VX8000 Tutorial
Obtained from Howard Forums - Tutorial by derelekt

See this post here - lots of great info here in addition to what I've listed.

For troubleshooting tips, please refer to the main page troubleshooting link.

Backup your phone!!! READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE YOU START

(derelekt) and other forum members have already had problems with adding our own movies/tunes and having the phone act strange on reboot. So please everyone, before you start expirementing, make a complete backup of your phone via QPST, backup the file structure via the "EFS Explorer" and backup your system settings via "Software Download" backup section or "Service Programmings" save feature (after you read the info from the phone).

If you do screw up, the results are not pretty. I was able to replace some of the files I lost because of a fellow forum member but my programming settings were messed up. If I had backed them up with QPST before I may have not had this problem.

Anyways backup everything and take it slow. Also I personally suggest you only add a few new things of each type, ie.. 3 tunes, 3 ringers, 2 videos...dont add anything too big also, there are size limits which are listed below in this FAQ...take note of them.

Take into account that QPST can be very dangerous to your phone if you don't know what your doing. At any time something could go wrong. The safest things you can do to the phone are adding a few ringtones, tunes, and images. Videos are the next easiest thing to add, but they could cause file storage limit problems causing phones to reboot endlessly. Games arent very well tested and would be the highest risk.

People have messed up their phones storing around 35-40mb of data on the phone in various categories...until firmware updates happen its highly suggested you keep your "QPST added" data to around 20mb, to prevent additional risks of storage limitations. Adding data directly from Get It Now or other phone services is of course a lot safer.

Storage limits by section: by VerizonStore

The combined total of storage space for videos and mp3 songs are 48 mb. However you can only store about 6 mb in the ringers catagory. If you want to load mp3 songs to your phone, you must store them in the tunes section. You can also store applications in the get it now catagory up to 7 mb. The combined total for tunes "mp3s" and videos cannot exceed 47 mb. You can check how much memory you have left by pushing the menu button and goto the get it now category and then press the right upper soft key for the info button. then go down to contents memory and it will tell you how much space you have.

Installing the Drivers - Prolific Cable (blob in the middle of cable):

Installing the Drivers - Straight through USB Cable:

Determining the Port - Straight through USB Cable:

Many people that request support for this always skip this step. For any program to talk to your phone, the program will need to know what COM Port is assignned to the phone device in Device Manager.

• Right Click your My Computer Icon, select Manage
• Click on Device Manager on the left
• On the right, click the + sign next to modems (you should see your phone listed there)
• Right click on your phone and select properties
• Click advanced
• Click Advanced Port Settings
• You will see the COM Port setting at the bottom (write it down, you will need it later)

BITPIM:

• You can install bitpim here
• Obtain the newest version here

Please Backup your phone!

• Load Bitpim, click edit, settings, choose your phone model and appropriate com port.
• Go to View (in menu) in BitPim and make sure "View filesystem" is checked
• Click the filesystem tab and click the plus sign. You should see the directory structure of your phone.
• Go to Data (in menu) and "Get Data"
• Check all four boxes (PhoneBook, Calendar, Wallpaper, Ringers), hit ok
• Goto "Filesystem" Tab
• Right click at the top of the tree (the first/highest +)
• Click on "Backup Entire Tree." Let it finish.
• This will save a ZIP of the phone's EFS.
  *remember to always plug the phone in before loading Bitpim.
• This will also download your phone pictures.

How to create & load wallpapers with Bitpim:

Adding Wallpapers:

• Find the pictures on the cd that you want to put on your phone.
• Change the name if it has CAPITAL letters to lowercase (keep it short)
• Save it directly to the "wallpaper" folder under "bitpim"
• This way it will be there when you go to launch bitpim
  
• Hook up your phone
• Run bitpim
• Click on the"wallpaper" tab to ensure that the image is there if not click add and add it.
• Select "data" from the top toolbar
• Select "send phone data"
• A pop-up box appears with several options to send.
• Select "wallpaper" by clicking the box to the left of it.
• Select "add/merge" to add the current files to your phone.
  
