*V195 transfering contacts.

Hello there:



I'm getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth connectivity.

I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my computer

my contacts from Outolook to my phone?



Thank you in advance for your help.



Kathy

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Kathy wrote:
> Hello there:
>
>
>
> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth
> connectivity.
>
> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my
> computer
>
> my contacts from Outolook to my phone?
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
>
> Kathy
>

The solution will involve both hardware and software. The hardware is
either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached to your computer
that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost unknown).

The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or something
similar but have not actually tried it.

If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably crippled in
order to force you to do such things using their network; naturally at
great expense!

On Wed, 07 May 2008 11:15:05 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert
<[email protected]> wrote:

> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The hardware is
> either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached to your computer
> that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost unknown).

You can get Bluetooth USB dongles for under $10. They're really worth it.

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"Kathy" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hello there:



I'm getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth connectivity.

I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my computer

my contacts from Outolook to my phone?



Thank you in advance for your help.



Kathy

"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kathy wrote:
>> Hello there:
>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>
>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>
> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
> unknown).

Both are available on Ebay.

> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
> something similar but have not actually tried it.

BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring your
phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and the
USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.

> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
> network; naturally at great expense!

Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised and
waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to work.

If your phone is a Verizon phone, and you say it isn't but of course
Richard had to spout off his idiocy w/o reading your post, it will do
exactly as you want using MPT.

Check out the T-Mobile section on Howard Forums, there's probably
information there that will be useful to you.

http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52






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XS11E wrote:
> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kathy wrote:
>>> Hello there:
>>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>>
>>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
>> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
>> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
>> unknown).
>
> Both are available on Ebay.
>
>> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
>> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
>> something similar but have not actually tried it.
>
> BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring your
> phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
> Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
> file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
> do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and the
> USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.
>
>> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
>> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
>> network; naturally at great expense!
>
> Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
> too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised and
> waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to work.
>

And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones with
less functionality than apparently identical phones from other providers?

I've been a VZW customer since it was "Bell Atlantic Mobile" and the
RAZR V3m I bought in December is my third cell phone but the first that
appears to have been "crippled"!

"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:

> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from
> other providers?

Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...edPhoneId=2365

It doesn't have less functionality, it has different functionality.
If you'd look at other providers you'd see they *all* offer different
functionality, very few Razrs are identical, it varies from carrier
to carrier.



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Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> XS11E wrote:
>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Kathy wrote:
>>>> Hello there:
>>>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>>>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>>>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>>> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
>>> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
>>> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
>>> unknown).
>>
>> Both are available on Ebay.
>>
>>> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
>>> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
>>> something similar but have not actually tried it.
>>
>> BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring
>> your phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
>> Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
>> file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
>> do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and
>> the USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.
>>
>>> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
>>> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
>>> network; naturally at great expense!
>>
>> Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
>> too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised
>> and waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to
>> work.
>
> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from other
> providers?
> I've been a VZW customer since it was "Bell Atlantic Mobile" and the
> RAZR V3m I bought in December is my third cell phone but the first
> that appears to have been "crippled"!

The point is that the OP said she's on T-Mo so why discuss VZW?

XS11E wrote:
> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
>> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from
>> other providers?
>
> Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:
>
> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...edPhoneId=2365
>
> It doesn't have less functionality, it has different functionality.
> If you'd look at other providers you'd see they *all* offer different
> functionality, very few Razrs are identical, it varies from carrier
> to carrier.

I think you have to agree that "different" in this case also means "more
limited" than other carriers (TMo allows the full functionality of BT as
do ATT and, IIRC, Sprint. Yes, it can be changed to restore full
functionality but it is still nonetheless, "crippled" when compared to
others. If you prefer "functionally challenged" as a more PC description
that's still accurate.

"BruceR" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> XS11E wrote:
>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells
>>> phones with less functionality than apparently identical phones
>>> from other providers?
>>
>> Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:
>>
>> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...item=phoneFirs
>> t&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2365
>>
>> It doesn't have less functionality, it has different
>> functionality. If you'd look at other providers you'd see they
>> *all* offer different functionality, very few Razrs are
>> identical, it varies from carrier to carrier.
>
> I think you have to agree that "different" in this case also means
> "more limited" than other carriers (TMo allows the full
> functionality of BT as do ATT and, IIRC, Sprint.

