Verizon Annoyance
Nov. 8th, 2008 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
recalcitranttoyAlmost all cell providers find a way to cripple their phones so that you have to purchase only THEIR lovely services like overpriced ringtones, or other content that you might wish to put on your phone. Verizon's little scheme makes it impossible to use bluetooth to transfer ringtones to the correct place on the phone so that they're processed as ringtones, only giving you file transfer access to MySounds (which doesn't allow for ringtones or real music), MyPhotos and MyVideos. The freeware program BitPim is supposed to allow access to everything else, but thusfar I haven't been able to get that to work :(.
I DID find a site that allows you to make your own ringtones which you can then email to the phone and choose "make into ringtone" from your email. That helps part of my issue, but not the rest.
If I hadn't paid for Verizon's ridiculous 2.00 per month backup service, I'd be typing 200 contact records back into the phone. That, apparently, is the ONLY way of putting in your contacts on the mac if you can't get BitPim to work. Serious growl there.
So why do I use Verizon? Because it's the only carrier that works at my home and down the long and winding road TO my home, where I would be most likely to break down. Neither AT&T nor TMob work out here. So GROWL!
If anyone is a BitPim Soooper Genius, please assist this confused individual.
UPDATE: Got BitPim working with Bluetooth. The key is to run the configuration application after you pair the phone to the computer, in order for the computer to assign it a serial port, THEN run BitPim which then USUALLY auto connects to the port just created and starts talking to the phone. Only issue is, it won't sync up my calendar. Perhaps time to tell Verizon to stop charging me the 2.00 a month for backups :-)
I DID find a site that allows you to make your own ringtones which you can then email to the phone and choose "make into ringtone" from your email. That helps part of my issue, but not the rest.
If I hadn't paid for Verizon's ridiculous 2.00 per month backup service, I'd be typing 200 contact records back into the phone. That, apparently, is the ONLY way of putting in your contacts on the mac if you can't get BitPim to work. Serious growl there.
So why do I use Verizon? Because it's the only carrier that works at my home and down the long and winding road TO my home, where I would be most likely to break down. Neither AT&T nor TMob work out here. So GROWL!
If anyone is a BitPim Soooper Genius, please assist this confused individual.
UPDATE: Got BitPim working with Bluetooth. The key is to run the configuration application after you pair the phone to the computer, in order for the computer to assign it a serial port, THEN run BitPim which then USUALLY auto connects to the port just created and starts talking to the phone. Only issue is, it won't sync up my calendar. Perhaps time to tell Verizon to stop charging me the 2.00 a month for backups :-)