  Note: Selecting "add/merge" adds the files without overwriting what you presently have on the phone. If you select "replace/overwrite" all of the files you are about to load will overwrite what you currently have on the phone. It is always recommended to "add" your files.
  
• Bitpim will say "busy" and a status bar will run at the bottom showing the current files being loaded.
• Powercycle your phone to get the files to show up.

Adding Ringtones:

• Find a ringtone or midi file ending in .mid on the cd.
• Copy and paste it to your system under the subfolder "ringers" in the "bitpim" folder
• Run bitpim
• Select "data" from the top toolbar
• Select "send phone data"
• A pop-up will appear asking what data you want to send to the phone
• Well, for this we will select "ringtones" by clicking the box to the left of it
• Select "add/merge" to add the current files to your phone
  
  Note: Selecting "add/merge" adds the files without overwriting what you presently have on the phone. If you select "replace/overwrite" all of the files you are about to load will overwrite what you currently have on the phone. It is always recommended to "add/merge" your files.
  
• Bitpim will say "busy" and a status bar will run at the bottom showing the current files being loaded.
• Save and quit
• Powercycle your phone to get the files to show up
  

How to create and load QCP and/or MP3 ringers
For advanced users, read thru this before you begin (See also Mp3_1.htm and mp3_2.htm for different instructions)

Install the following programs from the Super CD

• Qualcomm's purevoice
• QCP player
• SoundForge

QCP
Quality: Poor (mono, 8 kHz, 16-bit)
QCP files are qualcom purevoice files. In order to get another wave form sound file to QCP you'll need to conform to QCP standards of PCM, mono, 8 kHz, 16-bit wave file.

MP3
Quality: Excellent (any bitrate is fine)
If you don't know what an MP3 is by now you've been in a deep slumber. Well, wake up. It's the most popular music file out there. I use the SoulSeek P2P to get MP3s; it's excellent.

• Open Sound Forge
• Get the sound/file you want (via loading an MP3 or recording)
• Choose a clip to use as a ringer
• Highlight it and crop it (edit=>trim/crop)
• FOR MP3s: Save as an MP3; goto Step 8. For QCPs continue.
• Change the sample rate to 8kHz (process=>resample)
• Save as a 16-bit mono wav
  Use a short one word name(file=>save as...) to where you installed/uncompressed the WAV to QCP converter
• Go to a windows command prompt "Start Menu, Run, cmd"
• navigate to the directory where you saved the wav file to where the wav to qcp converter is

C:\>cd \QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter\

C:\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B448-2C92

Directory of C:\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter

09/11/2003 01:14 PM DIR .
09/11/2003 01:14 PM DIR ..
09/08/2003 03:56 PM 1,411 command.lnk
09/11/2003 01:08 PM 62,172 hive.wav
08/07/1998 04:54 PM 4,989 PVConv Readme.txt
08/06/1998 11:54 AM 172,032 PVConv.exe
06/03/1998 05:35 PM 3,470 PVsample.qcp
09/08/2003 03:57 PM 44,208 pvsample.wav
09/09/2003 03:39 AM DIR tests
6 File(s) 288,282 bytes
3 Dir(s) 3,023,994,880 bytes free

C:\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter>

For this example I'm using "hive.wav"

• Type "pvconv hive.wav hive.qcp", hit enter

C:\lg vx6000 hacking\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter>pvconv hive.wav hive
.qcp

C:\lg vx6000 hacking\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is B448-2C92

Directory of C:\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter

09/11/2003 01:23 PM DIR .
09/11/2003 01:23 PM DIR ..
09/08/2003 03:56 PM 1,411 command.lnk
09/11/2003 01:23 PM 4,620 hive.qcp
09/11/2003 01:08 PM 62,172 hive.wav
08/07/1998 04:54 PM 4,989 PVConv Readme.txt
08/06/1998 11:54 AM 172,032 PVConv.exe
06/03/1998 05:35 PM 3,470 PVsample.qcp
09/08/2003 03:57 PM 44,208 pvsample.wav
09/09/2003 03:39 AM DIR tests
7 File(s) 292,902 bytes
3 Dir(s) 3,023,839,232 bytes free

C:\QUALCOMM PureVoice\PureVoice converter>

Notice that hive.qcp exists.

