Getting pictures out of a Verizon Motorola V325i handset

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.
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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.

arnstein@panix.com (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
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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.

In article <f0eg51$am2$1@reader2.panix.com>, 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.

--
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Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

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

Drumstick wrote:
> In article <Xns9919D99678855noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, noone@home.com
> 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.

George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:3O-
dnRFm7Ob3zrbbnZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@comcast.com:

> 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
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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.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:20:01 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <462ba756$0$27251$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>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.

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

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:21:23 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
<Xns9919D99678855noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>:

>arnstein@panix.com (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>