Re: Sony w580i question

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:29:39 -0500, "Sharkman@comcast.net"
<sharkman@comcast.net> wrote:

>Not sure anyone can help here, but I'll ask anyhow.
>
>I just got a new W580i and it came with the usb cable. I downloaded a couple
>of ringtones to my pc and connected the cable to the pc and phone. I
>selected "File Transfer" on the phone and the pc did it"s "Found New
>Device" crap without any problems. In Windows Explorer, the phone shows up
>as Removable Disk E.
>The instruction manual says that I can drag and drop into it but when I try,
>I get a "please insert a disk into drive E" message.
> Can anyone help/
>
>thanks
>sharkman


Run the software that came on the CD that comes with your
Sony-Ericsson phone.

no software with the phone and the stuff on the sony ericsson site doesnt
change the system recognizing the phone as a removable disk drive.. thanks
anyhow.

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"Ron" <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:29:39 -0500, "Sharkman@comcast.net"
> <sharkman@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>Not sure anyone can help here, but I'll ask anyhow.
>>
>>I just got a new W580i and it came with the usb cable. I downloaded a
>>couple
>>of ringtones to my pc and connected the cable to the pc and phone. I
>>selected "File Transfer" on the phone and the pc did it"s "Found New
>>Device" crap without any problems. In Windows Explorer, the phone shows up
>>as Removable Disk E.
>>The instruction manual says that I can drag and drop into it but when I
>>try,
>>I get a "please insert a disk into drive E" message.
>> Can anyone help/
>>
>>thanks
>>sharkman
>
>
> Run the software that came on the CD that comes with your
> Sony-Ericsson phone.

I found out that if you want to transfer files, you don't choose "File
Transfer" mode on the phone, but "Phone Mode".
Go figure.
Their software developers must have been smoking something when they
wrote that interface.

If you run the software from their website, I noticed it does not use
the disk drive as the shared location, rather some shared folder under
Windows.

If you want to transfer the jpeg files taken from the phone to a PC,
you don't use "File Transfer" mode, use "Phone" mode.