• Close to command prompt (type exit, hit enter)
• To test: run the PureVoice player and load the QCP.
• Rename the QCP/MP3 file to all numbers(I'll rename hive.qcp to 123.qcp or hive.mp3 to 123.mp3)
• Open Bitpim
• Click on the "Ringers" tab
• Right click in the whitespace (not on a file), click "Add," find file, click ok Goto "Data" (on filemenu)
• Click "Send Phone Data"
• Check "Ringers," choose either "add" or "replace"
• Hit OK
• On phone: Left soft key (for Menu), "7" (My Media), "2" (Music),
• Highlight new ringer, left soft key (Set As), choose your setting.

How to use the Wireless Internet with Verizon:

I assume that you have gotten your phone recognized as a device when you hook it up to your computer.
These instructions rely on you to be a little more independant than other tutorials.
Anything I say about Broadband (as far as instructions go) is complete speculation.

• Installing your VX6000 as a modem in Windows XP:
• Load the drivers if you haven't already see top of this page. Express Network is recommended here.
• Configuring the phone to work with QuickNetConnect/Quick2Net, Express Network/National Access, or Broadband
• Make sure that your phone is attached
• Go to your phone in device manager
• Click on "Properties"
• Click on the "Advanced" tab
  This is what's called an initialization string. The initialization string needs to match what's stated below for that specific option to work... (if you try to use the QNC initialization string with EN, it won't work)
  For QuickNetConnect/Quick2Net(QNC):
  AT$QCMDR=2
  For Express Network/National Access(EN):
  AT$QCMDR=3
  I assume this is the initialization string for Broadband:
  AT$QCMDR=4

Creating Dialup Connections with the Connection Wizard:
This is an alternative to using the Verizon Dialer

• Open Control Panel>Network Connections>"File" menu>"New Connection"
• Click "Next"
• Click "Set up my connection manually" radial button, click "Next"
• Make sure "Connect using a dial-up modem" is selected, click "Next"
• Under "ISP Name" write either "QNC", "EN" or "Broadband"
• Set the phone number to #777 (for any of the three)
• Next you need to enter a username...
  QNC...
  username: vzw
  password: vzw
  
  EN...
  username: (xxx)xxx-xxxx@vzw3g.com (replace (xxx)xxx-xxxx with your phone number)
  password: vzw
• Click "Next"
• Click "Finished"

Speeds, Charges, and other unanswered questions:

What are the speed difference between the three wireless internet options?
QNC: 14.4 kb/s, capped
EN: 40-60 kb/s, as if you haven't heard WITH BURSTS UP TO 144kb/s
Broadband: 300-500 kb/s, only available in San Diego & Washington D.C.

What are the charges for each options?
QNC: MOU* with every single Verizon Wireless account. No other charges apply. *MOU: Minutes of usage, like making a phone call
EN: .60/min; or $79.99 for unlimited usage/month. If you still have a copy of the contract you signed/look at your monthly bill under "Promotions and Other Credits." If you see something that reads "EN MOU n/c," then you're lucky. That's right, that translates out to "Express Network, Minutes of Usage, No Charge." You can use EN for MOU. I did do a test two nights ago by staying on for five minutes. Now I'm just waiting for my bill.
Broadband: $79.99/month

Remember to call the Tech Department at 1-800-308-DATA with any questions, or to add any provisions to your account.

How to set up a WAP proxy & How to set the proxy IP in your phone:

Stuff you'll need:

Sign up & set up a homepage at TagTag.com
If you search in Yahoo! for WAP directories, you'll find quite a few good sites. Here's a thread in Howard Forums.

