Who hear wants to help me put together a FAQ for the V710. I know it will require alot of work. Im willing to work on it because i love the phone so much and alot of answers are here and are just to hard to sift through because of all the threads. Who wants to help me?

I wish there was some way to change the forum title. This should be "Working on the FAQ."

In any case, I think it's an excellent idea. If anything, it can be the final result of this "temporary" discussion.

We need sections, of course. Mod10 gave us a great start:

* Transflash
* Bluetooth
* Speakerphone
* Display
* Accessories
* Camera

Accessories is a little vague and transflash is, conceivably, a sub-category.

Let's work on the primary categories and briefly what would be answered in them. Then people can start posting their own answers. For instance, we've already seen a great answer on creating video for the v710.

1. Where to buy? (e.g. keep it current with no future speculation)
2. Bluetooth and XP
3. Bluetooth and OSX
4. Bluetooth and PDAs
5. Bluetooth Accessories (headsets, and ???)
6. Speakerphone
7. Display
8. Cases
9. Cables
10. Chargers and Batteries
11. Car Kits (including bluetooth to cars like Acura TL)
12. Headsets (BT, speakerphone add-ons, etc)
13. Still Pictures -- quality, taking, wallpapers, etc.
14. Video -- converting to, getting from, messaging, etc.
15. MP3 -- internal memory, messaging, transflash uses, etc.
16. Detailed Stats (memory, chipset, etc.)
17. Keypad
18. Voice recognition
19. Contacts and Syncing
20. GIN - Gaming
21. GIN - Messaging
22. GIN - Media (pix, flix, tones)
23. GIN - Other
24. Physical Size Comparisons
25. PC Apps (e.g. phone tools, BitPim, etc.)
26. Known Issues
27. Firmware differences and "features"
28. ?

Anything else? Any volunteers to start filling out sections? If someone posts well writting FAQs for sections above, I can edit this post and add them in. This needs to be a living document.

In process of forming if you would like to add anything please post. Thanks

Please see my post in this thread:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...threadid=425950


And mods, it would be great if these could be merged.

and Sticky please

Here is the CTX file for using the MPT 2.x with the Futuredial cable:

I modified it, and put basic instructions in the comments in the file.

It works wonderful for syncing with Outlook for my calendar and contacts.

MM is disabled, and it is commented my Moto that this is by Verizon in the file. this makes me doubt we will get OBEX in the firmware upgrade.

J

Thanks

how about how to receive email? POP3 and IMAP?

Needs:

- transflash filesystem structure
- How the outside display is changed
- copying files to/from the transflash/phone/pixmessage
- cases
- how to remove the battery cover
- hidden menu steps

It also would be nice if someone could put together a template (in a .pdf perhaps) so one could cut out perfect fit screen protectors.

How to pair your Palm Tungsten T3 (or any other Bluetooth enabled Palm) to the V710 via Bluetooth to get a 1xRTT internet connection look HERE

How to pair your Bluetooth enabled Sony Clie to the V710 via Bluetooth to get a 1xRTT internet connection look HERE

Thanks Sam I added them.

***Transflash

**Where to Buy? You can currently purchase it at Amazon, buy.com, and Radio Shack. Usually buy.com or Amazon is the cheapest. A discussion is HERE


***Bluetooth

**Headsets:

*"Phone Doesn’t Ring When Headset is on" This is in design of the phone more info Here

*Discussion on what is the best Bluetooth headset HERE

**Data Connectivity:

*To Get Your IPAQ/Palm or Laptop Connected to your phone for internet look HERE

*How to pair your Palm Tungsten T3 (or any other Bluetooth enabled Palm) to the V710 via Bluetooth to get a 1xRTT internet connection look HERE

*How to pair your Bluetooth enabled Sony Clie to the V710 via Bluetooth to get a 1xRTT internet connection look HERE


***Speakerphone

**Currently you cannot use the speakerphone if you have the phone closed. Discussed HERE



***Display

**Getting Scratches on phone

*Display itself discussed HERE

*Outside the phone: I Pulled this from the Motorola forum which should be able to use for V710 HERE



***Accessories

**Phone tools:

*Phone Tools and Bluetooth: As of right now there is a problem with getting phone tools to see the phone with Bluetooth. According to a post it should be fixed in a later release. You can discuss it HERE


*Phone tools and Futuredial cable: Jef modified this in a zip file and has basic instructions in the file. Syncs Outlook for Calendar and contacts.

*Desktop Charger: Does it work? Discussed HERE


***Camera

**My pictures have lines going through them. Is the phone defective?” Right now when ever you take a picture inside it will look terrible. If you take them outside they look outstanding. Also make sure you change the default setting to the highest setting if you are looking on getting better pictures. Some discussions:

*HERE some examples.

***Other

**Phonebook:

*To change so you don’t see the persons name for each phone book entry look HERE


**Wallpaper:

*Good Place to look for wallpaper HERE

**Email/Instant Messaging

*”How do you get email access on your phone?” The only way right now is using the Get IT Now App called sodapop.

*How do you get MSN/AOL/YAHOO messenger on my phone” As of right now you can not. When Verizon launches the phone they should be added but not for sure. It is discussed HERE

**Bugs

*Discussion HERE

sorry if I mess up the thread, but great job fella's. This was a great idea.

how about one on how to copy files from the phone via transflash and what can/can't be stored on the transflash card (ringtones you download and supposedly your phone book).

And is there any discussion on using the phone with a Macintosh. A lot of us music and artwork peeps using Mac and have this phone.

really would love a step by step instruction on how to use the trasflash to the best of its ability...my tf card and stuff are in the mail, and really want to be able to know how to download mp3s etc....and how much more the tf card can do beyond that....thanks

There really isn't much from the Transflash point of view of things.

1. Open Package.
2. insert TF card into slot on top (Pins face the front of the phone)
3. Go to Media on phone, and select options
4. Switch Media Device from PHONE to TRI-MMC
5. You are now browsing the TF card and it's contents

For using it on the PC

1. Remove from Phone
2. Place in SD adapter
3. Go to Drive that is the SD adapter on your system and open the contents
4. You can create it just like any other drive for copying folders and data too.

The moto will create a file structure on the TF the first time, but it doesn't seem to be relevant.

On the root of my card I have a few directories called WALLPAPERS, PHOTOS, MP3, RINGTONES, MOVIES

I can copy MP3s, JPGs, 3G2 (movies) files back and forth between the phone and TF no matter what folder I had them in on the TF.

To record your video or photos from the camera to the TF, you have to change the "Storage device" option in the camera settings as well. Photos can placed in the root of the TF, while videos are in the motorola\video folder I believe.


That's about it.