just bought it, id imagine its very similar to the 8500.

if its not, lets make it happen.



i need animated gifs, mp3 ringtones, wallpapers.

ok, so gifs and wallpapers were as easy as the 8100. just transfer from the mem card.


but how about mp3 ringers?!

MP3 Ringers off the memory card ARE possible. I was speaking with tech support at Telus (An English Accent'd Woman), trynig to resolve issues with Mobile TV. When that was resolved, I asked about MP3 Ringers off the memory card (rather then using a USB Cable). She was telling me the first few steps when my Skype Phone acccidentally got unplugged and I lost my connection with the woman.

I called back and another woman answered but refused to tell me how to do custom ring tones on the phone, she said Telus does not support that. BUT I KNOW it's possible without a transfer cable because the other woman was telling me how to do it!!! ARGH!!!

Ask for a name? Or ask to be transferred to that particular associate since she was dealing with an issue with you.

Do IT!!!!!! For all of us!!!!!!

I havent figured out ringtones from the memory card but i have got all kinds of mp3 ringtones on my 8600

Please do tell as to how this was done?

Are you on telus? I noticed your located in the states

although i dont have this phone myself, i think sgtdawg used the lg8500 method.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1037702

as for the ringtones on memory card, theres a chance it could be the same as the lg8100, if not, im sure the 8600 has plenty of internal memory.

I tried to use same way, and it generates exception during sending data to phone.

The files are in the folder, but phone doesn't recognize it.
It may require same step with

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=688705

Especially these steps below

7. go to \dload\
8. right click "my_ringtone.dat", select delete.
9. right click "my_ringtonesize.dat", select delete.

Can someone try it?

I used the 8500 method to load the mp3 ringtone on the 8600, but when i tried to assign it as ringtone, it gave me the DRM error. how did you by pass it?

uh oh

i seriously hope custom mp3 ringers can be set...

Okay so, i got bluetooth working and was able to access the filesystem using BitPim. I can load the MP3 onto the phone no problem but I ran into some snags.

1) The DRM error when i try to assign the ringtone, i tried tree different ways and ended up with the same message.

a) Menu > Music & Media > Ringtone
b) Menu > Settings > Sound > Blah, Blah, Blah ... Caller ID > Downloaded
c) Tried custom Ringer for contacts

No matter what, i always got the same DRM error

2) I could only load one mp3 file at a time, anymore than that and the phone would not recognize any other file but the first one i loaded. Just thought that was weird.

Overall though, it was still a million times easier to access the filesystem than my samsung or v265 ever was. If anyone is having trouble getting the bluetooth to work just let me know and i will post instructions.

i have been unsuccessesful with the bluetooth method but cable that i bought off ebay works just fine

damn. you know its bad when its that hard to get mp3 ring tones uploaded

Found out that under dload folder,

oma_ringtonesize.dat
oma_ringtone.dat

Files contain ringtone information. It is DIFFERENT from Verizon!! I deleted those two files, reboot my phone (DO NOT SEND PHONE DATA using bitpim. just copy is good enough), and it finally worked!
But have to follow same step everytime I want to add more custom ringtones

Lg 245 had the same drm protection file thing. and thanks to some nice hofo members there is a way around it. I'm almost 100% this will work on this phone too....here is the post and the link.

http://howardforums.com/showthread....0&highlight=245

Hi all,
I've appreciated the past posts on file transfer by truthlesshero, et al. So, I thought I'd add what I've found: basically a summary for image and mp3/ringtone file transfer.

To start, I'm connecting to my LG 245 (Telus) via a bluetooth connection. [I believe there may be USB connectors, and the principle ought to be the same.] From your PC, pair with the phone and connect the bluetooth Serial Port. It should connect on a COM port (ie - COM5 for me). Using BitPim (http://www.bitpim.org/), setup the BitPim Settings to use your corresponding bluetooth/serial COM port. For 'Phone Type', it seems to work with LG-VX8100, 8300, and also "Other CDMA phone". Once configured select the Filesystem icon on the left menu (NB: none of the other functions will work, such as "Get/Send Phone Data"). From the Filesystem menu, you should see your root (/) and various directories: OWS, VoiceDB, ..., brew, etc. At this point you can send files to and from your phone, so we're off to the races.

Images: Ok, so I can't figure out a graceful way to do these... The issue is that the phone's filesystem will not recognize your image files that you transfer via BitPim because it needs to update an index file that tells it how many images it actually has. So the options are: 1) download /dload/image.dat and modify the HEX file. (2) [the easier way] is to take photos (with the phone's camera), rename them and then copy your image file to brew/16452/mp/ using that existing name (ie - overwriting the file). This seems to be the easiest way.

MP3s: For the same filesystem/indexing issue as with the images, you will have to do some HEX/dat file editing. Download a freeware HEX editor online (google it- there are many). So the first thing to do is to copy your MP3 file over to /brew/16452/mds/ (I'm guessing mds stands for MyDownloadedSounds). I suggest cropping the file as you don't need anything too long for a ringtone (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ works nicely for editing mp3s). Anyway, once the file has uploaded to the phone, go to /dload/aod.dat. Delete this file (I suggest backing it up first, just to be on the safe side). Restart your phone (turn off, then on again). The phone will re-generate this dat file and you will now see the MP3 that you uploaded in the list. Unfortunately, it will not be recognized as a ringtone as it's not Telus's DRM-MP3 (ie - Telus's squeezing-blood-from-a-stone method of collecting their fees). Next...the HEX editing:

Download aod.dat to your PC via BitPim and view it in a HEX editor:
In the file, I see multiple entries - one per audio file. So from byte address 0x00 to 0x93 [#147 in decimal] (that's 0 to 93 in hexadecimal = base 16) is a single entry. Viewing the ASCII representation, starting at 0x00, I see four characters (xx 03 06 04 in HEX) followed by "brew/16452/mds/filename.mp3". Nearer the end of the 0x93 character block, there are two other words of 4 and three bytes.
For those who care, the first byte/character is a running count, the groups of four and three at the end of the entry block are related to the file's properties (file size, etc).
So the important part: change the byte at address 0x03 from 04 to 00. Then change the byte at address 0x84 (#132) from 00 to 01.
Send this updated aod.dat file back to your phone. The first file should be unlocked for use as a ringtone.
This pattern works for all of the files on my phone. So you can upload more MP3s and edit each 148-character block in the same two positions.
NB: your phone is only set to take "downloads" up to 5MB, so if you exceed that limit, the aod.dat file will not be regenerated for all of the files. In this case you can enter the 148-byte entries manually.
If the pattern doesn't work for you, I suggest downloading a free Ringtone from Telus (tocatta, Bach - under 'Free Trial' if you log into the mytelusmobility site. NB: charges may apply for accessing the web via your phone ~5 cents per page). I recommend downloading that free ringtone, viewing your aod.dat file and looking at how it differs. You can then apply those changes to unlock your other MP3s.

Alright, that's what I've found so far. Hopefully, we'll be able to figure out the Java games/apps for this phone too!