It wasn’t about getting in on there, that’s simple enough via either USB or the memory card. It’s about the phone recognizing it.
Yeah. When I got my Verizon Moto Razr in… 05 or 06, I was told how I could use this awesome software and just plug my phone to my computer and put my own ringtones and my own wallpaper on there just like that!
And they lied.
Verizon specifically had an OS for the Razr that blocked these features. If you connected your phone to your PC, you could charge it and that’s it. The software you were supposed to be able to use would flat out say it didn’t recognize the device.
If you wanted to actually use one of the features of the phone you bought, you had to downgrade the firmware. This, coincidentally, would also void your warranty with Verizon.
Who says cheap shots can’t be funny?
Since you said the name I guess it’s okay for me to admit it, right?
We do not use SIM cards–those are used with GSM technology (AT&T and T-Mobile in the US). U.S. Cellular, Verizon and Sprint run off CDMA technology.
There are ways to get another company’s handset active on our network as long as it’s a CDMA phone. While I’m secure in my anonymity here I’m not comfortable discussing how to do that. There are some places online that can give clues how to do it. Since I’m new here would it be okay to suggest where to find those sites or would it be best to tell you trust your Google-fu?
My first experience with this bullshit exactly.
Can you not just email ringtones to your phone? I have Verizon and that’s what I do. I edit my own and then send them as an attachment or through Phonezoo.com.
That’s potentially a phone thing–I never had a problem getting the phone to recognize 'em with any LG or my Droid.
Moto software for non-smartphones is particularly finicky though, I will grant that, and that’s definitely Verizon’s fault. I wonder why the Verizon software for the LG Chocolates and NV2s doesn’t block that stuff.
Exact same reason I made the switch from Verizon, too.
Should you, as a “good capitalist”, have a problem with that?
Heh.
As long as it’s not illegal, it should be OK to mention the sites.
I’m just trying to find a really cheap used phone to add my mom to the plan for a couple-three weeks. I don’t online shop much, so I’m a little leery.
Maybe so, but at least I can create my own ring tones.
I’m still grandfathered in to a VM plan where I pay $20 per calendar quarter. Nyaah, nyaah!
It doesn’t get me that many minutes, but I don’t need that many. I don’t like chatting on a cell phone; I’m making calls of the ‘can we get together at RT’s Restaurant at about 6pm, or would later work better for you?’ or ‘I’m stopping by Safeway on the way home, do you need anything?’ nature.
I cut right to the chase a few years ago, when they pulled the “we are changing our system” crap, and the “you just got your phone and now you have to buy another one” bullshit. I cancelled. They don’t get shit from me anymore. There’s no one I need to talk to so bad I can’t wait anyhow.
I have a Verizon plan that’s $100 for a year, but they have better coverage than Virgin, or at least they did 7 years ago.
Last time I couldn’t make a call with my increasingly ancient VM phone, I was hiking the Appalachian Trail - no, not in the Mark Sanford sense, but actually hiking the actual trail.
I’ve been able to connect in places where my wife’s shiny new Verizon phone couldn’t.
This is more or less why I still have a late 1990s Motorola Startac phone that I keep with me. The antenna on it is absolutely superlative.
Is that GSM or CDMA? Are you in the States? Because I was just reading how most of the analogue networks had been shut down around 2008 and the frequencies given over to GSM or CDMA transmissions. Even if I could find a bettery for the old Nokia 101 AMPS analogue phone that was my first cellphone, there’s be no compatible network for it to connect to…