video to computer

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No problem :) . If you can, just try to avoid the dodgy looking offers and go for the well known brands (if there are any in the price range). Then again, that goes for anything on auction sites really... lol
 
what program are you using?

is your phone CDMA or GSM
if its CDMA i can suggest an alternate app to use.


dohh... i just realized that your phone is being recognized as a USB mass storage device and you have the autoplay options set on it to transfer pictures as if it were a camera (or camera card). You see, when that first window popped up when the phone was connected, there was an option to select what you want to do with the device. Apparently the first time you did it, you chose the option to "transfer pictures" and told it to do that every time.

No problem though.
here is what you do in this case:
1. Next time you connect your phone to the PC and that window pops up, just close it and go to "My Computer"
2. your phone will be listed as a removable storage device
3. double click on that drive
4. you will see the folder for video
5. double click that folder
6. drag the video to any other location on your PC

hope that makes sense for you.

i basically broke the steps down that were mentioned in this paragraph formatted guide:
 
Since it's been rainin all day so I did some playin. I am allowed 10mb per email. Not a clue really what that means so I made a 2 minute video to see if it would go though. It took up about 7.5 mb. So I guess about 2.5 or so minutes will go through. Don't intend to do it all the time but once in a while. With the new memory card in the phone it took up very very little memory to make the clip.
 
Yeah thats part of the hunt. I'll have to look a bit and see what works. Bein "cheap" doesn't mean get the least expensive. I'm to cheap to buy cheap stuff. Most of the time goin the least expensive way costs more money.
 
Hey thanks for the help. Spikejones you hit the nail on the head. Now I did it before I read your post but you got it exactly the way it worked. As the English say "spot on". If I still didn't get it by the time I read your post you info would have solved the problem....thanks

Anyway I have had this phone now for about a month or so and have been tryin on and off to figure how to get the video to transfer. Well I just figured it out. I got the darn thing to work. Don't know if I can explain how I did it or not but this is basicly how it worked

made the video
Had to save it usin video dj on the phone drop down.
Had to give it a name to save it. I think that was the major problem.
Then I went into my computer and clicked on E drive(I think that is the one that said phone)
Then a bunch of folders came up one of which said video.
I then clicked on the video file and the name of the video was there with a filmstrip icon.
I clicked on the clip and drug it to the desktop. Bingo it was there.
I then disconnected the phone to make sure if I played the video it would be the one from the desktop and not routed from the phone drive.
The video played like a champ.

No way would I ever been able to figure this out from the instructions. Just trial and error and dumb luck.

Hey thanks again for your help. This was kind of an important reason I got this phone. I wanted better camera and video than I had with my last phone. The last one was about 6 years old so you can figure how bad it was. It died so I got this one. Does a pretty good job. Now with the video workin I'm pumped.
 
Just wanted to let ya know. Looked on line at Radio Shack and they have a bluetooth adaptor for $9.97. For 10 bucks I decided to give it a try. Went to the store and it was $39.95. I told the guy it was $9.95 on line. He checked it out and not only gave it to me for $9.95. In fact he got one for himself.

The hardest part was tryin to figure out how to get it to work. It took a while. Try to find a passkey. Yeah right. Anyway tried it out with both photos and video and it works great. I just hope I can remember how to use it after a while. LOL

thanks for both of ya for all your help. By the way the cat# is 17-1000 for the adaptor
 
Zarphor92

Thanks for the info again. It may come to that but right now everything is runnin fine and I really don't want to mess with it. It took me a while to figure it out and it's time for a break. I couldn't find a passkey anywhere, either on the adaptor, phone, adaptor instructions or phone instructions. I finaly called the phone store and they gave it to me. After using the passkey I could see on the computer that the bluetooth was trying to communitcate with the phone but there was a "wall" indicated on the graphic that wouldn't allow the info to get to the phone to start the transfer. I went through all the tabs lookin for anything,that I could understand, that my be blocking the info. I finally just restarted the computer and it worked. Right now I'm tired of messin with it to tell ya the truth. It seems to work fine. It very well may have been the supplied software that was the problem. Maybe I should have just plugged the thing in and tried it but in the instructions it said to load the software before pluggin in the adaptor.

Let me ask ya this now. I know this isn't phone stuff but.... The adaptor said it will run up to 7 devices. If I have a "regular" not bluetoot ready printer is there a device I can plug into the usb port of the printer that will allow me to print from this computer to the printer? That would be kinda nice considering how I use the laptop.
 
Have you considered maybe buying a Bluetooth Dongle for your PC? I dunno about prices overseas, but here, in the UK, you can get them for as little as
 
Zarphor92

See this is my problem, I get interested in everything.

