On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 01:25:20 -0500, "Peter Pan"
<pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote:

>
>"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:CO6dnXSHqNIiyjbUnZ2dnUVZ_r-WnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> Nelson wrote:
>>> How can you access a cell phone from a PC to transfer pictures taken
>>> with and stored in the cell phone?
>>>
>>> The phone is an LG VX5500. Carrier is Verizon. PC runs Windows
>>> XP-SP2.
>>>
>> That explains it. Verizon Wireless likes to cripple their phones. If you
>> are forced to send your photographs over the air rather than through a USB
>> cable, VZW makes money from each photo you send!
>>
>>> This phone has no external memory card (or slot for one). So the data
>>> can't be transferred via memory card.
>>>
>>> I bought a USB data cable for the phone, got the driver, and installed
>>> it ok. Upon connection, Windows recognizes the phone. The phone is
>>> not registered in Windows as a disk drive, but it does appear in
>>> Device Manager as a modem.
>>>
>>> It would seem that some specialized software is needed to access the
>>> phone from the computer. Is that right? If so, which do you
>>> recommend?
>>>
>>
>> For Motorola phones there is "Motorola Phone Tools". I haven't a clue
>> what an "LG" phone needs to do this. If there IS a tool to do this, it's
>> probably LG specific and an LG specific newsgroup, if there is one, would
>> be a good place to ask.
>>
>> A possible solution is to use a real camera instead of a phone to take
>> pictures with! Real cameras have nice features for taking pictures; e.g.
>> flash. They also are not crippled! Many have USB capability and/or a
>> removable memory card/stick.
>>
>> It's also sometimes possible to hack the phone to re-enable features that
>> VZW has disabled. Doing so will void your warranty but some people will
>> do it anyway.
>
>or just consider using bitpim (free, works over a cable that you already
>have..... did i mention it's free?
>http://www.bitpim.org/
>
>make sure you use ORG
>
>While I have MPT also, i find I use bitpim most often...
>

Data Pilot is slow to support new phones and wants to sell you an
update every time they put a new phone in their syste, bitpim is the
one to get. Likely bitpim doesn't show the LG5500 yet either but you
can experiment with setting to to a similar LG model. (I have to use
LG8560 setting with my new LG8360.) Great for manafing address books,
ringtones.

For just moving files back and forth, I use bluetooth. If you buy a
bluetooth dongle, look for one the comes with BlueSoleil which will
let you do file transfers.