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- 04-21-2007, 03:28 PM #1David ArnsteinGuest
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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- 04-21-2007, 04:13 PM #2SMSGuest
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.
- 04-21-2007, 07:21 PM #3LarryGuest
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
--
- 04-21-2007, 08:58 PM #4SMSGuest
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.
- 04-21-2007, 09:32 PM #5Steven J. SobolGuest
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.
- 04-22-2007, 06:23 AM #6GeorgeGuest
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.
- 04-22-2007, 11:14 AM #7LarryGuest
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
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- 04-22-2007, 12:20 PM #8SMSGuest
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.
- 04-22-2007, 12:34 PM #9John NavasGuest
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>
- 04-22-2007, 12:35 PM #10John NavasGuest
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>
- 04-22-2007, 03:06 PM #11Steven J. SobolGuest
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.
- 04-26-2007, 10:36 AM #12SMSGuest
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.
- 04-28-2007, 08:50 AM #13John NavasGuest
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>
- 05-10-2007, 06:35 AM #14Guest
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
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Good luck.
juiceman61
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