Make sure you know what your site is when you're done. (ex: http://www.tagtag.com/bigflavors-page/)
Install the InfoKomp WAP Gateway from cd
Set it to run as a system service(starts on Windows load)
Get your ip
note that this is not for people running a firewall or a router. you'll need to figure all that out on your own.
In Windows: run>cmd then type ipconfig and hit enter. Your IP address is the number next to IP address(ex. 192.168.0.101). :)

• In your phone:
• menu>0>(on Verizon: 000000) or (on USCC: [find what it is by viewing the file nvm/nvm/nvm_0000 in a hex editor. Look on the second line, it'll be 6-digits."*)>9("wap settings")>1("ip settings")>4("link2-ip1")
  *taken from RogerBinns VX4400 FAQ
• enter your ip here
• hit "ok"
• hit "clear" to go back to "wap setting"
• hit 2
• hit 4
• type in 9201
• hit "ok"
• hit "end"
• start your browser (let it do it's thing)
• hold the 0 key down for about 3 seconds
• hit 6("advanced...")
• hit 3("set wap proxy")
• hit 2("wap proxy 2")
• back to "advanced"
• hit 2("homepage")
• hit "ok" to go through the warning
• enter in your tagtag home page (ex: http://tagtag.com/bigflavors-page/)
• hit "ok"
  

Alternate method:

GENERAL INFO
Here are the locations for important files:
\Brew\16452\ --- All uploads go somewhere in here.

mf --- My Flix

mp --- My Pix

ms --- My Sounds

lk\mr --- My Ringtones

\dload\ --- Information Files

PUTTING PICTURES ON YOUR PHONE
1. Take picture
2. Resize it to something reasonable (like 400x400ish)
3. Open BitPim
4. go to: \Brew\16452\mp\
5. right click on "mp", click "New File..." select your file.
6. go to: \dload\
7. right click "image.dat", select delete
8. right click "imagesize.dat", select delete
9. Reboot phone, images show up!

PUTTING RINGTONES ON YOUR PHONE

There is a 2mb limit for Ringtones (buy a memory card, they're cheap and easy to use, you can use that memory for whatever you like), you can see how much you have used on your phone by clicking Menu --> Get It Now --> Info (right soft key). It will tell you how much memory is being used up.

1. Because space is an issue, I would recommend a much higher compression rate for mp3s as ringtones. To make ringtones, I use Audacity to edit the music files down to a reasonable length, then export as mp3. In the File->Preferences section of the menu, you are able to set the mp3 quality. It's usually at 128k, which gives you approximately 1 minute / megabyte. I prefer 40k, which is still pretty high for ringtones, but you can fit much more into 2 megs. You can play around and see what sounds best for the song that you have.

Example:
12 second mp3 x 128k encoding == 186k
12 second mp3 x 40k encoding == 59k

2. right before you export as mp3, be sure to maximize the volume by selecting everything, Clicking Effect ->Amplify, then click OK. Amplify automatically selects the maximum you can amplify the sound without clipping the loud parts. This ensures your ringtone is as loud as it can be on your phone.

3. Find your file in windows explorer, rename the file to [filename].mid, because your phone ignores .mp3 files. It WILL know how to play them, though.

4. Open BitPim
5. go to: \Brew\16452\lk\mr\
6. right click on "mr", click "New File..." select your file.
7. go to \dload\
8. right click "my_ringtone.dat", select delete.
9. right click "my_ringtonesize.dat", select delete.
10. Reboot phone, ringtones show up!

PUTTING SOUNDS ON PHONE

Same as with Ringtones, but put the file in \Brew\16452\ms\, and delete the mysound.dat and mysoundsize.dat files.

PUTTING VIDEOS ON PHONE

To load a video onto your phone, it must be a .3gp file. To convert files to .3gp, I used Mpegable X4 Live. The company no longer supports the software, but there is shareware available here: Mpegable x4 Live v2.2
Converting is very straight forward, select input file, select output destination, select "Mobile Devices (3gpp compliant)", click the red circle... done.

1. Open BitPim
2. go to: \Brew\16452\mf\
3. right click on "mf", click "New File..." select your file.
4. go to \dload\
5. right click "video.dat", select delete.
6. right click "videosize.dat", select delete.
7. Reboot phone, videos show up!

