Motorola RAZR V3m

[admin_mvu]

Motorola RAZR V3m


It's almost same as Motorola RZAR V3c, except this one has removable memory to store your own MP3 songs.

Basic Information
Talk time: 200 minutes
Standby time: 200 hours
Size: 3.86H x 2.08W x 0.57D inches
Weight: 3.49 oz

Basic Features

• All Digital Phone
• 1.3M Camera Resolution
• V CAST Music and Video Service
• Bluetooth Capable
• VZ Navigator through Get It Now®
• Speakerphone
• Voice Dialing
• TTY Compatible
• Hearing Aid Compatibility = M3
• Connect with Bluetooth (using certain profiles)*
• Meets FCC SAR limit. Manufacturer's highest FCC reported SAR 1.14 at ear, 1.56 on body. Actual SAR may vary.

Supported or Optional Features

• Bluetooth
• BroadbandAccess
• Get It Now
• Mobile Web 2.0
• Picture Messaging
• Removable Memory
• Speakerphone
• VZ Navigator
• V CAST

[ClwTL]

the max memory card moto claims it can take is 1 gig but i wouldn't recommend higher than 512mb because it takes forever for the v3m's limited ROM to load the 1gig card (which it does every time you go into your pix, flix, sounds, or music.

[admin_mvu]

When Verizon announced the V3m version with external memory capability, I wondered how they were able to find a slot for the external card. Even when I saw the V3m phone and was told that the card slot is back of the battery, I still couldn't find it. Eventually, I found the slot and it's amazing how small that space is. Small enough to not even have a label and very difficult to put or take out the memory.

Those Motorola engineers did a great job of finding a space to put that external memory as an afterthought.

[ClwTL]

definately, the only issue is you have to take the battery out to get the card in and out.

[dfroom]

Update:

I posted this message -- and updated it with some solutions -- at The Basics/Tips & Tricks/Enabling mp3 playback after newer versions of software. Here is the link: Enabling mp3 playback after newer versions of software on LG phones

Original message:

I have tried every way I can think to get mp3s onto the Motorola Razr V3m. Nothing works.

Is there a reprogramming trick for this one?

This is a seriously disabled phone. Anything that is on the sd card (pictures and sounds) can't be made into wallpaper or ringtones. If you move it over, pictures are OK, but sounds are not.

Re ringtones: If you get a sound via text/video message, you can make it into a ring tone -- but if you move it to the card, it loses its capability to be a ring tone. If you try to send a video message with sound, you can not access things in the music folder.

They seem, with this one, to want all music and ringtones to come via download from their site.

I've also tried video. I made some .3gp files from things on YouTube. They play fine on my computer, but in the phone, they are a mess -- the video is so jerky, you can't see any action (it looks like a set of stills), and the sound and video get seriously out of sync with each other.

For mac users, it is really harsh, since we can't (as far as I know) convert mp3 files to wma -- and wma seems to be the only thing they accept.

Are there Mac users out there who have gotten this phone to work for them?

Granted, it will make a Bluetooth connection for syncing calendar and contacts. But this was supposed to be a music and video phone. Jeesh!

David

[BigDanP@earthlink.net]

I finally figured out how to get music synced using Windoze Media Player and a USB cable on my Verizon RAZR V3m...

1. Got http://promo.motorola.com/exe/mtpfix.exe

2. Then Downloaded the fix that verizon so thoughtfully hid and buried in their website... http://support.vzw.com/pdf/Sync_Music_Fix.exe

3. Connect the Phone to your USB

4. Choose Menu>Get tunes and tones>Sync Music

5. With any luck windoze will install its drivers.

6. Launch WMP and Sync Away!

P.S> Another help site recommended the driver at http://mark.cdmaforums.com/Files/Han...B_Driver_32_v2[1].6.2.0.zip But I didn't use it.

P.P.S> Here's another hammer... http://www.bvrp.com/Customers/Motorola/DriverTool.zip

[admin_mvu]

Thanks for the great tip.