Motorola Phone Tools

Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.

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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:48:49 -0500, [email protected] wrote in
<[email protected]>:

>Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.

It's *not* free software. It is cheaply available from shopoem.com

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In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
<[email protected]> writes
>>Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.
>
>It's *not* free software. It is cheaply available from shopoem.com

And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p for it,
and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone supports it,
passing files back and forth is a doddle.

Mike

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Michael Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
> And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p for it,
> and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone supports it,
> passing files back and forth is a doddle.

If you don't have Bluetooth?
Or if you want to synchronize your contact/address book?

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> Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:50 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>Michael Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
>> And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p for it,
>> and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone supports it,
>> passing files back and forth is a doddle.
>
>If you don't have Bluetooth?

Easily fixed with a cheap USB dongle.

>Or if you want to synchronize your contact/address book?

Never bothered with that

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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:52:26 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Soruk) wrote in <[email protected]>:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:50 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Michael Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p for it,
>>> and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone supports it,
>>> passing files back and forth is a doddle.
>>
>>If you don't have Bluetooth?
>
>Easily fixed with a cheap USB dongle.
>
>>Or if you want to synchronize your contact/address book?
>
>Never bothered with that

It's a good idea, to protect against loss or damage to the phone, if
nothing else. It's also much easier to enter and maintain contacts on a
computer than on the phone.

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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

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Soruk wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:50 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Michael Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p for it,
>>> and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone supports it,
>>> passing files back and forth is a doddle.
>> If you don't have Bluetooth?
>
> Easily fixed with a cheap USB dongle.
>
>> Or if you want to synchronize your contact/address book?
>
> Never bothered with that
>
Are there any decent alternatives to MPT?

Bill
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In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
<[email protected]> writes
>It's a good idea, to protect against loss or damage to the phone, if
>nothing else. It's also much easier to enter and maintain contacts on a
>computer than on the phone.

Fair point, but as mine is a PAYG more or less emergency phone I refuse
to pay for the dubious advantages of the tools package, fair enough if
it's your main phone, I can see how it could be worth the money.

Mike

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Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

Data Pilot is pretty good.

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> Soruk wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 17:39:50 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Michael Swift <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> And to be fair it's not worth the money, unless they charge 10p
>>>> for it, and that's debatable, get a Bluetooth dongle if your phone
>>>> supports it, passing files back and forth is a doddle.
>>> If you don't have Bluetooth?
>>
>> Easily fixed with a cheap USB dongle.
>>
>>> Or if you want to synchronize your contact/address book?
>>
>> Never bothered with that
>>
> Are there any decent alternatives to MPT?
>
> Bill
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In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It's a good idea, to protect against loss or damage to the phone, if
> nothing else. It's also much easier to enter and maintain contacts on a
> computer than on the phone.

Of course, if you have a crappy CDMA phone, you can't even save
information to your SIM card because you don't have one.

Michael Swift wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, John Navas
> <[email protected]> writes
>> It's a good idea, to protect against loss or damage to the phone, if
>> nothing else. It's also much easier to enter and maintain contacts on a
>> computer than on the phone.
>
> Fair point, but as mine is a PAYG more or less emergency phone I refuse
> to pay for the dubious advantages of the tools package, fair enough if
> it's your main phone, I can see how it could be worth the money.

Whatever, but it's not like you're paying a fortune for it. It's more or
less free from the companies that sell the cables.

I.e.
"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EYTBOS/102-0098965-3475349?ie=UTF8"
it comes to less than $12 including shipping, and including cables for
both older and newer Motorola phones.

Whether it's a prepaid or a postpaid phone, it makes it a lot easier to
maintain contacts on a computer than on the phone. And of course if your
phone is lost or damaged, it saves a lot more than $12 worth of time.

Even on GSM phones, it's usually better to store contacts in the phone's
memory than in the SIM card memory, as the phone has much more memory,
and because if you travel and buy prepaid SIM cards, you'll want to have
access to your phone book. I thought I was being clever by storing
contacts to the SIM card, until I went to Taiwan and bought a prepaid
SIM to use for a week. All my contacts were on the Cingular SIM, which
was a pain in the butt. I should have stored numbers on both the SIM and
the phone.

While I rarely use the camera on the phone, on the few occasions that
I've used it, it's free to use MPT to transfer photos, versus paying the
carrier some ridiculous per-photo fee.

What I don't like about MPT is that it's a very flaky program in terms
of connecting and transferring. It has a mind of its own as to when its
going to actually work.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:54:53 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
wrote in <[email protected]>:

>What I don't like about MPT is that it's a very flaky program in terms
>of connecting and transferring. It has a mind of its own as to when its
>going to actually work.

While there are known problems in version 4, version 3 works quite well.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

[email protected] wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.

No, but when you find motorola phone tools 4.0 for free please email
me! I have a new RAZR V3, I have the cable but no software. And my
computer will not recognize the driver.
thanks
[email protected]

[email protected] wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I can download phone tools 4.0 for free.
>
> No, but when you find motorola phone tools 4.0 for free please email
> me! I have a new RAZR V3, I have the cable but no software. And my
> computer will not recognize the driver.
> thanks
> [email protected]


I have used Motorola (mobile) Phone Tools for some 3 years now.
Initially starting with version 2, windows 98 and a serial connection,
then to version 3, 98SE and a USB and finally now with version 4 XPsp 2
and a bluetooth connection. I strongly recommend the BT connection as
all to often the multi pin connection on the phone go's faulty with
serial and Usb connections. Motorola has a forum page that I subscribe
to, google BVRP Software. You can find a driver package there. I am
almost sure that I have seen version 3 available for download on
LIMEWIRE. Something you should know is that the older version do not
support the newer phones. And that some versions are not upgradable or
have all functionability. The RAZR in particular appears to be one of
the most problematic phones based on my reading on the forum pages and
I am almost sure requires ver. 4. Your best bet is to come up with the
money and buy the full version and plan on spending some time on the
forums page trouble shooting it. LOTS LUCK