Does anyone know how I can send a picture from my PC to my cell phone? I know I’ve done this before for free on a website but I cannot for the life of me remember the web address. I’ve tried searching the web for information but I can only find places where I can send a picture FROM my phone TO my PC but not the other way around.
Thanks!
What is your cell phone carrier?
How do you send pictures from your phone to your computer? What website does this?
Cingular. I have a Motorola RAZR.
Go here:
https://www.cingular.com/support/content.do?page=usage-support
And type in the question “how can i send a picture from my pc to my RAZR?”
There’s a bunch of answers…and I don’t think I can link directly to them. The best answer for you involves emailing to your special Cingular email address.
Does Cingular provide an email address that acts as an alias for your phone? I use Verizon, and an email sent to aaanpannnn@vtext.com goes to the phone with the corresponding phone number. You might be able to send an email with an image attachment.
If they both have Bluetooth, it’s pretty easy and free.
Have you or do you know anyone who has exchanged image or sound files with a PC via Bluetooth? If so, which carrier?
There was a story on NPR the other night about how the carriers require the manufacturers to cripple the phones. Manufacturers put features on the phones that would be useful to customers, but carriers have the manufacturers disable the phone’s ability to use bluetooth for PC connections, because they want to charge you to send photos, download ring tones, etc.
I have Verizon. My Motorola E815 is manufactured with the ability to connect via cable to software on a PC and exchange data. However, the ability to exchange multimedia files is disabled on the phone, and you can only update your address book. (It is a soft configuration, though–not a hardware constraint.)
I’ve done it but my phone is a couple of years old so maybe I just haven’t gotten screwed yet. I’m on Cingular/AT&T so it’s probably just a matter of time. I have recently traded photos with my daughter’s phone and it worked fine. She’s on CellularOne.
I also have a RAZR and use Cingular. I just experimented and using <(my cell number)@mms.mycingular.com> and sent a photograph from my PC to my cell phone by email. The size of the photograph may be limited (I used a photograph that had originally sent to my PC from my cell phone.
I did it with Cingular/AT&T/SunCom (it was all those at some point in my contract’s life). I think Verizon is especially notorious for disabling functions on their phones, but AT&T was never a problem.
You can also buy software from Motoroa (see here) that will allow you to hook up your Motorola RAZR phone to a Windows PC using a USB cable and transfer data (ringtones, calendar items, pictures) back and forth.
What sort of service plan do you have? Do not be surprised if you get dinged $.10 on your next bill for sending a message with an image, unless your service plan includes it.
Yes, I have that software. But with my Verizon phone, when you start up the software the menu selection for transfer of ring tones and pictures is disabled, because that feature is disabled in the phone. (I have heard that it is possible to hack the phone to enable it.)
My plan includes unlimited texting and internet.
Have you asked Motorola or Verizon about this? I would think that Motorola, at least, would want to help you use the software with their phone. I have a RAZR and a T-Mobile plan and I can use all the features of that program.
What is the address you use to receive text messages? Just use your email account to send the picture as if you were texting yourself from your computer.
Example - my text addy is 5555555555@messaging.nextel.com - so I send the picture to that. (Obviously that isn’t my phone number - you’d substitute your own.)
It works on mine, anyway. In fact, when I got a new phone, this is how I got all my old pictures from my old phone to my new one - I sent them from my old phone to my computer, then used email to send them to my new phone.
I think the only provider that actively cripples their phones with bluetooth/USB is Verizon.
Forget all the complicated stuff, Pix2Fone is all you need. It has an extension for Firefox 2.x and the only reason I don’t use it anymore is that it doesn’t have a screen format to fit my Dash–besides, I have a custom image resizer that does it even better and full USB support for the phone. But before I got the smart phone, Pix2Fone was how I got all my wallpapers and transferred pictures. Install the app on your PC, right click the image and one of the options is “send to phone.” If the site doesn’t have your exact model of phone (no chance it doesn’t have the RAZR!), go to PhoneScoop, look up the dimensions of your phone screen, then search for other phones with the same size screen that are in the list.
If you want the fullsized images and don’t want to make wallpaper out of them, then a simple MMS to the default address for your number (ex: T-Mobile is [10 digit number]@tmomail.net) will do it.
I use a USB cable that I got fer cheap on ebay and the free BitPim software (http://www.bitpim.org/) to upload pictures, ringtones (I make them from mp3s on my computer) and stuff, as well as backing up all of the info from my phone (address book, etc, even including call history)