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Simple Guided Walk-Through for V3M/V3C in P2K for Ringtones, Pics, Videos.

Spoolio's picture

I'm only putting this here because that’s what the page states for me to do.

This is a simple very guided walk-through on getting you're Verizon V3C/V3M and any other phone that is compatible setup and properly connected.

First off you are going to pick yourself up a mini USB to standard USB 2.0 cable and then you are going to want to download 2 programs before you start.

1. P2K Commander. (Save it to a familiar location in your computer.)
2. Motorola Software Updater. (Also save to a good location.)

BOTH OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE FREE TO D/L. THEY ARE LOCATED IN THE SOFTWARE SECTION WHICH IS LINKED AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE.

Next. Make sure you’re phone has a good charge. If you’re phone mistakenly gets unplugged or shuts off while transferring files it could result in having your phone's software corrupted.

Okay, now that we have the necessary hardware/software we are ready to start.

Go ahead and double click on the file named MSU (Motorola Software Updater)
If it prompts to unzip the files just click unzip files here, but it should automatically do this on its own and bring you to the install screen.

At the main screen we are going to click "NEXT" click next again Click "Agree" now click next to confirm you're install. Now the "Launch MSU Software update" should be checked already. Click CLOSE.

Now on you're computer windows may have a prompt that comes up asking to block or unblock this software, make sure you click unblock. Or you won’t be able to get in.

OK now MSU should be opened up and ready to search for your phone.

Lets go ahead and plug you're USB cable in to a desired USB port on the back of your computer. NOTE. Try and keep this cable in for now on, and continue to try and use the same USB port for every file transfer for now on.

Ok after you plug you're phone in, don’t be alarmed you're phone and computer may beep a few times. You should get a couple popups on the bottom saying it found new hardware and is installing. This is GOOD! DO NOT CLICK ANYTHING UNTIL THIS HAS COMPLETLY FINISHED. MSU should automatically detect and come back on screen for you to see you're MEID number. If it says N/A for MODEL NUMBER AND OPERATOR NUMBER it is ok, that’s fine and it doesn’t need it.

Ok now let’s go ahead and close any running applications such as AOL, games, any programs that are running. CLOSE now!

Now we are going to find where you saved P2K Commander. Open the File up and click on the icon that looks like a Yellow Star that says P2K Commander, a security warning may pop up asking you what you want to do. Click RUN.

Now another box will come up after the program loaded. It will be a "Noob Reminder" which is say "Selected Partition is :a" and "This can be modified in the options dialogue" which after you get more familiar with the software you can change it around and have it not pop up anymore. For now just click OK.

Now this software uses a file standard file transfer system which goes LEFT to RIGHT. So whatever you want to transfer is going to come from the left hand column and go into the right hand column where you're phone settings will be.

You will notice on the left hand side on the bottom there is a little history box of what is going on and what has been done so far. YOU may get stuff in there that says "GENERIC FAILURE, AND VOLUME NAME FAILURE" THIS IS NORMAL!!

Next the left hand column is going to be used to find you're files that you want to be transferred.

The right hand column we are going to click on the topmost part of the program where there is a little dropdown arrow next to where it says "REREAD"
Now click P2K Mobile Phone. Now this program will be loading all you're phone files. Give it a few seconds you can watch the progress of it on the bottom where the blank bar should be filling up with little green bars.

Now that everything is loaded and connected properly we can start by loading ringtones.

First find a ringtone of you're choice from the MEDIA section on the top of hacktherazr.com

Download the ringtone to an easy location, I suggest making a folder in C: named ringtones, makes it easier for P2K and yourself to navigate.

Next go back and open up P2K, move over to the right hand side column and open up P2K Mobile phone from the dropdown arrow next to the "reread" button, as explained previously.

Underneath where is says filename there will be a folder called "a" double click that. Double click Motorola, double click shared, double click ringtone, you should see a list of all you're factory ringtones DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING OUT OF HERE. I WILL EXPLAIN THIS IN A MINUTE...

Ok now that you have the directory opened up for you're phone to receive mp3's, we will now move over to the left hand column.

Go up to where it says "reread" again on the left-hand side, and click the dropdown button CLICK C:\, now you should have a list of files that are showed when you click C: from you're computer itself.

OK... Now we can find the folder that you named "Ringtones" or whatever you called it. Double Click that folder. Now you should see the file that you have downloaded from this wonderful website.

Click ONCE! On the ringtone file. Now move you're cursor down to the bottom right and click "COPY", Wait until the progress bar on the bottom has completely finished before doing anything else. Once it’s done it will be a full line of green bars.