No, I wouldn't agree. Verizon phones do everything the others do but
sometimes through different means.

I'll stick with "different" as the correct term unless you'd agree
"more limited" also applies to phones that can't get Vcast, GIN, etc.
etc....


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XS11E wrote:
> "BruceR" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> XS11E wrote:
>>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells
>>>> phones with less functionality than apparently identical phones
>>>> from other providers?
>>>
>>> Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:
>>>
>>> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...item=phoneFirs
>>> t&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2365
>>>
>>> It doesn't have less functionality, it has different
>>> functionality. If you'd look at other providers you'd see they
>>> *all* offer different functionality, very few Razrs are
>>> identical, it varies from carrier to carrier.
>>
>> I think you have to agree that "different" in this case also means
>> "more limited" than other carriers (TMo allows the full
>> functionality of BT as do ATT and, IIRC, Sprint.
>
> No, I wouldn't agree. Verizon phones do everything the others do but
> sometimes through different means.
>
> I'll stick with "different" as the correct term unless you'd agree
> "more limited" also applies to phones that can't get Vcast, GIN, etc.
> etc....

I would agree with you that VZW offers some features that may be unique
to them - I certainly don't have those things with TMo so perhaps TMo is
a "more limited" service than VZW. In turn, VZW, offers a "more limited"
version of the Bluetooth feature set on their phones. The difference
between the two, to me at least, is that TMo simply doesn't have Vcast &
GIN to offer yet. VZW does have the razr and could order it with BT
fully implemented out of the box but chooses not to to drive revenue
from other options. So whether you want to call the the VZW razr
"crippled" or "more limited" or just "different" is purly semantics. The
fact of the matter is that VZW has turned off some of the phone's
functionality.

[email protected] (SMS) wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Kathy wrote:
>> Hello there:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth
>> connectivity.
>>
>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>> from my computer
>
> I've done this with the prepaid V195 from T-Mobile.
>
> If your computer has Bluetooth capability, then just buy Motorola
> Phone Tools. ...

You don't have to use Bluetooth with MPT and the V195; just use MPT
with the USB cable.

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Kathy wrote:
> Hello there:
>
>
>
> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth
> connectivity.
>
> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my
> computer

I've done this with the prepaid V195 from T-Mobile.

If your computer has Bluetooth capability, then just buy Motorola Phone
Tools. It's an extremely flakey program, but you can usually get it to
work. Some resellers bundle it with a USB cable.

If your computer has no Bluetooth, you can either buy a USB Bluetooth
dongle, or buy a USB to mini-USB cable (you may already have one from
another device such as a digital camera that uses mini-USB).

See "http://www.sfplanet.com/product/SKN6371CD?meta=FRG" for one of many
resellers that sell Phone Tools inexpensively. You shouldn't be paying
more than $8 for the CD and cable, or $5 for the CD alone.

"http://www.a1accessories.com/B000JDY0U4/M/B000JDY0U4.htm" sells the CD
for $0.14! Shipping is another $4 or so. They're an Amazon reseller, so
they are probably pretty safe, and checkout is through Amazon.

Don't be too concerned about all the negative reviews of Motorola Phone
Tools you'll see at the sites that have customer reviews. It does work
satisfactorily for transferring contacts. I don't know if it's the
Motorola phones, or the software itself that makes this program so flakey.

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably crippled in
> order to force you to do such things using their network; naturally at
> great expense!

Verizon doesn't cripple the contact transfer functionality of Motorola
Phone Tools. What they cripple is the ability to transfer pictures and
ringtones. You can edit the firmware on the Verizon Motorola phones to
regain the full functionality of Motorola Phone Tools. I've done this on
many Verizon Motorola phones.

However since this poster is using a T-Mobile phone, she won't run into
the Verizon problem.

Bert Hyman wrote:

> You don't have to use Bluetooth with MPT and the V195; just use MPT
> with the USB cable.

You should read the complete post before replying.