Guide to Connecting the VX8575 to Your PC

[slim6596]

has anyone transfered videos to there phone and watched them> if so what settings did u use to encode them to be compatible?

I used the free Videora (for iPod) program. I set it to convert the video file to mp4 (for iPod gen 6, I think), h.264, video resolution 320x240, bit rate 1024kbps, frame rate 25fps. I left the audio settings as they are. Now when I started the video, there were black bars on either side (left and right, vertical bars) of the video and everyone looked too tall and skinny. I tapped the screen and when that brought up the video options, I tapped the icon to resize the video (looks like a square with arrows inside of it pointing to each corner). Tada! No black bars and everyone looked normal. I know there are probably some other settings that could be changed, but I thought I read that videos had to be 320x240 (even though the screen is 400x240--sideways). This was all put on my memory card, not the phone's memory. Any questions, feel free to ask. I am still experimenting.

[GuyinLACA]

On the EnV Touch, there is a flash ui folder under BREW which has the flash animation for the main menu screen. On the Chocolate Touch, is there a flash file for the main menu animation?

If there is, there will be quite a few modification possibilities for this phone.

[slim6596]

Yes there is. I tried to get a look at those files with a decompiler, but I must be using it wrong. I have to do some more reading on the settings for that program before I can start modifying my phone's menus and such. I do know that before anything else, I will back up the original files.

I got the menu files copied to my computer. Now, how do I go about editing them? Hmmm...this will keep me occupied for a bit...

[stingray2772]

it's not under settings, it's under tools. The icon for it when you go to the menu looks like a calculator, clock, and calendar stacked on top of each other. Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the menu, it's the very last item. "USB Mass Storage"

Awesome, just tried this out. Thanks man... haha this is freaking sweet

[bk32]

Thanks much for the guide. I can easily copy music and ringtones to my new phone. Unfortunately, I screwed up by trying to transfer my contacts from my old 8350, which I earlier had loaded into Bitpim. It transfered them ok, but there is some garbage in one of the fields of each contact when you display it on the phone, and when you try to edit the contact, the phone crashes.
Do you know how to erase all contacts on this phone? And then... do you know if I can load my contacts from Bitpim into the Chocolate Touch?
Thanks!

[prosperoa]

Has anyone successfully synced the Calendar with BitPim? I get this long exception and it fails everytime.

I really like the phone, and am trying to sync my Google Calendar to the calendar app.

Thoughts anyone?

Thanks in advance!

[jakeph]

this thread is rad. i have one tiny problem (i used method #1) i dont have any album artwork, any suggestions? also, will this work on linux? or do you know if Vcast is compatable with linux? thanks

[HelplessSEAL]

this thread is rad. i have one tiny problem (i used method #1) i dont have any album artwork, any suggestions? also, will this work on linux? or do you know if Vcast is compatable with linux? thanks

there's no linux build of vcast rhapsody afaik, but songbird does a nice job syncing with the phone. Try that if you want to sync music.

Album artwork has been a crapshoot. Sometimes it loads, sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure how exactly to do it. I've long given up and moved onto using my ipod touch full time as my music player. A lot less fuss.

[ohnvk]

my experience with usb data cable connection for the syncing data to/from the lg chocolate touch vx8575 and the pc:

My one big still unanswered question is this: "why can't i move pictures using pc usb drive technique to/from PHONE memory?"

my two choices seem to be:

• use bitpim to do phone memory to/from pc hard drive (but this is slow, and if i want to do this transfer on friends computers, i'll have to carry around the bitpim install file, which i suppose i could store on the card in the phone itself.)
• use plain usb to transfer from card memory to/from pc hard drive (and just abandon phone memory, or use the phone transfer from card memory to phone memory. Seems like a waste. And you have to HAVE a card installed. If your memory reqs are small, you dont even need a card. Seems like a waste to buy one just to do transfers.

all this is after installing the drivers discussed in previous versions.

i find it all confusing. there's no rhyme or reason to the various methods (referencing the original post):

method 1: on phone you have to go to tools>USB Mass Storage (note "tools" menu not "settings" menu) which is essentially a temporary state of your phone. A "Removable Disk" appears in My Computer on wxp with these folders in it:

• contact
• media
• my_
• my_music
• my_pix
• my_ringtones
• my_sounds
• sys

WXP also pops up a window with title "Removable Disk" with 8 options in it.

method 2: bitpim: on phone you have to go to settings->USB Auto Detection->Modem mode --OR-- settings->USB Auto Detection->Ask On Plugin and THEN when it does ask, say "Data"

Note "settings" menu not "tools" menu.

so, Modem==Data. I find that weird.

method 3: on phone you have to go to settings>USB auto detection>Media Sync Mode --OR-- settings->USB Auto Detection->Ask On Plugin and THEN when it does ask, say "Music"

Note "settings" menu not "tools" menu.

so Media Sync Mode==Music. I find that a little less weird, but still weird.

i get a device in My Computer. device name "LG VX8575" containing Data and Media/Music folders. The music folder is the music ON THE MicroSD CARD. The phone says "V CAST MOBILE PHONE / EXTERNAL MEMORY". My Computer says it has 1.8GB, which matches what it says in settings->memory->card memory->memory usage for available memory (and matches the fact that i am using a 2GB card).

this lets me add music to the microsd card, NOT the internal phone memory. But doesnt let me add other stuff. I find that weird, since method 1 allows me to access the microsd card, too, but all the folders.

The computer (wxp) does a popup with "MTP Media Player" giving me 2 options.

so, weirdly (IMHO):

• method 1 my_music folder == method 3 Music folder

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ok but the behavior is DIFFERENT when my microsd is NOT installed.

method 1: tools->USB Mass Storage : just says "card not inserted"

method 2: settings->USB Auto Detection->Modem mode (aka Data) works the same.

method 3: settings>USB auto detection>Media Sync Mode (aka Music) i get the same device in My Computer. with the same device name "LG VX8575" containing the same Data and Media/Music folders. Sounds the same, huh? BUT here's the confusing part: the music folder is the music ON THE PHONE not the card. The phone says "V CAST MOBILE PHONE / INTERNAL MEMORY" (at least that's clear, but i didnt even notice this small difference until i was in the middle of this post). My Computer says it has 909MB, which matches what it says in settings->memory->phone memory->memory usage for total memory.

The computer (wxp) does the same popup with "MTP Media Player" giving me the same 2 options.

[dude247]

Like most of you guys I've been trying to add a game that would work on my LG Chocolate Touch, and I finally did it.

Follow the instructions on connecting phone to PC with bitpim

Follow the instructions from bossdragon on this thread the post date is 1/20/2008. http://cellphoneforums.net/lg-voyage...ames-hack.html

The only game I've got to work properly is Tic Tac Toe from here

http://www.unic8.com/index.php?optio...%3Atic-tac-toe

It's not the best or funnest game, but it's a start, and I didn't have to buy it from Verizon, I'll post more links for games when I find them.

[mrpj1972]

anyone else have some tips for this phone?

[gillianreynolds]

Hi slim,

Very helpful and important information for me because i uses this iPod.

Thank you......!!