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Is there anyone out there that has had success with the USB cable for their Chocolate phone? I've had no success, and have seen in the forums here that others have also had no success. But is there anyone out there that has been successful? How did you do it? Did you have to "Mcgyver" it to get it to work?
Sorry that I was so vague. The USB cable works with BitPim. I can download and upload to/from phone using vx-8300 on com7. What's weird though is that when I connect the phone and pc, I hear the device connecting sound in windows. I see the phone in the device manager. But when i try to syn with WMP, the phone says connection failed. The pc briefly sees the phone and goes thru the motions of adding a new portable device, but then the phone disappears. Crazy. Bad drivers? Anyone else having this problem?
Mine works just fine. I had no problems at all... I just installed the VZW drivers and upgraded to the latest version of Bitpim then set it up as the 8300. Everything works well.
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yeah, i have the same problem however WMP10 doesn't even see the device as a "sync-able" device...as if it doesn't even exist! crazy microsoft.....i gave up and just resorted to using my microSD and bitpim to do any transferring of any kind....
i would like to know how others are getting their WMP10 to cooperate with the phone too.
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"out of the box" BitPim and WMP10 sync work fine for me...
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I'll bet that you aren't going to the Music menu and selecting "Sync Music" before trying to sync with Windows Media Player. If you don't do that ( I know, it's dumb, but you have to do it), your phone will never show up as a syncable device.
I am selecting Sync Music from the menu on the phone before clicking sync in WMP. When you connect the phone to your pc, does windows automatically detect a portable device, or an external hard drive, or something along those lines? All i can tell is that it detetcs a modem.
Phone(s):
1: Personal - Too Many.. see link in my signature
2:
3: Work - T-Mo 8320, 8800, BB Pearl, Backups: Blackberry 8700, 8800, 7290, 7230
Provider(s):
Personal - Verizon Wireless (CDMA) | Work - T-Mobile (GSM)
Joined: Dec 2002
From: Wilmington, DE
Posts: 14,050
Here is what I did, step by step... on two different PC's it worked exactly each time... Both Running Windows XP Pro w/SP2 and all hotfixes and patches from windowsupdate.com... Windows Media Player reports its version 10.00.00.4036.... Phone is LG Vx-8500 (Chocolate) with S/W version T85VZV02.. with the Verizon Media Essentials kit and its included cable.
1. Put the Verizon CD from the Music Essentials kit in my PC's cd-rom drive... The START.EXE program autoruns from the CD, and gives me the menu of 3 choices...
2. I click on "Step 1 - Install LG USB Drivers"... it installs and I get a dialog box saying its now OK to plug the phone in.. So I click OK to close that window.
3. Exit out of that Step 1, 2, 3 menu.
4. Plug the USB Cable into the PC and phone. The Add new hardware wizard finds the phone, and installs the drivers automatically.. I end up with TWO entries in Device Manager... Under Modems I see LGE CDMA USB Modem... and under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, I see LGE CDMA COMPOSITE USB DEVICE
5. On the phone, use the Menu for Get It Now, then Get Tunes & Tones, My Music, Sync Music... Windows finds new hardware, MTP device.. and installs the drivers, again, automatically, I'm not prompted other than the little ballons from the system tray... When completed, the phone no longer shows under Modems or USB Controllers... instead I have a new category in Device manager called Windows Portable Devices... under which I see LG CDMA USB.
6. I am presented with the "auto start" type pop-up (not sure its technical name... that says... "MTP player" in the title bar, and states "Windows can perform the same action each time you connect this device... What do you want Windows to do?" with choices of Synchronise media files to this device using Windows Medial Player... or... Take no action... plus a check box for "always perform the selected action.... I highlight Sync with WMP, and click OK.
7. WMP launches and I am brought to the SYNC TAB...
7a. the first time I do this, I get a dialog box about the Vcast Mobile Phone device setup... which allows me to choose automatic or manual selections.. I selected MANUAL, and clicked finish... (Can be changed later using the Set up Sync button in WMP's sync window)...
8. From inside WMP, use the TOOLS -> OPTIONS -> Devices tab... you should see V Cast Mobile Phone - Phone Internal Memory... if you have Transflash card in the phone, you'll also see V Cast Mobile Phone - Removable Storage Card. You can click on either, then use the Properties button to configure sync settings.
9. Add songs to the Sync List on the left Pane of WMP... and on the right pane, make sure the correct choice for your phone is selected from the drop down!!
10. click Start Sync and let it do its thing!!
11. Exit Windows Media Player.
12. Press the END key on the side of the phone. The phone switches and again shows as under Modems and under USB Devices like it originally did.
NOTE: for Step 6, if you don't see the auto start box... its ok to just manually launch WMP. OR you many manually launch WMP before you do the items in step 5.
mine works fine. the only thing is i have to keep syncing after i do a song and then realize i want to add another. other than that no problems. i was just able to get my phonebook downloaded from the vx9800 to the chocolate. i'm glad too my fingers would be fried by now trying to put all that info into the chocolate
alcohol, check your version of WMP. you might have WMP 11. i do and i cant get it to work. and i havent found any way of downgrading. if anyone figures this out please post.
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the easiest way to downgrade from WMP11 to WMP10 is to pop in the MEK CD and select the option to install WMP10...at least that's what i've been led to believe.
To downgrade wmp11 to 10, go to add/remove programs and make sure you select the "show updates" checkbox at the top of the window. Scroll down to the bottom and under windows xp updates you will see where you can remove wmp11.
Is there any way to install WMP 10 in Windows 2000? When I tried to do so off of the Microsoft site, it wouldn't install. Might it install from the MEK CD??
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