On Aug 8, 9:30 am, ® <No...@home.now> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:23:25 -0700, Pegleg <Peg...@usnavyret.mil>
> wrote:
>
> >I realize this is a rhetorical question but....why does Verizon have
> >such crappy phones??????????????????????????????????
>
> The phones are not shit to start with. But they are after verizon has
> the manufacturer cripple all the good features.
>
> And point 3 of the 4 nav buttons to things that verizon can use to
> suck more money out of you.
>
> It's not the phone, it's verizon.
Interestingly, except for some of the BT features, my Verizon E815 was
neither crippled nor crappy. And I just remapped the nav/D-pad buttons
to the stuff I use most often. This was a phone purchased two years
ago.
> Interestingly, except for some of the BT features, my Verizon E815 was
> neither crippled nor crappy. And I just remapped the nav/D-pad buttons
> to the stuff I use most often. This was a phone purchased two years
> ago.
Hi Jeb
Same here! The only time I got a dropped call was once when I was in a
building and since I travel a lot I consider that an excellent record.
Fact is next month I am eligible for a new phone I will keep the E815.
Not sure about Verizon though as I am a low use customer and blowing
$50 per month for a phone that I hardly use seems a waste. But as far
as the phone and the company I have had nothing but good service.
Lee <lbray5032@bellsouth.net> wrote in news:ukkui.9567$Ug2.2814
@bignews4.bellsouth.net:
> Jeb wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, except for some of the BT features, my Verizon E815 was
>> neither crippled nor crappy. And I just remapped the nav/D-pad buttons
>> to the stuff I use most often. This was a phone purchased two years
>> ago.
>
> Hi Jeb
>
> Same here! The only time I got a dropped call was once when I was in a
> building and since I travel a lot I consider that an excellent record.
> Fact is next month I am eligible for a new phone I will keep the E815.
> Not sure about Verizon though as I am a low use customer and blowing
> $50 per month for a phone that I hardly use seems a waste. But as far
> as the phone and the company I have had nothing but good service.
>
> Lee
>
>
Assuming you have not hacked into your E815s, can I ask you two if you
can put an MP3 file onto a micro SD from your computer, plug it into your
Verizon E815, move that MP3 file to internal memory, then assign that MP3
file as the basic ringtone without hacking or modifying it?
Is "Copy" and "Move" present on your Pictures and Video and Sounds menus
so you can copy or move pictures/videos/sound files between internal
memory and the micro SD card to get them off the phone onto something the
computer can read?
Go to Sounds Menu, pick "Switch Storage Devices" and pick PHONE to the
internal memory. Point to one of the simple MP3 files on internal
memory. Click the center Menu button. Is "Apply As Ringtone" present on
the menu list on the Sounds Menu? Copy? Move?
Turn on the still camera. Point at something and click "Capture". Click
Store to get the Store Options up. Is "Store Only" to the current
storage device on that menu?
A friend of mine has the same E815 I bought from Alltel, but his is on
Verizon. He's missing these local options and I'm told there is a hack
to restore them, but not sure how to do it. All these features are
enabled on the Alltel E815 firmware, by default. I take too many quicky
pictures with it to pay a cell company to send them to me.
Too bad it only supports 1GB microSD cards, not 2GB. I suppose 2GB
microSD cards weren't available when E815 was produced. You're right
about the phone. I replaced the shortened antenna with a full half-wave
800 Mhz that fits right in the same screwin mount to increase its
portable range in the country. That works great. I also pulled the
rubber plug out of the back of it and bought the TNC adapter cable from
Alltel so I can connect my cellantenna DA4000 to it with a 9db magmount
or the 11 element beam to it way out in the boonies where I need to call
my suppliers in my business. The amps have sure gotten cheap, lately. http://cellantenna.com/Boosters/cell...l_boosters.htm
On Aug 8, 1:06 pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> Lee <lbray5...@bellsouth.net> wrote in news:ukkui.9567$Ug2.2814
> @bignews4.bellsouth.net:
> Assuming you have not hacked into your E815s, can I ask you two if you
> can put an MP3 file onto a micro SD from your computer, plug it into your
> Verizon E815, move that MP3 file to internal memory, then assign that MP3
> file as the basic ringtone without hacking or modifying it?
I did just that without hacking or modifying it. All I did was attach
it to a spoofed MMS and saved it after the send failed. Took five
minutes, didn't require any particular skill.
