Motorola V710

I use Motorola Phone Tools version 3 to transfer my shortened mp3 to my V710. You can change the length of your mp3 to about 30 seconds with this program. Just right for a ringtone. However, it does transfer your ringtone to the phone itself and not the transflash card. I haven't tried moving it to the card. I'm with US Cellular. Not sure if that makes a difference.

snowman33 said:
I use Motorola Phone Tools version 3 to transfer my shortened mp3 to my V710.
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I'm with US Cellular. Not sure if that makes a difference.

To the best of my knowledge (again, I haven't tried this), Verizon has disabled the ability to use phone tools. I intend to try it (I bought MPT v3) but haven't yet.

--Dave

Ahhhh... evil Verizon, what's the point to disable this! 😡

dsnelson said:
Connect the tf card to your pc and copy your .mp3 into /motorola/shared/sounds on the tf card.
--Dave

Do I have to have a card reader or something to read the content of the tf card? If so do I need a specific type of card reader? Any hint would be appreciated... thanks!

testing123 said:
Ahhhh... evil Verizon, what's the point to disable this! 😡

Do I have to have a card reader or something to read the content of the tf card? If so do I need a specific type of card reader? Any hint would be appreciated... thanks!

Yes, one that can handle SD (Secure Digital) cards. Pretty much all of them can do that. Your tf card should have come with an SD adapter, then that plugs into the SD slot in the reader.
Mine is really funky -- the tf plugs into an SD adapter, which then plugs into a CF (compact flash) adapter, which then plugs into a CF reader.

--Dave

I found this review of v710: http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=2&I d=881

This guy said when he copied something onto the TF card it just got messed up, unreadable to the phone. And it happened twice.

Has this ever happen to u? I guess Im just too cautious before spending my dough... 😁

testing123 said:
I found this review of v710: http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=2&I d=881

This guy said when he copied something onto the TF card it just got messed up, unreadable to the phone. And it happened twice.

Has this ever happen to u? I guess Im just too cautious before spending my dough... 😁

I've never had any problem. You have to handle it carefully -- the tf card is kinda fragile. Also turn the phone off before inserting/removing the tf card. Some say that's not necessary, but I do it anyway, and like I said, I've never had any problem.

--Dave

Hi, can u explain in details on how to tranfer the mp3 to the v710? Thanks a lot!