com.

[jmblakey]

I haven't even seen one, but ideally, wouldn't the firmware for the vx8600 v02 or whatever they are on, shouldn't that firmware load? Plus the GUI and everything should be virtually identical to the vx8500 correct? Several have said it allows bitpim access. I haven't been able to find that firmware thus far, but it's maybe a viable option once it shows up. no?

[ballerv8]

I have 2 chocolates (cherry and strawberry) I am trying to decide which I like better and returning the other. My Cherry has ver 4 and my strawberry ver 5. This is what I noticed right away is different between them:

1. Bitpim is locked out for ver 5
2. You can now adjust all volume levels without first hitting the side button to unlock the phone (ring volume, speaker volume, music volume)
3. When listening to music and it goes to your main screen with your wallpaper, if you hit the music button on the side it goes to your player and shows you whats playin so you can hit next, pause, etc. On my ver 4 phone when i hit the music button it goes tp the playlists option and tells me i have no playlists then tries to start vcast. On the ver 4 if I want to stop or change a song I am listening to i have to go to menu, music, my music, etc and start from scratch. PITA!!!

I will let you know anything else I notice different between them as I am using both phones for the next 15 days to decide which I like better. (I originally thought this decision was going to be a color decision only, but not anymore since they changed the software)

for 3. my ver. 4 black does what you say the ver. 5 does. i hit music and it goes to the music player, and i can change songs. i dont know what happened with yours. maybe try changing that phone before they put ver 5 on all the cherries.

[Humpa]

I haven't even seen one, but ideally, wouldn't the firmware for the vx8600 v02 or whatever they are on, shouldn't that firmware load? Plus the GUI and everything should be virtually identical to the vx8500 correct? Several have said it allows bitpim access. I haven't been able to find that firmware thus far, but it's maybe a viable option once it shows up. no?

Why?
V04 works fine - no need for using another phone's firmware. As a rule, that doesn't work, and if it does it will probably have at least some issues.