Ok I'll bite why would the Bluetooth be better? What would the advantage be? Now I'm cheap. Would it cost me anything to send somethin via Bluetooth? My phone does have bluetooth.

To send the info via usb cable is pretty fast and not a problem. Are you sayin to send the info to the computer via bluetooth when I don't have the computer with me?
 
If the USB port on the printer is used to trasfer printing data between the PC and the printer using a standard cable, then I can't see why the adaptor wouldn't work... However you'd need two bluetooth adaptors so that they could communicate. It might require that your printer natively supports an optional adaptor for it to work, but with a bit of tweaking you could probably bridge the connections anyway... I'd have to think on this :damn:

In the meantime, if you wanted to test if the adaptor was compatible, you could try plugging it into your printer and then do a bluetooth scan on your phone. If the phone picks up the printer, try sending a picture to it and see what happens. I dunno if they still do it, but Sony Ericsson put a HP print program in the 'applications' section of some of their phones. You could try using that and see if it finds the printer. If it can't pick it up, the chances are that the Bluetooth adaptor won't work with the printer. Not natively anyway. If that was the case, you'd have to somehow bridge the connection between that adaptor and another bluetooth adaptor on your PC and effectively 'trick' the PC and printer into thinking they were connected by cable. I'm still not sure about this though...
 
glad you got it sorted. yeah, ****e can be confusing a bit. you are a luck one to be with a carrier who does not lock down the USB mass storage device on the phone. Me being with verizon it takes a butt load more to do that little process. I firstly had to hack up my phone to extend the video duration from 15 seconds to 4 minutes, then i had to transfer the video from the phone to the card, and from the card to the PC (or get a direct filesystem access with BitPim, which is slower). Then it turns out that the crappy phone records in .3g* format, which is really only playable by quicktime (odd since the phone only support .wma audio) quicktime = apple, wma = windoze. anyhooo, hard to edit a .3g* file for free without loosing the original audio.

hopefully your experience will be a better one.
 
Did your adaptor come with any software? If it did, I suggest just un-installing the software and use the Microsoft drivers that come preloaded with your PC (in other words just use the Bluetooth adaptor without any software). The pre-supplied software with Windows XP are much easier to navigate - you simply have the Bluetooth icon in the system tray, then you right click it and select whether you want to send or recieve a file using it. You also get the option not to use a passkey.

If you're already using it with no software, then you probably just need to adapt to it, but it's really easy to grasp eventually. I'm glad it all worked out ok for you anyway. Have fun transfering your files :p
 
Never thought of usin the phone to send a pic to the printer. I may have to give that a try. I may be tryin to make this to simple but if I had two adaptors, one on the computer and the other on the printer I wonder if they could communicate and make the printer work? I guess like a wireless printer.
 
That's what I was getting at, but it would depend if the printer could recognise the adaptor as something to send data through. You could check this through the phone. If the adaptor wasn't recognised, then there would still be a chance, so long as the PC could define the adaptor as something that it can send to, then it could theoretically work even if the printer didn't recognise it as a bluetooth adaptor. All the printer is programmed to do is pick up the data that is sent through its USB port and whilst it may not detect the Bluetooth, it is still powering the device - the bluetooth works on a seperate system, it just relies on the printer to power it to make it work and then send the stuff back the same way through to it if that makes sence. The bluetooth is merely passing through the data that comes from the PC, so as long as the printer can recieve the data that comes through the bluetooth adaptor (regardless of whether it's recognised or not), it shouldn't 'care' and proceed to print it. This is all pure guesswork by the way :D
 
I hear that on the "theory" thing. Kinda fun to think about though. You would think it is at least possible. I wonder if I can send a text to the "printer" via bluetooth phone and see what happens. I may give that a try now just for fun. Stay tuned as they say

Well it was a try anyway. Plug on the printer isn't usb. The other end is a usb to plug into your computer usb but its a male end. I would have to have an adaptor to go from male to female then plug the bluetooth adaptor into that and try it. Oh well it's really not that important but it would have been pretty cool if it worked. I could be in the ole easy chair and print to the printer in the other room. We do quite a bit of camping and that would be just the ticket not to have to have a cable in the camper. Just have a stationary place of the printer and that is that. Oh well.
 
I'm not sure what would happen... Usually, text sent to the printer is embedded in a certain file format (such as .doc for Word documents). I'm not really sure what the printer will make of it - and that's if it even sends through... It would depend entirely on whether the SMS format was recognised, which is possible, but given the circumstances that printers are usually used under, I wouldn't have thought the technology would have been used in the printer. It all depends how the printer would recognise it - would it recognise it by the actual text used? Or the format it's in? You'll have to get back to me on it lol ;) .

Ah well, a male to female adaptor is always an option, but the USB is obviously made that way for a reason, so I doubt it would recognise a reverse transaction lol...
 
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