> Is "Copy" and "Move" present on your Pictures and Video and Sounds menus
> so you can copy or move pictures/videos/sound files between internal
> memory and the micro SD card to get them off the phone onto something the
> computer can read?
For pictures and video, yes. And I can move a sound off my internal
memory to my micro SD card.
> Go to Sounds Menu, pick "Switch Storage Devices" and pick PHONE to the
> internal memory. Point to one of the simple MP3 files on internal
> memory. Click the center Menu button. Is "Apply As Ringtone" present on
> the menu list on the Sounds Menu? Copy? Move?
Move is. And yes, I can use any MP3 on internal memory as a ringtone.
> Turn on the still camera. Point at something and click "Capture". Click
> Store to get the Store Options up. Is "Store Only" to the current
> storage device on that menu?
Yes.
> A friend of mine has the same E815 I bought from Alltel, but his is on
> Verizon. He's missing these local options and I'm told there is a hack
> to restore them, but not sure how to do it. All these features are
> enabled on the Alltel E815 firmware, by default. I take too many quicky
> pictures with it to pay a cell company to send them to me.
*shrug* Like I said, I got my phone from Verizon a couple of years
ago. The only hack I've done is to turn off EV-DO, which nicely
extended my regular battery life. The only problem I have is since it
got wet a few weeks back, it doesn't want to turn off (it shuts down
but immediately restarts), but that's pretty low on the scope of "oh
crap, my phone's not working" issues.
> Too bad it only supports 1GB microSD cards, not 2GB. I suppose 2GB
> microSD cards weren't available when E815 was produced.
It's not a great music phone, but it's passable. I only have a 128MB
card in it, but that's enough for what I need. Still, I'll replace
mine with either an enV (yeah, I text, and the QWERTY is better for
calendar and appointment management) or the VX8550 Chocolate (love the
form factor).
> I did just that without hacking or modifying it. All I did was attach
> it to a spoofed MMS and saved it after the send failed. Took five
> minutes, didn't require any particular skill.
And MMS is????? tried and could not move it from my card to the phone
but I am missing the step to send via MMS and I do not know what that
is and what spoofed number? like 000 123 456 ? Thanks
Jeb <jeb.hoge@gmail.com> wrote in news:1186595864.693220.149340@
19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:
> The only hack I've done is to turn off EV-DO, which nicely
> extended my regular battery life.
Alltel just turned on EVDO across Eastern SC, even in the tiny towns. I
don't do much data connecting with it because I need my phone for
business, but I do take a few pix and don't want to have to "spoof"
anything to make the damned phone store pictures where I tell it to, not
"them".
Thanks for the info. Yours seems less restricted than his is.
Thanks for this info on EVDO. I charge mine every night and never run it
below about 80% during the day. It ran down further when I had Axcess
TV, 25 channels of cable TV Alltel won't let you watch for $20/month.
After I found it would only run 10 minutes before rebooting-against-my-
will, I dumped it. Useless...just like "video clips"....
Larry
--
Great pictures from Nasa TV on Endeavour, tonight during maneuvering....
BTW I did try putting music on the SD ? memory card and played it and
I thought the E815 did a pretty good job of playing it back! Another
plus for it.
Lee
still wondering what an MMS is and how to import an mp3 to ringer!
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:44:38 -0000, Jeb <jeb.hoge@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Aug 8, 9:30 am, ® <No...@home.now> wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:23:25 -0700, Pegleg <Peg...@usnavyret.mil>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I realize this is a rhetorical question but....why does Verizon have
>> >such crappy phones??????????????????????????????????
>>
>> The phones are not shit to start with. But they are after verizon has
>> the manufacturer cripple all the good features.
>>
>> And point 3 of the 4 nav buttons to things that verizon can use to
>> suck more money out of you.
>>
>> It's not the phone, it's verizon.
>
>Interestingly, except for some of the BT features, my Verizon E815 was
>neither crippled nor crappy. And I just remapped the nav/D-pad buttons
>to the stuff I use most often. This was a phone purchased two years
>ago.
If you were to buy a vm3 now you would be VERY disappointed...
And I am hearing if you take the phone in for a software up grade it
will cripple a couple things they missed... Can not say if this is
true. But have heard it from several different people.
As far as the verizon network goes... There are plenty of places in
my area where I can say " can you hear me now " and nobody answers.
I have been with them 4 or 5 years back into the AirTouch days. What
they have done to this phone pisses me off enough to switch service.
