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  1. #1
    David Arnstein
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    I have a new V325i and Verizon service. Occasionally, I use the crappy
    little camera in the handset. But, I cannot get the pictures out of
    the handset!

    I have tried to email the picture out of the camera. I have tried two
    email addresses. In each case, the handset tells me that the email
    address is invalid.

    Actually, I would prefer not to use email, because Verizon charges a
    (small) fee for this.

    I installed Motorola Phone Tools 4.0 and updated it over the internet.
    I find that the multimedia function in the software is disabled. I
    suspect that Verizon has done something to the V325i handset to
    accomplish this.

    < Memo to potential customers: Phone Tools is a piece of ****. It
    repeatedly failed to update itself over the internet. I applied a
    registry fix I found on a user forum, and rebooted. It still failed.
    The solution was to keep trying, five times. Eventually, I got all the
    updates applied. I think. >

    I installed BitPim software, but it does not seem to support the V325i
    handset.

    I am out of ideas. Any suggestions? All I want to do is pull a stupid
    JPEG file out of the handset.
    --
    David Arnstein (00)
    [email protected] {{ }}
    ^^



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  2. #2
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    David Arnstein wrote:
    > I have a new V325i and Verizon service. Occasionally, I use the crappy
    > little camera in the handset. But, I cannot get the pictures out of
    > the handset!


    With a simple hack you can get all the functionality of the MPT software
    to work, including transferring photos and ringtones over USB.

    See "http://www.v710.org/mark/V710_SeemEdit.htm"

    It's the exact same procedure for the V325, with the same 041A SEEM code.

    However, you also must _manually_ configure Motorola Phone Tools to set
    the phone to a V323m rather than the automatically detected V325. This
    is what is often omitted from people's instructions.

    Once in Phone Tools, do the following:

    1. Press F6
    2. Click on the "Communication Tab"
    3. Click on "Change Modem"
    4. Click on "Next"
    5. Click on "Next"
    6. Check the box that says "Do not automatically detect the driver.
    Select from a list.
    7. Click on "Next"
    8. Click on "Motorola CDMA"
    9. Select "V323m"
    10. Click on "Next"
    11. Click on "Finish"

    If you do only the SEEM edit, then the Multimedia function still won't
    work. If you do only the Motorola Phone Tools change, the Multimedia
    function still won't work.

    All of the above instructions were tried on a V325, not a V325i, but I'm
    pretty confident that it doesn't matter which version you have.

    The camera is indeed crappy. I don't know what it is about Motorola.
    Some Nokia and Samsung phones have good cameras.



  3. #3
    Larry
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    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    [email protected] (David Arnstein) wrote in news:f0dvmc$mfh$1
    @panix2.panix.com:

    > I
    > suspect that Verizon has done something to the V325i handset to
    > accomplish this.
    >


    Not quite correct....It's ALL the Verizon handsets...disabled so you gotta
    pay for your own pictures from your own phone.

    Isn't that STUPID?!

    www.alltel.com......(c;
    No funny business

    Larry
    --



  4. #4
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    David Arnstein wrote:
    > Thank you Steve. I altered a single bit in the handset's memory.
    > Following your procedure, I can now transfer photos out of the handset,
    > using Phone Tools software.
    >
    > It was a fair amount of hacking. Now that I have spent the time to do
    > this, are there any other un-SEEM-ly hacks that I can do to this handset?
    >
    > Anyway, I appreciate the information that you provided. Thanks again.


    There was something I also changed to enable vibrate then ring, which
    isn't normally available. Why Verizon decided to disable this function
    is beyond me, unless they were trying to figure out a way to sell a
    special ringtone that vibrated then rang!

    See "http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=867473"

    Verizon should be severely beaten for disabling these features.



  5. #5
    Steven J. Sobol
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    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    In article <[email protected]>, David Arnstein wrote:

    > I will check them out. Is their coverage any good? Do they use some
    > other commpany's radio towers?
    > else's radio towers?


    They're one of the smaller majors. Even after their big purchase of
    Western Wireless, they still primarily serve rural and smaller metro
    areas.

    As I've pointed out before, Cleveland, Ohio (my hometown, 25th most
    populous city in the US) is probably the largest metro they serve.