Now make sure you see you're file in the right hand column where you're phone files are located. If it’s in there GREAT! If not repeat the process.

Now before we do anything else we have to delete a file named MYToneDB.db

To find this file follow me... Double the icon that looks like a little hard drive, it is located exactly under the tab named Filename. Like I said it will look like a little hard drive of some sort with 2 little dots next to it and the file size will say

It should be the first file on the list. Now let’s double click that, double click it again, and double click it again, now we should be back to our main files directory. Scroll down and find the file named MyToneDB.db, click that file once to highlight it, and then click DELETE. This file has to be deleted upon system restart for you're new ringtones to be recreated and useable. Don’t worry this file does come back upon restart. DELETING THIS FILE IS ONLY APPLICABLE FOR INSTALLING RINGTONES; YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DELETE THIS FOR WALLPAPER OR VIDEOS.

NOW after you have deleted that file, click on Restart. Watch you outside LCD to come back to normal, and wait for any beeps to stop that may be coming from you're phone or the computer which in this case it is reconnected itself to MSU AND P2K. At this point I like to exit out of P2K and then MSU, unplug the phone sometimes it likes to restart itself on its own again after all of this, if so don’t be alarmed this is fine, Wait until it comes back and has loaded fully.

Go ahead and check to see if you're ringtone(s) are available.

Now for deleting, I RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR PHONE.
But if you are running out of space !!!!!MAKE 110% SURE THAT ANY RINGTONES OR WALLPAPERS YOU ARE GOING TO DELETE, MAKE SURE SURE SURE SURE THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING USED BY ANYTHING IN YOUR PHONE, MAKE 200% THAT THEY ARE NOT SET AS ANY RINGER OR WALLPAPER FOR ANYTHING, IF YOU DELETE SOMETHING THAT IS BEING USED BY THE PHONE AT THE TIME OF DELETING, IT COULD LOCK YOU'RE PHONE UP AND YOU WILL HAVE A PAPERWEIGHT.

UPLOADING PICTURES...............

Now for uploading Pictures follow the same exact steps as above to get you're phone connected and setup in P2K, but instead of clicking on Ringtones, double click on the folder named "Picture" and at this time you can go ahead and make another folder in your C:\ named "Razr Pics" or whatever it is you like. Download one of the many wonderful pics we have made for you guys to download in the MEDIA section under wallpapers, click you're applicable phone type.

Save it to the folder you have just created

Go back into P2K commander, find it... copy it like we did with the ringtones, be sure you have it set to go into you're pictures and you didn’t mistakenly click ringtones again. Go ahead and copy it and that’s it, it’s not necessary but I recommend restarting you're phone using P2K or unplugging it and manually restarting it. Go in and play with you're new wallpaper!

Uploading Videos.............

Exactly the same as pictures, but make a new file in C:\ named videos, you can find videos in hacktherazr.com under media, THE ONLY TYPE OF VIDEOS ALLOWED IN OUR PHONES ARE 3gp, .3g2, and .mp4. Do exactly the same thing as stated before for setup and transfer. NO DELETING OF ANY FILES IS NEEDED FOR THIS EITHER.

~Spoolio~

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spikejones's picture
spikejones
Dr. Jones

Verizon Wireless
Verizon V3M
NEWC_01.09.02

i made a couple

Posted:

i made a couple modifications to the wording in parts. i haven't read the whole thing yet. Main thing i changed was MEDIA -> SOFTWARE as the programs are located on the software page and not the media page.

another thing, you CAN block MSU in your FIREWALL and still use the application to suspend the phone to p2k mode. The only reason it would need access to the internet is to update the software/firmware on your phone. This is not a necessary part of the process.

NOW, if you are on Vista though you might get one of those stupid UAC (user account control) windows asking if you want to continue doing this action. of course you should continue doing that and tell Microsoft to shut the hell up and that you know what you are doing.

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pyde_pypper
Macdaddy Pimp

Verizon Wireless
Verizon V9M RAZR2
Telus-V9m S/W TLSV94_01.1C.00r on VZW

Nice writeup but a couple of

Posted:

Nice writeup but a couple of things I'd suggest and have to say. I did no have time to read the entire thing word for word but caught a few minor things I'd like to bring up.

1: DO NOT use the restart function in p2kcommander. Just close it (p2kcommander) and then close MSU, after which time unplug the phone and cycle the power on it's own if it hasn't already.