If they would have been up front about it that's different. But they
are not. You find out later on your own that all the cool things you
thought you could do with your new phone aren't going to happen unless
you hack it.
-- --
Larry wrote:
> Lee <lbray5032@bellsouth.net> wrote in news:ukkui.9567$Ug2.2814
> @bignews4.bellsouth.net:
>
>> Jeb wrote:
>>
>>> Interestingly, except for some of the BT features, my Verizon E815
>>> was neither crippled nor crappy. And I just remapped the nav/D-pad
>>> buttons to the stuff I use most often. This was a phone purchased
>>> two years ago.
>>
>> Hi Jeb
>>
>> Same here! The only time I got a dropped call was once when I was in
>> a building and since I travel a lot I consider that an excellent
>> record. Fact is next month I am eligible for a new phone I will keep
>> the E815. Not sure about Verizon though as I am a low use customer
>> and blowing $50 per month for a phone that I hardly use seems a
>> waste. But as far as the phone and the company I have had nothing
>> but good service.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>
> Assuming you have not hacked into your E815s, can I ask you two if you
> can put an MP3 file onto a micro SD from your computer, plug it into
> your Verizon E815, move that MP3 file to internal memory, then assign
> that MP3 file as the basic ringtone without hacking or modifying it?
>
> Is "Copy" and "Move" present on your Pictures and Video and Sounds
> menus so you can copy or move pictures/videos/sound files between
> internal memory and the micro SD card to get them off the phone onto
> something the computer can read?
>
> Go to Sounds Menu, pick "Switch Storage Devices" and pick PHONE to the
> internal memory. Point to one of the simple MP3 files on internal
> memory. Click the center Menu button. Is "Apply As Ringtone"
> present on the menu list on the Sounds Menu? Copy? Move?
>
> Turn on the still camera. Point at something and click "Capture".
> Click Store to get the Store Options up. Is "Store Only" to the
> current storage device on that menu?
>
> A friend of mine has the same E815 I bought from Alltel, but his is on
> Verizon. He's missing these local options and I'm told there is a
> hack to restore them, but not sure how to do it. All these features
> are enabled on the Alltel E815 firmware, by default. I take too many
> quicky pictures with it to pay a cell company to send them to me.
>
> Too bad it only supports 1GB microSD cards, not 2GB. I suppose 2GB
> microSD cards weren't available when E815 was produced. You're right
> about the phone. I replaced the shortened antenna with a full
> half-wave 800 Mhz that fits right in the same screwin mount to
> increase its portable range in the country. That works great. I
> also pulled the rubber plug out of the back of it and bought the TNC
> adapter cable from Alltel so I can connect my cellantenna DA4000 to
> it with a 9db magmount or the 11 element beam to it way out in the
> boonies where I need to call my suppliers in my business. The amps
> have sure gotten cheap, lately.
> http://cellantenna.com/Boosters/cell...l_boosters.htm
>
>
> Larry
I have had an e815 (on verizon) for almost 2 years (next month is two
years), and all the stuff you mentioned, is easily doable, and works... As a
matter of fact, I use a 2 GB micro sd card in it, for mp3/pics/text/etc....
Looked into getting one from alltell (live in an alltell area), but it is
more expensive (many of my friends and family are on verizon, so it free to
call them, but only 10 or so with alltel) and has less features, than my
current verizon phone!
"Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOSPAM@AkamailNOSPAM.com> wrote in
news:_P-dnTq2j9JbKibbnZ2dnUVZ_qCgnZ2d@comcast.com:
> I have had an e815 (on verizon) for almost 2 years (next month is two
> years), and all the stuff you mentioned, is easily doable, and
> works... As a matter of fact, I use a 2 GB micro sd card in it, for
> mp3/pics/text/etc.... Looked into getting one from alltell (live in an
> alltell area), but it is more expensive (many of my friends and family
> are on verizon, so it free to call them, but only 10 or so with
> alltel) and has less features, than my current verizon phone!
>
I'd be very interested in how you got a 2GB microsd to work in a 1GB
environment. When I plug them in here, on a much newer E815, it only
accesses the top 1GB and ignores the rest. Motorola says it only
supports 1GB cards.
The Alltel Circle is 10 number on ANY system, phone or cellphone, not
just Alltel. Alltel M2M is always free to any Alltel mobile number. I
use the Circle quite extensively with my suppliers and partners who are
not Alltel customers. I like that I can change them at will as
conditions change, too.
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