MEMORY CARD

I highly recommend buying a mini-sd card. I picked up one today from Circuit City with a SD-Adapter. Plug the card into the phone, reboot the phone, and you will have three directories,... My Pix, My Flix, and My Sounds... put files in there, you won't have to mess with the filesystem ever again. Currently I have two episodes of Family guy converted over, and it's a blast being able to watch those on the phone. Each 22 minute episode is 15.5 Megs, so I can fit a whole season on the 256mb card I have.

MEDIA PLAYER

There's a "secret" media player on the 8100 that you can access by pressing "menu", then 0 seven times.
Go to "Get it Now Settings" near the bottom
Again, select "Get it Now" at the bottom of this screen too.
you will see a list of applications on the phone, select "Media Player"
You can play files in your mf directory, so if you put an mp3 in there, you can play it with the Media Player. This is the only way to be able to fast forward through mp3 files on the phone.
Unfortunately, we have not figured out how to be able to read mp3s off the memory card from the special Media Player.

That's about it, good luck, have fun...

To access the VX8000 service menu:

• From the main screen, hit "ok" to enter the menu.
• Make sure the "contacts" tab is selected, then press 0 (zero)
• The service code should be all zero's.

To change Get-it-Now application servers:

• Enter the VX8000 service menu
• Select #9 "get it now settings"
• Select #3 "IP/URL"
• Select the server you want and hit the left soft key to give it priority.

To add video to the VX8000:

• Connect the cable provided to your VX8000
• Load up QPST, in particular the EFS Explorer.
• BACKUP and delete /dload/video.dat
• Browse to /brew/media/ and put a .3gp video file in the folder.
• Reset the phone, the videos will appear in the "FLIX Gallery" in get-it-now

*just recently got this working, video files I had put in /brew/verizonmediaplayer/download/ would not play, but when the same files were put in /brew/media/ they did play, dont know why but it works now.

**the phone will recognize the .wmv, .asf, and .3gp formats, but as of current only .3gp files have played flawlessly. You can convert your video files to this format by using Quicktime Pro or Nokia Multimedia Converter.
(thanks nemadrol for the program names). The Nokia program can be found here

To add ringtones to the phone: by JTPRO

• Connect the data cable provided to your VX8000
• Load up QPST, in particular the EFS Explorer.
• BACKUP and delete /dload/sound.dat
• Place .mp3 or .mid files into either of the following directories: /dload/snd/ /user/sound/ringer/
  (you can create this folder if it doesn't exist)
• Reset the phone, the tones will be displayed in the ringtone section.
  

**Additional info supplied by VerizonStore

if you add "ringers" to your phone, the storage limit is around 6 to 10 mb in that area. There is no warning or memory checker for that section. So when you add "ringers" to your phone make sure you only add about 30 seconds of your song to the phone since your phone only rings for about 30 seconds or less. Also make sure the quality of your tunes are only about 64kbs since the speaker in your phone can't play above that quality. Add the rest of the songs you like to hear in your "Tunes" catagory which can hold up to
47 mb of songs which is alot of songs if you change your songs quality to 64 kbs instead of the normal 128kbs since the lg 8000 speaker can only play 64kbs quality or less and anything above that would be a waste of storage space.

To add tunes to the phone: by JTPRO

1. Connect the data cable provided to your VX8000
2. Load up QPST, in particular the EFS Explorer.
3. BACKUP and delete /dload/aod.dat
4. Place your mp3 files in the /brew/shared/aod/ directory
5. Reset the phone, the tones will be displayed in the tunes section

**Additional info supplied by VerizonStore

To add tunes to your lg 8000 phone, you must put the new songs in the brew/shared/aod/ directory. This will allow you to play your tunes "Songs" on the front of your lg 8000 by pressing and holding the play button in the front of the phone for 3 seconds. You can either add new songs to that directory and delete the aod.dat file or you can create fake files using your voice to record someting and overwrite that file using your new song name when adding it to your directory. Its called the overwriting function instead of adding new songs then deleating the aod.dat file. This way you don't have to delete any aod.dat or video.dat or any file when adding a new song or video to your phone.