    Keep in mind that smaller and rural markets have always been Alltel's
    bread and butter, both for wireless service and wireline (before they
    spun off their wireline operations).

    Having said that, if you can get Alltel where you live, they may
    definitely be worth a try.

    --
    Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
    Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

    It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.



  6. #6
    George
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    Drumstick wrote:
    > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
    > says...
    >> www.alltel.com......(c;
    >> No funny business
    >>
    >> Larry
    >>

    > Sorry, that's not my experience with Alltel...or Cingular. Verizon was
    > the lesser of all the other evils. That's why I only frequent this
    > cellular related newsgroup and have VZW service.
    >
    > Drum-


    Same here, used to be a Alltel customer and they had a very minimilist
    approach to spending money on infrastructure. The best thing that
    happened to this market is when they swapped my market with Verizon to
    get another market.



  7. #7
    Larry
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    George <[email protected]> wrote in news:3O-
    [email protected]:

    > Same here, used to be a Alltel customer and they had a very minimilist
    > approach to spending money on infrastructure. The best thing that
    > happened to this market is when they swapped my market with Verizon to
    > get another market.
    >
    >


    Which markets are these? Across South Carolina, Alltel has the best
    service because it bought Bell Atlantic's system, which covered all
    markets in SC. North of Charleston, in Georgetown to the NC state line
    including Myrtle Beach, a very important vacation market in SC, Alltel
    has 800 Mhz CDMA/AMPS everywhere. Verizon's A system stops to a little
    PCS carrier they bought because their predecessors didn't buy the market
    in Georgetown and Horry Counties before someone else did. PCS, of
    course, sucks 3 miles from a tower. When I was an AMPS Verizon customer,
    I used to force the phone to Alltel north of here to get great service.
    Alltel had lots more towers than the mom and pop phone company on A in
    those days.



    Larry
    --



  8. #8
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    David Arnstein wrote:

    > I will check them out. Is their coverage any good? Do they use some
    > other commpany's radio towers?
    > else's radio towers?


    There is no Alltel service in the San Francisco Bay Area, or California
    for that matter. Verizon is the top carrier in terms of coverage and
    quality by quite a big margin according to every independent survey.



  9. #9
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:20:01 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >David Arnstein wrote:
    >
    >> I will check them out. Is their coverage any good? Do they use some
    >> other commpany's radio towers?
    >> else's radio towers?

    >
    >There is no Alltel service in the San Francisco Bay Area, or California
    >for that matter. Verizon is the top carrier in terms of coverage and
    >quality by quite a big margin according to every independent survey.


    AT&T/Cingular probably has the best nationwide coverage, not that it
    really matters, since what actually matters is coverage in areas a given
    person cares about most, and since no one carrier has the best coverage
    in all areas.

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



  10. #10
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:21:23 +0000, Larry <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >[email protected] (David Arnstein) wrote in news:f0dvmc$mfh$1
    >@panix2.panix.com:
    >
    >> I
    >> suspect that Verizon has done something to the V325i handset to
    >> accomplish this.

    >
    >Not quite correct....It's ALL the Verizon handsets...disabled so you gotta
    >pay for your own pictures from your own phone.


    In fact there are often other ways to transfer without paying.

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



  11. #11
    Steven J. Sobol
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    In article <[email protected]>, Larry wrote:

    > Which markets are these? Across South Carolina, Alltel has the best
    > service because it bought Bell Atlantic's system, which covered all
    > markets in SC.


    I don't doubt they're solid in SC. They bought the old GTE Cleveland
    network as a result of the initial Verizon mergers, and they're good
    there too. But then there are places like their own corporate home --
    Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2003 we came out I-40 through Little Rock,
    instead of doing Chicago-Denver-Utah on I-70 and I-80 (the quicker
    route to Victorville from Cleveland), because we visited family on the
    army base in Kentucky. Coverage on I-40 in Arkansas sucked ass.

    We were roaming analog.

    Now, you can say "of course you were, Verizon wants to discourage
    people from roaming," but I don't even think Verizon *has* native
    coverage in Arkansas. What's the benefit to *intentionally* crippling
    digital roaming there?

