Cell phones forum: LG VX8300 issue with microSD transfer?

Just to follow-up, a VZW rep told me I will need to convert the MP3 music to WMA in order for the transfer to work and the files to play. Does this make sense to anyone else? How come other people are seemingly able to pop in their microSD, transfer their MP3's and have them work. I enabled the function in the hidden menu. Thoughts?

I have found that converting an MP3 to WMA and simply dropping it into the appropriate folder on my microSD seems to work for me. I cannot make it a ringtone, but can play the music without any problems. To create my own ringtones, I have been taking chunks of some MP3 songs and editing it with Audacity (keeping the file less than 250kb), then sending it to my phone for what I presume is a 25 cent charge. Why oh why do they make life difficult for us, I'll never know. But where there is a will, there is a.. well, you know the rest.

Jason

Can you help? Please respond with some details.

There are some advantages of having the Music Essentials Kit, such as the headphones with a 2.5mm jack,...okay, there is one reason to buy the kit. I'm not sure if this would work for the version 3 firmware update of the LG 8300, but what I was doing before was just putting the memory card in my computer (with the adapter to miniSD), and dropping my mp3 files in the music folder that was put on the card when you formatted the card on your phone. Make sure you format the card on your phone before the computer. Then you'll be able to listen to your music when the mp3 files are enabled through the secret programming menu. The thing I'm not sure of is whether or not you would be able to search through your music files by categories.
The only better thing I found with the upgraded firmware was that my bluetooth headset would stay fully connected. Before when it was still on, the microphone part of the bluetooth wouldn't work, so I would call someone and I could hear them but they couldn't hear me. Other than that, I don't know that I should have upgraded it. Heck, I use my ipod anyway because it's 10 times better than this thing.

I just purchased the LG VX8300 last week. I was able to add the 1 GB MicroSD card to the phone which I bought from somewhere other then Verizon. I was able to drag WMA files from my PC to a USB reader that I have on my pc, then put the card back in the phone. It plays the songs just fine. MP3 files do not work though.

I noticed that when I upgraded the firmware on the LG 8300 that the MP3 trick to allow non-v-cast music to play on your mp3 player doesn't work with the new Software version 3 (SW....3 seen in your settings). If you know of another way to bypass it, let me know.

It it unnecessary to convert music files from mp3 to wma.
Just enable mp3 playback,{I found out how to do this in a search on
this site for mp3 playback on cell phones}
Format your micro sd card while it is in your phone. This is crucial
because it creates all the necessary folders for you to place your files in so the phone will recognize them.

All you have to do now is put your micro sd card in your pc (you might have to use an adapter to get it to fit in a slot in the card reader. The adapters are sold with most micro sd cards.
Make sure you are draging and dropping the appropreate file types into the folders.

Make sure you format the microSD card using the phone's built-in utility. And by the way, the phone really only supports 1GB max, which I found out ''the hard way.'' I had put a quite a few mp3 files on the VZW-unformated card (i.e., the card was formatted by SanDisk), and things seemed okay, except the phone reported a negative number for memory used. The mp3s played okay, so I decided to put some more songs on: a lot more--like more than a gig. When I tried to play the songs, the phone rejected each file, saying the file format was not supported. So what to do? I decided to format the card using the phone's card formatting utility (see Settings & Tools/Memory/Card Memory). (The utility asks for your lock code, which is by default, the last for digits of your phone number.) I checked the available memory on the newly-formatted card, and it was 1GB (bummer!); then I loaded up my music, and it played just fine. Hope this helps.

A great tip: keep 'em coming.

Is there a link on how to format the 2GB on the pc so I can get it to work with the LG VX8300, or could you tell me step by step.

Are you supposed to use the program you said to format it, I don't know if its supposed to be in FAT32 or NTFS or another...

I will purchase the 2GB card now

If I can't get more than 1gig on it now, I will still have the card so when they update VX8300, or I get a new phone, I can just reformat and use the whole 2gigs.

Thank you

The issue is that the LG VX8300's file system doesn't even support 2GB microSD. As I said in my original post, the (SanDisk) 2GB card was formatted right out of the box, but the LG VX8300 did not like it. The phone reported bogus Memory Used numbers, and when I put more than one gig of files on the card and stuck it in the phone, the phone errored on the file types (reported them as "unsupported"). Therefore, I formatted the card in the phone, and (as you said) got the two 1GB partitions, of which, only one is used by the phone. I think LG needs to udate their O/S to work with the 2GB microSD cards. Me reformatting the card to 2GB would just confuse the O/S again.

But thanks for the tip, because I was thinking I'd like to restore the 2GB format and use the card in some other application.

So if I'm understanding you correctly, you can use a 2GB card but only 1GB will be recognized. What's the sense in buying a 2GB card?

Maybe I might be better off just buying the Chocolate that recognizes the 2GB card natively.

Opinions?

I reformatted the 2G card with the system utility as you noted in your post, then put the micro card in my PC reader. then I copied over some wma and mp3 files as a sample. The card memory is lower by the songs I put on there and the songs show up in the Card Memory section under My Music. I just can't get the dame things to play or be recognized by the player on the phone. I know that I am missing something really stupid on this because I had three songs playing when I had the songs stored on the phone memory....

HELP!!!

thanks

In order to transfer mp3 to the VX8300, they have to be wma files instead of mp3. You can do this easily in the windows media player. It is easier done with the original CD to then rip to wma files.

I'm still working on the ringtones. I agree with you on not paying for them again. I paid for them with the last phone.

I read that you have to have the data cable to do this.

The verizon guy told me that the phone uses True Tones for ringtones. I don't know if mine will work since they are midi files. We'll find out!