Also make sure the quality of your tunes are only about 64kbs since the speaker in your phone can't play above that quality. You need a music editing software program to convert your mp3 songs to 64kbs quality. I personally use cool edit pro but there are hundreds out there on the web that you can use. As for the sound of the mp3s when you play them on the front of the phone, the sound is loud and very good quality even at 64kbs. They give you a hands free headset with your lg 8000 and you can even make the mp3 louder when using the headset.

To add images to the phone: by JTPRO

• Connect the data cable provided to your VX8000
• Load up QPST, in particular the EFS Explorer.
• BACKUP and delete /dload/image.dat
• Place image files (apparently BMP, WBMP, PNG, WPNG, JPEG, GIF formats) into /dload/img/
• Reset the phone, the images will appear in the "PIX Gallery" in get-it-now.
• If you want a picture in the gallery as wallpaper, highlight it and hit the right softkey "options"
  and select #3 "Set As" and then choose an option.
  

*The internal screen size is 176x220 but actual picture size appears to be 176x144. I am fairly certain though that you can use any picture size and it will get rescaled automatically to fit.

Some data cable and network information: by SDGoose

#Just a few notes beforehand...there is conflicting data on if the use of the vx-8000 with the datacable for internet services is a violation of the trial terms of service, you can read more information about this on pages 4-6.

Just some notes on using a data cable with the vx8000. I've played with it for a couple hours...

* I used the FutureDial data USB cable that I bought for my vx6000 last year. The cable works with the vx8000, but the connector takes a bit too much pressure to make with phone, so it may not be an exact mechanical fit.

NOTE: the cable *may* be flakey due poor mechanical or electrical fit. I have had occasional unexplained difficulty connecting to QPST, snapsync and snapdial.

* I downloaded the newest FutureDial USB drivers (dated Nov 2004) from the FutureDial.com site. The driver supports 115,200 baud. I set the phone to RS-232C(COM Port) at the 115,200 speed.

* I updated my futureDial SnapSync and SnapDial programs via the futuredial site.

* When configuring the FutureDial software, I chose LG vx7000 as the phone (VX8000 is not listed).

* SnapDial created both a 2G and 3G dialup network connection (DUN). 2G -- The 2G DUN is set to use old QNC network and I get transfer rates of about 14Kbps. The phone display reports "PPP[QNC] Call" when connected.

3G -- The 3G DUN uses EN/EVDO data network. I used the vzw/vzw username/password. The phone displays "1x-EVDO Data" when connected within EVDO range and displays "1x Data" when out of EVDO range. I was getting the full 115Kbps when connected via "1x-EVDO Data".

I haven't been able to get a higher speed CABLE connection via the phone's USB setting... will tinker with that later and see if we can get the data rate up into the 1Mbps range.

More Datacable Information: by zaidiaz

• Go to the FutureDial website and update your driver if you haven't already.
• Install the driver
• Plug in the cable and phone (dont open up QPST yet)
• In your phone, go to Settings & Tools
• #5 Call Settings
• #7 data settings
• #2 PC Connection
• #2 RS-232c(COM PORT)
• Adjust your port speed to 115200. (im assuming you have Windows XP)
  Make sure windows is detecting the software--the updated driver should be detected--if not you'll need to go to the Add Hardware Wizard (right click on My computer, go to Properties, hardware tab, and there it is) and just show the computer where the updated driver is located.
• Open up QPST Configuration.
• Click on Add New Port, and keep entering different COM numbers, like COM1, COM2, COM3...until your
  phone is detected.
• Go to the EFS Explorer in the QPST program, and then from there on, just read the first page of this thread and
  it will show you how to add tunes.

You dont need any additional software like SnapSync for it to work..just follow the directions.

Additional info about going over the memory limits and phone replacements:
by VerizonStore

I did it again. I added too many videos and tunes to my lg 8000 phone. I went past 40mb in the application section but didn't go past the 47mb limit in that catagory. I guess there really is a software flaw if you go past 40mb in the tunes and video section. Now my phone just keeps restarting itself and turning off and back on constantly like JTPRO's phone was doing. Thats the bad news, here is the good news. I just called telesales support line again and told them that the phone is no good and they shipped me another new phone today! So now I have three lg 8000 phones. One brand new one and two that are going to get flashed with new software programming at my local verizon store. So if any of you guys "mess up" your phones again, don't worry just call telesales within 15 days and they will ship you another one no problem. And I guess there is no limit of how many you fry and get because this is my third phone lg 8000 they have sent me. So no worries!