2: You really should have the drivers installed first prior to messing with MSU or plugging your phone into your comp. Reason being is the actual Moto driver pak will install all the drivers needed for the different programs seeing as there is 3 different ways for Windows to see the phone depending on which software you are using.

3: the ringtone folder listed in this writeup is not always that. It really depends on what carrier you have and what version of the firmware is running on the phone. This however is pretty much only relative to VZW Razr phones tho. As the standard Moto firmware has them in the same place no matter which carrier you are with.

Later on if I have time I will read it word for word and note any other issues I may see just for clarification. Peace

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pyde_pypper
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Verizon Wireless
Verizon V9M RAZR2
Telus-V9m S/W TLSV94_01.1C.00r on VZW

......

Posted:

spikejones wrote:
NOW, if you are on Vista though you might get one of those stupid UAC (user account control) windows asking if you want to continue doing this action. of course you should continue doing that and tell Microsoft to shut the hell up and that you know what you are doing.

Or do as I do and just shut that dam thing off completely in the first place so you never have to see it...lol. Dumbiest thing I've seen yet in Vista but with all the folks that don't/can't take care of there comps I can see why Microsoft had to do it.

Anywhoo as mentioned there is no reason to block MSU.

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RazrGurL415's picture
RazrGurL415
newish

Other? contact us
V3c
gatw_01.18.05

i wonder if it works with

Posted:

i wonder if it works with windows me edition,lol

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RazrGurL415's picture
RazrGurL415
newish

Other? contact us
V3c
gatw_01.18.05

easy

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i like the guide
its very helpful

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spikejones's picture
spikejones
Dr. Jones

Verizon Wireless
Verizon V3M
NEWC_01.09.02

if not you can get a

Posted:
if not you can get a hyperterminal application to suspend the phone with. i think p2k commander should work that way. p2k seem editor does. i dont use p2k commander though since bitpim and qpst work fine for me. any rate, the theory behind using hyperterminal to suspend the phone is as such: 1. connect the phone to the computer and make sure it is recognized as a modem device (check device manager) 2. open your hyperterminal application and there should be a drop down list with different modem devices... your phone will be listed as something like "motorola usb modem" select it from the drop down list 3. the program will ask for calling details... you can leave these blank 4. click okay, then click cancel (for the final dialing details screen) 5. your hyperterminal is now connected to the phone 6. you can type this command: AT+MODE=8 and then press enter. 7. you may not see any of the text that is entered since the phone is not going to show you anything... its not got a textual user interface. (the application is really meant for connecting to something like a router and working with the operating system on IT) 8. after pressing enter, the window will show "OK" and you will hear tones from the phone and the PC indicating that the phone has swapped modes to P2K mode 9. you can verify this by checking device manager and see that there is now instead of one device under Modems, there is another category called "usb device" with the motorola icon next to it, expanding that category will show three sub devices. The "test command" interface is the one that p2k commander looks for. im uploading a video of the process that i just recorded, but i have to run before it finishes... i can post it back here later.
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Spoolio's picture
Spoolio
i love to spool

Verizon Wireless
V3m
Webjal/Java

Well yea I mean I made this

Posted:

Well yea I mean I made this as a simple quick reference guide, I did as if nothing were done yet and I tried to gets all the aspects that someone would get when doing this. Like the windows protection thing. Not everyone knows how to do that ya know, But thanks for checking my guide out and making it even better, I dont mind that at all, If anyone wants me to add or take out anything, just feel free to give me a shout.

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teddyearp
professional n00b

Verizon Wireless
V3m
VIVO NCR_01.18.00R ON VZW

Welcome Spoolio. BTW, your

Posted:

Welcome Spoolio. BTW, your post made it to the guides, nice work. My only mod would be the use of RSD CDMA General instead of MSU. It's just as nice and the best of both worlds, i.e. MSU/PST. RSD Gen is the shtuff for me, no need for the other two IMHO.

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Also a VZW V3m flashed to USCC NCR_01.1B.00R, then upgraded via MSU and now flashed to ViVo and active on the USCC network.

Spoolio's picture
Spoolio
i love to spool

Verizon Wireless
V3m
Webjal/Java

You're Welcome, glad to see

Posted:

razrgurl....You're Welcome, glad to see it helped someone so far... hehe

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spikejones
Dr. Jones

Verizon Wireless
Verizon V3M
NEWC_01.09.02

one more addition... im

Posted:

one more addition... im about to edit the end of your guide about videos.

the razr phones support .mp4 videos as well. Eye-wink

just check your arcconfig.ini file and you will see!!

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