Re: [BitPim-user] 1.0.7.20090805-Test vs LG enV3: Send PhoneBook to Phone corrupts Contacts

[Shal F. <sh...@ve...>]

Lowell,

>Shal, you don't need data services to use BA.  Either get an online account
>(free) with VZN or download it for 1.99.

Then I'm very confused. 

I have a MyVerizon account, and read about BA as much as I could. All the instructions lead to downloading the application to the phone directly (over the air). I'm not paying the $5/mo for data services, and I've had the $2/MB option blocked on my phone, so the attempt to download BA to the phone fails at the first step: can't connect via Browse and Download.

I went back into the Verizon store to ask about it and they asserted that even if I unblocked long enough to download BA, it would need to incur per megabyte charges (or unlimited plan) for its nightly backups too. So at that point I went looking for BitPim.

>Have never synched through windows media player so I don't know 
>what that does.

It is pretty easy, and it automatically converts the song from whatever format its in to an mp3 in the phone's native sample rate on the fly (possibly saving space on your microSD card). That results in artist and album folders, and even the album artwork, in the phone's My Music menu. Very slick indeed. 

With a caveat on the "whatever" -- I couldn't coax it into syncing my m4a files from iTunes, despite installing an add-in and codec that were supposed to fix that. I had to tell iTunes to convert them to .mpg first. Took a while to figure out that was what I needed to do, but iTunes help told me how once I knew what.

-- Shal