Its true what I said. I messed up two of my lg 8000 phones already and each time I call telesales about it they sent me a new one over night. I just told them that the phone they sent me was defective and they said they were sorry for shipping me a defective phone and will ship me a new one next day over night and they did!. Of course I didn't tell them that I was messing around with the phone's file system adding videos and mp3s to my phone. I just tell them that the phone came to me that way. If your guy's phones mess up just tell telesales that your phone came like that or if you had it a long time tell them that when you turned on the phone this morning after charging it all night, it went haywire. And if this third phone oof mine goes nuts after i put too much mp3s and videos in it, I will get another one
through telesales with the same excuss, no worries.

Adding games: by VerizonStore

Actually there is a way to upload games to your lg 8000 phone. However, these games must be in java oob mode (object oriented programming), and must be less than 6mb long since you only have 6 mb of storage in your get it now games catagory. If you do have a java game less than 6 mb of length, using your Qpst program, goto /dload directory and copy and delete the premium.dat file. Then goto the /brew/shared/premium/ directory and copy your game file to that directory. Your old lg 6000 games should work on this phone also. You can copy your old games from your lg 6000 phone and put them in your lg 8000 phone.

To access the hidden media player:

• Enter the VX8000 service menu
• Select #9 "get it now settings
• Select #16 "get it now
• Select "MediaPlayer"
• Videos need to be stored in /brew/media/

*I had originally thought this was the guts of the mediaplayer that plays video in the FLIX Gallery, just without all the flash. That seems to be untrue, because this player only recognizes and plays .3gp files, while the one in the FLIX gallery can at least recognize .wmv and .asf, in addition to recognizing and playing .3gp files.

**the hidden media player will only play and recognize .3gp files. Follow the video faq above for more instructions on how to add the videos.

JUST a little FYI for anyone with the VX8000. Make sure you do not copy too much media to your phone. Even though it does have a 64MB internal memory.... it will crash your phone if you load too much. I am not sure how much "too much" is.. but for me.. systemfiles + ringtones + flix was at about 42megs.. and when i tried to play a video file that i had saved my phone crashed. It now just continues to reboot itself and never starts up. I dont think i can gain access to the phone becuase it will never stay on long enough to remove some of the added files. Anyway.. be very careful everyone.... sucks.. now i am back to my VX6000 until i can get this resolved.

Flashing your phone:

I have good news for all those guys here who messed up their Lg vx 8000 phone with the qpst program. I did the same thing. I added too many mp3s on my phone and added way too many videos on my phone and exceeded my 64mb limit. My phone went haywire and was saying service required. All I did and what you guys can do is take your phone to your nearest verizon wireless store and ask to get your phone "Flashed". What that does is they completely restore your phone's software with the original software that was programmed on your phone. They did it to mine and now my Vx 8000 works perfectly! Your phones are still good! Go get them "Flashed" and remember to not go over the memory limit for each of the phone's catagory.

Tunes
As of right now, get it now does not offer any tunes for download. They only offer 30 second songs or ringers to be downloaded for your ringtones and they appear in your ringer catagory in your phone.So until GIN offers tunes to be downloaded or full length mp3 songs, you cannot use the overwrite funtion to add mp3 tunes to your phone since there is no song for you to overwrite in the tunes section of your phone. For now, to add full mp3 songs to your phone, and to play them on the front of your phone, you have to add them using qpst to your brew/shared/aod/ directory and delete the aod.dat file and reset your phone. However you can still uise the overwrite function to add videos or ringers to your phone and don't have to delete the video.dat or sound.dat files.

Mp3
You need a music editing software program to convert your mp3 songs to 64kbs quality. I personally use cool edit pro but there are hundreds out there on the web that you can use. As for the sound of the mp3s when you play them on the front of the phone, the sound is loud and very good quality even at 64kbs. They give you a hands free headset with your lg 8000 and you can even make the mp3 louder when using the headset.

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