LG VX-8100

You can get it done at any Verizon Wireless store. It has been posted on here how to re-enable the MP3 player. Here it is again:

1) Ensure that your phone has firmware version V06 on the device. Earlier versions do not need this guide and this guide has not been tested with firmwares that have not yet been released.
2) Enter the menu and press 0. You will then be prompted for a service code, which on Verizon phones should be 000000.
3) Scroll down to the last menu option which should be "Music Setting", at which point, you can select the MP3 function which will restore MP3 support. Chose this then exit out of the menu.
4) At this point MP3 playback will be available under Tunes and Tones (again).
5) To switch the dedicated music pla...
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Thanks, Mary!

All that worked, except the following:

Setting the shortcut key did not reenable the external controls, it just made the calendar button do MP3's.

How can you make the outside buttons work?

Thanks.

When you go to Tools then shortcut key, you then need to choose #2 which is play key then choose My MP3s. I think you may have chosen #1, which is the shortcut for the down key.