    In fairness, I'm not sure whether it was Alltel or Verizon that was to
    blame in this case. I just can't see Verizon intentionally not
    allowing digital roaming on Alltel in an area along a major Interstate
    where they don't have native coverage.

    --
    Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
    Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

    It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.



  12. #12
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    Steven J. Sobol wrote:

    > In fairness, I'm not sure whether it was Alltel or Verizon that was to
    > blame in this case. I just can't see Verizon intentionally not
    > allowing digital roaming on Alltel in an area along a major Interstate
    > where they don't have native coverage.


    Do they allowed paid roaming on the old AC1 plan in that area?

    Verizon used to claim that AC2 coverage included virtually every digital
    system in areas where Verizon didn't operate their own digital system.
    There were very, very few areas where they didn't allow off-network
    roaming if they didn't have native coverage, and these were not major
    carriers like Alltel that didn't have roaming agreements.

    I don't have any AC2 phones, but I've found no problem with roaming onto
    non-Verizon CDMA and/or AMPS carriers in California and Florida. Also,
    even though the "Extended Roaming" indicator often indicates off-network
    roaming, I've never been charged roaming in the U.S. (though I was
    charged in Canada of course). Even roaming on Cingular's AMPS system I
    wasn't charged. It was amusing to be roaming onto Cingular AMPS, out in
    the Florida Everglades, with a Verizon phone, in an area where
    Cingular's GSM customers had no coverage at all! However I guess that in
    2008, this anomaly goes away if Cingular shuts down AMPS even in areas
    with no GSM.

    I've been fairly pleased with Verizon's roaming capability. I go up to
    the North Coast of California quite a bit, and without a tri-mode phone
    there would be long stretches of 101 along the coast with no coverage at
    all. I carry a GSM phone on Cingular, and the coverage is far less broad
    outside the urban areas. I don't want AC2 out of fear of losing a lot of
    roaming (besides losing my 8:01 p.m. off-peak which I use a lot). Also,
    the roads up to Yosemite where I go a lot have only CDMA and AMPS
    coverage for much of the way, due to Golden State Cellular which is
    CDMA. On California Highway 88, which goes by Kirkwood, and is my
    favorite route to the Tahoe area, there is a long stretch between
    Kirkwood and South Shore that has only AMPS roaming, but I've never been
    charged for it.



  13. #13
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:36:08 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >I've been fairly pleased with Verizon's roaming capability. I go up to
    >the North Coast of California quite a bit, and without a tri-mode phone
    >there would be long stretches of 101 along the coast with no coverage at
    >all. I carry a GSM phone on Cingular, and the coverage is far less broad
    >outside the urban areas. ...


    Then you should get a better phone, because the GSM coverage is actually
    quite good.

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



  14. #14

    Re: Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

    On Apr 21, 5:28 pm, [email protected] (David Arnstein) wrote:
    > I have a new V325i and Verizon service. Occasionally, I use the crappy
    > little camera in the handset. But, I cannot get the pictures out of
    > the handset!
    >
    > I have tried to email the picture out of the camera. I have tried two
    > email addresses. In each case, the handset tells me that the email
    > address is invalid.
    >
    > Actually, I would prefer not to use email, because Verizon charges a
    > (small) fee for this.
    >
    > I installed Motorola Phone Tools 4.0 and updated it over the internet.
    > I find that the multimedia function in the software is disabled. I
    > suspect that Verizon has done something to the V325i handset to
    > accomplish this.
    >
    > < Memo to potential customers: Phone Tools is a piece of ****. It
    > repeatedly failed to update itself over the internet. I applied a
    > registry fix I found on a user forum, and rebooted. It still failed.
    > The solution was to keep trying, five times. Eventually, I got all the
    > updates applied. I think. >
    >
    > I installed BitPim software, but it does not seem to support the V325i
    > handset.
    >
    > I am out of ideas. Any suggestions? All I want to do is pull a stupid
    > JPEG file out of the handset.
    > --
    > David Arnstein (00)
    > [email protected] {{ }}
    > ^^


    Hey David...

    I downloaded Datapilots pix n tunes and was able to d/l all my pic
    from the phone into my pc with no trouble at all. Works great and is
    only $19.95
    Good luck.
    juiceman61




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